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Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway's most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the twentieth century.Lawrence Alloway ranks among...

Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based...

The book fills a niche in early modern scholarship, no such comprehensive treatment of hobby-horse allusions was published before. Relevant dictionaries and glossaries in critical editions will be much helped by the book, because it contextualizes and...

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata War, a folk artist's rendition of a comic...

This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but...

This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases, education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others, educational...

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134091Author Sarah Urist GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 192mm *...

Provides an up-to-date overview of the present state Visual Cultural Studies, featuring new original content, topics, and methods The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture brings together original research by both established scholars and...

The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial...

This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472101Author Kerby RosanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 252mm * 254mm * 11mm

This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This...

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces.Digital communication technologies and the social norms...

This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century. The case studies provide not just an account of the pursuit of history in art within Western Europe but...

This selection of women's writings on photography proposes a new and different history, demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over 150 years, focusing it more deeply and, with the advent of feminist...

This book examines the relationships between theatrical representations and socio-political aspects of Rapa Nui culture from pre-colonial times to the present. This is the first book written about the production of Rapa Nui theatre, which is understood...

* This book curates new thinking through interviews with designers who are artists, producers, professors, partners, parents, and collaborators. This book is a place to observe how one career can contain many possibilities. * Would be recommended reading...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215604182Author David BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint David BrucePublisher David BruceWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039100620Author Charles E. McClellandFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangSeries German Linguistic and Cultural...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221461Author Jody RevensonImprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsSeries Harry Potter ArtifactsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500634322Author Swarna MitraFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Some of the most memorable movies of Hollywood's Golden Age were based on novels that never received the acclaim they deserved. No-one who saw Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker could forget the actor's wrenching performance but does anyone remember the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683836834Author Noel MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1597gDimensions(mm) 284mm * 236mm *...

Delve behind the scenes and learn the secrets of the making of this epic wizarding world video game, Hogwarts Legacy.The Art and Making of Hogwarts Legacy takes readers on a journey through the creation of this immersive, open-world action RPG set in the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622555Author Elias ChatzoudisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,US

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683837916Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsSeries Mini Book

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834854Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Comics have been an important locus of queer female identity, community, and politics for generations. Whether taking the form of newspaper strips, comic books, or graphic novels and memoirs, the medium has a long history of featuring female same-sex...

An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding...

From the prestigious comic illustration studio Ikari comes the ultimate guide to how to draw gothic manga. Each vivid, full-color character illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions to take the artist from...