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Objects/Histories eBook Series

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  • Empires of Vision

    A Reader

    Edited by Martin Jay, Sumathi Ramaswamy ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that comprise the visual milieu of colonization, struggles for decolonization, and the lingering effects of ... Read more

    28,19 €

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    (So You Can Ignore the Others)

    by Julian Porter, Q.C. ...
    "Who can resist an art critic with attitude?"--Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ian Binnie"It was wonderful! Julian shared his enormous knowledge of the world's best art with a panache that is irresistible."--Justice Stephen Goudge, Ontario Court of AppealThis essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the world’s greatest paintings from Giotto ... Read more

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  • Satan: A Biography

    A Biography

    by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    The Devil, like the poor, is always with us. Evil has been personified in every religion and culture, and Christianity in particular developed a highly graphic view of him from its earliest period. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, sometimes seductively helpful, sometimes comical, Satan has played a variety of roles in human existence.Feared and frightening adversary ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Tudor and Stuart Embroidery

    by M. Jourdain ...
    This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on embroidery in the Tudor and Stuart eras. With details on history, development, popularity, and influence, this volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of the textiles industry, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce ... Read more

    9,11 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michelangelo's Mountain

    The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

    by Eric Scigliano ...
    Discover the fascinating, crucial, and often dangerous relationship between Michelangelo and the stone quarries of Carrara in this clear-eyed and well-researched exploration that “recounts the artist's large life and lasting works with care and reverence” (Booklist).No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • Inspiring Writing in Art and Design

    Taking a Line for a Write

    by Pat Francis ...
    When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually, they lack confidence working with words. Inspiring Writing in Art and Design is a practical aid for those students who ... Read more

    20,02 €

  • Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism

    by David Houston Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, Christian Boltanski, Art & Language, Walid Raad) to those whose materials and practices are archival ... Read more

    61,94 €

  • Spectacular Death

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability

    An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life – with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • Art History for Filmmakers

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    by Dr Gillian McIver ...
    Series series Required Reading Range
    Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms.Art History for Filmmakers is an inspiring guide to how images from ... Read more

    43,03 €

  • In Love with Freedom

    The True Story of a Remarkable Woman

    by Steven E. Aavang ...
    Based upon her own words, this is the story of a unique individual whose deep love for her native country was overshadowed only by her compelling love for freedom. Born with a pedigree of royalty reaching back to the Byzantine Empire, and riches comparable to the American Rockerfellers, this princess seemed destined to a life of pampered luxury and perhaps a noble charity. Life, however, doesn’t ... Read more

    2,67 €

  • India's Biennale Effect

    A politics of contemporary art

    Edited by Robert E. D'Souza, Sunil Manghani ...
    India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. However, there have been few sustained and critical studies of these events as specific sites of production and reception of contemporary art.This book, engaging with the Kochi Biennale, provides detailed examination of what the editors term as the ... Read more

    57,08 €

  • The Archaeology of Celtic Art

    by D.W. Harding ...
    More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art.Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of Celtic art and views it within a much wider archaeological context. He re-asserts ancient Celtic identity after a decade of deconstruction in English ... Read more

    63,16 €