The Arts: Treatments & subjects Books

This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is...

This book provides student journalists, artists, designers, creative writers and web producers with the tools and techniques they need to tell nonfiction stories visually and graphically. Weaving together history, theory, and practical advice, seasoned...

This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for...

From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential,...

The Russian budget process has received little detailed attention in academic literature. Here various key aspects of the formation of the federal budget, largely since Vladimir Putin began his third presidential term in 2012, are examined. It is...

Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handbook of Street Culture integrates and reviews current...

This is a colouring book created for adults, but it could be enjoyed by anyone with a love for art. Due to my love of abstract art, this book is full of fun abstract designs. Some of the designs may have hidden images within them! So get creative and add...

The nor'easter blew across the surging sea,Churning swells of aqua fury.The sharks attacked 'midst breaking wavesAs shackled slaves sank into their graves.Sun swirls and clouds of greyOvercast the horrors of that day,And as the ocean heaved with streaks...

For more than a century, the Ontario wine industry had found success producing mainly ports and sherries from American hybrid grapes, but as the 1970s approached, consumer tastes were changing and sales of the higher-alcohol wines were decreasing...

(UN)IMAGINABLEThe Pandemic SeriesWorldwide Pandemic? Honestly, who would've believed this could happen? Not me. But it did.I was laid off from my day job on March 18th, and all of a sudden told to stay home for the unforeseeable future. After ten days of...

What do Osama bin Laden, H.G. Wells, and the GTA series have to do with Hideo Kojima? A lot more than you'd think!In this stunning second installment of The Kojima Code series, author Terry Wolfe walks the reader through the brightest and darkest...

African people have a spirituality that is uniquely theirs. Before Judaism, Christianity and Islam even existed, African people had a history and spiritual system that these religions copied and plagiarized from. This book specializes in African...

As I sit and begin to write these linesI'm reminded of a much earlier timeI must have been 8 when I first beganTo create prose with a pen in my handAlthough most times it was done for funWho'd have guessed one day a writer I'd becomeSo I've laid myself...

This coloring book is perfect for tea time and princess hours. It is filled with images of royalty, a theme your little girl is interested in. Coloring has so many benefits, but the most important would be the fact that it builds your child's "I can do...

The sketches in this Fairy tale fantasy coloring book for adult sare very detailed, giving you the perfect palette to create your own faity tale masterpieces. Fantasy coloring lovers will enjoy the great variety of beautiful sketches in this fantasy...

What set this book apart from many of other coloring books is that authentic vintage images have been used.RELAX AND RELIVE YOUR STRESS WHILE COLORING BEAUTIFUL ROOSTERS AND HENS FOR FARM LOVING FUN.Big size 8.5" x 11"Coloring is great for...

This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the...

In Alois Riegl in Vienna 1875-1905: An Institutional Biography, Diana Cordileone applies standard methods of cultural and intellectual history for close readings of Riegl's published texts, several of which are still unavailable in English. Further, the...

What does it mean to commission art? Picture the people who typically commission art. If you're like most of us, you've likely conjured up an image of Kings, Queens, and the cultural elite (whatever that means). And you'd be right: historically, art...

An Alkaline Alphabet introduces babies and toddlers to a colorful variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices with pictures for them to easily identify. Teach your child the ABC's and encourage learning while reading. Enjoy coloring each item...

Quirky, fun, original black and white designs by Angela Treat Lyon. Seven collections of hand-drawn illustrative designs for fabric, tile, wall art and home decor. Unique, fun, bold, whimsical and delightful, these mini-depictions include both fantastic...

Turn off the television, light a candle, and rest your eyes on the calming grayscale of Texas nature. May this collection of captured moments help you see beauty in the simplicity, as you unwind from the day.There are a thousand places one could go, and...

This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866-1938), considered the embodiment of 'classicism' in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the...

'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area...

Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare.Taking a fresh look at...

This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to...

An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food,...

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in...

Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume charts the evolution of this scholarly activity, highlighting past accomplishments as well as promising new directions in...

This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various dance forms from Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong,...

Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Authors describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of...

The fourth in a series of books taken from extremely ancient documentation finally revealed after being hidden by Japanese shrine priests for over 1500 years for fear of powerful warlords destroying or distorting them in order to exert power. The...

This book represents a colourful collection of artwork, that is a playful depiction of animals, that we are fortunate enough to have as our "best friends," our pets; collected in a coffee table format, using various mediums and techniques, that...

A man encounters a painting for sale in a small town in British Columbia. He decides he cannot live without it, no matter what the cost. He buys it, and for the rest of his life the painting accompanies him, guides him, lives within him. The man is...

Florence Helena McGillivray, 1864-1938, was an extremely talented and prolific Canadian artist, and an accomplished educator. She was one of the most well traveled female artists in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th century. Florence's...

Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman,...

Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen...

A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropyMeyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were...

The colors of LEGO bricks cover a wide gamut and enables builders to carefully design amazing models. This book is the ultimate reference for 200+ colors that the LEGO company produced over the years. It includes color accurate photographs and precise...

"I am George. This is the story of my new family and how I travelled to Waikanae to find my one true love, the Luscious Calico Goddess, Queen Callie. My love for her came at the cost of personal freedom and never being able to savour the taste...

  The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring...

In a time where most of our writing is done through computer font, Calligraphy allows us to be unique and express our own personal styles. In this book, Maggie reveals the beauty of the art and how you can master this art form to express yourself...

Within these pages are 50 activities, 100 extension ideas and 100+ full-colour photographs to encourage learning about art, nature and literature. Whether you implement these pages into your classroom, homeschool, studio, with your children or the...

David S. Thompson is the author and master artist for his book, The Face of Music. His book was eleven years in the making and is a collection of over 300 of his hand-drawn portraits from the twentieth century, comprising the history of music's most...

The Hummingbird will build her nest,The size? A ping pong ball. Secured to twigs with spider silk, This moss lined nest won't fall.  Sarah Jane has created 20 luminous oil paintings depicting 10 familiar birds nesting, and put...