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  • Scene Shift Scene Shift
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    Scene Shift

    This book showcases contemporary US set design by engaging designers with one another, pairing dialogue and imagery from varied experiences and practices. Within these pages, we witness an expansion of traditional theatrical set design, evolving fluidly...
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  • Culture as Power Culture as Power
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    Culture as Power

    This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics. By revisiting Buddhist connections...
    $372.01

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  • Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion
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    Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion

    Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017) was unquestionably one of the most important and influential voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion in the last century. His work explored the nature and history of religious phenomena across...
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    The Lives of the Muses The Lives of the Muses
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    The Lives of the Muses

    All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros.In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his...
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  • Blood on the Mirror Blood on the Mirror
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    Blood on the Mirror

    Pregnancy - What is this thing doing in me?Abortions - What have I done?Miscarriages - Why does this always happen to me?Street Life - I feel so cold and aloneProstitution - It’s only for some extra moneyFetish Industry - I can make them feel the...
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  • Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque
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    Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque

    Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument...
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  • Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period
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    Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period

    This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative. It analyses their contrasting aesthetic strategies and their...
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  • Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
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    Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

    Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more...
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  • Contemporary British Art Contemporary British Art
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    Contemporary British Art

    The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape - both national...
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  • Biosecurity by Design Is No Accident Biosecurity by Design Is No Accident
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    Biosecurity by Design Is No Accident

    Building the world's most secure and sterile facility is no mean feat. Taking 200 specialists, 700 construction workers, 18000 contract drawings all drawn by hands, 400 inventions, 12 years, and costing over $185M, this was the undertaking of colossal...
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  • Finding Gauguin Finding Gauguin
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    Finding Gauguin

    Amateur art collector David A. Hiser, Jr. knew who drew the woman's arm in the carving because he had been collecting art and antiques for over forty years. The outline of the arm was a soft French curve, but yet the arm was muscular. He knew of only one...
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  • Legislating Creativity Legislating Creativity
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    Legislating Creativity

    How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an...
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  • Generation Ecstasy Generation Ecstasy
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    Generation Ecstasy

    In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the...
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  • Artistic Dynamos Artistic Dynamos
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    Artistic Dynamos

    Artistic Dynamos: An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms uses stories and research from Ngiembɔɔn communities of Central and West Cameroon as touchstones for proposing new approaches to arts scholarship and community development...
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  • Establishment of "Drama" Orientation Establishment of "Drama" Orientation
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    Establishment of "Drama" Orientation

    The "national drama" in China is a historical concept. Grown on longstanding Chinese culture and art, the traditional drama, mainly in the form of "opera", has been integrated with "drama" of an international background. From the perspective of modern...
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  • Hans Zatzka Hans Zatzka
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    Hans Zatzka

    During the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hans Zatzka (1859-1945) was a popular artist in Austria. He is best known for his truly unique fantasy paintings, in which he created his own dream world. Zatzka's utopia consisted of soft natural...
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  • Cultural Studies 11.3 Cultural Studies 11.3
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    Cultural Studies 11.3

    This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies.
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  • Cultural Studies 11.2 Cultural Studies 11.2
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    Cultural Studies 11.2

    Papers featured in this issue offer an in-depth examination of the interaction of ethnicity, identity, and 'multiculturalism' with contemporary culture.
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  • Children's Lifeworlds Children's Lifeworlds
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    Children's Lifeworlds

    Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this...
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  • The Viola d'Amore The Viola d'Amore
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    The Viola d'Amore

    This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d'amore for its...
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  • Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana
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    Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana

    Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, local dress styles and materials have been fused with global trends to create innovative, high fashion garments...
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  • Tattoos in American Visual Culture Tattoos in American Visual Culture
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    Tattoos in American Visual Culture

    Since the rise of the dime museum in the 19th century, tattooed bodies have been parading across stages both live and mediated. This book takes a close look at images of tattooed bodies in live performance, advertising, and photography. In so doing, the...
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  • Key Writers on Art Key Writers on Art
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    Key Writers on Art

    Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors,...
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  • Karaoke Around the World Karaoke Around the World
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    Karaoke Around the World

    The karaoke machine is much more than an instrument which allows us to be a star for three minutes. The contributors to this lively collection address the importance of karaoke within Japanese culture and its spread to other parts of the world, exploring...
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  • Futurenatural Futurenatural
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    Futurenatural

    We are living in an age when 'nature' seems to be on the brink of extinction yet, at the same time, 'nature' is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and unstable as a category for representation and debate.Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of...
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  • In Crime's Archive In Crime's Archive
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    In Crime's Archive

    This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. During the criminal trial, evidentiary material is tightly regulated; it is formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of...
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  • Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime
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    Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

    In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event"...
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  • Comparativism in Art History Comparativism in Art History
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    Comparativism in Art History

    Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The chapters assess the strengths and weaknesses of comparative practice in the history...
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  • The Expanding Discourse The Expanding Discourse
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    The Expanding Discourse

    "A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the pre"
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  • The Politics Of Vision The Politics Of Vision
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    The Politics Of Vision

    A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.
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  • The Portland Sketch Book (1836) The Portland Sketch Book (1836)
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    The Portland Sketch Book (1836)

    The Portland Sketch Book is a collection of sketches and essays written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published in 1836. The book is set in Portland, Maine, and captures the essence of the town through the eyes of the author. The sketches cover a wide range...
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  • The Hindu Ruins In The Plain Of Parambanan (1901) The Hindu Ruins In The Plain Of Parambanan (1901)
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    The Hindu Ruins In The Plain Of Parambanan (1901)

    The Hindu Ruins In The Plain Of Parambanan (1901) is a book written by Isaac Groneman. The book provides a detailed description of the ancient Hindu ruins located in the plain of Parambanan, which is situated in central Java, Indonesia. The author, who...
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  • Birds By Land And Sea Birds By Land And Sea
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    Birds By Land And Sea

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Six Lectures On Painting Six Lectures On Painting
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    Six Lectures On Painting

    ""Six Lectures On Painting"" is a book written by George Clausen, an English artist and member of the Royal Academy of Arts. The book contains six lectures that Clausen delivered to the students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London in January 1904.In...
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  • New Paths New Paths
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    New Paths

    New Paths: Verse, Prose, Pictures 1917-1918 is a book published in 1918 by Cyril William Beaumont. The book is a collection of literary works and artwork from the years 1917-1918. The pieces included in the book are a mixture of poetry, prose, and...
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  • The Folk Songs Of Southern India (1871) The Folk Songs Of Southern India (1871)
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    The Folk Songs Of Southern India (1871)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Heroic Spain (1910) Heroic Spain (1910)
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    Heroic Spain (1910)

    Heroic Spain is a historical book written by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly and published in 1910. The book provides a comprehensive account of the heroic deeds and achievements of the Spanish people throughout history. It covers various topics, including the...
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  • Policy And Paint Policy And Paint
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    Policy And Paint

    ""Policy and Paint: Or Some Incidents in the Lives of Dudley Carleton and Peter Paul Rubens"" is a historical book written by Thomas De Longueville and published in 1913. The book tells the story of the lives of two prominent figures of the 17th century...
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  • Mass Culture and Everyday Life Mass Culture and Everyday Life
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    Mass Culture and Everyday Life

    Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass...
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  • What Happens to History What Happens to History
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    What Happens to History

    While the questions of ethics have become increasingly important in recent years for many fields within the humanities, there has been no single volume that seeks to address the emergence of this concern with ethics across the disciplinary spectrum...
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  • Global Pop Global Pop
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    Global Pop

    Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world beat", and some of the musicians associated with these recent genres such as Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Johnny Clegg. Drawing on a wide range of sources - academic, popular,...
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