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Art in Motion
Current Research in Screendance / Art en mouvement
International scholars and artists consider screendance from various angles, including historical research, aesthetic analysis, and contemporary practice. This collection explores the choreography of moving images and its role in culture today.
International scholars and artists consider screendance from various angles, including historical research, aesthetic analysis, and contemporary practice. This collection explores the choreography of moving images and its role in culture today.
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A Holistic Approach to Ceramic Sculpture
Its History, Theory, and Materiality
This book offers a holistic view of ceramic art—its history, theory, and materiality. Focusing on the structures behind forms and colors, it is an essential resource where students and artists can find inspiration, complete with images and descriptions of distinguished works.
This book offers a holistic view of ceramic art—its history, theory, and materiality. Focusing on the structures behind forms and colors, it is an essential resource where students and artists can find inspiration, complete with images and descriptions of distinguished works.
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Artists are collaborating with scientists and communities to encourage pro-environmental behavior. This book unites 28 contributors to examine the vital role of the arts in provoking change and making connections to ecology, science, and Indigenous culture.
Artists are collaborating with scientists and communities to encourage pro-environmental behavior. This book unites 28 contributors to examine the vital role of the arts in provoking change and making connections to ecology, science, and Indigenous culture.
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The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art
Arnhem Land Bark Painting, 1970-1990
This book reveals how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical to Indigenous contemporary art and self-determination. It charts the art’s trajectory from being understood as an ethnographic form to its appreciation as conceptual art with cultural agency and contemporaneity.
This book reveals how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical to Indigenous contemporary art and self-determination. It charts the art’s trajectory from being understood as an ethnographic form to its appreciation as conceptual art with cultural agency and contemporaneity.
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A photographer and a dancer reveal how aesthetic education deepens our understanding of self and world. Discover transformative connections between creativity, the arts, nature, and the sensuous qualities of everyday life.
A photographer and a dancer reveal how aesthetic education deepens our understanding of self and world. Discover transformative connections between creativity, the arts, nature, and the sensuous qualities of everyday life.
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Movies on Home Ground
Explorations in Amateur Cinema
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
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What represents Melanesian art today? Who are the artists? Art and Life in Melanesia is a timely exploration of Melanesian artists and their voices, taking stock of what is happening in the region’s art through themes like Kastom, Christianity, and Globalisation.
What represents Melanesian art today? Who are the artists? Art and Life in Melanesia is a timely exploration of Melanesian artists and their voices, taking stock of what is happening in the region’s art through themes like Kastom, Christianity, and Globalisation.
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Barbara Longhi of Ravenna
Art, Grace and Piety
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
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The dance floor is the stage of life. This book explores how dance reflects the maps of meaning that structure our lives, from religious to artistic forms, examining performers from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson and choreographers like Balanchine and Fosse.
The dance floor is the stage of life. This book explores how dance reflects the maps of meaning that structure our lives, from religious to artistic forms, examining performers from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson and choreographers like Balanchine and Fosse.
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Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable
The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we're capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we’re capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
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Conspiracy Dwellings
Surveillance in Contemporary Art
Nine illustrated essays by theorists and art practitioners explore surveillance in contemporary art. They consider its impact on ethics, citizenship, and resistance, and ask: where do we draw the line? At what point is the citizen a threat to the state?
Nine illustrated essays by theorists and art practitioners explore surveillance in contemporary art. They consider its impact on ethics, citizenship, and resistance, and ask: where do we draw the line? At what point is the citizen a threat to the state?
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This collection of papers charts European cemeteries as cultural sites and open-air museums. Authors present funerary art, investigate historical approaches, and propose ways to promote cemetery heritage, laying the groundwork for public discussion on our common heritage.
This collection of papers charts European cemeteries as cultural sites and open-air museums. Authors present funerary art, investigate historical approaches, and propose ways to promote cemetery heritage, laying the groundwork for public discussion on our common heritage.
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Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots
The Body Questions
This collection of essays poses questions about queerness, race, and the dancing body. The contributions come together across disciplines in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning and the wisdom and knowledge it holds.
This collection of essays poses questions about queerness, race, and the dancing body. The contributions come together across disciplines in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning and the wisdom and knowledge it holds.
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Interpreting Sapiens’ Consciousness through Paleolithic Cave Art
The Lascaux Testament
This book identifies a new path through Paleolithic cave art, arguing the shaman-artists of Lascaux depicted the soul's journey between the spirit and natural worlds. Using ethological evidence, it shows how the art maps a spectrum of consciousness involving the five senses.
This book identifies a new path through Paleolithic cave art, arguing the shaman-artists of Lascaux depicted the soul’s journey between the spirit and natural worlds. Using ethological evidence, it shows how the art maps a spectrum of consciousness involving the five senses.
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Sound Art and Music
Philosophy, Composition, Performance
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
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This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
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Mexican Mural Art
Critical Essays on a Belligerent Aesthetic
Prominent critics offer new 21st-century interpretations of the art, lives, and times of Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. These essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art for a wide readership.
Prominent critics offer new 21st-century interpretations of the art, lives, and times of Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. These essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art for a wide readership.
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Objects, Audiences, and Literatures
Alternative Narratives in the History of Design
Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.
Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.
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Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.
Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.
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Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch
Thinking about Television’s Mad Men
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show's cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show’s cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
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