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The European Avant-Garde
Text and Image
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
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Go beyond the canvas of NZ’s premier artist, Colin McCahon. This book decodes his esoteric religious symbols, reveals why his spiritual message was missed, and charts his work’s profound journey from optimism to despair.
Go beyond the canvas of NZ’s premier artist, Colin McCahon. This book decodes his esoteric religious symbols, reveals why his spiritual message was missed, and charts his work’s profound journey from optimism to despair.
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Worlds in Words
Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre and Playwriting
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
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Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde
Defining Modern and Traditional in France, 1900-1960
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
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The Art of Anthonie Palamedes (1602-1673)
With an Attached Oeuvre Catalogue
This is the first complete study of 17th-century Dutch painter Anthonie Palamedes. Unlike his Delft contemporary Vermeer, Palamedes was a success—the embodiment of the thriving artist in the Dutch Golden Age. The book includes a biography, a study of his work, and a catalogue.
This is the first complete study of 17th-century Dutch painter Anthonie Palamedes. Unlike his Delft contemporary Vermeer, Palamedes was a success—the embodiment of the thriving artist in the Dutch Golden Age. The book includes a biography, a study of his work, and a catalogue.
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A New Gaze
Women Creators of Film and Television in Democratic Spain
This book examines the work of professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy. Focusing on well-known names while rescuing others from oblivion, it analyzes their contributions and challenges through essays and interviews.
This book examines the work of professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy. Focusing on well-known names while rescuing others from oblivion, it analyzes their contributions and challenges through essays and interviews.
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Make Me Yours
How Art Seduces
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
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Collecting exotic objects has long united humanity. The essays in this volume connect these collections with their forms of display—from Chinese cabinets built in the West to Western-style palaces in China—charting encounters between cultures across millennia.
Collecting exotic objects has long united humanity. The essays in this volume connect these collections with their forms of display—from Chinese cabinets built in the West to Western-style palaces in China—charting encounters between cultures across millennia.
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Art and Future
Energy, Climate, Cultures
This publication examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism.
This publication examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism.
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Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845
Visualising Identity and Difference
De Silva considers the ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals that the position of the British population in the country in the 19th century was often more nuanced than often assumed.
De Silva considers the ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals that the position of the British population in the country in the 19th century was often more nuanced than often assumed.
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Bringing together specialists from various backgrounds, this book establishes, and then analyses, the interrelation between series and dependence by focusing on two aspects of their connection: the overconsumption of TV series, and the production devices that lead to it.
Bringing together specialists from various backgrounds, this book establishes, and then analyses, the interrelation between series and dependence by focusing on two aspects of their connection: the overconsumption of TV series, and the production devices that lead to it.
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Neo-Romantic Landscapes
An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger
This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger's films challenges their status as 'un-British' outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.
This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger’s films challenges their status as ‘un-British’ outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.
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This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
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The Silk Road of Adaptation
Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures
Using the Silk Road as a metaphor for transcultural exchange, this anthology presents adaptation as a continuous process. Essays from diverse disciplines show how adaptation is a transmedial and transnational act with psychological as well as political significance.
Using the Silk Road as a metaphor for transcultural exchange, this anthology presents adaptation as a continuous process. Essays from diverse disciplines show how adaptation is a transmedial and transnational act with psychological as well as political significance.
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The First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts brought together 80 delegates from fourteen countries. This book collects 40 papers characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.
The First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts brought together 80 delegates from fourteen countries. This book collects 40 papers characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.
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Photography and Cinema
50 Years of Chris Marker’s La Jetée
Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.
Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.
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Popular and Visual Culture
Design, Circulation and Consumption
This book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, analyzing how iconic productions are outcomes of political, economic, and social circumstances. It explores how visual artefacts are socially built, preserved, and contested as symbolic discourses on values.
This book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, analyzing how iconic productions are outcomes of political, economic, and social circumstances. It explores how visual artefacts are socially built, preserved, and contested as symbolic discourses on values.
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Docudrama Performs the Past
Arenas of Argument in Films based on True Stories
Docudramas offer performance as persuasion. By re-creating true stories of war, tragedy, and the lives of noteworthy individuals, they perform the past. This performance of memory makes the memories of others our own, shaping public memory itself.
Docudramas offer performance as persuasion. By re-creating true stories of war, tragedy, and the lives of noteworthy individuals, they perform the past. This performance of memory makes the memories of others our own, shaping public memory itself.
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Exploring Turkish Cultures
Essays, Interviews and Reviews
This groundbreaking collection offers new insights into Turkish cultures, moving beyond traditional binaries. It features the first major interviews in English with prominent actors, directors, and critics, alongside essays on Turkish film and theatre.
This groundbreaking collection offers new insights into Turkish cultures, moving beyond traditional binaries. It features the first major interviews in English with prominent actors, directors, and critics, alongside essays on Turkish film and theatre.
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Looking Through Gender
Post-1980 British and Irish Drama
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
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