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The Word made Visible in the Painted Image
Perspective, Proportion, Witness and Threshold in Italian Renaissance Painting
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
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Niestorowicz discusses the creative capabilities of people with simultaneous impairment of sight and hearing. She presents a study of the act of creation performed by deafblind people, which makes it possible to propose a vision of reality as conveyed through their sculptures.
Niestorowicz discusses the creative capabilities of people with simultaneous impairment of sight and hearing. She presents a study of the act of creation performed by deafblind people, which makes it possible to propose a vision of reality as conveyed through their sculptures.
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Half a century after his death, is E. M. Forster still relevant? Some find his novels old-fashioned; others, inspiring. This book explores Forster’s legacy, offering new interpretations of his work and his place within British and world culture.
Half a century after his death, is E. M. Forster still relevant? Some find his novels old-fashioned; others, inspiring. This book explores Forster’s legacy, offering new interpretations of his work and his place within British and world culture.
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The worlds of theatre, law, and psychology all deal with the human soul and its contradictions. This book examines six classic Yiddish plays for the first time from a legal and psychoanalytical perspective, shedding new light on the characters' universal conflicts.
The worlds of theatre, law, and psychology all deal with the human soul and its contradictions. This book examines six classic Yiddish plays for the first time from a legal and psychoanalytical perspective, shedding new light on the characters’ universal conflicts.
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Since Plato, the relationship between theatre and learning has been seen as powerful, dangerous, and complex. This volume investigates this intersection, as researchers and practitioners consider the tensions and failures that make learning through theatre so engaging.
Since Plato, the relationship between theatre and learning has been seen as powerful, dangerous, and complex. This volume investigates this intersection, as researchers and practitioners consider the tensions and failures that make learning through theatre so engaging.
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Theatre Noise
The Sound of Performance
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
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Theatre Theory and Performance
A Critical Interrogation
Biswas offers a starting point for a much-needed critical interrogation of theatre today. He looks at the constant features of European theatre and brings in some Indian elements, before scrutinising the symbiosis that has been functioning for some time.
Biswas offers a starting point for a much-needed critical interrogation of theatre today. He looks at the constant features of European theatre and brings in some Indian elements, before scrutinising the symbiosis that has been functioning for some time.
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This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
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Theatres of Rebellion in Nicaragua
From the Colony to the Sandinista Revolution
To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation's history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.
To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation’s history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.
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Theatres of Thought
Theatre, Performance and Philosophy
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
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This volume assembles studies by prominent scholars on Thebes in the First Millennium BC. It investigates royal and elite monuments of the Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Periods, providing new perspectives on their art, architecture, texts, and conservation.
This volume assembles studies by prominent scholars on Thebes in the First Millennium BC. It investigates royal and elite monuments of the Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Periods, providing new perspectives on their art, architecture, texts, and conservation.
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This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. Analyzing films from across South Asia, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it highlights regional and cultural differences and commonalities in the representation of the divine.
This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. Analyzing films from across South Asia, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it highlights regional and cultural differences and commonalities in the representation of the divine.
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This book explores the dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and over their values and purposes. The contributions here, by theorizing images in their aesthetic, historical, and technological guises, pave the way for the future of visual culture.
This book explores the dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and over their values and purposes. The contributions here, by theorizing images in their aesthetic, historical, and technological guises, pave the way for the future of visual culture.
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Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.
Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.
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Thinking Space, Advancing Art
Cassirer and Crowther
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
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Thinking Touch in Partnering and Contact Improvisation
Philosophy, Pedagogy, Practice
What happens when artists take touch as a starting point? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, with practitioner and scholarly perspectives on the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, education, and 21st century performance.
What happens when artists take touch as a starting point? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, with practitioner and scholarly perspectives on the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, education, and 21st century performance.
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Through the Mirror
Reflections on the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
This broad volume on Tarkovsky spans from classical film theories to theological analyses, an approach seriously neglected until now. This inspiring collection of critical essays strikes a compelling pose between cinematic and theological scholarship.
This broad volume on Tarkovsky spans from classical film theories to theological analyses, an approach seriously neglected until now. This inspiring collection of critical essays strikes a compelling pose between cinematic and theological scholarship.
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To Inspire and Instruct
A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
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Tony Kushner’s Postmodern Theatre
A Study of Political Discourse
This book is an insightful examination of Tony Kushner, one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today. It explores how Kushner theatricalizes politics, drawing on influences like Bertolt Brecht to define his postmodern theatre.
This book is an insightful examination of Tony Kushner, one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today. It explores how Kushner theatricalizes politics, drawing on influences like Bertolt Brecht to define his postmodern theatre.
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Touching Art
The Poetics and the Politics of Exhibiting the Tree of Life
This study follows the Tree of Life, a Mozambican sculpture made from decommissioned weapons. It explores how its meaning changed when exhibited in its original context versus the British Museum, challenging curatorial concepts of African art.
This study follows the Tree of Life, a Mozambican sculpture made from decommissioned weapons. It explores how its meaning changed when exhibited in its original context versus the British Museum, challenging curatorial concepts of African art.
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