Visual Arts – Page 38 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

The Spectrum of Absence

By: Carla Grosman, Lilen Gillet

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This book reflects on Argentinean cinema's role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.

This book reflects on Argentinean cinema’s role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.

The Painting of Stephen Cook

Enhanced Naturalism in a Post-War British Figurative Tradition

By: Stephen Miller

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The first critical study of artist Stephen Cook, this monograph situates his work within post-war British figurative art. Featuring over 50 colour plates, most previously unpublished, it reveals an art of rigorous observation that uncovers a reality beyond the everyday.

The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking

The Art of Fact

Edited By: Keith Marley

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This collection gives insight into how poetic approaches have developed the documentary form. Focusing on aesthetics, filmmakers discuss how poetics influence their own work, while scholars analyze the work of others. For documentary producers and film enthusiasts.

John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years

Keeping the Fires of Figurative Art Burning

By: David McCann

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Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate's first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.

Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate’s first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.

Interpreting Sapiens’ Consciousness through Paleolithic Cave Art

The Lascaux Testament

By: Gary J. Maier

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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.

Contemporary Practices in Bio-art

When a Tree Becomes an Artwork

By: Lilia Chak

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This book explores Dendro-art, a new subdivision of Bio-art focused on the human-plant relationship and recreating vanished species. The author, an artist with academic training, offers a unique perspective, examining the works of bio-artists from both the inside and out.

The Future of the Creative Industries

A Global Perspective

Edited By: Madhura Yadav, Sampath Kumar

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The creative industries are crucial to the future of culture and national wealth. This collection of papers from researchers and industrialists explores the role of design, covering applied art, fashion and textiles, the built environment, and spatial design.

Complex Art Conservation and Preservation Problems

A Case Study on the Work of Egon Schiele

By: Paul-Bernhard Eipper

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For the first time, this book examines Egon Schiele’s painting technique through his 1918 work, “Stadtende/Häuserbogen III.” A conservation campaign uncovered hidden portrait sketches, unmasked a forged signature, and identified the original frame, guiding future preservation.

Staging and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France

Appearing, Revealing, Disappearing

Edited By: Camilla Murgia

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In nineteenth-century France, staging was more than theatre. It was a process of appearing and disappearing that shaped how individuals were seen in the visual arts and culture. This book explores staging’s mechanisms, repercussions, and what it chose not to show.

The Empathic Movement

Empathy, Essence and Experience

Edited By: Menotti Lerro

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This book explores the Empathic Movement, which created a new cultural pole in southern Italy. It rejects individualism to give voice to the silent masses, sharing genuine emotion and seeking to reunite the arts, once torn apart by the mythic killing of the Total Artist.

Film as an Expression of Spirituality

The Arts and Faith Top 100 Films

Edited By: Kenneth R. Morefield

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What makes a film ‘spiritually significant’? These essays explore the Arts & Faith Top 100 list, with close readings of films by Dreyer, Kubrick, Scorsese, and others—a foundational introduction for those seeking to understand film as an expression of human spirituality.

Shakespeare’s Reception and Interpretation in the Baltics

By: Ramunė Marcinkevičiūtė, Maris Peters, Guna Zeltiņa

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This is the first collection of research in English on interpretations of Shakespeare in the Baltic countries. Written by leading researchers, it analyzes Shakespeare’s importance in developing Baltic national culture and introduces the unique experience of Baltic theatre.

Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

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This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.

The Musical Theatre of Charles Dibdin

By: John Franceschina

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The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.

Understanding Chinese Wisdom through Characters

By: Zikai Ma, Weiqing Zhang, Tao Guan, Ou Tang, Yuanqing Ma

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Chinese characters reflect how ancient people understood the universe. This book explores their evolution, revealing the Chinese wisdom of harmony and resiliency from which to draw strength. It uniquely features calligraphy, combining philosophy with traditional art.

Writing in Film Studies, from Professional Practice to Practical Pedagogy

By: Bryan Mead

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How can film instructors help students become better writers? This book answers by uncovering the disciplinary expectations for student writing and offering clear, actionable strategies to teach those expectations, helping instructors foster better writing in their students.

Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance

Drifting Through Wonderlands

Edited By: John C Green

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Inspired by Psychogeography, this collection of essays by international scholar-artists highlights the performative aspects of cities. It offers a practical guide to experiencing the cityscape as the Artscape, where performance and imagination create immersive public art.

Analog and Digital Meters

By: K.C. Selvam

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Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.

Women as Creators and Subjects Across Disciplines and Cultures

Edited By: Debra D. Andrist

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This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.

The Tragic Transformed

Attic Drama on the Contemporary Stage

By: Burç İdem Dinçel

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This book provides a novel way of looking at Attic tragedies via three directors bearing the aesthetic imprint of Samuel Beckett: Theodoros Terzopoulos, Şahika Tekand and Tadashi Suzuki. Translation becomes a mode of physical action, using mimesis to reawaken tragic pathos.