Colour in Sculpture
This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.
CoMa 2013
This book offers a wide variety of subjects on preserving image collections. It covers theoretical questions of value, collection management, scientific research, and digitization, providing a base for anyone dealing with photographs to ensure their long-term preservation.
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.
Comic Grace
This book asks not only why some movie comedies are great, but what is unique and enduring in the legacy of comedy on film. It entertains the proposition that comedy may be motion picture’s greatest achievement, inquiring into what audiences cherish.
Comics and Power
Comics and Power presents new methods for studying the complex relationship between comics and power. Its 14 chapters discuss how comics interact with and challenge existing power structures, shaping our understanding of art, identity, and community.
Living as we do in a world marked by an ‘age apartheid’, films remain the most accessible form of information regarding getting older for the general public. Using current gerontological theory, this volume provides insight into the accuracy of cinematic representations of aging.
Coming of Age on Film
Twelve film scholars examine the theme of coming of age in the cinema of Latin America, Europe, and Africa. These essays explore transformation in individuals and nations, bringing attention to a widely represented but minimally studied theme in global cinema.
Coming Out to the Mainstream
Has New Queer Cinema gone mainstream? This collection of essays examines how its themes have entered popular culture, challenging a queer-phobic climate and informing debates on queerness in film, television, and beyond.
Communicating Visually
This publication focuses on the various vectors of visual communication, particularly contemporary brands as social phenomena, culture and the way people communicate and create meanings, from a designer’s perspective.
This volume explains methods for examining oil and acrylic paint surfaces. It compares untreated and treated samples of historic and modern paints to reveal ideal cleaning systems, presenting tests of materials ranging from demineralized water and sponges to detergents.
Complex Art Conservation and Preservation Problems
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.
Explore the powerful relationship between American art and conflict. This anthology discusses visual works in relation to national identity and politics, revealing how conflict—armed and rhetorical—inspires new identities to emerge.
Connections~Verbindungen
When artist Gerhardt Gallagher discovered etchings by his German grandmother Margarethe, whose career was disrupted by war, it led to an exhibition and this book. This volume connects Irish and German cultures through the work of two artists and a family history.
Consciousness, Performing Arts and Literature
Against the background of personal, institutional and cultural trajectories, this collection considers dance, opera, theatre and practice as research from a consciousness studies perspective.
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.
Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.
These essays from international experts highlight the growing interdisciplinary interest in the relationship between human consciousness and the arts. The collection reflects a wide range of approaches to theatre, literature, film, fine arts, and music.
This collection of essays highlights the growing interest in the relationship between the arts and human consciousness. Reflecting a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the book features contributions from scholars across the world.
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.
Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.