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The Value of Mathematics and Computing in Contemporary Art
Beauty and Mathematics
Artists have always used the tools of their time. Today, computers and mathematics enrich the panoply of tools an artist can deploy. This book reveals the immense artistic qualities and intellectual values of works created with our growing mathematical knowledge.
Artists have always used the tools of their time. Today, computers and mathematics enrich the panoply of tools an artist can deploy. This book reveals the immense artistic qualities and intellectual values of works created with our growing mathematical knowledge.
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Trans-Disciplinary Migrations
Science, the Sacred and the Arts
A paradigm shift is challenging our most deeply held beliefs. This book presents a prismatic array of fascinating discourses from doctors, artists, and philosophers. Journeying with a sense of the quantum sublime, they speak with passion about the web of connectivity.
A paradigm shift is challenging our most deeply held beliefs. This book presents a prismatic array of fascinating discourses from doctors, artists, and philosophers. Journeying with a sense of the quantum sublime, they speak with passion about the web of connectivity.
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John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years
Keeping the Fires of Figurative Art Burning
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.
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This hybrid collection of essays and self-portraits explores the ‘mark’—from heritage and race to trauma and scars. Through various art forms, it tackles identity, emancipation, and self-determination in postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.
This hybrid collection of essays and self-portraits explores the ‘mark’—from heritage and race to trauma and scars. Through various art forms, it tackles identity, emancipation, and self-determination in postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.
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Four Plays about Disability
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Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute's survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute’s survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
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An exploration of the art, architecture, and literary culture of the 16th-17th century Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The central discussion focuses on national identity and the tension between the region's Byzantine inheritance and Catholic influences.
An exploration of the art, architecture, and literary culture of the 16th-17th century Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The central discussion focuses on national identity and the tension between the region’s Byzantine inheritance and Catholic influences.
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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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Edward Burne-Jones on Nature
Physical and Metaphysical Realms
This study of Edward Burne-Jones’s paintings explores his vision of nature. It reveals how he fused scientific observation with symbolic interpretation to create the fantastical landscapes and magical imagery of his allegorical, fantasy, and dream cycles.
This study of Edward Burne-Jones’s paintings explores his vision of nature. It reveals how he fused scientific observation with symbolic interpretation to create the fantastical landscapes and magical imagery of his allegorical, fantasy, and dream cycles.
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Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.
Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.
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Discover Joseph Wright of Derby in the context of his life and times. This book reveals fresh information—from the flute music he played to the ‘graveyard’ poetry he read—and argues he is the author of ‘The Final Farewell’. For all admirers of this famously retiring artist.
Discover Joseph Wright of Derby in the context of his life and times. This book reveals fresh information—from the flute music he played to the ‘graveyard’ poetry he read—and argues he is the author of ‘The Final Farewell’. For all admirers of this famously retiring artist.
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The Cinematographic Activities of Charles Rider Noble and John Mackenzie in the Balkans (Volume Two)
This book details the engrossing story of two camera operators sent to the Balkans in the early 20th century. They filmed the first motion pictures of the region’s landscapes, cultural traditions, and public events, providing an exciting trip ‘through savage Europe’.
This book details the engrossing story of two camera operators sent to the Balkans in the early 20th century. They filmed the first motion pictures of the region’s landscapes, cultural traditions, and public events, providing an exciting trip ‘through savage Europe’.
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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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Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings
Art, Beauty, and Wisdom
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
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This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
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This book celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.
This book celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.
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This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure's aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure’s aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
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This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
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Curating Organizational Memory
The Art of Forgetting in the Information Age
Our most trusted organizations are burdened by an accumulation of knowledge. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve. Forgetting is an unexpected theory of organizing that can challenge ossified institutional practices.
Our most trusted organizations are burdened by an accumulation of knowledge. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve. Forgetting is an unexpected theory of organizing that can challenge ossified institutional practices.
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Performing Memories
Media, Creation, Anthropology, and Remembrance
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
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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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