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Andrew Graciano’s study re-evaluates Joseph Wright’s career, connecting his art to contemporary science, industry, and economics. Graciano reveals Wright as an intellectual painter and a gentleman whose social standing has been ignored by scholars.
Andrew Graciano’s study re-evaluates Joseph Wright’s career, connecting his art to contemporary science, industry, and economics. Graciano reveals Wright as an intellectual painter and a gentleman whose social standing has been ignored by scholars.
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Just Images
Ethics and the Cinematic
This collection of essays explores the role ethics plays in the study of moving images. Scholars discuss how film engages with history, politics, trauma, and representations of the Other to reshape our thoughts on subjects like terrorism and conflict.
This collection of essays explores the role ethics plays in the study of moving images. Scholars discuss how film engages with history, politics, trauma, and representations of the Other to reshape our thoughts on subjects like terrorism and conflict.
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This book presents insights into the work of actor Krishnan Nair, unique in the field of Kathakali. Through his superb ability to connect with audiences and his sheer charisma, Nair achieved his burning ambitions: ensuring Kathakali performers gained status and a decent wage.
This book presents insights into the work of actor Krishnan Nair, unique in the field of Kathakali. Through his superb ability to connect with audiences and his sheer charisma, Nair achieved his burning ambitions: ensuring Kathakali performers gained status and a decent wage.
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Kam Women Artisans of China
Dawn of the Butterflies
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
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Kerouac Ascending
Memorabilia of the Decade of On the Road
A memoir by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with his students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lenrow reveals Kerouac’s academic side through papers, letters, and poems shared as they emerged as writers. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.
A memoir by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with his students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lenrow reveals Kerouac’s academic side through papers, letters, and poems shared as they emerged as writers. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.
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King Hu’s Kung Fu Cinematic Art
An Interdisciplinary Discourse
This analysis explores King Hu’s transformative impact on martial arts cinema. Delving into films like *Dragon Inn* and *A Touch of Zen*, it critiques his representation of women and highlights his mastery of storytelling, cementing his legacy as a pivotal cultural auteur.
This analysis explores King Hu’s transformative impact on martial arts cinema. Delving into films like *Dragon Inn* and *A Touch of Zen*, it critiques his representation of women and highlights his mastery of storytelling, cementing his legacy as a pivotal cultural auteur.
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Kitsch
History, Theory, Practice
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey
The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance
By delving into Kurdish documentary films as products of complex societal, political, and historical processes, the articles here highlight the intersections of media production, film text, and audience reception.
By delving into Kurdish documentary films as products of complex societal, political, and historical processes, the articles here highlight the intersections of media production, film text, and audience reception.
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Labor and Writing
Language and the Origins of Imagination
This book highlights the act of writing—humanity’s greatest cultural investment. It is the labor we use to record our past and construct our future. The essays within explore writing's role at the heart of all enterprise, from identifying things to inventing new realities.
This book highlights the act of writing—humanity’s greatest cultural investment. It is the labor we use to record our past and construct our future. The essays within explore writing’s role at the heart of all enterprise, from identifying things to inventing new realities.
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A photographer and a dancer reveal how aesthetic education deepens our understanding of self and world. Discover transformative connections between creativity, the arts, nature, and the sensuous qualities of everyday life.
A photographer and a dancer reveal how aesthetic education deepens our understanding of self and world. Discover transformative connections between creativity, the arts, nature, and the sensuous qualities of everyday life.
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Last Tape on Stage in Translation
Unwinding Beckett’s Spool in Turkey
This study examines translated theatre texts as blueprints for production, focusing on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. By looking into the Turkish translations and productions of the play, this book brings a new dimension to approaching theatre through translation.
This study examines translated theatre texts as blueprints for production, focusing on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. By looking into the Turkish translations and productions of the play, this book brings a new dimension to approaching theatre through translation.
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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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Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
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Le mensonge
Multidisciplinary Perspectives in French Studies
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
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Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye
New Insights
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
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Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks
One Painter, Two Virgins, Twenty-Five Years
This is the first monograph dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks, which he painted twice. It opens up Leonardo’s world and unveils the secret realms of human dissection and philosophy that inspired the creation of the painter’s two masterpieces
This is the first monograph dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks, which he painted twice. It opens up Leonardo’s world and unveils the secret realms of human dissection and philosophy that inspired the creation of the painter’s two masterpieces
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This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
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These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
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This book investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon, a heavily multilingual postcolonial nation. It examines messages on signposts as a window into the country's sociolinguistic reality, revealing significant findings about this complex environment.
This book investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon, a heavily multilingual postcolonial nation. It examines messages on signposts as a window into the country’s sociolinguistic reality, revealing significant findings about this complex environment.
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Literacy, Literature and Identity
Multiple Perspectives
This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.
This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.
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