el global seminar 2022: the practicum studio es una colaboraciΓ³nΒ innovadora entre la universidad de colorado boulder, la universidad san buenaventura y la comunidad del barrio carpinelo 2 en medellΓn,Β colombia. este proyecto internacional reuniΓ³...More info...
Series: Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
(Pub. Date: 10-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442763)
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The stu...More info...
(Pub. Date: 08-Jul-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691267128)
A richly illustrated look at the lives and collaborations of two unsung giants of American landscape and urban designGilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public lan...More info...
(Pub. Date: 08-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691267128)
A richly illustrated look at the lives and collaborations of two unsung giants of American landscape and urban designGilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public lan...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Jun-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399535168)
A consideration of how some recent British films are defined by their atmospheres of unease, which grow out of a bold and distinctive treatment of landscape. An uncertain tendency in recent British cinema has been to conjure atmospheres of eerie unea...More info...
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollens Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (played by Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s who is transforming her place in patriarchal culture. The film is recognised as...More info...
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollens Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (played by Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s who is transforming her place in patriarchal culture. The film is recognised as...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399535151)
A consideration of how some recent British films are defined by their atmospheres of unease, which grow out of a bold and distinctive treatment of landscape. An uncertain tendency in recent British cinema has been to conjure atmospheres of eerie unea...More info...
How can arts-based approaches benefit patients and professionals within the health care system? Can the skills creative writers use to craft their work be applied more broadly to enhance the wellbeing of those in need of medical care This book offers...More info...
How can arts-based approaches benefit patients and professionals within the health care system? Can the skills creative writers use to craft their work be applied more broadly to enhance the wellbeing of those in need of medical care This book offers...More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Nevada Press, ISBN-13: 9781647791902)
In Snow Fleas and Chickadees, Eve Quesnel invites readers to join her on strolls through the forest surrounding her neighborhood in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe. The book serves as an extended field guide and natural history reference...More info...
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-conscio...More info...
A social history of the fifteenth-century German painters influence. Emigrating from southern Germany in the late fifteenth century, painter Hans Memling sought success in the vibrant commercial hub of Bruges. He found an audience, not among the nob...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330692)
A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities.The beautiful polychrome ceramics o...More info...
Series: Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
(Pub. Date: 06-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477331316)
A novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes creativity and spectators evolving experiences of sport.The playing field is more than an arena for sporting rivalry. It is a laboratory of invention, w...More info...
(Pub. Date: 06-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477331057)
A comprehensive analysis of the major trends and developments in contemporary Israeli media.In the twenty-first century, Israeli filmmaking has transformed from a localized industry into a globally recognized and diverse national cinema, its filmmake...More info...
(Pub. Date: 06-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477331507)
A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.When Wilco s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as dad rock, Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad s glass shop in the Y...More info...
The riveting story of how one woman rose from simple beginnings to become one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Gilded Age. Richly illustrated with over 70 photos, including color images of her rare surviving works.No other female portrait...More info...
The riveting story of how one woman rose from simple beginnings to become one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Gilded Age. Richly illustrated with over 70 photos, including color images of her rare surviving works.No other female portrait...More info...
Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Lodens only feature film, Wanda (1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Loden), who abandons her life as a coal miners wife and mother, electing instead to drift. B...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765106846)
This is the definitive chronicle of Ministrys 1988 industrial rock release, The Land of Rape and Honey, that details the zeitgeist where post-punk, metal, funk and straight-up noise converge. Ministry mainstay Al Jourgensen got a taste of bitter rec...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765119532)
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influe...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765119037)
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicalia, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinvent Brazils cultural identity in a post-colonial world. While bossa nova nurtured a snobb...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765119549)
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influe...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765119044)
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicalia, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinvent Brazils cultural identity in a post-colonial world. While bossa nova nurtured a snobb...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765106853)
This is the definitive chronicle of Ministrys 1988 industrial rock release, The Land of Rape and Honey, that details the zeitgeist where post-punk, metal, funk and straight-up noise converge. Ministry mainstay Al Jourgensen got a taste of bitter rec...More info...
Billy Wilders classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob massacre in Chicago who then, disguised as women, j...More info...
Billy Wilders classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob massacre in Chicago who then, disguised as women, j...More info...
Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Lodens only feature film, Wanda (1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Loden), who abandons her life as a coal miners wife and mother, electing instead to drift. B...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337608)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341735)
The Film in National Life (1932) is the report by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films, established in 1929, that aimed to establish a position on the treatment of film constructively in the interests of education in its widest sense. The...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337530)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040338742)
Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke away from the Arts and Crafts in 1915, until 1945 when its vital importance to industry was officially recognised, and the Council...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040338759)
Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke away from the Arts and Crafts in 1915, until 1945 when its vital importance to industry was officially recognised, and the Council...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341889)
The Film in National Life (1932) is the report by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films, established in 1929, that aimed to establish a position on the treatment of film constructively in the interests of education in its widest sense. The...More info...
This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to tradition...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399538527)
For the first time in the history of cinema, Turkey witnesses a generation of female directors who occupy their own space within the New Cinema Movement. They claim an authority of their own and create a distinct cinema. However, recent scholarship o...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399538510)
For the first time in the history of cinema, Turkey witnesses a generation of female directors who occupy their own space within the New Cinema Movement. They claim an authority of their own and create a distinct cinema. However, recent scholarship o...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399512817)
Drawing on what used to be the erstwhile internationalist cultural space of Communist Eurasia, the author reads socialist-era and postsocialist films made in Romania and China as promoting a common aesthetics predicated on the miserabilism of Third C...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399512800)
Drawing on what used to be the erstwhile internationalist cultural space of Communist Eurasia, the author reads socialist-era and postsocialist films made in Romania and China as promoting a common aesthetics predicated on the miserabilism of Third C...More info...
(Pub. Date: 29-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Chicago Review Press, ISBN-13: 9780913705216)
Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies and counting) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has become the universal screen saver of pop culture-nobody can go a few days without some reference to Keanu or his movies popping...More info...
(Pub. Date: 29-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Chicago Review Press, ISBN-13: 9780913705209)
Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies and counting) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has become the universal screen saver of pop culture-nobody can go a few days without some reference to Keanu or his movies popping...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399540223)
Financing the British Film Industry provides a comprehensive history of the financing of British film production from the origin of the industry until the end of the Second World War. It documents the growth of the film business from a cottage indust...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399540230)
Financing the British Film Industry provides a comprehensive history of the financing of British film production from the origin of the industry until the end of the Second World War. It documents the growth of the film business from a cottage indust...More info...
How may the lives of individuals and a community be impacted by a durational applied theatre and arts-based project? What lessons does it provide for arts practitioners working for social change? Offering a unique account of the first 7 years of an...More info...
How may the lives of individuals and a community be impacted by a durational applied theatre and arts-based project? What lessons does it provide for arts practitioners working for social change? Offering a unique account of the first 7 years of an...More info...
The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the post-socialist Central European region (the Czech Repub...More info...
Updated to cover the latest cutting-edge developments in the field and now in full color, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design.From sma...More info...
