Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like. Can identity be global and local at the same time? How may one curate dual identity? More broadly, what is the link be...Loe edasi...
An Introduction to the Heritage Buildings of Kuala Lumpur takes you on a journey through the citys rich architectural heritage, uncovering 30 remarkable examples of historic landmarks, colonial structures and cultural monuments that narrate the sto...Loe edasi...
This book is a compelling read as it takes the reader through the first four decades of Indian cinema, exploring the habitation of modernity in the discourse surrounding it in its formulating years. One gets to read the analysis of archival gems lik...Loe edasi...
This book uncovers the overlooked story of Indonesian Islamic art and material culture in museums. It traces this marginalization to Dutch colonial rule, examining archival sources to unpack the historical and ongoing impacts on museum practices and...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the role of the architectural façade as an indicator of individual and communal cultural identities, focusing on a residence of a conquistador rather than religious and monarchial structures....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804293119)
A deeply personal exploration into family, empire, art and identity, from the author of the groundbreaking Potential HistoryAlgeria’s Arab Jews were renowned for their metal-working and jewellery-making skills, and these jewelle...Loe edasi...
Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like. Can identity be global and local at the same time? How may one curate dual identity? More broadly, what is the link between the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jan-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549787)
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctua...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198885900)
This book is the first monograph on neglected Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). It analyses the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique through Quadross quirky literary works, which he published under three pe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-May-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487556457)
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546083)
The fin de si cle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland wh...Loe edasi...
Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africas cultural...Loe edasi...
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesi...Loe edasi...
An updated and expandededition of this classic,illustrated survey ofCaribbean art, featuring thework of over 100 artists fromthe period of colonialism to thepresent day. The Caribbean is made up of more than twenty countries, each with its ow...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509309)
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The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain. Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Chris...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487527747)
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture. In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister Wi...Loe edasi...
The forgotten story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. &;Miss Clara&; arrived in Europe from the Dutch East Indies in 1741 and was toured around Europe to huge acclaim and excitement...Loe edasi...
Lesser-known tales of anticolonial defiance in artworks and marginal histories worldwideThe artists featured in this book create compelling narratives that shed light on the entangled colonial histories that connect Europe,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jul-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526156990)
This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens...Loe edasi...
