The first millennium saw a rich and distinctive artistic tradition form in Europe. In this book, Lawrence Nees explores…

Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. In this volume the plays are all concerned with the spiritual and…

What do we mean when we call a work of art beautiful? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? This…

This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about…

• Počet stran 240
• Rok vydání 2001

This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000…

Presents an account of international modernism, exploring the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and…

\nIn How to Market the Arts: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century, expert authors Anthony Rhine and Jay Pension provide…

\nFixing the Musical argues that musicals we most remember, the titles that have become canonical, are those which most…

From inception to reception and afterlife, Eyes Wide Shut traces the details of the origins and production of Stanley…

A devastating critique of the Modernist Movement: from the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, through destructive Modernism-inspired…

• Počet stran 360
• Rok vydání 2020

The Art of Cinematic Storytelling is a practical and accessible introduction to effective design of shots, cuts, and…

\nThis book introduces the reader to the reflective practice of Functional Awareness (R). It uses foundational information…

Piecing together the story of Piero's artistic and mathematical achievements with the story of his life for the first time,…

\nThrough the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the…

\nFeaturing updates, expansions, and a new chapter on phonetic symbols and unique sounds in Italian, German, and French,…

How to Land offers a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our…

\nThis book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism,…

Drawing on archival documents, industry trade journals and popular press, and interviews with filmmakers and film…

• Počet stran 344
• Rok vydání 2023

The Moving Form of Film: Historicizing the Medium through Other Media charts the ways in which crossing borders between film…

\nThis up-to-date, approved, AQA GCSE Chemistry student book guides learners through the complete Chemistry specification,…

\nConsiders three centuries of writers and creatives of mostly Scots-Irish and post-Famine Irish descent whose work examines…

\nThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the…

Seven centuries of verse, from 1250 to 1950. Dame Helen Gardner reflects the critical consensus of the day in broadening her…

\nGlobal Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Instead of taking a world tour of national…

\nIn A Wonderful Guy, Eddie Shapiro sits down for intimate, career-encompassing conversations with nineteen of Broadway\'s…

\nIn Brain, Beauty, and Art, leading scholars in this nascent field reflect on the promise of neuroaesthetics to enrich our…

With over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger, this is the most authoritative dictionary of architectural history available.…

This book examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the…

Performing Time explores our experience of time in dance and music, from the perspectives of both performers and audience,…

• Rok vydání 1992

Eliot Goldfinger, a realistic sculptor and instructor of human and animal anatomy, has designed and written a reference work…

\nWhat is film criticism for? This book aims to answer this question It argues that art cinema\'s political effect is the…

\nThis insightful and varied collection of essays uses rare material from archives across Europe to examine the many stage…