Fashion is a global industry, and plays a role in our economic, political, cultural, and social lives. However, fashion is…

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* Art, craft, and design activities offer children an excellent way to learn language while developing creative skills and…

Slovníku amerického umění nabízí 945 abecedně uspořádaných položek malířů, sochařů, grafiků, fotografů, výtvarníků spolu s…

A beautifully illustrated, new edition of this pioneering study of art since 1945. Focussing mainly on the relationship…

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This book will transform the way you think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we…

The Indian cinema sells 2.9 billion movie tickets annually, the largest in the world. Yet, as an economic entity, the Indian…

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A unique selection of Yeats's major poems, plays, criticism and other prose writings, showing the connectedness of his…

This best-selling dictionary contains over 2,500 succinct entries covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the…

• Rok vydání 2008

Translation of: Vite de' piu eccellenti architettori, pittori et scultori italiani.…

• Rok vydání 2008

\nIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema, and although their prominence may have been supplanted by Hollywood…

James Naremore introduces film noir, highlighting key themes, films, and styles, and exploring why the genre is so difficult…

Paul Luna knows everything about Typography, that mysterious science, practised by many, understood by few. He shares his…

From Expressionism to Post-Modernism, Styles and Movements in 20th Century Western Art od výrobce Oxford University Press…

A collection of five plays (one of them, The Coat, published for the first time in the UK) drawing on black urban…

Divided into 14 chapters, text and illustrations reveal the symbolism inherent in representations of religious personages,…

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

A rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in US culture and society, as well as…

In the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series, a look at innovative and avant-garde sculpture in relation to contemporary events,…

This comprehensive examination of 18th and 19th-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of…

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

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\nThe nature of the virtues has a long tradition of thought, from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas. This book considers the…

In this brief and readable account, the cinema\'s formative decades come vividly to life. Covering the full span of the…

In this new edition the writings of the young Brontes - Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell - are presented together for…

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\nThe ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition,…

'Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls' demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver…

Fully illustrated, this volume provides a provocative analysis of the unprecedented eruption of misogyny at the turn of the…

Examining over twenty key works of the period, Vital Crises in Italian Cinema identifies and explores the major thematic…

Antiquity on Display offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's…

A bibliographical description of 180 collections of opera and other secular songs. It lists the first lines of all the songs…

What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How did such processes evolve? This book…

The publication of the 18th-century collection of William Hunter in Glasgow University marks an important stage in the…

A scholarly edition of poems by Richard Lovelace. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,…

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Designed specifically for undergraduates on film theory courses, this history of the documentary film has been revised and…