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Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

New Budapest Orpheum Society

Brasilia - Chandigarh

1960 wurde in Brasilia die Verwirklichung einer städtebaulichen Vision nach Entwürfen von Lúcio Costa und Oscar Niemeyer gefeiert, gleichzeitig wurde nach Plänen von Le Corbusier die Sektoren-Stadt Chandi…

Ksenia Gusarova

The Art of Beauty

Examines 19th century make-up practices in the context of visual and performance arts of western modernity, arguing that make-up played an important role in defining modernist art.

Gail Marshall

Britain in 1859

The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of t…

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

Gail Marshall

Britain in 1859

The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of t…

Andrew Eungi Kim

Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture

Symbols, language, norms, beliefs, and values: these components make up cultural analysis, and this book examines these aspects of Korean culture.Widely recognized as the core building blocks of every soc…

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

Daniel Malanski

Olympic Opening Ceremonies

This is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched event on Earth.Covering the period from the Moscow Olympics…

Modernists: A Decade Of Rhythm & Soul Dedication

Stephen M Fallon

Milton and Newton

John Milton, England's greatest narrative poet, and Isaac Newton, England's greatest natural philosopher, are rarely thought of together. While one is regarded as the last great figure of the English Rena…

Roshdi Rashed

Ibn al-Haytham

Ibn al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity offers the first comprehensive monograph on one of the most brilliant figures of the medieval intellectual world.Spanning his groundbreaking contribut…

Animal Modernities

Innovative study of animal art histories in modern art.Animal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself e…

Richard M Reitan

Inner Worlds

Inner Worlds examines the emergence and operation of representations of interiority--consciousness, "folk mind," "spirit"--in Japan from its industrial revolution to the rise of fascis…

Sound and Silence - Four Pioneering Modernist Italian Composers

Severino Gazzelloni, Frans Brüggen, Ilse Hollweg, Eva Bornemann, Friedrich Lenz, Swingle Singers, Chor des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Köln, Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF, English Chamber Orchestra, Orch…

Elisa Randazzo, Hannah Richter

Challenging Anthropocene Ontology

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sus…

Burcu Dogramaci

London Exile

A new approach to modern art shaped by exile and migration.In the 1930s and 1940s, London was a metropolis of artistic exile and a place of refuge from Nazi persecution. London Exile is the first book to …

Lorenzo Casini

Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muha…

A Snapshot In Time: Society, Scandal And The First String Of Modernism 1960 - 1963

In den Jahren 1960, 1961 und 1962 wurden viele großartige Platten veröffentlicht. Man musste einfach die Perlen finden. Der Sampler hält einige krachende Juwelen wie den R&B-Swagger von Blue Flames »Orang…