Contemporary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Kana Inata
Monarchies in the Contemporary World

While constitutional monarchs tend to be considered as powerless, unselfish, and politically neutral and hence received little scholarly attention, Monarchies in the Contemporary World sheds fresh light o…

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Linda Brassington
Indigo and Resist Dyeing

Contemporary textile artist and researcher Linda Brassington provides an unexpected and expansive critical perspective on the practices, meanings and heritage of a global textile technique. Drawing connec…

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Sally O'Reilly
The Body in Contemporary Art

World of Art

A thorough international survey of the body's role in contemporary art, fully revised and updated.The Body in Contemporary Art presents an international survey of art made since 2000 that takes the body a…

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Geoff King
Arthouse Crime Scenes

How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and film-industrial trends? Crime might be shown or lurk only at the edges. It might be left …

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Yasmine Motawy
Children's Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society

"Children's picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they are an expression of the zeitgeist of a particular …

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Bérengère Primat, Jean Hubert Martin
Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods

This book argues that globalisation challenges the Western idea of art and explores how different cultures express spirituality through art. Text in English and French.Globalization has forced us to stop …

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Denisa Tomková,
Empowering Aesthetics

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-soci…

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Walter Dean Myers
Handbook for Boys

In the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the rules for success for young men, especially those…

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Doug Bailey, Simon Callery
Disrupting Archaeology and Art

Interdisciplinary and provocative study between an archaeologist and an artist discussing the disciplines' principles, while providing ways to rethink archaeology, the visual arts and the two subjects' sh…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Doug Bailey, Simon Callery
Disrupting Archaeology and Art

Interdisciplinary and provocative study between an archaeologist and an artist discussing the disciplines' principles, while providing ways to rethink archaeology, the visual arts and the two subjects' sh…

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Heather Marshall
The Secret History of Audrey James

Random House Publishing Group

An astonishing historical novel of one woman's dangerous journey through World War II Germany and her life-changing friendship with a young woman decades later---from the #1 international bestselling auth…

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Luise Guest
Invisible Ink

Reassesses the contribution of women artists to the field of contemporary Chinese art with an in-depth account of five artists who reference the traditional form of ink and brush painting to subvert exist…

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Simon Goff (20. Jahrhundert)

Vale

Product Information Behind the finest and most moving pieces of contemporary-classical music lie deeply personal and poignant stories, and Simon Goff's new album Vale is no exception. The British violin…

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The Art of Anti-Racism

Leading scholars grounded in a range of disciplines examine the intersection of anti-racist activism, aesthetics, and contemporary political theory.The Art of Anti-Racism offers a sustained theoretical ex…

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Iván de la Nuez,
Theory of the Rearguard

"Theory of the Rearguard examines how contemporary art is in tension with survival, rather than in relation to life. In the twentieth century, Peter Bèurger's Theory of the Avant-Garde was a cult boo…

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Elyse Speaks
Women, Making, and Everyday Value in Contemporary Installation Art

Explores the function of everyday materials and processes in the work of contemporary installation artists during the 1990s using three major US artists as primary case studies, situated in relation to co…

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Ousseynou Wade, Célestin Koffi Yao,
More Than Meets the Eye

Discover a century of African art, from its emergence to today's global success, driven by an ancestral vision and modern expression.The Swiss family-owned banking group CBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique …

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Sarah Berry,
Staging the Lyric

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Ca…

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Josep Almudéver Chanzà,
Women Leaders, Queer Faithfuls

With a vivid ethnographic lens on a Spanish village, Josep Almudéver Chanzà brings to life the resurgence of religion at the heart of European public life amid the global rise of neo-conservatism. This bo…

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