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REAKTION BOOKS (2013)
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The Greek word melancholia (literally meaning 'black bile') defines our sense of depression and black moods. Yet the little black dress is the epitome of chic and has positive meanings. From ancient and classical times ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2013)
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The Art of Thomas Bewick is the first book to interpret the art of the wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) and set it in the context of history, revealing the connections between Bewick's political and ...
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REAKTION BOOKS (2013)
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The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is a comprehensive survey of modern Greek architecture of the past hundred-plus ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2012)
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We are surrounded with portraits: from the cipher-like portrait of a president on a bank note to security pass photos; from images of politicians in the media to Facebook; from galleries exhibiting Titian or Leonardo ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2012)
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Escalating piracy in the seas off Somalia has led commentators to designate the region the 'new Barbary'. But the seizures and killings made to date by Somali pirates cannot compare with the three centuries of ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2011)
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The Edo period (1603-1868) witnessed one of the great flowerings of Japanese art. Towards the mid-seventeenth century the Japanese States were largely at peace, and rapid urbanization, a rise in literacy and an increase in ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2011)
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The role of the frame in art can refer not only to a material frame bordering an image, but also to a conceptual frame - a text, for instance, which is to serve as a ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2010)
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The medieval Christian attitude towards Jews included a pervasive fear of violence enacted against Christians. Many Christians believed that Jews committed crimes against Christian children, Christ's body and the Eucharist, leading them to conclude that ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2009)
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City and Cosmos is an exploration of 'the city' represented in the medieval imagination. Keith D. Lilley shows that, to the medieval mind, the city was not merely a 'collection of houses', it was an ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2009)
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When explorers and artists travelled to new lands in the early modern period, the exotic plants and animals that they encountered often seemed strange and outlandish. Before Disenchantment examines how these artists grappled with the ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2009)
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In this major re-interpretation of American history, John Rennie Short argues that until now, both writing about and popular understanding of, the exploration and mapping of the New World has largely ignored the pivotal role ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2009)
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'With this unbiased though not dispassionate history covering the 1930s to the present, Richard Williams considers Brazilian architecture's modernity within an expanded framework of Brazil's cultural and political movements. In this way, he breaks through ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2008)
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Fantasy and politics are familiar dancing partners that rarely separate, even in the face of post-Election Day realities. But Hollywood has a tradition of punching holes in the fairy tales of electoral promises with films ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2008)
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Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging is the first comprehensive study of the cinema of Turkey to be published in English. A recurring theme in the book is the Turkish quest for a modern identity ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2008)
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How can the different strands of modern architecture in Britain be understood? For many British people, it remains an alien cultural import and minority taste, yet British architecture has never stood higher in world esteem ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2008)
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Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, 'pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2007)
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In January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally-ill artist. With each incident, artists ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2007)
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Rising attendance at museums, along with increased press coverage in the age of the international biennial and the 'blockbuster' exhibition, has translated into a growing interest in how exhibitions are made. The new curatorial studies ...
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REAKTION BOOKS (2005)
pvp.35,00 €
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No European city has undergone as much upheaval in the past fifteen years as Moscow. The stage for the fall of a world empire and the rebirth of a globally-connected Russia, Moscow has transformed from ...
REAKTION BOOKS (2005)
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Brushing aside skewed orientalist and nationalist readings which have coloured many previous studies of his work, the author, using original documentation, provides the most detailed written study ever, of not only Sinan's architecture, but also, ...
