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A dictionary of modern and contemporary art
This fully revised and updated dictionary of modern and contemporary art contains over 2,000 entries on a vast range of subjects, including movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, schools, and galleries. Fascinating, comprehensive... thi...
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A philosophy of mass art
Introduction 11 philosophical resistance to mass art the majority tradition 15 the massification argument 16 the passivity argument 30 the formula argument 49 the freedom argument, the susceptibility argument, and the conditioning argument 70...
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Aegean art and architecture
This is an introduction to the art and architecture of mainland greece, crete, and the cycladic islands from 3300 to 1000 bce. Ancient aegean culture has a particularly important place within european history and art history because of its... beg...
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Aesthetics
Features a 48-page afterword - 1980. This second edition features a new 48-page afterword - 1980 updating professor beardsleys classic work. this book provides an up-to-date introduction to aesthetics for the general reader, with particular empha...
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African-american art
From its origins in early 18th century slave communities to the end of the 20th century, african-american art has made a vital contribution to the art of the united states. This book provides a major reassessment of the subject, setting the art in...
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After modern art, 1945-2000
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2000, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the... david ...
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An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting
Now the sport begins an essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting is the first english book on the craft of nagging. a bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners.
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Ancient egypt
Takes a look at ancient egypt and what its artefacts tell us. This book explores archaeological sites, artefacts and texts and explains how historians have used these to piece together what life was like in the past. With colour photographs... th...
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Anthropology, art and aesthetics
Using case-studies from various non-western societies, this text explores the connection between art, anthropology and aesthetics. It should interest those concerned with the anthropology of art or material culture, or in the theory of art or... ...
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Archaic and classical greek art
Archaic and classical greek art is a revolutionary introduction to the images and sculptures of ancient greece from the geometric period to the early hellenistic. By carefully examining the context in which sculptures and paintings were produced.....
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Art and agency
In art and agency, alfred gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and reception. As a theory of the nexus of social relations involving works of art... completed j...
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Art and embodiment
Paul crowther argues that art can bridge the gap between philosophys traditional striving for generality and completeness, and the concreteness and contingency of humanitys basic relation to the world. He proposes an ecological definition of... p...
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Art and emotion
Emotions very often form a bridge between our experience of art and of life. We frequently find that a particular poem, painting, or piece of music carries an emotional charge we may even experience emotions towards, or on behalf of... in this w...
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Art and intention
With reference to examples from media, art forms, and traditions, this book demonstrates that insights into the multiple functions of intentions have important implications for our understanding of artistic creation and authorship, the ontology of...
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Art history
Art history the key concepts offers a systematic, reliable, accessible, and challenging reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of...
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Art in china
A beautifully illustrated new edition of the ultimate single-volume guide to the history of art in china, from neolithic times to the 21st century china boasts a history of art lasting over 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of forms - ob...
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Art in renaissance italy, 1350-1500
The italian renaissance is a pivotal episode in the history of western culture. This book discusses a range of works from across italy, examines the issues of materials, workshop practices and artist-patron relationships, and explores the ways in....
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Art in three dimensions
Art in three dimensions is a collection of essays by a leading figure in the philosophy of art. The animating idea behind carrolls work is that philosophers of art should look beyond aesthetics and refocus their attention on the ways in which art...
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Art of love
The art of love is a vivaciously witty poem on the art of seduction, with illustrative stories interwoven. Ovid tells men how to find a suitable mistress, how to win her and retain her affections he goes on to instruct women on the art of... thi...
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Art theory
This book provides the ideal introduction to thinking about art. Cynthia freeland explains why innovation and controversy in art are constantly in the headlines, and why it matters. She discusses the relationship of art with beauty, culture... ar...
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Art, emotion and ethics
Can a good work of art be evil berys gaut argues that artworks are always aesthetically flawed if they have a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. He shows how moral goodness is a kind of beauty, that artworks can teach us about morality....
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Artistic theory in italy, 1450-1600
This work seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of italian renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which influenced them or were expressed by them. The text... thi...
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Beauty and art
Charting over two hundred years of western art, elizabeth prettejohn illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of kauffman to whistler, ingres to rossetti, cezanne to... wh...
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But is it art
In todays art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, cynthia freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with examples. She discusses blood, b...
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Byzantine art
Mostly religious in function, but preserving the classicism of greco-roman art, byzantine buildings and art objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early christian art. Focusing on the art of constantinople between 330...
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Calorimetry
Provides comprehensive text on a class of instruments used by scientists to study the innermost structure of matter. The author describes the principles of operation, the factors determining performance, and the state of the art in understanding.....
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Christian art
What makes a work of art christian - is it in the eye of the artist or the viewer how was and is christian art created this work addresses these questions and explores such themes as universal human ones food as an expression of friendship and...
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Cicero the advocate
Ciceros courtroom speeches are the significant examples we have of the art of the ancient roman advocate. This collection of essays aims to set them in the context of the roman legal system and of ancient techniques of persuasion, and to compare.....
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Classical art
The masterpieces of ancient greece and rome are fundamental to the story of art in western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding greek world of alexander the great had an enormous impact on the mediterranean superpower of rome. ...
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Contemporary art
Bloodied toy soldiers, gilded shopping carts, and lego concentration camps. Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great profundity and jaw... ...
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Continental crosscurrents
1 the english romantics and early italian art 92 the romanesque revival in britain 1800-1840 1 353 the romanesque revival in britain 1800-1840 2 634 robert brownings pictor ignotus, and continental christian art 915 whoring after colour ... e...
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Cratinus and the art of comedy
A thorough study of cratinus, a highly influential fifth-century athenian dramatist whose work survives in fragments today. As well as providing insight into cratinus himself, the book enriches our understanding of ancient greek comedy in a... a ...
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Dada and surrealism
This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and... d...
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Diotimas children
Diotimas children is the first comprehensive re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics as it prevailed in germany in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. this tradition is of the greatest historical importance... ...
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Early art and architecture of africa
This new history of over 5,000 years of african art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of african art, garlake focuses on seven key regions-... this h...
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Early medieval art
The first millennium ce saw a rich and distinctive artistic tradition form in europe. While books had long been central to the christian religious tradition, education, and culture, they now became an important artistic medium, sometimes decorated...
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East european art
The arts that flourished in the lands between the arctic ocean, black sea, austria, and alaska from the seventeenth to the twentieth century are among the most potent in history. Yet they and their cultural context remain little known.
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Eroticism and art
Focusing on the last 150 years of western art, alyce mahon explores the intense debates surrounding art and the erotic in an authoritative and engaging way, using the latest research and analysis into this and related subject areas. Art erotica ...
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Fashion
Part of a series for budding fashion designers, this book supports the study of textile technology. It is filled with how to techniques, project ideas and explanatory diagrams to help readers grasp the sometimes complex concepts. This book is... ...
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Five plays
Thomas middleton was one of the most prolific playwrights of the jacobean era. This collection comprises five of his powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, a trick to catch the old one, and a chaste maid in cheapside... chekhovs ...
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Francis bacon
Offers an examination of francis bacon through critical commentary, reproductions, and private photographs. This book presents an overview of bacons life, analyses his paintings, and examines the creative processes they embody. It also explores......
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Herge the man who created tintin
In this book pierre assouline reveals the life and art of tintins belgian creator, georges prosper remi, better known as herge. Assouline has had privileged access to personal papers to explore herges life and work and the fascinating ... ...
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Indian art
This survey, spanning 4000 years, traces the history of the rich visual expression of indias varied arts from the beginnings in the indus valley, through the masterpieces of buddhist and hindu art, to the coming of islam and the eclectic culture o...
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Landscape and western art
Landscape and western art explores the myriad ideas and images of the natural world in western art since the renaissance. Implying that land is the raw material, and that art is created by turning land into landscape, which then becomes art... wh...
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Madness
Looking back on his confinement to bedlam, restoration playwright nathaniel lee declared they called me mad, and i called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. As roy porter shows in madness a brief history, thinking about who qualifies... ...
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Medieval art
This new look at medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in europe from 1000-1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism and... ...
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Modern art
As witnessed by the spectacular success of tate modern and the newly reopened museum of modern art in new york, public interest in modern art continues to grow. At the same time, there is much bewilderment about the works of art themselves... mod...
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Native north american art
The richness of native american art is explored from the early pre-columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. 53 color photos. ...
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Northern renaissance art
This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern europe in the age of the renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of... de...
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Oxford dictionary of american art and artists
This comprehensive dictionary is an indispensible guide to american art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism. It is the most extensive, most up-to-date dictionary on american art currently available. In this dictionary of american... ...
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Oxford reading tree stage 5 fireflies public art
Contains 60 titles on a range of topics linked to the curriculum. This work includes 10 stages, one for each term from ks1 year r term 1 to ks2 year 3 term 1. It is colour-coded to show oxford reading tree and bookband stages. It is linked to curr...
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Palaeolithic cave art at creswell crags in european context
Cave art is a subject of perennial interest among archaeologists. This comprehensively illustrated book presents the creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the context of the upper palaeolithic era in britain...
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Philosophical perspectives on art
Philosophical perspectives on art presents a series of essays devoted to two of the most fundamental topics in the philosophy of art the distinctive character of artworks and what is involved in understanding them as art. In part i... philosophi...
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Philosophy and conceptual art
Leading philosophers and art theorists engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art what kind of art is conceptual art what follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value what knowledge or... ...
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Photography
The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But bourdieu and his associates show that few....
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Please please me
Credits 1 introduction approaches and material 32 the velvet glove the art of production 473 a question of balance engineering art 1054 mediating change setting musical directions 1315 the write stuff songwriting and the articulation of... ...
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Plinys catalogue of culture
One of the earliest surviving examples of art history, pliny the elders chapters on art form part of his encyclopaedic natural history, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of vesuvius in ad 79. This important new work... ...
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Quantum theory
Quantum theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since newton. In simple, non-mathematical language this book unravels the strange and exciting ideas that make the subatomic world so different from the world of the every day. this ad...
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Renaissance art
Botticelli, holbein, leonardo, durer, michelangelo the names are familiar, as are the works. But, who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their beholders have viewed these objects this book answers such....
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Renaissance art and architecture
The renaissance, french for rebirth, was undoubtedly the most intensely creative period in history. This explosion of activity is reflected perhaps more than elsewhere in the art and architecture of the period. The legacy the artists, sculptors...
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Resurrection
Illuminated by a series of fine art paintings, this volume seeks to engage both the mind and the imagination, exploring the resurrection of the son of god. Illuminated by a series of fine art paintings, alister mcgraths new volume seeks to engage....
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Roman britain
In this new account of britain as a roman province, guy de la bedoyere puts the roman conquest and occupation of the island within the larger context of romano-british society and how it functioned.tHe book includes reconstruction drawings by the....
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Romanticism
Romanticism an oxford guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the richness and diversity of the romantic field, including over forty specially commissioned essays by a distinguished international term of scholars. Each essay is written in....
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Samuel johnson and the art of sinking 1709-1791
Rehearsing the comparative merits of great and little things, samuel johnson and his contemporaries tested the opposing claims of pagan and christian authority. Ancient criticism, and its eighteenth-century adherents, held that each subject...
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Sculpture since 1945
In more than 130 beautiful illustrations, causey examines innovative and avant-garde works of sculpture in relation to contemporary events, festivals, commissions, the marketplace, and the changing functions of museums. 134 illustrations... in th...
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Seen unseen
This book is not a history of art, or a history of science, or even a history of their interaction. Rather, martin kemp, the distinguished art historian, traces certain recurring themes in the imagery of art and science that reflect shared...
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Selected essays
With his wit, eloquence and shrewd perception of contemporary morals, samuel johnson was the most versatile of augustan writers. His dictionary, dramas and poetry established his reputation, but it was the essays published in the rambler... * a n...
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Signs and symbols in christian art
First published in 1954 and having gone through several editions, this comprehensive book remains the authoritative source in the field. This paperback edition includes all of the 350 illustrations from the original edition, as well as the... geo...
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Striptease
Talks about the golden age of striptease, the years between the jazz age and the sexual revolution, when strippers performed around the country, in burlesque theaters, nightclubs, carnivals, fairs, and even in glorious palaces on the great white w...
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Sun tzu and the art of business
In what is actually two books in one--a synthesis of sun tzus ideas into six strategic principles for business executives plus the entire text of samuel b. Griffiths popular translation of the art of war--mcneilly shows how sun tzus... businessme...
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The art and science of intelligence analysis
Written for trainers and analysts in british policing and security services, this book takes a practical look at intelligence analysis by synthesising the key issues and providing context. With case studies and scenario-based exercises... on 11 s...
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The art instinct
The need to create art is found in every human society, manifest in many different ways across many different cultures. Is this universal need rooted in our evolutionary past the art instinct reveals that it is, combining evolutionary psychology....
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The art of art history
What is art history why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time the history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in... ...
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The art of genes
Over the past twenty years there has been a revolution in biology for the first time, scientists have been able to unravel the details of how organisms make themselves. The mechanisms by which a fertilized egg develops into an adult can now be......
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The art of love
The art of love celebrates the bi-millennium of ovids cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around ad 2. Ars amatoria the art of love and remedia amoris cures for....
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The art of public strategy
This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money, people, technologies, and public commitment can be mobilized to achieve important goals. It considers the common mistakes made, and how these can be avoided, as well as analysing the... ...
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The art of punctuation
0 noah lukeman punctuation can make all the difference between a good piece of writing and a superb piece of writing. In the art of punctuation, noah lukeman explores and demystifies each punctuation mark in turn. From the punchiness of the full...
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The art of the state
This important new study, by a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh perspective on public management. In contrast to the widespread claim of the modernization gurus that a new era of global convergence is dawning in public management... c...
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The art of the trumpet-maker
This book is a study of the manufacture of brass instruments, particularly trumpets, in nuremberg during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Barclay discusses the history of the instrument, the metals used, their chemical and physical... ro...
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The birth of tragedy
Presents an argument for the necessity for art in life. This book is based on the authors enthusiasms for greek tragedy, for the philosophy of schopenhauer and for the music of wagner. It outlines a distinction between two central forces... in th...
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The concise dictionary of art terms
Over 1,900 entries provide succinct and accessible explanations of a variety of terms used in art, covering materials, techniques, styles, and periods. From abstract expressionism to renaissance, batik to zincograph, this dictionary will help you....
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The iconography of early anglo-saxon coinage
This is the first scholarly art historical appraisal of early anglo-saxon coinage. anna gannon examines the many coins produced during this most vibrant period of english coinage. she analyses their prototypes and explores their sources and... ...
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The imperfect art
Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, ted gioias brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural...
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The oxford book of aphorisms
This anthology demonstrates to the full just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. This anthology demonstrates to the full just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be... this ti...
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The oxford dictionary of art and artists
This authoritative a-z of western art now appears in a major new edition. In addition to biographies from ancient greece to the present day, it includes styles and movements, museums and galleries, and materials and techniques. Comprehensive and.....
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The picture box
Gives an introductory overview to the subject of art and architecture, from the images created by the renaissance artists to the beauty of practical objects in everyday life. Presented in a boxed-set format, this work features five of the best... ...
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The re-enchantment of the world
This is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Relating themes in the history of european philosophy to topics in contemporary philosophy... this i...
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The social art
1 give a dog a name 32 learning ones first language 73 the act of communicating 114 prosodic features 205 learning about words and their structure 256 discovering the structure of language syntax 297 more syntax 358 still more syntax 399... tak...
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Twentieth-century american art
Jackson pollock, georgia okeeffe, andy warhol, julian schnabel, and laurie anderson are just some of the major american artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 chicago worlds fair to the 2000 whitney biennial, a rapid succession of art... ...
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Thou art god
An easy anthem for upper voices with organ, plus optional flute and oboe. The music has a haunting simplicity with a flowing tune over a gently rocking accompaniment. an easy anthem for mixed voices with organ, plus optional flute and oboe. The m...
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Komast dancers in archaic greek art
A fully illustrated study of the iconography of komast dancers revellers in archaic greece. These figures appear in black-figure vase-painting and in other artistic media, and have long been associated with the worship of dionysos...
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The art of performance
Heinrich schenker, heribert esser editor , irene schreier scott trans a re-evaluation of how musical compositions are realized in performance, this title argues that much of contemporary performance is rooted in the 19th-century cult of the vir...
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Word of god, art of man the quran and its creative expressions
This fully illustrated collection of essays explores creative expressions of the quran in a wide range of artistic media. The contributions span four continents and cover topics from medieval coins and early illuminated copies of the quran to...
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The state of the art in numerical analysis
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Creativity and art
Margaret boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity...
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The art of eloquence
This book examines the relations between public speaking and literary expression in the lives and work of byron, dickens, tennyson, and joyce. Matthew bevis considers the procedures, languages, and styles of oratory reported in the newspapers and...
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The evolution of operational art
Based on country specific case-studies, the evolution of operational art describes how the concepts that underpin operational art originated, how they received practical expression in various campaigns, and how they developed over time.
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Vladimir nabokov and the art of play
In a 1925 speech, nabokov declared that everything in the world plays, including love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns. Thomas karshan draws on untranslated early writings and restricted archival material to argue that play is nabokovs...