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Modern history is a history of aesthetizations – and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no exception. They...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-09-28
Collection :
Theory Redux
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This case study sketches the trans-professional and transnational careers of two upwardly mobile and cosmopolitan actors in the incoming “Century of the Genoese.” These examples of biography in history are analytically framed within the stream of research on social...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-09-20
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Kommunikationstechnologien haben gegenwärtige eine enorme Leistungsfähigkeit erreicht. Die „schöne neue Kommunikationswelt" bietet faszinierende Möglichkeiten, verändert aber auch das Leben der Menschen und ihr kulturelles Selbstverständnis. Zugleich stellen sich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-09-16
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'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' The Spectator'Strikingly insightful . . . page after page of glorious anecdotes' The i Newspaper'A book to leave you...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-09-15
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Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.Where does our current obsession for...
Editeur :
Les presses du réel
Parution :
2022-09-09
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Can creativity be 'taught'? Or is it simply innate? This book will help you find your creativity through your own unique identity and experience, challenging you to fight those negative voices, get out of your habitual comfort zones and - most importantly - play. Part...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2022-09-01
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Tap into the powerfully positive impact of drawing for the whole family with 25 drawing sessions! In March 2020, Mark Kistler received a call that his son's school was going virtual for the remainder of the school year. He began holding daily livestreams,...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-26
Collection :
Archimedes
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L'ambitieux projet d'Audubon de peindre tous les oiseaux d'Amérique du Nord résulta en un travail si important qu'il fut une des grandes étapes de l'ornithologie. Il n'identifia pas seulement des nouvelles espèces, mais il dépeignit aussi les oiseaux dans leur habitat...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-08-21
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This book studies the unexplored history of China-aided architecture erected in the developing world since the 1950s. By 2019, over 1,000 buildings had been delivered to more than 160 countries, including parliament houses, convention centers, stadiums, gymnasiums,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-18
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'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2022-08-18
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This book documents the journalistic career of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Known as the Mahatma and the Father of India, Gandhi was also a journalist. However, he was a not a journalist in the same vein as those working for the New York Times or the BBC. Rather, Gandhi was what...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-08-08
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Learn the unique art of crosshatching and create stunning works of art with expert guidance from August Lamm. How to Crosshatch in Pen & Ink begins with a potted history of the artform, and elucidates exactly what crosshatching entails, and where it came from. After a...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2022-08-04
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Nicolas Poussin(1594 - 1665) was undoubtedly a highly significant master of the historical genre. He shaped its aesthetics which, regrettably, subsequently became regarded as a set of hard-and-fast rules (a trap which the Russian followers of the founder of classicism...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-07-31
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Whistler's work can be divided into four periods. The first was a research period in which the artist was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series,...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-07-31
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Born in Krasnoiarsk in 1848, Surikov died in Moscow in 1916. He is one of the great masters of history painting, and he occupies a special place in Russian culture. Like Delacroix, he believed that history was not a pretext for nice painting but an inexorable drama with...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-07-31
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Wassili Surikow (1848 – 1916) ist für Russland das, was Eugène Delacroix für Frankreich ist: der unbestechliche Chronist seiner Zeit. Er malte die Geschichte seines Landes als unausweichliches Drama. Für ihn gibt es keine Schuldigen und Unschuldigen, sondern das...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-07-31
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Das beginnende Jahrtausend bietet einen perfekten Zeitpunkt für die Veröffentlichung eines großen Bandes über die Geschichte der Erotik. Heute sind wir paradoxerweise sowohl mit neuen Freiheiten als auch mit einer zunehmend stereotypisierten Sprache konfrontiert....
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-07-31
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The 1860s were marked by a strong realistic movement in Russian painting. Artists became interested in depicting the lives and customs of their fellow countrymen. This new art form was mostly the work of the Itinerants group, who wanted to take art to the people and...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-07-31
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Im Herbstsalon von 1863 stellte Edouard Manet sein Gemälde „Déjeuner sur L'herbe“ aus und löste damit einen Skandal aus, der die Geburtswehen eines neuen Stils auslöste: Der Impressionismus entstand in Paris.Im selben Jahr bildete sich in Russland eine Gruppe von...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2022-07-31
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