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Regional provinces and supra-regional networks in the Aegean before and around 6000 cal B.C. Agathe Reingruber; 16. The turn of the 7th to 6th millennium in Greece: A quiet transition Catherine Perlès; Southeast Europe: 17. Continuity and discontinuity in Eastern thrace during the Neolithic period Eylem Özdoğan; 18. Changes through time in the early Neolithic settlement of Kovačevo, Southwest Bulgaria Marion Lichardus-Itten; 19. A hybrid cultural World: The turn of the 7th to the 6th millennium BC in the central Balkans Dušan Borić and Emanuela Cristiani; Modelling the Change: 20. The Neolithisation of Europe from Anatolia: Why did they leave? Jean-Paul Demoule; 21. Modes and models of Neolithisation in Europe: Comments to an ongoing debate Wolfram Schier; Commentaries: 22. Ian Hodder; 23. Mehmet Özdoğan.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738235449687,"sku":"9781107042957","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781107042957.jpg?v=1723811847"},{"product_id":"the-art-and-archaeology-of-the-aegean-bronze-age-9781108471343","title":"The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizations in human history. Jean-Claude Poursat''s volume provides a clear path through the rich and varied art and archaeology of Aegean prehistory, from the Neolithic period down to the end of the Bronze Age. Charting the regional differences within the Aegean world, his study covers the full range of material evidence, including architecture, pottery, frescoes, metalwork, stone, and ivory, all lucidly arranged by chapter. With nearly 300 illustrations, this volume is one of the most lavishly illustrated treatments of the subject yet published. Suggestions for further reading provide an up-to-date entry point to the full richness of the subject. Originally published in French, and translated by the author''s collaborator Carl Knappett, this edition makes Poursat''s deep knowledge of the Aegean Bronze Age available to an English-language audi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Aegean Neolithic Art: 1. Artefacts and Contexts; 2. Architectural beginnings; 3. Pottery; 4. Figurines and models; 5. Other arts: ornaments, seals, and stone vases; Part II. The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: 6. Artefacts and Contexts; 7. Architecture; 8. 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In charting representations in the Hellenic world of black Egyptians, Aithiopians, Indians, and Greeks, Sarah Derbew dexterously disentangles the complex and varied ways in which blackness has been co-produced by ancient authors and artists; their readers, audiences, and viewers; and contemporary scholars. Exploring the precarious hold that race has on skin coloration, the author uncovers the many silences, suppressions, and misappropriations of blackness within modern studies of Greek antiquity. Shaped by performance studies and critical race theory alike, her book maps out an authoritative archaeology of blackness that reappraises its significance. It offers a committedly anti-racist approach to depictions of black p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sarah Derbew's impressive first book is a carefully reflective study which is also provocative in the best sense, and a significant intervention in the field of classics. She untangles the vocabulary of race, ethnicity, skin colour and identity to let us see the vested interests and misrecognitions of modern scholarship - and offers a transformative vision of ancient Greek engagements with Africa.' Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003eIn Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Sarah Derbew provides a radical and desperately needed reframing of Greek antiquity, weaving together a breathtaking range of ancient and modern sources to probe not only the complexity and richness of black presences in the ancient Greek world, but also the modern structures of thought, disciplinary training and even museum curation that have prevented us for far too long from seeing them.' 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The author also asks fundamental questions that define the chapel''s place in Western art history. Why did Giotto choose an ancient Roman architectural frame for his vision of Salvation? What is the role of painted reliefs in the representation of personal integrity, passion, and the human struggle between pride and humility familiar from Dante''sDivine Comedy? How can a new interpretation regarding the influence of ancient reliefs and architecture inform the famous Assisi controversy and cast new light on the debate around Giotto''s authorship of the Saint Francis cycle? Illustrated with almost 200 color plates, this volume invites scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Giotto's Paduan masterpiece, the Arena Chapel (ca. 1300–1307), has impressed, but also puzzled scholars since its modern fame began around 1800. Now, Henrike Lange has provided a masterly account of the Chapel as an artistic and theological reconfiguration of Roman triumphalism in the service of the Christian view of the Savior's triumph through humility. Calling on a wide range of historical and art-historical sources, as well as the theology of Saint Augustine, Lange analyzes the Chapel as a unified structure that constitutes 'a unique space of transformative painting.' This rich and challenging work will be of interest to all who are concerned with understanding one of the premier works of Western art.' Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus, Divinity School, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e'Dr. Lange's subject, broadly speaking, is the very foundation of modern Western painting. Her writing grows from a distinctly historical approach and probes the Roman roots of Giotto's sense of history (which bears strong resemblances to Dante's thinking about Roman history in the Divine Comedy) … Lange has the rare ability to build bridges for the reader, for instance with her command of European languages that are indeed her metaphorical bridges and allow her to lay out the vast libraries of research on Giotto written in different linguistic and scholarly traditions. The very elegance and clarity of her writing suggest that Lange's will be a contribution of real significance and will have quite an impact on medieval and Renaissance studies.' Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Italian Language and Literature, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e'A great reading experience … Lange delivers an ingenious treatment of Giotto's framing faux architecture and meaningful Rahmenbeiwerk. This absorbing book does not see its hero, Giotto, as liberated from ancient Rome, but rather demonstrates that it is exactly Giotto's resistance to the ghost of pagan antiquity which contributes to his greatest achievements. Lange shows how Giotto creates a Christian form of similitude and overcoming, as triumph - typologically, a triumph of humility as a critical form, and therefore as an argument for Giotto's modernity.' Wolfgang Kemp, Professor of History of Art, University of Hamburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. A Venetian dream of Rome and Jerusalem; 2. 1300: the moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua; 3. The powers that were Scrovegni, Dalesmanini, Frangipani; 4. Giotto's painted reliefs; 5. 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It provides a visual history of the future and explores the relationships between different visualisation techniques and ideologies for cities.   Thinking about what futures are, who they are for, why they are desirable, and how and when they are to be brought into being is central to this book. Through visualisation we are able to experiment in ways that would be impractical and potentially hazardous in the real world, and this book, therefore, aims to contribute toward a better understanding of the power and agency of visualisations for future cities. In this lavishly illustrated text, the authors apply several critical le\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImages of future cities are one of the most revealing ways in which hopes, fears and plans about the future are imagined. This wonderful book brings together images of urban futures from a wide range of places, disciplines, histories, media and genres, to dizzying effect. Whether you make images of urban futures, you're interested in studying them, or you're a fascinated spectator, this book is an essential, imaginative, provocative and above all generous resource for thinking about how and why to picture future cities. * Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWe conceive of the future via the images we make of it. This lavishly illustrated visual history of the city is a powerful reminder of the influence of images on our thinking about the future. It is an asset in times when we need to scan the probable, the possible and the preferable futures that lie ahead. A wonderful and valuable resource. * Maarten Hajer, Professor of Urban Futures, Utrecht University, the Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures                                                                                                                           List of Tables                                                                                                                         Preface                                                                                                                                   Acknowledgements                                                                                                            1. Introduction: futures, imagination, and visions for cities                                             2. Cities of Vision: a visual history of the future                                                              3. 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This wonderful book brings together images of urban futures from a wide range of places, disciplines, histories, media and genres, to dizzying effect. Whether you make images of urban futures, you're interested in studying them, or you're a fascinated spectator, this book is an essential, imaginative, provocative and above all generous resource for thinking about how and why to picture future cities. * Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWe conceive of the future via the images we make of it. This lavishly illustrated visual history of the city is a powerful reminder of the influence of images on our thinking about the future. It is an asset in times when we need to scan the probable, the possible and the preferable futures that lie ahead. 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Tomorrow’s Cities Today: conclusions and alternative futures                                  References","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738578366807,"sku":"9781350011656","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350011656.jpg?v=1720049534"},{"product_id":"world-history-of-design-volume-1-9781350012721","title":"World History of Design Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first volume of the \u003ci\u003eWorld History of Design\u003c\/i\u003e, the definitive historical account of global design by pre-eminent design scholar Victor Margolin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first volume explores the earliest cave art and human tools, including the key examples of the visual and material culture that were produced in all parts of the world from the first stages of human civilization, the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, and finally World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis richly illustrated volume contains over 380 images, with 72 in full colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e… it is an extraordinarily useful compendium. I will turn to it again and again to find new points of connection and departure, and I am sure I won’t be alone. Within our discipline, I hope we can all lay aside the perspectives of our narrow expertise long enough to simply thank Professor Margolin – thank him for his effort, and thank him for his generosity. The most exciting thing about these books is the further scholarship that they will engender. In that sense, they are truly the works of a lifelong teacher. -- Glenn Adamson * West 86th *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume 1  Prehistoric Times to World War I  \u003c\/b\u003e1. The Prehistoric Age 2. The Earliest Civilizations, 7000 BCE - 900 BCE 3. The Classical Age and Early Byzantium, 900 BCE - 800 CE 4. Medieval Europe and the Islamic World, 800-1200 5. Asia, Africa and the Americas, 800 BCE - 1200 CE 6. Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1200-1750  7. Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1200-1750 8. 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Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating.This book is structured around key themes for understanding the contexts behind Art Nouveau, including new materials and technologies, colonialism and imperialism, the rise of the ''modern woman'', the rise of the professional designer and the role of the patron-collector. It also explores the new ideas that inspired Art Nouveau: nature and the natural sciences, world arts and world religions, psychology and new visions for the modern self. 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This complicates and challenges our understanding of this key period in modern art, architecture and design and opens up fascinating new insights into the ways in which diverse historical actors grabbled with a rapidly changing world in their search for “a modern style for a modern age” -- Sabine Wieber, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK\u003cbr\u003eFresh and original in its approach, this study provides a comprehensive overview of Art Nouveau that considers the movement’s origins in imperialism and networks of global trade alongside its links to the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis, the concept of the “New Woman”, and new patterns of patronage in the arts. 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It reveals how the legacy of this short period in history shaped - and continues to shape - Rome's contemporary cityscape in powerful ways, and examines what this can tell us about the persistence of troubling political and historical legacies in the built environment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItaly's fascist period (1922-1943) is perhaps the least-understood episode of Rome's architectural history.  Yet paradoxically those two decades have, arguably more than any other, defined our contemporary view of Rome's world-famous ancient, Renaissance, and Baroque urban landscapes.  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Discussing projects and paintings with particular sensitivity to light and material, he works like a clockmaker, patiently disassembling architectural mechanisms into their component parts, and explaining how buildings operate in time. * John Tuomey, O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, Ireland *\u003cbr\u003eWhen Leatherbarrow writes about time he is also writing about the slow and then ever faster passage of our own lives. Even as we visit the Pantheon to watch time literally move before our eyes and we are reminded that it also measures the span of our own existence. This is a dense, lyrical, and heartbreaking book about our lives and our buildings. * Billie Tsien, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, USA *\u003cbr\u003eLinger, return, and remember rhythm this meditation on the interactions of time, space and place for both author and reader. 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Sound, serviceable, and delightful. * Carlos Eduardo Comas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a graceful, timely, and purposeful walk through a garden of architectural knowledge, offering an account—in all, a theory—not just of human spatial experience through time (first we go here, then we go there...), but of the world experiencing itself through the medium of buildings, especially buildings which, in having long-term ethical projects as well as complexities of their own, are works of architecture. With Proustian intimacy and often dizzying insight, Leatherbarrow enlarges the very language we use to understand architecture. Buildings are indifferent only apparently. 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