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Insight Editions The Nightmare Before Christmas Tarot Deck and
Book SynopsisLet the citizens of Halloween Town guide your tarot practice with this sumptuously illustrated tarot deck inspired by Tim Burton’s classic film The Nightmare Before Christmas. This gift set includes a tarot altar cloth, guided notebook for reflection, and pouch to hold your cards and booklet. Disney’s iconic holiday film Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is now an enchanting tarot set, offering a frightful-but-friendly take on the traditional 78-card deck. This set features all your favorite characters from Jack Skellington to Oogie Boogie to Sandy Claws himself in gorgeous original illustrations based on classic tarot iconography. Featuring both major and minor arcana, the set also comes with a helpful guidebook explaining each card’s meaning, as well as simple spreads for easy readings. Packaged in a sturdy, decorative gift box, this hauntingly charming tarot deck is the perfect gift for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas fan or tarot enthusiast in your life. This gift set includes: 78-card Tarot Deck 128-page Guidebook Tarot altar cloth Guided notebook for reflection Pouch to hold your cards and booklet. ORIGINAL ART: The booklet and each of the 78 cards in this deck feature gorgeous original Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas-themed art. TAROT READING GUIDE: This unique set includes a guidebook to help tarot practitioners of all skill levels perform fun and informed readings. GUIDED JOURNAL: Beautiful illustrations and intriguing prompts help guide your tarot practice and record memorable readings. ALTAR CLOTH: Set the stage for a fun, entertaining and meaningful reading with a beautiful altar cloth. CLOTH POUCH: Store your tarot cards in a deluxe drawstring cloth pouch. OFFICIAL DISNEY DECK: The only official Disney The Nightmare Before Christmas tarot deck and guide.
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de Chelly Archaeology and Preservation, Pbc Shooting for the Stars
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iUniverse Pagan Holidays of Traditional Beliefs: The
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Author Solutions Inc The Universe in Verse
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Resource Publications (CA) The Art of the Roman Catacombs: Themes of Deliverance in the Age of Persecution
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Lexington Books Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory
Book SynopsisGlobal Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension or, in other words, configuring a landscape' to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse. Contributors argue that while audiovisual allegory can be understood as inherently avant-garde, certain kinds of stories and the ways in which they are presented can be categorized as a landscape allegory.' Focusing on the idea of a landscape' in the most concrete and literal form, contributions drawing from a global spectrum of cultural contexts work toward establishing a fuller and more culturally diverse understanding of landscape allegory in cinema.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gendered Design
Book SynopsisPinar Kaygan is senior researcher at the Art Academy of Latvia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Poison and the Popular Imagination
Book SynopsisLorna Piatti-Farnell is Academic Dean at SAE Creative Media Institute in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Bloomsbury Academic Global Bunyan and Visual Art
Book SynopsisAngelica Duran is Professor of English and comparative literature at Purdue University.Katherine Calloway is Associate Professor of English at Baylor University.
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Lexington Books The Other Fridas
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A History of Male Photographers
Book SynopsisNicole Hudgins is Professor at The University of Baltimore.
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Lexington Books Quatremere de Quincys On the Ideal in the
Book SynopsisAntoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy was widely regarded as the pre-eminent art theorist of his day and exerted tremendous influence over the development of the arts in nineteenth-century France, publishing over twenty books over his career. Translated into English for the first time by Michel-Antoine Xhignesse, this 1837 treatise on imitation in the arts represents one of his major theoretical works. Quatremère de Quincy argues, against the prevailing opinion of the day, that artistic imitation aims at communicating the essence of the thing represented (ideal imitation), rather than merely faithfully reproducing its life appearance (real imitation). In order to communicate the essence, he argues, the artist must prioritize the contributions of her imagination over the choice and appearance of her model. This represented a significant departure from other accounts of ideal imitation, such as Batteux's or Winckelmann's, which instead advocated combining the best features of several different models.
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Lulu Press National Devil
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Academica Press The Woman in Me: Willem de Kooning, Woman I-VI
Book SynopsisWillem de Kooning’s six numbered Woman paintings have incited a maelstrom of critical controversy. At their debut in 1953, the critics were incensed by the ugliness of the images themselves and by the inclusion of vestiges of the figure in abstraction. Consequently, they questioned de Kooning’s attitude toward women and commitment to the Abstract Expressionist project. Countering such objections to de Kooning’s psychological state and artistic goals, Marlene Clark’s The Woman in Me: Willem de Kooning, Woman I-VI argues that these canvases could be read as self-portraits, negating claims of misogyny and explaining the presence of figuration amidst abstraction. On a number of occasions, de Kooning admitted that the images on these canvases were “me—but with big shoulders.”The Woman in Me focuses on de Kooning’s propensity to “play” with the sexed body in his paintings. Clark argues that earlier criticism may have missed a more philosophical dimension of de Kooning’s paintings, one that explores the malleability of representations of biological sex and the male/female binary.
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Academica Press The Oldest Art of Siberia: Technologies, Forms,
Book SynopsisPrimitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society.
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Academica Press Women and Art: A Post-Feminist View
Book SynopsisWomen and Art surveys the history of women in art and addresses the effects of feminist art history and art production. This book is among the first to offer a critical assessment of the role of feminism in art history and how it has presented and misrepresented women's roles in art. Seeking to counterbalance overwhelmingly pro-feminist narratives, it relies on evidence from artists, statisticians, and historians to support individual women artists while remaining critical of feminism. Cogent and persuasive, Women and Art stands as a key for students and researchers interested in art history, gender studies, feminism, and cultural studies.
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OR Books Marcel Duchamp in New York
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University Press of Florida Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
Book SynopsisThis volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and examine the ways humans and nonhumans shape one another. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about humanism and the posthuman.Contributors identify posthumanist themes across a range of different materials, including an anecdote about a plague of rabbits in Historia de las Indias by Spanish historian Bartolomé de las Casas, photography depicting desert landscapes at the site of Brazil's War of Canudos, and digital and installation art portraying victims of state-sponsored and drug violence in Colombia and Mexico. The essays illuminate how these cultural texts broach the limits between life and death, human and animal, technology and the body, and people and the environment. They also show that these works use the category of the human to address issues related to race, gender, inequality, necropolitics, human rights, and the role of the environment.Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human demonstrates that by focusing on the boundary between the human and nonhuman, writers, artists, and scholars can open up new dimensions to debates about identity and difference, the local and the global, and colonialism and power.Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Reworking the Human's Limits — Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant Necropolitical Witnessing 1. Forensic Fictions: The Ruinous Archive in Post-Testimonial Witnessing — Carlos Fonseca 2. Telling Death Stories in Mexican New Media — Liliana Chávez Díaz 3. Permeable Bodies: Reading Materiality in Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñoz — Natalia Aguilar Vásquez 4. Displacing Drug War Violence onto Nonhuman Imaginaries: Rereading Juan Pablo Villalobos's Fiesta en la madriguera — Lucy Bollington Animal and Plant Entanglements 5. Invasive Specie: Rabbits, Conquistadors, and Capital in the Historia de las Indias (1527–1561) by Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566) — Nicole D. Legnani 6. "La trama apocalíptica del Antropoceno": Digital-Human-Nature Continua in Pola Oloixarac's Las constelaciones oscuras — Emily Baker 7. Communicating Beyond the Human: Posthumanism, Neo-Shamanism, and Ciro Guerra's El abrazo de la serpiente — Joey Whitfield Ecology, Hierarchy, Horizontality 8. Tomás Saraceno and the Ethics of the Sublime in the Aerocene — Joanna Page 9. Feminine Objects, Gendered Subjects: Lygia Pape's Embodied Aesthetics — Rebecca Kosick 10. Photography as Anthropotechnique and the Legacy of Canudos — Edward King 11. Terror and Awe: Toward a Posthuman Politics in Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia de la luz (2010) — Niall H. D. Geraghty List of Contributors Index
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University Press of Florida The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary
Book SynopsisLatin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section Best Book PrizeLatin American Studies Association Historia Reciente y Memoria Section Best Book PrizeThe role of documentary photography in exposing and protesting the crimes of a dictatorship. After Augusto Pinochet rose to power in Chile in 1973, his government abducted, abused, and executed thousands of his political opponents. The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Pinochet’s authoritarian regime.Ángeles Donoso Macaya discusses the ways human rights groups such as the Vicariate of Solidarity used portraits of missing persons in order to make forced disappearances visible. She also calls attention to forensic photographs that served as incriminating evidence of government killings in the landmark Lonquén case. Donoso Macaya argues that the field of documentary photography in Chile was challenged and shaped by the precariousness of the nation’s politics and economics and shows how photojournalists found creative ways to challenge limitations imposed on the freedom of the press.In a culture saturated by disinformation and cover-ups and restricted by repression and censorship, photography became an essential tool to bring the truth to light. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and other archival material, this book reflects on the integral role of images in public memory and issues of reparation and justice. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.Trade Review“Donoso Macaya offers an engaging, multidisciplinary, and well-researched analysis of Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship and in the process contributes to understanding the complexity and political implications of photography.”—Choice“A necessary, timely, and original book. . . . Donoso Macaya skillfully and carefully has traced the ways photographs travel, incite public discussion, move from one setting to another, and transform.”—H-Net“Enriches the existing literature on the Chilean dictatorship by taking seriously the social and political power of photography. . . . Excellent and necessary.”—Latin Americanist“Through a series of emblematic case studies, the book makes a powerful argument about the multi-faceted visual and social impact of photography under repressive rule. . . . Its immense value lies in the way [Donoso Macaya] traces the social history of photographers who pushed the performative dimension of photography to challenge the dictatorship in various forms.”—Journal of Social History“A valuable addition to the literature examining the social construction and performativity of images as well as the use of photography as a civil practice, areas that are essential to understanding the political uses and consequences of protest photography.”—The Americas“A very thoroughly researched and original contribution to studies of Chilean visual culture.”— Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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