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Algonquin Books Make Trouble
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Princeton Architectural Press Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of
Book SynopsisDressing the Resistance explores how everyday people have harnessed the visual power of clothing, accessories and costume to spur social and cultural change. Throughout history, societies have used clothing to show acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion, group belonging and rejection. In the same way, fashion, clothing, textiles and costume have served their own critical role in shaping protest movements throughout history. In short, clothing was often the most basic opportunity for groups to rebel: a simple, mundane item to express their discontent. American suffragettes made and wore dresses from old newspapers printed with voting slogans. British Punks took a humble safety pin from the household sewing kit, punched it through an earlobe and headed out to face a bleak post-war world. And male farmers in India wore their wives' saris while staging sit-ins on railroad tracks. With the advent of the Trump administration and the ensuing worldwide Women's March in January 2017, the #MeToo movement and #BlackLivesMatter, protest has again entered the American zeitgeist, this time with a stronger need for inspiration and action than ever before.
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University Press of Mississippi The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk
Book SynopsisPainted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods. As an urban folk art, painted screens flourished in Baltimore, though they did not originate there--precursors date to early eighteenth-century London. They were a fixture on fine homes and businesses in Europe and America throughout the Victorian era. But as the handmade screen yielded to industrial production, the whimsical artifact of the elite classes was suddenly transformed into an item for mass consumption. Historic examples are now a rarity, but in Baltimore the folk art is still very much alive.The Painted Screens of Baltimore takes a first look at this beloved icon of one major American city through the words and images of dozens of self-taught artists who trace their creations to the capable and unlikely brush of one Bohemian immigrant, William Oktavec. In 1913, this corner grocer began a family dynasty inspired generations of artists who continue his craft to this day. The book examines the roots of painted wire cloth, the ethnic communities where painted screens have been at home for a century, and the future of this art form.
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University of Massachusetts Press Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and
Book SynopsisRival claims of ownership or control over various aspects of culture are a regular feature of our twenty-first-century world. Such debates are shaping disciplines as diverse as anthropology and archaeology, art history and museum studies, linguistics and genetics.This provocative collection of essays a series of case studies in cultural ownership by scholars from a range of fields explores issues of cultural heritage and intellectual property in a variety of contexts, from contests over tangible artefacts as well as more abstract forms of culture such as language and oral traditions to current studies of DNA and genes that combine nature and culture, and even new, nonproprietary models for the sharing of digital technologies. Each chapter sets the debate in its historical and disciplinary context and suggests how the approaches to these issues are changing or should change. One of the most innovative aspects of the volume is the way each author recognises the social dimensions of group ownership and demonstrates the need for negotiation and new models. The collection as a whole thus challenges the reader to reevaluate traditional ways of thinking about cultural ownership and to examine the broader social contexts within which negotiation over the ownership of culture is taking place. In addition to Laetitia La Follette, contributors include David Bollier, Stephen Clingman, Susan DiGiacomo, Oriol Pi-Sunyer, Margaret Speas, Banu Subramaniam, Joe Watkins, and H. Martin Wobst.
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Fonthill Media LLc Paint Locker Magic: A History of Naval Aviation
Book SynopsisNaval Aviation special markings and 'nose art' is a field that has been largely ignored, primarily due to the lack of coverage in mainstream aviation history publications. Research into archives, feedback from veterans, and personal photographs by the authors have documented thousands of previously unknown individual aircraft with these markings. The book covers markings on US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft over the 100 year history of US Naval Aviation. The book includes illustrations of special markings and nose art on early canvas covered airplanes through the World War II era when nose art flourished and on into the jet age, the Korean and Viet Nam conflicts and up to the present war on terror with aircraft marked to commemorate the 9-11 attack. This coverage includes the fighters and attack aircraft of the carrier navy and the patrol aircraft, transports, blimps, research and test aircraft and helicopters. Markings include personal nose art and pin-ups, shark mouth and similar markings, cartoons depicting special missions, Christmas and similar markings, and tributes.
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Fonthill Media Beauty Over Troubled Water
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Arcadia Publishing Classical Architecture and Monuments of
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Arcadia Publishing Oklahoma Black Cherokees
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Arcadia Publishing The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art
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Shelter Harbor Press Geometry & Art: How Mathematics transformed Art
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WW Norton & Co How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the
Book SynopsisConceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world. In Part II, Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever made—whether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers— to show how all religions, ancient and modern, have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine. With this classic volume, Beard redefines the Western-and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth Clark.Trade Review"Readers will be grateful to have wise, witty Beard as guide and companion... Beard is charming and insightful piece by piece." -- San Francisco Chronicle"The title of the book?How Do We Look?could also refer to the physical quality of the book itself. Its design, use, and style harken back to the concise, entertaining, well-made, solid little books popular a few years ago. In that, Beard again explores a means of perceptions (and a practical meaning of educating)… If your summer vacation proved a disappointment, make this little book your consolation." -- Robert S. Davis, New York Journal of Books"Slim yet insightful.... Beard expands her view beyond western Europe to offer an admirable survey of cultures from Egypt to China, Judaism to Christianity, centuries past to the modern era, all while emphasizing the significance of the viewer over the artist.... As Beard emphasizes the power of the context in which we look at and interpret art, she ultimately suggests that civilization itself is a leap of faith. Beard is having fun in this joyfully accessible primer, backed with a robust appendix, for all interested in a new perspective on religion, art, and history." -- Katharine Uhrich, Booklist [starred review]"The renowned classicist delivers another tantalizing morsel of analysis, this time on 'art, and our reactions to it, over thousands of years and across thousands of miles'.... Yet another triumph for Beard: a joy to read, too short for certain, packed with lessons quickly absorbed." -- Kirkus Reviews [starred review]
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Fonthill Media LLc Hualyn Americas Finest Porcelain
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Fonthill Media LLc Abington Through Time
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Craft: An American History
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Semiotext (E) Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns,
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Triumph Books (IL) They Changed the Game
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient
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Bloomsbury USA The Dream Colony
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Nextone Inc. The Color Teil: Life, Work, and Inspiration
Book SynopsisThe Color Teil chronicles Teil Duncan’s artistic journey, displaying over three hundred full-color images of her work, including her most well-known pieces as well as those that are lesser known. Her studies range from figure drawings and animals to beach and pool scenes. Inspiration comes in all sizes and shapes for Teil. She has been enamored with creativity and art since she was a child, and she nurtured this passion throughout her education. Throughout this book, readers will become better acquainted with both the artist, as a person, and the art she creates. It is a vibrant, colorful journey that can only be described as: The Color Teil.Trade Review"Found a new favorite coffee table book. Have always loved Teil Duncan's art and now it's all in one place. Look's great on the table and makes me feel a little more sophisticated when guests come over." Craig Conover, star of Bravo TV show, "Southern Charm""Teil is inspired by light, movement, surprising color combinations, social interaction, and pattern. And she brilliantly infuses these elements to form abstracted, pixilated compositions." Southern Home Magazine
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Chicago Review Press You Next: Reflections in Black Barbershops
Book Synopsis“A stirring work . . . images meet text to convey a most handsome portrait of Black barbering in America as a revered cultural practice. Honest, intelligent, poignant—You Next is brilliant from cover to cover.” —Maurice Wallace, Rutgers University An intimate photographic exploration of the ways Black barber shops operate as sites for the cultivation of Black male identity and wellness Growing up, getting a haircut was a weekly event Antonio M. Johnson looked forward to more than anything. There in that tilted chair surrounded by members of his community and totems of a shared experience, Johnson felt safe—felt like anything was possible. Barber shops are more than places simply to get a cut. They are where Black men can speak and receive feedback about who we are, who we want to be, and what we believe to be true about the world around us. The interpretation of the barber shop as community center falls short of capturing what they really are for so many Black men: sanctuaries in a hostile land. You Next is an intimate photographic exploration of Black barber shops in major US cities—Gary, Indiana; Washington DC; New York City; Oakland; Atlanta; Los Angeles; Detroit; New Orleans; Montgomery; Memphis, and Johnson's hometown of Philadelphia. These photos, interviews, and essays tell the full story of the Black barber shop in America. Trade Review"One of the most comprehensive documentary photography books focusing entirely on African American barber shops I have ever seen. The stunning black-and-white images along with its writings make this a must-have keepsake. Antonio Johnson is to be saluted for creating such an important historic record for future generations." -- Jamel Shabazz, documentary photographer and creator of Back in the Days"A much-need addition to writing and documentation of Black barber shop culture. As a documentary photographer, writer, and researcher, Johnson's unwavering love for Black people and Black culture shines through." -- Kimberly Drew, curator, coeditor of Black Futures & author of This Is What I Know About Art"Like most Black men, I count on barber shops for much more than a neat head of hair. The jokes, the uncensored banter, the gossip, the arguments, the affirmation, and the brotherhood are just as important as the cut. Johnson's photographs immerse me in this warmly familiar world. Everything comes back -- the sound of the voices and clippers, the smell of the lotions, the gentle press of a barber's hand on my head. It's almost like going home. You Next reassures me this most essential of Black institutions will endure. This is a book to treasure." -- John Edwin Mason, University of Virginia associate professor of African history and history of photography"A stirring work... images meet text to convey a most handsome portrait of Black barbering in America as a revered cultural practice. Honest, intelligent, poignant -- You Next is brilliant from cover to cover." -- Maurice Wallace, Rutgers University"Antonio Johnson has put together an honest admixture of text and image that carefully records one of America's enduring institutions: the Black barber shop. In Johnson's book, the exchange between countless barbers and their clients reveals a singular refuge constructed by these Black boys and men, peacocking beauty, intellect, labor, and desire. It's a stunning study of the power of safe space, tradition, and transformation." -- Antwaun Sargent, art critic, curator, and author of The New Black Vanguard"Johnson has created a snapshot of one of the Black community's oldest institutions. With a keen eye, he evokes memory of community and ritual [and] gives a glimpse into the Black man's sanctuary, showing that he has the makings of a great documentary photographer." -- Hank Willis Thomas, artist & creator of All Things Being Equal, Pitch Blackness & Winter in America"The stunning black-and-white images along with its writings make this a must-have keepsake. Antonio Johnson is to be saluted for creating such an important historic record for future generations." Jamel Shabazz, documentary photographer and creator of Back in the Days"This is a beautiful book." Nancy, Goodreads â"Johnson's photographs immerse me in this warmly familiar world. You Next reassures me this most essential of Black institutions will endure. This is a book to treasure." John Edwin Mason, University of Virginia associate professor"In Johnson's book, the exchange between countless barbers and their clients reveals a singular refuge constructed by these Black boys and men, peacocking beauty, intellect, labor, and desire. It's a stunning study of the power of safe space, tradition, and transformation." Antwaun Sargent, The New Black Vanguard
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Chicago Review Press The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of
Book SynopsisAn essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt’s expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. But as America prepared for World War II, labor unions spread across Hollywood. Disney fought the unions while Babbitt embraced them. Soon, angry Disney cartoon characters graced picket signs as hundreds of animation artists went out on strike. Adding fuel to the fire was Willie Bioff, one of Al Capone’s wiseguys who was seizing control of Hollywood workers and vied for the animators’ union. Using never-before-seen research from previously lost records, including conversation transcriptions from within the studio walls, author and historian Jake S. Friedman reveals the details behind the labor dispute that changed animation and Hollywood forever. The Disney Revolt is an American story of industry and of the underdog, the golden age of animated cartoons at the world’s most famous studio.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note Prologue Part I: Innovation 1. My Father Was a Socialist 2. Poor and Starving 3. The Value of Loyalty 4. Arthur Babbitt: Hell-Raiser 5. Fighting for His Salary 6. You Can’t Draw Your Ass 7. The Disney Art School 8. Three Little Pigs 9. Enter Bioffsky 10. The Cult of Personality 11. A Feature-Length Cartoon 12. Bioff Stakes His Claim 13. A Drunken Mouse 14. Disney’s Folly 15. Defense Against the Enemy Part II: Turmoil 16. A Growing Divide 17. The Norconian 18. A Wooden Boy and a World War 19. Dreams Shattered 20. Hilberman, Sorrell, and Bioff 21. The Federation Versus the Guild 22. The Guild and Babbitt 23. Disney Versus the Labor Board 24. The Final Strike Vote 25. Strike! 26. The Big Stick 27. The 21 Club 28. Willie Bioff and Walt Disney 29. The Guild and the CIO 30. Not the Drawing 31. The Final Goodbye 32. And They Lived Epilogue Notes Index
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University of Delaware Press Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the
Book SynopsisEpic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe’s Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l’oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe’s architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe’s watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Such a reconstruction of a richer context for Latrobe’s choice of watercolor only reiterates his isolation in these years, and the solitary, introspective quality of his work that Sienkewicz analyzes so well. She understands the private, intensely personal quality of his images, even the ones intended to impress potential clients, and how they served as therapy for Latrobe at a time when he was underemployed, frustrated, confused, and depressed." "Reading many of these images as soul-searching, aspirational, self-promoting, and fanciful, Sienkewicz explores a rare mind at work. Her book opens new insights into a complex man whose mind, as revealed in his watercolors, expressed the creative turmoil of an artist determined to shape the painted as well as the built landscape of the United States." * Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide *Table of ContentsAtlantic purgatory Latrobe in a European contextA solitary traveler in the American woodsLearning to read the stonesStage tricks for landscape Performing spacesCastles in the air Illusions of selfhood
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University of Delaware Press Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation
Book SynopsisThe essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: “The Elusive Archive in Material Culture Studies” by Martin Brückner and Sandy IsenstadtI. Archives in Practice1. “On the Material Culture of Multispecies Relating”Julian Yates2. “Archive Vision”Wendy Bellion3. “Fugitive Archives: Privilege and Practice”Julie L. McGee4. “Touch and the Making of Religious Material Culture. Visiting the Lourdes Shrine”Torsten Cress5. “A historian walks into a bar… Or, a story about alternative ways of finding andusing archives when the normal avenues don’t cut it”Cindy Ott6. “Historical Form(s)”Laura HeltonII. Archives in Objects7. “Both Lost and Found: A Portrait of the Enslaved Homer Ryan”Jennifer Van Horn8. “The Chaise Sandows: Object as (Obscured) Archive”Kiersten Thamm9. “Decoupage: Cutting Ephemera and Assembling Sentiment”Alexandra Ward10. “’Inscribe, Lord, Your Will in My Stone Heart’: Finding Religious History inGerman-American Illuminated Manuscripts”Alexander Lawrence Ames11. “The Mobile Architectural Archive”Halina Adams12. “The Case of the Mysterious Chest-on-Frame”Rosalie HooperIII. Archives in Places13. “Refuse, Refuge, Relic”Sarah Wasserman14. “Searching for the Lost Mines of Albert Bierstadt”Spencer Wigmore15. “Landscapes of Refuge: Recovering the Materiality of Underground RailroadLandscapes in Delaware”Catherine Morrissey16. “Desolation in Crowded Spaces: Reconstructing the Material Culture of Internment”Michelle Everidge Anderson17. “Seeking Hózhó: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weave”Kaila T. Schedeen18. “Buried Archives”Lu Ann De CunzoIV. Archives in Circulation19. “Ikuo Yokoyama’s Motorcycle: Entropic Decay and the Anatomy of a Disaster”Natalie Elizabeth Wright20. “Fraktur: Material Religion and Print Culture in the Early German-Language AtlanticWorld”Oliver Scheiding21. “John Hancock’s Fugitive Tar”J. Ritchie Garrison22. “Stability Lost: Monetary Conditions of Refugees from World War II and the SyrianCivil War”Jesse Kraft23. “Inscribing Sanctuary: Early American Buildings and Apotropaic Markings, 1700-1850”Michael Emmons24. “Bottling Death and Brewing Resistance in Temperance Literature and Reform”Jessica ConradAfterword: “Elusive Archives and the Poetical Promise of Objects”Bernard L. HermanNotes on ContributorsIndex
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University of Delaware Press Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France:
Book SynopsisStorytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Table of ContentsEmily E. Thompson, Introduction Part I: Putting the Real into Words Chapter 1. Amy Graves Monroe, “The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers” Chapter 2. Kathleen Loysen, “‘Ceste histoire veritable’: Women’s Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douleureuses” Chapter 3. Marian Rothstein, “The Queen’s Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample Déclaration” Chapter 4. David LaGuardia, “Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants” Part II: Playing with Expectations Chapter 5. Colette H. Winn, “Urania in Physician’s Robes or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530)” Chapter 6. JoAnn DellaNeva, “Storytelling at the Crossroads of Diplomacy, History, and Poetry: ‘The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England,’ by Lancelot de Carle” Chapter 7. Emily E. Thompson, “In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership” Chapter 8. Dora E. Polachek, “Recasting the Heptaméron Novellas in Brantôme’s Vie des dames galantes” Part III: Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms Chapter 9. Cathy Yandell, “Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion” Chapter 10. Sheila ffolliott, “Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen” Chapter 11. Phillip John Usher, “The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France” Works Cited About the Contributors
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University of Delaware Press Frankenstein and STEAM: Essays for Charles E.
Book SynopsisCharles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the generative legacy of his later work on the novel's broad relation to topics in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). Seven chapters written by leading and emerging scholars pay homage to Robinson's later perspectives of the novel and a concluding postscript contains remembrances by his colleagues and students. This volume not only makes explicit the question of what it means to be human, a question Robinson invited students and colleagues to examine throughout his career, but it also illustrates the depth of the field and diversity of those who have been inspired by Robinson's work. Frankenstein and STEAM offers direction for continuing scholarship on the intersections of literature, science, and technology.Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Robin Hammerman 1 Frankenstein, Frankenstein, and the Dream of Science Susan J. Wolfson 2 Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse Mark A. McCutcheon 3 “the history of gods”: Singularity and Gender in Ex Machina Lisa Crafton 4 “My food is not that of man”: Food as Posthuman Phenomenon Siobhan Watters 5 Reading Frankenstein’s Ecological Legacy Lisbeth Chapin 6 Playing Devil’s Advocate: Defending the Criminal Justice System in Frankenstein L. Adam Mekler 7 Teaching Frankenstein as Pastiche, Parody, and Adaptation in the General Education Classroom Brian Bates Postscript: Remembrances of Charles E. Robinson Robin Hammerman Notes on Contributors Index
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University of Delaware Press Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of
Book SynopsisThis book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic satire grew in visual risk-taking, while paper money became a more standard carrier of financial value, courting controversy as a medium, moral problem, and factor in inflation. Through analysis of satirical prints, as well as case studies of monetary satires beyond London, this book demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact. Thus, satirical banknotes were objects that broke down the distinction between paper money and graphic satire altogether. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Tables and FiguresIntroduction The Inflation of Georgian Graphic Satire Chapter One Money, Fact, and ValueChapter Two CrisisChapter Three Subjectivity and TrustChapter Four Imitation and ImmaterialityChapter Five MaterialityChapter Six The Deflation of Georgian Graphic SatireEpilogue Beyond Britain NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Delaware Press The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the
Book SynopsisEmpress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians have never considered Elisabeth’s role in producing her public portraiture or the influence of her creation. The Celebrity Monarch reveals how portraits of Elisabeth transformed monarchs from divinely appointed sovereigns to public personalities whose daily lives were consumed by spectators. With resources ranging from the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Elisabeth’s private collection of celebrity photography to twenty-first century collages and films by T. J. Wilcox, this book positions Elisabeth herself as the primary engineer of her public image and argues for the widespread influence of her construction on both modern art and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Staging the State Portrait Chapter Two: Styling Authenticity: The Boundless Hair of the Celebrity Monarch Chapter Three: The Imaginary Empress: Photomontage and the Simulation of Intimacy Chapter Four: Elisabeth and the Modernist Imagination of Anton Romako Chapter Five: Sissi in New York: T. J. Wilcox and Elisabeth’s Descendants in the United States Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Levine Querido Liberation Literature
Book SynopsisA monumental collection by one of America's greatest authors of children's literature — and the launch of a new imprint, ReLIT, that republishes lost classics for a modern readership! Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) was not only one of the most magnificent writers who ever lived — winning honors such as the Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor, National Book Award, and the Coretta Scott King Award for classics like The House of Dies Drear, The People Could Fly, M. C. Higgins the Great, and Her Stories — she was one of the greatest thinkers we ever had on children's literature. Born to a family of storytellers, she wove into her books and thoughts a deep concern with memory, tradition, and generational legacy, especially as they helped define the lives of African Americans from the days of slavery onward. Hamilton described her work as ''liberation literature.'' This landmark book — since fallen out
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University Press of Colorado Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisInvasion and Transformation examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular, contributors consider the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered, both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries.
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University Press of Colorado The Art and Life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the
Book SynopsisBetween 1891 and 1915, pen-and-ink artist Merritt Dana Houghton made over 200 bird s-eye sketches of towns, ranches, mines, businesses, historic sites, and animals in Wyoming, northern Colorado, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state.
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University Press of Colorado Outside Influence
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Block Museum If You Remember, I'll Remember
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The Old Mill Press Kem Weber: Mid-Century Furniture Designs for the
Book SynopsisKem Weber (1889-1960), a well-known mid-century architect, was part of the distinctive West Coast modernism movement that helped shaped the relaxed California lifestyle. He influenced California style during the mid-twentieth century with buildings architecture, interior designs and furniture, including his famed Air Line chair, which is part of many museum furniture collections. As chief designer for the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank in 1939, Kem Weber also designed the specialised animation furniture that went into the then new studio complex. The Disney animation furniture, which has been lauded in recent years, was designed for specific animation disciplines with input from the artists that would be using it. It was all part of Walt Disney's desire to create an efficient utopian campus for animated film production. This book is a comprehensive overview of the Kem Weber designed Disney animation furniture that takes the reader on a journey from concept sketches and photos to interviews with legendary artists. David A Bossert celebrates and details the form and function of this unique mid-century furniture and the impact it had on the Disney animation process over the decades.
£20.85
Sequence Press Model as Painting
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Cityfiles Press Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago's
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Speed Art Museum Promise, Witness, Remembrance
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University of Washington Press Faces from the Interior: The North American
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Art Gallery of New South Wales Theatre of Dreams, Theatre of Play: No and Kyogen
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£36.29
University of Washington Press Prints Drawings Europe 15001900
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University of Washington Press Art from Milingimbi Taking memories back
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Art Gallery of New South Wales The exhibitionists: A History of Sydney's Art
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THAMES & HUDSON Ramesh
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Thames & Hudson Dreaming the Land
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THAMES & HUDSON Abstract Painting
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Thames & Hudson The New Modernist House
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Thames & Hudson Slow Looking The Art of Nature
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Heads & Tales The Female Gaze in Art and Photography
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Nimbus Publishing (CN) Nova Scotia Folk Art
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