The arts: general topics Books
Taylor & Francis Translation and Objects
Book SynopsisTranslation and Objectsoffers a new and original perspective in Translation Studies, originating from the conviction that in todayâs world translation is pervasive. Building on the ideas of scholars who have expanded the boundaries of the discipline, this book focuses on the analysis of objects that migrants carry with them on their journey of migration.The ideas of displacement and constant movement are key throughout these pages. Migrants live translation literally, because displacement is a leitmotif for them. Translation and Objects analyzes migrant objectsâsuch as shoes, stones, or photographsâas translation sites that function as expressions as well as sources of emotions. These displaced emotional objects, laden with meanings and sentiments, tell many stories, saying a great deal about their owners, who almost never have a voice. This book shows how meaning is displaced through the materiality, texture, smells, sensations, and forms of moving objects.
£35.99
Taylor & Francis Exploring Psychoanalytic Concepts through Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd SOFT Design
Book Synopsissoft Design explores an emerging design language of emotional aesthetics that merges emotive and sensory design with ancient and new technology to create multidimensional and multisensorial experiences.soft Design integrates tangible and intangible expression of the aesthetic experience with scientific research. Chapters span the physical, hybrid and digital realms discussing varied topics such as Biodesign, thermal comfort, spatial materiality, responsive architecture, soundscapes, geometry and Biogeometry, digital materiality, artificial intelligence and language, and the age of Meta, among many others. Case studies from design firms including IOUS Studio, Pangaia, Carbon, OPUS, FIELD.IO, Dumo Lab, to name but a few, are showcased and analyzed throughout. Chapters also include featured interviews with Lachlan Turczan, Tarun Raj, and Mario Carrillo to bring the design concepts to life. While leveraging advanced technology, soft Design is an encompassing approach to aesthetics, advocating for wellbeing, neuroinclusivity, synchrony with nature, and stronger alignment with the entire sensorial spectrum of the human experience.This will be interesting reading for a wide range of design practitioners â interior, industrial, interaction, spatial, digital, sensory, and UX designers â as well as those working in neuroaesthetics and in the converging fields of health, science and design.
£32.99
Rymour Books The Little White Town of NeverWeary
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£19.80
Taylor & Francis Ltd Multisensory Landscape Design
Book SynopsisThe interaction of our bodies in space is intrinsically linked to the ways in which we design. In spatial design we tend to focus on solely the visual, often treating it as the dominant sense while ignoring the other four senses: touch, sound, smell, taste. While research has been carried out on the perception of multisensorial experiences and design in the last two decades, there is no combined resource on how to address multisensory design in landscape architecture, architecture, urban and environmental design. This is a textbook for design students, professionals, and educators to develop multisensorial literacy. This book is the first of its kind, providing introductions on each of the five senses, along with exercises that demonstrate how to observe, record, and visualize them. It explores current design school pedagogy, and how we might imagine a more mindful way of teaching. The book is a foundational resource for students, professionals, and instructors to understand and ultTable of Contents1. From Visual to Multisensorial Literacy, 2. Multisensorial Design Thinking, 3. Sensewalks, 4. Becoming Multisensorial, 5. Teaching Multisensorial Literacy, 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sound Art
Book SynopsisSound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual and sonic arts, modern sound art first emerged in the early 20th century and has grown into a thriving and varied field. In 13 thematic chapters, this book enables students to clearly grasp both the concepts behind this unique area of art, and its history and practice. Each chapter begins with an exploration of key ideas and theories, followed by an in-depth discussion of selected relevant works, both classic and current. Drawing on a broad, diverse range of examples, and firmly interdisciplinary, this book will be essential reading for anyone studying or teaching the theory, history, appreciation, or practice of sound art.Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPreface1 Launching a Study of Sound Art2 How Sound Works (with Stephan Moore) 3 Sounds and Nature4 Voice and Language5 Sounds of the Body6 Captured Sound7 Transmitted Sound in Communication8 The Sounding Object 9 Acoustic Spaces10 Sonification 11 Noise and Sound Art12 Conservation and Documentation of Sound Art13 Making Sound Art AccessibleIndex
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Taylor & Francis An Actors Work
Book SynopsisStanislavskiâs âsystemâ has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre.Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read English-language versions. Some of the mistranslations have resulted in profound distortions in the way his system has been interpreted and taught. At last, Jean Benedetti has succeeded in translating Stanislavskiâs huge manual into a lively, fascinating and accurate text in English. He has remained faithful to the author's original intentions, putting the two books previously known as An Actor Prepares and Building A Character back together into one volume, and in a colloquial and readable style for today's actors.The result is a major contribution to the theatre, and a service to one of the gTrade Review'A lively new translation by Jean Benedetti… Stanislavksi was provocative, controversial - and, asAn Actor's Work confirms, a genius' - The Times'A volume that clearly communicates the entire system … it should be made required reading. -The Guardian'Getting the system straight from the horses mouth … An Actor's Work should be a manual not just in drama school, but but on any course where students are taught to assess texts and arugments critically' - Times Literary Supplement'A landmark achievement in Stanislavski studies … essential reading for anyone interested in acting, practically or academically, at all levels from schools to the industry.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement'Benedetti, the author of several previous books on Stanislavski, has both improved and expanded upon the Hapgood editions, and the result is a longer yet much more readable text. ' –Libray Journal'The twin bibles of acting books, Stanislavsky's An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, have been recently re-translated into a single tome.' - American Theatre'A far more authentic Stanislavsky.' – Laurence Senelick, Tufts University, Boston'More complete, much more accurate, and more readable [than the previous translation].’ –Richard Hornby, University of California, Riverside'Benedetti has done an excellent job… an elegantly presented and valuable volume… This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in acting, practically or academically, at all levels from schools to the industry.' - Times Higher Education'…Jean Benedetti's translation is fresh, immediate, highly readable, very witty, and, above all, accessible.' - Dramatics'This volume is a must for theater collections. Essential.' – CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction Declan Donnelan Translator's Foreword Jean Benedetti Preface Konstantin Stanislavski Year One 1. Amateurism 2. The stage as art and stock-in-trade 3. Action 4. Imagination 5. Concentration 6. Muscular release 7. Bits and tasks 8. Belief and the sense of truth 9. Emotion memory 10. Contact and communication 11. Adaptation 12. Psychological drives 13. Psychological drives in action 14. The Actor's creative state 15. The Supertask, through-action 16. The subconscious and the Actor Year Two 17. Transition to physical embodiment 18. Physical education 19. Voice and speech 20. Perspective 21. Tempo-rhyth 22. Logic 23. Physical characteristics 24. Finishing touches 25. Charisma 26. Ethics and discipline 27. External creative state 28. General creative state 29. The system Appendices Glossary of Key Terms Afterword Anatolij Smelianski
£24.32
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Essential Student Guide to Professional
Book SynopsisThis essential reference for photography students explains how to become part of the professional community. By defining professional photography today, and exploring what is expected of professional photographers, the book demystifies this often-misunderstood and misjudged career track. The easily accessible text provides readers with valuable information, inspiration, and education on topics including developing your photographic voice, finding your area of specialization, exploring the moving image, building a website, and understanding self-presentation, promotion, legal aspects, and marketing. It also features inspirational projects for students to embark on their education in photography. Trade Review"Scott is well placed to advise young students on the ins and outs of getting started as a pro. He has a wealth of experience in the industry from art directing and magazine editing to shooting as a professional photographer and lecturing. There are some gems of useful information and invaluable advice buried in this book..." - Professional PhotographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter One: What Is Professional Photography?Chapter Two: What Makes a Professional Photographer?Chapter Three: How to Find Your Photographic VoiceChapter Four: Understanding the Photography BusinessChapter Five: Going It Alone and Where Do You Fit?Chapter Six: The Importance of the Moving ImageChapter Seven: The Twenty-First Century Professional PhotographerGlossaryResources
£29.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aesthetics of Care
Book SynopsisBuilding upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected in our everyday life. Specifically, she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and how the ethical relationship with others, whether humans, non-human creatures, environments, or artifacts, is guided by aesthetic sensibility and manifested through aesthetic means.Weaving together insights gained from philosophy, art, design, and medicine, as well as artistic and cultural practices of Japan, she illuminates the aesthetic dimensions of various forms of care in our management of everyday life. Emphasis is placed on the experience of interacting with others including objects, a departure from the prevailing mode of aesthetic inquiry that is oriented toward judgment-making from a spectator's point of view. Saito shows that when everyday activities, ranging from having a conversation and perforTrade ReviewYuriko Saito’s exploration of ethical and aesthetic sensibility in the care relationship is rich and subtle. As she proceeds, the interweaving of persons, objects, and situations grows in meaning and significance. Profound yet always accessible, her new book is rich with insight. It can and should be read and re-read. * Arnold Berleant, Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), Long Island University, USA *Inspired in part by Japanese traditions, Aesthetics of Care is a compelling development of Saito’s insight that authentic care - for ourselves, others, objects and environments – should determine our integrated aesthetic and ethical modes of living. The book is an eloquent challenge to mainstream Western ethics and aesthetics alike. * David E. Cooper, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Durham University, UK *With meticulous research and characteristic insight, Yuriko Saito integrates ethics and aesthetics in this study of objects and the treatment they deserve. Her thought-provoking reflections draw attention to the care we should extend to material things and, reciprocally, the ethical and aesthetic significance of designing objects that care for us. * Carolyn Korsmeyer, Research Professor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, USA *Yuriko Saito’s brilliant book brings her influential ideas on everyday and environmental aesthetics into a deep dialogue with our ethical lives. Drawing on ethics of care, Japanese aesthetics, and concepts such as engagement, relationality, and social aesthetics, she creates a new direction for the field by articulating the mutually enhancing commonalities between aesthetic experience and caring relationships. * Emily Brady, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Care Ethics and Aesthetic Experience: Shared Commonality 2. Relationality: Aesthetic and Ethical Consequences 3. Expression of Care in Social Aesthetics 4. Care Relationship and Activities with the Material World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£18.99
HarperCollins Focus Hollywood Confidential
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£17.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Television Truths
Book SynopsisTelevision Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride.Trade Review“The author describes this broad survey as ‘a sustained reflection on the tensions produced by the problem of knowledge in and about television.’ Hartley argues that television's history and historiography have not been well done thus far. The book as a whole offers something of a philosophy of television. Recommended.” (Choice Reviews, December 2008)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. 1. Television Truths (Argumentation of TV). Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV):. 2. The Value Chain of Meaning. 3. Public Address Systems: Time, Space, and Frequency. 4. Television and Globalization. Part II: Is TV a Polity? (Ethics/Politics of TV):. 5. Television, Nation, and Indigenous Media. 6. A Television Republic?. 7. Reality and the Plebiscite. Part III: Is TV Beautiful? (Aesthetics of TV):. 8. From a “Wandering Booby” to a Field of Cows: The Television Live Event. 9. Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self. 10. Sync or Swim? Plebiscitary Sport and Synchronized Voting. Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV):. 11. “Laughs and Legends” or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History. 12. Television in Knowledge Paradigms. References. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cult Cinema An Introduction
Book SynopsisDespite its emergence as one of the most popular and debated areas of cinema research, there is no systematic discussion of cult cinema available. Cult Cinema aims to fill this gap by being the first academic textbook devoted to the subject.Table of ContentsList of Figures. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I Receptions and Debates. 1 Cult Reception Contexts. 2 The Cult Cinema Marketplace. 3 Prestige, Awards, and Festivals. 4 Censorship and Criticism. 5 Fandom and Subculture. 6 The Cult Auteur. 7 Cult Stardom. 8 Camp and Paracinema. 9 Transgression and Freakery. 10 Gender and Sexuality. 11 Transnationalism and Orientalism. 12 Religion and Utopia. Part II Themes and Genres. 13 Exploitation and B Movies. 14 Underground and Avant-garde Cinema. 15 Cult Cinema and Drugs. 16 Cult Cinema and Music. 17 Classical Hollywood Cults. 18 Cult Horror Cinema. 19 Cult Science Fiction Cinema. 20 Cult Blockbusters. 21 Intertextuality and Irony. 22 Meta-cult. Filmography. References. Credits and Sources. Index.
£28.45
Stanford University Press Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude
Book SynopsisIn this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject—one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright with the feminine inclined, she references philosophical texts (by Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti, and others) as well as works of art (Barnett Newman, Leonardo da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Alexander Rodchenko) and literature (Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf). Trade Review"Inclinations bears all the marks of Cavarero's work more generally: rigorous argumentation, a style at once direct and playful, a wide-ranging command of the philosophical tradition, combined with trenchant feminist critique." —Barbara Spackman, University of California at Berkeley
£18.89
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography By Dave
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Manchester University Press Art, Commerce and Colonialism 1600–1800
Book SynopsisThe book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commercial activity and colonial ventures gave rise to new and diverse forms of visual and material culture across the globe. Drawing on a wide range of recent scholarship, it offers a new perspective that challenges Eurocentric approaches.Trade Review'Art, Commerce and Colonialism is a marvellous and much-needed volume. It brilliantly represents the cutting edge of scholarship on the politics and the commerce of art in the early modern era, while making central issues and a fascinating array of objects readily accessible. This book is poised to shape the next generation of teaching early modern global art history, and offers a valuable road map for further study.' Claudia Swan, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University‘Art, Commerce and Colonialism masterfully shows how the interaction between Western Europe and the rest of world came to reshape the continent’s art and visual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this book trade, power and art are part of one global process.’Giorgio Riello, Professor of Global History and Culture, University of Warwick'The biggest strength of Art, Commerce and Colonialism is that each author provides brief narratives of how scholarly approaches to their topic have changed over time. These forays into historiography, written in ways that are understandable to undergraduate students new to the study of art history, are indispensable.'Renaissance Quarterly -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Emma Barker1 From Iberia to the Americas: Hispanic art of the colonial era – Piers Baker-Bates2 The Golden Age revisited: Dutch art in global perspective – Emma Barker3 Creative interactions: Chinoiserie in eighteenth-century Britain – Clare Taylor4 Transatlantic architecture: classicism, colonialism and race – Elizabeth McKellarConclusion – Emma BarkerIndex
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Kodansha America, Inc Manga! Manga!: The World Of Japanese Comics
Book SynopsisSince first published in 1983, Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics has been the book to read for all those interested in Japanese comics. It is virtually the bible' from which all studies and appreciation of manga begins. More than that, given the influence of Japanese manga on animation and on American-produced comics as well, Manga! Manga! provides the background against which these other arts can be understood. The book includes 96 pages from Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix, Reiji Matsumoto's Ghost Warrior, Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles, and Keiji Nakazawa's BarefootGen.'Trade Review"Phenomenal book…an exceptionally literate writer."—Cat Yronwode "... a thoroughgoing exposition of the manga genre in text and pictures." —The New Yorker"An excellent historical guide to manga, as well as a fine Introduction to various artists and major thematic concerns." —Variety "Buy this book. Read it." —The Comics Buyer's Guide
£21.60
Taylor & Francis Inc Audio Anecdotes II: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio
Book SynopsisThis collection of articles provides practical and relevant tools, tips, and techniques for those working in the digital audio field. Volume II, with contributions from experts in their fields, includes articles on: - Field recording - Synthesis - Signal processing - Spatialization - Computer techniques and tools - Music theory - Sound design - Sound in nature An enclosed CD-ROM provides demos, source code, and examples. Audio Anecdotes is an invaluable tool for anyone who uses digital sound in the creation of computer-generated works: - Musicians - Game developers - Sound producers, and othersTrade Review" "A superb reference, resource and research tool highly recommended for anyone applying digital sound to computer-created projects, including musicians, game developers, and software producers..." -Midwest Book Review, January 2005 "The wonderful thing about this book is that it contains well-written introductions to many subjects, including sound propagation, auditory scene analysis, audio file formats, and rate conversion, that otherwise might be found in magazines, on the Internet, or not at all." -Vladimir Botchev, Computing Reviews , December 2004 This book discusses creating, recording, processing, and analyzing many forms of sound and music... -E-Streams, September 2005"Table of Contents1. Field Recording 2. Synthesis 3. Signal Processing 4. Spatialization 5. Computer Techniques 6. Computer Tools 7. Music Theory 8. Sound Design 9. Nature
£99.75
Rocky Nook Dare to Create: 35 Challenges to Boost Your
Book SynopsisWant to create but don't know where to start? Need a shot of inspiration? Dare to Create! is the ultimate guide to fueling your artistic journey, from your first steps to the expression of your own style. Overcome creative blockages with the 35 inspiring challenges in this book as engineer-turned-artist Marie Boudon guides you in developing your art. Whatever your level (beginner or advanced) and your mode of artistic expression (drawing, painting, collage, photography, etc.), this is the ultimate guide to boosting your creativity and making beautiful art!This colorful book includes: Advice on how to “let go” Exercises to awaken your imagination and inspire Techniques to forge your own creative process and avoid dead ends Inspirational testimonies from beloved artists and creators And much, much more!
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Living the Map Piecing Together America
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Letterform Archive Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest
Book SynopsisA powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire change—from 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the “Silence = Death” graphics of the AIDS epidemic and the handmade signs of the Black Lives Matter movement Organized into chapters that explore the many ways to express dissent (RESIST!, VOTE!, STRIKE!, TEACH! and LOVE!), Strikethrough presents more than 120 signs, posters, publications and ephemera in vivid imagery and incisive prose. From the colorful affiches of the Paris ’68 uprising to Memphis strike workers’ placards to the Black Panthers’ newspaper, this generously illustrated volume showcases the role of graphic design in a wide range of protest movements in the United States and abroad. Including selections from artists and art collectives such as Jenny Holzer, the Guerrilla Girls and Fierce Pussy, this book provides a broad and critical survey of the typographics of activism. Strikethrough also features 10 profiles on the designers behind the graphics—including Corita Kent, Emory Douglas and Ben Shahn—and a custom display typeface based on historical protest graphics by Tré Seals, plus an introduction by activist and design scholar Colette Gaiter and an essay on type by Stephen Coles. Charting a typographic chant of resistance that spans more than 150 years, Strikethrough curators Silas Munro and Stephen Coles reveal how the message makes its way to the masses via marker, screen print, spray paint, collage and both physical and digital type, and how it calls on us all to craft our own demands for social change. Artists and designers include: Atelier Populaire, See Red Women’s Workshop, Carlos Cortez, Emory Douglas, fierce pussy, Ganzeer, Milton Glaser, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Corita Kent, Aaron Douglas, Art Workers’ Coalition, OSPAAAL, Tibor Kalman, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Herb Lubalin, Phase 2, Favianna Rodriguez, Ward Schumaker, Ben Shahn and Wes Wilson.Trade ReviewThe simplicity of the cover's iconic gesture of resistance belies an entangled and complex history of protest graphics inside. * AIGA *This book is a worthy effort that offers specific takes on the subjects it covers, builds up the bibliography of a field that’s often neglected, and will make the kind of work it covers more discoverable. -- Faride Mereb * Brooklyn Rail *A breakthrough on three levels: Its theme. Its context. Its author....Impressive (and necessary). -- Steven Heller * PRINT *
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Open Ended Books Bewick Tales
Book SynopsisAn uplifting dementia-friendly book about the life and work of world-famous artist Thomas Bewick. With an easy to follow narrative, the book is rich with intriguing details provoking curiosity and prompting conversations between people living with dementia and their family and friends. Designed with and for people with early to moderate dementia.
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Orion Publishing Co 100 Ideas that Changed Art
Book SynopsisFrom the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world of art. Arranged in broadly chronological order, it provides a unique and compelling take on the history of art. The book shows how developments in materials and technology have radically changed the way that art is produced. Each entry explores when an idea first evolved and how it has resurfaced in the work of different artists up to the present day. Illustrated with historical masterpieces and packed with fascinating contemporary examples, this is an inspirational and wholly original guide to understanding the forces that have shaped world art.
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Collective Ink Going Nowhere, Slow: The aesthetics and politics
Book SynopsisUsing examples from art and literature, Frantzen explores the social, political and economic implications of both real and imagined depression. Is feeling blue a symptom of the death of progress? Was the suicide of David Foster Wallace a proverbial canary in a coal mine? Margaret Thatcher once declared that there is no alternative to the social order that we now reside within. Have we accepted her slogan as a fact, and is that why so many are on Prozac and other anti-depressants? Frantzen examines the works of Michel Houellebecq, Claire Fontaine and David Foster Wallace as he seeks out an answer and a way to formulate a new future oriented left movement.
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Inter-Varsity Press Why Art Matters: A Call for Christians to Create
Book SynopsisIn a world of turmoil, art matters more than ever. Art can bring about political action, even social revolution. Art reminds us of the things that really matter. It lifts our eyes to eternity and show us the importance of the here and now. With illustration from contemporary art and reference to theatre and film, this book shows the importance of art for all, not just the professionals. Creativity helps humans to flourish and reflects the character of a creative God. This is a book to return to time and again for inspiration and encouragement. Illustrated by author Alastair Gordon, Why Art Matters encourages us to embrace creativity at home, church, in play and professionally in the creative arts and industries.Trade ReviewIn this marvellous and beautiful book, painter Alastair Gordon answers the question, not with a justification, but instead with a multifaceted celebration. Like the many genres of art and the myriad ways they enrich us, Gordon lets bloom a thousand and one answers to the question. And every one is an invitation--"Come and see!"--to a richer world and a better way to be human. -- James K.A. Smith, Calvin University; editor in chief, Image journal; author of 'You Are What You Love' and 'On the Road with Saint Augustine'A breath of fresh air! Ally's book and his art call us to reject the lies and see reality as it is: God’s reality. -- Mark Meynell, Director (Europe and Caribbean), Langham PreachingA timely appreciation of the importance and significance of the visual arts. -- Philip Archer, OBESuffused with wisdom, joy and wonder -- Makoto Fujimura, artist and author of 'Art+Faith: A Theology of Making'Deeply personal and heart-warming… a ‘must-read’ for creative students -- Lois M Adams, UCCF Arts Network CoordinatorThis is not just a book for lovers of art. This is a book for everyone ... beautifully crafted, Biblically rooted and, at times, painfully vulnerable. -- Phil Knox, author of Story Bearer and Head of Mission to young adults, Evangelical AllianceJust the book we need in these days when many of us are filled with self-doubt and pessimism -- James Paul, director of L’Abri Fellowship England and author of ‘What on Earth is Heaven?’
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Boydell and Brewer A Medieval Book of Beasts The SecondFamily
Book SynopsisText, translation, and critical study of one of the most important medieval bestiaries.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) James Mason
Book SynopsisSarah Thomas''s study moves beyond the image of the brooding, destructive man at odds with employers and his own star status to explore the complexity of Mason's career and star persona. Her analysis is structured around three strands central to understanding stardom: the star persona, industry and power, and screen performance. Thomas addresses the incredible range of Mason's star career 1930s quota quickies'; 1940s Gainsborough melodramas; the desperate IRA man in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out' (1947); from the 1950s onwards, Hollywood classics including starring in Hitchcock's North by Northwest' (1959) and playing Humbert Humbert in Kubrick's Lolita' (1962). She also considers in depth his undervalued post-1962 career, off-screen celebrity status, non-film work, comic and vocal performances, and the star's own self-commentary. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on such subjects as power and powerlessness; public image and national identity, contextualizing Mason''s career in wid
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Land Matters: Landscape Photography, Culture and
Book SynopsisIn this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political, social and environmental attitudes. She also asks what is at stake in landscape photography now through placing critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas, within broader art historical and political concerns. This illuminating book will interest readers in photography and media, geography, art history and travel, as well as those concerned with environmental issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Landscape: Time, Space, Place, Aesthetics2 A Northern Place: Land and Settlement3 After the Frontier: Environment and the West4 Pastoral Heritage: Britain Viewed Through a Critical Lens5 Views of the North: Landscape, Photography and National Identity6 Sense of Location: Topography, Journey, MemoryBibliographyIndex
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Granta Books 33 Artists in 3 Acts
Book SynopsisIs being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood? Is it an extension of philosophy or an offshoot of entertainment? In three richly interlinked but distinct 'acts' - Politics, Kinship and Craft - Sarah Thornton compares and contrasts answers to the simple but profound question: what is an artist? 33 Artists in 3 Acts draws on hundreds of personal encounters with the world's most important artists, to ask what it means to be making artworks in different parts of the world today. With Thornton as expert guide and trusted insider, we have unprecedented access to the lives of the artists, from late-night Skype chats with Ai Weiwei to taxi rides with Maurizio Cattelan on the way to and from the show that announces his death. We join Thornton as she rummages through artists' studios, homes and solo shows, inquiring about everything from their bank accounts to their bedrooms. The result is a series of cinematic experiences, which juxtapose artists in thought-provoking ways, and build up narratives that end with epiphanies. 33 Artists in 3 Acts is a generational touchstone, a powerful triptych and gripping anti-monograph about truth, integrity, credibility and recognition. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary art, this masterful act of storytelling will also delight any reader seeking to understand creative lives.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers The Revealing Image: Analytical Art Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisSchaverien painstakingly describes and defines "processes which have so far only been intuitively known to art therapists" (p6) by introducing and elaborating the psychoanalytical concepts of transference and countertransference in relation to the use of visual art objects. The authors stated intention in this book is "to attempt to bridge the perceived gap between the practice of art therapy and analytical forms of psychotherapy..."(p 229) The epistemological base of this venture includes the fields of philosophy, anthropology, and aesthetics, as well as psychoanalysis.Schaverien suggests that analytical art psychotherapy is a way of working analytically with patients who are unsuitable, or unready, for psychotherapy, giving examples of psychotic and borderline patients, children, and patients in psychiatric settings.This is primarily a book about an analytical approach within art therapy, which may be of interest in itself. The material also raises issues of interest to analysts and psychotherapists, whether or not they work with art in the clinical setting. The book clarifies areas of similarity between the disciplines, and also makes areas of difference apparent. For example, most analysts would agree that visual art, like dream material, and other non-verbal representations of the inner world, can at times articulate and communicate meanings which for one reason or another cannot be verbally articulated at the time, and that this can be pertinent to the aim of analysis. However, I think few analysts would include facilities in their consulting rooms for the kind of art processes described in the book.When the analyst is working with materials in this form, the book will be extremely helpful in sorting out the complexity of the transference situation and the role of interpretation. The book is so strongly grounded in experiences emerging in the presence of actual art processes and objects that I think it will be of most interest to those who are interested in the specific clinical issues involved in relating to the making and use of actual art objects within the setting. Schaverien not only describes the processes involved in detail, but also presents technical approaches to the making and handling of art objects within the setting which will inform the capacity of those who are not trained as art therapists to relate to this kind of material in the consulting room.'Trade ReviewSchaverien's text is rich in ideas... Schaverien applies her polycular lens to a well-chosen case study; its images embody the alchemical cycle of psychological transformation in a remarkable way. -- Transcultural PsychiatrySince its first publication in 1991, Joy Schaverien's thoughtful and inspiring book The Revealing Image has become a seminal text. It links the two worlds of analytical psychotherapy and art therapy in the practice of analytical art psychotherapy, which establishes the art object in a central position as the locus of transformation. This book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the healing powers of art, the archetypal nature of images, and ways of tracking the transference. Analytical psychotherapists may find themselves inspired to rush out to the art shop and stock up on paints, of at the very least look with added enthusiasm on any artwork that finds its way into the consulting room. Jung positively encouraged his patients to paint and draw, as he did himself, and I frequently find myself working with people who use art as a means of self-expression, discovery and healing. Sometimes pictures can say more than words, which this book so eloquently illustrates. -- The Journal of Analytical PsychologyA subtle and fascinating account of the experience of art therapy. Schaverien skilfully reveals the intense drama with which the process is invested if it is to make contact with the patient's deepest desires and emotions. The threads of resemblance between art therapy and psychoanalysis are finely traced. -- The Journal of the British Association of PsychotherapistsExplores previously uncharted territory in art therapy focussing on the complex transference phenomena of value to art therapists it merits the attention of psychotherapists one of the first serious attempts to bridge the two disciplines. -- Professor Richard Wollheim, University of California, BerkeleyIt is hard to do full justice to this clear and well-written book. ...The author backs up her ideas with a full discussion of [their] psychological, aesthetic and philosophical origins...most importantly she includes an extended and convincingly illustrated case study...Schaverien has put the picture right back in the centre of art therapy. -- British Journal of PsychotherapyThe Revealing Image was first published in 1991 and since then has become a seminal text. Drawing on philosophical aesthetics, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology this is an innovative study of the role of art within the transference and countertransference dynamic. Using many illustrations, both in colour and black and white, The Revealing Image makes the complex ideas of analytical art psychotherapy readily accessible. It is essential reading for art therapists, psychotherapists, analytical psychologists, counsellors and all those who encounter art within a therapeutic relationship, whether experienced practitioners or trainees. -- Journal of Analytical PsychologyTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Transference and countertransference. 2. The scapegoat transference. 3. The picture within the frame. 4. The life in the picture: The embodied image. 5. The life of the picture: Transference. 6. The life of the picture: Mediation and interpretation. 7. The talisman: The empowered picture. 8. The scapegoat and the talisman transference: A case study. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Indexes.
£29.44
Taylor & Francis Ltd Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of
Book SynopsisAtrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed more intensely that any before. In the time since the images were taken they have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and above all exploited for propaganda purposes. With the use of many photographs, including some never before seen, this book traces the history of this process and asks whether the images can be true representations of the events they were depicting. Yet their provenance, Janina Struk argues, has been less important that the uses to which a wide range of political interests has put them, from the desperate attempts of the war-time underground to provide hard evidence of the death camps to the memorial museums of Europe, the US and Israel today.Trade ReviewLondon Review of Books: "excellent book...wonderfully modest and informative." Rabbi Dr Charles H Middleburgh, executive director, Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues: "Photographing the Holocaust now numbers among the top ten books on the Shoah that I have ever read... seeks carefully and sensitively to explore the way in which photography has been used in connection with the Holocaust... Janina Struk forces the reader to think again... Photographing the Holocaust has a raw power that far exceeds its 216 pages of text and should be essential reading for all who seek an ever deeper understanding of an almost incomprehensibly evil series of events that have scarred the modern world forever." Source Magazine "brilliant book... poignant... Struk's book is a welcome counter to even great history writing that is innocent of the problem of representation. Her book is written with style and pace, uses theory without being weighed down by it, and is full of new research... Every historian should read this book and learn what it means to be literate in the present day."H-NET REVIEWS (Humanities and Social Sciences Online)'tells us a great deal about the production, circulation, use and misuse of photographic images of the Holocaust'Table of ContentsAtrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed more intensively than any others, before or since. These images have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and above all exploited for propaganda purposes or political interest. Struk suggests that their provenance - whether taken by the Nazis or their collaborators or by the Jews themselves, their sympathisers and the resistance movements in the occupied territories; or by the Allied forces at the end of the war - has been seen as of secondary importance to their meaning. She recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and asks whether or not these images can serve as true representations of the events they depict. The questions explored are illustrated with a wide range of photographs, including a number never published before.
£26.08
Dent-De-Leone The Knife
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£17.10
Anomie Publishing Callum Innes Tondos
Book SynopsisA publication documenting Scottish artist Callum Innes's Tondos round paintings that continue a long tradition in art history and extend the acclaimed artist's explorations into abstraction, colour, line, shape and form. This richly illustrated publication features an introduction by Jeffrey Grove and an essay by art historian Éric de Chassey.
£21.25
Unicorn Publishing Group A Journey Painted in Clay
Book SynopsisOf all the ceramic processes, Maiolica truly requires a painter’s touch. Combining a confident sensitivity of brushwork and a vision of what might be once the subtle blends of oxides fuse with the tin glaze in the firing, it is both a rewarding and unforgiving art form. A Journey Painted in Clay celebrates the ceramic work of Agalis Manessi through its various forms of expression over a career spanning fifty years. Inspired by many historical and contemporary sources, her work is a fusion of her Mediterranean heritage and annual travels across Europe between Greece and London. Ideas are drawn from the experience of viewing subjects in churches, museums and galleries and observations directly from life. Animated vessels express a gentle humour that is offset by the suggestive poise of their condensed forms, camouflaged within the painted surface. Following in the tradition of English Delft, portrait dishes are softly coiled, with painted images built up of composite features worked up from notebook sketches. Modelled animals and figures take on a more enigmatic nature, communicating a silent yet eloquent poise. With a foreword from Jenni Lomax, curator and former director of Camden Arts Centre, and contributions from Megan Brooks, Tanya Harrod, Mina Holland, Marina Papasotiriou, Michael Petry and Liz Rideal.
£21.25
Unicorn Publishing Group Faberge: The Twilight Years: Drawings and Objects
Book SynopsisFaberge: The Twilight Years introduces an incredible album of rare drawings from Carl Faberge's leading workshop in St Petersburg that have come to light in the National Archive of Finland by pure chance. The album, stored unnoticed in the archive for almost a century, contains beautifully watercoloured drawings of objects produced by Faberge during the period 1914 - 1917, among these a whole array of elegant cigarette cases, table clocks and enchanting flower studies. Most of the drawings have a completion date, which means that the finished object exists somewhere. This has sparked a treasure hunt for these pieces. A great number of objects matching the drawings have been found and are illustrated in the book. Altogether eleven well known experts on the oeuvre of Faberge have written fascinating essays related to the drawings, their history, provenance, style and technique. These contributions make the book an important addition to our knowledge and understanding of the art of the great St Petersburg jeweller.
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Notting Hill Editions Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg
Book SynopsisFrida Kahlo was an amputee in the last part of her life, but long before that her right leg had been compromised by a childhood bout with polio. Since adolescence, Emily Rapp, herself an amputee since the age of four, felt that there were many things she had in common with Frida Kahlo. From the first sight of Kahlo's painting of the devastating bus crash that almost killed her, Rapp felt a sense of kinship with the artist. They both endured numerous operations; both alternately hid and revealed their altered bodies; and both found a way to live and create despite physical and emotional pain. In this riveting read, Rapp gets to the essence of Kahlo through her art, her letters, and her diaries. Rapp tells her own story of losing a child to Tay-Sachs; finding love, and becoming pregnant with her daughter; and of how Kahlo's life and work helped her to find a way forward when all seemed lost. Containing several full-color images of Kahlo's art and clothing, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg offers a unique perspective on the artist and the challenges she faced. I want to know and remember what it was like to walk as Frida once walked: before polio at six years old shrunk her right leg; before the infamous bus crash on September 17, 1925 when the pole pierced her pelvis; then the casts, the saws, the stitches woven into the skin and then carefully twisted out, the scars gone white and silent and sealed. I am one-legged, like Frida, but I am also unlike her, and there in our essential difference is where my fascination lies, and there lies also my devotion, my despair, my revulsion, my resentment, my desire.Trade Review“This book is a wild masterpiece. It is about everything that matters: mortality, motherhood, desire, love, the body, art, writing, survival. Remarkably, the author is able to express the chaos of grief and anger without ever losing control. The fire of Frida Kahlo’s spirit courses through this book and twins with the author’s own attempts to understand her life, and survive. It is brilliant, furious, funny, gorgeously written, terribly sad and, without being sentimental, hopeful. I am sure that any feeling being will love and treasure this generous, remarkable book.” —Matthew Zapruder, author of Why Poetry and Father’s Day “With endless intellect and intimacy, Emily Rapp Black brings us a book without parallel, a book that will become well-worn by readers who have passed it on, saying, here, you have to read this. In Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, Rapp Black scours and thinks and confides not in order to write an impossibly original work of art, though she has, but to survive all that has threatened her body and soul. Is it peculiar, then, to say that Frida Kahlo is one of the great loves of her life? For this is the story, and this is the bond between two artists in whom there is no hiding, just expressive, salvific brilliance. Read this. This book might just get you through.” —Katie Ford, poet and author of If You Have to Go and Blood Lyrics
£14.24
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Radical Print
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium's intersection with radical politics
£42.75
Unicorn Publishing Group Lifting the Day: A Lockdown Exhibition
Book SynopsisOn the first day of lockdown, Mary Collis decided to post a painting onto her Facebook page, suggesting she would ‘lift the day’ during the forecast two-week lockdown. 245 days later she was still posting daily. This Facebook lockdown exhibition became a daily source of inspiration and sanity for Mary and her followers, as they shared memories through her art and words about life in locked down Kenya and beyond.
£17.00
Tangent Books Bath Arts Workshop: Counterculture In The 1970s
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£21.25
Yale University Press Aldred Stevens Master of Design 18171875
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£66.50
Sternberg Press Selected Maria Lind Writing
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£19.00
JRP Ringier The Swiss Institute Experience
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£32.40
De Gruyter In Motion
Book SynopsisEnglish edition This catalogue provides a spectacular overview of painting on the theme of football in European artistic modernism. Here, painting gets to the bottom of football's mystique. And vice versa, since football with its aesthetics, dynamics, rites, and contradictions inspires artists and reveals innovative, surprising perspectives and artistic possibilities. This culminates in impressive interplay between the two worlds. Accessing 20th-century European art through football and deciphering the fascinating as well as contradictory game of football as a European phenomenon through the perspective of modernist painting uncovers new knowledge in both fields. More than 100 works of art from national and international collections are examined. The catalogue is designed along the same conceptual lines as the European Championship itself: each nation participating in the EURO 2024 is represented by at least one artist, so underlining the fundamen
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Hatje Cantz The Artist's Estate: A Handbook for Artists,
Book SynopsisAndy Warhol bequeathed us the words “Death can really make you look like a star.” But death per se is not a catalyst for the relevance of an artist. What is of crucial importance is the proper management structure for the posthumous preservation and development of an artistic estate. The handbook by Loretta Würtenberger presents the possible legal framework, appropriate financing models, as well as the proper handling of the market, museums, and academia. Her business, Fine Art Partners, has advised artists and artists’ estates for many years in their structuring and development of estate concepts as well as in operative questions. Based on numerous international examples, the author explains the different alternatives for maintaining an artist’s estate and makes recommendations on how to ideally handle work, archives, and mementos following the death of an artist. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4132-3)
£27.20
Hatje Cantz Baloise: Art
Book SynopsisThe Swiss company Baloise has a reputation among art experts, but not just as an insurance and financial services company. With its programs that support art, its collaborations with museums, and the renowned Baloise Art Prize for young artists, which is awarded at Art Basel, the company has had a lasting effect on the development of contemporary art. Less well-known up to now is the fact that, parallel to the company’s activities, it has also built a first-class art collection, which dates back to the mid-twentieth century. Since turning to contemporary art in the 1990s, the company has collected the works of notable artists. With a focus on photography and works on paper from the 1960s onward, some of the artists represented in the collection are Miriam Cahn, Simon Denny, Katharina Fritsch, Bruce Nauman, and Jeff Wall. Baloise Art is the first publication to provide a broader audience with an overview of the collection. Informative texts by prestigious authors accompany the artworks.
£33.75
Hirmer Verlag Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute
Book SynopsisDelve into a collection a century in the making with Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, a handbook highlighting the museum's collection of legendary artworks from the United States and around the world, encompassing works by celebrated artists from Ansel Adams to Kay Walking Stick. For one hundred years, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts has served regional and national audiences as an art museum and community-based art school. This handbook highlights its collection of nearly five thousand works, including an exceptional group of artworks from the United States and around the world. Explore majestic and compelling photographs by Ansel Adams to Dawoud Bey; depictions of the immigrant experience by Diego Rivera to Dulce Pinzón; the awe-inspiring and dynamic paintings of Robert Seldon Duncansen to Helen Frankenthaler; and singular sculptural works by Deborah Butterfield to Richard Hunt. Be inspired by the stories of local, regional and, national artists and curatorial voices that will illuminate the expansiveness of this unique Michigan-based collection.
£23.96
Hirmer Verlag Gothic Modern Norwegian Edition
Book SynopsisJuliet Simpson is Full Professor and Chair of Art History and Cultural Memory in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University, UK. Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff is the museum director of Ateneum Art Museum / Finnish National Gallery.
£33.60
Hirmer Seeing the Unseeable
Book SynopsisJulie Joyce, Stephen Nowlin, and Hyesoo Christina Valentine are accomplished curators and frequent collaborators whose paths auspiciously intersected at the Exhibitions department of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.
£36.00
Sternberg Press Against the Anthropocene – Visual Culture and
Book SynopsisA critique of the discourse on the Anthropocene and the creative alternatives to it to be found through the arts, sciences, and humanities.Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world's near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present.
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