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Book Artbibliographies Modern

Download or read book Artbibliographies Modern written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reconstructing the Body

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  • Author : Ana Carden-Coyne
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2009-08-20
  • ISBN : 0191609382
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Reconstructing the Body written by Ana Carden-Coyne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story. People also rebuilt their lives, their communities, and their bodies. From the ashes of war rose beauty, eroticism, and the promise of utopia. Ana Carden-Coyne investigates the cultures of resilience and the institutions of reconstruction in Britain, Australia, and the United States. Immersed in efforts to heal the consequences of violence and triumph over adversity, reconstruction inspired politicians, professionals, and individuals to transform themselves and their societies. Bodies were not to remain locked away as tortured memories. Instead, they became the subjects of outspoken debate, the objects of rehabilitation, and commodities of desire in global industries. Governments, physicians, beauty and body therapists, monument designers and visual artists looked to classicism and modernism as the tools for rebuilding civilization and its citizens. What better response to loss of life, limb, and mind than a body reconstructed?

Book The Personality of Paris

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  • Author : Alan R. H. Baker
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-01-28
  • ISBN : 1350252654
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Personality of Paris written by Alan R. H. Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to the beginning of the Great War. Starting with the topographical and cultural legacies that late 18th-century Paris inherited from its foundation in pre-Roman and Roman times and from its medieval infancy and early-modern adolescence, The Personality of Paris unpacks the social and material complexity of the 19th-century city. It considers the role of immigration in the making of Parisians and in the city's growth from half a million in 1801 to almost three million in 1911. It examines the making of its distinctive landscape through the construction of monuments and architectural icons, through its massive re-modelling by Napoléon III and Baron Haussmann, through its five world exhibitions, through its emphasis on food, fashion and leisure, and through the ways in which Parisians sought rural release from urban pressure. Finally, the book considers the self-harm done to the person of 19th-century Paris by revolutions and wars and the damage inflicted on it by 20th-century hubristic politicians and architects.

Book A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema

Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema written by Alistair Fox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day. Features original contributions from top film scholars relating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema Includes new research on matters relating to the political economy of contemporary French cinema, developments in cinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, and renovation of theaters Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond the fiction film and the cinema-theater such as documentary, amateur, and digital filmmaking Contains an unusually large range of methodological approaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender, auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalytic studies Includes essays by important French cinema scholars from France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is here presented in English for the first time

Book Magill s Cinema Annual

Download or read book Magill s Cinema Annual written by Christine Tomassini and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2003-05-16 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magill's Cinema Annual provides comprehensive information on the theatrical releases of each year. Featured are extensive essays, cast and character listings, production credits, running time, country of origin, MPAA rating, nine comprehensive indexes and more.

Book The Exhibitor

Download or read book The Exhibitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some issues include separately paged sections: Better management, Physical theatre, extra profits; Review; Servisection.

Book Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the cinematic nature of vision

Download or read book Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the cinematic nature of vision written by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at artistic expressions that are often not directly related, such as art, dance, architecture and cinema. Ragghianti's study of cinema, the electronic image and art brings together a series of images under the heading "the art of vision". His theories have reinterpreted art history and continue to be relevant in the late 1990s. In this volume, architectural and set drawings, choreography sketches, theatrical maquettes, film and video installations are placed next to 200 works of major European artists of the 20th century.

Book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections

Download or read book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L Arca

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book L Arca written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The New Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on a variety of specific people, places, things, and ideas, arranged alphabetically in a twelve-volume micropaedia comprised of brief entries and a seventeen-volume macropaedia of in-depth articles, and includes illustrations, maps, and photographs, a two-volume index, and a topical guide to entries.

Book The Encyclopedia of Film

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Film written by James Monaco and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1991 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical reference on the major film figures (stars, producers, directors, writers, et al.), past and present. Each entry provides a substantial career biography and a complete listing of all films the individual has been involved with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The One Week Job Project

Download or read book The One Week Job Project written by Sean Aiken and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sean Aiken graduated from college, he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life—so he decided to try everything. Thus began the one-week job project, in which Sean would work a different job each week for a year. Sean's remarkable journey took him across North America working as a bungee jump operator, tattoo artist, aquarium guide, advertising executive, brewmaster, and cancer fundraiser. In each new job, he learned not only about himself but also about the people around him, finding out what drives people to choose a certain career, what makes them successful, and, more importantly, what makes them happy. Over the course of his year on the road, Sean learned more about work, friendship, love, and life than he ever imagined. This honest, hilarious, inspiring account is a must-read for anyone who’s ever asked themselves, “What should I do with my life?”

Book Magill s Cinema Annual

Download or read book Magill s Cinema Annual written by Michelle Banks and published by UXL. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magill's Cinema Annual provides comprehensive information on the theatrical releases of each year. Featured are extensive essays, cast and character listings, production credits, running time, country of origin, MPAA rating, nine comprehensive indexes and more.

Book Faces in the Crowd

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  • Author : Whitechapel Art Gallery
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Faces in the Crowd written by Whitechapel Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taking Edouard Manet as its starting point and moving through the work of major painters and sculptors such as Ensor, Boccioni, Duchamp, Kollwitz, Kirchner, Beckmann, Magritte, Picasso, Hopper, Warhol, Hamilton, Pistoletto, Richter, Acconci, Sherman, Schutte, Ofili and Kentridge, as well as photographers such as Atget, Brassai, Evans, Levitt, Arnold, Weegee, Giacomelli, Goldin and Keita, Faces in the Crowd traces a history of avant-garde figuration from the 1870s to today through the works of one hundred artists." "The great revolutions in twentieth century art tend to be associated with abstraction. Yet there is a parallel history, which is equally radical. Manet's vividly realist scenarios or Jeff Wall's cinematic tableaux offer a compelling pictorial illusion of the modern. By contrast, Edvard Munch or Francis Bacon present a tortured or exhilarated inner life. For Alexander Rodchenko, the figure can be an agent of social change, revolutionary transgressive or symbolic." "This catalogue accompanies the exhibition organised by the Whitechapel Gallery and the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Art     Basel

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 754 pages

Download or read book Art Basel written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Montmartre

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  • Author : Sue Roe
  • Publisher : Penguin Books
  • Release : 2016-04-19
  • ISBN : 0143108123
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book In Montmartre written by Sue Roe and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published: London: Fig Tree, [2014].

Book The New Encyclopaedia Britannica  Index

Download or read book The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: