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Arts Fine Life Photography Study - HOME Arts Fine Life Photography Study Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art by Jodi Cobb, X Here, brought vividly to life, is an icon of Japanese culture and custom--the geisha in her role as human work of art and perfect woman. A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there are a thousand at most. Happily, Jodi Cobb is able to show us--before they vanish--both the ceremonial world of the geisha in Tokyo and Kyoto and their private world as few outsiders have ever seen it. Many of ...

Asian Classics Companion Guide Oriental Study - HOME Asian Classics Companion Guide Oriental Study Asian Art: Great Works from Japan, China and India by Berenice Geoffrey-Schneiter, A visually stunning tour of the artistic achievements of Asian civilization, Asian Art highlights the greatest works of the Orient. Spanning an eclectic range of imagery, from the aesthetically classic to the intrinsically modern, Asian Art introduces the reader to the subtle beauty of Japanese screen painting, the elegance of Chinese calligraphy and the sensuality of Indian goddesses. The author, an archaeologist, historian and writer, has studied and traveled throughout the Far East. ...

In Medieval Music Renaissance Study - HOME In Medieval Music Renaissance Study The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader by Keith Whitlock, This series of three course texts and two anthologies, published in association with the Open University, under the title The Renaissance: A Cultural Enquiry, explores the Renaissance from the perspectives of history, literature, drama, religion, the history of art, philosophy, music, and political thought. Three of the books are published now; two more volumes will be published in the fall of 2000. Together the books provide students and general readers with an unprecedented analysis of this vital period. How important was the Renaissance in ...

Canto in Literature Medieval Renaissance Study - HOME Canto in Literature Medieval Renaissance Study Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded by the feminine in these texts, other, less articulated values implied by the feminine, and the role of the classical tradition in communicating those values. The examination of women both as subjects and as rhetorical constructions in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature sheds light on the larger dialogue about feminism occurring throughout the humanities. In addition, the inclusion of a new body of texts and ...

Proportion Art - HOME Proportion Art Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry by John Milner, During 1915, in the midst of the war years that preceded the Russian Revolution, Kazimir Malevich devised and displayed a completely unprecedented geometric style of painting that he called Suprematism. By the 1920s, geometric art had become an international phenomenon. John Milner examines Malevich's art of geometry by looking at its sources of inspiration, its methods and its meanings and, arguing persuasively that it is based on obsolete Russian units of measurement rather than the decimal system, has found ...

Arts Entertainment Performing - HOME Arts Entertainment Performing Certain Fragments: Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment by Tim Etchells, Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged to be 'Britain's most brilliant experimental theatre company' (The Guardian), Certain Fragments investigates the processes of devising performance, the role of writing in an interdisciplinary theatre, and the influence of the city on contemporary art practice. Tim Etchells' unique and provocative voice shifts from intimate anecdote to critical analysis and back again. As in his theatre-making, Etchells disrupts traditional notions of creative, academic and intellectual work. The book is an exciting and radical fusion of story-telling and criticism. ...

Antique Art Print - HOME Antique Art Print Myth and Metamorphosis: Picasso's Classical Prints of the 1930's by Lisa Florman, Previous studies of Picasso's involvement with the classical have tended to concentrate on the period immediately following the First World War, and to attribute that involvement to both the rise of political conservatism in France and the domesticating influence of the artist's marriage to Olga Koklova. Focusing instead on the later, classicizing prints of the 1930s, this book offers a radically different view of Picasso and the "classical"--a view that aligns his ...

Composition Design Geometry in Proportion Study - HOME Composition Design Geometry in Proportion Study Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition by Kimberly Elam, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition Study design - A Study design is a way to set up an epidemiological investigation, as a form of clinical trial. Computational geometry - In computer science, computational geometry is the study of algorithms to solve problems stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and the study of such problems is also considered to be part of computational ...

Arts Music Style Classical - HOME Arts Music Style Classical Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven by Philip Downs, X The latest volume in the Norton Introduction to Music History series focuses on the rise and decline of the Classical style, which flourished from the middle of the eighteenth century to the second decade of the nineteenth. The author demonstrates the enormous diversity and constant change that characterized music and musical life during this period. Downs eschews the usual stylistic labels, such as Rococo and High Classic, and instead organizes the text into short time ...

Study in Medieval and Renaissance Literature - HOME Study in Medieval and Renaissance Literature Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded by the feminine in these texts, other, less articulated values implied by the feminine, and the role of the classical tradition in communicating those values. The examination of women both as subjects and as rhetorical constructions in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature sheds light on the larger dialogue about feminism occurring throughout the humanities. In addition, the inclusion of a new body of texts and ...

Classical Greek - HOME Classical Greek Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek by James Morwood, The Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek gives clear, concise, and easily understood explanations of all the key points of Classical Greek grammar. With additional features such as a glossary of grammatical terms, a vocabulary list covering all the Greek words found in the main text, study tips, and practice exercises to help develop knowledge and gain confidence, this invaluable resource ensures that students will have all the support they need to complement their language learning. The Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek also ...

Entertainment Performing Arts - HOME Entertainment Performing Arts Certain Fragments: Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment by Tim Etchells, Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged to be 'Britain's most brilliant experimental theatre company' (The Guardian), Certain Fragments investigates the processes of devising performance, the role of writing in an interdisciplinary theatre, and the influence of the city on contemporary art practice. Tim Etchells' unique and provocative voice shifts from intimate anecdote to critical analysis and back again. As in his theatre-making, Etchells disrupts traditional notions of creative, academic and intellectual work. The book is an exciting and radical fusion of story-telling and criticism. ...

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Art Art China History in Oxford - HOME Art Art China History in Oxford The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists by Ian Chilvers, Based on the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Art, this is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western art--from ancient Greece to the present day. For this third edition, new entries have been added on younger, contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, and Rachel Whiteread, and the existing entries have been thoroughly revised and updated. With over 2,500 entries, arranged in A-Z order for ease of reference, this is ...

Monumental Art and Sculpture - HOME Monumental Art and Sculpture Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua by Matthew G. Looper, "This is a significant contribution to the field. . . . Quirigua, although well-studied archaeologically, has not received this kind of single dedicated study of monuments. . . . This is not because the site and its art are unimportant; as this study amply demonstrates, the artwork of the site is of great significance within the gamut of Classic Maya art."--Rosemary A. Joyce, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, BerkeleyThe ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan ...

Arts Music Style Folk - HOME Arts Music Style Folk The Cambridge Companion to Chopin by Jim Samson, For a century and a half Chopin's music has been played incessantly, yet the spell remains, and the 'Chopin recital', whoever the pianist, still fills the concert halls. This Companion is designed to provide the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style that recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, between the popular and the significant. On the uniqueness of that style there has long been agreement. One of the aims of this Companion is ... Chopin's most 'epic' statements (chapter 5) as well as his most 'epigrammatic' (chapter 6). There is an account of his relation to Polish folk music in the dance pieces (chapter 7) and there is a fresh look at one of the more controversial aspects of his art, his handling of the sonata (chapter 8). Several facets of the afterlife of Chopin's music are examined in part 3. There is reception through performance (chapter 9), reception through criticism (chapters 10 and 11) and reception through compositional influence (chapters 11 and 12). As ...

Arts Photography Visual - HOME Arts Photography Visual The Aesthetics of Comics by David Carrier, X From Gary Larson's The Far Side to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of depicted characters. Art historians have studied visual artifacts from every culture; cultural historians have recently paid close attention to movies. Yet the comic strip, an art form known to everyone, has not yet been much studied by aestheticians or art historians. This is the first full-length philosophical ...

Small Art Sculpture - HOME Small Art Sculpture Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua by Matthew G. Looper, "This is a significant contribution to the field. . . . Quirigua, although well-studied archaeologically, has not received this kind of single dedicated study of monuments. . . . This is not because the site and its art are unimportant; as this study amply demonstrates, the artwork of the site is of great significance within the gamut of Classic Maya art."--Rosemary A. Joyce, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, BerkeleyThe ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in ...

Proportion in Art - HOME Proportion in Art Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry by John Milner, During 1915, in the midst of the war years that preceded the Russian Revolution, Kazimir Malevich devised and displayed a completely unprecedented geometric style of painting that he called Suprematism. By the 1920s, geometric art had become an international phenomenon. John Milner examines Malevich's art of geometry by looking at its sources of inspiration, its methods and its meanings and, arguing persuasively that it is based on obsolete Russian units of measurement rather than the decimal system, has ...

Contemporary Film Music Music Soviet Study - HOME Contemporary Film Music Music Soviet Study Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema by Birgit Beumers, This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s. It introduces readers to the currents and common interests of contemporary Russian cinema, offers close studies of the work of filmmakers like Sokurov, Muratova and Astrakhan, reviews the Russian film industry in a period of massive economic transformation, and assesses cinema's function as a definer of Russia's new identity. Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is ...

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Sculpture Garden - HOME Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Sculpture Garden Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Ken Kiff by Andrew Lambirth, Among British artists during the second half of the twentieth century, Ken Kiff displays one of the most individual and distinctive styles. His paintings and drawings in various media -- pastel, charcoal, watercolor -- are often characterized by fantastic flights of the imagination, inspired by such artists as Klee and Miro. Most notable of all is the extensive range of small acrylic paintings on paper (almost 200 in total ...

Art Art Early History Medieval Oxford - HOME Art Art Early History Medieval Oxford Dictionary of Women Artists: 2 Volumes by Delia Gaze, From Kauffman to Kollwitz, Ende to Edelson, Abakanowicz to Zurn, from the 10th century to the 20th, from Australia to Eastern Europe, Scandinavia to Latin America, England and France to the United States and Canada, the Dictionary of Women Artists provides information about some 550 painters, sculptors, and photographers as well as women whose work is in the applied arts. The book deals with women who have worked or are working in the Western tradition of art, ...

Arts Guernsey Visual - HOME Arts Guernsey Visual The Aesthetics of Comics by David Carrier, From Gary Larsons The Far Side to George Herrimans Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of depicted characters. Art historians have studied visual artifacts from every culture; cultural historians have recently paid close attention to movies. Yet the comic strip, an art form known to everyone, has not yet been much studied by aestheticians or art historians. This is the first full-length philosophical ...

Comic Book Art Wallpaper - HOME Comic Book Art Wallpaper Reading Comics: Language, Culture and the Concept of the Superhero in Comic Books by Mila Bongeo, This study explores how the definition of the medium, as well as its language, readership, genre conventions, and marketing and distribution strategies, have kept comic books within the realm of popular culture. Since comics have been studied mostly in relation to mass media and its influence on society, there is a void in the analysis of the critical issues related to comics as a distinct genre and art form. By focusing on ...

Classical Music Code - HOME Classical Music Code Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture by Cynthia Erb, Drawing upon recent reception and cultural theories as well as production and archival documents, Tracking King Kong examines the King Kong figure in a range of cultural contexts and institutional settings. The recent successes of Jurassic Park and The Lost World have refocused attention on the films of the prehistoric monster genre, the most famous of which is the 1933 classic, King Kong. From that film emerged the beast who has become a virtual icon in American and world culture, repeatedly reanimated in advertisements, parodies, political cartoons, sequels, musical theater, and other texts. Cynthia Erb contends that King Kong's enduring cultural value has derived from ...

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