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Differences (Hardcover): Robert Dickerson Differences (Hardcover)
Robert Dickerson
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Slim kuns - Die opvolg van kitskuns (Paperback): Angie Franke, Monique Day-Wilde Slim kuns - Die opvolg van kitskuns (Paperback)
Angie Franke, Monique Day-Wilde
R95 R88 Discovery Miles 880 Save R7 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Kombineer weggooigoed en optelgoed met konvensionele kunsmateriaal en omskep dit in uitstalgoed! Leer hoe om met dryfhout, herwinde blikkies en ander metaal- en glashouers, asook alledaagse items soos botteldoppies en gebruikte teesakkies kunswerke te skep wat in die beste galerye vertoon kan word. Vir beeldhoumateriaal is daar klei, draad en papierpap, gekombineer met boumateriaal soos sement, en handwerkelemente soos krale en goudblad, alles uniek en skeppend gekombineer. Die foto's van elke voltooide projek, aangevul deur duidelik geillustreerde stap-vir-stap aanwysings en verdere idees sal ongetwyfeld die kunstenaar in elke handwerker wakker maak en na 'n verfkwas laat gryp.

Holbein (Hardcover): Beatrice Fortescue Holbein (Hardcover)
Beatrice Fortescue
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Nose Art by Lucas (Hardcover): Gregory Joseph Borowski Nose Art by Lucas (Hardcover)
Gregory Joseph Borowski
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tilt (Hardcover): Brian C Nixon Tilt (Hardcover)
Brian C Nixon
R1,004 R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Save R147 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Visual Culture (Hardcover, 2nd Edition): Richard Howells, Joaquim Negreiros Visual Culture (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)
Richard Howells, Joaquim Negreiros
R2,072 Discovery Miles 20 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a revised, expanded, and updated edition of the highly successful Visual Culture. Like its predecessor, this new version is about visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students and other interested readers to the analysis of all kinds of visual text, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television or new media forms. The book is illustrated with examples that range from medieval painting to contemporary advertising images, and is written in a lively and engaging style. The first part of the book takes the reader through differing theoretical approaches to visual analysis, and includes chapters on iconology, form, art history, ideology, semiotics and hermeneutics. The second part shifts from a theoretical to a medium-based approach and comprises chapters on fine art, photography, film, television and new media. These chapters are connected by an underlying theme about the complex relationship between visual culture and reality. New for the second edition are ten more theoretically advanced Key Debate sections, which conclude each chapter by provoking readers to set off and think for themselves. Prominent among the new provocateurs are Kant, Baudrillard, Althusser, Deleuze, Benjamin, and Foucault. New examples and illustrations have also been added, together with updated suggestions for further reading. The book draws together seemingly diverse approaches, while ultimately arguing for a polysemic approach to visual analysis. Building on the success of the first edition, this new edition continues to provide an ideal introduction for students taking courses in visual culture and communications in a wide range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, art and design.

Absinthe - A Biographical Novel of Edgar Degas (Hardcover): John P. Roach Jr. Absinthe - A Biographical Novel of Edgar Degas (Hardcover)
John P. Roach Jr.
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Edgar Degas the Realist Artist with his contemporaries including, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cesanne, Cassatt, Morrisot, Pissaro and others rebelled from the harsh criticism of the Salon Judges. These artists started their own breakthrough in art called the "Impressionist School." Mary Cassatt and American Painter living in Paris befriends Edgar Degas and leads us through this story of a revolution in art involving challenge, rejection, dedication and ultimately world fame.

Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives (Hardcover): Gregory Minissale Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives (Hardcover)
Gregory Minissale
R4,088 Discovery Miles 40 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Framing Consciousness in Art" examines how the conscious mind enacts and processes the frame that both surrounds the work of art yet is also shown as an element inside its space. These 'frames-in-frames' may be seen in works by Teniers, Vela zquez, Vermeer, Degas, Rodin, and Cartier-Bresson and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Bun uel. The book also deals with framing in a variety of cultural contexts: Indian, Chinese and African, going beyond Euro-American formalist and aesthetic concerns which dominate critical theories of the frame. "Framing Consciousness in Art "shows how the frames-in-frames in these different contexts question notions of vision and representation, linear time, conventional spatial coordinates, binaries of 'internal' consciousness and 'external' world, subject and object, and the precise anatomy of mental states by which we are meant to carve up the territory of consciousness. The phenomenological experience of art is certainly as important as the folk psychology which scientists and philosophers use to taxonomise ordinary first-person modes of subjectivity. Yet art excels in configuring the visual field in order to articulate and sustain a complex network of higher-order thoughts structuring art and consciousness.

Modern design in jewellery and fans (Hardcover): Charles Holme Modern design in jewellery and fans (Hardcover)
Charles Holme
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Contemporary Art Impacts on Scientific, Social, and Cultural Paradigms - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover): Janez... Contemporary Art Impacts on Scientific, Social, and Cultural Paradigms - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover)
Janez Strehovec
R3,981 Discovery Miles 39 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Art is a concept that has been used by researchers for centuries to explain and realize numerous theories. The legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was a profound artist and a genius inventor and researcher. The co-existence of science and art, therefore, is necessary for global appeal and society's paradigms, literacy, and scientific movements. Contemporary Art Impacts on Scientific, Social, and Cultural Paradigms: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of present post-aesthetic art and its applications within economics, politics, social media, and everyday life. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as media studies, contemporary storytelling, and literacy nationalism, this book is ideally designed for researchers, media studies experts, media professionals, academicians, and students.

And the Meek Shall Inherit Earth (Hardcover): Ghazali Kho And the Meek Shall Inherit Earth (Hardcover)
Ghazali Kho
R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Press Me (Hardcover): Dawn McLaren Press Me (Hardcover)
Dawn McLaren
R1,021 Discovery Miles 10 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Art and Adaptability - Consciousness and Cognitive Culture (Hardcover): Gregory F. Tague Art and Adaptability - Consciousness and Cognitive Culture (Hardcover)
Gregory F. Tague
R3,823 Discovery Miles 38 230 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Art and Adaptability argues for a co-evolution of theory of mind and material/art culture. The book covers relevant areas from great ape intelligence, hominin evolution, Stone Age tools, Paleolithic culture and art forms, to neurobiology. We use material and art objects, whether painting or sculpture, to modify our own and other people's thoughts so as to affect behavior. We don't just make judgments about mental states; we create objects about which we make judgments in which mental states are inherent. Moreover, we make judgments about these objects to facilitate how we explore the minds and feelings of others. The argument is that it's not so much art because of theory of mind but art as theory of mind.

Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture (Hardcover): Hackforth-Jones Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
Hackforth-Jones
R3,277 Discovery Miles 32 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Edges of Empire" is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism.
Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes
Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial studies
Highlights contested identities and new definitions of self through topics such as 19th century monuments to Empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice.

Gifts from Jerusalem Jews to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchs - Identities, Otherness, and Belonging (Hardcover): Lily Arad Gifts from Jerusalem Jews to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchs - Identities, Otherness, and Belonging (Hardcover)
Lily Arad
R3,017 Discovery Miles 30 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Presentations of offerings to the emperor-king on anniversaries of his accession became an important imperial ritual in the court of Franz Joseph I. This book explores for the first time the identity constructions of Orthodox Jewish communities in Jerusalem as expressed in their gifts to the Austro-Hungarian Kaisers at the time of dramatic events. It reveals how the beautiful gifts, their dedications, and their narratives, were perceived by gift-givers and recipients as instruments capable of acting upon various social, cultural and political processes. Lily Arad describes in a captivating manner the historical narratives of the creation and presentation of these gifts. She analyzes the iconography of these gifts as having transformative effect on the self-identification of the Jewish communities and examines their reception by the Kaisers and in the Austrian and the Palestinian Jewish press. This groundbreaking book unveils Jewish cultural and political strategies aimed to create local Eretz-Israel identities, demonstrating distinct positive communal identification which at times expressed national sentiments and at the same time preserved European identification.

Re-Presentations of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Portrayals in Fiction, Drama, Music, and Film (Hardcover, New): Lisa Dallape Matson Re-Presentations of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Portrayals in Fiction, Drama, Music, and Film (Hardcover, New)
Lisa Dallape Matson
R2,288 Discovery Miles 22 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book examines the treatment of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work in twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, drama, music, and film, specifically since 1950. The author uses these genres to examine how text, music, performance, and visual images work as a system of representation. In this book, the author strives to clarify the many Dante Gabriel Rossettis, using thirteen of the thirty easily identifiable roles in this system of representation which the author has identified herself-roles by which Rossetti is described and portrayed. The identified portrayals of Rossetti fall easily into five groupings: first, the Italian-English man who is a brother and a loyal friend; second, the poet who is a painter and co-founder of an art movement which afforded him the chance to be a mentor; third, the lover, seducer, husband, oppressor; fourth, the murderer; and fifth, the tortured artist and addict who was mentally ill. These are the portrayals are used throughout this work. Several have chronological boundaries and are discrete representations while others reoccur across the time period covered. Using these categories, the author examines seven works of prose fiction, a feature-length film, two television series, a stage play, and the songs and lyrics of a contemporary band.

Secrets of the Art Millionaires (Hardcover): Durva Gandhi Secrets of the Art Millionaires (Hardcover)
Durva Gandhi
R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wild Zones - Pornography, Art and Feminism (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Kelly Ives Wild Zones - Pornography, Art and Feminism (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Kelly Ives
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Kelly Ives explores the worlds sexual representation in art and pornography, from a feminist viewpoint.

The book includes chapters on the depiction of sexuality in art, from contemporary art and pornography back through the Renaissance to prehistory; on the problematic relations between showing sexuality and censorship; the history of porn; and women's art and how women artists have depicted sexual acts and identities.

Fully illustrated, with images from the history of representing sexuality from prehistory to the present day.

Includes notes and bibliography.

KELLY IVES has written widely on feminism, philosophy and art. Her previous books include Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: The Jouissance of French Feminism, Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous.

EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION

Firstly, there are as many definitions of art and pornography as there are people. Everyone has their own opinions, their own interests and realms to defend. There are the liberals who say that nothing should be censored, including pornography. Pornography is seen as part of artistic expression, and if people want to express themselves, they should, and if they want pornography, they should have it. This is the view of liberals such as Peter Webb, who campaigns for freedom of expression, and an art that should 'celebrate' eroticism. This is a familiar viewpoint, which we have heard made many times. In the (male) liberal view, sex is OK, so sexual art must be OK, so that much of pornography must be OK. The 'experts' on sex, the so-called 'sexologists' (Eduard Fuchs, Richard von Krafft-Ebbing, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich) argue that sex is a normal part of life, so it is natural that it should abound in art. Fuchs wrote; ' a]rt has treated erotic themes at almost all periods... it] lies at the root of all human life.'

Everyone seems to have their cut-off points, however, their 'standards' of 'taste' and 'decency'. It's a very subjective business, the debates between art and pornography, and between pornography and censorship. As Wendy Moore writes: ' c]ensorship like freedom is an entirely subjective term'. What you like defines yourself. As Pierre Bourdieu put it: ' t]aste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.'

Taste, choice, categorization and classification, then, defines the viewer, the reader, the consumer. Censorship, you might say, defines the culture. And 'sensitive' novelists are wary of writing 'sex scenes', because they know that what they write defines themselves. Yet sex is crucial to art, many artists say. As Gertrude Stein wrote: ' l]iterature - creative literature - unconnected with sex is inconceivable.'

Crisis - The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes (Hardcover): Sascha Bru, Kate Kangaslahti, Li Lin, Iveta Slavkova,... Crisis - The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes (Hardcover)
Sascha Bru, Kate Kangaslahti, Li Lin, Iveta Slavkova, David Ayers
R3,842 Discovery Miles 38 420 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism, reflecting the often turbulent nature of their development. Throughout their history, the avant-garde and modernists have both confronted and instigated crises, be they economic or political, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. The seventh volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies addresses the myriad ways in which the avant-garde and modernism have responded and related to crisis from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. How have Europe's avant-garde and modernist movements given aesthetic shape to their crisis-laden trajectory? Given the many different watershed moments the avant-garde and modernism have faced over the centuries, what common threads link the critical points of their development? Alternatively, what kinds of crises have their experimental practices and critical modes yielded? The volume assembles case studies reflecting upon these questions and more from across all areas of avant-garde and modernist activity, including visual art, literature, music, architecture, photography, theatre, performance, curatorial practice, fashion and design.

Feminist Art in Resistance - Aesthetics, Methods and Politics of Art in Turkey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Elif Dastarli, F.... Feminist Art in Resistance - Aesthetics, Methods and Politics of Art in Turkey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Elif Dastarli, F. Melis Cin
R3,300 Discovery Miles 33 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book provides a thorough interdisciplinary analysis of the ways in which artists have engaged with political and feminist grassroots movements to characterise a new direction in the production of feminist art. The authors conceptualise feminist art in Turkey through the lens of feminist philosophy by offering a historical analysis of how feminism and art interacts, analysing emerging feminist artwork and exploring the ways in which feminist art as a form opens alternative political spaces of social collectivities and dissent, to address epistemic injustices. The book also explores how the global art and feminist movements (particularly in Europe) have manifested themselves in the art scenery of Turkey and argues that feminist art has transformed into a form of political and protest art which challenges the hegemonic masculinity dominating the aesthetic debates and political sphere. It is an invaluable reading for students and scholars of sociology of art, gender studies and political sociology.

Faith Rising-Between the Lines (Hardcover): David B Bowman Faith Rising-Between the Lines (Hardcover)
David B Bowman
R827 R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dance Spreads Its Wings - Israeli Concert Dance 1920-2010 (Hardcover): Ruth Eshel Dance Spreads Its Wings - Israeli Concert Dance 1920-2010 (Hardcover)
Ruth Eshel
R2,735 Discovery Miles 27 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily life, including "What do we dance?" because Hebrew or Eretz-Israeli dance had to be created out of none. How and why did dance develop in such a way? Dance Spreads Its Wings is the first and only book that looks at the whole picture of concert dance in Israel studying the growth of Israeli concert dance for 90 years-starting from 1920, when there was no concert dance to speak of during the Yishuv (pre-Israel Jewish settlements) period, until 2010, when concert dance in Israel had grown to become one of the country's most prominent, original, artistic fields and globally recognized. What drives the book is the impulse to create and the need to dance in the midst of constant political change. It is the story of artists trying to be true to their art while also responding to the political, social, religious, and ethnic complexities of a Jewish state in the Middle East.

The Art of the French Bulldog - A Most Celebrated Breed (Hardcover): Gary Bachman The Art of the French Bulldog - A Most Celebrated Breed (Hardcover)
Gary Bachman
R1,832 Discovery Miles 18 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Creative Unity (Hardcover): Rabindranath Tagore Creative Unity (Hardcover)
Rabindranath Tagore
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Integrating Art and Creativity into Business Practice (Hardcover): Giovanni Schiuma, Antonio Lerro Integrating Art and Creativity into Business Practice (Hardcover)
Giovanni Schiuma, Antonio Lerro
R4,271 Discovery Miles 42 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Adaptability and sustainability are key factors in the success of any business in modern society. Developing unique and innovative processes in organizational environments provides room for new business opportunities. Integrating Art and Creativity into Business Practice is a key reference source for the latest scholarly research on the tools, techniques, and methods pivotal to the management of arts and creativity-based assets in contemporary organizations. Highlighting relevant perspectives across a myriad of topics, such as organizational culture, value creation, and crowdsourcing, this book is ideally designed for managers, professionals, academics, practitioners, and graduate students interested in emerging processes for entrepreneurship and business performance.

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