Artists have always experimented with the potentials film, video and digital technology. 'Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art' highlights the challenges these new multimedia works pose to the traditional ways of collecting, preserving and exhibiting art. In addition, it outlines…
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This essay traces the unfolding visual biography of the Sacred Heart, showing how imagery and visual practice document the history of the devotion and the remarkable range of its evolution.
Since infancy we humans have had a high perceptual sensitivity to both the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music. It is, as far as we know, a uniquely human talent for perceiving, interpreting and appreciating music, dating as far back before words were spoke…
"New technological media such as film, photography and computers have altered the way we perceive possible relations between stillness and motion in the visual arts. Traditionally, cinema theory saw cinema and especially the 'illusion of motion' as part of the ideological swindl…
Examines original documents from Amsterdam's Orphan Chamber, analyzing the profiles of buyers of art by auction.
Examines original documents from Amsterdam's Orphan Chamber, analyzing the profiles of buyers of art by auction.
Explores the emergence of cinema as a primary medium of artistic production, offering an in-depth inquiry into its genesis, its defining features, and its ramifications. Erika Balsom also tackles cinema studies' great disciplinary obsession--namely, what cinema was, is, and will…
Explores the emergence of cinema as a primary medium of artistic production, offering an in-depth inquiry into its genesis, its defining features, and its ramifications. Erika Balsom also tackles cinema studies' great disciplinary obsession--namely, what cinema was, is, and will…
Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, "Puerto Rico Is in the Heart"examines the emigration, labor, and political experiences of documentary photographer, human rights activist, and Puerto Rican community leader Frank Espada. The first-ever chronicle of Fr…
We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and exp…
Canada in the Frame
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Canada in the Frame explores a photographic collection held at the British Library that offers a unique view of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Canada. The collection, which contains in excess of 4,500 images, taken between 1895 and 1923, covers a dynamic per…
"In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse -- the "Second City of the Empire"--A substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, T…
"In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse -- the "Second City of the Empire"--A substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, T…
"In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse -- the "Second City of the Empire"--A substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, T…
On mirrors!: philosophy, art, organization
by Peters, Luc, Yue, Anthony R.
fromSeries Schwung
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This is a book about mirrors, philosophy, art and organization. It arises from the recognition that we are caught in the mirror. We are under its spell and enchanted by its reflections. Mirrors direct us without our awareness, largely because we do not perceive them as mirrors. …
This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project 2Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung3 [2Byzantine epigrams on objects3]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project 2Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung3 [2Byzantine epigrams on objects3]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project "Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung" ["Byzantine epigrams on objects"]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project "Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung" ["Byzantine epigrams on objects"]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…