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This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The pr…
Focuses on traditional monster art and its links to post-war animation, sequential art, and Japanese cinema by adapting Western art historical concepts and methodology
Islamic visual culture, 1100-1800
by Grabar, Oleg
fromConstructing the study of Islamic art
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Type: Book
The 25 previously published articles collected in this volume (the second of three) present an easily accessible means to the work of Grabar, one of the founders of the study of Islamic art, archaeology, and architecture in the US. Grabar, for decades at Harvard and now at Princ…
Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isometric, and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made b…
A study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. It also raises and explores issues of national identity, and provid…
Offers the arts student and others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments, as well as extending beyond them to critically engage with his radical notions of illusion, singularity and the fatal.
