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This book examines the historical and mythological themes in Giorgio Vasari’s Hall of the Elements paintings in the Palazzo Vecchio. It analyzes Vasari's contribution to history painting, his use of classical Antiquity, and the intricate relationship between patron and artist.
This book examines the historical and mythological themes in Giorgio Vasari’s Hall of the Elements paintings in the Palazzo Vecchio. It analyzes Vasari’s contribution to history painting, his use of classical Antiquity, and the intricate relationship between patron and artist.
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This book is an interpretive approach to understanding the power of theatrical works. It asks: Why does a work’s meaning vary? What are its stable components? It explains theatrical variability and interpretive stability, from text to reception.
This book is an interpretive approach to understanding the power of theatrical works. It asks: Why does a work’s meaning vary? What are its stable components? It explains theatrical variability and interpretive stability, from text to reception.
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Fundamentals of Digital Systems Design
A Guide for Students and GATE Preparation
This book offers a straightforward, fundamental understanding of the concepts required to design effective digital systems. It builds confidence with sample GATE questions, helping students prepare for competitive exams and excel on their own.
This book offers a straightforward, fundamental understanding of the concepts required to design effective digital systems. It builds confidence with sample GATE questions, helping students prepare for competitive exams and excel on their own.
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An Other Raphael
The Artist and Authority
In his famous “School of Athens,” an image of apparent harmony, Raphael included little-noticed motifs of discord. This aesthetics of fragmentation and combination is echoed throughout a career in which he crossed professional and medial boundaries, from painting to prints.
In his famous “School of Athens,” an image of apparent harmony, Raphael included little-noticed motifs of discord. This aesthetics of fragmentation and combination is echoed throughout a career in which he crossed professional and medial boundaries, from painting to prints.
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This book analyses the dramatic changes AI brings to film: from content production and distribution to audience engagement. Moving beyond virtual actors and AI-generated scripts, it discusses the opportunities, ethical challenges, and legal, cultural, and economic implications.
This book analyses the dramatic changes AI brings to film: from content production and distribution to audience engagement. Moving beyond virtual actors and AI-generated scripts, it discusses the opportunities, ethical challenges, and legal, cultural, and economic implications.
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Translating Horror
Shadows on the Page and Screen
This collection of essays examines the translation of horror in literature and cinema. Considering authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, this volume probes the boundaries between originals and their retellings, revealing how translation is part of the telling of horror.
This collection of essays examines the translation of horror in literature and cinema. Considering authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, this volume probes the boundaries between originals and their retellings, revealing how translation is part of the telling of horror.
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Augustus and the Romana Religio
A Time of Respect for Traditions and Changes
European specialists explore Roman religion under Emperor Augustus. His reforms did not break with the past, but recovered lost traditions. After his death and divinization, the new cult of emperors emerged, blending respect for tradition with new forms of official worship.
European specialists explore Roman religion under Emperor Augustus. His reforms did not break with the past, but recovered lost traditions. After his death and divinization, the new cult of emperors emerged, blending respect for tradition with new forms of official worship.
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The art market is often difficult to understand. Art historian Dr Ruth Polleit Riechert shares her method for assessing art and purchasing high-quality works at fair prices. Learn to recognize good art, which art is a suitable investment, and how new technologies can assist you.
The art market is often difficult to understand. Art historian Dr Ruth Polleit Riechert shares her method for assessing art and purchasing high-quality works at fair prices. Learn to recognize good art, which art is a suitable investment, and how new technologies can assist you.
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Explore contemporary design practices through humor, history, and technology. This book covers key aspects of interior architecture, from the adaptive reuse of historical buildings to sustainable approaches that utilize natural resources and enhance indoor environmental quality.
Explore contemporary design practices through humor, history, and technology. This book covers key aspects of interior architecture, from the adaptive reuse of historical buildings to sustainable approaches that utilize natural resources and enhance indoor environmental quality.
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The once-celebrated "Kerala Model" of development has crumbled under pressure. This book takes a new look at the statecraft through the lens of popular cinema, using melodrama to reveal the frictions and slippages that escape official histories and statistics.
The once-celebrated “Kerala Model” of development has crumbled under pressure. This book takes a new look at the statecraft through the lens of popular cinema, using melodrama to reveal the frictions and slippages that escape official histories and statistics.
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This study of rock paintings and engraved art throws light on the lives of prehistoric people. It analyses painted animal and human figures to reveal their society, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and economy, from subsistence strategies to celebrations.
This study of rock paintings and engraved art throws light on the lives of prehistoric people. It analyses painted animal and human figures to reveal their society, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and economy, from subsistence strategies to celebrations.
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Performing the Interview
Embodied Reflections and Data-Dramas
This book articulates a new method for the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create "Data-Dramas," capturing rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.
This book articulates a new method for the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create “Data-Dramas,” capturing rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.
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Space, Art and Architecture Between East and West
The Revolutionary Spirit
This timely volume looks beyond the West versus East binary to propose a conceptual revaluation that transcends ruptures. As ancient civilizations rebound, interdisciplinary specialists offer new paradigms to foster mutual communication and deeper global understandings.
This timely volume looks beyond the West versus East binary to propose a conceptual revaluation that transcends ruptures. As ancient civilizations rebound, interdisciplinary specialists offer new paradigms to foster mutual communication and deeper global understandings.
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Chinese Export Paintings
A Marketing Success Story
This book deciphers the formula for market success of Chinese export paintings, a unique and misunderstood East-meets-West art form. Dr Maria Mok reveals the tactical artistic decisions that made these paintings best-sellers for Western customers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This book deciphers the formula for market success of Chinese export paintings, a unique and misunderstood East-meets-West art form. Dr Maria Mok reveals the tactical artistic decisions that made these paintings best-sellers for Western customers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Artistic Research in Film and Philosophy
Transversal Interlacings
To face today's challenges, this anthology explores artistic research in film and its interlacings with philosophy. Contributions by filmmakers and theorists discuss topics from aesthetics to media technology, outlining a forward-looking research area.
To face today’s challenges, this anthology explores artistic research in film and its interlacings with philosophy. Contributions by filmmakers and theorists discuss topics from aesthetics to media technology, outlining a forward-looking research area.
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Beyond royal courts lies a rarely seen world: a folk Ramayana etched in stone on humble village temple walls. This pioneering work unveils these intricate plaques, a visual journey through the epic's seven Kandas and their masterfully sculpted stories.
Beyond royal courts lies a rarely seen world: a folk Ramayana etched in stone on humble village temple walls. This pioneering work unveils these intricate plaques, a visual journey through the epic’s seven Kandas and their masterfully sculpted stories.
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Things Said For, Against, and About Beauty
Critical Sources and Issues for a Lost Conversation
A corrosive energy gnaws at Western culture. This book looks to 2500 years of history, showing the power of beauty to shape and enrich our civilization. It asks if today's crises are rooted in the repression of beauty, and dares to suggest that "Beauty can save the world."
A corrosive energy gnaws at Western culture. This book looks to 2500 years of history, showing the power of beauty to shape and enrich our civilization. It asks if today’s crises are rooted in the repression of beauty, and dares to suggest that “Beauty can save the world.”
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The Patrimony of the Religious Orders in Spanish American Colonial Cities
Architecture and History
This book documents the historical and architectural patrimony of religious orders in Spanish American cities. It provides a visual record, historical information, and details on current use for specialists and a general audience.
This book documents the historical and architectural patrimony of religious orders in Spanish American cities. It provides a visual record, historical information, and details on current use for specialists and a general audience.
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Ocean Diffraction
Indigenous Practices, Quantum Theory, Electronic Art and the Anthropocene
This book maps Indigenous awareness onto Western science to address today's environmental and equality issues. A way forward is provided in Ngaru Whenua Ocean Diffraction, a decolonised framework uniting the Māori wave pattern for navigation with the science of diffraction.
This book maps Indigenous awareness onto Western science to address today’s environmental and equality issues. A way forward is provided in Ngaru Whenua Ocean Diffraction, a decolonised framework uniting the Māori wave pattern for navigation with the science of diffraction.
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Performing Crisis
Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence
This book re-examines crisis and its presentation in theatre from diverse scholarly perspectives. It explores how artists use performance to negotiate identity, reimagine crisis, and facilitate survival, offering a theoretical and artistic inquiry into how we confront our times.
This book re-examines crisis and its presentation in theatre from diverse scholarly perspectives. It explores how artists use performance to negotiate identity, reimagine crisis, and facilitate survival, offering a theoretical and artistic inquiry into how we confront our times.
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