This volume assembles studies by prominent scholars on Thebes in the First Millennium BC. It investigates royal and elite monuments of the Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Periods, providing new perspectives on their art, architecture, texts, and conservation.
This book addresses ideological changes of the 19th-21st centuries and their impact on Spanish language and culture. It focuses on ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions, arguing that the vision of the other is ultimately a reflection of the self.
Emblems and Impact Volume II
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
This book reviews art throughout the ages to find the origin of religion in the relationship between art and ritual. A psychoanalytic perspective identifies the creative process as the prototype for the concept of death and resurrection that underpins religious belief.
This book explores how 1990s criticism reshaped the cinematic portrayal of Turkey’s Early Republican Period. It examines how historical films about the Republic’s founding were influenced by a new scrutiny of nationalism and the previously untouchable ideals of the era.
This manual provides a unique database documenting the evolution of the voice. Based on over 1,000 phonetograms from professional voice users, it offers an objective way to evaluate vocal capacities and provides practical cues for voice education and therapy.
This volume moves beyond the deadlock between war’s inevitability and peace as a naïve chimera. Drawing from the humanities, these essays examine war not just as a destructive force but as a catalyst for creative expression, exploring themes of exile, memory, and resistance.
An Other Raphael
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.
Things Said For, Against, and About Beauty
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.”
Performing Crisis
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.
Fundamentals of Digital Systems Design
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 reflects current discussions of the ways collaboration and participation inform the production, study, and teaching of art with innovative and unexpected results. It illustrates how the shifting boundaries of power, position, and identity result in new relationships.
Kam Women Artisans of China
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
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.
Space, Art and Architecture Between East and West
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.
Augustus and the Romana Religio
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.
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 study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
Symbols in Arts, Religion and Culture
Abbaszadeh discusses how we learn about our human nature and how we fit into the larger scheme of life and spirit. She argues that we do this by understanding how our ancestors, through art, symbol and myth, expressed their relationship with the natural world.
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