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Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private…
life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose to portray relations between Christians and Muslims. Drawing on a wide variety of literary genres as well as other textual and visual sources – including historical chronicles, travel memoirs, captives’ testimonies, and paintings – Catherine Infante traces the references to religious visual culture and the responses they incited in cross-confessional negotiations. She reveals some of the anxieties about what it meant to belong to different ethnic or religious communities and how these communities interacted with each other within the fluid boundaries of the Mediterranean world. Focusing on the religious image as a point of contact between individuals of diverse beliefs and practices, The Arts of Encounter presents an original and necessary perspective on how Christian-Muslim relations were perceived and conveyed in print.Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
By Nancy L. Kelker. 2021
Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate…
the arts in a global world. It offers an in-depth, contextual exploration of the art from the larger world beyond the European tradition, including painting, sculpture, pottery, graphic arts, and architecture of Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, from the Neolithic to the Contemporary. All new print and electronic versions of Art of the Non-Western World come with access to a full suite of engaging digital learning tools.Study Guide for The Codes Guidebook for Interiors
By Katherine E. Kennon, Sharon K. Harmon. 2022
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE CODES GUIDEBOOK FOR INTERIORS The comprehensive study guide for understanding interior codes This revised and updated…
eighth edition of the Study Guide for the Codes Guidebook for Interiors is an essential companion to The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, the industry’s reference of choice. It offers complete coverage of the major codes and standards that apply to interior projects. This Study Guide includes lists of terms, practice questions, practical application exercises, code tables, and checklists. This companion study guide is a comprehensive measure of a designer’s understanding and application of codes for interior projects. It can help design students learn and practitioners keep their skills up to date and prepare for the NCIDQ and ARE exams. It is vital that designers and architects have an up-to-date working knowledge of the various codes involved with building interiors, whether during renovation or new construction, and this study guide offers the opportunity to: Study with many new questions, in both the short answer and application sections Review the key terms of the industry Use the practice questions and exercises to test working knowledge of codes Utilize the code tables during the design process Employ the numerous checklists on proposed and real life projects to ensure complete compliance The revised Study Guide is a useful companion to The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, the essential reference for all interior professionals. For the designer, architect, or student, the Study Guide for The Codes Guidebook for Interiors is a must-have resource.Conflict Graffiti: From Revolution to Gentrification
By John Lennon. 2022
This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict—important tools of political resistance that…
make protest visible and material. Graffiti makes for messy politics. In film and television, it is often used to create a sense of danger or lawlessness. In bathroom stalls, it is the disembodied expression of gossip, lewdness, or confession. But it is also a resistive tool of protest, making visible the disparate voices and interests that come together to make a movement. In Conflict Graffiti, John Lennon dives into the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones—ranging from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Egypt, to the tourist-attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall and the street art that has rebranded Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but as the conflict subsides a new graffiti and street art scene emerges—often one that ushers in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anesthetized forgetting. Graffiti has an unstable afterlife, fated to be added to, transformed, overlaid, photographed, reinterpreted, or painted over. But as Lennon concludes, when protest movements change and adapt, graffiti is also uniquely suited to shapeshift with them.Conflict Graffiti: From Revolution to Gentrification
By John Lennon. 2022
This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict—important tools of political resistance that…
make protest visible and material. Graffiti makes for messy politics. In film and television, it is often used to create a sense of danger or lawlessness. In bathroom stalls, it is the disembodied expression of gossip, lewdness, or confession. But it is also a resistive tool of protest, making visible the disparate voices and interests that come together to make a movement. In Conflict Graffiti, John Lennon dives into the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones—ranging from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Egypt, to the tourist-attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall and the street art that has rebranded Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but as the conflict subsides a new graffiti and street art scene emerges—often one that ushers in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anesthetized forgetting. Graffiti has an unstable afterlife, fated to be added to, transformed, overlaid, photographed, reinterpreted, or painted over. But as Lennon concludes, when protest movements change and adapt, graffiti is also uniquely suited to shapeshift with them.Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
By Jason Whittaker, Elizabeth Potter. 2022
This edited collection delves into the industrial music genre, exploring the importance of music in (sub)cultural identity formation, and the…
impact of technology on the production of music. With its roots as early as the 1970s, industrial music emerged as a harsh, transgressive, and radically charged genre. The soundscape of the industrial is intense and powerful, adorned with taboo images, and thematically concerned with authority and control. Elemental to the genre is critical engagement with configurations of the body and related power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this collection analyses the treatment of subjects like the Body (animal, human, machine), Noise (rhythmic, harsh) and Power (authority, institutions, law) in a variety of industrial music’s elements. Throughout the collection, these three subjects are interrogated by examining lyrics, aesthetics, music videos, song writing, performance and audience reception. The chapters have been carefully selected to produce a diverse and intersectional perspective, including work on Black industrial musicians and Arabic and North African women’s collaborations. Rather than providing historical context, the contributors interpret the finer elements of the aesthetics and discourses around physical bodies and power as expressed in the genre, expanding the ‘industrial’ boundary and broadening the focus beyond white European industrial music.2019 International Bamboo Construction Competition: From the Concepts to the Realized Pavilions (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering)
By Zhi Li, Kewei Liu, Cristoforo Demartino, Qinghui Liu, Yan Xiao. 2022
This volume builds upon the 2019 International Bamboo Construction Competition (IBCC 2019) from the Concepts to the Realized Pavilions. Several designed…
projects are described, and particular attention is devoted to the realized prototypes. It also presents the Bamboo Eye, an important example of architecture realized by INBAR for the 2019 Beijing Horticultural Expo. As such, the volume provides an overview of the use of bamboo poles and engineered bamboo products for temporary and normal constructions, and represents a compact review of the applications of bamboo poles and/or engineered bamboo products in the construction industry. This book will be of interest for researchers, architects and structural engineers in field of bamboo constructions.La decadencia de la mentira
By Oscar Wilde. 1930
Una defensa del arte por el arte clave para descubrir el pensamiento y la estética de Oscar Wilde. El arte…
ha caído en la cárcel del realismo y ha perdido toda la libertad creativa. Y, para huir de este culto a los hechos, es necesario reivindicar el papel de la mentira y el artificio en las obras. Mediante un diálogo repleto de paradojas y de la ironía característica del autor, Oscar Wilde evidencia la necesidad de escapar de toda intención moralizadora en la obra artística. Puesto que no hay nada más real que el arte, este debe existir por sí mismo y evitar ser un reflejo de una realidad que no haría más que corromperlo. «Oscar Wilde tiene el poder de transformar el ensayo en ficción.» Luis Antonio De VillenGrace Kelly
By Cristina Morató. 2019
Cristina Morató ofrece una fascinante mirada, más allá de la leyenda, de una mujer atravesada por el deseo de la…
emancipación. Grace Kelly es para el imaginario colectivo un mito dorado. Elegante y sensual a partes iguales, su recuerdo evoca el Hollywood que nunca volverá y el cuento donde por fin la doncella consigue ser princesa. Más allá del lujo y del glamour, de Hitchcock y James Stewart, de la corte, el protocolo y el palacio, Gracia de Mónaco fue una mujer real, vulnerable, tímida, sometida a los mandatos paternos, que solo deseaba libertad. Libertad para vivir independientemente, para experimentar su sexualidad, para escoger su carrera, para amar. Pero el amor, aunque a algunos sorprenda, le fue esquivo y su vida estuvo marcada por la soledad, los desengaños, la abnegación y el desasosiego. Cristina Morató nos descubrió el lado más humano de las grandes estrellas en Divas de Hollywood. Hoy Flash selecciona el capítulo dedicado a Grace Kelly para ahondar en el que fue el papel más ingrato y difícil de su carrera: ser mujer. «Tuve que alejarme de lo que había sido Grace Kelly, y me resultó muy duro. Pero no podía ser dos personas a la vez, una actriz norteamericana y la esposa del príncipe de Mónaco. Entonces, durante un tiempo, perdí mi identidad». Grace Kelly De Divas Rebeldes se dijo:«Cristina Morató sigue fiel a su empeño en profundizar en grandes mujeres de leyenda».El Mundo «Un interesante libro que descubre aspectos inéditos de siete mujeres que pisaron fuerte y dejaron huella por su personalidad y su trabajo».El Periódico de Catalunya De Divina Lola se dijo:«La escritora Cristina Morató ha recreado la asombrosa historia de la que conocemos como Lola Montes en un libro de corte biográfico que hace honora la desmesura y pasión de su existencia y que se lee, y en este caso no es ninguna frase hecha, como una novela».Jacinto Antón, El País «Divina Lola es en efecto una biografía, pero está escrita en clave de novela. Solo curtidas escritores como Morató consiguen que las costuras entre ambos géneros no se noten hasta poner en pie una narración apasionante, subyugante, para leer de una sentada».Manuel Mateo Pérez, El Mundo De Cautiva en Arabia se dijo:«Una historia digna de conocerse, en el mejor catálogo de mujeres audaces y adelantadas de su tiempo».Qué leerThe Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences
By Deborah Lynn Porter. 2022
This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for…
the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution. The centrality in Chinese culture of a deep reverence for the lives of preceding generations, filial piety, is conventionally attributed to Confucius (551-479 B.C.), who viewed hierarchical family relations as foundational for social order. Here, Porter argues that Confucian conceptions of filiality themselves evolved from a systemized set of behaviors and thoughts, a mental structure, which descended from a specific Neolithic mindset, and that this psychological structure was contoured by particular emotional conditions experienced by China’s earliest farmers. Using case study analysis from Neolithic sky observers to the dynastic cultures of the Shang and Western Zhou, the book shows how filial piety evolved as a structure of feeling, a legacy of a cultural predisposition toward particular moods and emotions that were inherited from the ancestral past. Porter also brings new urgency to the topic of ecological grief, linking the distress central to the evolution of the filial structure to its catalyst in an environmental crisis. With a blended multidisciplinary approach combining social neuroscience, cultural evolution, cognitive archaeology, and historical analysis, this book is ideal for students and researchers in neuropsychology, religion, and Chinese culture and history.Roy Hart (Routledge Performance Practitioners)
By Bernadette Sweeney, Kevin Crawford. 2022
Roy Hart’s revolutionary work on the human voice through extended vocal technique and the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition has influenced several generations…
of practitioners. Hart’s outstanding contribution to vocal research, practice and performance stretched over 20 years until his untimely death in 1975, and his vocal training produced performers with extraordinary and highly expressive vocal ranges. He founded a theatre company, Roy Hart Theatre, that brought his ideas to realisation in ground-breaking works. His influence, through his own use of the voice for theatre and music and its embodiment in his company, was widespread, attracting the interest of directors such as Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski and Jean-Louis Barrault. This book combines: a detailed biography giving the social and artistic context of Hart’s work and that of the early Roy Hart Theatre an exploration of Hart’s own writings on his work, combined with a review of articles by his wife Dorothy Hart and in-depth interviews a stylistic analysis of his key works, including The Bacchae, and, L'Economiste and Biodrame, and their critical reception pathways into some of the practical exercises devised by close collaborators of Roy Hart and practitioners of the Roy Hart Theatre Tradition. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design
By Peter Dedek. 2022
The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design explores the history of interior decorating and design from the late nineteenth century to…
the present, highlighting the careers and contributions of significant American female interior designers who were instrumental in the creation of the field of residential and commercial interior design in the United States. This book explores how interior design emerged as a distinct, paying occupation in the nineteenth century thanks to a growing middle class and an increase in available cheap household goods following the Industrial Revolution. Focusing primarily on the period from 1905 to 1960, it addresses the complex relationships among professionals in the design fields, the social dynamics of designer-client relationships, and how class, culture, and family influenced their lives and careers. The book emphasizes significant female interior decorators and writers on design including Candace Wheeler, Elsie de Wolfe, Edith Wharton, Nancy McClelland, Ruby Ross Wood, Dorothy Draper, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Sister Parish, all of whom are underrepresented in the historical record, relating their stories within the context of the history of design and architecture. This book is an ideal and concise resource for students and faculty of interior design and women’s history.Adopting an evidence-based approach, this book uses two state-of-the-art experimental studies to explore nature’s therapeutic benefits in healthcare environments, emphasizing…
how windows and transparent spaces can strengthen people–nature interactions. High-quality, supportive, and patient-centred healthcare environments are a key priority for healthcare designers worldwide, with ageing populations creating a demand for remodeled and updated facilities. The first study demonstrates individual psychophysiological responses, moods, and preferences in simulated hospital waiting areas with different levels of visual access to nature through windows, while the second experiment uses cutting-edge immersive virtual reality techniques to explore how gardens and nature views impact people’s spatial cognition, wayfinding behaviors, and experience when navigating hospitals. Through these studies and discussions drawing on architectural theory, the book highlights the important benefits of having access to nature from hospital interiors. This concise volume will appeal to academics and designers interested in therapeutic landscapes and healthcare architecture.Mitigating Climate Change: Proceedings of the Mitigating Climate Change 2021 Symposium and Industry Summit (MCC2021) (Springer Proceedings in Energy)
By David S.-K. Ting, Ahmad Vasel-Be-Hagh. 2022
This book includes the proceedings of the Mitigating Climate Change 2021 Symposium and Industry Summit (MCC2021), which brings together research…
from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges, sharpen existing solutions, and formulate cutting-edge means to mitigate climate change. It highlights the need to create sustainable measures at all fronts including adaptation, policy, finance, renewable energy, solar, wind, thermoelectric, green transportation, and sustainable healthcare. This symposium will disseminate the state-of-the-art breakthroughs and promote collaborations to maximize opportunities for innovative solutions.This volume explores how and why we deny, or manipulate, or convert, or enhance reality. Finding it important to come…
to terms with reality, with what is there before us, and, with reality however defined, to live responsibly, this collection takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to examining the idea that history, the truth, facts, and the events of the present time can be refashioned as prismatic, theatrical, something we can play with for agendas either noble or ignoble. An international team of contributors considers the issue of how and why, in dealing what is there before us, we play with reality by employing theatre, fiction, words, conspiracy theories, alternate realities, scenarios, and art itself. Chapters delve into issues of fake news, propaganda, virtual reality, theatre as real life, reality TV, and positive ways of refashioning and enhancing your own reality. Drawing on examples from film studies to sociology, from the social sciences to medicine, this volume will appeal to scholars and upper-level students in the areas of communication and media studies, comparative literature, film studies, economics, English, international affairs, journalism, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theatre.Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)
By David Houston Jones. 2022
David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader…
field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art, as well as photography. Contemporary work in these areas responds both to forensic evidence, including crime scene photography, and to some of the assumptions underpinning its consumption. It asks how we look, and in whose name, foregrounding and scrutinising the enduring presence of voyeurism in visual media and instituting new forms of ethical engagement. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. It displays an enduring debt to the discursive model of testimony which has so far been insufficiently recognised, and which forms the basis for a new ethical understanding of the forensic. Jones’s analysis brings this methodology to bear upon a strand of contemporary visual activity which has the power to significantly redefine our understandings of the production, analysis and deployment of evidence. Artists examined include Forensic Architecture, Simon Norfolk, Melanie Pullen, Angela Strassheim, John Gerrard, Julian Charrière, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras and Sophie Ristelhueber. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, literary studies, modern languages, photography and critical theory.Forging Architectural Tradition: National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century (Explorations in Heritage Studies #4)
By Dragan Damjanović, Aleksander Łupienko. 2022
During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries.…
Such edifices, be they churches, castles, chapels or various other buildings, were not only admired for their aesthetic values, but also for the role they played in ancient times, and their role as reminders of important events from the national past. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.Claim Me: Book 2: Stark Trilogy (Stark Series #4)
By J. Kenner. 2013
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and the Crossfire series. In Release Me, powerful multimillionaire Damien Stark made Southern…
belle Nikki Fairchild an unforgettable indecent proposal which she couldn't resist. Now their sensual, erotic, powerfully emotional romance continues in Claim Me, the next in J. Kenner's New York Times bestselling series.For Damien, our obsession is a game. For me, it is fiercely, blindingly, real.Damien Stark's need is palpable - his need for pleasure, his need for control, his need for me. Beautiful and brilliant yet tortured at his core, he is in every way my match. I have agreed to be his alone, and now I want him to be fully mine. I want us to possess each other beyond the sweetest edge of our ecstasy, into the deepest desires of our souls. To let the fire that burns between us consume us both. But there are dark places within Damien that not even our wildest passion can touch. I yearn to know his secrets, yearn for him to surrender to me as I have surrendered to him. But our troubled pasts will either bind us close...or shatter us completely.Spellbinding romance. Electrifying passion. Why not indulge in J. Kenner...Discover the whole story of Damien and Nikki's epic romance in J. Kenner's hot and addictive bestselling Stark series: Release Me, Claim Me, Complete Me, Take Me, Have Me, Play My Game, Seduce Me, Unwrap Me, Deepest Kiss, Entice Me and Anchor Me.(P)2013 Headline DigitalHandbuch Filmsoziologie
By Alexander Geimer, Rainer Winter, Carsten Heinze. 2021
Der Band greift filmsoziologische Fragestellungen in ihren vielfältigen Facetten auf, die von renommierten Wissenschaftler*innen bearbeitet werden. In Überblicksartikeln wird ein…
Einblick in die zentralen Themenfelder eröffnet. Im ersten Kapitel werden historische Wurzeln und Traditionen am Beispiel bedeutender Filmsoziolog*innen dargestellt und so ein historischer Abriss zu Themen und Problemen der Filmsoziologie gegeben. Im zweiten Kapitel werden theoretische Perspektiven der Filmsoziologie behandelt, im dritten Kapitel verschiedene Methodologien vorgestellt. Das vierte Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit einzelnen Themen des Films und Genreanalysen. Das fünfte Kapitel widmet sich in Abgrenzung zum fiktionalen Film dem dokumentarischen Film in Theorie und Geschichte. Das sechste Kapitel stellt aktuelle Bezugsfelder der Filmsoziologie dar und öffnet Perspektiven für den interdisziplinären Austausch.Spirals and Vortices: In Culture, Nature, and Science (The Frontiers Collection)
By Stefan C. Müller, Kinko Tsuji. 2019
This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature.…
Spiral forms have been used as elements in the arts for thousands of years, whereas their role in nature and science – from DNA and sea shells to galaxies – is still a topic of investigation in numerous fields. Following an introduction to the cultural history of spiral forms, the book presents contributions from leading experts, who describe the origins, mechanisms and dynamics of spirals and vortices in their special fields. As a whole the book provides a valuable source of information, while also taking the reader on an aesthetic and scientific journey through the world of spiral forms.