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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alexandre farnoux”
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  • Hellenomania

    Edited by Katherine Harloe, Nicoletta Momigliano, Alexandre Farnoux ...
    Series series British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
    Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume design, painting, sculpture, cinema, and the performing arts. It examines both canonical and less familiar responses to both real and imagined Greek ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Cretomania

    Modern Desires for the Minoan Past

    Edited by Alexandre Farnoux ...
    Series series British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
    Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among other things, by its appearance and uses in a variety of modern cultural practices: from the innovative dances of Sergei Diaghilev and Ted Shawn, to public and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning ... Read more

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  • Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design

    by Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, Geoffrey Broadbent ...
    This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions. The author discusses `picturesque' and `formal' tendencies in modern architecture, relating them to parallels between philosophic thought and design ... Read more

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  • Erotic Art

    (Grove Art Essentials)

    by Peter Webb ...
    Series series Grove Art Essentials Series
    Derived from eros, the Greek word for human, physical love, the term ‘Erotic Art’ encompasses the artistic expression of sexuality throughout human history. In this fully illustrated volume, Grove Art Essentials presents a global survey of erotic art from ancient civilizations to the Western art historical cannon, the arts of Asia, and the Islamic world. Beneath the overarching banner of eroticism ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • 1000 Monuments of Genius

    by Christopher E.M. Pearson ...
    Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for centuries demonstrated his force by raising structures for purposes both religious and profane. As international cultural statements without words, symbols of a peoples values devotion, patriotism, power ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Theatre

    by Alain Badiou ...
    In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the ‘Theses on Theatre’ and enquires into the status of a theatre that would be adequate to our ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Vermeer’s Wager

    Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums

    by Ivan Gaskell ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Vermeer’s Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practised, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • Chora 5

    Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

    by Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Stephen Parcell ...
    Series Book 5 - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
    Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History

    Edited by David Wiles, Christine Dymkowski ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history. The diverse international team of contributors investigates how theatre history has been constructed, showing how ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration

    Edited by Mary D. Sheriff ...
    Series series Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
    Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped the visual arts of Europe in fundamental ways between 1492 and the early twentieth century ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • On Altering Architecture

    by Fred Scott ...
    Bringing together interior design and architectural theory, this exciting text looks at the common practices of building alteration, reconsidering established ideas and methods, to initiate the creation of a theory of the interior or interventional design.Fred Scott examines in-depth case studies of interventional design from architectural history across the world – examples discussed are taken ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD