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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ulrike spring”
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  • Expeditions as Experiments

    Practising Observation and Documentation

    Edited by Marianne Klemun, Ulrike Spring ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Transforming Author Museums

    From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

    Edited by Johan Schimanski, Thea Aarbakke, Ulrike Spring ...
    Series Book 13 - Museums and Collections
    Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts, imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts, architectural concepts, and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    A Locational History of Berlin Fashion

    by Susan Ingram, Susan Ingram, Katrina Sark ...
    Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. Once home to emperors and dictators, peddlers and spies, it is now a fashion showplace that attracts the young and hip. Moving beyond descriptions of Berlin's fashion industry and its ready-to-wear clothing, Berliner Chic charts the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

    Edited by John Sandford ...
    With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world.With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD

  • Difficult Heritage

    Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond

    by Sharon Macdonald ...
    How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Palace Complex

    A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

    by Michal Murawski ...
    An exploration of the history and significance of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from ... Read more

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  • Dutch Design

    A History

    by Mienke Simon Thomas ...
    From the colourful abstraction of the Rietveld chair to the dry wit of the ‘milkbottle lamp’ by design cooperative Droog, modern design in the Netherlands has always been a hotbed of experimentation. Dutch designers have consistently pushed to the limits anything from posters to postage-stamps, home furnishings to street signage, ceramics to city airports. Indeed, in the last decade or so, Dutch ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960

    by Amy Bryzgel ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Counterpreservation

    Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

    by Daniela Sandler ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of Berlin. In this book, Daniela Sandler introduces the concept of counterpreservation as a way to ... Read more

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  • Cinema, Audiences and Modernity

    New perspectives on European cinema history

    Edited by Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby, Philippe Meers ...
    This book sheds new light on the cinema and modernity debate by confronting established theories on the role of the modern cinematic experience with new empirical work on the history of the social experience of cinema-going, film audiences and film exhibition.The book provides a wide range of research methodologies and perspectives on these matters, including:the use of oral history ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Narrative Architecture

    A Designer's Story

    by Sylvain De Bleeckere, Sebastiaan Gerards ...
    Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and designing, to give you an original view on our postmodern era and architectural culture. Authors Sylvain De Bleeckere and Sebastiaan Gerards outline the ideas of thinkers, such as Edmund Husserl, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, and Peter Sloterdijk, and ... Read more

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  • Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis

    Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges

    Edited by Charles Bohl, Jean-François Lejeune ...
    These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and its application to community building within today ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD