The arts: general issues (370)

publisher: SANTOS FILIPE JOAO ESTEVES ALVES DOS
year: 2018
description:“Acordar Dentro de um Sonho”, é um diário de memórias escritas na primeira pessoa, onde Filipe Santos contas as histórias dos bastidores da Operação Triunfo1 (RTP1). Com o prefácio escrito por Catarina Furtado, “Acordar Dentro de um Sonho” é um livr...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to suc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacious in its ramifications for contemporary life, the term 'performance' here unlocks Adorno's dialecti...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics. The book broaches a wide spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, mathematics and creator algorithms, neurosciences of artistic creati...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conve...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, an...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investigates the role of photography, fine art, architectu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description: Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification....

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Ch...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and lo...