Art forms (108)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book offers a clear, accessible account of the American litigation over the restitution of works of art taken from Jewish families during the Holocaust. For the past two decades, the courts of the United States have been an arena of conflict ove...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapp...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, r...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Die polnische Plakatschule des 20. Jh. genießt internationales Ansehen und polnische Plakate sind selbstverständlicher Bestandteil renommierter Kunstinstitutionen, wie etwa dem MoMa in New York. Die Untersuchung fokussiert erstmalig die Bedeutungsdim...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:The title of this book describes the two extremes of ceramic invention from aesthetically beautiful and decorative works of art that graced the tables of the aristocracy to the functional silica brick that lined the smelting furnaces of industrialise...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artis...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: “the suspended now”. Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and cinema; the ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book provides insight into the significant area of public art and memorials in Berlin. Through diverse selected examples, grouped according to their basic character and significance, the most important art projects produced in the period since W...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of these trenchant stereotypes and looks at how they play out in the home and ...