Contemporary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Linda Brassington
Indigo and Resist Dyeing

Contemporary textile artist and researcher Linda Brassington provides an unexpected and expansive critical perspective on the practices, meanings and heritage of a global textile technique. Drawing connec…

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Doug Bailey, Simon Callery
Disrupting Archaeology and Art

Interdisciplinary and provocative study between an archaeologist and an artist discussing the disciplines' principles, while providing ways to rethink archaeology, the visual arts and the two subjects' sh…

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Meng Xia
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Draw…

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Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America

This book provides an inclusive and intersectional look into television from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Each of the essays, written by international scholars across various disciplines, offe…

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Katie Barnett,
Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Film

Siblings are everywhere in film, but their place in cinema has largely gone unstudied. This book turns attention to the brother-sister dynamic on screen and the many ways it shapes how stories are told.Sc…

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Denisa Tomková,
Empowering Aesthetics

The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the post-soci…

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Bérengère Primat, Jean Hubert Martin
Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods

This book argues that globalisation challenges the Western idea of art and explores how different cultures express spirituality through art. Text in English and French.Globalization has forced us to stop …

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Kenneth Brophy
The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World

This book offers a timely roadmap for navigating the material and intangible legacies of prehistory with which we live today.Drawing on a series of global case-studies, field observations and real-world s…

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Francis Chia Hui Lin
Contemporary Asian Architecture in a Postcolonial Context

Offering a broader understanding of contemporary architecture and urbanism in Asia, Francis Chia Hui Lin raises questions from 'non-conventional' ('non-Western') perspectives that can adapt and enrich con…

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Kenneth Brophy
The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World

This book offers a timely roadmap for navigating the material and intangible legacies of prehistory with which we live today.Drawing on a series of global case-studies, field observations and real-world s…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Walter Dean Myers
Handbook for Boys

In the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the rules for success for young men, especially those…

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Luise Guest
Invisible Ink

Reassesses the contribution of women artists to the field of contemporary Chinese art with an in-depth account of five artists who reference the traditional form of ink and brush painting to subvert exist…

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Virág Molnár
Marketing Radicalism

The commodification and marketing of nationalism in a populist-governed countryMost accounts of populist politics revolve around political parties, electoral politics, eroding democratic institutions, med…

lieferbar ab 13.10.2026.

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Dave Karger
50 Movie Nights

Dave Karger, Turner Classic Movies host and film expert, leads compelling and unexpected discussions with stars such as Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sterling K. Brown, Tom Ford, Ca…

lieferbar ab 15.9.2026.

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Sarah Berry,
Staging the Lyric

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Ca…

lieferbar ab 25.6.2026.

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Elyse Speaks
Women, Making, and Everyday Value in Contemporary Installation Art

What can art offer as it extends beyond aesthetic categories and their boundaries? Examining the work of three major American contemporary artists, Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze, this book …

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Iván de la Nuez,
Theory of the Rearguard

"Theory of the Rearguard examines how contemporary art is in tension with survival, rather than in relation to life. In the twentieth century, Peter Bèurger's Theory of the Avant-Garde was a cult boo…

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Ousseynou Wade, Célestin Koffi Yao,
More Than Meets the Eye

Discover a century of African art, from its emergence to today's global success, driven by an ancestral vision and modern expression.The Swiss family-owned banking group CBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique …

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Elyse Speaks
Women, Making, and Everyday Value in Contemporary Installation Art

What can art offer as it extends beyond aesthetic categories and their boundaries? >Feminist art practice has long invested in the shape, routines, and materials of everyday life but the 1990s saw a si…

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