Author : Byron P. Palls
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1434388670
Provides basic factual information in summary as well as short summaries of cultural practices of each country such as family structure, gender roles, proxemics, caveats, education, numbers, time, name structure, diet, body language, punctuality and other cultural patterns.
Author : Taína Caragol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691203288
Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.
Author : Keith H. Basso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 1979-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521295932
Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans.
Author : Sarah Blackwood
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781469652610
"Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. ... images of human surfaces became understood as expressions of human depth during this era. Combining visual theory, literary close reading, and in-depth archival research, Blackwood examines portraiture's changing symbolic and aesthetic practices, from daguerreotype to X-ray. Considering painting, photography, illustration, and other visual forms alongside literary and cultural representations of portrait making and viewing, Blackwood argues that portraiture was a provocative art form used by writers, artists, and early psychologists to imagine selfhood as hidden, deep, and in need of revelation, ideas that were then taken up by the developing discipline of psychology"--
Author : Brooke BAKER-BATES
Publisher : Visual and Material Culture
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2021-07-28
Category :
ISBN : 9789463725514
The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, often by well-known artists and skilled craftsmen. Yet cardinal portraits have primarily been analysed within biographical studies of the represented individual, in relation to the artists who created them, or within the broader genre of portraiture. No more profound investigation of these as a specific category of object has ever been attempted. This volume addresses questions surrounding the production, collection, and status of the cardinal portrait, covering diverse geographies and varied media. Examining the development of cardinals' imagery in terms of their multi-layered identities, this volume considers portraits of 'princes of the Church' as a specific cultural phenomenon reflecting cardinals' unique social and political position.
Author : Jessica L. Fripp
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1644532026
Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from and generated new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and display of portraits alongside discussions of friendship in philosophical and academic discourse, exhibition criticism, personal diaries, and correspondence. This study provides a deeper understanding of how artists took advantage of changing conceptions of social relationships and used portraiture to make visible new ideas about friendship that were driven by Enlightenment thought. Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
Author : Carla De Bernardi
Publisher : Youcanprint
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 8831683632
Photoceramic developed in France in 1854 as a decorating technique for pottery. Soon, it was employed to realize accurate enamel portrait miniatures for the living and to represent the dead by adorning their gravestones and tombs with evocative portraits. Even though photoceramics may be regarded as a minor art when compared to funerary masterpieces of great artists, nonetheless it is an important piece of a country’s cultural heritage. Images allow to retrace habits and customs of the past and present, and even changes in fashion or lifestyle, and are an important legacy to future generations.
Author : Jorge Coronado
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0822982994
Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. As Jorge Coronado reveals, these images offer a powerful counterpoint to the often-slanted, predominant view of indigenismo produced by the intellectual elite. Photography offered an inexpensive and readily available technology for producing portraits and other images that allowed lower- and middle-class racialized subjects to create their own distinct rhetoric and vision of their culture. The powerful identity-marking vehicle that photography provided to the masses has been overlooked in much of Latin American cultural studies—which have focused primarily on the elite's visual arts. Coronado's study offers close readings of Andean photographic archives from the early- to mid-twentieth century, to show the development of a consumer culture and the agency of marginalized groups in creating a visual document of their personal interpretations of modernity.
Author : John Peffer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253008727
Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of photography, the social and political implications of changing technologies for portraiture, and the lasting effects of culture on the idea of the person depicted in the photographic image.
Author : Hatty Nestor
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789040035
Prisons systematically dehumanise the imprisoned. Visualised through mugshots and surveillance recordings, the incarcerated lose control of their own image and identity. The criminal justice system in the United States does not only carry out so-called justice in ways that compound inequality, it also minimises the possibility for empathetic encounters with those who are most marginalised. It is therefore urgent to understand how prisoners are portrayed by the carceral state and how this might be countered or recuperated. How can understanding the visual representation of prisoners help us confront the invisible forms of power in the American prison system? Ethical Portraits investigates the representation of the incarcerated in the United States criminal justice system, and the state’s failure to represent those incarcerated humanely. Through wide-ranging interviews and creative nonfiction, Hatty Nestor deconstructs the different roles of prison portraiture, such as in courtroom sketches, DNA profiling, and the incarceration of Chelsea Manning.
