Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674551633
The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.
Author : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892363339
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.
Author : Eileen Woodhead
Publisher : National Historic Sites Parks Service Environment Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Over the past decade the Metal Unit of the Material Culture Section, Archaeology Research Division, Canadian Parks Service, has maintained a reference file identifying marks found on metal artifacts. This document is a selection of marks on file that relate primarily to tableware items, from the late 18th century to about 1900.
Author : Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 905356635X
Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer: the Berlin artist Harun Farocki has devoted his life to the power of images. Over the thirty-plus years of his career, Farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds us in newspapers, cinema, books, television, and advertising. Harun Farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast oeuvre, which includes three feature films, critical media pieces, children’s television features, “learning films” in the tradition of Brecht, and installation pieces. Interviews, a selection of Farocki’s own writings, and an annotated filmography complete a valuable biography of this pioneering artist and his legendary career.
Author : J. Dudley Andrew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 1984-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0198020511
Concepts in Film Theory is a continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories. In writing now about contemporary theory, Andrew focuses on the key concepts in film study -- perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the current state of film theory, Andrew goes on to build an overall view of film, presenting his own ideas on each concept, and giving a sense of the interdependence of these concepts. Andrew provides lucid explanations of theories which involve perceptual psychology and structuralism; semiotics and psychoanalysis; hermeneutics and genre study. His clear approach to these often obscure theories enables students to acquire the background they need to enrich their understanding of film -- and of art.
Author : Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781950268948
A contemporary and authentically designed translation of one of Stéphane Mallarmé's most famous poems.
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Page : 1896 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Microcards
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Libraries
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Author : Christophe Traïni
Publisher : Protest and Social Movements
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Animal rights
ISBN : 9789089648495
From the beginning of the 19th century to the present day, a host of campaigners have denounced the mistreatment of animals. Relying on a comparison of the British and French experiences, this book retraces the various strands of the animal protection movement, from their origins to their continuing impact on current debates. The story of the collective mobilizations behind the struggle for animal rights sheds light on several crucial processes in our social and political history: changes in sensibilities and socially approved emotions; the definition of what constitutes legitimate violence; the establishment of norms designed to change what constitutes morally acceptable practices; rivalry between elites having differing conceptions of the forms authority should take; the influence of religious belief on militant activities; and the effects of gender discrimination.--
Author : R. McCormick
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780312293024
Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label 'New Objectivity'. The 'New Objectivity' was characterized by a sober and unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contract to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in 'auratic' art. This movement was profoundly gendered - the epitome of the 'New Objectivity' was the 'New Woman' - working, sexually emancipated, and unsentimental. The book traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.
