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RakugoPerforming Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo
An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary performance culture: the image, training and techniques of the storytellers, the venues where they perform, and the role …
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Dante e le arti
eDossier: una collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile e accessibile. Occuparsi di Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) significa, potenzialmente, mettere mano all'intero corpo dei saperi medievali; spaziare fra lingua, letteratura, teologia, storia e scienza; confrontarsi – sul piano artistico – con op…
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Black Art in BrazilExpressions of Identity
Kimberly Cleveland highlights the work of five Brazilian artists from all over the country who work in a wide range of media, including photography, sculpture, and installation art. She shows how each conveys "blackness" through his or her unique visual vocabulary and points out the ways this reflects their lived experiences.
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Vincent Van GoghA Life
Published on the hundredth anniversary of Van Gogh's death, this is the first full-length biography of this undying man in twenty years and surely the most comprehensive account to date. Mr. Callow treats more searchingly than any previous work the development of Van Gogh's genius and his emergence as an artist after early struggles to find a vocation, first in the world of art dealing and late…
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Caillebotte
eDossier: una collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile e accessibile. Gustave Caillebotte (Parigi 1848 - Gennevilliers 1894) tra gli impressionisti era quello ricco. Di buona famiglia, nutriva e coltivava interessi estremamente vari, dal canottaggio all'ingegneria, dall'orticoltura ai viaggi e alla pittura. Eccellev…
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Fanning the FlamesPropaganda in Modern Japan
Japan's Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in …
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Klee as in Clay
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Andrea del Sarto
eDossier: una collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile e accessibile. A Firenze il Cinquecento esordisce con alcune tendenze riformatrici, rispetto alla grande stagione quattrocentesca, che porteranno a Pontormo, al Rosso Fiorentino e al manierismo. Insieme ai tre grandi nomi impegnati a dare un volto al nuovo secol…
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Afro-Cuban Religious ArtsPopular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espir…
This book profiles four generations of women from one Afro-Cuban religious family. From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1890s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, these women were connected by their prominent roles as leaders in the religions they practiced and the dramatic ritual artwork they created. Each woman was a medium in Espiritismo—communicating with dead ance…
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Anthony Van Dyck
Blake, an author living in London, explains that the impetus for this biography of the great Dutch painter came from his own connection in childhood to a painting purchased by his grandmother
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