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Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This volume interrogates the role of the manuscript medium in conveying history to medieval and early modern readers. The contributors adopt a capacious understanding of "history" to explore history-writing in its materiality from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. The core contentions of this book are that the material features of manuscripts helped shaping historical n…
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Partitioning Bazaar ArtPopular Visual Culture of India and Pakistan around 1947
Offers insight into the links between the development of print culture and the many dynamic strains of nationalism in dialogue during the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. How did inexpensive posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and succeeding the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947? If mechanically reproduced images that occupy public spaces re…
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Comida no cotidiano
Feijão bem temperado com arroz soltinho. Tapioca com queijo de coalho no ponto. Café acompanhado de um belo bolo de fubá. Deu água na boca? Comer é tão fundamental quanto respirar, como todos sabem. Mas não comemos apenas para sobreviver. Afinal, comida é também uma construção histórica e cultural. E como tal constitui uma das dimensões formadoras das identidades individuais e cole…
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The Artist ProjectTheories and Practices of the Contemporary Art Project 1968…
Possiamo parlare del progetto artistico come di una categoria specifica con un proprio statuto, riconoscibile e definibile? Considerando l'importanza che il documento e la documentazione hanno assunto nel sistema dell'arte dopo gli anni Sessanta, è lecito attribuire alla progettazione un valore specifico? Attraverso i contributi di sette ricercatori e la voce di otto protagonisti del mondo del…
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FantaIsies Erotiques
Au cours de ce voyage, nous rencontrerons une variété et une diversité de points de vue sur les mille métamorphoses de la sexualité. Elles nous montrent que rien n'est plus naturel que le désir sexuel, et qu'en même temps, rien n'est moins naturel que les formes sous lesquelles ce désir s'exprime et cherche son assouvissement. Cet ouvrage est une invitation à un voyage qui vous ouvrira…
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Conversations with Rick Veitch
From his roots in underground comics to his high-profile runs on mainstream characters, Rick Veitch (b. 1951) has carved out a career unlike anyone else's. Collecting thirteen interviews—including three published here for the first time— Conversations with Rick Veitch offers a wealth of insight not only into the development of Veitch's graphic innovations and metaphysical explorations, but …
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist's tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children's games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out pro…
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A Photographer's Impressions
Francesc Català-Roca (1922 - 1998), was a Spanish photographer of great renown, considered a pioneer of documentary photography. Català-Roca: A Photographer's Impressions stands as a testament to an analog era, now almost entirely wiped out with the advent of the Internet and digital technologies. His photographic legacy is an invaluable visual testimony of the Spanish society of his time…
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Pablo Picasso
Von Pablo Picasso erzählt man, er hätte zu zeichnen angefangen, noch bevor er sprechen konnte. Geboren wurde er in Málaga, und hier verbrachte er auch die ersten zehn Jahre seines Lebens. Von seinem Vater lernte Pablo die Grundlagen der akademischen Malkunst. Er besuchte eine Kunstschule in Barcelona und schrieb sich 1897 an der Kunstakademie in Madrid ein. Noch keine 18 Jahre alt, erreichte…
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Impresiones de un fotógrafo
Impresiones de un fotógrafo, memorias del fotógrafo Francesc Català-Roca (Valls 1922 – Barcelona 1998), es el testamento de un tiempo analógico, ya prácticamente extinguido después de la llegada de Internet y las tecnologías digitales. Su legado fotográfico es un testimonio visual inestimable de la sociedad española de su época. Pasados treinta años de su primera edición, los …
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