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Il latte delle immagini
La rappresentazione del nutrimento primordiale, il latte, si ipotizza possa costituire una delle sostanze elementari dell'iconofagia nell'arte. Dall'analisi della favola Il lupo e la volpe di La Fontaine, considerata dal punto di vista di un'originale finzione teorica, l'autore propone di osservare diverse opere – da Vincenzo Campi a Jeff Wall – permettendoci di delineare le principali ques…
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Food and Social MediaYou Are What You Tweet
Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people's lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion and branding. This entertaining narrative offers an historical account of the major changes brou…
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Cali, ciudad abiertaArte y cinefilia en los años setenta
El libro Cali, ciudad abierta. Arte y Cinefilia en los años setenta plantea un análisis de la producción artística y audiovisual realizada en Cali a partir del documental Oiga vea (1972) de Carlos Mayolo y Luis Ospina, el espacio independiente Ciudad Solar (1971-1977) y los dibujos del artista Ever Astudillo. Ante la acelerada transformación urbana que vivió Cali por los VI juegos panamer…
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Appetites and Aspirations in VietnamFood and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Cen…
In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam starts with the spread of Vietnamese imperial control from south to n…
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Ismos del siglo XXITextos para entender el arte actual
¿Cómo podemos comprender el arte más actual? Nuevos ismos del siglo XXI busca responder a esta pregunta proponiendo un particular reader que recoge 27 textos fundamentales de los más prestigiosos autores nacionales e internacionales. Organizado alrededor de seis ejes, precedidos de una introducción general, este libro plantea la existencia de nuevos ismos en el arte actual que reclaman…
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Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America
Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity—the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the young republic—William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren by aligning the incumbent with …
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Mesoamerican Narratives at the British MuseumAncient Writing, Contemporary Vo…
This bilingual book is the outcome of a research project undertaken between the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum and a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous archaeologists and activists from Mexico and Guatemala. The chapters include new interpretations of some written narratives in the Mesoamerican collection at the British Museum, as well a…
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Three World CuisinesItalian, Mexican, Chinese
The text begins with a comprehensive theory of cuisine in the introduction and moves to the parallel culinary histories of Italy, Mexico, and China: the independent domestication of crops in each, the social, political, and technological developments that gave rise to each cuisine, and cooking in both professional and home settings. It also compares the internal logic of the cooking style and t…
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Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook
The PIMS Yearbook is the annual yearbook of the International Panorama Council (IPC, Switzerland). It surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. Whereas the notion of the panoramic describes extensive, expansive and/or all-embracing vistas, immersion refers to porous interfaces between representation and the real, observer and observed, nature and cultur…
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Great SingersAn Endangered Species
This book supplies detailed explanations for young singers, teachers, and professional singers with "troubled" voices. Striny's previous book, Head First, discussed this process but without specific instructions to accomplish the task. This completely original process was conceived by Striny to correct major problems in his voice that had been caused by two separate voice teachers. The content …
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