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Photopoetry 1845-2015
From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. Photopoetry 1845-2015, a Critical History represents the first account of this challenging and diverse body of work. Nott traces the development of photopoetic …
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Fermentation
This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on fermentation, with historical information, scientific descriptions, instructions of practical application, and many other related aspects. "Fermentation" will be of considerable utility to those with a keen interest in brewing beer and ale at home and would make for a worthy addition to any collections of allied literature. Contents include…
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Dancing with the NationCourtesans in Bombay Cinema
Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women in Hi…
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- 9781501334436
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A Selection of Recipes for Making Home-Made Fruit and Flower Wines
This book contains a fantastic collection of recipes for the making of delicious fruit and flower wines. With a wide variety of recipes available, including 'Cranberry Wine', 'Apple Wine', 'Apple and Raisin Wine', 'Apricot Wine', 'Barley Wine', Bramble Tip Wine', Bullace Wine', 'Ginger Beer', 'Sloe Gin' and 'Dandelion Wine'. This unusual book is invaluable to any home-brewer. This book contains…
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Picturing the Beautiful GameA History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art
The world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as "the beautiful game" for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art is the first collection to examine the rich visual culture of soccer, including the fine arts, design, and mass media. Covering a range of topics related to the game's imagery, this volume inve…
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Fashioning the CityParis, Fashion and the Media
While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies of the French capital, this original and illuminating book focuses on how the French fashion press - with its rich conjunction of words and images - has been able to construct Paris as a leading worl…
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Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities: increasingly accessible to tourists…
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Helen FrankenthalerPainting History, Writing Painting
This extraordinary examination of the work of 'colour field' painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about the artist, whose work has been burdened by its label as 'the bridge between Pollock and what was possible'. Trained as a painter, Alison Rowley brings a keen eye to Frankenthaler's paintings, returning to the fore the artist's debt not only to Jackson Pollock but also to Cezanne…
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August Strindberg and Visual CultureThe Emergence of Optical Modernity in Ima…
August Strindberg and Visual Culture addresses the multiplicity of Strindberg's artistic and literary output. The book charts the vital intersections between theatre, aesthetic theory, and visual elements in his work that have been left largely unexplored. Rather than following traditional genre-bound critical approaches, this book focuses on the intermediality of individual works, the corpus a…
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The MonumentArt and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq
In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, showing every bump and follicle. The "Victory Arch" celebrates a victory over Iran (in their eight-year-long war) that never happened. This text is a study…
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