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Ernst TollerRevolutionär, Schriftsteller, Antifaschist. Eine Biografie
Die erste umfangreiche deutschsprachige Biografie Ernst Tollers, desRevolutionärs, der im Gefängnis zum berühmtesten Dramatiker der Weimarer Republik wurde.Er war der berühmteste Dramatiker der Weimarer Republik, seine Stücke spielte man von Moskau bis Sydney. In Ernst Tollers Lebensgeschichte ballen sich die zentralen Ereignisse der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Als Jude in der pre…
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Helen ChadwickLife Pleasures
Helen Chadwick (19531996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the traditional or beautiful. Her sculpture, performance and photography is radical, provocative and often steeped in humour, and employs unusual, sometimes grotesque materials bodily fluids, meat, flowers, chocolate and compost among them. She quickly became a leading figure amongst Britains post-w…
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Where Is My Home?The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokol…
Where Is My Home?: The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843–1902 is the first full-length study in English of the art and life of Mark Antokolskii, the widely recognized Russian and European sculptor of the late 19th century. An originator of novel trends in sculpture in its transition to modernism, Antokolskii was the first artist of Jewish origin to attend the …
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Inexorable ModernityJapan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts
Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was th…
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Movement, Manifesto, MeleeThe Modernist Group, 1910-1914
The years before World War I were a fertile period for artists in Europe and the United States who were challenging aesthetic convention in music, writing, and the visual arts. These early pioneers of modernism sometimes preferred to work alone, but just as often they were associated with groups whose boundaries were permeable and freely changing. While these individual groups-including the Fut…
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American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820A Guide to Identification …
Bracelets, buckles, buttons, and beads. Clasps, combs, and chains. Items of personal adornment fill museum collections and are regularly uncovered in historical period archaeological excavations. But until the publication of this comprehensive volume, there has been no basic guide to help curators, registrars, historians, archaeologists, or collectors identify this class of objects from colonia…
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The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820'A True North Britain' in the Souther…
This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions sympathetic to various British causes-suc…
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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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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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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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