Arts & Architecture Hero Image
Arts & Architecture
Superstructure Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780946009732
Pub Date: 19 Mar 2018
Description:
In 2018 the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Opened in 1978, the building was both Sir Norman Foster’s first public commission and a new paradigm in museum design. The Sainsbury Centre forms part of one of the last, great phases of modernism, combining structural integrity and precision engineering with a radical approach to the integration of services.
Harry Clarke & His Legacy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 70
ISBN: 9781910742976
Pub Date: 16 Feb 2018
Imprint: Liberties Press
Illustrations: fully illustrated
Description:
Harry Clarke is an internationally renowned Irish stained-glass artist. His magnificent windows in St Joseph’s Church, Terenure, highlight his unique style and skilled craftsmanship. He founded the Harry Clarke Studio in 1930 and the works of his successors are also on display in the church.
Body Images In The 
Post-Cinematic Scenario Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 198
ISBN: 9788869771095
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2018
Series: Cinema
Description:
What is the current status of the human body in the digital era? Taking this question as a starting point, the book explores how our perception of the body has been modified by the advent of new media (videogames, transmedia platforms, ARGs), by the rise of recent devices such as wearable technologies,Virtual Reality, cosmetic surgery and by the creation of different narratives such as science-fictions, and TV series. Which kind of identities emerge within this context?
Cinéma & Cie 
Vol. XVII, No. 28, Spring 2017 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788869771453
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2018
Description:
Who is the Subaltern in the current global frame? Has neoliberalism changed the experience of subalternity? How do subalterns write history and what kind of history is written about subalternity?
Unlimit Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788869771408
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2018
Series: Philosophy
Description:
Many voices today call for a profound rethinking of European identity. If we wish to answer their call, however, it is necessary to start with a reconsideration of the notion of boundaries, particularly as they are at work in the Mediterranean region. The knowledge and cultural values of the Mediterranean may be the driving force able to overcome the impasse from which Europe seems unable to free itself.
Resonances of Chindon-ya Cover Resonances of Chindon-ya Cover
Format: 
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819577788
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2018
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 36 illus. (12 colour)
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819577795
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2018
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 36 illus. (12 colour)
Description:
In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood streets. Historically not considered music, but part of the everyday soundscape, this vernacular performing art provides a window into shifting notions of musical labor, the politics of everyday listening and sounding, and street music at social protest in Japan.
The Cemetery of Meir Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 151
ISBN: 9788566888478
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2018
Series: ACE Reports
Illustrations: 72 colour Plates; 24 b&w folded plates
Description:
ACE Report 41, The Cemetery of Meir Vol. IV: Tombs of Senbi I and Wekhhotep I, by N. Kanawati and L.
Alan Sorrell Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781785707407
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Alan Sorrell’s archaeological reconstruction drawings and paintings remain some of the best, most accurate and most accomplished paintings of their genre that continue to inform our understanding and appreciation of historic buildings and monuments in Europe, the Near East and throughout the UK. His famously stormy and smoky townscapes, especially those of Roman Britain, were based on meticulous attention to detail borne of detailed research in collaboration with archaeologists such as Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Sir Cyril Fox and Sir Barry Cunliffe, who excavated and recorded his subjects of interest. Many of his reconstructions were commissioned to accompany visitor information and guidebooks at historic sites and monuments where they continue to be displayed.
Of Earth and Heaven: Art from the Middle Ages Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780955339394
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Imprint: Sam Fogg
Description:
This publication brings together 27 objects that were made in Europe during the Middle Ages, between the 11th and the early 16thcenturies. They represent some of the finest examples of sculpture, metalwork, painting, drawing, and stained glass still in private hands,and together offer a startling insight into the period’s rich artistic achievements.
Power and Grace Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9781911300373
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Illustrations: 60 colour illus.
Description:
In 1621, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) wrote a letter to William Trumbull, the English diplomat and political agent to King James I, in which he described a large painting of a lion hunt that he had just completed: “As you rightly observe, such things have more grace and power in a large picture than in a small one … because the large size of a picture gives one much more courage to express one’s ideas clearly and realistically”. Rubens here casually disclosed what lay at the heart of his artistic intentions – his constant quest to achieve in his compositions the equilibrium between power and grace. The same can be said of Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) and Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), whose lives and careers were markedly intertwined with and infl uenced by the senior artist.
Reducing Boundaries Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9788869771187
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Series: Architecture
Description:
Reducing Boundaries offers a new perspective on an often under researched topic: what is the upper and middle classes perception of their own security? While human sciences have mainly focused on poor and low-middle classes evicted from urban space, Reducing Boundaries explores the strategies that the most privileged classes enact in order to preserved their own (real or perceived) security. In the context of an interdisciplinary framework of analysis and through a series of case studies (from Porto Alegre, to Brussels, to Venice), class-specific security measures and policies are considered both in themselves, and in terms of their impact of the urban fabric of cities and on the lives of the different social groups involved.
16th Century Colour Palettes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9780946311132
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2018
Description:
Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffaello Borghini, make up this 16th century collection of pigments. Leonardo's studio advice on the use of colours for capturing light and dark picks up this theme from Italian 15th century and classical painting and lays the foundation for this practice as it would develop in European painting. The plates are of works by Titian found in the National Gallery in London, whose pigments have been identified and matched to the paintings.
1st Century Colour Palettes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780946311149
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2018
Illustrations: 12 colour plates, 6 mono illus.
Description:
The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, 1st. century B.C.
Antoine Caron Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9781911300380
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2018
Illustrations: 40 colour illus.
Description:
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, which is the first dedicated to the graphic oeuvre of Antoine Caron (1521–1599). Bringing together a core group of drawings centred around the figures and deeds of the French Royal family, the Valois, this display highlights the role played by Catherine de’ Medici (1519–1589). Featuring the Valois series, a set of drawings herereunited for the first time, the display showcases the way in which the powerful and influential Catherine promoted the success of her regency and future of her progeny by delivering a series of lavish courtly events that were meant to enhancethe power and diplomacy of her family.
William Blake in Sussex Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781911300298
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2018
Illustrations: 70 colour illus.
Description:
Disillusioned with London life and struggling to make a living, Blake and his wife Catherine went in 1800 to live at the coastal village of Felpham, which the artist soon described as “the sweetest spot on earth”. Providing his principal encounters with both English rural life and the coast, the artist’s three years “on the banks of the ocean” informed his two greatest illustrated epic poems, Milton and Jerusalem, and continued to be refl ected in his work for the rest of his career: “In Felpham”, claimed Blake, “I saw and heard Visions of Albion”.In addition to the work associated with Felpham, this publication considers the collections of nearby Petworth House, which include three major paintings by Blake – otherwise unrepresented in other grand houses of Britain – along with related prints, books and archival material.
Miriam Hopkins Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780813174310
Pub Date: 12 Jan 2018
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 74 b/w images
Description:
Miriam Hopkins (1902--1972) first captured moviegoers' attention in daring precode films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Story of Temple Drake (1933), and Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932).