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Art beyond borders: artistic exchange in communist Europe (1945–1989)
"This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geograp…
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- 9789633860847
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- 530 p.: black and white, ill.
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- 701.03 BAZ a
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 6 war a…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745418
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- 324 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
Essays on paula rego : smile when you think about hell
Prologue: A Patriot for Me In the Prologue, Lisboa identifies the key themes permeating the book: love and reversals of love; negative aspects and interests of patriarchy; and the ways in which Paula Rego connects the personal and the political. Discussed is Rego’s perspective; her destabilization of expectations and assumptions; and a set of tensions in her life and work – between exter…
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- 9781783747603
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- xiii. :ill. ;512 p.
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- 759 MAR e
Chronicles from Kashmir : an annotated, multimedia script
Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi and Nandita Dinesh, the play uses a durational, promenade format to immerse its audience within a multitude of perspectives on life in Kashmir. From a wedding celebration that is interrupted by curfew, to schoolboys divide…
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- 9781800640191
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- xi, 254 p. ; ill
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- 791.09730904 DIN c
Early greek alphabetic writing : a linguistic approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- 9781789257441
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- ix, 139 p.
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- 481.1 AST e
Diversity and rabbinization: jewish texts and societies between 400 and 1000 CE
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geograph…
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- 9781783749959
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- xxiii, 474 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 296.1 DIV d
Mothers on mothers : maternal readings of popular television
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the diverse ways in which mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television.
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- 9783035307917
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- ix, 265 p.
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- 302.23082 FEA m
A fleet street in every town: the provincial press in England, 1855-1900
At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the …
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- 9781783745616
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- 455 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 941.081 HOB a
Multilingualism and third language acquisition: learning and teaching trends …
The purpose of this book is to present recent studies in the field of multilingualism and L3, bringing together contributions from an international group of specialists from Austria, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United A All these chapters include several different languages in contact in an acquisition/learning context: Basque, English, French, German, Italian, La…
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- 9783961102696
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- viii, 214p.: ill.
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- 400 MUL m
Post-digital, post-internet art and education : the future is all-over
This open access edited volume provides theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives on art and education in a post-digital, post-internet era. Recently, these terms have been attached to artworks, artists, exhibitions, and educational practices that deal with the relationships between online and offline, digital and physical, and material and immaterial. By taking the current socio-tech…
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- 9783030737702
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- xxii, 308 p.; ill.
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- 707.1 POS p
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