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In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues.

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Though often portrayed in scholarly literature as a spontaneous artist, Frida Kahlo worked in a quite deliberate manner, basing her paintings on diverse cultural and philosophical sources.

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This study examines the relationship between technology and human nature through popular culture. It illustrates how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a civilized nation, highlighting the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be utilized in contemporary society.

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A critique of immersive aesthetics in the arts, with particular emphasis placed upon sound and new media art.

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For the author, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. In this book, she unearths the history of group singing, and explores discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits.

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Fill Your Performance with Spontaneity and Energy

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Examines different uses and consequences of the cinematic trope of the homosexual as monster.

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From Abercrombie & Fitch to Ladicorbic Zoran, an encyclopedia of the people and organizations around the world that have left the greatest mark on American fashion. Entries include relevant dates, places, and awards as well as a summary of the designer or retailer's societal, economic, or political

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This is a collection of interviews with some of the most significant British cinematographers of the last 30 years. The subject included here discuss their craft and recount their experiences working on some of the most notable films of the last few decades, including Anna Kar...

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This volume is designed as an introduction to the science of music for advanced students of music and psychology, music teachers, professional musicians, and general readers interested in the scientific approach to the understanding and appreciation of beauty in music.

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Considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. This book argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. It explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance.

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This story is written as a spiritual guide to adult faith with the knowledge of symbols, archetypes, myths and a sensitivity to human relations. The author/educator/artist is both a seeker, as well as one who seeks, perhaps, in his journey from spiritual blindness to sight.

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The interviews included in this fascinating collection of discussions with popular songwriters focus on the craft itselfand as such, they are of interest to both music fans and to budding songwriters.

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Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing

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A guide for the beginning producer who is serious about filmmaking not only as a craft but also as a business.

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Following up on his successful World Architecture Index (Greenwood Press, 1991), Edward Teague applies his research and organizational skills to provide detailed coverage and easy access to the wealth of architectural landmarks in Italy as illustrated in eighty books widely available in libraries.

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"The book critically reviews the portrayal of indigenous characters in Latin American films produced after the turn of the century (2000-2018)"--