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What is the role of the arts in American culture Is art an essential element If so, how should we support it This book describes the history of patronage, and shows how patronage has elevated and damaged the arts in modern culture, and argues for the university as a serious patron of the arts.

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The first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott -- .

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Introduction by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Text by Norman Mailer, Evan Thomas, Vicki Goldberg.

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In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. The work he created during this key period reflects a time of intense productivity, and of creative renewal. This book tells the story of Strands journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s.

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Introduces the history and art of photography to a broader public. This book provides a comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium.

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For Paul Strand, the great pioneer of modernism, the summers of 1926 and 1930-1932 were a return to experimentation, and the Southwest USA became his laboratory, with makeshift darkrooms. These were years of critical artistic growth. Absorbing the complex cultural local history, Strand made pictures that merged realism with abstraction.

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Deals with the study of the forms and patterns within nature of tiny buttonshaped flowers, cascading winter branches, and fierce snarls of twigs. This books task is to do credit to Strands final work, both as an individual and as a key figure in Modernist photography.

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The never-before published memoir of design pioneer Paul T. Frankl, known for his Skyscraper furniture and work for Hollywood elite.

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The German silversmith and Germanys first industrial designer, Paula Straus, was a pivotal figure in shaping the creative decades of the Bauhaus. Her professional success been completely forgotten due to the national-socialist persecution of the Jews and her murder in Auschwitz. Text in German.

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Reveals an extreme aesthetic that also exposes the potholes and irregularities left in the path of modernization. This book focuses on the social marginality that continues to plague the country, thereby capsizing Chile's image of buoyancy by intuitively penetrating the contradictions - the innumerable cracks and fissures-that persist to this day.

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Offers a reinterpretation of every-day consumer and vernacular images. This title presents an approach to quintessential issues of representation in contemporary culture, including how images are used to construct and communicate consumer desire, and whether or not the growing volume of images we view online fosters a critical visual literacy.

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"An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship"--

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"An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship"--

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Per Fronth is one of Norway's most distinctive contemporary artists. He produces large-format artworks in different disciplines that are politically, environmentally, socially, and highly emotionally charged. Text in English and Norwegian.

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architectures Performance + Assembly: The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the worlds largest expositions to small, flexible high-technology theatres to expressive and functional auditoriums.

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This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a. -- .

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A photographic tour of the Perito Moreno National Park, named in honour of the early conservationist, considered the "John Muir of Argentina".