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A detailed study of the creative ambitions, social and technological constraints behind the evolution of punk and post-punk graphic styles.

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A detailed study of the creative ambitions, social and technological constraints behind the evolution of punk and post-punk graphic styles.

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Understanding displacement aesthetics explores how visual culture and art shape and challenge ideas about forced displacement. Bridging cultural and art history with curatorial studies, it offers a new framework for 'displacement aesthetics' and highlights artistic and institutional responses to refugeedom.

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Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects from urban regeneration to community gardens, it showcases how art can foster inclusion, reclaim local knowledge, and drive real-world change.

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Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects from urban regeneration to community gardens, it showcases how art can foster inclusion, reclaim local knowledge, and drive real-world change.

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One of the first academic books devoted to vampires in silent cinema.

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This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up new perspectives on the material, social, and theoretical basis of each discipline.

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The book provides a study of the wartime films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team the Archers between 1938 and 1947, situated within wartime cinema and focussing on national identity explored with the 'Pressburger Touch'.

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This book delves into the groundbreaking career of Wendy Toye, a trailblazing director, choreographer and creative force in British cinema and television. Through an in-depth exploration of her works, it examines her impact on post-war filmmaking, her virtuosity of movement and storytelling, and her enduring legacy in the arts.

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Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense.Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with the same title, about the same subject, from a different perspective - that...

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When words are bereft of their power and meaning, art is able to communicate in its stead. This is evidenced in the 2024 ceramic work honoured with the Westerwald Prize. Text in English and German.

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"The story of the high-concept funk-rock opera that flopped and fell into obscurity only to become a remarkably popular source of rap samples and breakbeats"--

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A mesmerizing journey through one family's history, told through 300 watercolour paintings of objects "preserved" in Mason jars.

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With photographs, this title celebrates the nude female form.

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The next expert special effects makeup guide to all things gory, bloody, disgusting, and fantastic.

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In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history.

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Author Jonathan Melville looks back at the creation ofHighlanderwith the help of more than 60 cast and crew, including stars Christopher Lambert and Clancy Brown, as they talk candidly about the gruelling shoot that took them from the alleys of London, to the far reaches of the Scottish Highlands, and onto the streets of 1980s New York City.

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