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The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipas career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.

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"The Tee Shirt Selection" is a collection of tee shirts with quotes written on them to bring levity, humility, and laughter. These quotes are not in any way intended to hurt, degrade, or insult anyone; and Robert hopes they bring enjoyment and delight.

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In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated by Right, this book stress the necessity of recovering the Leftist ethos of solidarity, social justice, and care for the commons.

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In a little over twenty years, New York-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America's distinctive preppie style he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blurring gender boundaries.

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In a little over twenty years, New York-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America's distinctive preppie style he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blurring gender boundaries.

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Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production-into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.

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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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Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. Framing the discussion with narratives that immerse the reader in spaces overshadowed by conflict, Undisciplined posits an unorthodox form of architectural production engaged with the contingent elaboration of new and increasingly necessary spatial narratives.

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This book provides a critical and comprehensive account of the mediation of rural darkness. Analyzing a wide range of contemporary media, from astrophotography, tourist advertisements and social media to editing software, online databases and nature documentaries, the book focuses on two competing and irreconcilable cultures of rural darkness.

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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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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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This book is an appraisal of Yves Saint Laurent's contributions to fashion, art and culture.

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This book is an appraisal of Yves Saint Laurent's contributions to fashion, art and culture.

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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.