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Drawing on a range of images from Antiquity to the 20th century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, this title investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.

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An investigation of how we view and understand portraiture as a genre, and how portraits function as artworks within social and political networks.

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Portsmouth, documents the deindustrialization of the small River Town of Portsmouth, Ohio that sits on the side of Appalachia.

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The ultimate guide to looking flawless in photos!Being photogenic is not something you're born with, it's a skill that anyone can develop.

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"A first-rate novelistic account . . . as [Thompson] uncovers the Dylan few people know"--William Kennedy, "Look Magazine." This updated version includes an interview with the author, previously unpublished photographs, and a new Preface by Thompson.

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The Possible Mediums book will present a diverse collection of texts, drawings and images from invited contributors. Five chapters - Histories, Figures, Objects, Parts, and Projections - group together contributors with related interests and frame the book's content in relation to contemporary topics of interest.

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This monograph is the result of three years spent living on the road and shooting film around the world.

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Explores ambiguity in modern art, considering images that rely to a very particular degree on an imaginative or a projected response from the viewer to achieve their effect.

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A chronicle of the award-winning preservation and transformation of Kansas City's Union Station, outlining the many constraints and opportunities the project team met along the way.

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Features twenty-seven artists who discuss about how they get fringe movies done and why it matters.

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This illustrated work introduces the world of "fin-de-siecle" Prague, and charts the effects of the emergence of modernism and the search for Czech national identity on both the fine and the applied arts, as well as on architecture, music and literature.

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Pratt Sessions presents a series of conversations between notable practitioners and thinkers. It is a distributed symposium that is curated and yet open-ended.

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Pratt Sessions presents conversations with notable names in architecture, discussions that unpack their work in non-standard ways, revealing new insight to familiar terms circulated in the discipline and profession.

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Proposes that the origins of modernism movement can be traced well into the nineteenth century. This book contends that several cultural developments after the Civil War set the stage for modernism.

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The complete guide topreserving, restoring, and repairing historic homes and buildings by thecountry s foremost experts in the...

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In this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Hozan Tankai (1629-1716). Through a close examination of sculptures, paintings, ritual implements, and primary documents, the book demonstrates how the Shingon prelate's artistic activities were central to his importan

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Already number TEN, Pressing Matters X is a special issue reflecting a year of reflection and change, after several waves of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and newly developed hybrid teaching methods.

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Pressing Matters VII is an exciting compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign's Department of Architecture, it features recent student work, news, important symposia and lectures, and is printed on recycled paper with non-toxic inks.

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Pressing Matters is an exciting design and research compilation from PennDesign's Department of Architecture, featuring recent student work, news, important symposia and lectures.