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House of Fashion
Haute Couture and the Modern Interior
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion. House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior, demonstrating how they continue to function...
The Cinema of Things
Globalization and the Posthuman Object
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet...
The Architecture of Neoliberalism
How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive....
Modernism in Scandinavia
Art, Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that lies behind the label: a modernism made up of many different figures, impulses and visions. It places...
Living Stereo
Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Stereo is everywhere. The whole culture and industry of music and sound became organized around the principle of stereophony during the twentieth century. But nothing about this-not the invention or acceptance or ubiquity of stereo-was inevitable. Nor did the aesthetic conventions, technological objects,...
I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski
Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK
First released in 1998, the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski flopped at the box office. But over the past nine years the movie has developed a massive and passionate cult following, led by the creation of Lebowski Fest, a traveling festival of all things Lebowski. Held in a bowling...
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era...
The Tall Book
A Celebration of Life from on High
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Tall Book is a celebration of the tall-advantaged, which notes and explores the myriad benefits that come with living large--from the simple pleasures of being able to see over crowds at a parade, to the professional joys of earning more money, and having others perceive you as a natural leader....
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 29
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas.
Confronting the...
by Bob Hasenfratz, Professor Greg M. Colón Semenza
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history. The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 is the only comprehensive narration of cinema's 100-year-old...
On Moving
A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
When acclaimed memoirist and scholar Louise DeSalvo sold the house she and her husband had raised their children in and moved to a beautiful new home in Montclair, New Jersey, she was shocked to discover a rash of unexpected emotions interfering with her plans. Suddenly the old, cramped house was...
Cavalier
A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2008
William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of King Charles I and his cavaliers, he was doomed to failure.
Cavendish was a master of manège (the art of teaching...
City Boy
My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses...