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Pixar with Lacan
The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological...
Visualizing Jewish Narrative
Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters...
by Guy Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Legal systems like to think of themselves as impartial and fair, dispensing the objective morality of Justice. But, from time to time, a court of law can be as political, prejudiced, and biased as any other arm of the State. The classic instance is the story of the trials of Alfred Dreyfus.
In...
The Good Book
A Humanist Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the
breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to
conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is
exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible,
drawn from the wealth...
by Luis Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop.
In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class...
Art History for Filmmakers
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting,...
Photography and Collaboration
From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book investigates the idea that authorship in photography...
China's Porcelain Capital
The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Maris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day.
Gillette explores how Jingdezhen has been affected by state involvement in porcelain production, particularly during the long...
How to Hepburn
Lessons on Living from Kate the Great
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
How to Hepburn, Karen Karbo's sleek, contemporary reassessment of one of America's greatest icons, takes us on a spin through the great Kate's long, eventful life, with an aim toward seeing what we can glean from the First Lady of Cinema. One part How Proust Can Change Your Life and one part Why Sinatra...
The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus
Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The beloved explorer Jacques Cousteau witnessed firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea-and watched the toll taken by human activity in the twentieth century. In this magnificent last book, now available for the first time in the United States, Cousteau describes his deeply...
by Lisa Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Running a Successful Photography Business is the definitive business bible for every professional photographer – a one-stop resource covering everything you need to know to make your business a success. This handy book contains guidance on the key areas of running your business: fine-tuning your...
A Very English Hero
The Making of Frank Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Modest, handsome and a fine poet, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. Brother of E. P. Thompson and lover of Iris Murdoch, Frank was an intellectual idealist, a rare combination of brilliant mind and enormous heart. Of his wartime experiences, Frank wrote prodigiously. His...
New Directions in Ceramics
From Spectacle to Trace
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
New Directions in Ceramics explores and responds to contemporary ceramists' use of innovative modes of practice, investigating how change is happening and interpreting key works. Jo Dahn provides an overview
of the current ceramics landscape, identifying influential exhibitions, events and publications,...
The Material Culture of Tableware
Staffordshire Pottery and American Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Material Culture of Tableware is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the US. The book undertakes a visual analysis of Johnson Brothers patterns of tableware pottery, with reference to comparable designs by other British companies, such as Spode and Adams. It examines...