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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world.
Interior architecture and interior design are...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in philosophy, political theory, and literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art...
Dissenting Words
Interviews with Jacques Rancière
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Rancière's trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics and aesthetics. Across these...
Writing After Postcolonialism
Francophone North African Literature in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
'Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of 'postcolonialism' is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of literature...
Édouard Glissant
A Poetics of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought....
by PhD Seth Kim-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience. Over the course of three short months - June to September, 2013 - the four most prestigious museums in New York indulged the ambience of sound and light: James Turrell at the Guggenheim, Soundings at MoMA,...
by Frenchy Lunning
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of sub-cultural fashions that are popular in both mainstream and alternative fashion cultures.
Presenting the world of subcultural fetish clothing design in all of its richness and beauty, this book explores the idea of fetish as subversive...
Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
The Politics of Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis,...
Inside the Royal Wardrobe
A Dress History of Queen Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving...
Fashioning Identity
Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity...
The Erotic Cloth
Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Through their metaphorical and material qualities, textiles can be seductive, exciting, intimate and, at times, shocking and disquieting. This book is the first critical examination of the erotically charged relationship between the surface of the skin and the touch of cloth, exploring the ways in...
Non-Cinema
Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide range of western and non-western philosophers, physicists, theorists of 'Third Cinema,' and contemporary...
The Invention of Taste
A Cultural Account of Desire, Delight and Disgust in Fashion, Food and Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an intriguing question: why did the sensory attribute of human taste become a social metaphor and aesthetic value for judging cultural qualities of art, fashion,...
The Architect as Worker
Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice†? (professionalism, profit,...