9,616円 Politics in Developing Countries provides a clear and reader-friendly introduction to the key factors and themes that shape political processes in developing countries. Achieving development outcomes such as reducing poverty and inequality is only possible through efficient governance, well-plann...

10,280円 Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike interpreted images. This book explores modern painting as a response to, and an appropriation of,...

5,305円 Robin Veder’s The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American modernism. The author illuminates connections among the histories of modern art, body cultures, and physiological aesthetics in early-twentieth-century Americ...

5,305円 Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They created images to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish our national myths, and honor...

1,100円 Talvez todo falante de português brasileiro entenda o que significa "gambiarra": improvisação, quebra-galho, uso de recursos alternativos nas dificuldades do cotidiano. Mas provavelmente muitos desconhecem a origem da palavra e a enorme importância do seu uso nas artes, na literatura e na cultura...

17,456円 The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre. With a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomyーalong with the radical politics of the ...

10,280円 For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians, Mexicans, and resident immigrants. Typically, he p...

3,575円 Sunset. Fire. Rainbow. Drawing on such common occurrences of light, Navajo artists have crafted an uncommon array of design in colored glass beads. Beadwork is an art form introduced to the Navajos through other Indian and Euro-American contacts, but it is one that they have truly made their own....

250円 It will either persist or end today, the inauspicious day years of bad luck will cease to foreshadow the remaining bands of Eastern Cherokee tribes of Native Indians residing the Great Smoky Mountains. Hope will eventually come, that’s if the Great Book of Prophecies is anything to go by. Interpr...

1,326円 As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his artwork. After receiving a Purple Heart and undergoing two years of rehabilitative therapy and the...

4,934円 A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewersーand settlersーinto the terr...

431円 This is the story of a little, black cat who lost his meow and how he got it back. The story, fully illustrated with photos and digital art, is appropriate to be read to young children, ages 3 to 5 and read by children over the age of 5. It is a pictorial story that warms the animal-loving heart ...