4,642円 "I was just a poor artist. I couldn't afford a 'C.'" This quip by Jak Smyrl, born Oscar Jackson Smyrl, Jr., in Camden, South Carolina, captures all the charm, humility, and humor of a one-of-a-kind character, beloved cartoonist, artist, and journalist who uniquely rendered his era and place with ...

150円 In "The Story of Spanish Painting," Charles H. Caffin provides a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of Spanish art from its roots in the medieval period through the Golden Age and beyond. Examining the interplay of cultural, religious, and social factors, Caffin employs a fluid literary s...

6,626円 Artists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state’s aesthetic and ideological dictates, or attempt to develop alternative artistic practices and spheres for exhibiting their work. In the early 1970s, conceptual artist...

6,626円 Throughout her extensive career, Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova has frequently pushed the limits of what constitutes art and how we experience the art museum. One of her famous early pieces, for instance, transformed a room in her very own Moscow apartment into an art installation. Relea...

10,280円 This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates i...

10,612円 Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution ...

5,701円 What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Otto von Busch sees fashion as a totalitarian state, with a population all too eager to enact the decrees of its aesthetic superiority. Peers police each other and deploy acts of judgment, peer-regulation, and ...

1,500円 Dos fenómenos en apariencia irreversibles se han vuelto insoslayables en el siglo XXI: la devastación de los recursos naturales provocada por los seres humanos y la progresiva digitalización de todas nuestras experiencias. Parece claro que pensar sobre ambas cuestiones es urgente, pero ¿por qué e...

1,500円 En abril de 1938, André Breton, el iniciador de la aventura surrealista, llegó a México para dar una serie de conferencias. Tenía la esperanza de ver allí a León Trotski, el revolucionario de Octubre y fundador del Ejército Rojo. Por mediación de Diego Rivera se produjo ese encuentro sorprendente...

2,290円 From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bo...

9,948円 Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1914. The Museum for Art and Industry (now the Museum of Applied Arts) as well as its design school occupies a prominent place in the study. The book a...

562円 What are the differences between democracy, communism and socialism? This book on politics will provide wonderful, easy-to-remember definitions for your elementary student. It will also include examples of societies using these ideologies for even better understanding. There’s much to learn from ...