12,269円 This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappa’s life (1886–1965), his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspired his art. It looks at the artist’s style and examines the question of modernity in Indian art through the interstices of the regional and the nat...

10,280円 This book offers a new, dynamic and ecological perspective to analyse the process of performance art, namely, what occurs during the unfolding of a piece, exploring the essence of its happening through the forces at play. The author’s aim is to provide a deeper understanding of performance art, w...

6,477円 Los historiadores consideran que la soledad no es solo un tema más que haya ocupado a los principales creadores, filósofos o especialistas y de manera general a la opinión pública del siglo XX, sino antes bien una de las cuestiones cruciales que atraviesan la historia cultural de la centuria. En ...

17,894円 Die Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung hat in diesem Band die Ergebnisse der vier Tagungen 2018 bis 2021, deren Themenbereiche einander bestens ergänzen, zusammengestellt. „Reisen und Verweilen“ (2018) führte Referenten aus den Gebieten der Arabistik, der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ...

5,068円 Including over 120 full-colour images throughout, this is a vividly illustrated, in-depth and up-to-date introduction to the world of Korean art from 1950 to the present day. The book covers such as topics as: · Historical, political and social contexts in Korea from the military dictatorship thr...

3,600円 Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Sak Yant – eine uralte Tradition, die Thailands Geschichte, Spiritualität und den Glauben an schützende Kraft vereint. In diesem fesselnden Werk nimmt Nattapong Wongchai Sie mit auf eine Reise durch die Jahrhunderte, in denen heilige Tattoos weit mehr...

3,600円 Butoh – der avantgardistische Tanz der Dunkelheit – ist weit mehr als eine Kunstform. Er ist eine spirituelle Praxis, eine Rebellion gegen gesellschaftliche Normen und eine tiefe Reise in die Schatten der Seele. Geprägt von schamanistischen Traditionen und inspiriert von der japanischen Kultur, e...

4,927円 Statues, paintings, and masksーlike the bodies of shamans and spirit mediumsーgive material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with t...

4,927円 A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mou...

9,162円 Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nationーthe Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923ーthis fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kanto earthquake triggered cultural r...

11,981円 In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book "manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred spac...

4,927円 Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Le...