This text explores the many meanings of photography as documentation for the art historian, inspiration for the artist, and as a means of interpretation of works of art. It includes essays from noted authorities in the fields of art history, architecture and photography.
Based on lectures by the author, this volume covers the propagation of ultrasonic waves in different media, under conditions close to those encountered in scientific... Læs mere
This text explains the ways artists use references and allusions to create meaning. It presents the historical,... Læs mere
With its emphasis on the roles that gender plays in the creation, reception and interpretation of comic art, this work looks critically at generic and gender diversity as well as comedy's underlying unities.
This revised edition of the classic text of the period provides both the student and the specialist with an informative account of post-Roman English society.
Uses notated exercises as a means of teaching skills such as co-ordination and elasticity within the language of dance. Exercises defining a range of dynamic qualities are... Læs mere
This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title... Læs mere
A collection of essays which offer glimpses of the city as it appears in films, novels, photographs, poems, architecture, essays, stagings... Læs mere
Presents solutions to questions of dating composition, provenence and technology through the application of instrumental techniques to archaeological materials. This study also examines the reconstruction of early environments in order to understand ancient technologies.
A guidebook facilitating the use of "Beyond Words" materials. Topics discussed include the purpose, themes and interpretation of "beyond words", and the different... Læs mere
This book introduces combustion related topics, including chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, deflagrations, detonations in premixed media, diffusion flames,... Læs mere
This work examines the increasing trend in transnationalism. Through ethnographic studies of... Læs mere