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An insightful biography of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing on the normative collections of the Western canon. This title includes essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane, Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters, one of the masters of collage.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Shows how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into... Læs mere
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Taking the triumph of consumerism as an organizing theme, the author charts the rise and fall of the Conservative Party, developments in British society, culture and politics, environmental issues, questions of identity, and changes in economic circumstance and direction.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Examines the nature of boredom, how it originated, its history, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem to overcome it by any act of will.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
A wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art that examines the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the years 1450 to 1550.
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Explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in Hollywood after the 1930s, showing how in film the... Læs mere
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A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian ‘gymnopédiste’ of fin-de-siècle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as ‘The Velvet Gentleman’ for his sartorial choices,... Læs mere
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Since its inception the world of cinema has embraced the image of the child and both extended and challenged its representations. This title explores the complex and adventure... Læs mere
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Film and music belong together; classics like Fritz Lang's “Metropolis” (1927) and Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate” (1967) are renowned for their brilliant soundtracks. But what exactly is film... Læs mere
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A comprehensive study of the cinema of Turkey. It deals with Turkish quest for a modern identity in a world where borders, attitudes and people themselves are shifting and relocating.
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The picture that usually comes to mind when we think of Greek architecture is one of classical temples and ancient sites. This book takes a look at the Greece of reality rather than of the imagination the buildings constructed since the establishment of the modern Greek state.