Reaktion Books Forlag
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Beaver (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rachel Poliquin’s Beaver explores the fascinating history of this small, often-overlooked, yet important animal and examines why the beaver has been hunted throughout the years, as well as looks at the unique way in which beavers form their societies.
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Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity, Second Expanded Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this acclaimed reassessment of Italian master painter Jacopo Tintoretto, Tom Nichols charts Tintoretto's live and work in the context of Venetian art and the culture... Læs mere
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Art in Ireland since 1910: Since 1910 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this unique study, now available in paperback, Fionna Barber examines twentieth-century Irish art against a background of social and political change. She looks... Læs mere
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Leo Tolstoy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An insightful biography of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time.
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The Cultures of Collecting (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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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Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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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Erik Satie (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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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Film Music (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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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Greece: Modern Architectures in History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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A Philosophy of Fear (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level... Læs mere
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