Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World (Munroe Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World (Munroe Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

Twenty years of experimental art from a globalized ChinaPublished on the occasion of the largest exhibition of contemporary art from China ever mounted in North America, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World explores recent experimental art

City of Pleasure: Paris Between the Wars (Dupouy Alexandre)(Pevná vazba)

After the austerity, horror, and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy, light-heartedness, and sexual freedom. Men and newly emancipated women alike rejected pre-war values and moral restraints. They embraced new lifestyles, and discovered a lust for extravagance, partying, and erotic

Single, Married, Separated, and Life After Divorce (Munroe Myles)(Pevná vazba)

After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theater (Lambros Matt)(Pevná vazba)

Theater of Exhibitions (Hoffmann Jens)(Paperback)

Theater of Exhibitions analyzes 'art after the end of art,' questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. The book also considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital

Broadway Goes to War: American Theater During World War II (McLaughlin Robert L.)(Pevná vazba)

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topics for the duration of the war, including neutrality and isolationism, racism and genocide, and heroism and battle fatigue. Productions such as Watch on

Haring (Kolossa Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright colors, and kinetic figures, his public (and

Shakespeare - The Theatre of Our World (Conrad Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Peter Conrad explores the phenomenon of Shakespeare, and assesses Shakespeare's global legacy across every continent and across every genre of the creative

Folding Polyhedra: The Art & Geometry of Paper Folding (Heinz Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

Explore the reaches of your imagination by combining art, craft, and mathematics to create the age-old geometric form of the polyhedra. More than 50 projects use just one center point to create shapes that are folded symmetrically and build upon each other. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step

Lionel Messi and the Art of Living (West Andy)(Pevná vazba)

Lionel Messi and the Art of Living is a bold and insightful examination of a world-famous sporting hero's career from an entirely new perspective, providing a context extending far beyond the soccer field. The idea that sports stars are role models is a clich , but it is also true in a way that is

World Politics Since 1989 (Holslag Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization - of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth - give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides of global politics from the

Art of the Middle East (Eigner Saeb)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world since 1945. Includes more than 500 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script and biographies of the 200-plus featured

After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love (Elle Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

A Year in the Art World (Israel Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

The world of contemporary art has become more globalized and transparent in the last few decades, yet it is still perceived as closed-off and obscure. In A Year in the Art World, Matthew Israel takes the reader on a cross-continental journey through a year in the field of art, lifting the veil on a

The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust (Niziolek Grzegorz)(Pevná vazba)

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory - and collective forgetting - of the trauma of

Time & Place: The Art of Calendars and Almanacs (Harris Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

As calendars and almanacs developed, art from their specific time and place was naturally introduced. In this new book, the acclaimed author Alexandra Harris has gathered together some of the work that has gone into almanacs, from the eigth century onwards, bringing in everything from Benedictine

Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start (Calder Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

One of the most beloved American artists of the last century, Alexander Calder reimagined sculpture as an experiment in space and motion. He upended centuries-old notions that sculpture should be static, grounded, and dense by making artworks that often move freely, interacting with their

The Timeless Way of Building (Alexander Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is

China 1949: Year of Revolution (Hutchings Graham)(Pevná vazba)

The events of 1949 reverberated across the world and throughout the rest of the 20th-century. That monumental year saw the dramatic collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's 'pro-Western' Nationalist government, overthrown by Mao Zedong and his newly-founded, Communist-controlled, People's Republic of China

Art & Archaeology of the Roman World (Fullerton Mark D.)(Pevná vazba)

A new history of Roman art and archaeology, from its very beginnings in Etruscan art to the adoption of

Theatre Cat (Streatfeild Noel)(Pevná vazba)

A picture book by the author of BALLET SHOES, available again after almost 70 years! Pinkie the cat works at the ballet theatre as a mouser. He loves watching the dancers, but he's scared of the mice he's meant to catch! What's a ballet-loving cat to

Ever After: Forty Years of Musical Theater and Beyond 1977-2020 (Singer Barry)(Pevná vazba)

Originally published in 2003 as a comprehensive history of the previous twenty-five years in musical theater, on and off Broadway, this new Ever After extends the narrative, taking readers from 2004 to the final moments before the lights went out on Broadway. It is, by default, the story of an

Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories (Wilmer S. E.)(Pevná vazba)

Historians of theatre face the same temptations and challenges as other historians: they negotiate assumptions (their own and those of others) about national identity and national character; they decide what events and actors to highlight--or omit--and what framework and perspective to use for

The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization (O'Sullivan Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions. The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see that a