Luxury and Visual Culture (Armitage John)(Paperback)

Luxury and Visual Culture (Armitage John)(Paperback)

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary digital culture does luxury still reside in material things, or rather the look of things? In this

Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media (Armitage John)(Paperback)

Tantric Visual Culture: A Cognitive Approach (Timalsina Sthaneshwar)(Paperback)

Indian culture relies greatly on visual expression, and this book uses both classical Indian and contemporary Western philosophies and current studies on cognitive sciences, and applies them to contextualize Tantric visual culture.The work selects aspects of Tantric language and the practice of

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Jones Amelia)(Paperback)

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings

A Student's Guide to Culture (Stonestreet John)(Paperback)

The student edition of the popular A Practical Guide to Culture by John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle delivers a hopeful message to readers ages 15-25 who live every day with increasing cultural pressure. These young people struggle to navigate contemporary challenges to their Christian faith and

Visual Culture (Howells Richard)(Paperback)

This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television, and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But rather than simply providing set meanings to individual images, Visual

Visual Coexistence: Informationdesign and Typography in the Intercultural Field (Baur Ruedi)(Paperback)

In a globalized world, Asian, Latin and Arabic characters and visual cultures appear side by side and woven together. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part of our daily lives and a given feature of our communication systems. But how do we best present information, structures and

Visual Culture (Boylan Alexis L.)(Paperback)

How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see--color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels,

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Sturken Marita)(Paperback)

Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural

Visual Culture: An Introduction (Walker John)(Paperback)

It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field. The coverage is systematic, and the writing

Poetry of Birds - edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (Leaver Tama)(Paperback)

Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010.In the first book-length examination of Instagram, Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin trace how this quintessential

Cassette Cultures: The Past and Present of a Musical Icon (Komurki John Z.)(Paperback)

Recreation and Sports Ministry: Impacting the Postmodern Culture (Garner John C.)(Paperback)

How open is our culture to recreation and sports? The popular culture today is saturated with recreation and sports. The Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, X-Games, Iron Man events, the Final Four in college basketball, and the playoff series in professional basketball capture the imaginations of

Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth about God (Challies Tim)(Paperback)

We live in a visual culture. Today, people increasingly rely upon visuals to help them understand new and difficult concepts. The rise and stunning popularity of the Internet infographic has given us a new way in which to convey data, concepts and ideas.But the visual portrayal of truth is not a

Corporate Culture and Performance (Kotter John P.)(Paperback)

Going far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the culture of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard,

A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible: Seeing and Knowing God's Word (Challies Tim)(Paperback)

We live in a visual culture. Today, people increasingly rely upon visuals to help them understand new and difficult concepts. The rise and stunning popularity of the Internet infographic has given us a new way in which to convey data, concepts, and ideas.But the visual portrayal of truth is not a

Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise (Garrett Miranda)(Paperback)

Suffrage and the Arts re-establishes the central role that artistic women and men-from jewellers, portrait painters, embroiderers, through to retailers of 'artistic' products-played in the suffrage campaign in the British Isles. As political individuals, they were foot soldiers who helped sustain

Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture (Cartwright Lisa)(Paperback)

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such use become established/accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? This book traces the history of scientific film since the late 19th

Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture (Hooper-Greenhill Eilean)(Paperback)

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as: How and why is it that museums select and arrange

A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture (Zou Hui)(Paperback)

In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian

The Photographer's Eye (Szarkowski John)(Paperback)

A bestselling and indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography, from the legendary MoMA director and curator John SzarkowskiThe Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a

Art After Empire: From Colonialism to Globalisation (Carter Warren)(Paperback)

Explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the 'wider world' from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of

Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Demos T. J.)(Paperback)

A critique of the discourse on the Anthropocene and the creative alternatives to it to be found through the arts, sciences, and humanities.Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the