Making History: Iaia Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Institute of American Indian Arts)(Paperback)

American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe (Adler Esther)(Pevná vazba)

American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art's holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the twentieth century. Organized thematically and featuring paintings,

Mfa Highlights: Arts of Africa (Gunsch Kathryn)(Paperback)

The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and politics of a large and complex continent with a wealth of history and culture. The highlighted works in this volume have been selected to illuminate different societies and periods, and to offer an

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Kahn Douglas)(Paperback)

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence,

Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts (Zinman Gregory)(Paperback)

Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of unconventional

Mfa Highlights: Arts of South Asia (Weinstein Laura)(Paperback)

A concise introduction to the MFA Boston's celebrated collection of South Asian artThe Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is home to an important collection of artworks from South Asia that spans a large geographical area--comprising India and the countries that surround it--and more than four millennia

Moma Highlights (Lowry Glenn)(Paperback)

This new edition of MoMA Highlights presents 375 works from the Museum of Modern Art's unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Featuring 170 new selections--a greater representation of women, artists of color and artists from around the world--this updated volume reflects the

A History of Chinese Martial Arts (Huang Fuhua)(Pevná vazba)

Chinese martial arts have a long, meaningful history and deep cultural roots. They blend the physical components of combat with strategy, philosophy and tradition, distinguishing them from Western sports.A History of Chinese Martial Arts is the most authoritative study ever written on this topic,

The Software Arts (Sack Warren)(Pevná vazba)

An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution.In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to

The Encyclopedia of the Ancient Americas: The Everyday Life of America's Native Peoples: Aztec & Maya, Inca, Arctic Peoples, Native American Indian (Green Jen)(Paperback)

Weimar Cinema 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares (Kardish Laurence)(Paperback)

Published in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art's presentation of 75 feature-length films from the Weimar era, many only recently restored, Weimar Cinema reconsiders the broad spectrum of influential films made in Germany between the World Wars. German and American films competed on the

Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics: A Collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Murakami Takashi)(Pevná vazba)

Arts Leadership: Creating Sustainable Arts Organizations (Foster Kenneth)(Paperback)

The contemporary world faces unprecedented upheaval and change forcing institutions of all types to rethink how they are designed and how they must now function if they are to survive into an uncertain future. The performing arts are no exception; in an era of constant change and technological

The Remarkable Mrs. Anderson (Bnffy Mikls)(Paperback)

When a priceless Leonardo is stolen from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian government tries to hush things up and the police show themselves to be completely clueless. Thank goodness for Milla Anderson! A gifted reporter for one of Budapest's daily newspapers, she picks up the trail

Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader (Bakke Gretchen)(Paperback)

A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, performance, video, and film, it presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural human experience of art

The Arts Of Orpheus (Linforth Ivan Mortimer)(Paperback)

Marcel Broodthaers (Broodthaers Marcel)(Pevná vazba)

The catalog for the Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed Broodthaer's exhibitionMarcel Broodthaers' extraordinary artistic output placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, from early objects variously made of

Native Harvests: American Indian Wild Foods and Recipes (Kavasch E. Barrie)(Paperback)

The most intelligent and brilliantly researched book on the food of the American Indian. --Craig Claiborne, The New York TimesThis wonderful book is not just a recipe collection, but a passport to foraging and to surviving close to nature. It will tell you how to prepare familiar foods such as

Filipino Martial Arts: Exploring the Depths (Lewis Peter A. H.)(Paperback)

The indigenous martial arts of the Philippines archipelago are known by a variety of names, including Arnis, Arnis de Mano, Eskrima, or Escrima, and are widely respected for the development of combat-effective defensive strategies and skills. The Filipino martial arts are fast and dynamic and

On Indian Ground: The Northwest (hc) (Jacob Michelle M.)(Pevná vazba)

The second of ten regionally focused texts that explores American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education in depth. The text is designed to be used by educators of Native youth and emphasizes best practices found throughout the

Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (Lonetree Amy)(Paperback)

Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye

The Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia (DK)(Paperback)

Open your eyes to the wonderful world of art inside this beautiful book. The entire history of the greatest works in painting, sculpture, and photography are included on this comprehensive and colourful tour through time.

 From the first strokes of paint on prehistoric caves to contemporary

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature (Ruland Richard)(Paperback)

Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism

A History of Russian Cinema (Beumers Birgit)(Paperback)

Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 1920s saw a flowering of film experimentation, notably with the work of Eisenstein, and a huge growth in the audience for film, which continued into the

The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts: A Graphic Novel (Wilson Sean Michael)(Paperback)

A graphic novel version of this classic collection of martial arts parables, written by Issai Chozanshi, an 18-century samurai, brings these tales alive in a captivating and immediately accessible way. The stories, which feature demons, insects, birds, cats, and numerous other creatures, may seem