Reading Fashion in Art (Mida Ingrid E.)(Paperback)

Reading Fashion in Art (Mida Ingrid E.)(Paperback)

Dress and fashion are central to our understanding of art. From the stylization of the body to subtle textile embellishments and richly symbolic colors, dress tells a story and provides clues as to the cultural beliefs of the time in which artworks were produced. This concise and accessible book

The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion (Mida Ingrid E.)(Paperback)

The Dress Detective is the first practical guide to analyzing fashion objects, clearly demonstrating how their close analysis can enhance and enrich interdisciplinary research. This accessible book provides readers with the tools to uncover the hidden stories in garments, setting out a carefully

Fashion Illustration Book: The Art of Tanaka (Tanaka)(Paperback)

Kawaii and cool fashion illustrations showcased in the artist's first art collection book. Tanaka is an illustrator who's getting attention on social media with pop and cute (kawaii) fashion illustrations of young boys and girls. With 90K followers on Twitter and 120K followers on Instagram,

Rave Art: Flyers, Invitations and Membership Cards (Berlin Chelsea Louise)(Pevná vazba)

In the mid- to late 1980s, rave culture developed. It influenced music, design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law. Originally emerging in the USA, it was refined in the UK by people who wanted to dance, party and express themselves in terms of art and music. It started in in small,

Fashion Film: Art and Advertising in the Digital Age (Rees-Roberts Nick)(Paperback)

The moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. Fashion Film is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital age, investigating the role of the moving

Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 (Young Justine de)(Paperback)

Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations (Simanowski Roberto)(Paperback)

In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to

The Art of Reading Poetry (Bloom Harold)(Paperback)

'The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves.' -Harold Bloom In The Art of Reading Poetry, Harold Bloom gives us his critical reflections on more than a half century devoted to reading, teaching, and writing about great verse, the literary achievements he loves most,

Speed Reading in a Week: Teach Yourself (Konstant Tina)(Paperback)

Speed Reading In A Week is a simple and straightforward speed reading course, giving you everything you need to know in just seven short chapters. From increasing your reading rate and effective memory techniques, to overcoming distractions so that you can read in any environment and developing a

In the New England Fashion (Kelly Catherine E.)(Paperback)

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E. Kelly

Oxford Reading Tree: Level 6: Fireflies: Food as Art (Samuel Madeline)(Paperback / softback)

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Nafisi Azar)(Paperback)

Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Berger John)(Paperback)

'Essential reading'--n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a 'master' storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things) In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces--essays, short stories, poems, translations--which spans

Palmistry: The Art of Reading Palms (Comerford Anna)(Paperback)

Discover the secrets to your life revealed in the palm of your hand. Have you always wanted to be able to read palms with ease and flair? Whether for personal use, with friends, or for clients, this book will create a great foundation for palm readings. Learn about traditional aspects of palmistry

A Short History of Decay (Cioran E. M.)(Paperback)

Dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. 'To miss reading this book would be a deprivation.'--Los Angeles Times E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history--focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human

Rapid Stage 8 Set A: Art Smart: Fishing for Trouble (Reid Dee)(Paperback / softback)

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress. Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention

Reading Planet KS2 - Art on the Street - Level 3: Venus/Brown band (Miles Liz)(Paperback / softback)

100 Years of Fashion (Blackman Cally)(Paperback)

100 Years of Fashion documents in pictures the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 to today, covering high society, uniforms, sportswear, streetwear and couture. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in fashion as well as students. The last hundred or so years bore witness

Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina (Casey Michael)(Paperback)

Examines the Western tradition of lectio divina (a spiritual and prayerful approach to reading the sacred texts) in order to help readers expand their spiritual approach to living

Shkatulochka - Reading manual for learners of Russian (Chubarova O E)(Paperback / softback)

The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists (Kress Jacqueline E.)(Paperback)

The essential handbook for reading teachers, now aligned with the Common Core The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists is the definitive instructional resource for anyone who teaches reading or works in a K-12 English language arts-related field. Newly revised and ready for instant application, this top

Fashion Ethics (Thomas Sue)(Paperback)

Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of the fashion industry.Sue Thomas

Althusser and Art: Political and Aesthetic Theory (Fardy Jonathan R.)(Paperback)

Althusser and Art offers a reading of Althusserianism as a meta-mediation on the question concerning the aesthetics of theory. Fardy shows that Althusserian theory is part of a larger genealogy of thought, stretching from Korsch through Laruelle, that has been primarily concerned with the search

Teaching and Researching Reading (Grabe William)(Paperback)

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume provides background on how reading works and how reading