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  • Mariuccia Secol. Unraveling

    by Monika Branicka, Eva Brioschi, Maria Bremer, Manuela Gandini, Janis Jefferies, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Marco Scotini, Mariuccia Secol, Harald Pridgar0 ...
    This monograph is the first comprehensive study of Italian artist Mariuccia Secol (*1929), who redefined the boundaries of feminist art through powerful textile and sculptural works. Her practice evolved from abstract painting in the 1950s and 1960s to innovative fabric assemblages, installations with everyday materials, ceramics, and collages. Thematically, her works revolve around issues such as ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Whose Book is it Anyway?

    by Janis Jefferies, Sarah Kember ...
    Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Textile Culture

    Edited by Professor Janis Jefferies, Professor Diana Wood Conroy, Dr Hazel Clark ...
    In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and present and to draw upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers in textiles ... Read more

    $210.59 USD

  • Interfaces of Performance

    Edited by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Janis Jefferies ...
    Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
    This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading practitioners, writers and curators who explore the intersections between theatre, performance and digital technologies, challenging expectations and furthering discourse across the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

    by Francesca Billiani, Laura Pennacchietti ...
    Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force ... Read more

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  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    by Michelangelo Sabatino ...
    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • History of Western Art

    by Little Green Apples Publishing, LLC ™ ...
    The History of Western Art Study Brief offers a handy quick reference guide to art history concepts, including an overview of different art forms and the concepts and methodologies used in properly evaluating and critiquing artworks. A concise summary of the western art periods and movements is provided. Each period’s representative characteristics as well as major artists and their significant ... Read more

    $3.67 USD

  • Marco Bellocchio

    The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

    by Clodagh Brook ...
    Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Stones into Bread

    by Vito Teti ...
    Translated by Francesco Loriggio, Damiano Pietropaolo ...
    Series Book 9 - Guernica World Editions
    This is a book about a small Southern Italian village and its offshoots in Toronto. It's about bread and figs and food in general, about Carnival and pilgrimages to religious sanctuaries, about fathers, mothers and children, about migrating and about remaining, about yearning to leave if you've stayed and yearning to make the trek back if you've gone, about how both those who travel and those who ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stupendous, Miserable City

    Pasolini’s Rome

    by John David Rhodes ...
    John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini—but it’s not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban development. The book focuses first on the Fascist period, when populations were moved out of the urban ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Political Audiences

    A Reception History of Early Italian Television

    by Damiano Garofalo ...
    This book deals with the popular reception of early Italian television during the years of the socalled long “economic boom” (1954-1969). To do so, the author focuses on the Catholic and Communist audiences’ perception of the first TV programs. The investigation into these two main groups’ reception will be conducted through the analysis of all the TV references published in the readers’ columns ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Feeding Fascism

    The Politics of Women’s Food Work

    by Diana Garvin ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women’s experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions.Over the past decade, Diana Garvin has conducted extensive ... Read more

    $28.79 USD