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  • Understanding Atrocities

    Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

    by Amarnath Amarasingam, Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen, Travis Hay, Stephen Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Christopher Powell, Raffi Sarkissian ...
    Series Book 1 - Arts in Action
    Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Math and the Mona Lisa

    The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci

    by Bulent Atalay ...
    Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the Mona Lisa picks up where The Da Vinci Code left off, illuminating Leonardo's life and work to uncover connections that, until now, have been known ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Art

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Laurie Schneider Adams ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A beautifully crafted overview of Western artistic tradition OR An exhilarating tour through Western artistic traditionArt has existed for as long as humankind, but defining it is famously difficult. In this whirlwind tour spanning from prehistory up to the present day and beyond, Laurie Schneider Adams explores how art, and our views on it, have evolved. Delving into fascinating issues such as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Fashion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rebecca Arnold ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Old Masters and Young Geniuses

    The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

    by David W. Galenson ...
    When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives?By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Art History: The Key Concepts

    by Jonathan Harris ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of knowledge for all students, scholars and teachers.Covering the development, present status and future ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Urban Cinematics

    Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image

    by Andong Lu ...
    François Penz is an architect and a teacher in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge.Andong Lu is a research associate at the University of Cambridge. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Reducing Genocide to Law

    Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime

    by Payam Akhavan ...
    Series Book 87 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction assume such importance in conferring meaning on suffering and injustice? Could reducing a reality that ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Duty Free Art

    Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

    by Hito Steyerl ...
    What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is pumped for tweets to a future of “neurocurating,” in which paintings surveil their audience via ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Marxism and the History of Art

    From William Morris to the New Left

    Edited by Andrew Hemingway ...
    Series series Marxism and Culture
    This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels’s thought, they left no full statement on the arts. Although there is an abundant scholarship on Marxist approaches to literature, the historiography of the visual arts has been largely neglected.This book encompasses a range of influential thinkers ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killing the Enemy

    Assassination Operations During World War II

    by Adam Leong Kok Wey ...
    During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in 'targeted killing' - the assassination of enemy political and military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping its agents with tools for use behind enemy lines, such as folding motorbikes, miniature submarines ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Looking Backward, Moving Forward

    Confronting the Armenian Genocide

    Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian ...
    The decades separating our new century from the Armenian Genocide, the prototype of modern-day nation-killings, have fundamentally changed the political composition of the region. Virtually no Armenians remain on their historic territories in what is today eastern Turkey. The Armenian people have been scattered about the world. And a small independent republic has come to replace the Armenian ... Read more

    $67.99 USD