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  • Mapping Intermediality in Performanceby Sarah Bay-Cheng; Chiel Kattenbelt; Andy Lavender; Robin Nelson

    Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 39.50

    This volume examines afresh the impact upon acting and performance of digital technologies. It is concerned with how digital culture combines the traditional 'liveness' of theatre with media interfaces and internet protocols. The time and space of the 'here and now' are both challenged and adapted, just as barriers between theatre-makers... more...

  • Framing Borders in Literature and Other Mediaby Werner Wolf; Walter Bernhart

    Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 140.00

    This book is both a contribution to an interdisciplinary study of literature and other media and a pioneering application of cognitive and frame-theoretical approaches to these fields. In the temporal media a privileged place for the coding of cognitive frames are the beginnings while in spatial media physical borders take over many framing functions.... more...

  • Teaching Creativityby Derek Pigrum

    Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00

    This study is concerned with creativity in education – especially in arts education (broadly conceived to include the visual arts, music, and creative writing). It takes as its starting point Nietzsche’s view that works of art do not appear “as if by magic”. Using insights from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, the... more...

  • Art Entrepreneurshipby Mikael Scherdin; Ivo Zander

    Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00

    This pioneering book explores the connections between art and artistic processes and entrepreneurship. The authors expertly identify several areas and issues where research on art and artistic processes can inform and develop the traditional field of entrepreneurship research. Nine original chapters by an international group of scholars take a detailed... more...

  • Artby Parveen Adams

    Karnac Books 2003; US$ 31.95

    Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's Vertigo, the sexual aesthetics of Caravaggio, the artistic pen of Barthes, and how Cronenberg's film Crash functions as a sinthome. more...

  • Teaching Creative Arts & Media 14+by Markham May; Sue Warr

    McGraw-Hill Education 2011; US$ 151.00

    This book will explore the nature of the creative and media sector and describe issues and debates surrounding creative and media, as well as teaching and learning strategies. more...

  • Necessity of Artspeakby Roy Harris

    Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 140.00

    Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning? Is it still based on concepts and values that are long out of date? Does anyone know what the function of the arts is in modern society?Roy Harris breaks new ground with his linguistic approach to the key issues. He situates those issues within the long-running... more...

  • The Landscape of Humanityby Anthony O'Hear

    Andrews UK 2011; US$ 20.99

    The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics... more...

  • Grow the Arts, Reap the Harvestby Michael John Richards

    eContent Management Pty Ltd 2006; US$ 55.00

    The arts constitute a garden in which we commune with the life force and grow physically, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, and without which we cannot live. We have a responsibility to tend this garden, and to nourish its enduring cycles of evolution and growth. This ground-breaking and vital book shows us how. It is the result of sustained... more...

  • Cultural Participationby Ann Rigney; Douwe Wessel Fokkema; Douwe W. Fokkema; Douwe Wessel Fokkema

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 165.00

    Culture is studied in this collection, not merely as a set of products, but in terms of the involvement of individuals and groups in the making and using of such products. A wide range of activities, from the reading and writing of poetry to watching soccer on television, is surveyed by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines: cultural... more...