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Angels

ISBN:9780199547302

Authors:David Albert Jones

Series:Very Short Introductions

Paperback    Sep 2011

What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? This Very Short Introduction outlines some... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Architecture

ISBN:9780192801791

Authors:Andrew Ballantyne

Series:Very Short Introductions

Aug 2002

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Art History

ISBN:9780192801814

Authors:Dana Arnold

Series:Very Short Introductions

Jan 2004

This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues using a wide range of well-known examples. It discusses the challenge of using verbal and written language to... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Art Theory

ISBN:9780192804631

Authors:Cynthia A. Freeland

Series:Very Short Introductions

Feb 2003

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Beauty

ISBN:9780199229758

Authors:Roger Scruton

Series:Very Short Introductions

Paperback    Feb 2011

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Christian Art

ISBN:9780192803283

Authors:Beth Williamson

Series:Very Short Introductions

Jun 2004

Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the radical new interpretations of the... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Contemporary Art

ISBN:9780192806468

Authors:Julian Stallabrass

Series:Very Short Introductions

Mar 2006

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but what is 'contemporary' about contemporary art? What is its role today, and who is controlling its future? Bloody toy soldiers, gilded shopping... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Dada and Surrealism

ISBN:9780192802545

Authors:David Hopkins

Series:Very Short Introductions

Apr 2004

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Design

ISBN:9780192854469

Authors:John Heskett

Series:Very Short Introductions

Jun 2005

John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in,... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Documentary Film

ISBN:9780195182705

Authors:Patricia Aufderheide

Series:Very Short Introductions

Jan 2011

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Early Music

ISBN:9780199730766

Authors:Thomas Forrest Kelly

Series:Very Short Introductions

Paperback    May 2011

The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Fashion

ISBN:9780199547906

Authors:Rebecca Arnold

Series:Very Short Introductions

Paperback    Oct 2009

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... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Film

ISBN:9780192803535

Authors:Michael Wood

Series:Very Short Introductions

Paperback    Jan 2012

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Film Music

ISBN:9780195370874

Authors:Kathryn Kalinak

Series:Very Short Introductions

Paperback    May 2011

The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music in many places as a variety of performers - from... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

Folk Music

ISBN:9780195395020

Authors:Mark Slobin

Series:Very Short Introductions

Paperback    Jan 2011

This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every... Read more

Price(incl.tax)： 1,050 yen

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