'The Tempest' and Its Travels

P Hulme

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• One of Shakespeare's final plays, The Tempest is often considered a jewel in the canon of English literature. Mythic, impassioned characters dictate t... Lees meer

Boundaries in China

John Hay

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• A crucial topic in the study of Chinese culture past or present is that of the "boundary". In this book the authors investigate the meaning of the bou... Lees meer

New Museology

Peter Vergo

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• With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer ... Lees meer

Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity

Stephen Bann

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• Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). By choosing in he... Lees meer

The Cultures of Collecting

Roger Cardinal

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• This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon,... Lees meer

Modernism in Design

Paul Greenhalgh

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• Ten new and important essays on design cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA; they range in subjec... Lees meer

Mappings

Denis Cosgrove

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• Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physic... Lees meer

Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity

Stephen Bann

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• Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). By choosing in he... Lees meer

Parisian Fields

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• Perhaps no world city has so many resonances, on so many levels, as Paris. Cafe society, demi-monde , the intellectual life, film-makers and writers..... Lees meer

Voyages and Visions

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• A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a... Lees meer

Rewriting Conceptual Art

Michael Newman, Jon Bird

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• An international movement that followed specific geographical-cultural patterns, Conceptual Art built on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp, redefining the ... Lees meer

Sculpture and Its Reproductions

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• This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus on issues concerning sculpture and reproduction, and to explore their theoretical and prac... Lees meer