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Perspectives On Western Art: Source Documents And Readings From The Renaissance To The 1970s

by Linnea Wren

This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding of art because it shows the social and cultural basis of major works of art through history. The ten sections are Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Aegean; Greek; Etruscan; Roman; early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic; early Medieval; Romanesque; and Gothic. The readings have been drawn from many areas of intellectual and social history, including religion, philosophy, literature, science, economics, and law. Each selection is preceded by an introductory note, which discusses the readings in terms of its subject and theme, its source and usage, and its relevance to the study of the work of art.

Perspectives On Western Art: Source Documents And Readings From The Renaissance To The 1970s

by Linnea Wren

This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding of art because it shows the social and cultural basis of major works of art through history. The ten sections are Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Aegean; Greek; Etruscan; Roman; early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic; early Medieval; Romanesque; and Gothic. The readings have been drawn from many areas of intellectual and social history, including religion, philosophy, literature, science, economics, and law. Each selection is preceded by an introductory note, which discusses the readings in terms of its subject and theme, its source and usage, and its relevance to the study of the work of art.

Perspectives On Western Art, Vol.1: Source Documents And Readings From The Ancient Near East Through The Middle Ages

by Linnea Wren

This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding of art because it shows the social and cultural basis of major works of art through history. The ten sections are Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Aegean; Greek; Etruscan; Roman; early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic; early Medieval; Romanesque; and Gothic. The readings have been drawn from many areas of intellectual and social history, including religion, philosophy, literature, science, economics, and law. Each selection is preceded by an introductory note, which discusses the readings in terms of its subject and theme, its source and usage, and its relevance to the study of the work of art.

Perspectives On Western Art, Vol.1: Source Documents And Readings From The Ancient Near East Through The Middle Ages

by Linnea Wren

This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding of art because it shows the social and cultural basis of major works of art through history. The ten sections are Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Aegean; Greek; Etruscan; Roman; early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic; early Medieval; Romanesque; and Gothic. The readings have been drawn from many areas of intellectual and social history, including religion, philosophy, literature, science, economics, and law. Each selection is preceded by an introductory note, which discusses the readings in terms of its subject and theme, its source and usage, and its relevance to the study of the work of art.

Perspektive und Axonometrie

by Reiner Thomae

Noch immer ist die Kenntnis und die Lehre von der Perspektive für die räumliche Darstellung geplanter Objekte unentbehrlich. Dies wird sich trotz Fotografie und Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) nicht ändern. Das Buch erklärt das Wesentliche zur Perspektive anhand leicht verständlicher Beispiele, wobei die Zeichnung im Mittelpunkt steht, ergänzt um knappe Erläuterungen. Diese Perspektivlehre ist vor allem für diejenigen gedacht, die sich mit der Planung neuer Objekte befassen - für Architekten und Designer, aber auch für den interessierten Laien. Vorkenntnisse sind nicht erforderlich.

Perspektiven der Kunstsoziologie: Praxis, System, Werk (Kunst und Gesellschaft)

by Christian Steuerwald Frank Schröder

Der vorliegende Band fasst verschiedene neuere soziologische Perspektiven auf die Kunst zusammen, die auf der ersten Tagung des Arbeitskreises Kunstsoziologie diskutiert wurden. Primär geht es hierbei um Analysen von Praktiken, Systemen, Kunstwerken sowie Kunstorten, die in den verschiedenen Beiträgen je nach Schwerpunktsetzung theoretisch und/oder empirisch untersucht werden. Infolge des Anspruchs, neuere Perspektiven der deutschsprachigen Soziologie auf die Kunst zusammenzuführen, ist der Band insgesamt offen angelegt. So finden sich neben theoretischen Beiträgen auch empirische Arbeiten zu unterschiedlichen Formen der Kunst wie etwa der Bildenden Kunst, Theater und Film oder auch der Frage, ob Städtebau als Kunst verstanden werden kann.

Perspektiven filmischer Überwindung der bipolaren Geschlechternorm durch Rekurs auf mythisches Potenzial

by Lioba Schlösser

Dieses Buch umfasst eine filmanalytische Betrachtung filmischer Interpretationen des Androgyniemotivs. Rückbezogen auf dessen mythische Ursprünge in Ovids Metamorphosen und Platons Kugelmenschenmythos wird nachvollzogen, inwieweit diese Darstellungen auf mythische Ursprungsgeschichten verweisen. Dazu wird auf Mythenforschung, körper- und blicktheoretische Thesen, Gender- und Queer Theorie sowie filmästhetische Ansätze zurückgegriffen. Es erfolgt eine Analyse ausgewählter Filmsequenzen aus internationalen Spiel- und Animationsfilmen, um theoretische Aspekte und Thesen nachvollziehbar darzulegen. Es wird vermutet, dass filminhärente Rekurse auf einzelne Mytheme helfen, die Thematik um Mehrgeschlechtlichkeit, nicht normative Sexualitäten und alternative sexuelle Identitäten medial verhandelbar zu machen. So können geschlechtliche Oppositionen dekonstruiert, Macht- und Hierarchiebeziehungen zwischen ihnen offengelegt und kritisch hinterfragt werden. Ziel der Studie ist demzufolge, das Motiv der Androgynie und seine filmischen Darstellungsweisen durch einen dichten theoretischen Rahmen möglichst präzise zu fassen, um herauszustellen, welche Rolle der Mythos als Ursprung des Motivs innerhalb der filmischen Darstellungen spielt.

Persuasion (Longman Literature Guides)

by Jane Austen Tim Luscombe

Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with a handsome young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, at the age of nineteen. But because he had neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne’s mentor and friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her to break off the engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Frederick – and when he returns from sea a Captain, she can only watch as every eligible young woman falls at his feet. Can the pair rekindle a love that was lost but not forgotten? This new adaptation was commissioned and first produced by Salisbury Playhouse in 2011.

Persuasion durch räumliche Präsenz: Eine Systematisierung und empirische Prüfung der persuasiven Mechanismen

by Priska Breves

Die persuasive Wirksamkeit immersiver Botschaften wurde schon mehrfach empirisch nachgewiesen. Die räumliche Präsenz wurde dabei als Mediator der Effekte identifiziert – wie genau dieser Persuasionsmechanismus allerdings abläuft, ist bisher ungeklärt. Daher wird die bisherige Forschung rund um die Wahrnehmung der räumlichen Präsenz in diesem Buch aufgearbeitet und systematisiert. Unterschiedliche Ansätze und Theorien werden dabei miteinander in Verbindung gesetzt und die Vermutungen anhand von drei empirischen Laborexperimente geprüft. Die Ergebnisse werden im Anschluss durch ein konzeptuelles Persuasionsmodell miteinander verbunden und ausführlich diskutiert.

Persuasion in Self-improvement Books (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)

by Jeremy Koay

This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their readers, and construct a credible persona. The author adopts a corpus-driven approach that encompasses an examination of genre analysis and linguistic features such as narrative, pronoun, grammar and structure. The book further draws on insights from original interviews with writers and readers of self-improvement books, as well as people who do not read the genre. It begins by providing a helpful overview of the concepts of ideology and genre. A brief history of self-improvement books and their values and assumptions provide the context for the analysis. Where relevant, linguistic features in self-improvement books are compared with other genres (e.g. academic text, conversation, news). This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of linguistics, culture and media studies.

Persuasion in Specialised Discourses (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)

by Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova Martin Adam Renata Povolná Radek Vogel

This book examines the concept of persuasion in written texts for specialist audiences in the English and Czech languages. By exploring a corpus of academic research articles, corporate reports, religious sermons and user manuals the authors aim to reveal similarities and differences in rhetorical strategies across cultures and genres. They draw on Biber and Conrad’s (2009) model for contextualising interaction in specialised discourses, Bell’s (1997) framework for the analysis of participants roles, Swales’ (1990) genre analysis approach for considering genre constraints and Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse model for investigating writer-reader interaction. The result is a book which will appeal to researchers and students in Discourse Studies, especially those with an interest in genre and rhetorical strategies.

A Perth Camera

by Richard Offen

A Perth Camera is a treasure trove of rediscovered images by the late Ernie Polis from a lifetime spent photographing the city.

Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds

by Cynthia Vich Sarah Barrow

This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nation’s diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight into how global debates around cinema are played out on and off screen in a distinctive national context.The insertion of post-conflict Peru within neoliberalism resulted in widespread commodification of all areas of life, significantly impacting cinema culture. Consequently, the principal structural concept of this collection is the interplay between film production and market forces, an interaction which makes dynamism and instability the defining features of 21st-century Peruvian cinema.

Pervasive Animation (AFI Film Readers)

by Suzanne Buchan

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new critical perspectives on animation, connects them to historical and contemporary philosophical and theoretical contexts and production practice, and expands the existing canon. Throughout, contributors offer an interdisciplinary roadmap of new directions in film and animation studies, discussing animation in relationship to aesthetics, ideology, philosophy, historiography, visualization, genealogies, spectatorship, representation, technologies, and material culture.

Pervasive Animation (AFI Film Readers)

by Suzanne Buchan

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new critical perspectives on animation, connects them to historical and contemporary philosophical and theoretical contexts and production practice, and expands the existing canon. Throughout, contributors offer an interdisciplinary roadmap of new directions in film and animation studies, discussing animation in relationship to aesthetics, ideology, philosophy, historiography, visualization, genealogies, spectatorship, representation, technologies, and material culture.

Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health: 5th International Conference, MindCare 2015, Milan, Italy, September 24-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #604)

by Silvia Serino Aleksandar Matic Dimitris Giakoumis Guillaume Lopez Pietro Cipresso

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health, MindCare 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in September 2015. The 23 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers deal with the use of technologies in favor of maintaining and improving mental wellbeing. They focus on building new computing paradigms and on addressing a multitude of challenges in mental healthcare, for example in psychiatric and psychological domains with emphasis on new technologies, such as video and audio technologies and mobile and wearable computing.

Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks: 16th International Symposium, I-SPAN 2019, Naples, Italy, September 16-20, 2019, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1080)

by Christian Esposito Jiman Hong Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2019, held in Naples, Italy, in September 2019. The 32 full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers focus on all aspects of: big data analytics & machine learning; cyber security; cloud fog & edge computing; communication solutions; high performance computing and applications; consumer cyber security; and vehicular technology.

Perversion, Pedagogy and the Comic: A Survey of the Concept of Theatre in the Christian Middle Ages

by Soumick De

Perversion, Pedagogy and the Comic studies how the idea-of-theater shaped western consciousness during the Christian Middle Ages. It analyses developments within western philosophy, Christian theology and theater history to show how this idea realized itself primarily as a metaphor circulating through various discursive domains. Beginning with Plato’s injunction against tragedy the relation between philosophy and theater has been a complicated affair which this book traces at the threshold when the western world became Christian. By late antiquity as theatre was slowly banned, Christian theology put the idea-of-theatre to use in order to show what they understood to be the perverted nature of worldly existence and the mystery of the Kingdom of God. Interrogating the theological teachings of some of the early Church Fathers like St Augustine, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria the book offers a new look at how the idea of theater not only inspired Christian liturgical practices but Christian pedagogy in general which in turn shaped the nature of Christian religious drama. Finally the author tries to demonstrate how this hegemonic use of the theatre-idea was countered by a certain comic sensibility which opened the idea of theatre in the Christian Middle Ages to a new and subversive materialist possibility. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Perversion, Pedagogy and the Comic: A Survey of the Concept of Theatre in the Christian Middle Ages

by Soumick De

Perversion, Pedagogy and the Comic studies how the idea-of-theater shaped western consciousness during the Christian Middle Ages. It analyses developments within western philosophy, Christian theology and theater history to show how this idea realized itself primarily as a metaphor circulating through various discursive domains. Beginning with Plato’s injunction against tragedy the relation between philosophy and theater has been a complicated affair which this book traces at the threshold when the western world became Christian. By late antiquity as theatre was slowly banned, Christian theology put the idea-of-theatre to use in order to show what they understood to be the perverted nature of worldly existence and the mystery of the Kingdom of God. Interrogating the theological teachings of some of the early Church Fathers like St Augustine, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria the book offers a new look at how the idea of theater not only inspired Christian liturgical practices but Christian pedagogy in general which in turn shaped the nature of Christian religious drama. Finally the author tries to demonstrate how this hegemonic use of the theatre-idea was countered by a certain comic sensibility which opened the idea of theatre in the Christian Middle Ages to a new and subversive materialist possibility. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Pet Sematary (Devil's Advocates)

by Shellie McMurdo

Most scholarship on Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary (1989) overarchingly focuses on the Stephen King novel (1983), and tends strongly towards housing the story within the Gothic literary tradition. The film itself is often absent from considerations of North American horror cinema of the 1980s, and from wider horror scholarship in general. This Devil's Advocate stands as a corrective, and provides a holistic analysis – textual, contextual, and industrial – of the film, in order to properly situate it as an important entry into the history of horror cinema. This book joins a growing body of works – both journalistic and academic – that aim to revisit older films in order to call attention to and/or redress the gendered imbalance in our written horror histories. McMurdo charges Pet Sematary with several contributions to the horror genre: as an important entry within the tradition of “grief horror”; as a horror film that both adheres to and defies the generic conventions of its historical context, one both engaged with and respondent to its time of creation; as a film that changed the fortunes of the cinematic Stephen King “brand” on the cusp of a new decade. Pet Sematary is the highest grossing horror film directed by a woman in cinematic history, and it stands as a story that we keep returning to – as seen by the 1992 sequel, the 2019 remake, and a forthcoming prequel. Pet Sematary’s modern relevance and importance to genre history then, is manifold, and this book argues it is past time for its reconsideration as a classic of horror cinema.

A Petal Unfolds: How To Make Paper Flowers

by Susan Beech

A Petal Unfolds is brimming with easy-to-make DIY paper flowers to bring beauty to your home. Susan gives step-by-step advice, discussing basic materials, tools and techniques as well as tips on flower parts, colouring and painting, before guiding you through each tutorial – so you can make something just as stunning as the real thing.

Peter and Alice (Oberon Modern Plays)

by John Logan

‘Of course that’s how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours’When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan. In John Logan’s remarkable new play, enchantment and reality collide as this brief encounter lays bare the lives of these two extraordinary characters.

Peter Andre - Between Us

by Peter Andre

With his easy charm, down-to-earth personality and natural good looks, it's no wonder that Peter Andre has legions of fans across the globe. Whilst once best known for producing chart-topping pop songs, selling millions of records worldwide and performing sell-out venues all over the world, in recent years he has shown himself to be a man of diverse talents. From presenting television shows to mastering ballroom dancing on Strictly Come Dancing; from launching a successful coffee shop business to the work he does for charities close to his heart.In this warm and intimate book, Peter invites you to take a look behind the scenes of his incredible life. He'll talk about the highs and lows he has experienced: how he met and fell in love with his wife, Emily; his joy at the arrival of his daughter Amelia; the laughs and fun he has with his two older children, Junior and Princess and how his music has evolved to reflect a new period in his life. He'll also touch on the worst time of his life, when he lost his brother, Andrew, to cancer, the unbreakable bond he has with his family and what the future holds for him.Packed with gorgeous colour photographs - many of them never seen before - this is a unique and very personal insight into the world of one of our best-loved celebrities.

Peter Brook: Oxford To Orghast To India

by R. Helfer G. Loney

Peter Brook is known internationally as a theatre visionary, and a daring experimenter on the cutting-edge of performance and production. This book concentrates on Brook's early years, and his innovative achievements in opera, television, film, and the theatre. His productions are viewed separately, in chronological order, suggesting Brook's developing and changing interests. The authors include thought-provoking interviews with Brook (and with numerous outstanding artists who have worked with him) and bring to the reader penetrating critiques of Brook's theories and practices as a man of the theatre.

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