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Before the museums came : a social history of the fine arts in the Twin Cities
Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States, spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915. Readers will learn about the institutions and organiza…
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- 9788376560052
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- V, 126 p.
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- 704.04209747 HAR b
Transforming our world through design, diversity and education : proceedings…
Good design is enabling, and each and every one of us is a designer. Universal Design is widely recognized an important concept that should be incorporated in all person-centred policies. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) clearly stipulates that the most effective way of delivering on the promise of an inclusive society is through a Universal Desi…
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- 9781614999232
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- xvi, 885 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 256
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- 745.4 TRA t
Why we play
Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s man…
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- 9780986132568
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- xxi, 370p.
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- 790
Screen space reconfigured
Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of emerging forms of screen space and spatialities as they move from the margins to the centre of contemp…
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- 9789048529056
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- 332 p.
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- MediaMatters,
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- 791 SCE s
Landscape impact assessment in planning processes
Aims and Scope Growing social and economic needs exert major pressures on landscapes, challenging preserved landscape values and the regional significance of places. As a result, the scope oflandscape management has broadened and diversifiedin response to international calls for greater landscape protection, and to existing and new challenges, such as thoserelating to climate change adaptation…
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- 9783110601558
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- X, 218 p.
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- 712 BEL l
narratology of comic art
By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be meaningfully investigated with existing narrative theory, but an interpretive study of the potential in …
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- 9781315410135
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- ix, 300p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge advances in comics studies ; 3
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- 741.5 MIK n
cinema of Oliver Stone: art, authorship and activism
This book charts and analyses the work of Oliver Stone – arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. Drawing on previously unseen production files from Oliver Stone’s personal archives and hours of interviews both with Stone and a range of present and former associates within the industry, the book employs a thematic structure to explore Ston…
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- 9780719099168
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- viii, 307 pages : ill.; 23 cm
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- 791.430233092 SCO c
Screenwriting : creative labor and professional practice
Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyses the histories, practices, identities and subject which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters. Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigates and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed. Chapters explore areas including screenwriting as creative labor, scre…
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- 9780203080771
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- VII, 155 p.
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- 791.43023 CON s
Cold War cosmopolitanism: period style in 1950s Korean cinema
"Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural …
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- 9780520968981
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- pages cm
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- 791.430233092 KLE c
Music and knowledge : a performer's perspective
This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician’s performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
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- 9789463008877
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- XV, 155 p.
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- 780.7 DAH m
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