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Architecture and development : Israeli construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and…
comPosing these notes during the coviD- 19 pandemic deepens my appreciation of the intellectual community that sustains prolonged efforts such as writing a book—and renders them worthwhile. From its beginning as a seminar paper, Architecture and Development has owed its formation at every step to an always converging and diverging circle of friends and family, mentors and colle…
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- 14
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- 9781478091820
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- ix, 337p.; ill.
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- 720.95694 ARC l
The vienna genesis : material analysis and conservation of a Late antique ill…
The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) is a fragmentary Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis written on purple dyed parchment with silver ink. It is assumed that the book was created in the first half of the 6th century in the Near East. 24 folios with 48 miniatures have survived and have been stored at the Austrian National Library since 1664. The Vienn…
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- edision 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783205210580
- Collation
- -
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- -
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- 745.67487. THE c
The saburo hasegawa reader
Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator Saburo Hasegawa (1908–1957), translated into English for the first time. Credited with introducing abstract art to Japan in the 1930s, Hasega…
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- edision 12
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520970922
- Collation
- xxv. :ill. ;166 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 709.2. THE j
Things that travelled : Mediterranean glass in the first millennium CE
Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Things that Travelled, a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Gl…
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- -
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- 9781787351172
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- xviii, 362 p. ill;
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- 748.20937 THI D
Ethnographic experiments with artists, designers and boundary objects : exhib…
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary coll…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800081086
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- xiii, 201 p. ill;
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- -
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- 708 ETH F
Disordering the establishment : participatory art and institutional critique …
In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cul…
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- -
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- 9781478012085
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- xi, 336p.; ill.
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- -
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- 709.05015 DIS w
Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
Text Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory Hansmann, Sabine - Personal Name; In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839455029
- Collation
- 245 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 720 MON S
Nineteenth-century transcriptions of works by Fryderyk Chopin
This book is the first monographic study of nineteenth-century transcriptions of Chopin's music. The work is based on the quantitatively and qualitatively rich source material, which formed the basis for considerations from the perspective of social history, music analysis and aesthetics. Thanks to these multiple perspectives, as well as the time range and the source base, this study may contri…
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- 8
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783631804841
- Collation
- 310p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 786.2092 NIN B
The Mimetic Strand in the Cello Literature : Within the Context of History, I…
This book is the first integral study of the history of imitative or co-creative artistic work that has led to the creation of cello transcriptions and arrangements. Of an interdisciplinary character, it explores the views that have shaped approaches to the art of cello performance and describes the role of cello transcriptions and the development of instrument making. The book also addresses i…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783631826287
- Collation
- 334p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 787.4 MIM U
Revolutionary bodies: Chinese dance and the socialist legacy
This book examines the history of concert dance in China from 1935 to 2015, with a focus on Chinese dance and its relationship to revolutionary performance culture in PRC history. The book argues that Chinese dance, not revolutionary ballet, was the primary legacy of Maoist dance research and innovation. Showing the relationship between dance and politics, it discusses dance developments during…
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- edision 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520971905
- Collation
- xv, 305p.: ill.
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- -
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- 792.80951 WIL r
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