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( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard……続きを見る

Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, bu……続きを見る

Politics in Developing Countries provides a clear and reader-friendly introduction to the key factors and themes that shape political processes in developing countries. Achieving development outcome……続きを見る

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alik……続きを見る

Robin Veder’s The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American modernism. The author illuminates connections among the his……続きを見る

Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They cr……続きを見る

Talvez todo falante de português brasileiro entenda o que significa "gambiarra": improvisação, quebra-galho, uso de recursos alternativos nas dificuldades do cotidiano. Mas provavelmente muitos desc……続きを見る

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre. Wi……続きを見る

For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his ……続きを見る

Sunset. Fire. Rainbow. Drawing on such common occurrences of light, Navajo artists have crafted an uncommon array of design in colored glass beads. Beadwork is an art form introduced to the Navajos ……続きを見る

It will either persist or end today, the inauspicious day years of bad luck will cease to foreshadow the remaining bands of Eastern Cherokee tribes of Native Indians residing the Great Smoky Mountai……続きを見る

As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his……続きを見る

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous art A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from Nor……続きを見る

This is the story of a little, black cat who lost his meow and how he got it back. The story, fully illustrated with photos and digital art, is appropriate to be read to young children, ages 3 to 5 ……続きを見る

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the ……続きを見る

The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization. Winner, CHOICE Outst……続きを見る

Nicknamed the “Island of Lace,” the Caribbean island of Saba is the smallest special municipality in the Netherlands. Folklorist Eric A. Eliason, at the behest of the president of the Saba Lace Ladi……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and families posing for portraits with deceased loved ones--ar……続きを見る

Benjamin Franklin FRS, FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705][1] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author,……続きを見る

As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses ……続きを見る

Pastiche is inspirational artistic work that mimes the places, techniques or motifs of other artists or periods. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates. It's ins……続きを見る

Meticulously pieced together from personal experiences that come with years of travel, an extensive knowledge of the historic and scholarly works, and a deep appreciation of Latin American art and c……続きを見る

**"The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived." ー**New York Times Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who cap……続きを見る

El libro nos lleva a un recorrido por el proceso del trabajo artesanal en la elaboración de pieles y sus resultados, contando con los conocimientos de un experimentado curtidor que aporta su vasta e……続きを見る

En esta obra el lector puede encontrar nexos entre dos ámbitos aparentemente distantes: la filosofía y el cine. Los autores realizan un minucioso examen de la obra de ficción de Humberto Solás. Part……続きを見る

El libro resulta un bojeo por la carismática personalidad del afamado y multilaureado nacional e internacionalmente chef Gilberto Smith Duquesne, Premio Catalina de Médicis. Incluye algunas de sus r……続きを見る

The world has not been fair to the Native Americans, to the extent that they were treated with violence. But the blood in their past only fueled the passion to show the world that they could be so m……続きを見る

Would you like to know more about the Native Americans? Then here’s a huge learning resource for you! It includes books that discuss the different tribes, what their societies are like, as well as t……続きを見る

The Native American Indians are the group of people that were already in America even before it was discovered by Christopher Columbus. As a people, they had their own culture, traditions, language ……続きを見る

In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and ci……続きを見る