CK - Art & Architecture 14

When Tamara Mellon’s father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: “Don’t let the accountants run your business.” Little did he know. Over the next fifteen years……続きを見る

A new collection of nonfiction writing on culture from the bestselling author of High Fidelity and Dickens and Prince. Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues brings together the best of Nick Hornby's non-fict……続きを見る

Two lavish, illustrated histories confronted and contested the Byzantine model of empire. The Madrid Skylitzes was created at the court of Roger II of Sicily in the mid-twelfth century. The Vatican ……続きを見る

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralーone of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all……続きを見る

Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after allーas much as we may want to consider it otherwiseーis being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this……続きを見る

Typically one third of the energy used in many buildings may be consumed by electric lighting. Good daylighting design can reduce electricity consumption for lighting and improve standards of visual……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kunst - Architektur, Baugeschichte, Denkmalpflege, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der nachfolgenden Ausarbeitung mit dem Titel 'Die Wolkenkratzer kom……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Kunst - Malerei, Note: 1,7, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut fu?r Kunstgeschichte ), Veranstaltung: Venezianische Malerei im 18……続きを見る

Neuk is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the delightful East Neuk, with its string of picturesque fishing and farming villages, is one of the most attractive parts of the country to investigat……続きを見る

Manchester’s proud past can be well summed up in its headlines. Steven Dickens delves into the archives of the Evening News to discover the events and personalities that have made the city what it i……続きを見る

Eccles is a town in the City of Salford, whose development is closely related to the establishment of the parish church of St Mary, c. 1100, and from which it takes its name. The town’s economy shif……続きを見る

‘Railway Mania’ changed Victorian Scotland forever. Fortunes were made and lost as rival railway promoters transformed the landscape with stations, cuttings, tunnels and bridges. In fact Scotland ha……続きを見る

Daniel Vickery, the editor of the Western Flying Post, wrote in A Sketch of the Town of Yeovil (1856) that ‘The town is surrounded on the South East by three remarkable hills – Babylonhill, Windmill……続きを見る

To its first inhabitants, the Tongvan Kucamonga tribe, cucamonga meant "land of many waters," referring to the area's numerous streams flowing down from the southeastern end of the San Gabriel Mount……続きを見る

During the construction of the Erie Canal in the early 1820s, the population of Western New York increased 145 percent. Many of these pioneers were European immigrants, with a high concentration hai……続きを見る

Is "goth music" a genre, and if so, how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasses a broad range of musical substyles, from gloomy Batcave ……続きを見る

This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely kno……続きを見る

Mit seinem Buch „City of Quartz“ hat Mike Davis im Jahr 1990 eine intensive Recherche zu aktuellen Themen der Stadtentwicklung anhand von Los Angeles vorgelegt. Dabei hat er nicht nur quasi die zwei……続きを見る

Das Lehrbuch wendet sich an Studierende der Architektur, Stadtplanung, Urbanistik, Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften. Es soll den Studierenden ermöglichen, für ihr Studium und ihre Studienprojekte eine……続きを見る

“My Brother Was an Only Child” was Jack Douglas’ very first humour book, having written for famous radio and television celebrities such as Jack Paar, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante, as wel……続きを見る

Designed specifically for university-level study, Moving Notation will benefit students and teachers of both dance and music, offering a complete introduction to the theory and practice of musical r……続きを見る

In Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), Syd Field first popularized the Three-Act Paradigm of Setup, Confrontation and Resolution for conceptualizing and creating the Hollywood scree……続きを見る

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and t……続きを見る

Although usually associated with the 1920s and the '30s, in fact the Art Deco style had begun to emerge in France prior to the advent of the First World War. But it was during the interwar years tha……続きを見る

Go beyond the birthday snapshot and learn how to take inspired and unposed family photographs that capture the ages and stages of family life. Real Life Family Photography puts an end to awkward fam……続きを見る

Ob es der Anzug für den ersten Job sein soll oder der Smoking für den Opernball: Gut angezogen möchte jeder Mann sein. Dazu braucht er nicht das passende Portemonnaie, sondern das nötige Wissen darü……続きを見る

Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft and making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive focus on the ways in which this creative sector is growing exponentiall……続きを見る

Spanish Art - An Introductory Review of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Ceramics, Woodwork, Metalwork.' by Robert Rattray Tatlock. Tatlock was an art critic and historian. He was born i……続きを見る

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through wo……続きを見る

Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical ……続きを見る