"New babies just home from the hospital, children cavorting under the Christmas tree; weddings, receptions, birthday parties--these and many other happy memories live on through the magic of color slides." --Kodak instruction manual, 1967
Interview with Darsie Alexander, Curator, BMA, August 2004
Since the Renaissance, most art has been prized because of the prodigious skills that went into its making. Why would any artist choose to work with slides?
It's tempting to see slide projection as quick and easy. Indeed, many artists cite these qualities when...
"New babies just home from the hospital, children cavorting under the Christmas tree; weddings, receptions, birthday parties--these and many other ...
This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.
New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art-theoretical texts.
Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s.
Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures.
The editors provide contextual introductions to 340 texts.
Complements Art in Theory...
This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant co...
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: B+, University of Portsmouth, language: English, abstract: The focus of the dissertation will be the discussion of the difficulties that the translator encountered when faced with translating humour using the subtitled comedy sketch show Little Britain as a case study. For the benefit of the reader, the first part of this dissertation is going to shed led on various theories of humour. Moreover, it will discuss how humour is created in the comedy sketch show Little Britain and by...
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: B+, University of Portsmouth, language...
Humour is a complex concept which tends to build on the ambiguity of language. When converting a humoristic program into a different language, the translator thus faces many challenges. One of these is the translation of cultural aspects of the TL (target language). Since every culture contains its unique form of humour, understanding the humour within a culture and all its cultural elements is essential to producing an adequate translation. The study at hand focuses on the translation of the British comedy-sketch show Little Britain analyzing how it has been converted from its SL (source...
Humour is a complex concept which tends to build on the ambiguity of language. When converting a humoristic program into a different language, the tra...
