Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture After 1945
ISBN: 9781469638683 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining a wide range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this book is a daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice from 1945 to the present. Essays explore the activist impulse of documentarians who not only record reality but also challenge their audiences to take part in reality's remaking.
Examining a wide range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this book is a dari...
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Capturing the South: Imagining America's Most Documented Region
ISBN: 9781469646442 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen.
In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies o...
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581,14 zł |
Church and State in the Modern Age: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780195086812 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique and essential reference on church-state relations in modern history collects virtually every major document associated with the evolution of the post-Reformation churches--Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox--in their relationship to the simultaneously developing modern state in the West. Maclear includes royal edicts, revolutionary decrees, state constitutions, religious protests, papal pronouncements, and Supreme Court decisions, ranging from the Gallican Articles in 1682 to the Soviet Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religion of 1990, and follows each selection with suggestions...
This unique and essential reference on church-state relations in modern history collects virtually every major document associated with the evolution ...
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587,43 zł |
The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes
ISBN: 9780195027419 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the human life cycle as an organizational framework, Axtell has gathered a broad range of 17th and 18th century European documentation on Native North Americans. With its lucid introductions to each entry, suggestions for further reading, and bibliography, this sourcebook is invaluable for courses in history, anthropology, and native American and women's studies.
Using the human life cycle as an organizational framework, Axtell has gathered a broad range of 17th and 18th century European documentation on Native...
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604,31 zł |
From Supplication to Revolution: A Documentary Social History of Imperial Russia
ISBN: 9780195043594 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a unique documentary history of the development of the social order in Imperial Russia, by printing translations of representative statements from the main social categories of Russian society.
This volume presents a unique documentary history of the development of the social order in Imperial Russia, by printing translations of representativ...
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604,31 zł |
McCarthyism, the Great American Red Scare: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780195097016 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. It discusses the turbulent years during which Americans were routinely persecuted because they were suspected of being insufficiently patriotic or too sympathetic to the Soviet Union. The persecution took various forms, from imprisonment to the purging and blacklisting of untold thousands. Fried demonstrates how the end result was to consign the American radical left to irrelevancy, helping to ensure that already established policies,...
Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mi...
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604,31 zł |
New York, New York
ISBN: 9780847824977 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After World War II, New York became the laboratory for the Western world's avant-garde art movements, a prominent role it maintained for decades. Generations of New York artists have left their mark on the development of contemporary art in the context of influential art movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Super Realism, Minimalism, Land Art, Body Art, and Conceptual Art. This show and catalog, published in association with a major exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum of Monte Carlo, is the most comprehensive exploration of this topic. New York, New York encompasses critical...
After World War II, New York became the laboratory for the Western world's avant-garde art movements, a prominent role it maintained for decades. Gene...
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606,17 zł |
American Religions: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780195170450 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion has played a complex, vibrant, and multifaceted role in our nation's history. One of the most effective ways to help students explore its vitality is through primary sources. American Religions: A Documentary History is the only one-volume, up-to-date collection of primary sources available for American religious history courses. Featuring a creative dual structure--the readings are arranged both chronologically and thematically--this indispensable sourcebook can be used in both historically and topically organized courses.
Balancing canonical works with those by newly... Religion has played a complex, vibrant, and multifaceted role in our nation's history. One of the most effective ways to help students explore its vit...
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627,53 zł |
Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9781839981500 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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689,52 zł |
Good Morning America Volume 3
ISBN: 9781910401491 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 10-year project, created as he meanders across the vast country, is a personal and timely exploration of both the American cultural and physical landscape, and the divergence of reality and myth.‘For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to explore America, an ambition fueled by a legion of TV shows that crossed the Atlantic in the 1960s,” he writes. “As a young and impressionable child I devoured The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Fugitive, but it was the westerns, evoking a landscape altogether removed from the congested English suburbs surrounding me, that I loved most...I began...
This 10-year project, created as he meanders across the vast country, is a personal and timely exploration of both the American cultural and physical ...
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696,78 zł |
Barbarian Lens: Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor's European Palaces
ISBN: 9789057005190 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the prestigious academic book series Documenting the Image, this is a fascinating survey illustrated by extremely rare photographs of the burned architectural and landscape complex known as the Rape of the Summer Palace.
In 1860, Western armies brought ruin to the treasured seat of the Qing emperors near Beijing. One hundred and fifty images have been collected to date as a support for an extensive study of the building of the palaces and their subsequent destruction. This book is a rigourous analysis of the work and experiences of the European photographers, both... Part of the prestigious academic book series Documenting the Image, this is a fascinating survey illustrated by extremely rare photographs of...
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The Travel Photo Essay: Describing a Journey Through Images
ISBN: 9781138200203 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Successful travel photographers have to wear more hats than perhaps any other photographic genre. In a single travel photo essay they are at times architectural photographers, food photographers, music photographers, car photographers – the list encompassing every possible type of photography. The Travel Photo Essay teaches the reader the necessary techniques to create cohesive professional travel stories, using images that go far beyond "I was here" photographs. From the establishing shots to the equipment list, this book discusses the techniques and concepts... Successful travel photographers have to wear more hats than perhaps any other photographic genre. In a single travel photo essay they are at times ... |
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826,23 zł |
A Road Trip Journal
ISBN: 9780714848013 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A photo diary of the author's road trip across America in the early 1970s, this text features unpublished photographs from Shore's influential work.
A photo diary of the author's road trip across America in the early 1970s, this text features unpublished photographs from Shore's influential work.
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Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change
ISBN: 9781138458000 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ethiopia Photographed: Historic Photographs of the Country and Its People Taken Between 1867 and 1935
ISBN: 9780710305046 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia Photographed covers the period from the inception of photography in the country up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia - such as Emperor Melenik, Lej Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie - make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals. Situated in lofty, often inaccessible mountains between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, and extending far into the... Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia P... |
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Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings
ISBN: 9783836527958 / Angielski / Twarda / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The prince of decadence: Looking at Klimt in a whole new light During his lifetime, Gustav Klimtwas a controversial star whose works made passions run high. He stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His picturespolarized and divided the art-loving world. The press and general public alike were split over the question: For or against Klimt?This monograph explores Klimt's oeuvre with particular emphasis upon such contemporary voices. With a complete catalog of his paintings, includingnew photographs of the Stoclet Friezecommissioned exclusively for this book, it examines the...
The prince of decadence: Looking at Klimt in a whole new light During his lifetime, Gustav Klimtwas a controversial star whose works made passions run...
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The Lifeboat: Courage On Our Coasts Limited Edition
ISBN: 9781844862276 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are delighted to announce the publication, in partnership with The RNLI, of a special, Limited Edition of The Lifeboat: Courage on our Coasts. This edition is bound in real cloth and quarter-bound by hand using the yellow fabric from the over-jacket or trouser of the all-weather waterproofs used by the RNLI. The book is presented in a unique pouch which is handmade in the UK from the distinctive red fabric and reflective badge from a decommissioned RNLI inshore lifejacket. The Limited Edition book and pouch are presented in a Lifeboat display box bound in navy cloth. Only 350 Limited...
We are delighted to announce the publication, in partnership with The RNLI, of a special, Limited Edition of The Lifeboat: Courage on our Coasts. This...
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Santu Mofokeng: Stories
ISBN: 9783958295155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1046 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1959,70 zł |
Lee Friedlander: America by Car: Limited Edition
ISBN: 9781935202080 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual -form- for making photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country's eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century....
Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the c...
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2351,63 zł |