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Book Synopsis Projected Art History by : Doris Berger
Download or read book Projected Art History written by Doris Berger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat (1996) and Pollock (2000), the book also discusses larger issues at play, such as how postwar American art history is being mediated for mass consumption. This book bridges a gap between art history, film studies and popular culture by investigating how the film genre of biopics adapts written biographies. It identifies the functionality of the biopic genre and explores its implication for a popular art history that is projected on the big screen for a mass audience.
Book Synopsis Narrative Projections of a Black British History by : Eva Ulrike Pirker
Download or read book Narrative Projections of a Black British History written by Eva Ulrike Pirker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses narratives that center on, construct, or comment on black British history. Outlining the emergence of black history in Britain and shifts in the politics of history, it principally focuses on recent narratives that engage critically with the historical culture surrounding black Britain.
Download or read book Projections written by Jared Gardner and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the graphic novel, its origins, and its continuing evolution as a literary art form.” —Midwest Book Review When Art Spiegelman’s Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year. Projections argues that the seemingly sudden visibility of comics is no accident. Beginning with the parallel development of narrative comics at the turn of the 20th century, comics have long been a form that invites—indeed requires—readers to help shape the stories being told. Today, with the rise of interactive media, the creative techniques and the reading practices comics have been experimenting with for a century are now in universal demand. Recounting the history of comics from the nineteenth-century rise of sequential comics to the newspaper strip, through comic books and underground comix, to the graphic novel and webcomics, Gardner shows why they offer the best models for rethinking storytelling in the twenty-first century. In the process, he reminds us of some beloved characters from our past and present, including Happy Hooligan, Krazy Kat, Crypt Keeper, and Mr. Natural. “Provocative . . . examine[s] the progress of the form from a variety of surprising angles.” —Jonathan Barnes, Times Literary Supplement “A landmark study.” —Charles Hatfield, California State University, Northridge, author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature “A succinct and savvy cultural history of American comics.” —Hillary Chute, University of Chicago
Book Synopsis Rhumb Lines and Map Wars by : Mark Monmonier
Download or read book Rhumb Lines and Map Wars written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.
Book Synopsis Congress of Arts and Science by : Howard Jason Rogers
Download or read book Congress of Arts and Science written by Howard Jason Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and French in North America, 1689-1763 by : Justin Winsor
Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and French in North America, 1689-1763 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Historical Review by : John Franklin Jameson
Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Book Synopsis Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.
Download or read book The Expositor written by Samuel Cox and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Universal Literature by : Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Download or read book Handbook of Universal Literature written by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary News written by L. Pylodet and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis And Now The Shipping Forecast by : Peter Jefferson
Download or read book And Now The Shipping Forecast written by Peter Jefferson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Jefferson presented The Shipping Forecast for over 40 years, and his familiar voice continued to be heard reading quotations on BBC Radio 4's Quote... Unquote. This book is both an affectionate memoir and a history of the science and BBC programming behind the forecast. Peter explains how it came out, who collects all the information and what it's like to read this bulletin. Even though the information in the forecast is now readily available in many formats, The Shipping Forecast is something of a 'must listen' for fans gathered over the decades. For reasons not quite understood, it has become a much-loved part of the British cultural landscape with an avid following of listeners who find its poetry is the perfect cure for insomnia. This book is perfect for those fans.
Book Synopsis Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society by : Glasgow Bibliographical Society
Download or read book Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society written by Glasgow Bibliographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1800-1821 written by Edwin Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bodleian Quarterly Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
