Allmän konsthistoria
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15 Swedish Icons : stories & treasures
Ullström, SofieSwedish IconsWhy are there so many red buildings in Sweden? Where did we get the tradition of dressing the maypole? Did the Vikings really have horns on their helmets? Swedish Icons presents a...
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African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present
Haour, Anne; Manning, K.; Arazi, N.; Gosselain, O.Oxbow BooksAfrican Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short l...
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Air Force Lives
Tomaselli, PhilPen and SwordWhat was it like to serve as an airman in the Second World War, as a pilot, a bomb aimer, or aerial gunner, or as a trainee pilot in 1913, a Zeppelin chaser during the First World...
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American Graffiti : Temporis
Thompson, MargoParkstone International 2012 1. utgåvaThe first appearances of graffiti “tags” (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the...
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Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology
Oxbow BooksAnimals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access t...
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ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy Between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945-1956
Kelly, AndrewOpen Book PublishersThe ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the...
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Archaeology and Anthropology
Garrow, Duncan; Yarrow, ThomasOxbow BooksThis book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and...
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The Archaeology of Cremation
Oxbow BooksHuman societies have disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. However, while considerable attention has been paid to bodies that were buried, comparatively little work has been...
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The Archaeology of Darkness
Oxbow BooksThrough time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and some...
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The Archaeology of Politics and Power
Maisels, Charles KeithOxbow BooksArchaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they...
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Archaeomalacology Revisited
Oxbow BooksThe past decade has witnessed a remarkable momentum in the advancement of archaeomalacological research but there is still a lot of room for progress. These ten papers are the seco...
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Art history for dummies
Wilder, Jesse BryantWiley 2007Art history is more than just a collection of dates and foreign-sounding names, obscure movements and arcane isms. Every age, for the last 50,000 years has left its unique imprint...
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Art history the basics
Pooke, Grant.; Newall, DianaRoutledge 2008Art & Art Histories Formalism & Art An Introduction to Art & Social Meaning Marxism, Art & Aesthetics Art & Gender Art, Sex & Psychobiography Semiotics, Signs & Simulacr...
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Art in Europe
Charles, VictoriaParkstone International 2014 1. utgåvaThe European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums c...
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Art is not what you think it is
Preziosi, DonaldWiley-Blackwell 2012Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has...
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Art nouveau
Lahor, Jean.; Brimacombe, RebeccaParkstone; 2007Art Nouveau designates a decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum i...
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The Art of Scientific Discovery - Creativity, Giftedness and the Nobel Laureates
Hakala, Juha T.Klaava MediaThe book describes the scientific discovery and the nature of creative work. The creative process is covered specifically as experienced by researchers. The author’s correspondence...
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Baroque Art
Charles, Victoria; Carl, KlausParkstone International 2014 1. utgåvaThe Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand f...
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The Beautiful : An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
Lee, VernonDuke Classics 2021What is it that makes us regard one object or artwork as aesthetically pleasing, while considering another to be unattractive? In a series of engaging and well-argued essays, autho...
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Beijing 1986
Bovin, BobBovin DesignIn 2019 The People´s Republic of China will be 70 years old. It constitutes a very short period in the 6000 thousand years of Chinese civilisation. But the progress and change of t...