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Author: Jean-Louis Bourgeois
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these images, white arabesques dance on red walls, and abacus-like mud colonnades shield farmers from sun and wind; mud is "twisted" into playful columns, sculpted into ornate facade relief, and massed into lofty towers of majestic mosques. This edition's new afterword discusses adobe politics in New Mexico, and illustrates the authors' own adobe home.
Author: Russell A. Potter
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780791426258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.
Author: Camille Washington
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780935640991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. and three other institutions between January 29, 2011 and March 18, 2012.
Author: Amy Abugo Ongiri
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0813928591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9004144420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour.
Author: Henning Klöter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9004184937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.
Author: James Morris
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1568984138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.
Author: Maiken Umbach
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780804753432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.
Author: Frank Maresca
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780821227800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes. 12,500 first printing.
Author: Peter D. Kramer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002-06-06
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0743223241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.
