Mennonite Arts
Mennonite Arts

Author: Clarke Hess

Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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The rich and diverse arts practiced by the distinctive Mennonite communities in Europe, Pennsylvania, and Canada over a 300-year period are presented. A host of newly recognized Mennonite artisans of traditional quilts, furniture, wood carvings, and fraktur, are introduced, and many are displayed here in the hundreds of color images.

The Black Dancing Body
The Black Dancing Body

Author: B. Gottschild

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1137039000

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What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.

The Control Revolution
The Control Revolution

Author: James R. Beniger

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Published: 1986-09-12

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13:

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Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the 1800s. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information.