2016, ISBN: 9780252078514

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Corner crease to the rear cover. Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the fi… More...

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Corner crease to the rear cover. Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's aesthetic production (ca. 1940-1972). Paying particular attention to Cage's inter- and cross-disciplinary engagements with the visual arts and architecture during this period, the book sheds new light on some of Cage's most controversial and influential innovations, such as the use of noise, chance techniques, indeterminacy, electronic technologies, and computerization, as well as upon lesser known but important ideas and strategies such as transparency, multiplicity, virtuality, and actualization. Ultimately, it traces the development of Cage's avant-garde aesthetic and political project as it transformed from the emulation of historical avant-garde precedents such as futurism and the Bauhaus, to the development of important precedents for the post-World War II movements of happenings and Fluxus, to its ultimate abandonment in the aftermath of problems encountered in the vast, multimedia composition HPSCHD (1967-69)., Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, 0, Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2015. Roma, Istituto Portoghese di Sant'Antonio, 7 novembre - 29 novembre 2015. A cura di Romoli Barberini A. Testo Italiano e Inglese. Roma, 2015; br., pp. 112, ill. col., cm 24x23,5. (Arte, Disegno, Rilievo, Design). The artistic personality of Paola Romano is highlighted, first of all [...] by the particular inclination to a declination of doing that finds its meaning in the experience of its making and equally in the residual trails of its manifestation, the works. Hers is an approach that doesn't impose itself already as a moment following a theoretical reflection, but as an experimental necessity which tends to the achievement of an aesthetic result essentially unpredictable because released from any project. In other words her doing is nothing but the revealing act that testifies in a perfect way that indomitable creative instinct that led to experience over the years, different techniques and languages. However this practice in the name of absolute freedom, which disregards projects and precepts, doesn't lack a moment in which this kind of virtuous inertia of doing gives way to evaluation, observation and judgment of what has been achieved. This is a grim situation and it might often leads to the zeroing, cancellation and destruction of the object: if it is true that everything can contribute to the realization of the work, it is also true that not everything can reach that dignity, Ms Romano seems to show., Gangemi Editore, 2015, 0, Paperback / softback. New. Who says you can't be pious and fashionable? Throughout the Muslim world, women have found creative ways of expressing their personality through the way they dress. Headscarves can be modest or bold, while brand-name clothing and accessories are part of a multimillion-dollar ready-to-wear industry that caters to pious fashion from head to toe. In this lively snapshot, Elizabeth Bucar takes us to Iran, Turkey, and Indonesia and finds a dynamic world of fashion, faith, and style. &quot;Brings out both the sensuality and pleasure of sartorial experimentation.&quot; -Times Literary Supplement &quot;I defy anyone not to be beguiled by [Bucar's] generous-hearted yet penetrating observation of pious fashion in Indonesia, Turkey and Iran... Bucar uses interviews with consumers, designers, retailers and journalists...to examine the presumptions that modest dressing can't be fashionable, and fashion can't be faithful.&quot; -Times Higher Education &quot;Bucar disabuses readers of any preconceived ideas that women who adhere to an aesthetic of modesty are unfashionable or frumpy.&quot; -Robin Givhan, Washington Post &quot;A smart, eye-opening guide to the creative sartorial practices of young Muslim women... Bucar's lively narrative illuminates fashion choices, moral aspirations, and social struggles that will unsettle those who prefer to stereotype than inform themselves about women's everyday lives in the fast-changing, diverse societies that constitute the Muslim world.&quot; -Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, 6, The Japan Foundation & Crafts Board of the Australia Council, Sydney 1979. 24.5 x 17cm. 216pp. b/w illustrations. very good paperback with French flaps . Hideuki Oka.'s essay laments the passing of the traditional, un-selfconscious and experimental Japanese packaging crafts that he wrote about in 'How To Wrap Five More Eggs' (1965)., The Japan Foundation & Crafts Board of the Australia Council, Sydney 1979, 0, Trade Paperback. Publisher: Stockholm University | Utg. 2015 | Trade Paperback | 317 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Music theory has long aligned itself with the sciences - particularly with physics, mathematics, and experimental psychology - seeking to cloak itself in the mantle of their epistemological legitimacy. This affinity, which was foreshadowed in music's inclusion in the medieval quadrivium alongside geometry, astronomy, and arithmetic, is evident throughout the history of music theory from the scientific revolution onward. Yet, as eager as music theorists have been to claim the epistemological privilege accorded the sciences, they have also been wary of limitations attending such an alliance. This collection of essays will provide a historical as well as a philosophical and aesthetic context regarding music theory's relationship to science. The thirteen authors work in a range of fields and traditions including music theory, musicology, and philosophy. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 0, Paperback / softback. New. Explores David Lynch's experimental aesthetics, 6<

2012, ISBN: 9780252078514

A key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mood, texture, and uneasy artifice. We ent… More...

A key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mood, texture, and uneasy artifice. We enter these famously cinematic interiors to be wrapped in plastic, the fundamental substance of Lynch’s work. This volume revels in the weird dynamism of Lynch’s plastic worlds. Exploring the range of modern design idioms that inform Lynch’s films and signature mise-en-scène, Justus Nieland argues that plastic is at once a key architectural and interior design dynamic in Lynch’s films, an uncertain way of feeling essential to Lynch’s art, and the prime matter of Lynch’s strange picture of the human organism. Nieland’s study offers striking new readings of Lynch’s major works (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Dr., Inland Empire) and his early experimental films, placing Lynch’s experimentalism within the aesthetic traditions of modernism and the avant-garde; the genres of melodrama, film noir, and art cinema; architecture and design history; and contemporary debates about cinematic ontology in the wake of the digital. This inventive study argues that Lynch’s plastic concept of life--supplemented by technology, media, and sensuous networks of an electric world--is more alive today than ever. Books Justus Nieland|Paperback|University of Illinois Press|28/02/2012, University of Illinois Press<

2012, ISBN: 9780252078514

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University of Illinois Press. New. 2012. Paperback. 0252078519 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 206 pp. ; 26 illus. -- with a bonus offer-- ., University of Illinois Press, 2012, 6<

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