Search Results - "Postmodernism"

PLAYING WITH HISTORY The Historical Approach to Musical Performance by Butt, John

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Group psychology and political theory by Alford, C. Fred

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Graphic Design Theory Readings from the Field

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Graphic design as communication by Barnard, Malcolm 1958-

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Performance in the twenty-first century theatres of engagement by Lavender, Andy

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Reflexive Methodology New Vistas for Qualitative Research by Alvesson, Mats

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Script Analysis For Actors, Directors, And Designers by Thomas, James

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The layout book by Ambrose, Gavin

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Historical context: Classical principles; Early manuscripts; The development of printing; The impact of moveable type; The Renaissance; The Arts and Crafts movement; Art Nouveau; The Bauhaus; Art Deco; The rise of Modernism; International Style; Graphic design today; Postmodernism; Deconstruction -- Chapter 2 - Principles: The process of design; Relative and absolute measurements; Proportion; Number sequences; The vocabulary of layout design; Zeitgeist -- Chapter 3 - Grids and formations: The grid; Columns; Fields or modules; The baseline grid; Representation and reality; Matrices -- Chapter 4 - Objects on a page: The narrative - What we read; How we read a page; White space; Balance; Juxtaposition; Alignment; Broadside; Leading and fonts; Hyphenation and justification; Indentation; Hierarchy; Layers; Colour; Texture; Pace; Picture boxes; Passepartout; The gutter -- Chapter 5 - Application: Typography; Music; Interior design; Furniture; Architecture; Newspapers; Magazines; Books and brochures; Packaging; Websites; The built environment; Quantitative information; Identity programmes -- Chapter 6 - Reference: Paper sizes; DIN (Deutsche Industrie Norm); Envelope sizes; Book sizes; Outdoor media sizes; Standard templates -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements.…”
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Western Architecture A Survey from Ancient Greece to the Present by Sutton, Ian

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The Politics of Parametricism Digital Technologies in Architecture

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Beth Henley a casebook

Table of Contents: “…Mapp -- Moving beyond Mississippi : Beth Henley and the anxieties of postsouthernness / Gary Richards -- The lucky spot as immanent critique / Rebecca King -- Abundance or excess? : Beth Henley's postmodern romance of the true West / Karen L. Laughlin -- Existential despair and the modern neurosis : Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart / Gene A. …”
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CRITICAL VIEWS ON WORKS BY A. SAMAD SAID

Table of Contents: “…Samad Said's little jewels / Rosnah Baharuddin -- Siti Salina, looking back / Shahnon Ahmad -- Nasib (destiny) and takdir (fate) in Salina / Sohaimi Abdul Aziz -- Postmodernism in literature and its effects on nation building, a study of Hujan pagi and A4 / Sohaimi Abdul Aziz -- Rasa, aesthetic experience from Langit petang / Sohaimi Abdul Aziz -- The works of A. …”
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Art & today by Heartney, Eleanor 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Art & popular culture : the Warhol effect -- Art & the quotidian object : the transformation of the readymade -- Art & abstraction : retreat from purity -- Art & representation : the fiction of realism -- Art & narrative : postmodern story telling -- Art & time : from real time to reel time -- Art & nature and technology : remaking land and body -- Art & deformation : celebrating human imperfection -- Art & the body : from object to subject -- Art & identity : the rise of the hybrid self -- Art & spirituality : rediscovering transcendence -- Art & globalism : negotiating a borderless world -- Art & architecture : the utopian fallacy -- Art & its institutions : art reflects on itself -- Art & politics : the rhetoric of dissent -- Art & audience : reinventing the viewer -- Notes -- Chronology -- List of artists -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Islam in the digital age e-jihad, online fatwas and cyber Islamic environments by Bunt, Gary R

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Brecht and critical theory dialectics and contemporary aestics by Carney, Sean

Table of Contents: “…Brecht and language -- Marxism and rhetoric -- Brecht and postmodernism -- Verfremdungseffekt and unheimlich -- Psychoanalysis and class-consciousness -- Brecht and class -- Gestus, language, negation -- Marxism and science -- Lacanian gestus -- Dialectical images -- Dialectic at a standstill -- Jetztzeit -- Dialectical images -- Modelbooks -- Kafka's gestus -- Trauerspiel -- Brechtian Trauerspiel -- Mourning as a socially symbolic act -- Hamlet -- "Marx" das Unheimliche? …”
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100 IDEAS THAT CHANGED ARCHITECTURE by Weston, Richard 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Fireplace -- Floor -- Wall -- Column and beam -- Door -- Window -- Brick -- Staircase -- Classical orders -- Arch -- Vault -- Dome -- Arcade -- Courtyard -- Atrium -- Platform -- Basilica --- Humanism -- Proportion -- Form -- Ornament -- Ideal -- Module -- Grid -- Symmetry -- Commodity, firmness, and delight -- Particularity -- Architect -- Orthographic projection -- Perspective projection -- Composition -- Utopia -- Style -- Palladianism -- Corridor -- Primitive hut -- Genius loci -- Scenography -- Picturesque -- Gothic revival -- Beaux-arts -- Iron -- Steel -- Glass -- Roof lighting -- Structural frame -- Central heating -- Electric lighting -- The elevator -- Reinforced concrete -- Art of building -- Tectonic form -- Polychromy -- Conservation -- Empathy -- Air conditioning -- Form follows function -- Zeitgeist -- Space -- Modernity -- In the nature of materials -- Cladding -- Organic architecture -- Ornament is crime -- Free plan -- Architectural promenade -- Five points of a new architecture -- Abstraction -- Transparency -- Axonometric projection -- Collage -- Layering -- International style -- Less is more -- Regionalism -- Flexibility -- Beton brut -- Morphology -- Additive composition -- Servant and served spaces -- Postmodernism -- Complexity and contradiction -- Shed -- Type -- Context -- Place -- Phenomenology -- Skin -- Computer-aided design -- Rainscreen cladding -- Community architecture -- Universal design -- Design and build -- Passive design -- Sustainability -- Deconstruction -- Bigness -- Fold -- Parametric design -- Everyday…”
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Movie music, the film reader

Table of Contents: “…Banking on film music : structural interactions of the film and record industries / Jeff Smith -- Cinema, postmodernity and authenticity / Lawrence Grossberg -- The silences of the palace and the anxiety of musical creation / Anastasia Valassopoulos -- Must you remember this? …”
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Beyond description Singapore space historicity

Table of Contents: “…Lim -- |t Post-functionalist urbanism, the postmodern and Singapore / |r Heinz Paetzold -- |t The tropical city: slippages in the midst of ideological construction / |r Wong Chong Thai Bobby -- |t Intelligent island, baroque ecology / |r Aihwa Ong -- |t As the wind blows and dew came down: ghost stories and collective memory in Singapore / |r Carole Faucher -- |t Urban new archiving /…”
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YEARNING race, gender, and cultural politics by Hooks, Bell -1952

Table of Contents: “…Liberation scenes : speak this yearning -- The politics of radical black subjectivity -- Postmodern blackness -- The chitlin circuit : on black community -- Homeplace : a siteof resistance --- Critical interrogation : talking race, resisting racism -- Reflections on race and sex -- Representations : feminism and black masculinity -- Sitting at the feet of the messenger : remembering Malcom X -- Third world diva girls : politics of feminist solidarity -- An aesthetic of blackness : strange and oppositional -- Aesthetic inheritances : history worked by hand -- Culture to culture : ethnography and cultural studies as critical intervention -- Saving black folk culture : Zora Neale Hurston as critical intervention -- Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness -- Stylish nihilism : race, sex, and class at the movies -- Representing whiteness : seeing wings of desire -- Counter-hegemonic art : do the right thing -- A call for militant resistance -- Seductive sexualities : representing blackness in poetry and on screen -- Black women and men :partnership in the 1990s : a dialodue between bell hooks and Cornell West presented at Yale University's African-American Cultural Center -- An interview with bell hooks by Gloria Watkins : No, not talking back, just talking to myself, January 1989 -- A final yearning : January 1990…”
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Reinventing film studies

Table of Contents: “…, or, the riddle of the sphinxes / Vivian sobchack -- 'Animated pictures': tales of cinema's forgotten future, after 100 years of films / Tom Gunning -- The mass production of the senses : classical cinema as vernacular modernism / Miriam Bratu Hansen -- Discipline and fun : Psycho and postmodern cinema / Linda Williams -- Film theory and spectatorship in the age of the 'posts' / Robert Stam and Ella Habiba Shohat -- Digging an old well : the labor of social fantasy in a contemporary Chinese film / Rey Chow -- Facing up to Hollywood / Ana M. …”
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