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“christian kiening”

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  • Expressionism and Film

    Edited by Christian Kiening, Ulrich Johannes Beil ...
    Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion—as an intersection of world view, ... Read more

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  • The Complete Brecht Toolkit

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice.The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of all the famous key terms, such as Alienation ... Read more

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  • Rilke: The Last Inward Man

    by Lesley Chamberlain ...
    An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetryWhen Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, as too inward.In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses this ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Art of the 20th century

    by Dorothea Eimert ...
    The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of ... Read more

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  • Dream Story (Translated, Annotated, & Illustrated)

    by Arthur Schnitzler ...
    This new edition of Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler offers readers a new translation from the original German text and a comprehensive exploration of the acclaimed novella, originally published as Traumnovelle in 1926 and adapted into the movie Eyes Wide Shut.Set in early 20th-century Vienna, Schnitzler's narrative delves into the psychological complexities of desire, marriage, and the blurred ... Read more

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  • Bas Jan Ader

    In Search of the Miraculous

    by Jan Verwoert ...
    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    An illustrated investigation into the critical motives behind the last, unfinished work that has defined the romantic legacy of conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader.In 1975 Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea while trying to sail from the East Coast of the United States to Europe as part of a project titled In Search of the Miraculous. Ader's considerable influence on later conceptual artists stems from the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Weimar Cinema

    An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

    Edited by Noah Isenberg ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, Second Edition

    by Joseph Leo Koerner ...
    Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe’s first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not ‘what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.’ Yet in their awesome ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Pensive Image

    Art as a Form of Thinking

    by Hanneke Grootenboer ...
    Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought.While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes direct the mind toward ... Read more

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  • Naples 1925

    Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory

    by Martin Mittelmeier ...
    Translated by Shelley Frisch ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual historyIn the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by modernity. Among the revolutionaries, artists, and thinkers drawn to Naples were numerous scholars at a formative stage in their journeys: Walter ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Total Work of Art

    From Bayreuth to Cyberspace

    by Matthew Wilson Smith ...
    The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film studies, music history, history of art, cultural studies, and modern European literatures. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Wittgenstein's Ladder

    Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    "[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry." —Linda Voris, Boston ReviewMarjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously ... Read more

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