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Acting in Aotearoa

Edited by Hilary Halba, David O'Donnell ...

This comprehensive text traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, whose Indigenous Māori practitioners have made a significant impact on acting processes, principles and values in this postcolonial nation.Each chapter outlines not only historical aspects of acting in Aotearoa but also the way in which the phenomenon of acting has been modified by contingent local ... Read more

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This comprehensive text traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, whose Indigenous Māori practitioners have made a significant impact on acting processes, principles and values in this postcolonial nation.Each chapter outlines not only historical aspects of acting in Aotearoa but also the way in which the phenomenon of acting has been modified by contingent local
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The Story of Art Without Men

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**Instant New York Times bestsellerOne of Vanity Fair's Favorite Books to Gift • One of PureWow's 42 Books to Gift This Year • One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2023The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.**How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth ... Read more

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**Instant New York Times bestsellerOne of Vanity Fair's Favorite Books to Gift • One of PureWow's 42 Books to Gift This Year • One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2023The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.**How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth
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Children's Picturebooks Second Edition

The Art of Visual Storytelling

by Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles ...

Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? This revised edition of a bestselling title carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers ... Read more

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Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? This revised edition of a bestselling title carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers
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Air & Light & Time & Space

How Successful Academics Write

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From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish ... Read more

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From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish
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The Eye

How the World's Most Influential Creative Directors Develop Their Vision

by Nathan Williams ...

Nathan Williams, founder and creative director of Kinfolk magazine, brings more than 90 of the most iconic and influential creative directors into the spotlightIn The Eye, we meet fashion designers like Claire Waight Keller and Thom Browne. Editorial directors like Fabien Baron and Marie-Amélie Sauvé. Tastemakers like Grace Coddington and Linda Rodin. We learn about the books they read, the ... Read more

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Nathan Williams, founder and creative director of Kinfolk magazine, brings more than 90 of the most iconic and influential creative directors into the spotlightIn The Eye, we meet fashion designers like Claire Waight Keller and Thom Browne. Editorial directors like Fabien Baron and Marie-Amélie Sauvé. Tastemakers like Grace Coddington and Linda Rodin. We learn about the books they read, the
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Embracing Uncertainty

How writers, musicians and artists thrive in an unpredictable world

by Margaret Heffernan ...

Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted—and more anxious than ever. Doubling down on the certainties promised by technology and micro-management only makes things worse, leaving no opportunity for innovation, adaptation or invention.Artists live with uncertainty constantly—but ... Read more

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Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted—and more anxious than ever. Doubling down on the certainties promised by technology and micro-management only makes things worse, leaving no opportunity for innovation, adaptation or invention.Artists live with uncertainty constantly—but
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What Artists Wear

by Charlie Porter ...

An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they reveal to us.From Yves Klein’s spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol’s denim to Martine Syms’s joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are tools of expression, storytelling, resistance, and creativity.In What Artists Wear, fashion ... Read more

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An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they reveal to us.From Yves Klein’s spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol’s denim to Martine Syms’s joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are tools of expression, storytelling, resistance, and creativity.In What Artists Wear, fashion
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RAW VISION #69

International Journal of Outsider Art, Art Brut, Contemporary Folk Art

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Raw Vision presents the art of untaught and unsung artists from around the world who fall into the category of Outsider Art. This includes psychiatric patients and the 'ordinary geniuses' of everyday life. Lavishly illustrated, it presents work by artists from many countries as well as sculpture gardens and buildings made single-handedly. ... Read more

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Raw Vision presents the art of untaught and unsung artists from around the world who fall into the category of Outsider Art. This includes psychiatric patients and the 'ordinary geniuses' of everyday life. Lavishly illustrated, it presents work by artists from many countries as well as sculpture gardens and buildings made single-handedly.
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The Art of Feminism

Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017

by Helena Reckitt, Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson ...

A survey of feminist art from suffrage posters to The Dinner Party and beyond: "Lavishly produced images . . . indispensable to scholars, critics and artists." — Art MonthlyOnce again, women are on the march. And since its inception in the nineteenth century, the women's movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality to the world.From highlighting the ... Read more

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A survey of feminist art from suffrage posters to The Dinner Party and beyond: "Lavishly produced images . . . indispensable to scholars, critics and artists." — Art MonthlyOnce again, women are on the march. And since its inception in the nineteenth century, the women's movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality to the world.From highlighting the
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Theatre and AutoBiography

Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice

Edited by Sherrill Grace, Jerry Wasserman ...

That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the biographical processes, ... Read more

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That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the biographical processes,
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Tate: Contemporary Art Decoded

10 key questions to understand the art world today

by Jessica Cerasi ...

What is contemporary art, and how did art come to be what it is today? How can we understand what a work of art means; and can't just about anything be called art these days?Contemporary Art Decoded takes ten key questions about contemporary art and uses them to what you're looking at, how it works, and why it matters. Steering clear of jargon, this book digs deep into the core ideas and concepts ... Read more

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What is contemporary art, and how did art come to be what it is today? How can we understand what a work of art means; and can't just about anything be called art these days?Contemporary Art Decoded takes ten key questions about contemporary art and uses them to what you're looking at, how it works, and why it matters. Steering clear of jargon, this book digs deep into the core ideas and concepts
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Fashion, Design and Events

Edited by Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand destinations, boost visitor numbers and trigger popular debates about the contributions that fashion and ... Read more

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The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand destinations, boost visitor numbers and trigger popular debates about the contributions that fashion and
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