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  • The FIFA World Cup 1930 - 2010

    Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities

    Edited by Stefan Rinke, Kay Schiller ...
    Content As Brazil 2014 will yet again show, the FIFA World Cup is a mega-event followed by billions of spectators around the globe. This volume is the first scholarly attempt to capture the history of the FIFA World Cup in its entirety. From the first World Cup in 1930 to the one in 2010 the tournament has exerted strong influences and acted as an important indicator of political, economic, social ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

    by Kay Schiller, Chris Young ...
    Series Book 42 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    The 1972 Munich Olympics—remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team—were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Art and Society 1972–2022–2072

    From the Art for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 to Artistic Design Concepts of the Twenty-First Century

    by Anton Biebl, Elisabeth Hartung, Tanja Baar, Britto Arts Trust, Michael Buhrs, Alice Creischer, Clémentine Deliss, Maurin Dietrich, Thomas Eller0, Jasmine Ellis1, Rebekka Endler2, Sagal Farah3, Laszlo Glozer4, Anna Heringer5, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz6, Christian Kandzia7, Larissa Kikol8, Christine Sun Kim9, Alexander Kluge0, Jakob Lena Knebl1, Barbara Könches2, Michael Lentz3, Anna-Angela Libal4, Julienne Lorz5, M+M6, Goshka Macuga7, Thomas Mader8, Marny Garcia Mommertz9, Barbara Mundel0, Catherine Nichols1, Angelika Nollert2, Hans Ulrich Obrist3, Britta Peters4, Raumfragen Neuperlach5, raumlaborberlin6, Lorena Herrera Rashid7, Hanno Rauterberg8, Pedro Reyes9, Kay Schiller0, Rüdiger Schöttle1, Mareike Schwarz2, Elisabeth Spieker3, Daniela Stöppel4, Heinz Schütz5, Tobias Staab6, Matthias Stadler7, Gerfried Stocker8, Jana Kerima Stolzer9, Corinna Thierolf0, Joanna Warsza1, Manfred Weihe2, Susanne Witzgall3, Miriam Zadoff4, Cao Yu5, Lucas Zwirner6, Studio Pandan, Berlin7 ...
    Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich—according to the grand vision of its planners. The international avant-garde of the time, including Walter de Maria, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Dan Flavin, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition

    by Franz Schulze, Edward Windhorst ...
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    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Clothes Become Fashion

    Design and Innovation Systems

    by Ingrid Loschek ...
    When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from ... Read more

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  • The Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club

    Official Centennial Publication

    by Kevin Shea, Jason Wilson ...
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    $16.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    1968 to the Present

    by Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman ...
    A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century

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  • Topographies of Class

    Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin

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    In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which ... Read more

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  • Bauhaus Construct

    Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

    Edited by Jeffrey Saletnik, Robin Schuldenfrei ...
    Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received.Contributions from leading scholars writing in the field today – including Frederic J. Schwartz, Magdalena Droste, and ... Read more

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  • Claiming Homes

    Confronting Domicide in Rural China

    by Charlotte Bruckermann ...
    Series Book 26 - Dislocations
    Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process ... Read more

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