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  • Music & Camp

    Edited by Christopher Moore, Philip Purvis ...
    This collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology, the book provides new research into camp's presence, techniques, discourses, and potential meanings across a broad spectrum of musical genres, including: musical ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design

    by Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders ...
    The bestselling graphic design reference, restructured by themes to represent motivations for visual communication over timeGraphic designers must have a thorough understanding of the field’s rich history in order to inspire and inform their work. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design is the industry’s original reference, serving as an essential resource for a generation of professionals, scholars, and ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design

    by Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis ...
    The bestselling graphic design reference, updated for the digital ageMeggs' History of Graphic Design is the industry's unparalleled, award-winning reference. With over 1,400 high-quality images throughout, this visually stunning text guides you through a saga of artistic innovators, breakthrough technologies, and groundbreaking developments that define the graphic design field. The initial ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Masculinity in Opera

    Edited by Philip Purvis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has been the focus of recent if sporadic musicological discussion, the relationship between masculinity ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • The Elements of Graphic Design

    by Alex W. White ...
    This very popular design book has been wholly revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of inspiring and counterintuitive ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition is now in full color in a larger, 8 x 10-inch trim size, and contains 40 percent more content and over 750 images to enhance and better clarify the concepts in this ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned the world, but his music and legacy continue ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Graphic Design Bible

    The definitive guide to contemporary and historical graphic design

    by Theo Inglis ...
    The definitive guide to contemporary and historical graphic design for designers and creatives.'Everything you can think of is covered...and everything in between. The Graphic Design Bible plays to all of Inglis's strengths as an all-rounder - designer, writer, historian, researcher, editor and educator...His writing balances expertise with accessibility...many graphic design educators will wish ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Theory of Adaptation

    by Linda Hutcheon ...
    A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.This new edition is ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Photography Fifth Edition

    A Cultural History

    by Mary Warner Marien ...
    The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey.Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from around the world and through the lenses of art, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Feminine Endings

    Music, Gender, and Sexuality

    by Susan Mcclary ...
    A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The Village Voice“No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Graphic Design Theory

    Readings from the Field

    Edited by Helen Armstrong ...
    Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; "Building on Success" covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism; and "Mapping the Future" opens ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • When Opera Meets Film

    by Marcia J. Citron ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmodernist pastiche are ... Read more

    $109.89 USD