Browsing by Author "Theorising Visual Art and Design"

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    • 1001 Nights 

      Filoseta, Roberto (University of Hertfordshire, 2013-05-17)
      This work revisits the enchanted and magical world of the classic Arabian Nights in light of current events in the Middle East, highlighting in particular some intriguing parallels between the time-wasting narratives ...

    • 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron 

      Carta, Silvio (2010)

    • 1917: Art Revolution and Darwinism 

      Simpson, Patricia (2017-04-07)
      Abstract 1917 was undoubtedly a significant year regarding the relationships between art and bio-science in both Britain and Russia. It was marked not only by the publication of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s On Growth and ...

    • 404: File Not Found: Web Archives and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Film Promotion 

      Walden, Kim (2022-07-14)
      In 2019 the Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television published an article by Keith Johnston on the challenges of researching historical promotional materials. It concluded with an invitation to other researchers to ...

    • L'Abitare come potrebbe essere 

      Carta, Silvio (libria, 2016-06)
      The chapter introduces the monographic work of the architectural practice C+C04 Studio, analysing their residential projects.

    • Accommodating 'Mrs. Three-in-One': homemaking, home entertaining and domestic advice literature in post-war Britain 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (2007-10-01)
      This article analyses the effects of the ‘servant problem’, meaning the contraction of the domestic service industry in the twentieth century, as represented in domestic advice literature (etiquette, homemaking and home ...

    • Acts of Undressing : Politics, Eroticism and Discarded Clothing 

      Brownie, Barbara (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016-11)
      Acts of Undressing: Politics, eroticism and discarded clothing This monograph explores the significance of undressing in various cultural and social contexts. Overall, the book takes a broad focus, exploring the many ...

    • Adagio No.8 

      Filoseta, Roberto; St James, Marty (Redtory, 2012-10-20)
      The soundtrack to Adagio No.8 investigates strategies of synchronisation in the context of video material exhibiting a prominent visual rhythm. Rather than overloading the visual rhythm with sonic events tightly synchronised ...

    • Adam’s Anarchy: The Gypsy and the Gentleman Reconsidered 

      Broughton, Mark (2014-06-07)
      What have been the major watersheds in the history of country-estate films and television? Whether this history is seen as one of modes of production, aesthetics or ideology, it is Joseph Losey’s deployment of the country ...

    • ‘Adaptation through Landscape: The Ruling Class’ 

      Broughton, Mark (2005-04-22)
      British film adaptations of novels and plays set in country estates frequently carry a much greater emphasis on landscape gardens than their source texts. This interpolation of landscape seems, therefore, to be intrinsic ...

    • Adventures in motion pictures : Frozen fire 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2010)
      If, as the critic Peter Wollen famously said, 
film is like fire and photography like ice, what happens when technological developments force an elision between the still and moving image and how does this affect the content ...

    • ‘Alexander Brener: Creative Vandalism as a mode of Hybrid Thought’ 

      Simpson, Patricia (Open University/Metamorphosis:Centre for Creative Writing and Performance Research, 2003)

    • Alexey Brodovitch 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2000)
      As the revolutionary art director of Harper’s Bazaar at its zenith (1934–58), as an educator of some of the most renowned and respected photographers in recent history, and as a photographer who, with one book, set free ...

    • Alexey Brodovitch 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Allworth Press, 2006)

    • Alexey Brodovitch 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Phaidon Press, 2002)
      Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971) is a legend among graphic designers. A Russian who fled the Bolshevik Revolution to settle eventually in Paris and then New York, Brodovitch was one of the pioneers of graphic design in the ...

    • Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet (Books on Books) 

      Purcell, Kerry William (Errata, 2011)
      Published in 1945, Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet is easily among the most legendary photobooks of the twentieth century: the first and only book he authored as photographer, it was printed in a small run of a few hundred ...

    • Alien Scripts: Pseudo-Writing and Asemisis in Comics and Graphic Novels 

      Brownie, Barbara (2014-09-04)
      ‘Asemic writing’ is defined by Tim Gaze as a collection of forms ‘which appears to be writing’, while ‘having no worded meaning’. Asemic forms may bear the hallmarks of writing, either through their shape or organization, ...

    • 'All This Fizzing Inside': Watching the return of Doctor Who 

      Phillips, Ivan (2018-10-12)
      This short blog article is a response to the debut of episode of Jodie Whittaker in the role of the Doctor in BBC television's long-running science fiction drama Doctor Who. As the first female actor to be given the role ...

    • Alphabet & Image 

      Purcell, Kerry William (2006)

    • Analysing Trade-offs in Frameworks for the Design of Smart Environments 

      Ardito, Carmelo; Desolda, Giuseppe; Lanzilotti, Rosa; Malizia, Alessio; Matera, Maristella (2019-07-04)
      Smart Interactive Experiences (SIEs) are usage situations enabled by the Internet of Things that empower users to interact with the surrounding environment. The goal of our research is to define methodologies and software ...