Women's work : the first 20,000 years : women, cloth, and society in early times /
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New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Barber "weaves the strands of mythology and literature, archaeology,ethnology, and documented history into a richtapestry" says John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review. Photos and drawings. Author lectures.
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334 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-322) and index. :
0393035060
Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics /
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This book focuses on one of the all-time primary interests of all researchers-finding new perspectives and research topics-and expands it. What new routes could aesthetics, philosophy of art and the aesthetic take today and in the future? Thirteen authors open new doors for the discipline to new companion disciplines, new discussions, and new concepts. Heritage studies, Greek aesthetic concepts, found literature, power, safety and mythology, monuments, artificial intelligence, sensibility, hybrid spaces, textiles, aesthetics of AI, aesthetics of literature, aesthetic values, homo ludens and martial arts studies are approached in new ways in this volume, where the spearhead lies in thinking about the next step of the ancient discipline of aesthetics and what potential it could have for the world of research in the future.
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1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004747395
Envisioning islamic art and architecture : essays in honor of Renata Holod /
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Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod is a collection of studies on the portable arts, arts of the book, painting, photography, and architecture spanning the medieval and modern periods and across the historical Islamic lands. The essays reflect the wide-ranging interests and diverse methodologies of Renata Holod and attend to the physical, material, and aesthetic properties of their objects, offer nuanced explanations of complex relations between objects and historical contexts, and remain critically aware of the shape of the field of Islamic art and architecture, its canonical objects, approaches, and historiographies. Essential reading for scholars working on Islam and the Islamic world in the disciplines of history of art and architecture, history, literature, and anthropology. With contributions by María Judith Feliciano, Christiane Gruber, Leslee Katrina Michelsen, Nancy Micklewright, Stephennie Mulder, Johanna Olafsdotter, Yael Rice, Cynthia Robinson, David J. Roxburgh, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Alison Mackenzie Shah, and Pushkar Sohoni.
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1 online resource (xxx, 311 pages) : illustrations (some color) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index. :
9789004280281 :
2213-3844 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.