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The Women Who Built the Ottoman World
Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gulnus Sultan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires. One hitherto overlooked aspect of the Empire's remarkable cultural legacy was the role of powerful women – often the head of the harem, or wives or mothers of sultans....
Practice as Research
Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio-based doctorates frequently favoured over traditional research. Yet until now there has been little published guidance for students embarking on such research. Designed specifically as a research training tool, the book...
Sabotage Art
Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy – most notably in Latin America. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even...
Hyperdrawing
Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
In this book authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become.
In this follow-up to 2007's Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, Phil Sawdon and Russell Marshall, directors of TRACEY, curate contemporary...
Buraimi
The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Buraimi is an oasis in an otherwise bleak desert on the border between Oman and the UAE. In the early twentieth century, it shot to notoriety as oil brought the world's attention to this corner of the Arabian Peninsula, and the ensuing battle over energy resources between regional and global superpowers...
The Cyrus Cylinder
The Great Persian Edict from Babylon
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Some historical artefacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity...
by Mark Woolmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon,...
The Dead City
Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire. The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination...
Retrofitting the City
Residential Flexibility, Resilience and the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world's energy consumption and 70 per cent of global carbon emissions. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet's energy resources and meet the challenge of climate change how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One answer is to...
Digital Snaps
The New Face of Photography
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate...
Aftershock
The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics, who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact. This is the first book to subject contemporary art to a rigorous ethical exploration. It argues that, in favouring conceptual...
Engaged Urbanism
Cities and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
How can we understand the variety and dynamism of contemporary cities and urban experience across the globe? Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated...
Dissonant Archives
Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The 'archive' is often viewed as a collection of historical documents that records and orders information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial point: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, can also determine the future. This point has...
Vernacular Buildings
A Global Survey
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The face of the world is changing and nowhere is this more evident than with vernacular buildings. They disappear or are extensively changed for a variety of reasons, from natural causes such as fire, storm and earthquake, to a wide variety of
cultural causes including obsolescence and changes in...