Art and Architecture

The Peoples of Ancient Siberia: An Archeological History

Author: 

Okladnikov, Aleksei P. (1908-1981), famed Soviet Archeologist

Foreword: Elena A. Okladnikova, Herzen University, St. Petersburg (Russia), Deputy Director for Museum Work at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
Translators: Richard L. Bland, Archeologist (retired), U.S. National Park Service, Heritage Research Associates, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History; Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Institute of Geology & Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences; and Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Continental Ecosystems, Tomsk State University (Russia)

Market: 
Anthropology, Archeology, Art, Ethnography, Folklore, Migration, Prehistoric Art, Russian Studies, Russia, History, Russian History, Siberia, Ancient History, Rock Art, Petroglyphs, Pictographs
Release Date: 
May 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531442 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Secrets of Cinema: 100 Movies That Are Not What They Seem

Author: 

Kieckhefer, Daniel

Credentials: 

Professor of Film Studies, Triton College

Book CoverNinety-nine years ago, a new form of storytelling emerged from the ruins of World War I. Different in scope and power from theater or literature, and unlike any film that had come before, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari addressed a direct challenge to its audience, demanding to be viewed as something other than what was immediately presented. Unfortunately, criticism has not risen to the challenge.

Market: 
Film Studies, American Studies, Art History, Film Criticism, Cultural Studies, Motion Pictures, Performance, Directing
Release Date: 
March 15, 2019
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534900
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
633
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Crossing the Catwalk: Transvestism in Contemporary Fashion and Culture (Paperback)

Author: 

Laura Cherrie Beaney

In the 1930s, Freud observed that "when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is 'male or female?' and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty." As Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are taken to be either "male" or "female." This notion seems to be fixed within our culture and is often unquestioned. In this dynamic book, fashion journalist Laura Cherrie Beaney examines gender as a concept and as a practice that is also challenged and contested in the fashion industry.

Market: 
Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Women’s Studies, Fashion, Fashion Industry, Transgenderism, Cross Dressing, Transvestites, Human Rights
Release Date: 
March 1, 2019
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1680534825
Price: 
$34.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
98
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Crossing the Catwalk: Transvestism in Contemporary Fashion and Culture

Author: 

Beaney, Laura Cherrie

In the 1930s, Freud observed that “when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ‘male or female?’ and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty.” As Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are taken to be either “male” or “female.” This notion seems to be fixed within our culture and is often unquestioned. In this dynamic book, fashion journalist Laura Cherrie Beaney examines gender as a concept and as a practice that is also challenged and contested in the fashion industry.

Market: 
Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Women’s Studies, Fashion, Fashion Industry, Transgenderism, Cross Dressing, Transvestites, Human Rights
Release Date: 
December 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534801
Price: 
$129.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
98
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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The Revelation of Art-Religion

Author: 

Knoll, Reinhold, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna; Kenneth Quandt, Ph.D. in Classics, University of California, Berkeley

Art’s original function in Christian Europe is exemplified by the way the Eastern Icon served as a window to the divine. After the Great Schism of 1054, several developments in Western Christianity separated art from church, cult, and religion. Art continued to evolve independently of the Roman Catholic Church through the Renaissance, with a continuous development of artistic style that culminated in the Baroque Totalism of
the eighteenth century.

Market: 
Religion, Culture, European History, Western Civilization, Religious History, Philosophy, Cultural History, Wagner, Nietzsche, Modernity, Post-Modernity, Decadence, Decay, Decline of the West
Release Date: 
November 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534696
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
169
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Between Palette and Pen: Images of Venice in the Work of F. Hopkinson Smith

Author: 

De Marchi, Agnese, Ph.D., Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Credentials: 

Department of Humanities, University of Trieste; Ph.D., Ca' Foscari University, Venice

This book explores images of Venice in the written and visual art of the multitalented American writer, painter, lecturer, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915). A successful artist and intrepid traveler, F. Hopkinson Smith spent every summer in Venice for almost twenty years: his stays in the Italian city resulted in a large output of watercolors and writings, including his popular travelogue Venice of To-Day(1895), which featured over 200 illustrations by Smith himself.

Market: 
American Studies, American Art, Art History, American History, Cultural Studies, Travel Literature, Italy, Italian Studies, Venice, Venetian Art History, Fin-de-Siècle Culture, F. Hopkinson Smith, American Painting
Release Date: 
December 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530537
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
252
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka

Author: 

Ogunyemi, Yemi D. (Yemi D. Price)

Credentials: 

Author of Studying Creative Writing in Nigeria and The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat

The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka, a scholarly monograph, is a compendium of the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s creative works. Book One shows the dramatic, intellectual, fundamental, aesthetic and moral art. Book Two dwells upon literature, value, art, morality, aesthetics and other human interests. Book Three speaks to the mythology, history, and culture of the Yoruba people.

Market: 
African Studies, African Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Post-Colonial Literature, Africana, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Aesthetics, Wole Soyinka, Post-Modern Studies, Moralists, Art, Yoruba Studies, Mythology
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530346
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
277
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern

Author: 

du Quenoy, Paul, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Georgetown University; Professor D/History American University of Beirut

This is an original scholarly monograph about the life and work of the Russian composer and critic Alexander Serov (1820-1871), studied through the lens of his understanding of modernity as it developed in Russia in the mid nineteenth century. This research monograph is first full-length biography of Alexander Serov in English utilizing original records and archive sand the first in any language since 1985.

Market: 
Russian cultural history,19thc,modern Russian history, modernism and Russia,origins of the Silver age, Russian art and music 1850-1900, cultural elites in czarist, Russia,musical criticism, Cui, Rimsky- Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky
Release Date: 
March 1, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-94-3
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
320
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

Maps and Meaning: Urban Cartography and Urban Design

Author: 

Nichols, Julie

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, Author of NOMADIC URBANITIES: NEW BABYLON AND THE CONTEMPORARY CITY(2006)

In today’s practices of urban design, the map acts as a documentary and design tool as well as a legal document. Its usefulness hinges on its perceived truthfulness and objectivity in the representation of reality. Yet this has not always and everywhere been the case. There was a time in Western and non-Western societies where the nature of the map and the acts of mapping were very different. This study traces this difference in an attempt to understand the process of change and its impact on the nature and quality of human settlements.

Market: 
Historical Cartography, Mapping, Urban Planning—Southeast Asia, Urbanistics, Design and Space Issues in Asia, Modernism, Design/City Planning in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Urban History
Release Date: 
06/16/2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-65-3
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

From Big Brother to Big Brother: Nihilism and Society in the Age of Screen

Author: 

Liddelow , Eden

Credentials: 

PhD (Melbourne), DipEd (LaTrobe) DALF(Paris), Author of AFTER ELECTRA: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction

“Brilliant,at times dazzling...Liddelow impresses with her intellectual audacity, sheer erudition and courage in tackling this difficult and uncomfortable terrain”

Dr Jennifer Rutherford,Australian Book Review

“Engaging and innovative analysis” Dr Tessa Hockly, Australian Literary Studies
“Using Nietzsche and Orwell as key textural elements Dr Liddelow discusses the modern novel, the role of art, Media, literature in America, England, France and Australia as well as the literary praxis of decline and nihilistic despair. Her work has amazing sweep and intellectual energy.”

Market: 
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies/Theory, post-colonialism, popular culture, film history, TV as a phenomena, Philosophy, Anglo-American Literature, French Literature, Australian Literature, Society and Value in the 21st Century, Art
Release Date: 
March 17th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-62-2
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
346
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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