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Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
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Category: Art | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy. Causi ...Show more
Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures - The Ethics of Becoming-Pig by João Florêncio
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Masculinity, Sex and Popular Culture Ser.
This book analyses contemporary gay pig masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised patterns of recreational drug use, examining how they trouble modern European understandings of the male body, their ethics, and their political underpinnings. T ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no ...Show more
Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel #1 by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the ...Show more
FashionQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Fashion by Caroline Young
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
FashionQuake presents fashions most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers take tradition and rip it up. FashionQuake introduces 50 pivotal moments that shook the world and changed mainstream fashion forever, telling the fascinating stories behi ...Show more
Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. In FilmQuake, Ian Haydn Smith selects the 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, recepti ...Show more
France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History by Michael Burns
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Category: Judaica | Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture
This work provides a brief documentary history of the Dreyfus affair, the infamous episode in which a French Jewish army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, was unjustly convicted of treason in 1894 and 1899 and then acquitted and exonerated in 1906. The narrative is interspersed with approximately 65 brief docume ...Show more
Georges Rouault and Material Imagining by Jennifer Johnson
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Category: Art | Series: Material Culture of Art and Design Ser.
This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply ex ...Show more
Japan Beyond the Kimono - Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry by Jenny Hall; Joanne B. Eicher (Series edited by)
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern life. Japan Beyond the Kimono explores these shifts, highlighting developments in the Kyoto fashion indu ...Show more
Libertine Fashion - Sexual Freedom, Rebellion, and Style by Adam Geczy; Joanne B. Eicher
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the first to focus fully on the relationship between libertinism as a social phenomenon and as a form of fashion. Taking the reader from early modernity to the present day, Adam Geczy and Vicki ...Show more
Music Quake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Music by Robert Dimery
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy - causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up. MusicQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal albumsand performances that s ...Show more