E-book Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world has long been recognized as the classic treatment of the Renaissance giant, offering unparalleled insight into Leonardo's intellect and vision at every stage of his artistic career. Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo, takes us on a mesmerizing journey through the whole span of the great man's li…

E-book Music Theory 101: From Keys and Scales to Rhythm and Melody, an Essent…

From classical to hard rock, and jazz to hip hop, music is constantly evolving, but many of the basics have stayed the same. Understanding these basics is key to becoming a successful musician and well-rounded music lover. Music Theory 101 covers everything novice musicians and lifelong learners need to know, including: -How to read sheet music -Understanding the construction of chords a…

E-book Countries and Regions : Dynamic Interconnectivity

From July 5 to 7, 2021, the second “Tsinghua Area Studies Forum” with “Areas of the World and the World in Areas” as its theme, was held by the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua Univer-sity in Beijing. One hundred and forty-four scholars from 13 countries and 36 universities and research institutions aroun…

E-book Art 101: From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and …

Explore the beautiful and complex world of art! Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of fine art with tedious discourse that even Leonardo da Vinci would oppose. Art 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations, and instead, gives you a lesson in artistic expression that keeps you engaged as you discover the world's greatest artists and their masterpieces. From col…

E-book River Cities in Asia : Waterways in Urban Development and History

Cities and water have a love-hate relationship (Feldman 2017). This is especially true of rivers in many cities in Asia, which, like cities in the rest of the world, owe their locations to rivers and the trading opportunities and water sources these rivers provided. In recent years, cities across China have been beautifying and extending their waterfronts, and cities as diverse as Singapore and…

E-book Victorian Alchemy : Science, magic and ancient Egypt

Thus, the fictional ‘Doctor Nosidy, scientist, mesmerist, thought- reader, and electrician’, begins his experiments into communicating with the ‘brain- ether’ of the ancient Egyptian dead.2‘The Strange Discovery of Doctor Nosidy’ is the first of several short stories that make up a collection of tales entitled The Story Hunter: or tales of the weird and wild (1896) by the B…

E-book Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema

We hear a band strike up festive music. We see street vendors selling their wares from carts lining a city street. A man and boy, holding hands, walk past the vendors. As they recede into a distant crowd, a pair of young men, both in Western suits and tarbooshes, stroll into and out of the frame. Two riders—one in a dark galabiya and t…

E-book Egyptian Things : Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

The Temple of Dendur stands grandly in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (fig. 1). Reflecting pools and cool tan-marble floors stylishly evoke the Nile and its surroundings; an enormous semi-translucent ceiling remains a relic of 1970s mod-ernism; a vast wall of glass looks out to Central Park and E. Eighty-Fourth Street. All frame the Egyptian temple’s relocation to the former Sackler …

E-book Powers of Divergence : An Experimental Approach to Music Performance

In approaching this introductory text, I am struck by the difficulty of a begin-ning. When painter Emilio Vedova was teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and one of his pupils would be paralysed in front of the empty canvas, he would dip a brush in the paint and lash it against the white surface. Was the pupil facing the void, and was Vedova’s gesture int…

E-book Theatre and Democracy : Building Democracy in Post-war and Post-democr…

This edition is a result of a longstanding collaboration between two cen-tres of applied drama, theatre education and research: the Department of Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and the Department of Arts and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. From 2017 to 2021 this collaboration has included stude…

E-book Double Jeopardy : A Critique of Seven Yuan Courtroom Dramas

an Dynasty (1260-1368) tsa-chii drama^j|j known as "p'ing-fankung-an chli jf-fcL'i* J3$c j^>\ * °r "plays of judgment reversal," all ofwhich feature double trials in which the verdict of the first judge isoverturned by that of the second. In the sense that these plays consti-tute a distinct group within the subgenre of kung-an chli '£ JjL ^£1] or"courtroom p…

E-book Computational Drama Analysis : Reflecting on Methods and Interpretations

Computational drama analysts is the field of research that attempts to model, analyze, and interpret dramatic texts using computational methods. It is part of larger field of computational literary studies and, even more broadly, the digital humanities. Computational drama analysts is part of the current boom in quantitative data analysts methods including machine learning and artificial intell…

E-book Television Drama from Germany : Production, Storytelling and "Quality"

The German-speaking television market is considered the third largest in the world, after the US and China. It has 72 million viewers, 37 million television households and 22 trillion euros in annual revenue (Eichner and Esser 2020, 190). As in other areas of society, a radical transformation has been unfolding across this television market for …

E-book Saving New Sounds : Podcast Preservation and Historiography

In March 2014, podcaster and comedian Adam Carolla initiated a crowd-funding campaign designed to “save” podcasting. A company called Per-sonal Audio LLC was suing Carolla for infringing on a patent—a “system for disseminating media content in serialized episodes” (Nazer 2018)—that it claimed gave the company exclusive rights over the very practice of distributing audio via a podcas…

E-book After the Miners’ Strike : A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus …

This is the first volume of the story of a tiny theatre company in a distant part of the UK that operated like a political cell; or alternatively, of a political cell that operated as a theatre company.A39 Theatre Group came into being because of the great Miners’ Strike of 1984–85. It embraced the label ‘agitprop’ as a badge of honour. A39 was moti…

E-book Design Research in the Digital Era

The PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano was established in 1990, exactly 30 years ago. It was Italy’s first PhD Programme on the topic, and its leading figure was Ulm School of Design former teacher and director Tomàs Maldonado. Its original name was “Doctoral Programme in Industrial De-sign and Visual Communication,” which showed the discipline’s traditional legacy as b…

E-book Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment, Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels serves as an exhaustive exploration of the genre's history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels focus…

E-book Beethoven and the Piano : Philology, Context and Performance Practice

Czerny’s closeness to Beethoven, and his extraordinary musical abilities, have tendedto encourage confidence in him as a reliable source of information about Beethoven’sexpectations for the performance of his music. But despite his obvious reverence forBeethoven’s works, closer scrutiny suggests that he adopted a progressive rather thancuratorial position towards them: perhaps his concern…

E-book Wits and Interpretation : Keyboard Thoughts

According to a widely held view in 20th- Century aesthetics, a music work is equivalent to the performances that conform to a certain score? And this notion complies with at least three requirements of a satisfactory ontology of the music work, or so it seems?1Thus, although a Beethoven manuscript would command a very high price, it is not very interesting as a unique phys…

E-book In Defense of Don Giovanni : A Feminist Mythobiography

Taking the advice of my inner Don, I decided to attend the sym-posium, “Don Giovanni and Casanova,” which is held every year in a different Italian city, this time in Venice. I go there with a young Polish woman, Emilia, a student of mine from many years ago. She is almost fifty now but is still as playful, and sometimes as acerbic, as she once was. The thea…

E-book Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past : An Essay on Mozart and Moderni…

More than two hundred years ago, a theater journal from Hamburg reviewed a performance of The Marriage of Figaro. Its author was probably Bernhard Anselm Weber, a composer and music director. The evening’s entertainment left a deep impression on Mozart’s fellow musician:It is just as one would expect from Mozart: great and beautiful, full of new ideas a…

E-book Touch

Philosophy tends to relegate senses to the realm of phe-nomenology and experience. By contrast, critical the-ory has gradually eroded the holy opposition between knowing and sensing to the extent that new speculative trends are now seeking to rebuild it. While the social sciences endeavour to frame sensing within socio- historical geneal ogies, …

E-book Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist : The Films of Suzuki Seijun

In 1958, Suzuki Seitar? was a 35-year-old, lower-ranking, critically unrec-ognized contract director at Nikkatsu studios, despite the fact that he had already made fifteen feature-length program pictures. When he changed his professional name from “Suzuki Seitar?,” his birth name, to the more flamboyant “Suzuki Seijun,” no one in the press or film industry seems to …

E-book Woodstock Scholarship : An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography

The importance of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair cannot be overstated. Three days of music on a New York farm in August 1969 generated an ethos and a mythology (Denisoff, 1986); but was it merely a media contrivance? Depends upon who is asked. The importance is self-evident; the reason is elusive.Throughout the 1960s, popular music became increasingly reflec…

E-book Resistant Form : Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis

While Googling “Aristophanes” on the evening of a day like any other in spring 2020 during the Covid-19 crisis, I stumbled upon a 25-year-old Taiwanese rapper, Pan Wei Ju (???), who had taken the name of the ancient Greek play-wright after seeing him in a dream. An online reviewer com-ments: “With feminist subject matter [and] obse…

E-book Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch

A decade ago, it was still somewhat conventional to start a study by writ-ing how “esports is a novel phenomenon.” As we write this introduction in 2021, that is no longer true. Today, more than a thousand studies have been published on esports, including several books and special issues. Moreover, the work is no longer conducted purely in the “game studies” related fields, bu…

E-book Watership Down : Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence

Watership Down, the 1978 British cel-animated feature produced, directed and written by Martin Rosen, and the bestselling 1972 novel by Richard Adams on which it is based are indeed relatively anomalous. The novel is often considered uncategorizable: an adventure story about rabbits that might be a comfortable bedfellow with the works of Beatrix Potter and other children’…

E-book Animating Unpredictable Effects : Nonlinearity in Hollywood’s R&D Co…

The computer science department at Stanford University offers a course called Computer Graphics: Animation and Simulation. Many departments at other universities have offered a similar course, including the University of North Carolina, University of California, California Polytechnic, and Carnegie Mellon. A title like Animation and Simulation will sound to some like a betra…

E-book StarCraft : Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy

My experience with StarCraft could be mapped into three periods that represent the history of the game itself. I was introduced to real-time strat-egy (RTS) games when my cousin brought their copy of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (Blizzard Entertainment 1994) at my grandparents’ house. My brother and I got the game quickly after and, as most players from the early 1990s, I was playing es…

E-book Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices

Within Western institutional thinking, the human is constituted through an abil-ity to speak, defined as the sole creature who holds language and consequently is capable of articulating, representing, and reflecting upon the world. Along with language comes the power of naming, of choreographing the semantic categories put in place, continually reproduced and negotiated to make sense…

E-book Large-Scale Urban Parks on Post-Industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban…

Large?scale urban parks have been used as a concept for contemporary land?scape planning and design. These parks are intrinsically tied to the development ofcontemporary cities, the various conceptions of dynamic urban landscapes, and thesustainable, cost?effective, and process?oriented transformation of post?industrialsites.This book offers one of the first thorough analyses of contemporary la…

E-book Before Grenfell : Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century B…

This report of a fire without serious casualties at Grenfell Tower in June 1979 assumes an entirely new and frightening meaning in the context of the tragic events of 14 June 2017, when a horrific cladding fire at the same tower caused the deaths of seventy- two people. Tucked into a folder of newspaper cuttings in the archives of the Royal Borough of Ken sington and Chelsea (RBKC), the articl…

E-book Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds

Composer, pianist, editor, writer, and pedagogue Mario Lavista (1943-2021) was a central figure of the cultural and artistic scene in Mexico and one of the leading Ibero-American composers of his generation. His music is often described as evocative and poetic, noted for his meticulous attention to timbre and motivic permutation, and his creative trajectory was characterized by its intersection…

E-book The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe : Space, Place, and the Co…

Empires are large. It is one of their signature qualities. As assemblages of different peoples and polities, empires link distant territories to each other by their very def inition: they are ‘large political units, expansionist or with a memory of power extended over space’; consequently, when studying empires, ‘[s]pace matters, size matters, and so does the character of space and size�…

E-book Radiation Sounds : Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences

On March 1, 1954, the United States detonated its most power ful thermo-nuclear weapon, code- named “ Castle Bravo,” at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Situated to the southeast of Bikini, the populations of Rongelap Atoll, including people residing on Ailingnae and Utrik Atolls, watched in confusion as the sun seemed to rise in the west. On Utrik, Rijen Michael, eigh teen years ol…

E-book In the Borderland Between Song and Speech : Vocal Expressions in Oral …

The aim of this study was to pursue greater knowledge of vocal expressions in the borderland between speech and song through collaboration between researchers with different approaches, with a view to developing an interdisciplinary method for the analysis of such expressions. The research presented here is the outcome of the research project ‘In the Borderland between So…

E-book From Mummers to Madness : A Social History of Popular Music in England…

The importance of music is difficult to overstate. As historian R W Malcolmson noted, it was the most accessible and democratic of the creative arts, with the ability to give expression to a range of fundamental emotions.4 From a different perspective, musicologist, Philip Tagg emphasised how music and dance are ‘particularly suited to expressing the affec…

E-book Rock This Way : Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

Fox television show Glee (2009–15), a musical comedy about a crew of lov-able misfits and their high school glee club, was highly popular. The show had good ratings, attracted a large and intense fandom, enjoyed widespread merchandise sales—and produced huge music sales. Over the course of six seasons of cast recordings, Glee placed more than two hundred songs on the Billboard Hot 100, near…

E-book Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation : Another Way of K…

Growing up in Boston, in the late 1970s, we saw Black motherhood as insepa-rable from Black Glamour. Our mother, Volora, a young R&B and jazz singer, and model had two types of photographs in our apartment, professional photographs of herself stored in a black leather portfolio with riveted han-dles and color polaroid images taken by our father, which lived in our family a…

E-book Black Dragon : Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

In August 1969, a group of local Japanese martial arts masters in New York invited Ronald Duncan, a burgeoning Black1 American practitioner of the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu, commonly translated as the “art of stealth,” to exhibit his techniques as part of the second International Convention of Martial Arts hosted by Black Belt mag…

E-book Futures and Beyond : Creativity and 4IR Conference 2022

The Futures and Beyond: Creativity and 4IR virtual conference was hosted online by UJ Arts & Culture on 30 and 31 August 2022. The University of Johannesburg has positioned the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as its visionary focus in research and higher education, and UJ Arts & Culture, as a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and …

E-book Turkish Drama Serials : The Importance and Influence of a Globally Pop…

n little more than a decade, Turkish serials have grown from being simply a popular television format in Türkiye, to solidifying their place within international popular culture, having won the hearts of audiences across the globe.1This book explores a significant development in television that started with Turkish dramas taking Arab screens by storm, and later expanding …

E-book The Hybrid Practitioner : Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture

Are architects who write a dying race?”1 asked Belgian architectural theorist and historian Hilde Heynen in 2017, reflecting on the position of the practis-ing architect as a writing scholar in the academic field. In her article, Heynen compares Joan Ockman’s Architecture Culture 1943–1968: A Documentary Anthology with Michael Hays’s selection in Architecture Theory s…

E-book Brokers of Modernity : East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist A…

In 1925 a rare type of building made its appearance in the literary world: a house entirely constructed of glass, prefabricated yet individualized, light but stable, flat-roofed but with walls which changed colour according to the surrounding land-scape. The cavity walls allowed for the movement of water – warm in winter-time and cold in summer-time – which generated a co…

E-book Sports and Human Rights

Historically, SGBs have been given significant autonomy when organizing sporting competitions as well as regarding their internal structure and regulations. One explanation for this is the idea that (international) sports should not be subject to the political influence of specific states, and that athletes should be free to organize their activitie…

E-book Cricket Lesson Plans

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has partnered with Cricket Australia to develop 8 curriculum-aligned lesson plans for primary school teachers. These lessons are appropriate for students in Years 3 and 4. Some games may require teacher modification to ensure they are accessible for all students. The lesson plans aim to build students’ confidence and competence to participate in cri…

E-book Peraturan Resmi Bola Voli 2021-2024

Bolavoli adalah olahraga yang dimainkan oleh dua tim di dalam lapangan permainan yang dipisahkan oleh net. Ada versi yang berbeda untuk kondisi tertentu dan itu bertujuan agar bentuk permainan ini dikenal oleh semua orang. Tujuan permainan itu sendiri adalah melewatkan bola di atas net untuk tujuan mendaratkan bola di lapangan lawan dan mencegah agar lawan tidak bisa melakukan hal tersebut. Seb…

E-book The Inner Game of Tennis

Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game, and an inner game. The outer game is played against an external opponent to overcome external obstacles and to reach an external goal. Mas- - taring this game is the subject of many books offering instructions: on how to swing a racket, club or bat, and how to position arms, legs or torso to achieve the best results. But for some reason, …

E-book The Weapons And Fighting Arts Of Indonesia

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E-book The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Mus…

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India’s Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former…