[PDF] Human Figure In Motion Postcards eBook

Author : Eadweard Muybridge
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Human locomotion
ISBN : 9780486251394

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24 classic high-speed photographic sequences reproduced from rare 1887 plates capture nude and seminude male and female subjects running, dancing, wrestling, and more. Publisher's Note. Captions.

Author : Eadweard Muybridge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1955-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780486202044

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"196 plates (containing over 4700 individual photographs) from the famous Muybridge collection, chosen for their value to artists, doctors, and researchers"--Jacket.

Author : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780486295909

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Six masterly studies by great French painter, painstakingly reproduced in postcard form: The Dance Examination, The Dance Class, Dancer in a Rose Dress, The Rehearsal, 2 more. Captions.

Author : Anna Pomaska
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1987-10-01
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780486254449

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Large (2" x 7") beautiful bookmarks featuring characters and scenes from Beatrix Potter stories.

Author : Dorothy Holby
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780486244693

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Handsome collection features 24 perennially popular felines in a panoply of inviting poses — perched on snow-covered tree limbs, nestled in pine needles, contemplating a goblet of goldfish, or sitting pretty in a topcat pose. Just detach and mail to delight any cat fancier.

Author : Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0231156618

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More than two thousand amusement parks dotted the American landscape in the early twentieth century, thrilling the general public with the latest in entertainment and motion picture technology. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society before World War I, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. As she follows the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to the success of leisure activities in stabilizing society.--

Author : Angela Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231527853

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Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of sexual repression or as metaphors for other kinds of marginalized identities, yet Angela M. Smith conducts a richer investigation into the period's social and cultural preoccupations. She finds instead a fascination with eugenics and physical and cognitive debility in the narrative and spectacle of classic 1930s horror, heightened by the viewer's desire for visions of vulnerability and transformation. Reading such films as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Freaks (1932), and Mad Love (1935) against early-twentieth-century disability discourse and propaganda on racial and biological purity, Smith showcases classic horror's dependence on the narratives of eugenics and physiognomics. She also notes the genre's conflicted and often contradictory visualizations. Smith ultimately locates an indictment of biological determinism in filmmakers' visceral treatments, which take the impossibility of racial improvement and bodily perfection to sensationalistic heights. Playing up the artifice and conventions of disabled monsters, filmmakers exploited the fears and yearnings of their audience, accentuating both the perversity of the medical and scientific gaze and the debilitating experience of watching horror. Classic horror films therefore encourage empathy with the disabled monster, offering captive viewers an unsettling encounter with their own impairment. Smith's work profoundly advances cinema and disability studies, in addition to general histories concerning the construction of social and political attitudes toward the Other.

Author : John Ingledew
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781856694322

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"John Ingledew: Photography provides a basic introduction for students across the visual arts. This accessible, inspirational guide to creative photography explores the subjects and themes that have always obsessed photographers and explains technique in a clear and simple way. Embracing the whole spectrum of photography from traditional to digital, it introduces the work of the masters of the art as well as showing fresh, dynamic images created by young photographers from all over the world. An essential resource, the book also provides a valuable overview of careers in photography and a comprehensive reference section, including a glossary of technical vocabulary."--BOOK JACKET.