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Este livro do professor Suruapi Jorge Garcia é um imenso desafio e um convite para se buscar a verdadeira felicidade. A felicidade vem sendo um assunto muito discutido em todo o mundo. As rejeições, os transtornos emocionais, os traumas, as frustrações, as perdas, se não trabalhados com inteligência, são registrados como fatores de infelicidade. Dependendo da intensidade desses fatores, uma perda pode bloquear o ânimo de vida, assim como um confronto com uma pessoa pode bloquear a sua felicidade, quando diante dela. O grande desafio é descobrirmos em que consiste a felicidade para cada um de nós. E, para convivermos de modo harmônico, será preciso descobrirmos, também, o que fa...
Explores the history of women's and men's fashion in the twentieth century, offering information on important designers and styles.
Since its publication in hardcover in 1989, New York Fashion has become a defining book on the story of American fashion. Covering the great changes that have taken place in the fashion world from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, Caroline Rennolds Milbank also charts the rise of the great American designers: Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and others.
Digital Textile Design covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally. Textile designers are beginning to realize the creative potential of digital textile design and are fast catching up with graphic designers who have taken to working digitally. New digital textile-printing technology is enabling designers to work with an almost unlimited palette of colors to produce work of staggering detail in relatively short timescales. Written specifically for textile designers, Digital Textile Design provides the know-how for students andprofessionals who wish to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as design tools. A series of ...
First published in 1962, and now in its fourth edition, Physical properties of textile fibres has become a classic, providing the standard reference on key aspects of fibre performance. The new edition has been substantially reorganised and revised to reflect new research.After introductory chapters on fibre structure, testing and sampling, the book reviews key fibre properties, their technical significance, factors affecting these properties and measurement issues. Each chapter covers both natural and synthetic fibres, including high-performance fibres. The book first reviews properties such as fineness, length and density. It then considers thermal properties and reaction to moisture. A fu...
The relationship between art and politics has been contested throughout the modern period. In recent times, in tandem with developments in contemporary art, it has moved to the centre of debates in art and cultural theory. In Europe, these debates tend to focus on the writings of certain pivotal thinkers, around whom distinctive schools of thought have developed, crossing national boundaries in new and provocative area. It will be invaluable for anyone seeking an up-to-date understanding of the topic.
Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Ital...
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A classic in gender studies in music Marcia J. Citron's comprehensive, balanced work lays a broad foundation for the study of women composers and their music. Drawing on a diverse body of feminist and interdisciplinary theory, Citron shows how the western art canon is not intellectually pure but the result of a complex mixture of attitudes, practices, and interests that often go unacknowledged and unchallenged. Winner of the Pauline Alderman Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music, Gender and the Musical Canon explores important elements of canon formation, such as notions of creativity, professionalism, and reception. Citron surveys the institutions of power, from performing...