Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance. In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognit...

For courses in Fashion Design, Pattern Making, Draping, Introduction to Fashion, and Fashion Promotion.Draping for Fashion Design, Fifth Edition, is thedefinitive basic instructional text for draping in numerous fashion design programs since its original publication. This book covers all of the fund...

한국의 시대정신과 호흡 한서양 연극 수용의 역사100년이 채 되지 않는 짧은 시간 동안 한국에는 약 25개국의 400여 명의 극작가와 1,000편 이상의 드라마가 소개되었다. 서양의 연극 역사가 2,500년인 것에 비해 숨가쁘게 달려온 셈이다. 그렇기에 한국 연극의 오늘을 이해하기 위해서는 19세기 말에서 20세기 후반까지 한...

한국의 안무가들이 말하는 ‘춤’이란?움직임의 철학이 책에서 소개하는 스물 네 명의 현대 안무가들은 한국을 기반으로 활발하게 활동하는 한국의 대표 현대 무용가들이다. 인터뷰와 자서전을 통해 각 안무가의 삶과 성장 과정, 작품에 많은 영향을 미친 배경을 바탕으로 작품 성향에 주안점을 두어 설명하고 있다. 안무가...

서구의 저항 정신을 수용해 한국만의 전위를 꽃피우다한국 현대 추상 미술의 형성새로운 움직임이나 창조는 기존의 것을 비판하며 나오곤 한다. 세계대전 후 현대 회화에서 미국과 유럽의 움직임이 그랬다. 지식과 기술이 눈부시게 발전했던 서구에서, 지극히 반이성적이고 비합리적인 세계 대전이 두 차례에 걸쳐 일어났고...

Arnold Schoenberg ��� composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vi...

PORTFOLIO FOR FASHION DESIGNERS brings together detailed information and step-by-step guidance for fashion design students seeking to prepare portfolios that represent their personality and creative vision, and showcase their strongest skills. Replete with examples of student work, it covers every t...

More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory ??in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions ??ensured ...

American Cinema/American Culture looks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2011. It begins with an examination of the basic narrative and stylistic features of classical Hollywood cinema.

Alan Dennis' 5th Edition of Systems Analysis and Design continues to build upon previous issues with it hands-on approach to systems analysis and design with an even more in-depth focus on the core set of skills that all analysts must possess. Dennis continues to capture the experience of developing...

The first full-length study of how motets were used and performed in the fifteenth century, this book dispels the mystery surrounding these outstanding works of vocal polyphony. It covers four areas of intense compositional activity: England, the Veneto, Bruges and Cambrai, with reference to the wor...

What is opera and how does it work? How has this dramatic form developed and what is its relevance in the modern world? Perfect for music students and opera-goers, this introductory guide addresses these questions and many more, exploring opera as a complete theatrical experience. Organised chronolo...

Peking opera is one of the most distinctive traditions in Chinese culture ??a tradition that can seem mysterious and complex to foreign eyes. In this illustrated introduction, Xu Chengbei explains the colourful make up, intricate costumes, characters, staging, stories and music associated with Pekin...

What is opera and how does it work? How has this dramatic form developed and what is its relevance in the modern world? Perfect for music students and opera-goers, this introductory guide addresses these questions and many more, exploring opera as a complete theatrical experience. Organised chronolo...

The Italian opera company in Prague managed by Pasquale Bondini and Domenico Guardasoni played a central role in promoting Mozart's operas during the final years of his life. Using a wide range of primary sources which include the superb collections of eighteenth-century opera posters and concert pr...

The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, ...

The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and scholars to a greater extent than ever before. Research into the performer's experience has begun to explore such areas as practice techniques, performance anxiety and memorisation, as well as ...

Why do we sing and what first drove early humans to sing? How might they have sung and how might those styles have survived to the present day? This history addresses these questions and many more, examining singing as a historical and cross-cultural phenomenon. It explores the evolution of singing ...