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Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre Cromwellian Ireland A Repertory of Sources and Documents from the Earliest Times


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English | 2000 | pages: 617 | ISBN: 0859915735 | PDF | 3,4 mb
A collection of all known documentary evidence relating to drama and performance in pre-Cromwellian Ireland.

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Against Value in the Arts and Education (Disruptions)


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783484896 | PDF | pages: 448 | 27.1 mb
Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art’s defenders make art self-satisfied, or otherwise an echo-chamber for the limited and limiting self-description of people’s lives lived in an "audit culture", a culture pervaded by the direct and indirect excrescence of practices of accountability.

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Mixed Martial Arts and the Quest for Legitimacy The Sport vs. Spectacle Divide


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English | ISBN: 147667129X | 2018 | 201 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Mixed martial arts or MMA is widely regarded as the fastest growing sport. Events fill stadiums around the world and draw vast television audiences, earning strong revenue through pay-per-view at a time when other sports have abandoned it. In 2016, the Ultimate Fighting Championship was bought by the massive talent agency WME-IMG for $4 billion. Despite this success, much of the public remains uneasy with the sport, which critics have denounced as "human cockfighting."

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Mixed Martial Arts and the Law Disputes, Suits and Legal Issues


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English | ISBN: 1476679304 | 2019 | 218 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Barbaric. Savage. Violent. Words often used by critics to describe the sport of mixed martial arts. To this can be added lucrative, popular and flourishing. MMA has seen astronomical growth since the 2000s, spurred on by its biggest promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC).

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Outsider John Rockwell on the Arts, 1967-2006


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English | ISBN: 0879103337 | 2006 | 544 pages | PDF | 10 MB
(Limelight). This compilation by longtime New York Times music and arts critic John Rockwell features the creme de la creme of the renowned journalist’s arts criticism and commentary over the past 40 years. Taken mostly from the Times , but also including pieces from 17 other sources, such as the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, the San Francisco Examiner, High Fidelity, Opera , and the Village Voice , these writings present Rockwell’s unique vision of the arts scene over the past 40 years, with essays on classical music (including the breadth of contemporary works), rock, dance, art, film, theater, general arts topics, and reports from abroad. Rockwell’s analysis includes parallels among the arts, insights from one to another, as he brilliantly communicates his aesthetic experiences to the reader.

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Creativity in the Arts A Multidisciplinary Exploration


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English | June 17, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D7BYXBWG | 136 pages | EPUB | 1.68 Mb
"Creativity in the Arts: A Multidisciplinary Exploration" offers a comprehensive journey into the dynamic world of artistic creativity across various disciplines. This book delves deep into the theoretical foundations, historical perspectives, and practical applications of creativity in the arts, spanning visual arts, literature, music, dance, theater, film, digital art, architecture, fashion, culinary arts, crafts, photography, graphic design, comics, and more.

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The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts


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English | December 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1474484174 | True EPUB | 560 pages | 34 MB
From the birth of the museum to the explosion of mass-produced illustrated books, the Romantic period (c. 1770-1840) was a moment of rapid change and fruitful experimentation in the fields of art and literature alike. New advances in print production encouraged a wider range of readers to engage with literary forms that opened a path into the once aristocratic field of the visual arts.

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