If you're embarking upon a career in interior design, here's a highly visual overview of the profession, with in-depth material on educational requirements, design specialties, finding a job, and the many directions a career in interior design can take. Featuring informative interviews with working designers, this Second Edition includes updated educational requirements and a list of accredited…
This book is a part of an all-new series, featuring titles in a areas of study, including Humanities, social science, business, engineering, science, mathematics, and computer science. Featuring the most up-to-date information, each book is written by educators in the field, for students as well as the general reader. Without sacrificing quality, these outlines summarize the material in a forma…
Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theat…
I Wayan Dibia, professor of the Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI) in Denpasar, sees an interesting development in Balinese classical arts. After being sidelined for so long by modern performances created for the tourism industry, it is now coming alive once more. Epic dance performances like Arja and Gambuh, the mask dance, puppetry and painting on glass are back, enthusiastically embraced by …
Noise is a model of cultural historiography In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specialized concentration, Noise has much that is of importance to critical theory today.” SubStance“ For Attali, music is not simply a reflection of culture, but a harbinger of change, an anticipatory abstraction of the shape of things to come. The book’…
In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison provides an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. The book begins its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of architecture throu…
Moving from web to field, from Victorian parlor to 21st-century mall, the 15 essays gathered here yield new insights regarding the intersection of local culture, musical creativity and technological possibilities. Inspired by the concept of "technoculture," the authors locate technology squarely in the middle of expressive culture: they are concerned with how technology culturally informs and i…
The first translation of the early texts of Jaap Kunst (1891-1960), one of the fathers of the scientific study of non-western music, on general aspects of traditional music and on music and dance in Indonesia. Introductions outline the life and works of Jaap Kunst, his relationship with the Tropenmuseum and the modernity of his visions on ethnomusicology. Includes an inventory and description o…
Kompleks Candi Prambanan merupakan sebuah komplek percandian masa Mataram Hindu di Jawa. Percandian ini merupakan komplek candi yang terbesar dan utama, di samping candi-candi hindu lainnya yang tersebar di P.Jawa. Candi ini dibangun pada masa pemerintahan Wangsa Sanjaya dengan rajanya Rakai Pikatan dan diteruskan oleh Rakai Balitung yang beragama Siwa. Relief adalah sebuah hasil karya seni pah…
Candi adalah bangunan kuil. Dalam bab VI buku ini menjelaskan bahwa pura di Bali bukanlah hasil seni bangunan keagamaan yang berdiri sendiri, tanpa akar dalam masa lalu kebudayaan Indonesia, melainkan merupakan suatu ungkapan alam pikiran yang berlandaskan pengertian candi sebagai kuil. Sebaliknya, candi sendiri pun merupakan hasil perumbuhan dari apa yang sudah ada akarnya dalam bumi Indonesia.