"This book is about the expanding realm of visual culture: in architecture, art, design, advertising, photography, film, television, video, theatre performance, computer imagery and virtual reality. It is also about Visual Culture Studies, a relatively new academic discipline, or rather range of disciplines, that scholars employ to analyse visual artefacts. Unlike many other texts on the same subject, it foregrounds the ?visual? and is s ..."
Japanese Love Hotels(1stEdition) A Cultural History (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series) von SarahChaplin Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-41585-9, ISBN: 0-415-41585-3
"Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels. Representing a timely opportunity to capture and evaluate the dyi ..."
"Este libro está concebido como una guía introductoria que puede ayudar tanto a los estudiantes de Historia del Arte, Bellas Artes, Diseño, Publicidad, Comunicación Audiovisual y Periodismo como a cualquier persona que desee acercarse a este apasionante campo de estudio. Los autores ofrecen en él mucho ejemplos y también un buen número de interesantes referencias bibliográficas en cada capítulo"
"Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’. Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, the chapters cover a broad methodological as well as thematic range. Examining ..."