Product Description: Analytical, controversial and alert to recent developments in the field, this book introduces the multidisciplinary topic as it exists at present and also offers the author's own thoughts on the subject.Comprehensive in its approach to the different forms of audiovisual art, this volume covers artists' films and experimental films, video art, documentaries, art house cinema, and mainstream feature films...read more

Product Description: Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide...read more

Product Description: Celebrates the 80th birthday of the Bozar, the Brussels Centre for Fine Art. Text in English, French and Dutch.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Follows the students selected for the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, describing how they solved the challenges, and provides profiles of the winners, suggestions for preparing experiments, and ideas for science projects.

Product Description: This substantial new volume offers a broad and representative picture of the oeuvre of the important Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser, who began his artistic career in the mid-1960s but did not gather international recognition for his abstract canvases until the late-80s...read more

Product Description: Spectacular City presents the work of some 30 leading photographers of the urban landscape, an international group with a particularly strong Dutch representation. Its artists find an almost extraterrestrial beauty in liminal urban spaces, sites in transition...read more

Product Description: In Search of Yesterday is a distillation of the author's writings about the Holocaust / Shoah in three distinct areas: family stories, the quest for meaning in seemingly inexplicable events, and rethinking and reinterpreting biblical texts in light of the Holocaust / Shoah.

Product Description: Raoul De Keyser's mainly abstract art is remarkable for its dimensional realism--that is, its connection of the subjective and objective dimensions of experience. De Keyser personalizes abstraction, he gives it a human face; many of his pictures include motifs drawn from his immediate surroundings or his own personal experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)