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Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins by Peter Conrad
$75.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Throughout history artists, writers and musicians - 'creative' people - have tried to outdo God or the Gods in the acts of creation. This extraordinarily wide-ranging study traces the different concepts of creation in Western civilization, following the struggle between man and god for the right to crea ...Show more
How the World Was Won - The Americanization of Everywhere by Peter Conrad
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this dazzling new book, cultural critic and historian Peter Conrad tells the story of the spectacular rise and subsequent waning of American influence across the world since 1945. Politics, war and commerce form the inevitable backdrop to his tale, but Conrad also treats us to a kaleidoscopic present ...Show more
Islands: A Trip Through Time and Space by Peter Conrad
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Peter Conrad, who was born in Tasmania, has produced an original and highly personal account of the role islands play in our dreams and nightmares. He visits every corner of the globe to explain why islands appeal to us.
Mythomania by Peter Conrad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
Despite a proclaimed respect for scientific reason, humans are still as intrigued by myth as their remote ancestors. Laptops and smartphones are sold under a logo that invokes the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden; skimpily clad classical nymphs cavort in TV reality shows; Narcissus makes a comeback ...Show more
Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, from Apple to Isis by Peter Conrad
$39.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined the mythical resonances of consumer products in the 1950s. Far from being demystified, consumerism has s ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
The Mysteries of Cinema - Movies and Imagination by Peter Conrad
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Ranging from the latenineteenth century to thepresent day, this exhilaratingsurvey by cultural critic PeterConrad explores the ways filmhas changed how we seethe world. This is a thematic roller-coaster ride through cinema history, with film expert Peter Conrad in the seat beside you. Thoroughly interna ...Show more
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
$49.94 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfo ...Show more
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
$42.99 AUD
Category: Music
Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfo ...Show more
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