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Yorkshire Sculpture Park Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth
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£27.00
Art / Books Josef Albers: Discovery and Invention – The Early
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£22.95
Tangent Books Street Art And Graffiti: A Dissertation By Street
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£13.30
Hato Press Cookbook of Possibilities
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£14.25
Holland House Books A Certain Slant of Light
Book SynopsisA unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. Duncan White's moving novel reverberates with unspoken grief. A beautifully written meditation on impermanence, in which art and human life are seen as signal flares into the darkness.
£9.99
Enitharmon Editions The Castle of Perseverance
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£31.50
Occasional Papers Import-Export, Friperie: Mekhitar Garabedian:
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£19.00
Drag City Projectile
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£16.19
Hat & Beard, LLC The Steve Keene Art Book
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£50.25
Editions Skira Paris Jean-Michel Wilmotte: Product Design
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£55.20
Edition Moderne AG, Verlag bbb firebugs
Book SynopsisActually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with herself and her life. Ingken on the other hand is struggling a lot. Set against the background of global climate change, Ingken is searching for a self-determined identity, a new name, for the things that can remain as they were and those that have to disappear. What is it that makes us humans? Do we have to burn everything down in order to define ourselves anew? Or can we also hold on to some things? The World Is On Fire'your own and the real one out there. Bushfires rage in Australia and Ingken's world is thrown off balance. The ecological threat interweaves with fears of change. On this fluid journey to oneself, everything falters and yet is connected. What can we hold on to when we don't know yet how everything might feel right?I like Nino Bulling's way of illuminating complex situations and anchoring them in political dimensions. For me, it becomes great comic art through the fine nuances in the gestures and the vivid sceneries. Whether it's a wild party night, a rural idyll or inner torment, the mood immediately jumps from each page into your own thoughts. That's what I read for. Gesine Claus, Strips & Stories, Bookshop for Graphic Novels, HamburgThe comic is co-published with Colorama and part of Nino Bulling's contribution to documenta fifteen.
£19.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Windsbraut: Die Geschichte Von Oskar
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£23.75
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Geschichte Der Venezianischen Malerei: Band 3:
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£76.50
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Das Sichtbare Und Das Unsichtbare: Zur
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£55.79
Hatje Cantz Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art
Book SynopsisEver since electricity became ubiquitous artists have been fascinated by the manifold possibilities to create works with it. The catalogue Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, which accompanies the opening exhibition of Kunsthalle Praha, explores how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, including cinematography, sound, kinetic and mechanical sculptures, computer-based art and immersive installations. A historical perspective emphasizes the fact that electricity, with its various usages—from artificial light to computing—has become a defining element of our societies. Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art includes an essay by Peter Weibel, the author of the exhibition concept, four thematic chapters written by the co-curator Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás as well as descriptions and reproductions of key artworks by artists, such as Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina Kubish, Zdenek Pesanek, Anna Ridler, Nicolas Schöffer, Jeffrey Shaw, Takis, Steina, and Woody Vasulka.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About
Book SynopsisIt’s All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer’s artistic work for the first time—from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand–tens. The exhibits selected shed new light on Ungerer’s oeuvre by making it possible to comprehend the artistic dimension of the political and stylistic lines and breaks in his oeuvre as a ‘freewheeling artist’. His passion for experimenting across genres and the interplay between drawing, collage, and assemblage through which he searched for identity and humanity is thus shown in his work again and again. Developed by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg in cooperation with the Tomi Ungerer Estate and the Musée Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg, the volume brings together contributions on Tomi Ungerer’s life’s work by Thomas David, Belinda Grace Gardner, Aria Ungerer, and Thérèse Willer, with a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Harald Falckenberg.
£33.00
Hatje Cantz Lygia Pape (Bilingual edition): The Skin of ALL
Book SynopsisAs one of the key figures of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lygia Pape developed a specific understanding of geometric abstraction that resulted in a radical new conception of concrete-constructivist art, challenging an overly rigid rationalism by moving toward more subjective, multi-sensorial modes of expression. Marking Pape’s first solo exhibition in Germany, this richly illustrated book presents the artist’s unusual creative power in all its breadth, drawing on a body of documents that is being published for the first time. Against the backdrop of the tension between Brazil’s vibrant avant-garde and the growing political repression through the military dictatorship (1964–1985), Pape’s work reflects ethical and socio-political issues and harnesses experimental explorations of not just metaphorical geometric but social space to create poetic manifestations of subtle resistance. Emphasizing the primacy of the sensorial experience of the viewers, Pape went as far as to declare them to be the actual creators of her works.
£51.20
Hatje Cantz Suki Seokyeong Kang Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisContemporary Art in Korean Tradition Suki Seokyeong Kang's practice traverses painting, sculpture, installation, as well as video and performance to explore the interplay between the individual and the collective. By developing an artistic vocabulary that draws from the rich heritage of Korean painting, poetry and dance, Kang's oeuvre examines the durability of traditions and expands their significance to contemporary art. The catalogue, accompanying her solo exhibition Willow Drum Oriole at Leeum Museum of Art, proposes to read Kang's practice through a range of varying discourses, such as the status of traditional Korean painting in contemporary art, feminism, and the narratives of the Western avant-garde. Taking the artist's foundational painting practice as a point of departure, the catalogue features a new body of work and charts the development of Kang's artistic language.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz CyberArts 2022: Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Book SynopsisThe Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most prestigious prizes in media art, since 1987. The jury of experts includes Computer/Film/VFX, Digital Musics & Sound Art or Artificial Intelligence & Life Art.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag The Power of Line: Linea III
Book SynopsisIn many cultures lines take centre stage in art and science, in writing, drawing and construction. This publication explores the fascination and power of the phenomenon of the line from the point of view of various academic disciplines ranging from the history of art to philosophy and the history of science. There are no lines in nature; lines are always the expression of human actions, perception and design. Lines divide or connect; they are sometimes static and sometimes gestural and full of movement; they represent and create forms in space and time. The essays in this volume elucidate the semantic and conceptual depth of the line in European, Asian and Islamic cultures and reveal the continuity and transformation of the line over the course of centuries as a constitutive element in architecture, art and writing and as a medium of expression in choreography and scientific and technological fields.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag IS THAT BIEDERMEIER?: Amerling, Waldmüller, and
Book SynopsisThis volume illustrates the development of art in Central Europe from 1830 – 1860 – a period which begins in the age of Biedermeier but extends well beyond it. It shows by means of a selection of representative works how art at this time developed independently and was not restricted to the historical Biedermeier era. DESCRIPTION “Is that Biedermeier?”, we often ask of pictures which date from the same period but do not look typically Biedermeier. The publication concentrates on these works in particular by showi ng the wide range of painting in the years between 1830 – 1860 through portraits, landscapes and genre pictures. The main focus lies on Austrian painters like Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Rudolf von Alt and Friedrich von Amerling, together with artists from N orthern Italy, Hungary, Bohemia and Slovenia including Giuseppe Tominz, József Borsos, Bedřich Havránek and Francesco Hayez. There are also references to the changes in style in furniture production at that time, which also demonstrated a remarkable divers ity.
£33.60
Hirmer Verlag Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskünstler berichtet /
Book SynopsisWerner Graeff – painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor – is an important Bauhaus artist and a significant representative of Constructivism in Germany. Prompted by his friend Mies van der Rohe he wrote his moving autobiography “Hürdenlauf durch das 20. Jahrhundert” (The Obstacle Race of the 20th century), which this volume publishes for the first time with a representative selection of texts. Werner Graeff ( 1901 – 1978 ) was a student at the Bauh aus in Weimar and from 1921 a member of the De Stijl Dutch artists’ group. Together with Willi Baumeister he was also closely associated with the “ring neue werbegestalter” founded in 1927 by Kurt Schwitters. At an early stage he focused much of his attent ion on film and photography, but in 1951 after his return to the Ruhr region from exile in Switzerland he once again increasingly devoted himself to his work as an independent artist. Illustrated with a large number of paintings, pictograms, multiples, dra wings and graphic works from the artist’s estate, this volume leads the reader through Graeff’s life and works and is at the same time a fascinating journey through the German art history of the 20 th century.
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Hirmer Verlag Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats
Book SynopsisJonathon Keats’ work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities –from the absurd to the profound.Since the turn of the millennium, Keats has comprehensively extended his academic training in philosophy by prolifically presenting conceptual art projects that he refers to as “thought experiments.”These include installations and performances in museums and galleries around the globe. His motivations are to make space for exploring ideas, offering provocations, and confronting systems we generally take for granted. By prototyping alternative realities –systematically asking what if...? –these projects probe the world in which we live, exploring the potential for societal change.Trade Review“Introduces a contemporary artist, Jonathan Keats, who embraces absurdity as a means to explore relationships between humans and nature.” * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a
Book SynopsisAdeliza McHugh helped put the whimsical, funky, and irreverent aesthetic of California’s Central Valley on the art-historical map at her legendary Candy Store Gallery. Published on what would be the 60th anniversary of the gallery’s founding, this catalogue is the most significant to-date on the Candy Store and celebrates, as McHugh liked to say, art with a “kick.” In 1962, Adeliza McHugh opened the Candy Store Gallery in Folsom, California. The business began as a candy store, but when that closed, McHugh converted it into an art gallery. There, she featured ceramists and painters who would become nationally and even internationally significant, including Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Irving Marcus, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jack Ogden, Sandra Shannonhouse, Peter VandenBerge, and Maija Peeples-Bright. Their work, along with that of many other artists, delighted visitors to the gallery for 30 years.
£23.96
Hirmer Verlag Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the
Book SynopsisThe catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The artworks address a broad array of contemporary cultural issues and participate in many discourses of art from the 1960s to the present. Rounding the Bases: The Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection highlights 100 stellar examples from the 833 works in a St. Louis collection recently acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The diverse collection of contemporary art, made mostly by artists active in the U.S., includes prints, drawings, and photographs as well as sculptures and a painting. The book traces the Simmonses’ focus on art and artists of their own time, and on the broader social, political, art historical, and technical issues that have engaged both the artists and the collectors. Artists featured: Mike Bidlo, Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Damon Davis, Tony Fitzpatrick, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Hammond, Tom Huck, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Liliana Porter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kiki Smith, Paul Thek, Kara Walker, H. C. Westermann, and David Wojnarowicz, among others.
£32.30
Hirmer Verlag Heidi Horten Collection: The House and its
Book SynopsisA new art location will be opening in the heart of Vienna in the spring of 2022. The museum for the famous collection of Heidi Goëss-Horten will be completed between the Albertina and the Opera House. The first museum publication is dedicated to the creation of this new exhibition venue, its architecture and construction history, positioning it within the context of the foundation of new museums. Heidi Horten’s art collection has been carefully built up since the early 1990s and presents its main focus on works of international modernism, Neo-Expressionism and American Pop-Art. The volume examines the previous historical buildings, their princely clients, the current redesign and the conversion of a former secular residential outbuilding into a contemporary art museum. In an interview with Heidi Goëss-Horten the collector and patron introduces herself and provides fascinating insights into a prestigious European private collection.
£33.60
Hirmer Verlag Jin-me Yoon: About Time
Book SynopsisJin-me Yoon is an important Canadian lens-based artist who has been working steadily since emerging on Vancouver’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s. Produced in tandem with a major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022, About Time focuses on Yoon’s monumental and multifaceted production of the last decade, which typically combines photography, video, performance and installation. About Time focuses primarily on Jin-me Yoon’s most recent artistic practice. In these layered works, Yoon continues to address the subject matter of diasporic experience, colonialism, imperialism and militarism, but with a politicized awareness of what it means to live and work as a diasporic artist on land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Characterized by a restrained poetic style, use of slowness and repetition, and sensory use of sound, Yoon’s recent corpus is undergirded by a strong environmentalist thrust. Recurring tropes of this mature phase of her work include cinematic tableaux of individuals integrated within the Pacific West Coast’s stunning natural landscapes.
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Hirmer Verlag Eduardo Terrazas (Spanish Edition): Cosmos
Book Synopsis"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well known authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing series "Possibilities of a Structure". Which suggests at once a curiosity in the fabric of our universe and a profoundly human hope for an underlying rationality behind the chaos of the world. Eduardo Terrazas has explored a lifetime’s worth of questions about the nature of the universe through the microcosm of his images. He derives his visual reflections with a basic geometric structure and a technique that is inspired by the Huichol tablas from Mexican indigenous tribes. His highly colourful and playful series "Possibilities of a Structure" – of which Cosmos is a subseries – has been an ongoing project since 1974 and comprises over 650 works until today: an artistic exploration of the boundaries of the infinite.
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Nieves The Pieces
Book SynopsisEdie Fake's paintings start as self-portraits, and from there, they make a break for it, referencing elements of the trans and non-binary body through pattern, color and architectural metaphor. Edie's precise, intimately scaled, gouache-and-ink paintings on panel are structured around the physical aspects of transition and adaptation as well as mental and sexual health. Since moving from first Chicago, then to Los Angeles while briefly attending grad school at USC, to now the high desert of Joshua Tree in California, Edie's work has evolved from the acclaimed Memory Palaces series reimagined facades of urban lesbian bars and gay nightclubs to a new feeling of vulnerability due to shifts in the U. S. social and political climate. The work blurs lines between architecture and body with structures adorned by elements that seem to be both decorative and protective. Architectural components are used as visual metaphors for the ways in which definition and validation elude trans identities. Says Fake, More and more I'm trying to bring an anarchy into that architecture, or a fantasy and ecstasy of what queer space is and can be.
£8.00
Slanted Publishers UG Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday
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£15.20
Spector Books Enghelab Street: A Revolution through Books: Iran
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£38.40
Skira Basketball & Contemporary Art
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£44.00
Skira CB Hoyo: I didn’t know how to name this
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£23.80
Skira Nejat Sati: Colour as Psychological Balance
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£24.00
Skira Lahore Biennale 01: Reader
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£32.30
Skira Lux et Veritas: Pushing a White Wall
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£25.50
Skira Wanda Czelkowska: Art Is Not Rest
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£28.00
Damiani Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks
Book SynopsisNamsa Leuba: Crossed Looks is the first artist monograph featuring the work of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba. This publication accompanies the first solo exhibition of Namsa Leuba in the United States, at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina on August 27 – December 11, 2021. Crossed Looks features Leuba’s major projects to date, including photography series in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria, Benin, and the debut of a new series recently made in Tahiti. The exhibition and publication consider how Leuba’s photographic practice explores the representation of African identity and the cultural Other in the Western imagination. Over 90 photographs inspired by the visual culture and ceremonies of West Africa, contemporary fashion and design, and the history of photography and its colonizing gaze present Leuba’s unique perspective that straddles reality and fantasy. Through the adaptation of myths attributed to the Other, Leuba’s photographs acknowledge this double act of looking, a cross-dialogue of global cultures. The exhibition is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Pro Helvetia. The publication features essays contributed by exhibition curator Joseph Gergel; writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma; and art historian Dr. Mary Trent. These essays examine the nuanced themes of identity and representation in Leuba’s multiple bodies of work.
£36.00
Nika Simovich Fisher Becoming A. Banana
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£10.18
Yale University Press The A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Fifty
Book SynopsisThe A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. This illustrated documentary volume tells the story of the genesis of the lectureship, featuring essays by a variety of scholars.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Fashion Design
Book SynopsisShows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trends Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only the fortunate few have sufficient talent to succeed. In reality, commercially successful results can be achieved if the right processes are followed in the early design process.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements iii Contents iv Preface vi Introduction 1 Flow chart 2 Analysing the brief 3 Innovation – exercises 5 Developing designs – quick start exercise13 Research 14 Design process 34 Specialist markets 114 Collections 121 Decision making 128 Design using the computer 132 Promotion 138 Promotion - styling 146 The Portfolio 148 Fashion careers 156 Case studies 175 Bibliography 224 Index 225
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Design Paradigms A Source for Creative
Book SynopsisA versatile toolbox of ideas for creative design solutions.Table of ContentsSimple Shapes. Enclosure. Bending and Flexing. Bigger and Smaller. Binary Object Relations. Joining. Attaching. Passages. Multiple Object Relations. Objects Within Objects. Multi-Function Objects. Transcending the Visible. Putting Design Paradigms to Work. Notes. References. Figure Credits. Index.
£59.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Dressmaking Simplified
Book SynopsisNo beginner should be without this book. Paper patterns often give insufficient information, but here clear diagrams and detailed step-by-step instructions provide a method of working which is easy to follow.Table of ContentsEquipment; Fabric fibres and their source; Personal appearance; Taking measurements; Pattern alteration; Construction of a garment; Disposal of fullness; Seams; Crossway strips; Facing and interfacings; Openings; Fastenings; Pockets; Collars; Cuffs; Sleeves; Waistbands and belts; Hems; Decorative finishes; Care and maintenance of clothes.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Clothing
Book SynopsisIn virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places where, for whatever reason, this process has not occurred, or has been reversed, and provides explanations for these developments. The first part of this story recounts how the cultural, political and economic power of Europe and, from the later nineteenth century North America, has provided an impetus for the adoption of whatever was at that time standard Western dress. Set against this, Robert Ross shows how the adoption of European style dress, or its rejection, has always been a political act, performed most frequently in order to claim equality with colonial masters, more often a male option, or to stress distinction from them, which women, perhaps under male duress, more frequently did. The booTrade Review"A short book, and an easy read that adds a fresh perspective to studies of global history, colonialism, economic development, military history, and the history of costume." Journal of Interdisciplinary History "No longer viewed as inconsequential, clothing has much to tell historians. Clothing fits very neatly within this new historiography." Journal of Social History "A model work of synthesis - lucid, lively, accessible, globally informed, stuffed with rich and fascinating examples, making good use of theory and comparison, and approaching its topic from economic, political, social and cultural points of view." Peter Burke, University of Cambridge "Robert Ross admirably weaves the history of dress into the broader contours of modernization and the rise and fall of western imperialism. Clothing offers the reader insights into the power of bodily adornment, both as a tool of western hegemony, and as a potential symbolic medium for nationalist aspirations of the colonized." John Mackey, Birmingham UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. The Rules of Dress. 3. Redressing the Old World. 4. First Colonialisms. 5. The Production, care and distribution of clothing. 6. The Export of Europe. 7. Reclothed in Rightful Minds: Christian missions and clothing. 8. Re-forming the body: reforming the mind. 9. The Clothing of Colonial Nationalism. 10. The Emancipation of Dress. 11. Engendered Acceptance and Rejection. 12. Conclusion
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Rutgers University Press Buyers Beware Insurgency and Consumption in
Book SynopsisOffers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits accepted representations of the Caribbean from ‘less respectable’ segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and ‘sistah lit’ that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability.Trade Review“In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.” -- Mimi Sheller * author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies *"This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom." -- Yanique Hume * co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance *"With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets." -- Nadia Ellis * author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora *“In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.” -- Mimi Sheller * author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies *"This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom." -- Yanique Hume * co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance *"With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets." -- Nadia Ellis * author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally Chapter One: Is not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace Chapter Two: Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in “Sistah Lit” Chapter Three: “Who’s On Top?”: Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Taste Chapter Four: “Fashion Ova Style” The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture Chapter Five: “‘Outta Order’or Outta Door?: Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics & Sexuality” Chapter Six: Gardening in the Garrisons, (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art Conclusion: ‘Puuulll Uuuuuuup:’ Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Buyers Beware Insurgency and Consumption in
Book SynopsisOffers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits accepted representations of the Caribbean from ‘less respectable’ segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and ‘sistah lit’ that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability.Trade Review"This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom."— Yanique Hume, co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance “In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.”— Mimi Sheller, author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies "With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets."— Nadia Ellis, author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black DiasporaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally Chapter One: Is not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace Chapter Two: Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in “Sistah Lit” Chapter Three: “Who’s On Top?”: Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Taste Chapter Four: “Fashion Ova Style” The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture Chapter Five: “‘Outta Order’or Outta Door?: Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics & Sexuality” Chapter Six: Gardening in the Garrisons, (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art Conclusion: ‘Puuulll Uuuuuuup:’ Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Comics Studies A Guidebook
Book SynopsisOffers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. The book opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts.Trade Review"With Comic Studies: A Guidebook, Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (both top of their game) bring together a dream team of top researchers to produce a foundational collection that is going to be a cornerstone for all future research in this field. Each essay is not only encyclopedic in its synthesis of existing research but expands our knowledge of comics history and our conceptual understanding of how comics operates as an industry, as a set of social practices, as a confluence of genres, as a readership, and as an array of formal practices."— Henry Jenkins, author of Comics and Stuff "Very up-to-date and worth a closer look. Using 17 bite-sized articles, each ten to twenty pages long, the authors of the volume introduce the subject of comic studies."— Comicgate.de "The margins of Hatfield and Beaty’s comics studies are where some of the most interesting and innovative research on and around comics has been or is being conducted by scholars who will not find themselves or their work represented in this edited collection."— Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies SocietyTable of ContentsContents Timeline of Selected Events Jonathan Chau, Bart Beaty, and Charles Hatfield Introduction Bart Beaty and Charles Hatfield Part I Histories Chapter 1 Comic Strips Ian Gordon Chapter 2 Comic Books Charles Hatfield Chapter 3 Underground and Alternative Comics Roger Sabin Chapter 4 European Traditions Bart Beaty Chapter 5 Manga Frenchy Lunning Chapter 6 The Graphic Novel Isaac Cates Part II Cultures Chapter 7 Comics Industries Matthew P. McAllister and Brian MacAuley Chapter 8 Readers, Audiences, and Fans Benjamin Woo Chapter 9 Children and Comics Philip Nel Chapter 10 Differences Theresa Tensuan Part III Forms Chapter 11 Cartooning Andrei Moltiu Chapter 12 Design in Comics: Panels and Pages Martha Kuhlman Chapter 13 Words and Images Jan Baetens Part IV Genres Chapter 14 Superheroes Marc Singer Chapter 15 Autographics Gillian Whitlock Chapter 16 Girls, Women, and Comics Mel Gibson Chapter 17 Digiral Comics Darren Wershler, Kalervo Sinervo, and Shannon Tien Bibliography Notes on the Contributors
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Rutgers University Press Comics Studies A Guidebook
Book SynopsisOffers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. The book opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts.Trade Review"With Comic Studies: A Guidebook, Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (both top of their game) bring together a dream team of top researchers to produce a foundational collection that is going to be a cornerstone for all future research in this field. Each essay is not only encyclopedic in its synthesis of existing research but expands our knowledge of comics history and our conceptual understanding of how comics operates as an industry, as a set of social practices, as a confluence of genres, as a readership, and as an array of formal practices."— Henry Jenkins, author of Comics and Stuff "Very up-to-date and worth a closer look. Using 17 bite-sized articles, each ten to twenty pages long, the authors of the volume introduce the subject of comic studies."— Comicgate.de "The margins of Hatfield and Beaty’s comics studies are where some of the most interesting and innovative research on and around comics has been or is being conducted by scholars who will not find themselves or their work represented in this edited collection."— Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies SocietyTable of ContentsContents Timeline of Selected Events Jonathan Chau, Bart Beaty, and Charles Hatfield Introduction Bart Beaty and Charles Hatfield Part I Histories Chapter 1 Comic Strips Ian Gordon Chapter 2 Comic Books Charles Hatfield Chapter 3 Underground and Alternative Comics Roger Sabin Chapter 4 European Traditions Bart Beaty Chapter 5 Manga Frenchy Lunning Chapter 6 The Graphic Novel Isaac Cates Part II Cultures Chapter 7 Comics Industries Matthew P. McAllister and Brian MacAuley Chapter 8 Readers, Audiences, and Fans Benjamin Woo Chapter 9 Children and Comics Philip Nel Chapter 10 Differences Theresa Tensuan Part III Forms Chapter 11 Cartooning Andrei Moltiu Chapter 12 Design in Comics: Panels and Pages Martha Kuhlman Chapter 13 Words and Images Jan Baetens Part IV Genres Chapter 14 Superheroes Marc Singer Chapter 15 Autographics Gillian Whitlock Chapter 16 Girls, Women, and Comics Mel Gibson Chapter 17 Digiral Comics Darren Wershler, Kalervo Sinervo, and Shannon Tien Bibliography Notes on the Contributors
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