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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Images
Book SynopsisThe stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photojournalism, this book explores the origin of the unauthorised celebrity photograph in the early 20th century, tracing its rise in the 1900s through to the first legal trial concerning the right to privacy from photographers shortly after the Second World War. Packed with case studies from the glamorous to the infamous, the book argues that the candid snap was a tabloid innovation that drew its power from Britain's unique class tensions. Used by papers such as the Daily Mirror and Daily Sketch as a vehicle of mass communication, this new form of image played an important and often overlooked role in constructing the idea of the press photographer as a documentary eyewitness. From Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson to aristocratic debutantes Lady Diana Cooper and Margaret Whigham, the rage of the social elite at being pictured so intimately withoutTable of Contents1. “For those who could see but could not read”: Photojournalism in London, 1904-19382. Shooting People: The Press Photographer and the Candid Portrait 3. Snapping the Royals: The Press Photographer and the Challenge to the British Monarchy4. Spectacular “Society”: Celebrity and Aristocratic Decline in the Photographic Press5. “The snapshots of press photographers are governed by no law”: The Tabloid Photographer and the Right to Privacy.
£105.00
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press Placemaking
Book SynopsisThrough embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page shows how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Love Across the Atlantic
Book SynopsisFrom romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative
Book SynopsisPresents an intimate portrait of how Muslim women are transforming media, culture and the arts in contemporary Britain
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements
Book SynopsisExplores the use of images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with them
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.
£35.15
Edinburgh University Press The Art of Defiance
Book SynopsisExamines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Art of Defiance
Book SynopsisExamines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press What Artistry Can Do
Book SynopsisThese 12 essays by Belgian philosopher and theorist Bart Verschaffel - many translated into English for the first time - explore the meaning and relevance of art today. They cover a rich and inventive range of topics, from mockery and laughter to the artwork as a 'gift', and from caricature to splendour.
£85.50
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The More We Look the Deeper It Gets
Book SynopsisThis book provides inspiration and practical guidance for teaching with works of art in order to deepen engagement and improve student learning.Trade ReviewGreat works of art can remain remarkably silent unless an educator can skillfully guide viewers from observation to interpretation. Nicola Giardina provides us with a compelling, research-based, and delightfully practical guide for anyone who wishes to deepen their experience with art. Through case studies, direct evidence from students, and her own insights, Giardina reveals to us the transformative power of art through excellent teaching practice. -- William B. Crow, PhD, Educator in Charge, Teaching and Learning, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtIn her easy to follow, yet comprehensive book, Nicola Giardina provides everything an educator (working in a school or museum) needs to develop art inquiries that encourage close looking, spark imagination and support the development of critical thinking skills. By providing sample transcripts, suggested open-ended questions, and clearly articulated strategies, this book provides a full toolbox for the educator who wants to facilitate inquiries that encourage students to think together and think deeply. -- Sharon Vatsky, Director of School and Family Programs, Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumNicola Giardina’s new book provides inspiration and support for transformational teaching and learning through the pairing of lucid examples that bring to life ways experiences with works of art can provide a catalyst for critical thinking, connection, and self-discovery, with a clear and flexible pedagogical framework forged in the crucible of NYC schools. -- Claire Moore, The Allen and Kelli Questrom Center for Creative Connections Education Director, Dallas Museum of ArtThe More We Look, the Deeper It Gets: Transforming the Curriculum Through Art is a book for anyone passionate about transformative educational experiences. Through her analysis of numerous on-the-ground teaching moments, Giardina brings us this gem of a book which provides educators with a powerful toolbox filled to the brim with tried-and-true strategies, designed to help both teachers and students to re-discover the art and joy of teaching and learning. -- Adjoa Jones de Almeida, Director of Education, Brooklyn MuseumTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Why teach with art inquiry? Chapter 2: The Pyramid of Inquiry Chapter 3: Observation: what you see Chapter 4: Evidence-based inference: what you think about what you see Chapter 5: Interpretation: what it means (the big idea) Chapter 6: The role of information in an art inquiry discussion Chapter 7: Developing personal connections Chapter 8: Planning and facilitating art inquiry experiences Chapter 9: Art inquiry resources About the Author
£25.00
AuthorHouse Harvesting Cedar Bark
£16.70
AuthorHouse Art Through The Ages in Afghanistan
£45.95
AuthorHouse Native Fuel
£24.48
University of Texas Press Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder
Book SynopsisThe eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period's key imports to the Hellenic and Italic worlds was the image of the griffin, a mythical monster that usually possesses the body of a lion and the head of an eagle. In particular, bronze cauldrons bore griffin protomesfigurative attachments showing the neck and head of the beast. Crafted in fine detail, the protomes were made to appear full of vigor, transfixing viewers. Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder takes griffin cauldrons as case studies in the shifting material and visual universes of preclassical antiquity, arguing that they were perceived as lifelike monsters that introduced the illusion of verisimilitude to Mediterranean arts. The objects were placed in the tombs of the wealthy (Italy, Cyprus) and in sanctuaries (Greece), creating fantastical environments akin to later cabinets of curiosities. Yet griffin cauldrons were accessible Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Griffin Cauldrons in Contexts of Life and Death Chapter 1. Eastern Mediterranean, Ionia, and the Aegean Chapter 2. Mainland Greece Chapter 3. Italy and France Part II. Sources for the Lives of Griffin Cauldrons Chapter 4. Kolaios’s Monster Cauldron at the Heraion of Samos (Herodotus 4.152) Chapter 5. Monsters in Images: Pictorial Representations of Griffin Cauldrons Part III. Responses to the Uncanny Chapter 6. Vision of Wonders Conclusion. Disenchantment Notes References Index
£40.50
University of Texas Press Inventing Indigenism
Book SynopsisA fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.Trade ReviewInventing Indigenism winds through the dense and entangled evolution of nationalist concepts and emblematic racial envisionings of the Peruvian Indian, Indigeneity, and Indigenism...[Majluf's] narratives are compelling...and advance important information and insights through intricate and multifaceted analyses that view the notion of nation as unstable...Inventing Indigenism is a multilayered examination of nation building. At the same time, the book asks all readers to consider how racial stereotypes and perspectives of the past, embedded in complex political and cultural viewpoints, continue as present day unfixed social constructs that still function in assessing the identity of self as well as others. * caa.reviews *[An] engagingly written and meticulously researched book…Among the many high-quality illustrations, the dark symmetry of the 'Inhabitant' amply depicts the dignity of Indian suffering, while a ceramic figurine, cupped reverentially in his hands, references the 'violent stifling' of Inca society and the resultant sense of loss that Laso believed to be imprinted in Indian memory. That is one message of this book. Its other considerable achievement is to have begun the restoration of the nineteenth century to its rightful place in the cultural history of both Peru and Latin America. * Times Literary Supplement *A groundbreaking study...The book, like a fine exhibition, is expertly curated to guide the reader through a fascinating exposition about the nineteenth-century origins of modern pictorial indigenism in Peru as featured in Laso’s work...This compelling and exquisite book is the product of a dedicated and masterful Art Historian. It is a book that should be required reading for every Latin American scholar conducting research on the complexities of colonial and republican legacies of Peruvian indigenism and identity politics. Natalia Majful’s contextual analysis and insightful expertise has rendered a valuable and most welcome scholarly contribution to both academic and nonacademic enthusiasts of Latin American art. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Majluf’s study is a welcome and much-needed addition...Her use of Francisco Laso’s iconic painting Inhabitant of the Cordilleras of Peru (1855) as a point of departure for the exploration of multiple discourses on Andean indigeneity in nineteenth-century Peru is an inspired strategic move. It reveals an artist who understood his world and the processes at work as Peru struggled to define itself...[Majluf's] study stands as a model for research in nineteenth-century Latin American art history, and her book should be of great interest to a range of audiences, given its nuanced exploration of the intersections between indigeneity, nationalist politics, and visual culture. * The Americas *Inventing Indigenism is proof of the high-quality studies that can be produced through deep levels of understanding of images and visuality across time, space, and disciplines. One painting and its broad signification brings forth current discussions on postcolonial studies and transnationality; it displaces the perpetuation of the colonial as a cultural construct and deeply engages with the possibilities of revisiting and rewriting the past. The book is complex and at the same time simple, as it comes across as an urgent study of not only art and art making but also race and representation in Latin America. It is a strong, challenging, and yet empathic study, necessary for contemporary times as a very smart model of what art history can and must urgently do. * Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture *It is impossible to summarize with any justice the richness and sophistication of the analysis that Majluf carries out in the book.Es imposible de resumir con justicia. A continuación, presentaré solo algunos elementos de sus capítulos centrales y luego estableceré un breve diálogo con el libro. * Revista Hispánica Moderna *Table of Contents A Note on the Text Preface Introduction Francisco Laso: A Republican Biography Indigenism’s National Imaginaries From Society, into Painting, and Back Precedents: A Short History of the Indian—Concept and Image 1. The Indian: Image of the Nation A Local Antiquity Idealization Painting’s Critical Function Gonzalo Pizarro: The Scene of Conquest and the Spanish Legacy The Indian as Cultural Concept Creole Failures The Indian as Allegory and Symbol 2. The Scene of Approximation The Country of Melancholy: The Creole Invention of the Andean World Melancholy’s Modern Transformations An Andean Legend: The Burial of the Priest The Inscrutable Indian The Rhetoric of Approximation: The Pascana Series A Critical Fortune of Racial Readings Reading Race: The Role of the Viewer The Construction of the Indian Image 3. Picturing Race Impossible Images The Elusive Indian Epilogue: Personal Narratives, Public Images Chronology Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Texas Press Quantum Justice
Book SynopsisHow girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Putting a Mic in the Margins Chapter 1. Quantum Justice Leaps and Poetic Echoes Chapter 2. “Understand This, and Be Happy in Life”: Contradicting Conditions, Complicating Community Chapter 3. “Always Giving Something Up”: Decision Making and Subjectivity Chapter 4. What Girls Want: Dreams and Desires Chapter 5. “My Shining Makes You Glow”: Motherhood and Girls from the Future Chapter 6. Too Close for Comfort: Motherhood and Girls Revising the Past Chapter 7. Girls Making a Way Afterword Acknowledgments References
£21.59
Duke University Press How Art Can Be Thought
Book SynopsisAllan deSouza examines the popular terminology through which art is discussed, valued, and taught, showing how pedagogical language and practices within art schools can adapt to a politicized and rapidly changing world, as well as to the demands of contemporary art within a global industry.Trade Review"Allan deSouza has done the art world an extraordinary service. . . . As a handbook, How Art Can Be Thought is stunning and successful—deeply informed by critical theory, yet in all aspects oriented toward practical use in the field, so to speak." -- Taylor Eggan * Discursive Impulse *"This book is a detailed, thorough, and comprehensive discussion concerning all aspects of contemporary art. de Souza opens a 'can of worms' on almost every page, exposing long-held myths about art practice, what art is, and if in fact we can really say anything meaningful about the whole 'art world' at all. . . . Very well written and highly readable. It is a must read for all art educators, art students, curators, art critics and faculty at academic institutions where art is still included in the curriculum." -- Rob Harle * Leonardo Reviews *"Juggling . . . the conceptual and practical . . . is no easy task and deSouza does a good job. . . . One of the strengths of the book is deSouza’s reflection on language — its importance to the project of decolonization and to artistic meaning/expression. -- Alpesh Kantilal Patel * Hyperallergic *"DeSouza shatters the trope of the handbook as static, watered-down theory. Instead, we enter an electric dialogue steeped in the vein of Paulo Freire and bell hooks. . . . With its accessible writing and contemporary perspective, How Art Can Be Thought should be required reading for art educators, administrators, art historians, critics and those interested in critical pedagogy." -- Ashley Hosbach * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"How Art Can Be Thought is indeed a practical handbook and offers a comprehensive account of current art debates in the art world. To decolonize those debates, deSouza provides a rich and detailed pedagogical framework that can be adapted to shape new debates." -- Uschi Klein * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsImage Notes vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. A Foot in the Door 1 1. How Art Can Be Thought 21 2. Entry Points 35 3. How Art Can Be Taught 57 4. Critique as Radical Prototype 67 5. How Art Can Be Spoken: A Glossary of Contested Terms 85 Afterwords. How, Now, Rothko? 365 Notes 283 Bibliography 303 Index 309
£75.65
Duke University Press How Art Can Be Thought
Book SynopsisWhat terms do we use to describe and evaluate art, and how do we judge if art is good, and if it is for the social good? In How Art Can Be Thought Allan deSouza investigates such questions and the popular terminology through which art is discussed, valued, and taught. Adapting art viewing to contemporary demands within a rapidly changing world, deSouza outlines how art functions as politicized culture within a global industry. In addition to offering new pedagogical strategies for MFA programs and the training of artists, he provides an extensive analytical glossary of some of the most common terms used to discuss art while focusing on their current and changing usage. He also shows how these terms may be crafted to new artistic and social practices, particularly in what it means to decolonize the places of display and learning. DeSouza''s work will be invaluable to the casual gallery visitor and the arts professional alike, to all those who regularly look at, think about, Trade Review"Allan deSouza has done the art world an extraordinary service. . . . As a handbook, How Art Can Be Thought is stunning and successful—deeply informed by critical theory, yet in all aspects oriented toward practical use in the field, so to speak." -- Taylor Eggan * Discursive Impulse *"This book is a detailed, thorough, and comprehensive discussion concerning all aspects of contemporary art. de Souza opens a 'can of worms' on almost every page, exposing long-held myths about art practice, what art is, and if in fact we can really say anything meaningful about the whole 'art world' at all. . . . Very well written and highly readable. It is a must read for all art educators, art students, curators, art critics and faculty at academic institutions where art is still included in the curriculum." -- Rob Harle * Leonardo Reviews *"Juggling . . . the conceptual and practical . . . is no easy task and deSouza does a good job. . . . One of the strengths of the book is deSouza’s reflection on language — its importance to the project of decolonization and to artistic meaning/expression. -- Alpesh Kantilal Patel * Hyperallergic *"DeSouza shatters the trope of the handbook as static, watered-down theory. Instead, we enter an electric dialogue steeped in the vein of Paulo Freire and bell hooks. . . . With its accessible writing and contemporary perspective, How Art Can Be Thought should be required reading for art educators, administrators, art historians, critics and those interested in critical pedagogy." -- Ashley Hosbach * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"How Art Can Be Thought is indeed a practical handbook and offers a comprehensive account of current art debates in the art world. To decolonize those debates, deSouza provides a rich and detailed pedagogical framework that can be adapted to shape new debates." -- Uschi Klein * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsImage Notes vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. A Foot in the Door 1 1. How Art Can Be Thought 21 2. Entry Points 35 3. How Art Can Be Taught 57 4. Critique as Radical Prototype 67 5. How Art Can Be Spoken: A Glossary of Contested Terms 85 Afterwords. How, Now, Rothko? 365 Notes 283 Bibliography 303 Index 309
£20.69
Duke University Press Trans Exploits
Book SynopsisIn Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutierrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.Trade Review“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.” -- Christopher Joseph Lee * TSQ *“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” -- V Varun Chaudhry * GLQ *“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1 1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30 2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59 3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75 4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101 Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135 Notes 149 References 157 Index 173
£22.79
Duke University Press Autonomy
Book SynopsisNicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.Trade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215
£103.70
Duke University Press Allegories of the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisElizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature by using allegorical narratives.Trade Review"DeLoughrey brings her considerable background in environmental humanities and postcolonial literature studies to bear in this volume. . . . This book is not to be missed by those interested in keeping up with recent conversations, across the environmental humanities, around issues of the Anthropocene." -- L. C. Bayne * Choice *“Allegoriesof the Anthropocene brings human histories of dispossession, toxicity, and creative survival to the fore where they might get lost in the geologic fixation on sediment. . . . It is powerful that this rich and careful book should end with a turn to the reader, showing how allegory at its most potent is about the entanglement, not leap, between part/whole or island/planet.” -- Isabel Lockhart * Journal of British Studies *“DeLoughrey’s new book is to be strongly recommended for its highly original tack: focusing upon the rising importance of allegory as a way of making sense of times of rupture and catastrophic environmental change.” -- Jonathan Pugh * Island Studies Journal *“Whenever Elizabeth DeLoughrey makes a critical intervention within a specific theoretical or literary field, established certainties, or matters of general consensus, seem suddenly in need of recalibration…. Allegories of the Anthropocene does something similar to the overburdened discourse surrounding the proposed geological epoch…. Like an exciting crossword puzzle, the book is delightfully difficult as it deconstructs the complexities and inconsistencies of the Anthropocene discourse.” -- Malcolm Sen * New West Indian Guide *“This is a meticulously researched, compellingly argued and richly suggestive book that builds on various strands in DeLoughrey’s previous research to produce an important and timely intervention into ecocritical, indigenous and literary / visual studies. DeLoughrey has an enviable ability to summarize and synthesize enormous bodies of scholarship across multiple disciplines, and to bring them into productive relation, also deploying highly nuanced close reading skills in relating (social) scientific discourses to specific literary, artistic and filmic ‘texts.’” -- Michelle Keown * Literary Research *“[DeLoughrey] shows how thinking beyond the Anthropocene . . . is now required. Then, evoking striking examples from poetry, literature, art, and philosophy, she demonstrates that allegory has been pervasive in modern times and that it remains pointedly relevant to creativity in our contemporary situation.” -- Terry Smith * Art Bulletin *“Allegories of the Anthropocene is a resounding success, one that promises to reframe and reshape the environmental humanities for decades to come.” -- Jonathan Elmore * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Allegories of the Anthropocene 1 1. Gendering Earth: Excavating Plantation Soil 33 2. Planetarity: Militarized Radiations 63 3. Accelerations: Globalization and States of Waste 98 4. Oceanic Futures: Interspecies Worldings 133 5. An Island Is a World 165 Notes 197 Index 257
£72.25
Duke University Press Allegories of the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisElizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature by using allegorical narratives.Trade Review"DeLoughrey brings her considerable background in environmental humanities and postcolonial literature studies to bear in this volume. . . . This book is not to be missed by those interested in keeping up with recent conversations, across the environmental humanities, around issues of the Anthropocene." -- L. C. Bayne * Choice *“Allegoriesof the Anthropocene brings human histories of dispossession, toxicity, and creative survival to the fore where they might get lost in the geologic fixation on sediment. . . . It is powerful that this rich and careful book should end with a turn to the reader, showing how allegory at its most potent is about the entanglement, not leap, between part/whole or island/planet.” -- Isabel Lockhart * Journal of British Studies *“DeLoughrey’s new book is to be strongly recommended for its highly original tack: focusing upon the rising importance of allegory as a way of making sense of times of rupture and catastrophic environmental change.” -- Jonathan Pugh * Island Studies Journal *“Whenever Elizabeth DeLoughrey makes a critical intervention within a specific theoretical or literary field, established certainties, or matters of general consensus, seem suddenly in need of recalibration…. Allegories of the Anthropocene does something similar to the overburdened discourse surrounding the proposed geological epoch…. Like an exciting crossword puzzle, the book is delightfully difficult as it deconstructs the complexities and inconsistencies of the Anthropocene discourse.” -- Malcolm Sen * New West Indian Guide *“This is a meticulously researched, compellingly argued and richly suggestive book that builds on various strands in DeLoughrey’s previous research to produce an important and timely intervention into ecocritical, indigenous and literary / visual studies. DeLoughrey has an enviable ability to summarize and synthesize enormous bodies of scholarship across multiple disciplines, and to bring them into productive relation, also deploying highly nuanced close reading skills in relating (social) scientific discourses to specific literary, artistic and filmic ‘texts.’” -- Michelle Keown * Literary Research *“[DeLoughrey] shows how thinking beyond the Anthropocene . . . is now required. Then, evoking striking examples from poetry, literature, art, and philosophy, she demonstrates that allegory has been pervasive in modern times and that it remains pointedly relevant to creativity in our contemporary situation.” -- Terry Smith * Art Bulletin *“Allegories of the Anthropocene is a resounding success, one that promises to reframe and reshape the environmental humanities for decades to come.” -- Jonathan Elmore * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Allegories of the Anthropocene 1 1. Gendering Earth: Excavating Plantation Soil 33 2. Planetarity: Militarized Radiations 63 3. Accelerations: Globalization and States of Waste 98 4. Oceanic Futures: Interspecies Worldings 133 5. An Island Is a World 165 Notes 197 Index 257
£19.79
Duke University Press Aesthetics of Excess
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color.Trade Review“Aesthetics of Excess brings together culo, spandex, and style to make bold provocations on race, aesthetics, and embodiment. Making a sparkling intervention into conversations on racialized sexuality, Hernandez uses the "body narratives" we inherit to add fleshy substance to our understanding of how color, culture, and class shape how subjects traverse geographies of belonging.” -- Juana María Rodríguez, author of * Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings *“I am thrilled that Jillian Hernandez has found a thoughtful, thorough way to begin a conversation around the Latinx, academic, and institutional discomfort with what they perceive as young women's problematic, not-Latina-feminist-enough gender politics. What a joy it is to know that this highly original and downright necessary book is now in the world. Aesthetics of Excess makes an outstanding contribution to feminist scholarship.” -- Maria Elena Buszek, author of * Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture *"There’s a real beauty to being able to own yourself and how you show up in the world; Aesthetics of Excess illuminates it." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch Media *“Black and Latina aesthetic practices are carefully crafted and layered. Aesthetics of Excess treats these self-stylings with the nuance they deserve, understanding them as interventions in a visual landscape that surveilles excess as a way to continually police working-class women of color.” -- Kristie Soares * Latino Studies *“In a world that continually tells Black and Latina girls to take up less space, to be less visible, to do their work without comment, sigh, or sass, Hernandez and her team at WOTR celebrate the excess. . . . Hernandez deftly explores and theorizes the contours of blackness and latinidad in Miami.” -- Aria S. Halliday * American Quarterly *“Hernandez manages the difficult feat of crafting an approachable text that could be read by the young women she speaks with while remaining faithful to the demands of a scholarly monograph. . . . [The Aesthetics of Excess] is a thrilling work that never forgets that loving its subjects is essential to scholarly precision.” -- Iván Ramos * Lateral *"The book’s strength lies in Hernandez’s sharp arguments and the theoretical threads she interweaves. Rather than considering Black and Latina body aesthetics against the implicit whiteness of categories deemed 'standard' or 'tasteful' in mainstream US culture, the book names them, claims them, and presents them in their own light." -- Alicia Eler * Hyperallergic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Interlude One 29 1. Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami 37 2. Sexual-Aesthetic Excess: Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn 63 3. "Fine as Hell": The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity 99 Interlude Two 133 4. Rococo Pink: The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery 145 Interlude Three 187 5. Encounters with Excess: Girls Creating Art, Theory, and Sexual Bodies 201 Interlude Four 233 Epilogue 251 Notes 271 References 279 Index 293
£75.65
Duke University Press Natures Wild
Book SynopsisAndil Gosine revises understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean, showing how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially-influenced human/animal divide.Trade Review“Heterosexual and patriarchal conventions are at the very heart of Andil Gosine's challenge. He allows us to think through queer perspectives, reconceptualizes colonial histories and Caribbean and subaltern culture, and extends our knowledge of Caribbean arts practice. Gosine eloquently prompts us to reflect on our preconceptions of naturalness and humanness. Enjoyable and engaging, Nature's Wild offers an important contribution to knowledge of Anglophone Caribbean contemporary culture.” -- Roshini Kempadoo, author of * Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and the Location of the Caribbean Figure *“Andil Gosine presents a unique and refreshing interdisciplinary method in Nature's Wild. Gosine's convincing authorial voice and unique point of view nimbly narrate an interrogation of the relationships between (neo)colonialism and the lack of recognition of the humanity and complexities of Caribbean subjects, offering a compelling new form of scholarship.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *“Nature’s Wild is a fresh, thoughtful, compellingly written intervention that brings the Indian diaspora fully within the purview of the Black Atlantic. . . . This delightful, erudite, interdisciplinary excursion is a deeply personal contribution to queer Caribbean studies and Indo-Caribbean art history.” -- Keith McNeal * Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies *“Beautiful yet provocative. . . . Valuable and timely.” -- Weisong Gao * Critical Inquiry *“Nature’s Wild makes an important contribution to queer studies by decoding the sodomy legislation implemented in the British colonies. . . . Criminal codes, Gosine explains, drew clear lines between acceptable and unacceptable sexual behavior and, by extension, between human and animal.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Puhngah! 13 2. Clothes Make the Man 32 3. The Father, a Godfather, and the Specter of Beasts Old and New 62 4. Désir Cannibale 103 5. Natures' Wild 130 Notes 153 Works Cited 159 Index 171
£70.55
Duke University Press Becoming Palestine
Book SynopsisGil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future.Trade Review“Becoming Palestine offers a treasure of insights, challenging the reader to keep up with the radically new temporalities and aesthetic forms in which archives are being called upon to carve out a new Palestine, to imagine what its political space might look and feel like. Here archives have become the active sites for conceptualizing alternative futures. Moving with deft nuance through projects realized in video art, dance, essay-film, and performance, Gil Z. Hochberg provides perceptive witness to artistic interventions with ‘phantasmal power’ to reclaim space for these political visions in the making.” -- Ann Laura Stoler, author of * Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times *“Appearing at a time when interest in Palestinian imaginative culture is higher than it has ever been, Becoming Palestine is a highly original and illuminating study of recent Palestinian creative works unlike any that has been published thus far. It will attract scholars of Israel and Palestine, Palestinian culture, and modern Arab and Middle Eastern art and cinema, and I expect it to be widely read by curators and practitioners throughout the world who work on art that engages with archives and politics.” -- Nadia Yaqub, author of * Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution *“Becoming Palestine is a most interesting contribution to studies about the Palestinian resistance against the settler colony, under which they have lived since 1948. Gil Z. Hochberg adds a radical analysis of the imaginative creations of young artists in the twenty-first century. It would be an eye-opener to students and scholars of dance and the performing arts, and Middle East, international politics, and cultural studies.” * Arab Studies Quarterly *“In this book, Hochberg makes a powerful contribution to the important and growing field of critical Palestine Studies that complicates and questions assumptions about a Palestine presented in mainstream politics as a depoliticized space devoid of the reality of occupation and settler colonialism.” -- Dina Matar * Middle East Journal *“The abiding contribution of Becoming Palestine is how it extends awareness of some particularly provocative and politically acute art. This book conducts careful, detailed labour throughout, explaining works that have existed almost exclusively within the time-limited confines of metropolitan art museums and art-film festivals.” -- Kay Dickinson * Screen *“The artists and creators who populate [Becoming Palestine] create new archives by remixing, citing, and manipulating older materials, to borrow just a few of the expansive set of verbs Hochberg uses to describe archival projects. . . . Becoming Palestine offers a bold path forward for discussions of future, hope, and political possibilities in both Palestinian Studies and broader anti-colonial resistance.” -- Katie Logan * Markaz Review *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Archival Imagination of/for the Future 1 1. Revisiting the Orientalist Archive: Jumana Manna's Re-Mapped Musical Archive of Palestine 37 2. Lost and Found in Israeli Footage: Kamal Aljafari's "Jaffa Trilogy" and the Productive Violation of the Colonial Visual Archive 53 3. "Suspended between Past and Future": Larissa Sansour's Sci-Fi Archaeological Archive in the Past-Future Tense 72 4. "Face to Face with the Ancestors of Civilization": Ruanna Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas's Archive of the Copy 87 5. Gesturing toward Resistance: Farah Saleh's Archive of Gestures 107 Afterword 128 Notes 135 Bibliography 171 Index 189
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Duke University Press Natures Wild
Book SynopsisAndil Gosine revises understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean, showing how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially-influenced human/animal divide.Trade Review“Heterosexual and patriarchal conventions are at the very heart of Andil Gosine's challenge. He allows us to think through queer perspectives, reconceptualizes colonial histories and Caribbean and subaltern culture, and extends our knowledge of Caribbean arts practice. Gosine eloquently prompts us to reflect on our preconceptions of naturalness and humanness. Enjoyable and engaging, Nature's Wild offers an important contribution to knowledge of Anglophone Caribbean contemporary culture.” -- Roshini Kempadoo, author of * Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and the Location of the Caribbean Figure *“Andil Gosine presents a unique and refreshing interdisciplinary method in Nature's Wild. Gosine's convincing authorial voice and unique point of view nimbly narrate an interrogation of the relationships between (neo)colonialism and the lack of recognition of the humanity and complexities of Caribbean subjects, offering a compelling new form of scholarship.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *“Nature’s Wild is a fresh, thoughtful, compellingly written intervention that brings the Indian diaspora fully within the purview of the Black Atlantic. . . . This delightful, erudite, interdisciplinary excursion is a deeply personal contribution to queer Caribbean studies and Indo-Caribbean art history.” -- Keith McNeal * Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies *“Beautiful yet provocative. . . . Valuable and timely.” -- Weisong Gao * Critical Inquiry *“Nature’s Wild makes an important contribution to queer studies by decoding the sodomy legislation implemented in the British colonies. . . . Criminal codes, Gosine explains, drew clear lines between acceptable and unacceptable sexual behavior and, by extension, between human and animal.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Puhngah! 13 2. Clothes Make the Man 32 3. The Father, a Godfather, and the Specter of Beasts Old and New 62 4. Désir Cannibale 103 5. Natures' Wild 130 Notes 153 Works Cited 159 Index 171
£18.99
Duke University Press Horn or The Counterside of Media
Book SynopsisWe regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior. Schmidgen uses the concept of 'horn'—whether manifested as a rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument—to stand for both natural substances and artificial objects as spaces of tactility. He enters into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers, ranging from Salvador Dalí, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the complex interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dalí conceived of images as tactile entities during his “rhinoceros phase” or examining the problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of touch in media.Trade Review"As a scholar of touch and technology but not, it must be said, of media, I was rarely surprised by the historical content or media examples. I was, however, consistently delighted by the deft argumentation, the rather bricolage- like assembly of themes and motifs, and the unexpected but convincing serendipities that connect them across the different media and their practitioners. . . . For the scholar interested in media and technology, this book serves as an entertaining crash course or manifesto in the history of tactile media." -- Mark Paterson * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1. The Captured Unicorn 13 2. Impressions of Modernity 49 3. Rhinoceros Cybernetics 88 4. A Surface Medium Par Excellence 148 5. Horn and Time 192 Conclusion 240 Notes 251 Bibliography 273 Index 293
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Duke University Press Earworm and Event
Book SynopsisIn Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents Earworm and Event as a tête-bêche—two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where Earworm theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, Event performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight into not only the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expressioTrade Review“It may seem unlikely that the cheesy pop song that has been looping around your head for the past three weeks has anything else to say—beyond the preference for piña coladas in the rain. On the contrary, Eldritch Priest’s new book, Earworm and Event, explores with great rigor, insight, and imagination the ways in which such innocuous looped sonic refrains tell us a great deal about our own sense of self, the technical environments which we are obliged to navigate, and the sociopolitical impasses in which we find ourselves.” -- Dominic Pettman, author of * Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How to Listen to the World) *“In this provocative and creatively written book Eldritch Priest argues that listening practices in the contemporary moment of accelerated capitalism are less about aesthetic pleasure and more about forms of power. Earworm and Event brings the study of sound, listening, and affect into new realms of imagination.” -- Deborah A. Kapchan, editor of * Theorizing Sound Writing *"Earworm And Event positions music and pataphysical speculations about its conditions as uneven parts of a structure that, like the worm, loops inconclusively around itself. The book's structure, with two halves bound back to back and upside down with respect to each other, makes this quite literal. . . . Priest admirably refuses any claim to political- aesthetic radicalism for the earworm or experimental music that might absorb it." -- Dan Barrow * The Wire *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Earworm 1. Felt as Thought 2. Earworms, Daydreams, and the Fate of Useless Thinking 3. The Worm Refrain (or, Does Nature Get Earworms?) Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments Introduction. Event 1. What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like 2. Beating a Dead Beetle 3. Impactical Enthusiasm 4. Ex Post Facto ex Ante (or, It's All in the Setup. . . .? 5. Do Earworms Have Daydreams? Notes Works Cited Index
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Duke University Press Earworm and Event
Book SynopsisIn Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents Earworm and Event as a tête-bêche—two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where Earworm theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, Event performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight into not only the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expressioTrade Review“It may seem unlikely that the cheesy pop song that has been looping around your head for the past three weeks has anything else to say—beyond the preference for piña coladas in the rain. On the contrary, Eldritch Priest’s new book, Earworm and Event, explores with great rigor, insight, and imagination the ways in which such innocuous looped sonic refrains tell us a great deal about our own sense of self, the technical environments which we are obliged to navigate, and the sociopolitical impasses in which we find ourselves.” -- Dominic Pettman, author of * Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How to Listen to the World) *“In this provocative and creatively written book Eldritch Priest argues that listening practices in the contemporary moment of accelerated capitalism are less about aesthetic pleasure and more about forms of power. Earworm and Event brings the study of sound, listening, and affect into new realms of imagination.” -- Deborah A. Kapchan, editor of * Theorizing Sound Writing *"Earworm And Event positions music and pataphysical speculations about its conditions as uneven parts of a structure that, like the worm, loops inconclusively around itself. The book's structure, with two halves bound back to back and upside down with respect to each other, makes this quite literal. . . . Priest admirably refuses any claim to political- aesthetic radicalism for the earworm or experimental music that might absorb it." -- Dan Barrow * The Wire *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Earworm 1. Felt as Thought 2. Earworms, Daydreams, and the Fate of Useless Thinking 3. The Worm Refrain (or, Does Nature Get Earworms?) Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments Introduction. Event 1. What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like 2. Beating a Dead Beetle 3. Impactical Enthusiasm 4. Ex Post Facto ex Ante (or, It's All in the Setup. . . .? 5. Do Earworms Have Daydreams? Notes Works Cited Index
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Duke University Press Feeling Media
Book SynopsisIn Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the affective scale—the space where artists and theorists work between the level of the individual and larger global and historical shifts. She examines intermedia, experimental animation, and Marxist theories of the culture industries of the 1960s and 1970s in the work of artists and thinkers ranging from filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, photographer Nakahira Takuma, and the Three Animators'' Group to art critic Hanada Kiyoteru and landscape theorist Matsuda Masao. She also outlines how twenty-first-century Japanese artists—especially those responding to the Fukushima disaster—adopt and adapt this earlier work to reframe ideas about collectivity, community, and connectivity in the space between the i
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Duke University Press The Sovereign Self
Book SynopsisIn The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy—the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on society—through Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship between art and revolutionary praxis. He shows that dominant discourses of aesthetic autonomy reproduce the very forms of bourgeois liberalism that autonomy discourse itself claims to challenge. Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in Russia, India, Latin America, and elsewhere, Kester retheorizes the aesthetic beyond autonomy. Ultimately, Kester demonstrates that the question of aesthetic autonomy has Trade Review“An extraordinarily knowledgeable explanation for those outside the art world, as well as those critically within it, of the philosophical traditions and social contradictions within which artists do their work. This is a book to own.” -- Susan Buck-Morss, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. From Beauty to Dissensus 1. Freedom and Sovereignty 19 2. Communism and the Aesthetic State 48 II. Negation and Performativity 3. From Vanguard to Avant-Garde 85 4. Activism and Autonomy in the 1960s 108 III. Autonomy since the 1980s 5. The Rise of the Neo-Avant-Garde 145 6. The Hirschhorn Monument: Autonomy as Brand and Alibi 180 Conclusion. Aesthetics beyond Semblance 212 Notes 219 Works Cited 243 Index 259
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Duke University Press Okwui Enwezor
Book SynopsisThis special issue is dedicated to the memory of Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019), the first African and Black curator and director of documenta11 (2002) and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). The articles and personal tributes collected here recognize the profound impact left by the Nigerian art historian, curator, poet, and educator who transformed the curatorial present of global exhibitions and anticipated their decolonizing futures. Enwezor created political platforms and artistic manifestos that not only changed the form and function of global exhibitions, but also opened up new ways to align activism with aesthetic practices, performative displays, and curatorial initiatives. Contributors—art historians and critics, curators, and artists—address how Enwezor’s approach to the exhibition as a “space of public discourse” intersects with theories of affect, indigeneity, race, queer studies, and feminism. Contributors: David Adjaye, Hoor Al Qasi
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Duke University Press The Art of Remembering
Book SynopsisIn The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"-the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered. In analyses of the work of artists ranging from Scipio Moorhead, Moses Williams, and Aaron Douglas to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Deana Lawson, Shaw demonstrates that African American art and history may be remembered and understood anew through a process of intensive close looking, cultural and historical contextualization, and biographic recuperation or consideration. Shaw shows how embracing rememory expands the possibilities of history by acknowledging the existence of multiple forms of knowledge and ways of understanding an event or interpreting an object. In so doing, Shaw thinks beyond canonical interpretations of art and material and visual culture to imagine what if, asking what else did we once know that has been lost.
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Duke University Press Blood Loss
Book SynopsisIn 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for needle-exchange programs, reproductive justice, safer-sex education, hospice funding, and the right to die with dignity. At the same time, the activists were a queer chosen family of friends and lovers who took care of one another in sickness and in health. Sometimes they helped each other die. By the time Lane turned twenty-two, most had died of AIDS. In her evocative memoir, Lane weaves together love stories and afterlives of queer resistance and survival against the landscape of the Rodney King Rebellion, the movement for queer rights, and the censorship of queer artists and sexualities. Lane interrogates the social construction of power against and in queer communities of color and the recovery of sexual agency in the midst and aftermath of
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Duke University Press The Art of Remembering
Book SynopsisIn The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of 'rememory'—the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered. In analyses of the work of artists ranging from Scipio Moorhead, Moses Williams, and Aaron Douglas to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Deana Lawson, Shaw demonstrates that African American art and history may be remembered and understood anew through a process of intensive close looking, cultural and historical contextualization, and biographic recuperation or consideration. Shaw shows how embracing rememory expands the possibilities of history by acknowledging the existence of multiple forms of knowledge and ways of understanding an event or interpreting an object
£20.69
Duke University Press Blood Loss
Book SynopsisIn 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for needle-exchange programs, reproductive justice, safer-sex education, hospice funding, and the right to die with dignity. At the same time, the activists were a queer chosen family of friends and lovers who took care of one another in sickness and in health. Sometimes they helped each other die. By the time Lane turned twenty-two, most had died of AIDS. In her evocative memoir, Lane weaves together love stories and afterlives of queer resistance and survival against the landscape of the Rodney King Rebellion, the movement for queer rights, and the censorship of queer artists and sexualities. Lane interrogates the social construction of power against and in queer communities of color and the recovery of sexual agency in the midst and aftermath of
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£16.09
New York University Press Taking Back the Boulevard
Book SynopsisThe promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and separate its communities. Yet in the past decade, as Jan Lin argues in Taking Back the Boulevard, there has been a noticeable renewal of public life on several of the city's iconic boulevards, including Atlantic, Crenshaw, Lankershim, Sunset, Western, and Wilshire. These arteries connect neighborhoods across the city, traverse socioeconomic divides and ethnic enclaves, and can be understood as the true locational heart of public life in the metropolis. Focusing especially on the cultural scene of Northeast Los Angeles, Lin shows how these gentrifying communities help satisfy a white middle-class consumer demand for authentic experiences of living on the edge and a spirit of cultural rebellion. These neighborhoods have gone througTrade Review"Taking Back the Boulevard is exemplary in its ability to weave the strands of structure and agency together to show how real gentrified spaces are produced. And just as important, such complexity is delivered with clear prose and riveting stories. Although the book focuses on Northeast Los Angeles, its lessons are generalizable. Scholars and students of gentrification would enjoy reading the book and benefit from engaging with its core arguments. It is at once a labour of love by an established urban sociologist and an important contribution to the sprawling literature on the subject." -- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"Taking Back the Boulevard is an excellent resource for scholars and researchers who see themselves as public intellectuals, as well as for individuals wishing to engage art and activism in urban communities. The text is accessible, comprehensive, and passionate. Lin offers a stimulating tales for which to approach Northeast L.A., transgenerational activism, and a community’s cycles of cultural and economic transition." -- Social Forces"Jan Lin has written both a meticulous and a passionate documentation of the long waves of investment, migration, and cultural expression that have shaped Northeast Los Angeles since the heyday of Anglo urbanization. From bohemianism and bike lanes, to tacos and lattes, Lin shows how embedded cultural patterns and determined community activists keep the vitality of the streets even in our most automobile-dependent city." -- Sharon Zukin,Author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places"In this heartfelt and meticulously researched history of the boulevard-lined neighborhoods of Northeast L.A., Jan Lin has given us a crucial and timely investigation into how local cultural and community movements, together with struggles over the right to the city, shape our contemporary urban landscapeWith imaginative theorization and brilliantly clear prose, Lin attends to the contradictions and conflicts of the current moment, as well as new, radical possibilities for a green and equitable city that are now also within sight." -- Miriam Greenberg,Co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age"Jan Lin has produced a deeply researched and beautifully written examination of more than a century of neighborhood change and activism in northeast Los Angeles ... Lin aims to take back the boulevards as a topic for urban sociology so that the continuity, growth, change, conflict, and drama of street life get a hearing in their own right. At this he succeeds admirably, and students of urban sociology at all levels have something to learn from entering into the world Lin has so skillfully depicted." * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press The Unintended
Book SynopsisReimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expressionThe end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernityindustrialization, racialization, and capitalismwere quickly reshaping the world. The Unintended slows down the moment in which the technology of photography seemed to speed itselfand so the history of racial capitalismup. It follows the substantial shifts in the markets, mediums, and forms of photography during a legally murky period at the end of the nineteenth century. Monica Huerta traces the subtle and paradoxical ways legal thinking through photographic lenses reinscribed a particular aesthetics of whiteness in the very conceptions of property ownership. The book pulls together an archive that encompasses the histories of performance and portraiture alongside the legal, pursuing the logics by which property rights involving photographs are affirmed Trade ReviewWhen you look at a photograph, whose expression do you see? This is a question of perception, but it is also a question of property rights. The Unintended considers ‘stories about photography’s history as property’ and shows how much is at stake when someone claims to own an image. Expression gives way to possession, and matters of law, credit, identity, and aesthetics all hang in the balance. Monica Huerta seems to deliver a surprising analytic turn on every page. This book made my head spin. -- Caleb Smith, author of Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American CultureWholly original and exciting. Tracking photography’s intersection with property law in the late nineteenth century U.S., The Unintended evolves genuinely new possibilities for thinking about the medium’s role in the construction of race. Monica Huerta addresses the workings of capital in relation to the medium—not only photography’s status as a commercial practice, but also how it took up and redefined the ways bodies could be regarded as property. Closely historicized yet wide-ranging in its implications, Huerta’s book models a profoundly ethical attention to what the photographic archive can reveal. -- Dana Luciano, Rutgers University
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New York University Press The Unintended
Book SynopsisReimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expressionThe end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernityindustrialization, racialization, and capitalismwere quickly reshaping the world. The Unintended slows down the moment in which the technology of photography seemed to speed itselfand so the history of racial capitalismup. It follows the substantial shifts in the markets, mediums, and forms of photography during a legally murky period at the end of the nineteenth century. Monica Huerta traces the subtle and paradoxical ways legal thinking through photographic lenses reinscribed a particular aesthetics of whiteness in the very conceptions of property ownership. The book pulls together an archive that encompasses the histories of performance and portraiture alongside the legal, pursuing the logics by which property rights involving photographs are affirmed Trade ReviewWhen you look at a photograph, whose expression do you see? This is a question of perception, but it is also a question of property rights. The Unintended considers ‘stories about photography’s history as property’ and shows how much is at stake when someone claims to own an image. Expression gives way to possession, and matters of law, credit, identity, and aesthetics all hang in the balance. Monica Huerta seems to deliver a surprising analytic turn on every page. This book made my head spin. -- Caleb Smith, author of Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American CultureWholly original and exciting. Tracking photography’s intersection with property law in the late nineteenth century U.S., The Unintended evolves genuinely new possibilities for thinking about the medium’s role in the construction of race. Monica Huerta addresses the workings of capital in relation to the medium—not only photography’s status as a commercial practice, but also how it took up and redefined the ways bodies could be regarded as property. Closely historicized yet wide-ranging in its implications, Huerta’s book models a profoundly ethical attention to what the photographic archive can reveal. -- Dana Luciano, Rutgers University
£66.60
New York University Press Are the Arts Essential
Book SynopsisA timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our societyIn the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, artists, cultural critics, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent question: Are the arts essential? Across twenty-five highly engaging essays, these luminaries join together to address this question and to share their own ideas, experiences, and ambitions for the arts. Darren Walker discusses the ideals of justice and fairness advanced through the arts; Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us how artists and cultural institutions helped New York overcome the economic crisis of the 1970s, bringing new investment and creativity to the city; Deborah Willis traces histories of oppression and disenfranchisement documented by photographers; and Oskar Eustis offers a brief history lesson on how theaters have built communities since the Golden Age of Athens. Other topics include the vibrancy and diversity of Muslim culture in America during a time of rising Islamophobia; the strengthening of the common good through the art and cultural heritages of indigenous communities; digital data aggregation informing and influencing new art forms; and the jazz lyricisms of a theater piece inspired by a composer's two-month coma. Drawing on their experiences across the spectrum of the arts, from the performing and visual arts to poetry and literature, the contributors remind readers that the arts are everywhere and, in one important way after another, they question, charge and change us. These impassioned essays remind us of the human connections the arts can forgehow we find each other through the arts, across the most difficult divides, and how the arts can offer hope in the most challenging times. What answer does this convocation offer to Are the Arts Essential? A resounding Yes.Trade ReviewIn this important collection, the editors gather a racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse group of more than two dozen eminent scholars, artists, professionals working in the field of arts and culture, and funders who support the arts. ... They argue forcefully for the importance of the arts in strengthening social ties, benefiting individuals, fostering community, engaging with the sciences, and recording and sharing human experiences .... A vigorous, timely, necessary defense of creativity. * Kirkus, STARRED Review *Here is the book arts lovers and advocates have been waiting for—and just in the nick of time! This collection of inspiring, practical, and visionary essays shows how the arts can lead our nation’s spiritual and economic revival and point the way towards a more just future. * David Henry Hwang, Tony Award–winning playwright *It is no spoiler to reveal that the answer to the book’s title is a resounding ‘yes.’ However, the reasons the arts are essential are detailed in often unexpected and astonishing ways. The many essays by artists, advocates, philosophers, and professors are a welcome addition to the discussion and an artistic achievement in their own right. * Jane Alexander, Emmy Award–winning actress *In this seminal collection, Arthurs and DiNiscia have gathered a remarkable group of artists and thinkers to reconsider the time-honored question of why the arts matter. While each essay is individually significant and could stand on its own, taken together, they are a treasure, amounting to a major statement of enormous import to our cultural moment today. Must reading for those of us who love the arts, and want to help them thrive in all of their multiplicity. * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University *This important collection of essays addresses the fundamental importance of the arts to the lives of everyone on the planet. Artists never cease to offer hope, identity, aspiration and inspiration, and they constantly challenge us all. * Clive Gillinson, Executive and Artistic Director, Carnegie Hall *A profoundly important and timely compilation. This book illustrates the ways in which the arts are urgent—from meeting societal needs, strengthening our communities, and benefiting individual lives, to engaging the sciences and relaying our histories to each other—while reinforcing the value of all of the arts. I loved reading this book and cannot recommend it more highly! * Agnes Gund, President Emerita, Museum of Modern Art *That the answer to this book’s title question is a resounding affirmative is no surprise…This is a valuable, often-compelling defense of the arts. * Choice *
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New York University Press The Filipino Primitive
Book SynopsisHow museums' visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulationSarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulationcapitalist, colonial, and racialthan in the imperial museum, where the objects of accumulation remain materially, visibly preserved. The Filipino Primitive takes Karl Marx's concept of primitive accumulation, usually conceived of as an economic process for the acquisition of land and the extraction of labor, and argues that we also must understand it as a project of knowledge accumulation. Taking us through the Philippine collections at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum and the Frank Murphy Memorial Museum, also in Michigan, See reveals these exhibits as both allegory and real case of the primitive accumulation that subtends imperial American knowledge, just as the extraction of Filipino labor contributes to American Trade ReviewThe Filipino Primitiveis generative and captivatingly relevant amid the current global crises over income inequality, border disputes, and belonging. With fascinating incisiveness, Sarita Echavez See invites us to rethink theft and debt through cultural archives andproductions. -- Allan Punzalan Isaac,author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino AmericaAn ambitious, necessary, and timely book,SaritaEchavez See exposes the workings of modern racial representation as a site of accumulation and dispossession.The Filipino Primitiveis a crucial read for anyone interested in a critique of the history, structures, and practices of American imperial-racial power. -- Denise Ferreira da Silva,author of Toward a Global Idea of Race
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New York University Press The Filipino Primitive
Book SynopsisHow museums' visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulationSarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulationcapitalist, colonial, and racialthan in the imperial museum, where the objects of accumulation remain materially, visibly preserved. The Filipino Primitive takes Karl Marx's concept of primitive accumulation, usually conceived of as an economic process for the acquisition of land and the extraction of labor, and argues that we also must understand it as a project of knowledge accumulation. Taking us through the Philippine collections at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum and the Frank Murphy Memorial Museum, also in Michigan, See reveals these exhibits as both allegory and real case of the primitive accumulation that subtends imperial American knowledge, just as the extraction of Filipino labor contributes to American Trade ReviewThe Filipino Primitiveis generative and captivatingly relevant amid the current global crises over income inequality, border disputes, and belonging. With fascinating incisiveness, Sarita Echavez See invites us to rethink theft and debt through cultural archives andproductions. -- Allan Punzalan Isaac,author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino AmericaAn ambitious, necessary, and timely book,SaritaEchavez See exposes the workings of modern racial representation as a site of accumulation and dispossession.The Filipino Primitiveis a crucial read for anyone interested in a critique of the history, structures, and practices of American imperial-racial power. -- Denise Ferreira da Silva,author of Toward a Global Idea of Race
£66.60
New York University Press Scheherazades Children
Book SynopsisA dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema.Trade Review[A] splendid recently published anthology. -- Patricia Storace * The New York Review of Books *[T]he two editors, both of them well established figures in their relative fields, have done excellent work in producing a volume that has its own internal logic . . . The contributions to this volume are all, by any yardstick one may wish to apply, superb essays in cultural studies, and, in many cases comparative literature studies. A distinguished contribution to Arabian Nights studies. -- Roger Allen, University of PennsylvaniaIt is almost impossible now for Western writing not to draw on the Nights. This collection is a call to us to go back to that most wonderful of books, Alf layla wa-layla, and read and reread it endlessly, and learn from it as equals. -- Roz Kaveney * Times Literary Supplement *The Arabian Nightsis one of a kind in leaving a lasting mark on various fields of knowledge, including art, theater, screen, and literature. Until the appearance of the Arabian Nights, no mythical character had captured such wide and global attention as Scheherazade, with her wit, intelligence, and courage. The work, like its evolving tales, continues to generate scholarly studies and diverse cultural work of merit. Kennedy and Warner have put together such a book.Scheherazade's Childrenprovides a solid testimony to the power of this fascinating world classic, which transcends countries, languages, and cultures. The 18 essays, all by renowned scholars, explore compelling topics that will help anyone delve into the secret world of imagination that the Arabian Nightsinitiated. The extensive examination of the different translations of the Nightsis impressive and illuminating: it prepares readers of this book to make their choice from the myriad of renderings to build their own appreciations and evaluations. And the volume's scholarly analyses will further the reader's understanding and enjoyment of a classic work. This volume will enchant readers across all disciplines.Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- A.S. Jawad * Choice *The Arabian Nights as much as any work created the category now known as & world literature. The lively and lucid essays in Scheherazades Children explore the fascination and influence The Nights have exerted in various cultures and the books sometimes surprising and often amusing metamorphoses. -- Daniel Beaumont, author of Slave of Desire: Sex, Love, and Death in the 1001 NightsScheherazades Children is an excellent collection of essays covering several aspects of the Arabian Nights. * British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: *These scrupulously documented essays justify study of the Nights as 'one of the wellsprings of World Literature' that continues to draw readers, scholars, translators, and artists into a theatrical, imaginary land, which, like the narrator herself, casts an entrancing spell and proves inexhaustible in meanings, 'blending cultural specificities into one vast Prient of the mind.' * Publishers Weekly *Beautifully illustrated, this title concludes with a list of the stories, their translations, and adaptations. Though the essays take up academic subjects, they are accessible to general readers. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I 1 The Sea-Born Tale 2 Re-Orienting William Beckford 3 The Collector of WorldsPart II 4 The Porter and Portability 5 The Rings of Budur and Qamar al-Zaman 6 White Magic 7 The Arabian Nights and the Origins of the Western Novel 8 "A Covenant for Reconciliation" 9 Translating Destiny 10 Borges and the Missing Pages of the Nights 11 The Politics of Conversation 12 Sindbad the SailorPart III 13 The Arabian Nights in British Pantomime 14 The Arabian Nights in Traditional Japanese Performing Arts 15 "Nectar If You Taste and Go, Poison If You Stay" 16 Scheherazade, Bluebeard, and Theatrical Curiosity 17 The Takarazuka Revue and the Fantasy of "Arabia" in Japan 18 Thieves of the Orient AfterwordList of Stories Selected Bibliography About the Contributors Index The illustrations appear in two groups, following pages 176 and 224. For information about the illustrations, see the list of illustrations on page ix.
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New York University Press Taking Back the Boulevard
Book SynopsisThe promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and separate its communities. Yet in the past decade, as Jan Lin argues in Taking Back the Boulevard, there has been a noticeable renewal of public life on several of the city's iconic boulevards, including Atlantic, Crenshaw, Lankershim, Sunset, Western, and Wilshire. These arteries connect neighborhoods across the city, traverse socioeconomic divides and ethnic enclaves, and can be understood as the true locational heart of public life in the metropolis. Focusing especially on the cultural scene of Northeast Los Angeles, Lin shows how these gentrifying communities help satisfy a white middle-class consumer demand for authentic experiences of living on the edge and a spirit of cultural rebellion. These neighborhoods have gone througTrade Review"Taking Back the Boulevard is exemplary in its ability to weave the strands of structure and agency together to show how real gentrified spaces are produced. And just as important, such complexity is delivered with clear prose and riveting stories. Although the book focuses on Northeast Los Angeles, its lessons are generalizable. Scholars and students of gentrification would enjoy reading the book and benefit from engaging with its core arguments. It is at once a labour of love by an established urban sociologist and an important contribution to the sprawling literature on the subject." -- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"Taking Back the Boulevard is an excellent resource for scholars and researchers who see themselves as public intellectuals, as well as for individuals wishing to engage art and activism in urban communities. The text is accessible, comprehensive, and passionate. Lin offers a stimulating tales for which to approach Northeast L.A., transgenerational activism, and a community’s cycles of cultural and economic transition." -- Social Forces"Jan Lin has written both a meticulous and a passionate documentation of the long waves of investment, migration, and cultural expression that have shaped Northeast Los Angeles since the heyday of Anglo urbanization. From bohemianism and bike lanes, to tacos and lattes, Lin shows how embedded cultural patterns and determined community activists keep the vitality of the streets even in our most automobile-dependent city." -- Sharon Zukin,Author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places"In this heartfelt and meticulously researched history of the boulevard-lined neighborhoods of Northeast L.A., Jan Lin has given us a crucial and timely investigation into how local cultural and community movements, together with struggles over the right to the city, shape our contemporary urban landscapeWith imaginative theorization and brilliantly clear prose, Lin attends to the contradictions and conflicts of the current moment, as well as new, radical possibilities for a green and equitable city that are now also within sight." -- Miriam Greenberg,Co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age"Jan Lin has produced a deeply researched and beautifully written examination of more than a century of neighborhood change and activism in northeast Los Angeles ... Lin aims to take back the boulevards as a topic for urban sociology so that the continuity, growth, change, conflict, and drama of street life get a hearing in their own right. At this he succeeds admirably, and students of urban sociology at all levels have something to learn from entering into the world Lin has so skillfully depicted." * American Journal of Sociology *
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