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Gingko Press, Inc Paul Violi: Selected Poems 1970-2007
Book SynopsisThis book presents a definitive selection of the poetry that Paul Violi (1944-2011) published in his lifetime, as selected by his friends and colleagues, Charles North and Tony Towle.
£17.09
Ugly Duckling Presse Emergency Index 2011
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Ugly Duckling Presse Emergency Index 2013: Volume 3
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Ugly Duckling Presse Emergency Index Volume 4
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Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Not What I Meant But Anyway
Book SynopsisFrom producing sterile goldfish to choreographing the factory assembly line, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen's work could be thought of as situated—that is to say, it is performed within particular networks. These networks—whether connecting raw materials, mythic conditions, animal genetics, constructions of uncertainty, or colonial inheritances—form a point of departure from which to think of friction, entanglement, porousness, reflection, and self-implication. Not What I Meant But Anyway reveals the methods and processes behind Cohen and Van Balen’s work and working, prioritizing long and multidimensional research and production over its eventual outcomes. Intermingling conversations between the artists on living and working together, their generated ephemera, and a series of external reflections, the book hints at the intimacies and estrangements inherent to their practice.With contributions from Daisy Hildyard, Andrés Jaque, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Xiaoyu Weng.
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Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department Ritual and Capital
Book SynopsisRitual and Capital is an expansive volume that collects an interdisciplinary range of voices and genres that reflect on ritual as a form of resistance against capitalism. The poems, essays, and artworks included in this anthology explore habits and practices formed to subvert, subsist, and survive under the repression of capital. These works explore the refuge in ritual, how ritual practices might endow objects with qualities that resist market values, the use of ritual in embodied practices of healing and care, and how ritual strengthens communities. The publication of Ritual and Capital is the culmination of a series of public readings organized by Wendy’s Subway, a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn, as part of their Spring 2016 Reading Room residency at the Bard Graduate Center. Copublished by the Bard Graduate Center and Wendy’s Subway, Ritual and Capital is the first title in the BGCX series, a publication series designed to expand time-based programming after the events themselves have ended. Springing from the generative spontaneity of conversation, performance, and hands-on engagement as their starting points, these experimental publishing projects will provide space for continued reflection and research in a form that is inclusive of a variety of artists and makers.
£20.00
Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department What is Conservation?
Book SynopsisThought-provoking discussions on conservation from various points of view.What is Conservation? is an unconventional introduction to the topic of conservation in all its forms, facilitated through discussions with MacArthur Fellows. The discussions took place in New York in the Spring of 2022 alongside an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center called "Conserving Active Matter.” This volume seeks to acquaint readers who are new to the subject by presenting it in its broadest sense, while also focusing on its greatest significance as described by MacArthur Fellows. It touches on aspects of conservation through the lenses of art, science, literature, poetry, humanism, and more. It also features photographs from the accompanying exhibition.
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Zone Books Flashback, Eclipse – The Political Imaginary of
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Rutgers University Press The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood: Asymmetries of
Book Synopsis2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer’s analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children’s drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood. Trade ReviewExciting, tender, persuasive, and smart. Dyers’ book is a clarion call to care for the bodies we call children. Let their creativity, strange in all its beauties, tell us how they’re harmed—hurt by norms that foster inequalities. I believe more than ever, thanks to Hannah Dyer, that “children” and “aesthetics” are the most profound pairing for safeguarding pleasure, for all living creatures, amid world trauma. — Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood makes a necessary and nuanced intervention in contemporary theorizations of the child, balancing the sociopolitical with the material while interrogating the array of affects and artifacts always in dialogue with the child. Working from a vibrant interdisciplinary stance — including biopolitics, psychoanalysis, racial capitalism, queer theory, Dyer weaves a fresh framework to read the child and, as centrally, to query child development and its attendant affects. Engaging a generative lens of arts and aesthetics — films, contemporary artists and other cultural workers— that provoke audiences to recognize the layered arrangements of power that both surround and mark the child, Dyer’s lyrically crafted book is essential reading for the emergent field of critical child studies and for all of us who struggle to build freer and more joyous futures for all. — Erica R. Meiners, author of For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State "The range of Dyer’s objects of study is as impressive as her command of contemporary critical theory, and her project promises to significantly enrich the field of child studies and beyond. Highly recommended."— ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Childhood’s Queer Intimacies and Affective Intensities 1 Queer Temporality in the Playroom: Ebony G. Patterson and Jonathon Hobin’s Aesthetics of Child Development 2 Art and the Refusal of Empathy in A Child’s View from Gaza 3 The Queer Remains of Childhood Trauma: Notes on A Little Life 4 Reparation for a Violent Boyhood in This is England Epilogue: The Contested Design of Children’s Sexuality Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Uncanny Histories in Film and Media
Book SynopsisUncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and unsettling continuities. The uncanny stands for what often eludes us, for what remains unfamiliar or mysterious or strange. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors remind us that at the heart of the uncanny, and indeed the writing of history, is a troubling of definitions, a challenge to our inherited narratives, and a disturbance of what was once familiar in the uncanny histories of our field. Trade Review"The exciting array of 'uncanny' histories gathered in this collection trouble familiar narratives in film and media studies. Centering marginalized spaces, figures, and texts, these essays show us how much of media history remains to be written." -- Shelley Stamp * author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon *“With consummate mastery, Petro has collected provocative and inspirational contributions to a range of subfields in media studies—colonialism and its aftermath, game studies, race and representation, transnationalism, global markets, and the trajectory of feminism.” -- Mary Ann Doane * author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive *"The exciting array of 'uncanny' histories gathered in this collection trouble familiar narratives in film and media studies. Centering marginalized spaces, figures, and texts, these essays show us how much of media history remains to be written." -- Shelley Stamp * author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture aft *“With consummate mastery, Petro has collected provocative and inspirational contributions to a range of subfields in media studies—colonialism and its aftermath, game studies, race and representation, transnationalism, global markets, and the trajectory of feminism.” -- Mary Ann Doane * author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Uncanny Histories Part I: The Disciplinary Uncanny Chapter 1: Film and Media in the Double Take of History Chapter 2: Haunted by the Body: Cleanliness in Colonial Manila’s Film Culture Chapter 3: Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley Part II: Uncanny Films Chapter 4: Flickering Lights and Mischievous Stars: The Uncanny Feminism of My Twentieth Century Chapter 5: The Sublime Body under the Sign of Developmentalism: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian Politics and Global Markets Chapter 6: Uncanny Histories of Transnational Cinematic Receptions: Eisenstein in Cuba Part III: Uncanny Figures Chapter 7: Julio García Espinosa and the Fight for a Critical Culture in Cuba Chapter 8: The Case for (Re)collecting Lotte Eisner’s Work Chapter 9: A Widow’s Work: Archives and the Construction of Russian Film History Chapter 10: Fiendish Devices: The Uncanny History of Almena Davis Notes on contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Poetries - Politics: A Celebration of Language,
Book SynopsisPoetries – Politics: A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning celebrates the best of innovative humanities pedagogy and creative graphic design. Designed and implemented during a time of political divisiveness, the Poetries – Politics project created a space of inviting, multilingual walls on the Rutgers campus, celebrating diversity, community, and cross-cultural exchange. This book, like the original project, provides a platform for the incredible generative power of student-led work. Essays feature the perspectives of three students and professors originally involved in the project, reflecting on their learning and exploring the works they selected for the original exhibition. The essays lead to a beautifully illustrated catalogue of the original student designs.Reproduced in full color and with the accompanying poems in both their original language and a translation, this catalogue commemorates the incredible creative spirit of the project and provides a new way of contemplating these great poetic works.Trade Review"As someone who has spent a career in collaborative endeavors, I cannot think of a more engaging, noble, and timely project than this. Empowering the minds and hands of students, the unique lens of this artistic and educational collaboration demonstrates the expressive potential of bringing together a community with all its talents. Bravo!""Poetries – Politics weaves a rich tapestry of trans-disciplinary collaboration between the arts and humanities and is a compelling testament to the power of project-based learning to unleash student creativity." -- Jason Geary * Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Music, Rutgers, The State *"Poetries – Politics weaves a rich tapestry of trans-disciplinary collaboration between the arts and humanities and is a compelling testament to the power of project-based learning to unleash student creativity." -- Jason Geary * Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Music, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey *Table of ContentsForeword by Susan LawrenceNote on TextIntroduction by Jenevieve DeLosSantosPart I: Reflections on the Poetries – Politics projectChapter 1: Why Poetries – Politics? by Mary ShawChapter 2: Languages in the Magic Lantern by François CornilliatChapter 3: Poetries, Politics and Practicum by Atif AtkinChapter 4: The Intricacy of Translating Poetries – Politics into Visual Art by Ouafaa DelegerChapter 5: Hope and Despair: Political Poets in Revolutionary Societies by Ian LovoulosChapter 6: Poetries – Politics from the Perspective of One Design Student by Devon MonaghanChapter 7: The Pedagogy of Poetries – Politics: How to Craft Your Own Project-Based Learning Course by Jenevieve DeLosSantosPart II: Catalogue of PostersAcknowledgmentsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Rutgers University Press The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three
Book SynopsisThe Brodsky Center at Rutgers: Three Decades, 1986-2017, chronicles the history and artists involved with an internationally acclaimed print and papermaking studio at Rutgers University. Judith K. Brodsky conceived, founded, and directed the atelier, which, from its onset, provided state-of-the-arts technology and expertise for under-represented contemporary artists — women, Indigenous, and from diasporas of the African, Eastern European, Latin and Asian communities — to make innovative works on paper. These artistic creations presented new narratives to American and global visual arts from voices previously not heard or seen. Some of the artists featured in the book include Faith Ringgold, Elizabeth Catlett, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Miriam Schapiro, Pepón Osorio, Kiki Smith, and Richard Tuttle, among many other talented and influential printmakers and artists. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum. Table of ContentsPreface Maura Reilly Curator’s Acknowledgments Ferris Olin New Narratives for the American Cultural Mainstream: 30 Years of the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University Ferris Olin Brodsky Center Visiting Artists-in-Residence, 1986–2017 Plates Printing Processes Catalogue of the Exhibition Artists’ Biographies
£38.25
Editions Flammarion FRAMEABLES: My Louvre: 21 prints for a
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Books on Demand Le guide des Prix de l'Art Contemporain 2021: Un
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Books on Demand Mon Escalier vers la Lumière
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Editions L'Harmattan Sociodrama
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Cernunnos Anatomy Rocks: 30 Deluxe Postcards
Book SynopsisThis incredible box contains 30 collectible, frameable, and mailable deluxe postcards, includes the iconic and fantastic works of: Bedelgeuse, Charlie Immer, Kikyz1313, Hine´ Mizushima, Cal Redback, Michael Reedy, Thomas Robson, Mark Ryden, Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo, and Fernando Vicente.
£13.79
Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art 2018: Miró
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Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art – Ai Weiwei
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Dis Voir In Favor Of Todays Art
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Dis Voir Sound And The Visual Arts
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£19.80
DIS VOIR Contemporary Practices
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DIS VOIR Keep This Sex Out Of My Sight
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Dis Voir School Spirit
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Dis Voir Spread Wide
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Dis Voir Narrativity How Visual Arts Cinema and Literature
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Dis Voir The Mutant Flesh
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Dis Voir Revue This Is Not a Magazine
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Dis Voir The Image Matter
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Birkhauser Das Rote Wien 1919–1934: Ideen, Debatten, Praxis.
Book SynopsisDie ersten freien Wahlen zum Wiener Gemeinderat bringen 1919 der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei die absolute Mehrheit. So beginnt ein international beachtetes Reformprojekt, das auf eine tiefgreifende Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen in der Stadt und eine weitreichende Demokratisierung der Gesellschaft zielt. Zentrales Handlungsfeld wird die Wohnungsfrage. Auf der Grundlage von „Luxussteuern" werden bis 1934 mehr als 60.000 Wohnungen sowie zahlreiche Sozial-, Freizeit- und Kultureinrichtungen geschaffen. Die umfangreich illustrierte Publikation fragt nach historischen Voraussetzungen und Wirkungen, den internationalen Einflüssen und der Ausstrahlung nach Außen, nach dem Verhältnis von Ideologie und Pragmatismus sowie nach dem aktuellen Potenzial dieser dynamischen Stadtentwicklung im Zeichen der Moderne. Table of ContentsVorläufiges Inhaltsverzeichnis: Schulreform/Bildung/Volksbildung Willfried Göttlicher: Schulreform, Experimentelle Pädagogik Christian Dewald: Freihofsiedlung Christian Stifter: Volkshochschule Alfred Pfoser: Arbeiterbüchereien Elsbeth Walnöfer: Heimatbegriff im Roten Wien Frauen/Gender Veronika Duma/Marie Yazdanpanah: Frauenpolitik im Roten Wien (Käthe Leichter) Ökonomie/Versorgung Peter Eigner: Überblick Christian Stadelmann: Versorgung, Energie, Elektrizität, Gas Kultur/Kunst/Wissenschaft Elke Wikidal: Franz Čižek / Kinetismus Wolfgang Fichna Rotes Wien und Neue Musik Sabine Zelger: Dichtung (Luitpold Stern), Literatur Berthold Ecker: Bildende Kunst, Avantgarde Gernot Waldner: Wiener Kreis, Sozialforschung Elizabeth Danto: Psychoanalyse und Rotes Wien Ralph Gleis: O. R. Schatz Kommunikation (Fotografie, Ausstellungen, Statistik, Museen, Modellbau etc.) Marion Krammer: Fotografie Günther Sandner: Otto Neurath und das Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum Joachim Schätz: Kino- und Filmpolitik Julia König, Christian Maryska: Plakat Rob McFarland: Amerikanismus Sport/Freizeit/Arbeiterkultur Georg Spitaler: Überblick Bernhard Hachleitner: Stadion und Arbeiter-Olympiade Ernst Gerhard Eder: Badekultur im Roten Wien (Amalienbad, Kongressbad etc.) Austromarxismus Vrääth Öhner: Überblick Kolonialismus/Postkolonialismus/Internationalismus Wohnen/Architektur/Städtebau/Stadtplanung Andreas Nierhaus: Überblick Andreas Pavlic: Anarchistische Siedlungsbewegung Sandor Békési: Verkehrsplanung Eva Maria Orosz: Wohnen, Mobiliar Christine Zwingl: Schütte-Lihotzky, Wiener Küche Christoph Freyer: Architektur für Kinder Susanne Breuss: Küche Hans Kapfinger: Brenner Haus Reinhard Sieder: Arbeiterfamilien Christoph Reinprecht: Rotes Wien im internationalen Vergleich des sozialen Wohnbaus (Berlin, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Moskau etc.) Romana Pöter: Freihofsiedlung Sabrina Rahman: Leeds, Quarry Hills Flats Johan Hartle: Manfredo Tafuri und die linke Kritik am Roten Wien Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik Katrin Pilz/Birgit Nemec: Eheberatung, Sozialfürsorge Sigrid Wadauer: Obdachlosigkeit, Bettelei etc. Wer sind die WienerInnen, Migration Stadtverwaltung Peter Becker, Therese Garstenauer Partei/Mobilisierung/Wahlen Wolfgang Maderthaner: Überblick Judentum / Antisemitismus Gerhard Milchram: Überblick Margit Reiter: Antisemitismus im Roten Wien
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Birkhauser Le Corbusier – Der Maler: Eileen Grays Villa E
Book SynopsisIn 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in southern France is an icon of modernism. In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered the place and the "Maison en Bord de Mer". Inspired by the genius of the place and the light on the Côte d'Azur, he created a total of five large-format wall paintings there from 1938 onwards, some of which complement the building congenially, while others set counterpoints. In 1952, he built his Cabanon nearby and decorated it with murals as well. The book by the well-known architectural historian Tim Benton documents Le Corbusier's artwork at this special place and places it in his overall oeuvre. The fascinating photographs by Manuel Bougot capture the special atmosphere of the villa Le Corbusier's painting is lesser known but was formative for his lifelong preoccupation with polychromy After extensive renovation work until 2021, E 1027, as well as the Cabanon, is open to the public again
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Diaphanes AG minor cosmopolitan – Thinking art, politics, and
Book SynopsisIn the wake of rapid globalization, many enthusiastically declared cosmopolitanism to be no longer just a philosophical ideal, but a real, existing fact. Across the world, they argued, people were increasingly considering themselves global citizens. Meanwhile, the global ecological crisis worsened, fascism returned, repression of disenfranchised groups on a global scale persisted, and the “refugee crisis” inundated the mediascape. What happened to the cosmopolitan promise, and who betrayed it? minor cosmopolitan challenges the underlying premises of major cosmopolitanism without letting go of the unfulfilled emancipatory potential of the concept at large. It rethinks cosmopolitanisms in the plural, and it traces multiple origins and trajectories of cosmopolitan thought across the globe. Assembling theoretical, artistic, and essayistic contributions in textual or visual formats, minor cosmopolitan seeks to discuss how to live at once with our difference and shared struggle and asks who sustains the world’s flourishing.Table of ContentsPrefaceEntering the (minor) cosmosArjun Appadurai: The PassportSundar Sarrukai: Empty ObjectsMarina Camargo: The Spaces in Between Mario Bellatin: El palito de la jaula del pájaro de la abuela PoleisJames Miller: Porosity and Planetarity: On (minor) Cosmopolitan ViralityLiad Hussein Kantorowicz: When You Died, the City Died with You Sarnath Banerjee: I Don't Feel Postcolonial When I Wake up Every Morning in Delhi (No One Here Does)Lucy Gasser: Other Europes, Past and FutureSikho Siyotula: On Other PoleisIntermezzo: the minor cosmopolitan weekend Who Sustains the Flourishing of the World?Rosa Barotsi, Saima Akhtar, Clio Nicastro: Introduction: Film, Women’s Work & Labour OrganizingMary Jirmanus Saba: Feminist Internationalism: From Solidarity to Sandwiches Vivian Price: Times are Changing, Minds are also Changing: Patriarchy, Neoliberalism and the Construction Industry Ambiguous UtopiasTom Holert: Surrealism’s Peripheries, feat. Huang Ya-li Sing Song-Yong, Iwaya Kunio: “Synchronic Constellation – Le Moulin Society and its Time”James Burton: Ambiguous Utopias: Science Fiction and Minor CosmopolitanismHinemoana Baker: Rest Home Voicing the minor cosmopolitanIrene Hilden and Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat: Of Voices, Noises & Colonial TracesLiu Chuang: Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities Dong Bingfeng: Bio-Archiving: Shenyang Underground Music as History, Awareness of Life, and Art in ActionJulian Henriques and Zairong Xiang: Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, CosmopolitricksConstellations Mariya Nikolova: jumpcut and pineconesHeinrich Wilke: silencesAnouk Madörin: technèSara Morais dos Santos Bruss: modulationJens Temmen: imperial grammarAnna von Rath: convivial scholarship
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Diaphanes AG The Projectionists – Eadweard Muybridge and the
Book SynopsisEadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world’s visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge’s work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-images and his creation of a moving-image auditorium—long before cinemas—in which to project his work at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. That auditorium was both a catastrophe and a vital precursor for the following century’s manias for projection. Based on new research into his travels, audiences, auditoria, and projectors, Projectionists explores Muybridge’s initiating role in moving-image projection and also maps his driving inspiration for subsequent filmmakers preoccupied with the volatile entity of projection, from 1890s Berlin to contemporary Japan, via further World’s Exposition events and cinemas’ overheated projection-boxes.Trade Review"Beginning in 1992 with Artaud: Blows & bombs, Stephen Barber has quietly, independently forged one of the most singular and enriching bodies of work in contemporary writing. In his latest book, The Projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge and the future projections of the moving image (Diaphanes), Barber tells the largely unknown story of Muybridge as the first ever moving-image projectionist, retracing the 1891 tour of European cities in which Muybridge first projected his work to audiences of royalty, artists and scientists, none of whom had seen moving images before, visiting many of the auditoria which have miraculously survived. Barber’s own obsession with the moving image began as a teenager in Yorkshire, where he worked as a relief projectionist and, through encounters with projectionists around the world, the book is also an interrogation of the solitary and gradually vanishing occupation of the cinema projectionist as embodied by the enigmatic figure of Muybridge himself." * Times Literary Supplement *"This is one of those rare books, a very readable and erudite academic account of the innovative filmmakers and projectionists Barber believes should be more prominent as players in the history event of the arts.“ * 3:AM Magazine *"[An] imaginative, complex and singular book." * Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film *Table of Contents1. The Projectionists 2. Muybridge's Central European Projections, 1891 3. Muybridge's Chicago Exposition Projections, 1893 4. Projection's Devils: Max and Emil Skladanowsky, 1895-97 5. Projections of the Osaka World Exposition, 1970 6. Lovers: Teiji Furuhashi's Projections, 1994/2016/2020 7. Projections of Future Cities, Projections of Future Bodies Bibliography Illustrations List
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Diaphanes AG Inventory and Hinge – Entangled Fields of
Book SynopsisA history of the pioneering years establishing a new genre in the field of arts: artistic research. Artistic work connects multiple competencies, areas of knowledge, and ways of life. The Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) has made this principle its guiding ethos through organizing research projects in correspondence with this transgressive gesture, manifesting as interdisciplinary, networked knowledge production.Inventory and Hinge offers an overview of the research projects performed over the last two decades at IFCAR through project descriptions, plentiful illustrations, and, most importantly, links and QR codes that grant access to nearly all publications and websites that were created by the individual projects he discusses. Although art as research has a long tradition outside of institutions, Inventory and Hinge chronicles IFCAR’s drive to introduce this new discipline and establish a new artistic genre.
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De Gruyter Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
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De Gruyter Das radikaldemokratische Museum
Book Synopsis Heute ist oft von einem „Museum der Zukunft" die Rede: als Kontaktzone, Arena, Forum und Plattform – vielleicht sogar als besetzter Raum: Das Museum der Zukunft wäre radikaldemokratisch. Im Hinblick auf eine Neudefinition des Museums aktualisiert Nora Sternfeld Ansätze aus Museologie, Vermittlung und Erinnerungskultur. So verfolgen die Texte dieses Bandes Strategien, die das Archiv herausfordern, Museumsraum aneignen, alternatives Wissen produzieren und Bildung neu denken. Das Museum wird dabei zu einem Versammlungsraum, der es erlaubt, sich damit auseinanderzusetzen, was geschehen ist, darüber zu verhandeln, was dies für die Gegenwart bedeutet und wie sich eine Zukunft imaginieren lässt, die mehr ist, als bloß die Verlängerung der Gegenwart.
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De Gruyter Ein deutscher Maler: Otto Dix und der
Book SynopsisDie nationalsozialistische Kunstpolitik prangerte Otto Dix (1891-1969) und sein veristisches Werk als »sittlichkeitsgefährdend« und »den Wehrwillen des deutschen Volkes beeinträchtigend« an. Als Reaktion wandelte sich Dix zu einem Maler, der motivisch und stilistisch zwischen Konservatismus und kritischer Stellungnahme oszillierte und trotz Verfemung nach Anerkennung suchte. Dieser erzwungene künstlerische Umbruch führte auch zu »verborgenen«, teils subversiven, teils widersprüchlichen Ikonografien, denen sich das vorliegende Buch widmet. Analysiert wird die Kunst des Malers vor dem Hintergrund der kunstpolitischen Entwicklungen in Deutschland von der Weimarer Republik bis in die Nachkriegszeit; sämtliche Gattungen – Landschaften, Porträts und (christliche) Figurenbilder – werden betrachtet.
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De Gruyter Gestalterinnen: Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft
Book SynopsisGestalterinnen hatten einen entscheidenden Anteil an der Entwicklung der Moderne im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit. Die Publikation präsentiert neue Forschungen zu Designerinnen, Keramikerinnen, Modeschöpferinnen, Grafikerinnen, Gartenarchitektinnen, Fotografinnen, Kunsthistorikerinnen und Mäzeninnen. An ihrem Beispiel wird gezeigt, wie angestammte Rollenbilder in der Zwischenkriegszeit aufgebrochen wurden und welch eminente Bedeutung diese Frauen für die Wiener Moderne hatten. Sie setzten sich mit bestehenden Vorurteilen auseinander und schufen neue visuelle Sprachen, um erfolgreich Karriere zu machen. Gleichzeitig trugen sie zu einem kritischen Diskurs über die Emanzipation der Frau bei. Zu den Gestalterinnen der Wiener Moderne gehörten u.a. Emilie Flöge, Mathilde Flögl, Jacqueline Groag, Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka, Yella Hertzka, Else Hofmann, Hilda Jesser, Maria Likarz, Madame d'Ora, Pauline Metternich-Sándor, Bertha Pappenheim, Marie Reidemeister-Neurath, Lisl Weil, Vally Wieselthier, Helene Wolf und Berta Zuckerkandl
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De Gruyter Inszeniert und instrumentalisiert:
Book SynopsisThe Tower of Blue Horses by Franz Marc, confiscated as "degenerate" and missing since then, Emil Nolde’s "Unpainted Pictures" from the time of his occupational ban, or Ernst Barlach’s dismantled, partly destroyed memorials constitute works by three key representatives of Expressionism now inscribed in German cultural history as symbols of the National Socialist persecution of art. The art of Barlach, Marc and Nolde, however, was not only defamed in the most vehement manner, but also celebrated, protected or rehabilitated as "German". In her well-sourced insight into museum, exhibition and publication practices between 1933 and 1945, Isgard Kracht exposes the mechanisms and myths of Nazi art policy, and so retells the story of Expressionism’s veneration and ostracism during the "Third Reich". Fundamental contribution to an understanding of National Socialist art policy New Perspectives on the History of veneration and ostracism of Expressionist art during the "Third Reich"
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De Gruyter Wege zur Gerechtigkeit bei NSRaubkunst
Book SynopsisDie Publikation nimmt 25 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung der Gemeinsamen Erklärung, mit der sich die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu den Washingtoner Prinzipien von 1998 bekannte, die heutige Restitutionspraxis von NS-Raubkunst in den Blick. Die grundlegenden Texte sowie zahlreiche Entscheidungen, insbesondere die Empfehlungen der Beratenden Kommission, werden analysiert und systematisiert, um die bisherigen Entwicklungen aufzuzeigen. Die Autorin stellt diese erstmalig ihren historischen Vorgängern, den alliierten Rückerstattungsgesetzen von 1947/49 und der hierzu ergangenen Rechtsprechung, gegenüber. Aus dem Vergleich entwickelt sie konkrete Vorschläge für eine Verbesserung der Handreichung und leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur aktuellen Restitutionsdebatte.
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De Gruyter Under Construction: Kunst, Männlichkeiten und
Book SynopsisThis publication is dedicated to the changes in masculinity/ies that visual artists have been addressing since the 1970s and are currently working on more than ever. Contributions from art and other cultural studies illuminate the diverse artistic processes by which the idea of masculinity as a seemingly universal, irrefutable constant is being successively replaced by the assumption of a plurality of masculinities. The volume comprises four sections: Postphallic Masculinity, Queering Masculinities, Optimised Masculinity/ies and Vulnerability. Based on the premise that male bodies do not have an intrinsic essence but are socially constructed and thus transformable, visions of future masculinity(ies) are discussed and concretised.
£48.60
De Gruyter Bilder unter Verdacht
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£27.00
De Gruyter Caspar David Friedrich ausstellen
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£72.90
Bohlau Verlag Putzen: Eine Kulturtechnik
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£34.19
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Kleidung Im Mittelalter: Materialien -
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£64.79
De Gruyter Dehio - Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler /
Book SynopsisSeit der letzten Auflage des Dehio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern von 2000 förderten Sanierungs- und Restaurierungsmaßnahmen vielfach Erkenntnisse zutage, die nun als Präzisierungen und inhaltliche Erweiterungen in das Werk einfließen konnten. Das führte zudem zu Neuaufnahmen von Kirchen, Herrenhäusern und Parks des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts. Zusätzliche mittelalterliche wie neuzeitliche sakrale Ausstattungsstücke finden Berücksichtigung. In den größeren Städten wie Greifswald, Stralsund und Wismar ergänzen Bürgerhäuser vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock mit jüngst entdeckter, reicher Innenausstattung den Band, ebenso einige dem Neuen Bauen verpflichtete Wohnhäuser namhafter Architekten der 1920/30er Jahre. Aktualisiert wurden auch die Artikel zum Schweriner Schloss und seinen umgebenden Gebäuden. Technische Denkmale wie Wasser- und Leuchttürme sowie Mühlen und Speicher, eine Schule in Sassnitz und das sozialistische Musterdorf Mestlin aus den 1950er Jahren, ein Kirchengemeindezentrum in Stralsund von 1977 und der Rettungsturm in Binz von 1981 werden erstmals erfasst.
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De Gruyter Gut aufgehoben: Museumsdepots planen und
Book SynopsisNachhaltige Museumsarbeit lebt von der kontinuierlichen Auseinandersetzung mit den Objekten der Sammlung. Denn sie bieten die Antwort auf unterschiedlichste Fragestellungen – vorausgesetzt, sie werden langfristig über die Zeiten gerettet. Die Basis für diese Aufgabe sind gut geplante Museumsdepots. Hier lagert, von der Öffentlichkeit kaum beachtet und meist nur den Fachleuten zugänglich, ein Großteil der Museumssammlungen. Die Depots sind damit ein unentbehrlicher Material- und Wissenspool für gegenwärtige und künftige Forschungs-, Ausstellungs- und Vermittlungsarbeit. Ein fachgerecht geführtes Museumsdepot schützt die Sammlung vor Schäden, ob mechanischer Art, durch ungeeignetes Klima, Verschmutzung, Licht, mikrobiellen Befall, Insekten oder Katastrophen. Die Lagerung muss in einer Weise erfolgen, die jederzeit den Überblick über die Bestände gewährleistet und den leichten Zugriff auf einzelne Objekte ermöglicht. Der vorliegende Band vermittelt praxisgerecht die Grundlagen für die Aufbewahrung von Museumsgut und zeigt an Beispielen Lösungen für unterschiedlichste Anforderungen auf.
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De Gruyter Kosmetisches und medizinisches Gerät: Erkennen –
Book SynopsisAls Kernaufgabe der Museen benötigt die Inventarisation zuverlässige Hilfsmittel und eine einheitliche Terminologie. In diesem Band werden zwei Sachgruppen an Geräten vorgestellt, die einerseits zur Körperpflege, zur ästhetischen und hygienischen Behandlung sowie andererseits zur medizinischen Versorgung der Menschen von der Vorgeschichte bis zum Frühmittelalter dienten. Das Spektrum reicht von Kämmen, Spiegeln, Rasiermessern und Pinzetten bis hin zu Skalpellen, Zahnzangen oder Knochensägen. Der Thesaurus stellt Laien wie Wissenschaftlern die vielfältigen Formen dieser kosmetischen und medizinischen Geräte vor und bietet eine zeitliche und räumliche Einordnung. Der wertvolle Überblicksband ermöglicht die Bestimmung archäologischer Spezialgeräte und leistet einen kulturgeschichtlichen Abriss zum (prä-)historischen Schönheits- und Gesundheitswesen.
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