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Hirmer Verlag Terrible Beauty: Elephant – Human- Ivory
Book SynopsisThe elephant is a much-admired animal, but it is also endangered. The ivory from its tusks has been in great demand across the centuries and throughout all cultures. What sort of material is it? How has it been used in the past and the present? And what can we do today to protect the world’s largest mammals from poachers? This lavishly illustrated volume embarks on a journey through cultural history and takes up a contemporary position. Ivory fascinates. As long as 40,000 years ago people carved mammoth tusks into artful figures and musical instruments, and it remains popular as a material to this day. Ivory polarises, because the animal’s tusks also stand for injustice and violence. The exploitation of man and nature, the threatened extinction of the elephant, poaching and organised crime are phenomena which we associate with ivory. The publication approaches the subject critically and poses the question as to our responsibility in our dealings with both animal and material.Trade Review“Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory . . . . was one of the first exhibits sponsored by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum, a newly formed partnership of cultural institutions in Berlin. This catalog, of the same name, documents the primary challenge undertaken in the exhibit: to examine ethical questions related to the appreciation, study, and exhibition of ivory, a material that is inevitably tied to and dependent upon the killing of elephants. The conflicting dynamics of this ‘fatal combination of beauty and cruelty’ are woven throughout the catalog, poignantly leaving the reader both awed and saddened.” * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
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Hirmer Verlag Manual for Survival Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisSurvival is a common practice. We cannot do it alone; we need each other. We need tools and practices that help us to connect, to understand to build, to survive in this age of climate crisis, technological upheaval, existential pain. We need words and values and ideas that extend beyond the human space. We need to learn; and we need to unlearn. We need a Manual for Survival. Ways of surviving together in an experimental and solidarity-based manner this book wants to make other world designs accessible through and beyond artistic practice. The art in this book reflects on the nature, the planetary, transcendental questions of global connectivity as well as on community, a sense of playfulness, togetherness, shared experiences through culture. A high quality and richly illustrated book with innovative texts following the idea that we have to learn to live and think in contradictions without losing ourselves. Artists include: Panteha Abareshi, Yalda Afsah, Abbas Akhavan, Assemble, Mohammed Bourouissa, Andrea Bowers, James Bridle, Sam Chermayeff, Edith Dekyndt, Simon Denny, Cao Fei, Liam Gillick, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lubiana Himid, Leon Kahane, Kablusiak, Paul Kolling, Carolyn Lazard, Sharon Lockhart, Taus Makhacheva, Shaun Motsi, Goshka Macuga, Jota Mombaça, New Red Order (NRO), Olaf Nicolai, Christelle Oyiri, Celine Pages & Christine Marchal, Trevor Paglen, Grayson Perry, Bruno Serralongue, Jeremy Shaw, Charles Stankievech, Ron Terada, Syrus Marcus Ware, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, et al.
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Hirmer Verlag Tysk Expressionism Swedish Edition
Book SynopsisIn a time like our own, where a young generation feels a great need to change our way of living, thinking and organizing ourselves, the publication on the artist group Brücke feels particularly relevant. These young artists also wanted to renew art and life in the German Imperial Empire and have ever since inspired younger generations of artists. In bright paintings with simplified forms and large fields of color they expressed rather their feelings than an external reality. They were interested in topics like man and nature, the naked body, portraits, self-portraits, the merging of life and art and life in the vibrant metropolis of Berlin. The catalogue discusses among others how we today perceive and can take on challenging themes like inspiration from African and Oceanian colonial cultural objects and of very young female models.
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Hirmer Verlag Nachtbogen Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisPainter, illustrator, and graphic artist Paul Rotterdam (b. 1939) is the Austrian member of the New York School, a group of artists whose radical approaches pushed pure abstraction to its very limits. In the late 1960s, Rotterdam moved to the United States in order to acquaint himself with the theory behind these approaches and to apply it to his own works in a practical way. Rotterdam is resolute in seeking out expressions of the universal. He proceeds from the theories of classical modernism, ranging from the postulate of free form by the likes of Kandinsky to the constraint of forms by a Piet Mondrian. His paintings achieve a material quality that generates its own reality. For many years, Rotterdam has lived close to nature in order to communicate with it through his art. This book offers a portrayal of an artist whose austere paintings enable us to experience the intrinsic.
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Ästhetik der Rührung
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Lebt Anker noch
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Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH Das Licht der Edlen (junzi zhi guang): Der Mond
Book SynopsisDer Mond ist ein zentrales Thema in der chinesischen Malerei, wurde aber bisher noch nicht umfassend erforscht. Im ersten Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Bildthemen mit Mond-Landschaften der Song- bis Qing-Zeit interpretiert. Dabei wird besonders die Beziehung der chinesischen Gelehrten zum Mond, wie sie sich in der reichhaltigen chinesischen Poesie und Prosa bis zur Song-Zeit ausdruckt, berucksichtigt. Der Mond als kompositorisches Element in der chinesischen Landschaftsmalerel wird im zweiten Teil der Arbeit thematisiert. Dabei gilt den nicht dargestellten, aber vom Betrachter nachvollziehbaren Beziehungslinie zwischen dem Gelehrten und dem Mond besondere Aufmerksamkeit. Der dritte Teil behandelt den Mond als Lichtquelle und greift damit einen zentralen Problemkomplex ostasiatischer Malerei auf: die Wiedergabe des mondbeschienenen Luftraumes, die Schattierung von Gegenstanden im Mondlicht, Schlagschatten und Beleuchtung sowie verschiedene Darstellungen des reflektierten Lichtes. Den Abschluss der Arbeit bildet eine Zusammenfassung der Charakteristika chinesischer Mond-Landschaften. 90 Abbildungen illustrieren die Ausfuhrungen der Verfasserin.
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Books on Demand Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff: Liebe zur Landschaft
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V&R Unipress Verstossene Werke: Rechtliche Moglichkeiten Der
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V&R Unipress Engagiert Sein in Der Gegenwart: Formen -
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Hauser & Wirth Marcel Duchamp
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Hauser & Wirth Mark Bradford Process Collettivo
Book SynopsisAn exploration of socially engaged artmaking and the importance of creativity inside prisons with renowned American artist Mark Bradford. In 2016, the artist Mark Bradford began a partnership with the cooperative Rio Terà dei Pensieri, an organization that creates work opportunities with and for people incarcerated and recently incarcerated in two prisons in Venice, Italy. The ongoing project, Process Collettivo, builds on Rio Terà's existing structure, raising awareness about its work through a storefront that sells goods made by the collectiveproviding funding for the nonprofitand offers both resources and employment for the previously incarcerated.
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Bbooks Verlag In the Making. In the Desert of Modernity
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Hirmer Verlag GmbH Vincent Van Gogh: Junge Kunst 3
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Hirmer Verlag GmbH Paula Modersohn-Becker: Junge Kunst 6
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Hirmer Verlag GmbH August Macke: Junge Kunst 7
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Distanz Reader: Productive Image Interference Sigmar
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Distanz Verlag Gmbh LLC Without Full Disclosure
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Sandstein Verlag Surreale Sachlichkeit: Werke Der 1920er Und
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Sandstein Verlag Von Spinnen, Engeln Und Dem Licht Der Welt: Die
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Sandstein Verlag Macht Der Stille: Janus La Cour Und Das Bild Der
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Sandstein Verlag Technisches Kulturgut, Band 1: Zirkulation,
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Sternberg Press Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War
Book SynopsisAn examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom.Parapolitics confronts the contemporary fate of intellectual autonomy and artistic freedom by revisiting the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony. It builds on a major exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2017-18) that took as its starting point the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF)—an organization covertly funded by the Central Intelligence Agency in order to steer the Left away from its remaining commitment to communism. Paying particular attention to CCF activities in the non-European world during a period of decolonization and the Civil Rights Movement, Parapolitics assembles archival documentation from five continents alongside a selection of historical artworks to explore the context in which artists negotiated the framing and meaning of their work. A rich reference book for future researchers and everybody interested in the legacy of modernism, the publication also presents more than thirty newly commissioned contributions by contemporary artists and scholars.
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Spector Books Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1958 - 2010
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Spector Books Re_visioning Bodies: DNA #10
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Spector Books DNA #22: The New Alphabet School
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Spector Books DNA #23: Talkback Circuits: New Alphabets at
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Kehrer Verlag Confluence
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Editon Synapse Collected Works of James Lord Bowes on Japanese
Book SynopsisThis is the ninth part of the successful series supervised by Aiko Mabuchi, Director General, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, which provide art historians and students with the primary source materials related to the reception of Japanese arts from late nineteenth-century to early twentieth century in the Western societies. All materials are reproduced in facsimile reprint and include many plates and illustrations in colour.This new collection includes writings by James Lord Bowes on Japanese arts. Bowes (1834–1899) was a wealthy Japanese art collector in Liverpool and was appointed the first foreign-born Japanese Consul in Great Britain. He opened Bowes Museum which was the first dedicated museum of Japanese art in the western world and is regarded as one of the most important figures in the British reception of Japanese art and culture in the Victorian era. Volume 1–4 of the five-volume reprint set covers his writings on Japan and Japanese arts and the catalogues of Bowes museum which he edited and published himself. Also included is a very rare catalogue of auction which was held after his death and is the only source of information of one of the largest collection of Japanese art of the time. The last volume is a facsimile reprint of the monumental work of Japanese ceramic art which was originally published in two volumes and includes approx.110 plates in colour.Table of ContentsVolume 1: (c. 300 pp.) Japan: An Interview with H.I.M. Consul at Liverpool, Liverpool: D. Marples (Printed by), 1889, 45 pp. [Reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette]Handbook to the Bowes Museum of Japanese Art Work, Liverpool: E. Howell, 1890, c. 47 p.Handbook to the Bowes Museum of Japanese Art Work: Streatlam Towers, Liverpool, c. 50 pp.A Vindication of the Decorated Pottery of Japan, Liverpool: D. Marples (Printed by), 1891, c. 70 pp. (incl. plates in colour)Japanese Enamels, with Illustrations from the Examples in the Bowes Collection, Liverpool: D. Marples (Printed by), 1884, c. 135 pp. Volume 2: (c. 340 pp.)Notes on Sippo: As Sequel to Japanese Enamels, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1895, c. 130 pp.Catalogue - The "Bowes" Collection of Japanese Art, Liverpool: Branch & Leete, Auctioners, 1901, c. 210 pp. (incl. plates in colour)Volume 3: (c. 395 pp.)Japanese Marks and Seals, London: Henry Sotheran, 1882, c. 395 pp (incl. plates in colour)Volume 4: (c. 630 pp.)Japanese Pottery. with Notes Describing the Thoughts and Subjects Employed in Its Decoration and Illustrations from Examples in the Bowes Collection, Liverpool: E. Howell, 1890, c. 630 pp.Volume 5: (c. 370 pp.) (reduced by approx. 15%)Keramic Art of Japan [with George Ashdown Audsley], Vol. 1: Liverpool & London: Henry Sotheran, 1875, c. 140 pp.+ Vol. 2: Liverpool & London: Henry Sotheran, 1875, c. 220 pp. (incl. 100 leaves of plates in colour)
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Koc University Press Spatial Webs – Mapping Anatolian Pasts for
Book SynopsisSpatial Webs charts the cultural heritage and identity of Anatolia, focusing on projects that incorporate Geographic Information Systems and other analytical tools in spatially significant research into the past. An important new contribution to archaeology and cultural heritage research, the volume brings together multidisciplinary researchers engaged in creating and using spatialized data resources for interactive web-mapping applications. The topics explored include sociospatial differentiation in bostancibasi registers, identity mapping the Jewish communities of medieval Anatolia, and the Turkey Cultural Heritage Map of the Hrant Dink Foundation.Table of ContentsPreface AbbreviationsPapers Mapping and Annotating the Past Mapping Anatolian Pasts for Research and the Public (Christopher H. Roosevelt) What Would Indy Do? Resisting Post-Truth through the Practice of Annotation (Elton Barker) Intra-Site GIS at Çatalhöyük (2009–2017): from an Integrative and Reflexive Tool to the Living Archive (Camilla Mazzucato, Claudia Engel, and Dominik Lukas) Spatializing the Sagalassos Integrated Information System (Anuja Dangol, Piraye Hacıgüzeller, and Jeroen Poblome) Mapping and Analyzing the Pergamon Micro-Region: An Example of Reproducible Research (Daniel Knitter and Bernhard Ludwig) The OpenOttoman Initiative and the Challenge of Building an Ottoman Gazetteer (Michael Polczynski and Amy Singer) A Preliminary Attempt to Construct a Geospatial, Multimodal Ottoman Transport Network for 1899 (M. Erdem Kabadayı, Piet Gerrits, Osman Özkan, and Turgay Koçak) The Shoreline of Early-Modern Istanbul: An Exploratory Study of Socio-Spatial Differentiation in Bostancıbaşı (Chief Gardener) Registers (H. Murat Güvenç and Ayşe Nur Akdal) Mapping Cultural Heritage and Identity Mapping the Jewish Communities of Medieval Anatolia (Nicholas de Lange) The Turkey Cultural Heritage Map of the Hrant Dink Foundation (Vahakn Keshishian) Contributors Index
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Koc University Press Winds of Change – Environment and Society in
Book SynopsisUnderstanding the varied and dynamic interactions between environment and society in Anatolia. In recent decades, the influences of environmental and climatic conditions on past human societies have attracted significant attention from both the scientific community and the general public. Anatolia’s location at the conjunction of Asia, Europe, and Africa and at the intersection of three climatic systems makes it well suited for the study of such effects. In particular, Anatolia challenges many assumptions about how climatic factors affect the socio-political organization and historical evolution, highlighting the importance of close collaboration between archaeologists, historians, and climate scientists. Integrating high-resolution archaeological, textual, and environmental data with longer-term, low-resolution data on past climates, this volume of essays, drawn from the fifteenth International ANAMED Annual Symposium (IAAS) at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, showcases recent evidence for periods of climate change and human responses to it, exploring the causes underlying societal change across several millennia.Table of Contents1. FRONTMATTERa. Preliminary Pagesb. Table of Contentsc. Prefaced. Abbreviations2. SECTIONS & CHAPTERSa. Prologuei. Boon or Curse? The Role of Climate Change in the Rise and Demise of Anatolian Civilizations (Neil Roberts) (5 figures)b. Insights over the Long Term: Continuity & Changei. An Assessment of Long-Term Climate Dynamics across Anatolia Based on the Results of Macrophysical Climate Modeling (Bülent Arikan) (11 figures)ii. Early to Mid-Holocene Vegetation History and Human Settlement in Anatolia (Ceren Kabukcu, Eleni Asouti) (15 figures)iii. Stability through Crisis: Cultural Resilience in the Face of Climatic Fluctuation from 3500 BCE to 1300 CE at Çadir Höyük in North-Central Anatolia (Madelynn von Baeyer, Tevfik Emre Serifoglu) (11 figures; 1 table)iv. Genesis of the Beysehir Occupation Phase: Understanding the Socio-Environmental Systems of Anatolia and Interactions from Kültepe-Kanis and Paleoecological Records (Çetin Senkul, Mustafa Dogan, Aziz Ören, Fikri Kulakoglu, Warren John Eastwood, Ugur Dogan, Hugh Elton) (5 figures; 3 tables)v. Assessing Continuity and Change in the Sixth to Ninth-Century CE Landscape of North-Central Anatolia (James Newhard, Hugh Elton, John Haldon) (12 figures; 2 tables)c. Events, Landscapes, & People: Change & Responsei. Re-Thinking Thera: Tree-Rings, Radiocarbon, and Response in the Second Millennium BCE (Charlotte Pearson) (4 figures)ii. The Justinianic Plague in Constantinople and Anatolia: A Reassessment of the Evidence (Lee Mordechai) (15 figures)iii. Olive Cultivation at High Altitudes in Anatolia: Exploiting Micro-Localities in Ancient Asia Minor (Hugh Elton, Josh England, Anneley McMillian, Çetin Senkul, Patrick Free, Warren John Eastwood) (15 figures)iv. The Environmental Consequences of the Coming of the Turks to Anatolia (Adam Izdebski) (2 figures)v. Of Wetlands and Reclamation Regimes: Climate Change, Social Upheaval, and Political Practice in Western Anatolia (Semih Çelik, Christina Luke) (8 figures)d. Epiloguei. Environmental History and Archaeology in Anatolia: Concluding Comments and Prospects for the Future (John Haldon, Christopher H. Roosevelt) (4 figures)3. BACKMATTERa. Contributorsb. Index
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Tulika Books Another Lens
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Strindberg and the Western Canon
Book SynopsisDuring the whole of his writing career August Strindberg was a restless canon-maker. In his capacity as writer, librarian, cultural scholar, polemicist and amateur researcher he constantly quoted sources, both historical and contemporary, included and excluded certain authors in his own work, as well as re-evaluated the boundaries of aesthetics and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. At the same time, he was a very active author in his own right, living in self-imposed exile but in close contact with cosmopolitan intellectual circles. All of this raises questions about his relationship with the literary and cultural canon. The dynamics between local and global culture define the whole of his oeuvre and make him one of those European authors who are readily interpreted in the context of Weltliteratur.Strindberg was a multilingual cosmopolitan, an emigrant, theosophist, and reporter. In his capacity as a writer, with his gaze trained upon both East and West, he absorbed impressions from the universalist tendencies of the fin de siècle. His ambition to join the global “Republic of Letters” led him to study French, Hebrew, the Chinese system of logograms, Russian literature, and the history of the Middle East.This volume, edited by Jan Balbierz, gathers contributions from renowned Strindberg scholars and discusses questions, such as: How did Strindberg construct his predecessors and which traditions did he associate himself with? How is a Strindbergian text altered in performative practice in theatre and film? How did Strindberg, whose writings are deeply rooted in Swedish folklore and landscape, relate to foreign cultural values?
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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw After Year Zero Geographies of Collaboration
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De Gruyter Before the Museums Came: A Social History of The
Book SynopsisBefore the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States, spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915. Readers will learn about the institutions and organizations that were created in support of the fine arts, the early art exhibitions and events, and the collectors, dealers and artists whose efforts made all of that come to fruition. The text – enriched and supplemented by reproductions of artworks, photographs of various personages, exhibition venues, studios, art galleries, catalogues, and ephemera – presents a clear understanding of the period and breaks new ground for future scholars to research. Leo John Harris had pursued three different careers before retiring to follow yet another vocation, this time as a writer. He served in the U.S. Department of State and Foreign Service; he was an international lawyer; and he founded a niche publishing house devoted to books on the arts, history, and popularculture. In his retirement he has written articles and books on philately, the arts and regional history, and this passion has now resulted in a well-researched and richly illustrated publication.
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Editorial Tenov S.L. El Constructivismo
Book SynopsisPublished in 1922 in Russian, Aleksei Gan's Constructivism was the first theoretical treatise of postrevolutionary Russia's emergent Constructivist movement. Fired with revolutionary zeal, it was unquestionably a declaration of war on traditional bourgeois art. Constructivism recasts artists and architects as Constructors, turning away from aesthetic or speculative problems in art and instead focusing on the fusion of art with everyday life in order to create a functional system of design, one in keeping with the great task of building the new communist society. This edition replicates Gan's original layout, which was one of the first experiments in Constructivist typography and graphic design, and it also presents a substantial introductory essay by art historian Christina Lodder that examines Gan's own odd, mercurial character and the tracks he left across avant-garde Russian graphics, architecture, film, and theater. Nearly a century later, Constructivism remains a powerful mani
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Editorial Tenov S.L. Legible - Visible: Between the Film Frame and the
Book SynopsisLegible-Visible explores the relationship between print publications and audiovisual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time--and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mela Davila and Maite Munoz here show how the arrival of inexpensive home video technologies in the 1970s and then of digital media at the turn of the millennium sparked revolutions in the creation and diffusion of both video artworks and artists' publications. Davila proposes a theoretical and historical framework for works long dismissed by the market because of their serial nature, while Munoz shows how artists have taken advantage of the permeability between publications and audiovisual elements. The first book-length work to study artists' publications and video in relation to each other, Legible-Visible will enable new ways of thinking about a number of contemporary artists and their work.
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River Publishers 2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1
Book Synopsis"Created by professors for professors, the Faculty Awards compendium is the first and only university awards program in the United States based on faculty peer evaluations. The Faculty Awards series recognizes and rewards outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Voting was not open to students or the public at large.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Biographies, Listings from A to Y- Allen University to Youngstown State University
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Skira Leng Bingchuan
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Skira Kour Pour
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Skira Barkley Hendricks: Photography (Vol. 4)
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Skira Iván Navarro: Welcome
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Skira A Postcard for Floyd (Bilingual edition): A Blind
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Information Subject
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2001. In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster examines theoretical approaches and develops his own position on our information based society. He contends that new communications media disrupt and transfigure the way identities are constituted in cultural exchanges. He looks in detail at several aspects of what might be called "internet culture", including virtuality and democracy.Poster advocates an awareness of the Internet and other new forms of communication, calling for a mobilization to ensure accessibility to all and to configure technology into vehicles of open cultural creation. For example, nothing is pure about the Internet politically, he points out, and it remains an open question as to who will transform the potentiality of new communications media into determinate cultural configurations. This book explores the rupture and potentiality between the electronic self and the face-to-face self inherent in new forms of technology and media.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Words without things, Mark Poster; Chapter 2 Foucault, poststructuralism, and the mode of information, Mark Poster; Chapter 3 Social theory and the new media, Mark Poster; Chapter 4 Postmodern virtualities, Mark Poster; Chapter 5 Cyber democracy: the internet and the public sphere, Mark Poster; Chapter 6 Theorizing virtual reality: baudrillard and derrida, Mark Poster; Chapter 7 Community, new media, posthumanism: an interview with mark poster; Chapter 8 Communication and the constitution of the self: an interview with mark poster, 14.8.1995; Commentary, Stanley Aronowitz;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What's So Funny?: Sketches from My Life
Book SynopsisIllustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with major figures (Palucca, Voskovec and Werich, Brecht, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hans Sahl, and Marilyn Monroe), revealing to the reader the world of a great artist in movement and mime.What's So Funny? includes texts by Horst Koegler, Voskovec and Werich, Joel Schechter, and Bertolt Brecht.Trade Review"Her name is Goslar, but she was born in Dresden. She wanted to become a dancer and studied with Palucca, but she became a mime and a clown and created for herself her own form that she called 'Pantomime Circus'. Clive Barnes, until recently the all-powerful critic of The New York Times, took the easy way out and called her simply 'divine'." -- Horst KoeglerTable of ContentsChapter 1 How Sweet It Is; Chapter 2 First Memories; Chapter 3 Palucca; Chapter 4 So Much Luck (I); Chapter 5 The Disgruntled; Chapter 6 Up and Out; Chapter 7 The Peppermill Theater; Chapter 8 The Liberated Theater; Chapter 9 The Dancing Clown, Voskovec, Werich; Chapter 10 The Fortune Teller; Chapter 11 Off to America; Chapter 12 A Propos Aging; Chapter 13 So Much Luck (II); Chapter 14 On Tour: Road Signs; Chapter 15 To The Rescue; Chapter 16 A New World; Chapter 17 The Turnabout Theater; Chapter 18 My Film Career; Chapter 19 Cats I’ve Met; Chapter 20 The Dancing Hausfrau; Chapter 21 Lotte Goslar’s Circus Scene, Joel Schechter; Chapter 22 TV; Chapter 23 Magic; Chapter 24 Not So Magic; Chapter 25 A New Experience; Chapter 26 Marilyn; Chapter 27 A Large Landscape; Chapter 28 What’s So Funny?;
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Gordon and Breach Your Murderer
Book SynopsisFrom Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that defies all rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense. Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He is the Editor of Slavic and East European Performance and of harwood academic publishers's Polish and East European Theater Archive series. Your Murderer comes from Russia and is an ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable - richly grotesque and on different linguistic levels. that defies all rules, mixing a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense.
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Gordon and Breach The Simpleton
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2000. The Simpleton, which was written in 1968 and could not be performed for political reasons, saw the light of day only in 1994. Its complex games of power and identity, played out among a group of actors, remain entirely contemporary today. Set in a theatre, The Simpleton, in the age-old tradition of Russian drama, tackles the timeless problems of personal freedom and inner independence. It is anything but a simple play with its complicated chameleon-like nature new levels of reality continually moving in to push their predecessors out of the way. The mystification begins at the outset with the future arsonist, the Fop, prowling through the gall grumbling about the presence of spectators... The Simpleton is unlike anything else that was being written in the Soviet Union at the time and aside from its searing thematic content, it is astonishingly inventive in its theatricality.
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Tulika Books Vivan Sundaram – History Project
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