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Brill Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s
Book SynopsisIn May It Please the Court, artist Xavier Cortada portrays ten significant decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States that originated from people, places, and events in Florida. These cases cover the rights of criminal defendants, the rights of free speech and free exercise of religion, and the powers of states. In Painting Constitutional Law, scholars of constitutional law analyse the paintings and cases, describing the law surrounding the cases and discussing how Cortada captures these foundational decisions, their people, and their events on canvas. This book explores new connections between contemporary art and constitutional law. Contributors are: Renée Ater, Mary Sue Backus, Kathleen A. Brady, Jenny E. Carroll, Erwin Chemerinsky, Xavier Cortada, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Leslie Kendrick, Corinna Barrett Lain, Paul Marcus, Linda C. McClain, M.C. Mirow, James E. Pfander, Laura S. Underkuffler, and Howard M. Wasserman.Trade Review"This delightful and imaginative book of essays will alter the way in which one writes about cases and constitutional rights. The book should inspire future collaborations among artists, legal scholars, courts, and local communities. It deserves to be widely read. [...] Painting Constitutional Law liberates us to reimagine our own engagement with constitutional cases and doctrines, forcing us to see and confront the cases as emotions, colors, and shapes and to recognize their inherent disruption. May this book be the first of a new genre". Mary Sarah Bilder, Glossae, European Journal of Legal History 18 (2021).
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Brill They’re Called the “Throwaways”: Children in
Book SynopsisThey were named the “throwaways.” Children with learning differences engaged in artmaking as sensemaking to promote issues of social justice in K-12 schools. For the first time, children with learning differences, teachers, staff, and school leaders come together and share how they understand the role artmaking as sensemaking plays in empowering disenfranchised populations.Trade Review“This is an inspiring book which re-establishes the primacy of the arts in enabling learners to understand their own identities and begin the long journey to self-hood. It is long overdue and will go a long way to creating a more balanced curriculum than the sole concentration on math and science." - Fenwick W. English, R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Could this book be the WAKE-UP call that the field of educational administration has so desperately needed? In these inspirational, though often heartbreaking “first-telling” stories by “throwaway” children and their caring teachers and school leaders, we see the answers to leadership for social justice, if only we ourselves had the courage to stand up and shout. Intellectually, to see giants such as Elliot Eisner, Howard Gardner and especially Maxine Greene brought together by the author, Christa Boske, once again brings hope that we will find our way out from the quantitative prison of management theories which hold public education hostage under the guise of productivity and school improvement.” - Ira Bogotch, Professor of Educational Leadership, Florida Atlantic University and Co-Editor (with Carolyn Shields) of the new International Handbook on Social (In)Justice and Educational Leadership "A phenomenal book for a time such as this and for students, teachers, staff, administrators, parents, professors, and community such as us. If we subscribe to the "all children can learn" philosophy, then we must acknowledge that arts-based education is vital for children to succeed. This should be required reading in Schools and Colleges of Education across this country." - Judy A. Alston, Professor in the Department Doctoral Studies and Advanced Programs, Ashland University and Author of School Leadership and Administration - 9th edition “In this beautifully crafted book, Christa Boske concludes that "artmaking actively engag[es] children in developing a critical consciousness, and stronger sense of self." All school leaders need to read this research and understand how to encourage and support teachers and community members in capturing the power of first-tellings.” - Margaret Grogan, Professor, Dean of the College of Educational Studies, Chapman University and Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award from the American Association of School Superintendents (AASA) ‘This text courageously affords children who have been marginalized to have not only voice but a demand that their humanity cannot be disregarded simply because of their learning differences. The alignment of leadership, social justice, the call for policy and practice reform and art making as sense making opens notions of educational leadership to new frontiers that have long needed to have men explored. Christa Boske dares to combine authors who challenge educators to transform their thinking regarding students with learning differences. Additionally, Boske requires readers to advocate for ways to diminish the minimizing of students’ humanity because of intellectual challenges that have historically cast students in a negative light. The book demands that we search deeply to unearth ways to welcome the creativity of children as a means to give voice to their very being. It is a call and challenge for policy transformation through a critical leadership that is grounded in social justice, equity, and celebrating difference.” - Michael Dantley, Professor, Dean of the College of Education, Health and Society, Miami University and Master Professor Award from the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) “Boske and her contributors have created a volume that a poignant chorus of first-tellings of resilience and oppression. This is an excellent read for those engaged in the work of improving society through service to learners and their families, teachers, and school leaders. Aspiring educators and leaders in both educational policy and school administration would do well to absorb the jaw dropping and profound stories offered by some of the most vulnerable in our society. As readers we are given us no choice but to catch our breath mid-chapter to consider simultaneously the power of art beyond traditional understandings, and our responsibility to the everyday experiences of learners and educators. The magic of this effort is rooted in the elegant examination of the overlooked and obscured truths about the power of self-expression in the face of strife. I simply could not put it down.” - Autumn Tooms Cyprès, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, St. John’s University and President, International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership "This book provides tangible evidence of the power of providing students on the margins with the tools to make their voices heard. We need to take the education of students with disabilities seriously in a wholistic, inclusive and enriching fashion and this work provides key insights into this essential work." - George Theoharis, Professor, Syracuse University and Author of The School Leaders Our Children Deserve: Seven Keys to Equity, Social Justice, and School ReformTable of ContentsList of Figures 1 Introduction: Artmaking as Sensemaking as a Portrait of Resilience for Children with Learning Differences Christa Boske PART 1: Children Voices 2 You Can’t Get in My Shoe S 3 The Cage N 4 One of the Best (Because I Worked so Hard on This) C 5 “Acception” T 6 Princess A 7 The Flame of Anger L 8 I Want People to Listen J 9 Animal Land L 10 Helping Hands M 11 Treat Women Like Flowers-They Are Gentle J 12 Magna Shoe P 13 Deep Blue L 14 Barricade A 15 My Story S 16 Freedom V 17 The Cycle #Dark Side The Old Me (Author) and the New Me (Author) 18 I Look Fabulous A 19 Born for Bred M PART 2: Adult Voices 20 Born for Bred A 21 The Tension of Duality B 22 Diversity Is My Degree C 23 Adversity D 24 The Sky Is the Limit E 25 They Lived Their Art F 26 The Children Touch My Heart G 27 Raw: The Thread That Connects Us H 28 Confronting Anxieties on a Small Scale I 29 Leading through Artmaking: Recognizing the Power of Arts-Based Approaches J 30 Developing My Approach to Working with Children K 31 The “Red R” Kid: Disrupting My Deficit-Laden Label L 32 Living the Dream M 33 Afterword: The Power of the Artmaking as Sensemaking Christa Boske
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Brill Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish
Book SynopsisThe return of Jews to their ancestral land can be seen as an act of imagination. A new country, citizenship, language, and institutions needed to be imagined in order to be created. The arts, too, have contributed to this act of envisioning and shaping the Jewish state. By examining artistic representations of Israel, Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts explores the ways in which the Israel imagined abroad and the one conjured within the country intersect, offering a space for the co-existence of sociopolitical, cultural, and ideological differences and tensions.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg Part 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture 1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli Identity Guy Eldar 2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz Yisrael Noa Avron Barak 3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International Comics Ofer Berenstein Part 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America 4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American Stage Ellen W. Kaplan 5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American Literature Samantha Pickette 6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-Charting Chelsea Haines 7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction Reeva Spector Simon 8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish State Rocco Giansante Part 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal 9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in Venice Luna Goldberg 10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance Theater Idit Suslik 11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the Holocaust Samuel Thrope 12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British Theater Glenda Abramson Part 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined 13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian Art Keren Goldberg 14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe Stage Jacob Hellman 15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona Yefman Yarden Stern Index
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Bod Third Party Titles Der Sonnenknig und die Kunst Zur
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Unser Eisernes Kreuz: Ein deutsches heldenbuch
Book SynopsisDieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.Table of ContentsErster Teil.- Das Eiserne Kreuz 1813 bis 1914.- Wie unser alter Heldenkaiser sich das Eiserne Kreuz erwarb.- Zweiter Teil.- Das Eiserne Kreuz 1870/71.- Der Erkundungsritt des Grafen Zeppelin am 24. und 25. Juli 1870.- Heldenväter und Heldensöhne.- Dritter Teil.- 1914/15. Das Eiserne Kreuz.- Das Eiserne Kreuz 1. Klasse..- Unfere Blaujacken.- Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein!.- Mein Eisernes Kreuz.- Vierter Teil.- Vorwärts Jungdeutschland!.
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Walter de Gruyter Wirkmächtige Artefakte
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Fondo de Cultura Economica USA OBRAS COMPLETAS VOL.6O.PAZ
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Dunlin Press The Home Recording Handbook
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Weltgeschichte fur Dummies
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Logos Verlag Berlin Clemens Sieler 19591990
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art in the Service of Colonialism: French Art Education in Morocco 1912-1956
Book SynopsisIn the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956), the French established vocational and fine art schools, imposed modern systems of industrial production and pedagogy and reinvented old traditions. Hamid Irbouh argues that the French used this systematic modernisation of local arts and crafts regulation to impose their control. He looks in particular at the role and place of women in the structures of art production and education created by the French- that transformed and dominated Moroccan society during the colonial period. French women infiltrated the Moroccan milieu, to buttress colonial ideology, yet at critical moments, Moroccan women rejected traditional roles and sabotaged colonial plans. Meanwhile, the contradictions between reformist goals and the old order added to social dislocations and led to rebellion against French hegemony. Irbouh examines and analyses these processes and demonstrates how Moroccan artists have struggled to exorcise French influences and rediscover an authentic visual culture since decolonisation. This book reveals that the weight of colonial history continues to weigh heavily on artistic practice and production.Trade Review'A highly original, meticulously researched, pioneering investigation, not least in addressing the role French colonial women played in diffusing and maintaining French visual culture in the Moroccan feminine milieu. This book will interest a very wide range of readers, not only in the history of Morocco, but also in art and design history more generally and especially, the rapidly growing field of post colonial studies. It sheds immense light on the distinctive characteristics of contemporary culture in this North African country.' Anthony King, Professor Emeritus of Art History and Sociology, State University of New York. [A] well-conceived book based on original arhival sources...this is a novel approach to colonial art history, situating Moroccan art production in large social, political and ideological contexts.' Stuart Schaar, Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern and North African History, Brooklyn College, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsArchive Centres and Libraries Mentioned in the Text List of Illustrations Acnowledgements Introduction The Establishment of French Colonial Hegemony over Morocco Contemporary Moroccan Scholarship on Moroccan Art Production French Colonial Art Education in Morocco Book Outline Part One: Classifications and Associations Chapter One : Framing Morocco's Crafts Chapter Two: Diffusing Colonial Order Part Two: Design and Process of Colonial Education Chapter Three: Colonial Mass Education Chapter Four: Vocational Schools for Men and the French Infiltration of Morocco's Traditional Industry Chapter Five: Women's Vocational Schools Part Three: Originality, Drawing and Colonial Exploitation Chapter Six: Vocational Training and Patriotism in France Chapter Seven: Drawing as an Apparatus of Exploitation Chapter Eight: The Open Workshops and the Casablanca School of Fine Arts By Way of Conclusion: The Burden of Cultural Decolonisation The Populists The Nativists The Bipictorialists Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Arts as a Weapon of War: Britain and the Shaping of National Morale in World War II
Book SynopsisIn 1834, Lord Melbourne spoke the words that epitomised the British government's attitude towards its own involvement in the arts: 'God help the minister that meddles with Art'. However, with the outbreak of World War II, that attitude changed dramatically when 'cultural policy' became a key element of the domestic front. Not only a propaganda tool, it aimed to boost morale and prevent a wartime cultural blackout. "The Arts as a Weapon of War" traces the evolution of this policy from the creation of the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, in 1939, to the drafting of the Arts Council's constitution in 1945. From the improvement of the National Gallery to Myra Hess' legendary concerts during the blitz, Jorn Weingartner provides a fascinating account of the powerful policy shift that laid the foundations for the modern relationship between government and the arts.Table of ContentsI. Introduction II. The political reasons for state neutrality in the sphere of arts in Great Britain III. The cultural elites and state intervention IV. Indicators of extended state influence on the arts V. The Cultural Blackout and the Phase of the ‘Welfarist Approach’ VI. John Meynard Keynes and the ‘standard approach’: CEMA’s policy from January 1942 to September 1944 VII. From CEMA to the Arts Council of Great Britain, September 1944 to June 1945 and beyond VIII. Conclusion and Outlook
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Carnal Knowledge: Towards a 'New Materialism' Through The Arts
Book SynopsisCarnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived of as reality and materiality, described as the 'material turn'. It draws together established and emerging writers, whose research spans dance, music, film, fashion, design, photography, literature, painting and stereo-immersive VR, to demonstrate how art allows us to map the complex relations between nature and culture, between the body, language and knowledge. These writings are unique in the field because they represent the authors' commitment to a new materialism through the creative arts. The questions they address include: Does the material turn in the creative arts take a different turn from continental epistemology, philosophy and the humanities? How does the agency of matter, the material nature of artistic practice and the notion of 'truth to materials' affect what we understand as the 'new materialism'? In engaging with these questions the book offers perspectives on the emergence of this exciting fresh field of new materialism.Trade ReviewCarnal Knowledge is a new materialist collection, not only because it brings together new materialist work, but also because it consistently and constantly reflects on what is new about new materialisms (it does not apply conceptual tools such as affect, but traverses bodies of thought). Iris van der Tuin, Women's Studies International ForumTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Notes on Contributors Introduction Towards a “New Materialism” Through the Arts Barbara Bolt DISCOURSE, AFFECT AND MATERIAL INTERVENTIONS Chapter 1 From Double Navel to Particle-Sign: Towards the A-Signifying Work of Painting Katve-Kaisa Kontturi Chapter 2 Metaphors of the Mind: Art Forms as Modes of Thinking and Ways of Being Danielle Boutet Chapter 3 Æffect: Initiating Heuristic life Jondi Keane Chapter 4 Materiality, Affect, and the Aesthetic Image Estelle Barrett THE MATTER OF FILM Chapter 5 The Matter of Film: Decasia and Lyrical Nitrate Nicholas Chare and Liz Watkins Chapter 6 Recovering the Hidden through Found-footage Films Dirk de Bruyn Chapter 7 Moments of Affection: Jayce Salloum’s everything and nothing and the Thresholds of Testimonial Video Ilona Hongisto CARNAL INSISTENCE Chapter 8 In the Name of the Author: Towards a Materialist Understanding of Literary Authorship Kaisa Kurikka Chapter 9 The Sublime: Process and Mediation Liza McCosh Chapter 10 Fashion as an Embodied Artform Llewellyn Negrin MATERIALITY THE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL Chapter 11 Material-Character Animation: Experiments in Life-like Translucency Cathryn Vasseleu Chapter 12 Instrumental Vision Rose Woodcock Chapter 13 Real Immateriality in Australian Indigenous Art Brian Martin Chapter 14 The Primacy of Movement: Intermediality, Affect, and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen’s Hunt Jussi Parikka and Milla Tiainen Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde
Book SynopsisIs late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterizations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling to the analysis of this period, Susan Best acknowledges the radical and exploratory nature of art in late modernism. The book focuses on four highly influential female artists--Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha--and it explores how their art transformed established avant-garde protocols by introducing an affective dimension. This aspect of their work, while often noted, has never before been analyzed in detail. Visualizing Feeling also addresses a methodological blind spot in art history: the interpretation of feeling, emotion and affect. It demonstrates that the affective dimension, alongside other materials and methods of art, is part of the artistic means of production and innovation. This is the first thorough re-appraisal of aesthetic engagement with affect in post-1960s art.Trade Review"At last, here is, a book that lifts the ban on affect imposed on art criticism and theory by the 'anti-aesthetic' school that has been dominating the scene in the last forty years! Taking her clues from four of the best women artists whose work spans the period, Susan Best convincingly demonstrates that if you close the door of the house of art to feelings, they enter through the window. What's more, this is valid for the supposedly 'anaesthetic' art movements - minimal and conceptual art - that form the contextual background of her case studies: they are no less aesthetic than the art of the past or the most recent present." Thierry de Duve, Historian and Theorist of contemporary art and Professor at University of Lille "Susan Best's remarkably lucid and paradoxical project begins the process of recovering feeling and emotion in late modern art. Her landmark study of four women artists - Hesse, Clark, Mendieta and Cha - rescues both the feminine and the aesthetic from the ghetto, by an astute combination of psycho-analysis and art history." Dr. Ann Stephen, Senior Curator, Sydney University Museums "Visualizing Feeling develops a compelling argument for focusing on precisely the centrality of affect and feeling in any understanding of the art of the 1960s and 1970s, where it seemed that affect no longer had a place. In exploring the work of four powerful and sometimes neglected women artists, she shows how it is paradoxically where affect is consciously minimized that it nevertheless returns to haunt the art work as its most powerful force. Art works affect before they inform, perform or communicate. Sue Best demonstrates that by restoring the question of affect and emotion to the art work, new kinds of questions can be asked about the feminine in art, questions that affirm the personal and political power of these works of art." Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, author of Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth, Columbia University Press, 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Minimalism and Subjectivity: Aesthetics and the Anti-aesthetic Tradition Chapter 2: Mild Intoxication and other Aesthetic Feelings: Psychoanalysis and Art Revisited Chapter 3: Lygia Clark: Participation, Affect and the Body Chapter 4: Eva Hesse's Late Sculptural Works: Elusive Expression and Unconscious Affect Chapter 5: Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series: Affect Miniaturisation and Emotional Ties Chapter 6: The Dream of the Audience: The Moving Images of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Conclusion: Which Anthropomorphism?
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Kyle Craig Publishing Colour Me Christmas ( A Really Relaxing Colouring Book)
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Benediction Classics Line and Form (Paperback)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art and Laughter
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour. Encouraging laughter in the hallowed space of the gallery, Sheri Klein praises the contemporary artist as 'clown' - often overlooked in favour of the role of artist as 'serious' commentator - and takes us on a tour of the comic work of Red Grooms, Cary Leibowitz, 'The Hairy Who', Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, William Wegman, Vik Muniz, and many more. She seeks out those rare smiles in art - from the Mona Lisa onwards - and highlights too the pleasures of the cute, the camp and the downright kitsch.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination
Book SynopsisThe advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail. But the emphasis on the photography's objectivity masked the subjectivity inherent in deciding what to record, from what angle and when. This text examines this inherent subjectivity. Drawing on photographs that come from personal albums, corporate archives, commercial photographers, government reports and which were produced as art, as record, as data, the work shows how the photography shaped and was shaped by geographical concerns.Trade Review'A compelling read...if you are interested in the relationship between geographical imagination and photographic representation you will enjoy this historical journey through the practices and idea of both.' - Katrine Kjoeller, The Magazine of the Royal Geographical Society 'diverse perspectives on the subject' 'does an excellent job' 'a major contribution and should be read by everyone who uses images in teaching, research or publication.' - Area Journal; Landscape Research: "Schwarz and Ryan have provided some excellent case studies and ideas for geographers to use." 'An altogether wonderful set of reflections on the reciprocal relations between photographic impulses and geographical imaginings. 'Picturing Place' illuminates how place is pictured. But it does much more. It shows the central place of picturing in the making of geographical knowledge. No one interested in visual culture can afford to be without this outstanding collection of interdisciplinary essays ranging over five continents and fifteen decades.' - David N. LivingstoneTable of ContentsContents vi Figures vii Acknowledgements x Contributors xii Introduction: Photography and the Geographical Imagination 1 Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan PART I Picturing Place 19 1 La Mission Heliographique: Architectural Photography, Collective Memory and the Patrimony of France, 1851 21 M. Christine Boyer 2 Retracing the Outlines of Rome: Intertextuality and Imaginative Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Photographs 55 Maria Antonella Pelizzari 3 Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon 74 David E. Nye 4 Family as Place: Family Photograph Albums and the Domestication of Public and Private Space 96 Deborah Chambers PART II Framing the Nation 115 5 Picturing Nations: Landscape Photography and National Identity in Britain and Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 117 Jens Jager 6 Capturing and Losing the 'Lie of the Land': Railway Photography and Colonial Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa 141 Jeremy Foster 7 Constructing the State, Managing the Corporation, Transforming the Individual: Photography, Immigration and the Canadian National Railways, 1925-30 162 Brian S. Osbourne PART III Colonial Encounters 193 8 Emperors of the Gaze: Photographic Practices and Productions of Space in Egypt, 1839-1914 195 Derek Gregory 9 Mapping a Sacred Geography:Photographic Surveys by the Royal Engineers in the Holy Land, 1864-68 226 Kathleen Stewart Howe 10 Home and Empire:Photographs of British Families in the Lucknow Album 1856-57 243 Alison Blunt 11 Negotiating Spaces: Some Photographic Incidents in the Western Pacific, 1883-84 261 Elizabeth Edwards Epilogue 281 12 Wunderkammer to World Wide Web:Picturing Place in the Post-Photographic Era 283 William J. Mitchell Notes 305 Index 347
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq
Book SynopsisIn Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, showing every bump and follicle. The "Victory Arch" celebrates a victory over Iran (in their eight-year-long war) that never happened. This text is a study of the interplay between art and politics - of how culture, normally an unquestioned good, can play into the hands of a power with devastating effects. Kanan Makiya uses the culture invented by Saddam Hussein as a window into the nature of totalitarianism and shows how art can become the weapon of dictatorship. Under Saddam Hussein, culture connived in his evil - this text explains how. It should be useful reading for anyone concerned with the power of culture and the culture of power.Trade Review"Brilliant and moving. The kind of totalitarian propaganda discussed by Makiya is relevant not only to explain the grip of power of Saddam Hussein but to other Arab countries." -Peter Partner, The New York Review of Books "...elegantly savage critique of Saddam Hussein's architectural follies... His book deserves to rank with the classic analyses of Nazi and Stalinist art: superb, as a study of kitsch, a study of tyranny - and an account of why the latter always loves the former." -Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "The Monument provides an unusual and groundbreaking examination of the cultural control that Saddam Hussein exercised on his people, and the importance of his so-called artistic legacy... shows how art can become the weapon of dictatorship." -Fred Rhodes, The Middle East Magazine "Makiya writes stridently, but he is also capable of patient rational analysis unravelling what the Monument teaches about the abuse of art for political purposes." -Robert Hillenbrand, Times Literary Supplement
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