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Edinburgh University Press Scottish Writing After Devolution
Book SynopsisRemaps the state of Scottish writing in the contemporary moment, embracing its uncertainty and the need to reconsider the field's founding assumptions and exclusions.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey
Book SynopsisExposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP's efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture in urban public spaces.
£81.00
Duke University Press Trans Exploits
Book SynopsisIn Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutierrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.Trade Review“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.” -- Christopher Joseph Lee * TSQ *“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” -- V Varun Chaudhry * GLQ *“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1 1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30 2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59 3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75 4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101 Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135 Notes 149 References 157 Index 173
£86.70
Duke University Press Autonomy
Book SynopsisIn Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art''s autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from Cindy Sherman''s photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form, such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical theory, and cTrade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215
£26.09
Duke University Press Technocrats of the Imagination
Book SynopsisJohn Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the 1960s interdisciplinary art and technology collaborations between American avant-garde artists and the military-industrial complex that took place in universities, private labs, and museums.Trade Review“In teaching art and technology history now, the hardest tasks are to problematize innovation and to explain with precision the ways in which the midcentury artistic avant-garde in the US was entangled with managerial elites and the military-industrial complex. John Beck and Ryan Bishop convey this history keeping front and center the urgency of its political implications for present-day work in art and technology. I will recommend this book to every artist and researcher I know who works across art, science, and technology.” -- Lisa Cartwright, Professor of Visual Arts, Communication, and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego“John Beck and Ryan Bishop's sustained, in-depth engagement with the history of artistic and technological forms cuts back to the fundamental paradigms established through the computational advances during the Cold War, offering historical insights that are paramount for critical and political thought. Technocrats of the Imagination is an incredible achievement and an important contribution. I could not recommend it more highly.” -- Jordan Crandall, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego"At the center of Beck and Bishop’s analysis is the history of US liberalism as it mutates from the interventionist agenda of the Progressive Era to the soft-power mechanisms of neoliberalism, with its emphasis on deregulation, free trade, privatization, and the uncoupling of the government from public interests. Technocrats of the Imagination sets out to chart the active—albeit at times unwitting—role that artists played in this political shift. . . . The book’s case studies help us see that this realignment occurred as radical social imagination was displaced by an emphasis on the formal qualities of technology and artistic practice." -- Lindsay Caplan * Art in America *“I found that this book worked best as an exploration, a cultural critique even, of the intersecting worlds of artists and technologists…. Less a detailed narrative with a sustained historical argument, Technocrats of the Imagination joins a growing body of provocative scholarship from multiple disciplines that connects the histories of art, commerce, culture, science, and technology.” -- W. Patrick McCray * Technology and Culture *“The book sheds light on the core initial relationships between media artists and labs, with all the consequences of funding, agency and sponsorship, which have since [the 1960s] become codified systems. A compelling read for anybody involved in media art." * Neural *“John Beck and Ryan Bishop’s Technocrats of the Imagination is an elegant and clever history that both partakes of, and invigoratingly complements, the recent scholarly genealogy of the ‘cultural cold war.’” -- Michael Trask * American Literary History *“In Technocrats of the Imagination the project of the lab remains incomplete and unresolved. Taking back the lab—or retrieving its stolen promise—is the positive task, and this book offers both eloquent testimony and incipient guide to how we might re-open the apertures of our collective and collaborative potential.” -- Mark Banks * International Journal of Cultural Policy *
£90.10
Duke University Press Technocrats of the Imagination
Book SynopsisIn Technocrats of the Imagination John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s, in which artists worked with scientists and engineers in universities, private labs, and museums. For artists, designers, and educators working with the likes of Bell Labs, the RAND Corporation, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, experiments in art and technology presaged not only a new aesthetic but a new utopian social order based on collective experimentation. In examining these projects' promises and pitfalls and how they have inspired a new generation of collaborative labs populated by artists, engineers, and scientists, Beck and Bishop reveal the connections between the contemporary art world and the militarized lab model of research that has dominated the sciences since the 1950s.Trade Review“In teaching art and technology history now, the hardest tasks are to problematize innovation and to explain with precision the ways in which the midcentury artistic avant-garde in the US was entangled with managerial elites and the military-industrial complex. John Beck and Ryan Bishop convey this history keeping front and center the urgency of its political implications for present-day work in art and technology. I will recommend this book to every artist and researcher I know who works across art, science, and technology.” -- Lisa Cartwright, Professor of Visual Arts, Communication, and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego“John Beck and Ryan Bishop's sustained, in-depth engagement with the history of artistic and technological forms cuts back to the fundamental paradigms established through the computational advances during the Cold War, offering historical insights that are paramount for critical and political thought. Technocrats of the Imagination is an incredible achievement and an important contribution. I could not recommend it more highly.” -- Jordan Crandall, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego"At the center of Beck and Bishop’s analysis is the history of US liberalism as it mutates from the interventionist agenda of the Progressive Era to the soft-power mechanisms of neoliberalism, with its emphasis on deregulation, free trade, privatization, and the uncoupling of the government from public interests. Technocrats of the Imagination sets out to chart the active—albeit at times unwitting—role that artists played in this political shift. . . . The book’s case studies help us see that this realignment occurred as radical social imagination was displaced by an emphasis on the formal qualities of technology and artistic practice." -- Lindsay Caplan * Art in America *“I found that this book worked best as an exploration, a cultural critique even, of the intersecting worlds of artists and technologists…. Less a detailed narrative with a sustained historical argument, Technocrats of the Imagination joins a growing body of provocative scholarship from multiple disciplines that connects the histories of art, commerce, culture, science, and technology.” -- W. Patrick McCray * Technology and Culture *“The book sheds light on the core initial relationships between media artists and labs, with all the consequences of funding, agency and sponsorship, which have since [the 1960s] become codified systems. A compelling read for anybody involved in media art." * Neural *“John Beck and Ryan Bishop’s Technocrats of the Imagination is an elegant and clever history that both partakes of, and invigoratingly complements, the recent scholarly genealogy of the ‘cultural cold war.’” -- Michael Trask * American Literary History *“In Technocrats of the Imagination the project of the lab remains incomplete and unresolved. Taking back the lab—or retrieving its stolen promise—is the positive task, and this book offers both eloquent testimony and incipient guide to how we might re-open the apertures of our collective and collaborative potential.” -- Mark Banks * International Journal of Cultural Policy *
£22.49
Lulu.com Finding Calcutta
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£25.71
iUniverse Dia de los Muertos
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Lexington Books Feminism and Folk Art
Book SynopsisThis book is a mosaic or quilt of folk art around the world, from polychrome clay figures made in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla (Mexico) to the baskets Maori women create in New Zealand, from Japanese lacquer work and decorated paddles to black dolls in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The creative impulse found in three continents, four countries, and four geographical regions are juxtaposed to make up a harmonious whole. The book carries out a detailed dissection of a variety of ethnic, racialized, and gender representations in their contemporary forms.Trade ReviewAnother terrific book by Eli Bartra, whose unique focus on contextualizing "folk art" from a feminist viewpoint has illuminated the art and lives of its often little-known makers. At home in many cultures, her careful attention to both artists and objects is an invaluable addition to the endless discussions of "high" and "low" art. -- Lucy R. Lippard, author of The Pink Glass SwanIn this innovative book, Latin American-based feminist and folklorist Eli Bartra ventures beyond her geographical comfort zone to take on a sophisticated comparative study of art and gender in Mexico, Japan, New Zealand, and Brazil. Her investigatory patchwork of four social and cultural environments—some rural, some urban—calls on specific ethnographic material in a variety of media to explore important theoretical questions, from the distinction between craft and folk art to the conception of gender. -- Sally Price, author of Co-Wives and Calabashes, Primitive Art in Civilized Places, and Paris PrimitiveEli Bartra with her recognized eye for grasping the intricate twisting of tradition, innovation, and inspiration inflected by gender, especially women’s experience, ambition, and generation, with class and necessity in works of art, creates a fascinating narrative that interprets art, folk art, and handicrafts. Her subtle and graceful analysis begins with objects (trees of Life in Mexico; woven baskets in New Zealand; lacquer products from Japan; and the rag dolls of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and quickly moves to a study of the persons who make them. The book should be read twice, once for the pleasure of the descriptive writing and once again for the refined, often understated scrutiny of these artistic case studies. -- William H. Beezley, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Trees of Life: Polychrome Clay Figures, and Women’s Work in Izúcar de Matamoros Chapter 2: Art Weavers: Maori Women of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Chapter 3: From the Sober to the Saturated: Japanese Shunkei Lacquers and Edo Hagoita Chapter 4: The Smiler of the Moon: Brazilian Folk Art and the Abayomi Project
£76.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Matisses Poets
Book SynopsisThroughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced the artist's work in a range of media. This study argues that the livre d'artiste became the privileged means by which Matisse enfolded literature into his own idiom and demonstrated the centrality of his aesthetic to modernist debates about authorship and creativity. By tracing the compositional and interpretive choices that Matisse made as a painter, print maker, and reader in the field of book production, this study offers a new theoretical account of visual art's capacity to function as a form of literary criticism and extends debates about the gendering of 20th-century bibliophilia. Brown also demonstrates the importance of Matisse's self-placement in relation to the French Trade ReviewThis beautiful book will become both a reference work on Matisse's works and a reflection on the critical function of the dialogue of images and text. * French Studies (Bloomsbury Translation) *It is [...] extremely rare to find a scholar able to move so expertly between literary and visual analysis, and this remains a tremendously impressive and useful contribution to scholarship on Matisse and his literary and artistic networks, on bibliophile culture, and on text-image relationships. * caa.reviews *Kathryn Brown here explores all aspects of Matisse’s achievements as a book artist, showing how his engagement with writers became a driving force in his aesthetic development. Moving between visual and literary imperatives, she also provides an informed and subtle presentation of the historical context in which Matisse was working, further enriching our appreciation of the books he designed, particularly during and after the second World War, when he combined drawings, cut-outs and poetry to express a spirit of resolute resistance and resilient cultural identity. * Peter Read, Professor of Modern French Literature and Visual Arts, University of Kent, UK *Henri Matisse hails from the distinctly French tradition of the painter-poet whose creative output (as well as personal and professional life) was inextricably linked with literature and writers. In Kathryn Brown’s clear-eyed and discerning study Matisse's Poets, the artist’s collaborative book ventures serve as a fascinating lens through which to examine Matisse’s relationship to literature and writers. Using the metaphor of the stage, Brown defines Matisse’s artists’ books as an effective space where the painter could perform his role not only as illustrator but also as reader, critic, and artist acutely aware of his public image. As such, each chapter in this well-researched and amply illustrated study shows how Matisse self-consciously engaged with literary works by authors as diverse as Stéphane Mallarmé, Henry de Montherlant, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre de Ronsard, James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, among others, to produce and extend his own pictorial language as well as to position himself as a sophisticated reader of both the literary canon and the avant-garde. Brown therefore rightly places Matisse’s artists’ books within a broad matrix of concerns that allows her to go beyond conventional text-image analyses to include the social and political valences of Matisse’s creative and strategic decisions in his diverse publishing projects. The interdisciplinary framework of Matisse's Poets will attract literary critics as well as art historians and scholars of media and book history. Its lucid prose and finely tuned arguments will make it a useful tool for teaching as well as scholarly research. * Anna Sigrídur Arnar, Professor of Art History, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA *This is a remarkable book ... [with] a wide range of new aspects and dimensions. * Leonardo Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Matisse and the Book Performing Literary Criticism Theorizing Arts of the Book: Maupassant’s Influence 1. Matisse Among the Poets Modernist Genealogies Controversial Beginnings: The Two Versions of Les Jockeys camouflés Essential Lines Thresholds 2. ‘Visual Thoughts’: Les Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé Arts of Elimination Mirrored Space Poetic Others 3. Disowning Ulysses Homeric Frameworks Books within Books Innovation, Instability, and Tradition The Limited Editions Club in a Post-War Art World 4. The War Book: Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les Crétois) Performing the ‘Solar Myth’ Heroism, Shame, and the Corrida From Myth to Politics 5. Imitation and Innovation: Florilège des Amours de Ronsard Appeasing the Bibliophiles Influence: A Modernist Renaissance Objectification and Identification: Portraying the Female Nude 6. Enacting Beauty: Les Fleurs du mal A New Architecture for Les Fleurs du mal Modernism and Beauty Matisse Alone: ‘Les Fleurs du bien’ 7. Problematizing Authorship: Les Lettres portugaises Rectificatory Justice and the Book Selfhood: Matisse’s Essays on Art 8. Beyond the ‘Ritual Space’ of the Book: Jazz Drawing Words/Hearing Colour The Failure of Icarus 9. Old Acquaintances, New Collaborations: Tzara and Reverdy Spontaneity Redefining Ekphrasis: Visages 10. Imprisonment and Occupation: Poèmes de Charles d’Orléans A Modernist Illuminated Manuscript Illustration and Imitation Appropriating Artistic Gesture 11. Apollinaire Redux Friendship as an Interpretive Framework The Book as Portrait Women and Books: From Apollinaire to Repli 12. Literary Legacies Books out of Time Traces Bibliography Index
£999.99
Stanford University Press Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of
Book SynopsisRecent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these words—violence, literature and civility—and the concepts they evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these entanglements have been put. Simpson's argument follows a broadly historical trajectory through the long modern period from the Renaissance to the present, drawing on the work of historians, political scientists, literary scholars and philosophers. The result is a distinctly new argument about the complex and often mystified entanglements between literature, civility and violence in the anglophone Atlantic sphere. What now are our expectations of civility and literature, separately and together? How do these long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that, despite and perhaps because of their imperfect conceptualization, both persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.Trade Review"Among the most important literary historical considerations of violence and civility to emerge in recent decades, this remarkable, challenging book sustains the question of how—and at what cost—civility has been opposed to violence, and literature allied with civility."—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley"This timely, erudite work is not polemical, not a defense, but reflective—essayistic rather than thesis-driven. In these ways and more, the book enacts a form of civility that it characterizes and appreciates without idealizing."—Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh"Engaging Violence is dialectical criticism at its best. It follows the overlapping histories of civility and literary pedagogy over time as both engage with different forms of violence, and it renders the complex historical process by which each term shifts as it moves between contexts but never admits of monolithic conclusions."—Kevis Goodman, Critical InquiryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Civility and Literature and Their Discontents 2. Civil Beginnings 3. Philosophy Polite and Politic 4. The Displacement of Civility: Violence in a Widening World 5. Civility after 1989: Romancing Small Groups 6. The Reach of Literature
£17.99
Fordham University Press Arts of the Border
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Coloring Book: Bible Creation
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Willow Creek Press Calendars Birth Flowers 2025 12 X 12 Wall Calendar
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Taylor & Francis Inc COLLADA: Sailing the Gulf of 3D Digital Content
Book SynopsisCOLLADA is a COLLAborative Design Activity for establishing an open standard Digital Asset schema for interactive 3D applications. This book explains in detail how to use the COLLADA technology in a project utilizing 3D assets, and ultimately how to create an effective content creation pipeline for the most complex development. Errata are posted at http://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/COLLADA_book.Trade Review" book presents comprehensive and enlightening coverage of COLLADA from a practical perspective. NVIDIA is proud of the continuing collaboration on this project, and we look forward to seeing users fully utilize COLLADA to deploy next-generation 3D rendering content in future graphics applications."--Sebastien Domine, Director of Developer Technology Tools, NVIDIA Corporation, August 2006 compatible, reliable, and predictable communications between content creation applications in a tool chain has long been the dream of developers. At last there is a solution. The creators of COLLADA have come up with a schema, which is supported by Khronos, an independent standards body, that allows the applications to communicate in an open and efficient manner-an industry standard for 3D interchange is finally here." --Dr. Jon Peddie, President, Jon Peddie Research, August 2006 is redefining game development and promises, for once, to make it simpler and more fun to create 3D content. This authoritative book-detailed, engaging and written by the fathers of COLLADA-will enable game developers to better understand and benefit from this popular technology, so they can focus on creating bold new games instead of maintaining yet another proprietary file format." --Christian Laforte, President, Feeling Software, Inc., August 2006 book provides a first and comprehensive introduction to COLLADA, the digital asset exchange schema, which enables a standardized way for physics to be implemented into a variety of game development environments using a variety of creative tools. It will help the AGEIA mission of expanding the role of artists in the game development process through open physics standards." --Emmanuel Marquez Ageia, Worldwide Senior Producer, AGEIA Technologies, Inc., August 2006 "I highly recommend this book. If you are a programmer with a reasonable understanding of 3D graphics programming and/or authoring using 3D scene graphs, you will be able to learn the basics of Collada. If you are an experienced 3D toolmaker, Collada contains everything you need to get up and running to build your game, game engine or content pipeline tool. If you are a manager or decision maker, you get the added comfort of knowing that - finally - you just might be able to write that tool once and not over and over again." -Tony Parisi, Slashdot.org, December 2006 [The Authors] provide insight into the design of COLLADA so that readers can understand how design decisions were made and how this standard may evolve. The book will be useful to content developers interested in exchanging data between several tools, to application developers planning to use COLLADA, and to tool providers who want to add COLLADA compatibility. -Book News, December 2006 Jon Peddie gives us an interesting perspective on the games industry and the efforts being made to make asset exchange as easy as possible. --Jon Peddie, Hexus, September 2006 "COLLADA: SAILING THE GULF OF 3D DIGITAL CONTENT CREATION is for any game developer beyond the novice stage: it discusses the pros, cons, applications and future of a bold new technology for creating games, and comes from a joint industry effort focusing on effective 3D interaction in game developments. The Collada initiative surveys the history and especially the applications of the 3D industry tool, offering up a basic guide to the Collada 1.4 specifications and reviewing foundation concepts, tools, and applications and design. It's simply a must for any serious game developer." -California Bookwatch: The Computer Shelf, California Bookwatch, November 2006 book makes available the results of a joint industry effort, spearheaded by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., to create a standard for digital asset exchange that enables Playstation(R) 3 to bring more realistic content to life and into the home like never before." -Ken Kutaragi, President and CEO Sony Computer Entertainment -President and CEO Sony Computer Entertainment, August 2006 welcomes the publication of COLLADA: Sailing the Gulf of 3D Digital Content Creation, where the centerpiece of the digital asset tool chain for the 3D interactive industry is clearly explained and presented for the first time. Softimage is proud to have contributed to COLLADA since the beginning of its development, and to watch it grow into a powerful resource supported by the industry as a whole." --Gareth Morgan, Senior product manager for Softimage Co.,a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc., August 2006 COLLADA initiative is a demonstration of Sony's leadership and commitment to the games development industry. Autodesk is very supportive of this effort; it helps the games community become more productive as it tackles the requirements and opportunities of new generation consoles." --Marc Petit, VP Media & Entertainment, Autodesk, August 2006 book is an excellent first-hand account of the origins of COLLADA straight from the people that made it happen. These pages are much more then just an authoritative technical primer on enabling great content-they are also a glimpse into the passion and vision that bought COLLADA to life. The Khronos Group is honored to provide a good home to COLLADA-an open standard that is truly changing the 3D industry." -Neil Trevett, President, Khronos Group -President, Khronos Group, August 2006"Table of Contents1. Introduction to COLLADA 2. COLLADA Document 3. COLLADA Geometry 4. COLLADA Scenes 5. COLLADA Effects 6. COLLADA Animations 7. COLLADA Physics 8. COLLADA Content Pipeline
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Taylor & Francis Inc 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development
Book SynopsisThis engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. Reflecting both academic and in-the-trenches practical experience, the authors teach you how to describe objects and their positions, orientations, and trajectories in 3D using mathematics. The text provides an introduction to mathematics for game designers, including the fundamentals of coordinate spaces, vectors, and matrices. It also covers orientation in three dimensions, calculus and dynamics, graphics, and parametric curves.Trade Review"With solid theory and references, along with practical advice borne from decades of experience, all presented in an informal and demystifying style, Dunn & Parberry provide an accessible and useful approach to the key mathematical operations needed in 3D computer graphics."—Eric Haines, author of Real-Time Rendering"The book describes the mathematics involved in game development in a very clear and easy to understand way, layered on the practical background of years of game engine programming experience."—Wolfgang Engel, editor of GPU ProTable of ContentsCartesian Coordinate Systems. Vectors. Multiple Coordinate Spaces. Introduction to Matrices. Matrices and Linear Transformations. More on Matrices. Polar Coordinate Systems. Rotation in Three Dimensions. Geometric Primitives. Mathematical Topics from 3D Graphics. Mechanics 1: Linear Kinematics and Calculus. Mechanics 2: Linear and Rotational Dynamics. Curves in 3D. Afterword. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
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Grolier Club of New York Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects – From the
Book SynopsisA dazzling collection of rare art and documents illuminate the life of Sherlock Holmes beyond the page. As one of the most beloved characters in the English language, Sherlock Holmes sometimes seems to have a life of his own, one that leaps beyond the pages of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery stories. Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects aims its magnifying glass toward a host of overlooked extra-literary objects that tell the story of the famed detective’s publication history outside of Doyle’s original canon. Drawing on their extensive collection of Holmes-related bibliographic material, Cathy and Glen S. Miranker brings to light exhibits ranging from original manuscripts, handwritten letters, business correspondence, vintage book art, pirated editions, and more, all presented in thematic clusters that highlight their significance to the case at hand. Throughout, the Mirankers invite readers to share in the collector’s enthusiasm for the kinds of rarities and oddities that help decipher the appeal of Sherlock Holmes in ways that transcend what can be found on the page.Trade Review“Mighty fine-looking” * Times Literary Supplement *"Even non-Sherlockians will find Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects irresistible and may succumb to Sherlock’s allure, thanks largely to Glen Miranker’s splendid job. Autograph collectors/dealers will find this an unbeatable storehouse of Doyle handwriting exemplars that also aids in ferreting out those pesky proxies. Bibliophiles will appreciate the many fine rarities pictured and detailed elaboration on the critical points that identify them. Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects is an absolute must-have reference for the Sherlockians among us – and an entertaining education for those who are not." -- Bill Butts * Manuscripts *Table of ContentsForewordA Note from the CollectorAbout the Exhibition and CatalogueThe Hound of the Baskervilles in the UKThe Hound of the Baskervilles in the USVariant US HoundsA Study in ScarletThe Sign of FourAdventures & MemoirsArtist Sidney PagetThe Death of Holmes & Rebirth of Conan DoyleThe Play’s the ThingWilliam Gillette: Three Decades as Sherlock HolmesConan Doyle’s Return to Sherlock HolmesArtist Frederic Dorr SteeleThe Return ManuscriptsPirated EditionsPrice-Point Tactics Among the PiratesFlamboyant CoversDepartment Store PiraciesPirate Publisher Catalogues“Book-A-Day Lovell”Variant Tales of Sherlock HolmesAfterwordBibliographyAcknowledgments
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New Village Press Artists in My Life
Book SynopsisMargaret Randall reveals personal stories and profound insights about the artists who most influenced her life. Artists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet activist Margaret Randall on her own journey as an artist. Randall writes of each relationship through multiple lenses: as makers of art, social commentators, women in a world dominated by male values, and in solitude or collaboration with communities and the larger artistic arena. Each story offers insight into the artist’s life and work, and analyses the impact it had on Randall’s own work and its impact on the larger art community. The work strives to answer bigger questions about visual art as a whole and its lasting political influence on the world stage. Randalls describes her motivations: ”I go beneath the surface, asking questions and telling stories. I have wanted to answer questions such as: Why is it that visual art—drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture—grabs me and, in particular instances, feels as if it changes me at the molecular level? How do art and memory interact? How do reason and intuition come together in art? Do women and men make art differently? Does great art change the viewer? Does it change the artist? How does art travel through time?”Trade Review"Panoramic yet intimate, Artists in My Life brings Margaret Randall’s poetic and photographer’s sensibilities, as well as her superb prose, to these portraits of artists who have touched her life. The examples are far-ranging, from well-known Elaine de Kooning and Frida Kahlo to contemporaries like Jane Norling or the unknown creators of 10,000-year-old petroglyphs and the Nazca lines of southern Peru. Male power, female resistance, the pain of childhood abuse or physical disability shaped the lives and art of some, but all persisted in claiming their independence and unique artistic creativity. This is a fascinating read." -- Louise Lamphere, Past-President of the American Anthropological Association"These essays on the radiant living that art enables are crafted with an eye to scene structure and narrative economy within the accidental landscapes of recollection. Randall’s accounts relate forms as configured differently by artists, many of them women, who have challenged the social calibrations of power and its interpersonal complexities. Animating the work of Elaine de Kooning, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Lucy Lippard, Sabra Moore, Jane Norling, and Barbara Byers, among others, Randall underscores the distinct ways materiality “draws us into meaning” and collective memory. This generous tribute confirms the enduring impact of Randall’s form of storytelling where “perspective is everything”—such that it reconfigures the impact of the singular on the horizon of the plural. " -- Roberto Tejada, author of Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness"Margaret Randall’s Artists in My Life clearly shows how a writer can gain sustenance and guidance from the work and the lives of a range of visual artists, photographers, and architects. Randall also gives us a glimpse into the journeys of her own life—the importance of art, community, place, and politics—providing sustenance and guidance to all of us. " -- Kenny Fries, award-winning author of In the Province of the Gods"Margaret Randall composes an intimate portrait of influential artists and creators through the lens of a feminist, lesbian, revolutionary, poet and photographer who herself has lived an extraordinary life. . . . Perhaps it’s a product of Covid-19 lockdown but she makes me want to travel in time and place. From the '60s in New York City to “pre-history” Yucatan, this writing is the closest I will ever come." -- Catherine DeMaria, artist, Warehouse 1-10, Magdalena, New Mexico
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Skyhorse Publishing Aphorisms for Artists
Book SynopsisA Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of one of his former students, Bannard set down his thoughts in a short book, Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art. It is at once a volume of practical art-making wisdom and an engaging piece of personal philosophy, both wry and readable. Open to any page, and you'll find a memorable gem of wisdom, followed by a brief expansion by Bannard that adds more insight. It is a necessary reference to keep on hand in the studio, and a perfect gift for the aspiring artist to read and re-read, and to consult at times of artistic troubles.
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Museum of Modern Art Adrian Piper: A Reader
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Brecht Yearbook Das BrechtJahrbuch 49
Book SynopsisThe Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly forum for the study of Brecht's life and work and of topics relevant to him. Volume 49 features the proceedings of the 17th IBS Symposium, which took place at the universities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem in December 2022 under the motto "Bertolt Brecht in Dark Times: Racism, Political Oppression, and Dictatorship." It contains three thematic sections: "Brecht's Work in Israeli and Palestinian Contexts," "Brecht and Becoming, Futurity, and Thanatopolitics," and "(Anti-) Heroism and Resistance in Dark Times." The contributions discuss artists and theater companies who have engaged with Brecht's work or can be associated with it under these thematic aspects, including David Avidan, the Habima National Theater, Jindrich Honzl, the Jenin Freedom Theater, Ghassan Kanafani, Tetsuo Kogawa, Yosef Milo, Omri Nitzan, Manuel Chaves Nogales, the Ohel Theater, the Prague Liberated Theater, Samìh al-Qasim, Johan Taub, Jiri Voskovec, Günther Weisenborn, Jan Werich, and Arnold Zweig. Contributors are Fanti Baum, Micha Braun, Bettina Christner, Manuel Clancett, Amir Farjoun, Leon Gabriel, Torben Ibs, Gad Kaynar-Kissinger, Ferdinand Klüsener, Jan Kühne, Joachim Lucchesi, Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Riki Ophir, Avraham Oz, Rebecca Rovit, Julia Schade, and Florian Vaßen. Book Reviews edited by Lydia J. White. Reviewers: Stephen Brockmann, Ann M. Fox, Hasibe Kalkan, Sabine Kebir, Yu Wei Jie, and Gregor Schwering.
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Haymarket Books Making Art in Terrible Times: Capitalist Crisis
Book Synopsis“This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book, what good art should do.” —Astra Taylor It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism’s dysfunction. In these incisive essays, art critic Ben Davis makes sense of our extreme present as an emerging "after-culture"—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future.Trade Review”Ben Davis understands that you can't truly understand art without an analysis of the economic system that created the artist. He understands that movements create change and that artists only create change if they are involved with that movement in other ways than being the expert observer. Here's to art criticism with an axe to grind.” —Boots Riley “Ben Davis is the only art critic I read. These erudite and entertaining essays take the reader on a mind-bending tour through our fragmented, confounding, and commodified cultural landscape, providing welcome historical and political context to many of the high-profile controversies and existential challenges that define our age. Ever attuned to questions of power and profit, Davis never yields to cynicism or forecloses the possibility of creativity’s role in our collective liberation. This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book, what good art should do.” —Astra Taylor “Amid the cultural sandstorm of infinite memes and ravenous engagement algorithms, rare sneakers and mythic NFTs, made-for-Instagram immersive installations and the relentless firehose of TikTok clips, Ben Davis asks a simple question "What about Art?" What follows is an indispensable series of provocations on the future of culture, politics, and society that speak to some of the most urgent issues facing societies where culture, capitalism, and identity have become nearly indistinguishable from one another. Following in the footsteps of theorists like John Berger, Stuart Hall, and Lucy Lippard, Ben Davis is an essential guide to the politics of culture in the 21st Century.” —Trevor Paglen
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Authorhouse Yon Ti Epis: Our Favorite Haitian Dishes
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Blurb Halrai in space
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Blurb Moondonist 13
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Primary Information Michael Asher: Writings 1973-1983 on Works
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Buckman Publishing LLC Buckman Journal 003: Anthology of Portland
Book SynopsisSavvy writers. Sharp artists. Buckman delves into the contemporary Portland, OR art scene and delivers its score to the world's eager eyes.Savvy writers. Sharp artists. Buckman delves into the contemporary Portland, OR art scene and delivers its score to the world's eager eyes.
£15.00
Ape Press Saints of Mary's Project
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Idler Books The Idler 104
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Idler Books The Idler: #94, Jan/Feb 2024, Arthur Brown
Book SynopsisIn which Will Hodgkinson meets Arthur Brown, the God of Hellfire; Stephen Bayley attacks the idea of fun; we look at the surprising history of the chaise longue, and visit Britain after the Romans left (it was wild and free). Plus Georgia Mann, Stewart Lee, Virginia Ironside, Peter York and how to spot a psycho.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Relational Art: A Guided Tour
Book SynopsisTaking place in the skies over London, the plazas of Rotterdam, and the hallways of museums worldwide, a new kind of art has emerged since the 1990s. Known as Relational Art, this controversial practice features audience participation in ways never before realised, often using new media and social networking. In this book, academic and artist Craig Smith outlines a rigorous theory of Relational Art, explaining why audience interaction and collective art production has become so relevant. He traces the movement from its beginnings with the Traffic exhibition and Nicolas Bourriaud's treatise Relational Aesthetics to the diverse and international scope of Relational Art today. Moving through a range of case studies, such as Olafur Eliasson's iconic Weather Project at Tate Modern, this book also reveals how Relational Art has affected the aesthetic, theoretical and economic forces shaping twenty-first century art. Craig Smith brings together ideas from artists, art critics, curators, philosophers and audience members to illuminate how Relational Art works are conceived, realised and experienced. Through a guided tour of thought-provoking and influential works, he demonstrates that Relational Art has permanently altered the nature of art and its global audiences.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Space and the Literal Site 2. Space and the Mobile Site 3. Space Case Studies 4. Time 5. Time Case Studies 6. Participation 7. Interactivity 8. Participation/Interactivity Case Studies 9. Social Identity 10. Social Identity Case Studies Index
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Intellect Books Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives
Book SynopsisAcross the world, performing arts programmes are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organizational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and creating recognition that this body of work is becoming a valued part of the correctional enterprise. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction: Performing arts in prisons - creative perspectives Micheal Balfour, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne and Huib Schippers Chapter 1: A correctional perspective on the creative arts in prisons Andrew Day Chapter 2: Geese Theatre Company - 30 years on Louise Heywood, Andy Watson MBE and Michael Balfour Chapter 3: One Mob Different Country: First Peoples of Australia dance in Darwin Prison John Rynne, Dennis Lew Fatt and Brett Schroder Chapter 4: 'This place is full of drama queens': Reflecting on the value of drama in a women's prison Sarah Woodland Chapter 5: Through the looking glass: A voice from the inside Anya (pseudonym) Chapter 6: Breaking the fifth wall: How performance might assist desistance from crime Linda Davey Chapter 7: Drumming interventions in Australian prisons: Insights from the Rhythm2Recovery model Simon Faulkner and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet Chapter 8: Arts in Corrections New Zealand Jacqui Moyes Chapter 9: The play's the thing: Performance in Prison Shakespeare Rob Pensalfini Chapter 10: 'Heart and heartbeat': Working beyond prison theatre, performing protagonismo social in the real world Penelope Glass Chapter 11: 'Strategies for success': Trusting the power of the arts Maud Clarke Chapter 12: Performing arts activities with hopes to build positive self-identity, heal harms and broaden the US public's perceptions of people inside prisons Mary L. Cohen Chapter 13: Unlocked: Prison poetry workshops as a key to engaging inmates Johanna Featherstone and Huib Schippers Chapter 14: 'Music is the colour of my skin': The story of the Murru Band Dudley Billing and Dave Palmer Concluding Reflections Micheal Balfour, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne and Huib Schippers Index
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Rowman & Littlefield International The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics
Book SynopsisHow does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control? How do art, aesthetics and activism inform one another? And how do strategic spaces of creativity become the basis for new forms of production and governance? The Composition of Movements to Come reconsiders the history and the practices of the avant-garde, from the Situationists to the Art Strike, revolutionary Constructivism to Laibach and Neue Slowenische Kunst, through an autonomist Marxist framework. Moving the framework beyond an overly narrow class analysis, the book explores broader questions of the changing nature of cultural labor and forms of resistance around this labor. It examines a doubly articulated process of refusal: the refusal of separating art from daily life and the re-fusing of these antagonistic energies by capitalist production and governance. This relationship opens up a new terrain for strategic thought in relation to everyday politics, where the history of the avant-garde is no longer separated from broader questions of political economy or movement, but becomes a point around which to reorient these considerations.Trade Review“Shukaitis's project is further distinguished by his emphasis on using avant-garde artistic practices as a means of mobilizing labor’s autonomy within deterritorialized capitalist spaces. [T]his is where the drift of his research moves into high gear.” * Critical Inquiry *Stevphen Shukaitis's new book makes a forcible and compelling contribution to a rejuvenated discussion on avant-garde art and politics. . . .This is much to appreciate in Shukaitis's book. . . .[It is] a strategic vision, and Shukaitis's Dada games and partisan misdirection make for a spirited experiment in pataphysical writing in the context of the real subsumption of labor. * Afterimage *With The Composition of Movements to Come Stevphen Shukaitis does again what he has been doing as an author and editor for years: pushing the boundaries of intellectual and activist thought on the Left. By insisting that culture be understood strategically, rather than merely employed tactically, Shukaitis has unlocked the secret of an affective and effective artistic activism for our times. Brilliant and useful. -- Stephen Duncombe, New York University; Co-Director, Center for Artistic ActivismI was convinced it was impossible to say something new about politics and the avant-garde, and I really enjoyed being proved wrong in so many different ways. -- David Graeber, Professor of Anthropology, London School of EconomicsStevphen Shukaitis has produced an exposition on the strategic – as opposed to purely tactical – possibilities immanent within the post-war avant-garde that is as beautiful as the chance meeting of Autonomous Marxism and the Situationist International on the dissecting-table of critical theory. -- Gregory Sholette, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at Queens College Art Department, The City University of New YorkCan strategy emerge from out of the diverse, fragmentary and temporary tactics of contemporary social movements? In this important book, which offers telling historical perspectives and is at the same time forged in the practice of political opposition, Stevphen Shukaitis offers a sustained argument that it can, and that it should. -- Julian Stallabrass, Courtauld Institute of ArtThis is a really thought provoking book, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to think about art in ways that are thoroughly social, and that try very hard indeed to rescue a radical politics from the global institutions of art capitalism. * Culture Machine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements / Let’s Take the First Bus Out of Here: A User’s Guide / 1. Introduction: Class Composition and the Avant-Garde / Part I: Territories: Psychogeography / 2. Theories made to die in the war of time / 3. Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations / Part II: Art/Work Sabotage / 4. Can Creative Practice Break Bricks / 5. Learning Not to Labor / Part III: Institutions: Overidentification / 6. Fascists as Much as Painters / 7. Icons of Futures Past / 8. Coda: The Composition of Movements to Come / Bibliography / Index
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Chipmunka Publishing A Retrospective Look A Memoir
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mass Photography: Collective Histories of
Book SynopsisWith increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their current day prevalence and their historical predecessors. Through archival research and interviews with organisers and participants, it examines, for the first time, the vast photographic collections resulting from such projects, analysing their structures and systems, their aims and objectives, and their claims and promises. The central case study is the 55,000 photographs submitted to One Day for Life in 1987, which aimed, in its own time, to be ‘the biggest photographic event the world had ever seen’.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Approaching Mass Photography: Methods, Models and DebatesChapter 1: Days in the life: From Mass Observation to crowdsourcingChapter 2: One Day for Life: Charity, competition, archiveChapter 3: Everyday life and ordinary photography: Documentary hopes and expectationsChapter 4: Scale and monumentality: Collective identity and imagined communityChapter 5: Humanism and compassion: Photographic democracy and emotional affectChapter 6: Competitive aesthetics: Art, amateurism and ambitionChapter 7: Visual time capsules: Photographic memory and historical desireChapter 8: Legacies, promises and potentialAppendix: Research methodsIndex
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Imprint Academic Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of
Book SynopsisFrom Banksy to Extinction Rebellion, artivism (activism through art) is the art of our era. From international biennale to newspaper pages, artivism is everywhere. Both inside museums and on the streets, global artivism spreads political messages and raises social issues, capturing attention with shocking protests and weird stunts. Yet, is this fusion of art and activism all it seems? Are artivist messages as subversive and anti-authoritarian we assume they are? How has the art trade commodified protest and how have activists parasitised art venues? Is artivism actually an arm of the establishment?Using artist statements, theoretical writings, statistical data, historical analysis and insider testimony, British art critic Alexander Adams examines the origins, aims and spread of artivism. He uncovers troubling ethical infractions within public organisations and a culture of complacent self-congratulation in the arts. His findings suggest the perception of artivism the most influential art practice of the twenty-first century as a grassroots humanitarian movement could not be more misleading. Adams concludes that artivism erodes the principles underpinning museums, putting their existence at risk.
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Acair Unnad Indigenous
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Intellect Walking in Art Education
Book SynopsisThis edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators have taken up important questionsaround environmental sustainability and landstewardship through walking practices acrossspatial, temporal and cultural differences. 42 b&w illus.
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Open Book Publishers After the Miners' Strike: A39 and Cornish
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Art of Diremption – On the Powerlessness of
Book SynopsisAn engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages. One of the most astonishing aspects of the discourse on contemporary art is the firm and unwavering belief that art has the power to transform society for the better. There seems to be a consensus around the idea that art, especially visual art, is greatly suited to addressing all manner of social, political, economic, ecological, and other imbalances. Celebrated as a powerful remedy for social grievances, art finds its justification in the service it seems to provide to society. But as art historian Leonhard Emmerling contends in this timely volume, this presumptuous heroism shows willful blindness towards art’s subjugation to contradictions inherent in social relations. He argues that the narrative of the power of art has its specific history. In trying to reconstruct this history in Art of Diremption, he discovers instead art’s fundamental powerlessness as the foundation for art’s political relevance. Art is weak, argues Emmerling. It, therefore, requires an ethics of weakness, which rejects the discourse of impact and power to enable a politics of art containing the permanence of reflection, the unreliability of thought, and the emergence of form as the event of the new. With a meticulously studied and well-argued case about the “powerlessness of art,” Art of Diremption will be an important contribution to the field of art, aesthetics, and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroductionKant IKant II: Disinterestedness and sensus communisThe Sublime: Kant and SchillerStendhal and the Promise of JoyNietzsche IExcursus I: On SemblanceNietzsche IIHegel: Decision, Diremption, FreedomArt after the End of Art Excursus II Radicality and CommunityProducing Truth: MoralityAs Though / Propositional Content / MoralityAesthetics and InterestAesthetic Difference / Experience / EthicsThe Politics of Art
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Independent Author The Influence of Ayurvedic Massage on the
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Independent Author Sand And Spring Board Training For Football
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University of Edinburgh Talbot Rice Gallery In the Round: Angelica Mesiti
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Duggoons The Untrue History of Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
Book SynopsisIn this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows: what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth century how visual values such as ‘irregularity’ become the basis of modern architectural planning; how the concept of appropriating a view moves from landscape design into urban design why movement is fundamental to picturing the stillness of buildings, cities and landscapes. Drawing on examples from architecture, art and broader culture, John Macarthur's account of this key topic in cultural history, makes engaging reading for all those studying architecture, art history, cultural history or visual studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Pictures 3. Disgust 4. Irregularity 5. Appropriation 6. Movement
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art and Obscenity
Book SynopsisExplicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material can be highly subjective. In this intelligent and sensitive book, Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of twentieth-century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Mey refuses sweeping statements and 'knee-jerk' responses, arguing with dexterity that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating.
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