The Arts Books
Spector Books The FACIT Model: Globalism, Localism, Identity
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£30.40
Spector Books Hannes Meyer: New Bauhaus Teaching Methodology:
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£26.60
Spector Books Jürgen Nefzger. Bure (ou la vie dans les bois)
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£26.60
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Amelie von Wulffen: Bilder / Works 1998-2016
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£32.30
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Rosemarie Trockel: The Same Different (Det Lika
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£29.75
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress
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£36.00
MonoKultur Mono.Kultur No. 41 Meg Stuart
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£7.77
MonoKultur Monokultur No.42 Sophie Calle
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£7.77
Gingko Press It Must Out: Making Exhibitions Since 1968
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£29.74
Skira William J Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
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£23.80
Skira The Sea is History
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£21.25
Skira Parallels (Norwegian Edition): Gustav Vigeland
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£33.60
Skira Saeed Kouros: Picturing Life
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£33.60
Produzioni Nero Maj / May 2066
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£11.78
Produzioni Nero Vitrine
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£15.00
Schilt Publishing b.v. Elliot Ross Crows Ascending
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£23.38
Set Margins' publications We Are All ….. Now
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£17.10
Onomatopee The Ghost of Weaving
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£17.10
Valiz Courageous Citizens: How Culture Contributes To
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£19.00
Jen Cardona G Super Spirulina Seaweed: My first superfood book
£12.34
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.33: Typepro:Asia
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£14.20
Sendpoints BranD No.39: Evolution of Materials
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£17.05
Chose Commune Unearth 001
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£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Man Verdi
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£31.00
University of Illinois Press Seeing Sarah Bernhardt
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 "Radically revises our understanding of why Sarah Bernhardt chose to engage in the new medium of motion pictures and why her 1910s films were received (and are still readable) as both artistic and popular works far beyond France."--Richard Abel, author of Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910–1914"Sarah Bernhardt was one of the first well-known actresses to turn to moving pictures, proving that the movies could be taken seriously by major artists and attracting an audience cinema had not had before. Film historians have dismissed these films as 'filmed theater,' but Victoria Duckett demands we take a closer look. In our era of hybrid media, we can rediscover Bernhardt’s use of gesture and movement as linking cinema to Art Nouveau while forging a link between theater and film. Duckett’s careful research reveals the impact a woman had in establishing cinema as an art that drew on--rather than ignored--theater. Bernhardt not only became the first international movie star--she pioneered the role women might have in this new medium."--Tom Gunning, author of The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity"Addresses the chasm in criticism between a lionizing of Sarah Bernhardt's stage work on one hand, and the dismissal of her filmed performances on the other."--French Studies"Duckett's excellent skills as a researcher and a writer shine through. . . . Seeing Sarah Bernhardt therefore not only adds much needed context and analysis to the performances of the legendary Bernhardt, but it also shows the promise of intermedial research."--Theatre Journal"Well written and insightful, this is required reading for those interested in theater, film, or women's studies. . . . Essential."--Choice"Conceptually ambitious and highly stimulating."--Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
£81.90
University of Illinois Press Citizen Spielberg
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Friedman's passion for Spielberg films is contagious. Reading Citizen Spielberg makes you want to revisit old favorites like Jurassic Park (1993) and less familiar gems like Empire of the Sun (1987), both to appreciate Spielberg's artistry and assess Friedman's arguments. " --Australasian Journal of American Studies"Essential . . . Perhaps Friedman's greatest achievement is deciphering--in remarkably entertaining fashion--why every Spielberg film is vital to understanding his entire career." --The Film Stage"Citizen Spielberg is an indispensable study of outstanding scholarship and criticism about Steven Spielberg's life, work, and place in American film and cultural history. Friedman writes with commitment and conviction, opening new channels of understanding into Spielberg, his films, and his times."--Sam B. Girgus, author of Clint Eastwood's America"Friedman claims to have penned the first comprehensive analysis of [Spielberg's] films, and he may well be right."--Library Journal"Friedman's treatment is an exhaustive and necessary catalog."--American Interest"There is [a lack of] an exhaustive overview of the components of Spielberg's corpus, the issues which animate his most significant works, the roots of his immense popularity amongst audiences, and the influence his vast spectrum of imaginative products exerts on the public consciousness. Friedman fills that void with a systematic analysis of the various genres in which the director has worked and concludes that Spielberg's films present a sustained artistic vision combined with a technical flair matched by few other filmmakers, and makes a compelling case for Spielberg to be considered as a major film artist."--Screening the Past"Citizen Spielberg does a service to a monstrously influential director and an oeuvre whose investigations of emotion -- especially constrained masculine emotions -- have received insufficient book-length study."--Bloomsbury Review"Friedman seeks a more nuanced approach to Spielberg's cinematic output as director; taking readers through an analysis of his films and responding to the critical assessments of others, Friedman asserts that 'Spielberg is a far more complex, sophisticated, and wry filmmaker than most mainstream critics and academic scholars appreciate.’”--Shofar "Encourage your brightest students to investigate Citizen Speilberg. It's the sort of book that by eschewing jargon but employing serious critical analysis could have a profound effect."--Splice"There is [a lack of] an exhaustive overview of the components of Spielberg's corpus, the issues which animate his most significant works, the roots of his immense popularity amongst audiences, and the influence his vast spectrum of imaginative products exerts on the public consciousness. Friedman fills that void with a systematic analysis of the various genres in which the director has worked and concludes that Spielberg's films present a sustained artistic vision combined with a technical flair matched by few other filmmakers, and makes a compelling case for Spielberg to be considered as a major film artist." * Screening the Past *"Citizen Spielberg does a service to a monstrously influential director and an oeuvre whose investigations of emotion--especially constrained masculine emotions--have received insufficient book-length study." * Bloomsbury Review *"Friedman seeks a more nuanced approach to Spielberg's cinematic output as director; taking readers through an analysis of his films and responding to the critical assessments of others, Friedman asserts that 'Spielberg is a far more complex, sophisticated, and wry filmmaker than most mainstream critics and academic scholars appreciate.’” * Shofar *"Encourage your brightest students to investigate Citizen Speilberg. It's the sort of book that by eschewing jargon but employing serious critical analysis could have a profound effect." * Splice *"Friedman's treatment is an exhaustive and necessary catalog." * American Interest *Table of ContentsPreface ixAcknowledgments xxiii1 The Fantasy and Science Fiction Films 12 The Action/Adventure Melodramas 653 The Monster Movies 1174 The War Films 1735 The Social Problem/Ethnic Minority Films 2436 Imagining the Holocaust 311Filmography 341Works Cited 351Index 369
£87.55
University of Illinois Press Global Tarantella
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Against a complicated history of Italian folk music and its recovery, Inserra provides an insightful account of tarantella in its home region of Campania and in its migration throughout and outside Italy, intertwining her fieldwork with existing scholarship." --Italian American Review "Gratifying to read. Makes a significant contribution--finally, in the English language, where few studies have been previously available--to the study of this rich, diverse, and globally relevant music phenomenon."--Luisa Del Giudice, coauthor of Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean "Enhances our understanding of southern Italian music and dance while also refining our general models of folklore revival. The book shows how musicians graft their performances onto ever-shifting contexts of reception among mobile Italian and international audiences. It richly demonstrates that local perspectives on musical tradition are every bit as tricky as global ones."--Dorothy Noyes, author of Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social LifeTable of ContentsCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Brief History of the Tarantella Revival: Exploring Tarantella through the “Southern Question” Debate2. Exporting Southern Italian Festivals from South to North: The Post-1990s Tammurriata Revival3. Images of the Italian South within and beyond World Music: Eugenio Bennato’s Taranta Power Movement4. Tarantella for U.S., Italian American, and Cosmopolitan Markets: Alessandra Belloni’s Performance from New York City to HonoluluFinal ThoughtsNotesWorks CitedIndex
£17.99
University of Illinois Press Film and the Anarchist Imagination
Book SynopsisHailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism's long traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging cinema's predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges from the silent era to the classics Zéro de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.Trade Review"So many mainstream movies are ultimately propaganda: propaganda for consumerism, violence, outdated gender relations, and the capitalist system. This book reminds us that films can also be rebellious, aiming not to reinforce but undermine the status quo. In this updated version of his original classic, Richard Porton traces the evolution of anarchist ideas and their influence on cinematic form and content, exploring a wide range of expressive work designed to provoke, inspire, and confound. A welcome and compelling celebration of a subversive and still-evolving genre."--Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age"Although I'm a feminist, but not a self-identified anarchist-feminist, Richard Porton's Film And The Anarchist Imagination has inspired me to study the texts and films he brilliantly analyzes, even revisit my own from his unique perspective."--Lizzie BordenPraise for the previous edition: "Porton's astute and engaging study provides a needed corrective to the 'laughably unsubtle' movies that recycle stereotypes and half-truths."--Catherine Saint Louis, New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Anarchism and Cinema: Representation and Self-Representation 2 Cinema, Anarchism, and Revolution: Heroes, Martyrs, and Utopian Moments 3 Anarcho-Syndicalism versus the “Revolt against Work” 4 Film and Anarchist Pedagogy 5 The Elusive Anarchist Aesthetic Afterword (2019) Notes Index
£19.79
The University of Michigan Press Chinese Dreams
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLucid and accessible . . . an important contribution to the field of East-West comparative studies, Asian studies, and modernism. —Comparative Literature Studies|""Instead of trying to decipher the indecipherable 'China' in Western literary texts and critical discourses, Hayot chose to show us why and how 'China' has remained, and will probably always be, an enchanting, ever-elusive dream. His approach is nuanced and refreshing, his analysis rigorous and illuminating."" —Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis
£21.80
The University of Michigan Press A Player and a Gentleman
Book SynopsisActor, playwright, and producer Harry Watkins (1825-94) was also a prolific diarist. For 15 years Watkins recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Theatre historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited, and annotated substantial excerpts from the diary.
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Around the Absurd
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Romancing the West
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£34.43
Princeton University Press Poetry at Stake Lyric Aesthetics and the
Book SynopsisTaking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day 'mechanize' poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, this title explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things.Trade Review"Examining theoreticians ... and adding an ingenious interpretive analyses of her own, Noland illustrates the extent to which and how the character of various poets, performers, and even a dress designer's productions mediate a dialectic between artist and public."--Choice "Carrie Noland provides a powerful view of the dynamic connection between lyric poetry and technology... It is invigorating to read such a well documented and providential analysis."--Susan F. Crampton, French Review "Excellent in its informative reading of each artist in question, the chapters are independent, richly documented studies of the creative self and its embrace of a particular technology or commercial development."--Maria L. Assad, Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 One Traffic in the Unknown: Rimbaud's Interpretive Communities, Market Competition, and the Poetics of Voyance 16 Two A Poetry of Attractions: Rimbaud's Machine and the Theatrical Feerie 37 Three Confessing Philosophy: Negative Dialectics and/as Lyric Poetry 60 Four Blaise Cendrars and the Heterogeneous Discourses of the Lyric Subject 89 Five High Decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the Poem as Fashion Design 114 Six Messages personnels: Radio, Cryptography, and the Resistance Poetry of Rene Char 141 Seven Rimbaud and Patti Smith: The Discoveries of Modern Poetry and the Popular Music Industry 163 Eight Laurie Anderson: Confessions of a Cyborg 185 Coda 213 Notes 219 General Index 255 Index of Principal Primary Sources Cited 263
£45.00
Princeton University Press On the Laws of the Poetic Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 1997 Tanning Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Academy of American Poets""This book is full of fruitful and fascinating suggestions about our commerce with the variety of art, and the many worlds it inhabits."---John Bayley, The Times
£27.00
Seagull Books London Ltd The RainMaiden and the BearMan And Other Stories
Book SynopsisStories based on folktales from Northeast India in which magic and reality coexist beautifully.
£18.04
St Louis Art Museum,U.S. Monets Water Lilies
Book SynopsisClaude Monet was undoubtedly the most important of all the Impressionist painters and his water lily paintings represent the culminating moment in his career. Monet's famous garden at Giverny provided the inspiration for the paintings. The exhibition will bring to life the importance and beauty of this garden through a range of archival photographs, as well as an early, rarely seen film from 1915, showing Monet painting outdoors in his garden.Monet's Water Lilies will reunite the three panels of an exceptionally impressive water lily triptych, created by Monet between 1915 and 1926. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art each own one panel of the triptych and the exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to bring the works together. This will be the first time that this reunion has occurred for more than 30 years. With the single exception of a triptych in the Museum of Modern Art, this is the only triptych by Mon
£20.50
University of Alberta. Department of Art and Design Perceptions of Promise Biotechnology Society and
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£25.64
The Skidmore College, Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery Alloy of Love
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£48.48
Yale University Press Byzantium and the West Jewelry in the First
Book SynopsisThis full-color catalog explores the interrelationships between the East and West during the first millennium.
£33.25
Liverpool University Press Artists Rethinking the Blockchain
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£27.10
Bristol University Press Arts Culture and Community Development
Book SynopsisDrawing on international examples, this book interrogates the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Contributors from six continents, reimagine community development as they consider how aesthetic arts contribute to processes of peacebuilding, youth empowerment, participatory planning and environmental regeneration.Trade Review"This is a very important book that can help us to be more transgressive against our present conditions. In my opinion, too many books about the arts and culture focus solely on the individual act of creation, so this volume is an exception as it emphasises collectivity." ConceptTable of ContentsCulture and Community Development – Introductory Essay ~ Rosie R. Meade and Mae Shaw Section 1: Making and Sharing Collective Meanings Reflections on the Decolonizing Dance Praxis of Grupo Bayano ~ Antonia Darder and Sharon Cronin The Power of Song ~ Leon Rosselson The People Awoke Awake - Observations from Beirut's Walls in the October 17 Moment ~ Arek Dakessian, Célia Hassani and Sarah Shmaitilly Muralism, Disputes, and Imaginaries of Community Resistance: Case-studies from Settlements in Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro ~ Alexis Cortés, Palloma Menezes and Apoena Mano Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: Consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development? ~ Daniel H. Mutibwa Queering Community Development in DIY punk spaces ~ Kirsty Lohman and Ruth Pearce Section 2: Negotiating Practice and Policy Access to Communication as Resistance and Struggle in the 21st Century ~ Pradip Ninan Thomas Unholy Alliance or Way of the Future? The intertwinements of community development, cultural planning and cultural industries in municipal and regional cultural strategies in Finland ~ Miikka Pyykkönen Frameworks for Assessing and Reconsidering Empowerment in Community Arts ~ Samson Kei Shun Wong Maintaining a critical approach to collaborative art and youth work practice in neoliberal times ~ Fiona Whelan and Jim Lawlor The Kinaesthetics of Community: social circus, corporeal aesthetics and the balancing act of a development practice in (post)neoliberal conditions ~ Jennifer Beth Spiegel Building peaceful communities: Collaboration and co-creation through theatre ~ Nilanjana Premaratna Afterword
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Bristol University Press Arts Culture and Community Development
Book SynopsisDrawing on international examples, this book interrogates the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Contributors from six continents, reimagine community development as they consider how aesthetic arts contribute to processes of peacebuilding, youth empowerment, participatory planning and environmental regeneration.Table of ContentsCulture and Community Development – Introductory Essay ~ Rosie R. Meade and Mae Shaw Section 1: Making and Sharing Collective Meanings Reflections on the Decolonizing Dance Praxis of Grupo Bayano ~ Antonia Darder and Sharon Cronin The Power of Song ~ Leon Rosselson The People Awoke Awake - Observations from Beirut's Walls in the October 17 Moment ~ Arek Dakessian, Célia Hassani and Sarah Shmaitilly Muralism, Disputes, and Imaginaries of Community Resistance: Case-studies from Settlements in Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro ~ Alexis Cortés, Palloma Menezes and Apoena Mano Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: Consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development? ~ Daniel H. Mutibwa Queering Community Development in DIY punk spaces ~ Kirsty Lohman and Ruth Pearce Section 2: Negotiating Practice and Policy Access to Communication as Resistance and Struggle in the 21st Century ~ Pradip Ninan Thomas Unholy Alliance or Way of the Future? The intertwinements of community development, cultural planning and cultural industries in municipal and regional cultural strategies in Finland ~ Miikka Pyykkönen Frameworks for Assessing and Reconsidering Empowerment in Community Arts ~ Samson Kei Shun Wong Maintaining a critical approach to collaborative art and youth work practice in neoliberal times ~ Fiona Whelan and Jim Lawlor The Kinaesthetics of Community: social circus, corporeal aesthetics and the balancing act of a development practice in (post)neoliberal conditions ~ Jennifer Beth Spiegel Building peaceful communities: Collaboration and co-creation through theatre ~ Nilanjana Premaratna Afterword
£25.64
Bristol University Press This Separated Isle
Book SynopsisThis Separated Isle explores how concepts of Britishness' reveal an inclusive range of understandings about our national character. Featuring a diverse range of photographic portraits and narrative stories from across the UK, this landmark book examines the relationship between identity and nationhood, revealing the ties that bind us together.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Kit de Waal; Introduction; 1-40 Portraits of a Diverse Britain.
£19.00
University of Texas Press A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film
Book SynopsisSince the late nineteenth century, Brazilians have turned to documentaries to explain their country to themselves and to the world. In a magisterial history covering one hundred years of cinema, Darlene J. Sadlier identifies Brazilians' unique contributions to a diverse genre while exploring how that genre has, in turn, contributed to the making and remaking of Brazil. A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film is a comprehensive tour of feature and short films that have charted the social and political story of modern Brazil. The Amazon appears repeatedly and vividly. Sometimesas in a prize-winning 1922 featurethe rainforest is a galvanizing site of national pride; at other times, the Amazon has been a focus for land-reform and Indigenous-rights activists. Other key documentary themes include Brazil's swings from democracy to dictatorship, tensions between cosmopolitanism and rurality, and shifting attitudes toward race and gender. Sadlier also provides critical perspectives on aesthetTrade ReviewMonumental...The future of documentary production in Brazil is uncertain as is the nature of the current political process. Nonetheless, Sadlier’s book offers valuable insight into better understanding the history and inextricability of both. * NACLA *With this volume, Sadlier...fills a gap in English-language scholarship on film by providing a clearly organized historical survey of documentary filmmaking in Brazil over the last hundred years...Sadlier’s prose is eminently readable, and the scholarly apparatus is robust…Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Sadlier has a remarkable ability to synopsize and contextualize films . . . Engrossing from beginning to end, A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film belongs on the bookshelf (or in the digital files) of anyone interested in Latin America's geography, history, politics, sociology, and popular culture. * Journal of Latin American Geography *Darlene Sadlier’s A Century of Brazilian Documentary: From Nationalism to Protest offers an accessible guide to the nonfiction output of one of Latin America’s most vibrant and prolific audiovisual industries, the most wide-ranging published in English to date. The book’s organization is at once chronological and thematic, which allows it to cover a tremendous amount of ground while anchoring the reader by grouping its detailed case studies around particular themes or approaches . . .A Century of Brazilian Documentary [Film] will find a place on the bookshelves of scholars and students of Brazilian cinema, culture, and history as well as documentary film and media, and serve as a valuable reference for years to come. * H-Net Reviews *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Jungle and the City: Modernity in Two 1920s Documentaries Chapter 2. Government Educational Shorts, Bandit Footage, and Vera Cruz Documentaries Chapter 3. Documentary and Cinema Novo Chapter 4. Documentary, Dictatorship, and Repression Chapter 5. Biographies of a Sort, Part I (1974–1989) Chapter 6. Documenting Identity Chapter 7. Biographies of a Sort, Part II (1994–2016) Chapter 8. The City and the Countryside Epilogue: A Country in Crisis Filmography Notes Works Cited Index
£40.50
University Press of Mississippi Professional Wrestling
Book SynopsisProfessional wrestling is one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. The displays of violence, simulated and actual, may be the obvious appeal, but that is just the beginning. Fans debate performance choices with as much energy as they argue about their favorite wrestlers. The ongoing scenarios and presentations of manly and not-so-manly characters--from the flamboyantly feminine to the hypermasculine--simultaneously celebrate and critique, parody and affirm the American dream and the masculine ideal.Sharon Mazer looks at the world of professional wrestling from a fan's-eye-view high in the stands and from ringside in the wrestlers' gym. She investigates how performances are constructed and sold to spectators, both on a local level and in the 'big leagues' of the WWF/E. She shares a close-up view of a group of wrestlers as they work out, get their face
£76.50
Liverpool University Press Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black
Book SynopsisPhenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception.Featuring attention to works by the following artists:Said Adrus, Zarina Bhimji, Sonia Boyce, Vanley Burke, Chila Burman, Mona Hatoum, Bhajan Hunjan, Permindar Kaur, Sonia Khurana, Juginder Lamba, Manjeet Lamba, Hew Locke, Yeu-Lai Mo, Henna Nadeem, Kori Newkirk, Johannes Phokela, Keith Piper, Shanti Thomas, Aubrey Williams, Mario Ybarra Jr. Much before scholars in the arts and humanities took their recent ‘ontological turn’ toward the new materialism, black British art had begun to expose cultural criticism’s overreliance on the concepts of textuality, representation, identity and difference. Illuminating that original field of aesthetics and creativity, this book shows how black British artworks themselves can become the basis for an engaged and widely-reaching philosophy.Numerous extended descriptive studies of artworks spell out the affective and critical relations that pertain between individual works, their viewers and the world at hand: intimate, physically-involving and visceral relations that are brought into being through a wide range of phenomena including performance, photography, installation, photomontage and digital practice.Whether they subsist through movement, or in time, through gesture, or illusion, black British art is always an arresting nexus of making, feeling and thought. It celebrates particular philosophical interest in:- the use of art as a place for remembering the personal or collective past;- the fundamental ‘equivalence’ of texture and colour, and their instances of ‘rupture’;- figural presence, perceptual reversibility and the agency of objects;- the grounded materialities of mediation;- and the interconnections between art, politics and emancipation.Drawing first hand on the founding, historical texts of early and mid-twentieth century phenomenology (Heidegger; Merleau-Ponty), and current advances in art history, curating and visual anthropology, the author transposes black British art into a freshly expanded and diversified intellectual field. What emerges is a vivid understanding of phenomenal difference: the profoundly material processes of interworking philosophical knowledge and political strategy at the site of black British art.Trade ReviewReviews 'A wonderfully erudite, powerfully argued, and fascinatingly researched book.' Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh'Leon Wainwright applies a philosophical methodology to black British artists' work to break open the separatist straitjacket that has prevented much of this work from circulating in art canons as anything other than representations of a politics of identity. … [His] aim to proffer the perceptual dimension of black British art as part of a transformative anti-racist politics is admirable and the book is well researched and thought provoking.'Maria Walsh, Art Monthly'Cette publication qui est un ouvrage de référence crédible pour le public, les universitaires et les chercheurs, poursuitles recherches sur l’historiographie et les lieux visuels, ainsi que d’autres thèmes avec pour objectif premier de questionner la visibilité de l’art ; à savoir, comment créer un art qui suscite des questions pertinentes, qui devienne significatif, ce que Wainwright définit comme ‘un engagement esthétique plus approfondi’.' 'This publication is a serious work of reference for the public, academics and researchers, advancing research on historiography and visual contexts, as well as other topics, with the primary objective of exploring the visibility of art; namely, how to create an art that raises relevant questions, that becomes meaningful through what Wainwright defines as 'a deeper aesthetic commitment'.' Suzanne Lampla, Association internationale des critiques d’art (AICA)'Offers a thoughtful and persuasive examination of the ways in which the theoretical is necessarily underpinned and presupposed by the perceptual... [With] rich descriptions throughout the book ... Wainwright is at his best and his argument at its most convincing, as he brings his phenomenological approach to bear on works of art to unravel the complex relationships between art, artists and the viewer.' The Burlington Magazine'The philosophical approach is the one chosen by Leon Wainwright in his book. An ambitious work by an art historian who has already published extensively on the subject, the approach is nevertheless surprising. [...] Stuart Hall, in emphasising what the diasporic element has produced in terms of dislocation since the upheaval of African slavery, reminds us that physical movement and displacement are at the root of "key elements of our present moment and symptomatic of the wider consequences of global connectivity and disjunction".'Translated from French:'L’approche philosophique est celle que choisit de privilégier Leon Wainwright dans son ouvrage. Ouvrage ambitieux d’un historien de l’art qui a déjà largement publié sur le sujet, le parti-pris surprend néanmoins. [...] Stuart Hall, en insistant sur ce que l’élément diasporique a produit comme dislocation depuis le bouleversement de l’esclavage des Africains, rappelle que mouvement et déplacement physiques sont "à l’origine des éléments clés de notre moment présent et symptomatiques des conséquences plus vastes d’une connectivité globale et d’une disjonction".'Elvan Zabunyan, Critique d'artTable of ContentsList of illustrationsIntroductionChapter 1 RepresentationChapter 2 Affective relationsChapter 3 Placing the pastChapter 4 The body and perceptionChapter 5 EquivalenceChapter 6 ReversibilityChapter 7 IntertwiningChapter 8 Art and mediationConclusion The phenomenal as practiceBibliography
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black
Book SynopsisPhenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception.Featuring attention to works by the following artists:Said Adrus, Zarina Bhimji, Sonia Boyce, Vanley Burke, Chila Burman, Mona Hatoum, Bhajan Hunjan, Permindar Kaur, Sonia Khurana, Juginder Lamba, Manjeet Lamba, Hew Locke, Yeu-Lai Mo, Henna Nadeem, Kori Newkirk, Johannes Phokela, Keith Piper, Shanti Thomas, Aubrey Williams, Mario Ybarra Jr. Much before scholars in the arts and humanities took their recent ‘ontological turn’ toward the new materialism, black British art had begun to expose cultural criticism’s overreliance on the concepts of textuality, representation, identity and difference. Illuminating that original field of aesthetics and creativity, this book shows how black British artworks themselves can become the basis for an engaged and widely-reaching philosophy.Numerous extended descriptive studies of artworks spell out the affective and critical relations that pertain between individual works, their viewers and the world at hand: intimate, physically-involving and visceral relations that are brought into being through a wide range of phenomena including performance, photography, installation, photomontage and digital practice.Whether they subsist through movement, or in time, through gesture, or illusion, black British art is always an arresting nexus of making, feeling and thought. It celebrates particular philosophical interest in:- the use of art as a place for remembering the personal or collective past;- the fundamental ‘equivalence’ of texture and colour, and their instances of ‘rupture’;- figural presence, perceptual reversibility and the agency of objects;- the grounded materialities of mediation;- and the interconnections between art, politics and emancipation.Drawing first hand on the founding, historical texts of early and mid-twentieth century phenomenology (Heidegger; Merleau-Ponty), and current advances in art history, curating and visual anthropology, the author transposes black British art into a freshly expanded and diversified intellectual field. What emerges is a vivid understanding of phenomenal difference: the profoundly material processes of interworking philosophical knowledge and political strategy at the site of black British art.Trade ReviewReviews 'A wonderfully erudite, powerfully argued, and fascinatingly researched book.' Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh'Leon Wainwright applies a philosophical methodology to black British artists' work to break open the separatist straitjacket that has prevented much of this work from circulating in art canons as anything other than representations of a politics of identity. … [His] aim to proffer the perceptual dimension of black British art as part of a transformative anti-racist politics is admirable and the book is well researched and thought provoking.'Maria Walsh, Art Monthly'Cette publication qui est un ouvrage de référence crédible pour le public, les universitaires et les chercheurs, poursuitles recherches sur l’historiographie et les lieux visuels, ainsi que d’autres thèmes avec pour objectif premier de questionner la visibilité de l’art ; à savoir, comment créer un art qui suscite des questions pertinentes, qui devienne significatif, ce que Wainwright définit comme ‘un engagement esthétique plus approfondi’.' 'This publication is a serious work of reference for the public, academics and researchers, advancing research on historiography and visual contexts, as well as other topics, with the primary objective of exploring the visibility of art; namely, how to create an art that raises relevant questions, that becomes meaningful through what Wainwright defines as 'a deeper aesthetic commitment'.' Suzanne Lampla, Association internationale des critiques d’art (AICA)'Offers a thoughtful and persuasive examination of the ways in which the theoretical is necessarily underpinned and presupposed by the perceptual... [With] rich descriptions throughout the book ... Wainwright is at his best and his argument at its most convincing, as he brings his phenomenological approach to bear on works of art to unravel the complex relationships between art, artists and the viewer.' The Burlington Magazine'The philosophical approach is the one chosen by Leon Wainwright in his book. An ambitious work by an art historian who has already published extensively on the subject, the approach is nevertheless surprising. [...] Stuart Hall, in emphasising what the diasporic element has produced in terms of dislocation since the upheaval of African slavery, reminds us that physical movement and displacement are at the root of "key elements of our present moment and symptomatic of the wider consequences of global connectivity and disjunction".'Translated from French:'L’approche philosophique est celle que choisit de privilégier Leon Wainwright dans son ouvrage. Ouvrage ambitieux d’un historien de l’art qui a déjà largement publié sur le sujet, le parti-pris surprend néanmoins. [...] Stuart Hall, en insistant sur ce que l’élément diasporique a produit comme dislocation depuis le bouleversement de l’esclavage des Africains, rappelle que mouvement et déplacement physiques sont "à l’origine des éléments clés de notre moment présent et symptomatiques des conséquences plus vastes d’une connectivité globale et d’une disjonction".'Elvan Zabunyan, Critique d'artTable of ContentsList of illustrationsIntroductionChapter 1 RepresentationChapter 2 Affective relationsChapter 3 Placing the pastChapter 4 The body and perceptionChapter 5 EquivalenceChapter 6 ReversibilityChapter 7 IntertwiningChapter 8 Art and mediationConclusion The phenomenal as practiceBibliography
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Liverpool University Press L’amateur à l’époque des Lumières
Book SynopsisObéissant à la logique d’une spécialisation toujours plus grande, les sociétés contemporaines ne tiennent pas l’amateur en grande estime. Or, s’il est vrai que le 18e siècle consacre le triomphe de cette figure, c’est aussi l’époque où s’amorce son irréversible déclin. Couvrant un large spectre de disciplines et d’aires culturelles au sein de l’Europe, les contributions de spécialistes réunies dans ce volume permettent de mieux cerner ce moment-pivot de l’histoire culturelle.Sans se limiter aux formes institutionnalisées de l’amateurship étudiées par les historiens de l’art ou des sciences, l’ouvrage examine ainsi les relations que le non-professionnel entretient avec les gens de métier (dans la presse, le milieu musical ou littéraire) ; la spécificité des œuvres qu’il produit et sa contribution au progrès des arts et des sciences ; l’émergence, à l’âge de l’esthétique naissante, d’un amateur compris comme instance de jugement ; la manière dont il est investi par les discours et annexé à leurs logiques propres (en tant que fiction littéraire, idéal ou ethos). Observer le phénomène dans ses manifestations plurielles, confronter l’ordre des réalités et celui des représentations, articuler les diverses approches sur la question: l’enjeu, on l’aura compris, est moins de définir une quelconque identité de l’amateur, que d’interroger sa raison d’être.---Amateurs are not particularly appreciated in our ever specialising contemporary societies. Yet the figure of the amateur was highly celebrated in the eighteenth century, even though its irremediable decline began at the same time. The articles collected in this book allow a better understanding of this turning point in cultural history as they cover a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and European cultural areas.This book does not only deal with the institutionalised forms of amateurship that have been studied by art historians and historians of science. This work considers the relationships that non-professionals had with professionals (working in periodicals, in the musical world, or in the book trade) ; the specificity of the works that amateurs produced and their contribution to the progress of arts and sciences ; the rise of the amateur as a judging instance in a period that saw the development of aesthetics ; and the way this figure was handled in different discourses and subjected to their own logics (whether as a literary fiction, an ideal or an ethos). Since this collective work focuses on the phenomenon of amateurship in its diverse manifestations, confronts the real to its representations, and articulates different perspectives on the subject, it obviously does not aim at defining any identity for the amateur, but rather intends to question its raison d'être.Table of ContentsListe des illustrationsRemerciementsJustine de Reyniès, Introduction: l’amateur à l’époque des Lumières – tour d’horizon d’une notion problématiqueI. L’amateur: définitions et représentationsBaldine Saint Girons, L’ignorart, le donneur d’idées et le critique d’artUwe Wirth, Le dilettantisme stratégique ou la question du génie, du savoir et de la capacité dans les artsFabrice Moulin, A la recherche de l’amateur d’architecture au siècle des Lumières: de quelques usages de la maquetteIoana Galleron, Les talents à la mode: figures de l’amateur dans la comédie du dix-huitième siècleAlexander Wragge-Morley, Pathologies du désir: le corps et l’expérience esthétique dans les Two discourses sur la science du connaisseur de Jonathan RichardsonII. Les relations entre gens de métier et amateurs: frontières et mobilitéPierre Dubois, Musicien amateur et professionnel en Angleterre à la fin du dix-huitième siècle: confusion, rivalité ou échange?Georges Escoffier, De l’édition musicale à l’Académie de concert, représentations et pratiques de la musique en amateur dans la deuxième moitié du dix-huitième siècleMaud Le Guellec, Vers l’invention du statut de journaliste: la presse espagnole du dix-huitième siècle entre amateurismeet professionnalismeHenri Duranton, Amateur: une catégorie sociologique aux contours indécisIII. L’amateur, arbitre des arts et des lettresBénédicte Peralez Peslier, Le ‘sentiment’ des amatrices: spécificité des jugements littéraires dans les correspondancesféminines du dix-huitième siècleSuzanne Dumouchel, Amateurs et connaisseurs dans le journal littéraireIV. L’amateur et son oeuvreMarie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval, Y a-t-il une conscience d’être ‘amateur’ chez les auteurs et praticiens desthéâtres de société?Enrico Mattioda, Les dilettanti et le théâtre en Italie au dix-huitième siècle: pour une histoire du mot ‘dilettante’Adeline Gargam, Un exemple de pratique d’amateur et de ses limites en sciences naturelles: les collectionneuses de curiosités dans la France des LumièresNathalie Vuillemin, Contemplation utile ou vain amusement? La science microscopique dans l’EncyclopédieJustine de Reyniès, Un artiste du regard: l’amateur de coups d’oeilNathalie Kremer, Postface: enterrer l’amateurRésumésBibliographieIndex du volume
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