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Liverpool University Press Politics and the arts in Lisbon and Rome: The
Book SynopsisDealing with a complex king, this edited collection elucidates a monarch’s vision of Rome that deeply affected his political choices and cultural policy during the first half of the eighteenth-century. John V of Portugal became king in 1707 in a pivotal moment for the European balance of power. The Kingdom of Portugal was still demanding the same privileges as its powerful neighbours and the relation with Rome was considered a vehicle to obtain them. Arts and music had a special and unprecedented place in the king’s plans and this book approaches that dynamic from several interdisciplinary perspectives.The unifying thread across this book’s chapters remains the omnipresence of Rome as a paradigm on several levels: political, religious, intellectual, artistic, and musical. Rather than providing an exhaustive analysis of the period as a whole, this study offers a fresh approach for English readers to this classic, but little known, topic in Portuguese national historiography.Trade Review‘This study […] constitutes a far richer and more subtle description of music in Lisbon at the time of King João V than what was previously available, and provides a broader and richer political and sociocultural context.’Translated from Spanish:‘Este estudio […] constituye una descripción mucho más completa y sutil de la música de Lisboa en la época del rey João V que la disponible hasta ahora y proporciona un contexto político y sociocultural más amplio y rico.’ David Cranmer, Cuadernos de música iberoamericana‘[Politics and the Arts in Lisbon and Rome] constitutes a much more complete and subtle description of the music of Lisbon in the time of King João V than is available up to now and provides a broader and richer political and sociocultural context.’ David Cranmer, Cuadernos de Musica Iberoamericana Translated from Spanish, ‘[Politics and the Arts in Lisbon and Rome] Constituye una descripción mucho más completa y sutil de la música de Lisboa en la época del rey João V que la disponible hasta ahora y proporciona un contexto político y sociocultural más amplio y rico.’'Meticulously researched and well presented, this new book of studies successfully blends diplomatic, artistic, and cultural history, masterfully evoking a period which has often been studied, yet rarely with the depth that these new scholars bring to the table. The sheer variety of sources, both archival and printed, bring to light hitherto unconsidered facets of this fascinating period and monarch.' James W. Nelson Novoa, Journal of Early Modern HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrationsList of abbreviations Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira, Introduction: il viaggio mancato – John V and the origins of his vision of Rome I. Rome: paradigm and propagandaDavid Martín Marcos, Beyond policy: shaping the image of John V of Portugal in Rome Marília de Azambuja Ribeiro, Politics, spectacle and propaganda: the political use of patronage and the press by John V’s representatives in Rome during the first half of the eighteenth century Danielle Kuntz, ‘S’unisca il Tago al Tebro, il Tebro al Tago’: the politics of Portuguese patronage in Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Virtù negli amori Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira,The Accademia del Portogallo: emulation and strategy in the papal city II. Lisbon: creative reappropriation Cristina Fernandes, Music, ceremonial and architectural spaces in the patriarchal church of King John V: the remaking of Roman models Fernando Miguel M. Jalôto, Antonio Tedeschi, ‘Sanctæ Patriarchalis Ecclesiæ Regius Cantor’: an Italian musician at the court of John V Giuseppina Raggi, Rethinking the artistic policy of King John V of Portugal and Queen Maria Anna of Habsburg: architecture and opera theatreIris Haist, The marbles and the modelli of Mafra: John V and the taste for Italian baroque sculpture Summaries Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s
Book SynopsisThe texts gathered in this volume embrace women artists-only exhibitions, festivals, collective art projects, groups and associations, organised in the long 1970s in Europe (1968-1984). These all-women art initiatives are closely related to developments within the political and politicized women’s movement in Europe and America but what emerges is the varied and plural manner of their engagements with feminism(s) alongside their creation of ‘heterotopias’ in relation to specific sites/ politics/ collaborative art practices. This book presents examples from Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Germany (East and West), The Netherlands, France and Sweden. While each chapter is largely devoted to one country, the authors point to how the local and specific political situation in which these initiatives emerged is linked to global tendencies as well as inter-European exchanges. Each chapter of this book thus assesses the impact of travelling views of feminism, by considering connections made between women artists (often when travelling abroad) or their knowledge of art practices from abroad. Distinct and highly varied attitudes towards political activism (from strong engagement to a clearly pronounced distance and even hostility) are shown in each essay and, what is more, they are shown as based on radically different premises about feminism, politics and art. Contributors: Fabienne Dumont, Annika Öhrner, Katy Deepwell, Elke Krasny, Nina Hoechtl, Julia Wieger, Monika Kaiser, Kathleen Wentrack, Katia Almerini, Márcia Oliveira, Agata Jakubowska, and Susanne Altmann.Trade Review'One can only hope that this book will give rise to new publications on the same subject, which take Europe into account as a space for exchange and thought, as well as other, more peripheral, geographical areas.' (Translated from French) Phoebe Clarke, Critique d’art'All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s is an ambitious and invaluable contribution to the fields of art history and gender studies that acknowledges the diverse practices of women artists and enriches our understanding of this transformative period in the history of art and feminism.'Ksenia Nouril, Women’s Art JournalReviews'The volume is characterized by its wealth of information [...] It is a knowledgeable and multifaceted contribution to the history of the women-specific and feminist art movement of the 1970s in a comparative and global perspective, and continues into the following decades.' (Translated from German.) Edith Futscher, FrauenKunstWissenschaft Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Katy Deepwell and Agata Jakubowska1 Women Artists’ Collectives in France: A Multiplicity of Positionsin a Turbulent Context 19Fabienne Dumont2 Making Space for Feminism. All-Women Art Exhibitions inSweden in the 1970s 47Annika Öhrner3 Feminist Collaborative Projects in the UK in the 1970s 71Katy Deepwell4 ‘For Us, Art is Work’: In♀Akt – International ActionCommunity of Women Artists 96Elke Krasny5 The VBKÖ’s Archive as a Site of Political Confrontation, or HowCan You Sing Out of Tune? 119Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger6 The International Exhibition Kvindeudstillingen XX påCharlottenborg in Copenhagen and the Idea of Feminist Art Space 144Monika Kaiser7 Heterotopian Spaces of Feminist Art Practice: The Schulefür kreativen Feminismus and the Stichting Vrouwen in deBeeldende Kunst 167Kathleen Wentrack8 Women’s Art Spaces: Two Mediterranean Case Studies 189Katia Almerini9 Portuguese Women Artists at the National Society of Fine Arts:Why Was This Not a Feminist Exhibition? 209Márcia Oliveira10 No Groups but Friendship. All-Women Initiatives in Poland atthe Turn of the 1980s 229Agata Jakubowska11 ‘And – I have not taken him’. The Erfurt Women Artists’ Group 248Susanne AltmannNotes on Contributors 269Index 273
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Liverpool University Press Diderot, Rousseau and the politics of the Arts in
Book SynopsisIn mid-eighteenth-century Paris, the encyclopedists launched a campaign to radically redefine the public dimension of all ‘imaginative’ arts, starting with music – with the querelle des bouffons – then theatre, the novel and finally the visual arts. Diderot, Rousseau and the Politics of the Arts in the Enlightenment exposes the correlation between the prejudices and hierarchies of the political and social system of the time and what d’Alembert calls ‘literary superstitions’. The book reconstructs the role of Diderot and Rousseau, frères ennemis, as they engaged in a dispute that was above all else political, despite revolving entirely around forms of artistic expression. Throwing a light on this important cultural event is all the more necessary because the essentially political dimension of Diderot’s Salons has since the nineteenth-century been completely obscured from view. Indeed, at first misunderstood and then totally neglected, for over two centuries their true significance has been systematically ignored by the aesthetic-idealist school of criticism.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: The Beginnings: Music, Theatre, the NovelChapter 1. The problem of the theatrical Ancien régime: Musical operaChapter 2. Stage theatre: The real substance of the dispute Chapter 3: A ‘politics’ of the novel and the chasm between ancient and modernChapter 4. The function and destiny of badly written theatre Part II: The Subverters of the Artistic Culture of the Ancien régimeChapter 5: The Moment of the Fine ArtsChapter 6: Optical Illusions, and a Necessary PremiseChapter 7: Diderot and the Art of Politics for AllChapter 8: Painters and genres: norms, reality, the response of the marketChapter 9: New Spaces, Old Obligations Part III: In the Infernal Workshop of the Salons of PaintingChapter 10: Diderot, Rousseau and the ‘Citizen’ ArtistChapter 11: Towards a ‘Politics’ of the SublimeChapter 12: The Dignity of the Masses and the Eternal ‘Lie’ of AllegoryChapter 13: All that Others never Wrote Part IV: Finale Chapter 14: Concluding remarks and epilogue Bibliography
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The State and the Arts: An Analysis of Key
Book SynopsisAt a time when state assistance to the arts sector has come under considerable scrutiny both in Europe and the United States, this book comprehensively examines the evolution of, and rationale for, state involvement with the so-called 'high' arts on both continents. This book offers an overview of the key economic issues arising in relation to the state and the arts in these regions, with a detailed analysis of the European and American models of state assistance to the high arts sector.John O'Hagan examines in detail the various channels - regulation, taxation and direct expenditure - through which the state interacts with the arts and compares and contrasts the experiences of America and Europe. Regulatory measures considered include the guarantee of artistic freedom, copyright, resale royalties for artists, and trade restrictions. He also considers taxation measures to support the arts, including deductions for charitable contributions to the arts, property tax exemption, and relief on artists' income. The discussion on direct expenditure covers state ownership of institutions, revenue funding and matching grants as well as new avenues of expenditure such as community arts/arts centres, and new revenue sources for this expenditure, such as lottery funding. Finally the book covers the non-profit making arts sector, and examines why it, and not the commercial sector, receives private and state funding.The State and the Arts will be indispensable for students and academics of public and social policy, cultural economics and public management. It will also be of considerable interest to policymakers and key players in the arts sector.Trade Review'O'Hagan has taken on a difficult task indeed in trying to sort through the evidence on the state and the arts. He has opened the door to numerous potential research papers, and made clear the need for much more work to be done in the area of data classification and collection. He has also done the valuable task of pulling together previous research from a variety of sources, many of which will not be familiar to economists. I will be consulting this book often.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Policy Rationale: Why the State gets Involved 2. Non-Private Benefits 3. Information Failures and Distributional Issues Part II: Policy Implementation: How the State gets Involved 4. Regulation 5. Taxation 6. Direct Expenditures Part III: Sectoral Policy Issues: Effects of State Involvement 7. Art Museums 8. Performing Arts Institutions Index
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Liverpool University Press Antonio Pedro: Just a Story
Book SynopsisThe Portuguese Antonio Pedro (1909-1966) was a cosmopolitan and multifaceted artist; one of the pioneers of surrealism in Portugal, both as a visual artist and as a writer. He was involved in the London surrealist group in 1944-5. Today Pedro is perhaps best remembered for his steadfast opposition to Salazar's long dictatorship, initially as a BBC radio broadcaster in wartime London and, on his return to Portugal, as the director of TEP (Teatro Experimental do Porto) throughout the 1950s. Just a Story (1942) comes at the halfway point in his forward-looking transnational trajectory. Pedro lived in Brazil in 1940-1 and, while largely ignored up to now, his experience of modernity in the tropics included encounters with major Brazilian cultural players such as Mario de Andrade, Jorge de Lima, Jorge Amado, and Antonio Candido. Just a Story stands, up to a point, as a miniature Portuguese equivalent of the groundbreaking Brazilian rhapsody Macunaima: an iconoclastic novella- or a novel, if we adopt the label Pedro bestowed on his creation simply ‘because he felt like it'. Illustrated by the author, it combines surrealist tendencies with the irreverent streak that so frequently distinguished Brazilian modernism. Written predominantly from a first-person perspective, this surreal tale follows the amazing adventures of the protagonist, including his birth in the rural North of Portugal, his picaresque migration to the city, his uncanny love tryst with alluring Lulu, and his final homecoming and mind-blowing demise. To read it is to step into a child-like world of dreams and playful delight in the nonsensical. Yet, at the same time, this thought-provoking work also invites the reader on a meaningful, profound journey through human experience and reality.Table of ContentsForeword, by Helder Macedo Acknowledgements and note about the translation Introductory articles Transatlantic Travel and Modernist Transformations: the singular case of Apenas uma narrativa, by Cláudia Pazos Alonso Appendices 1–4 António Pedro in Britain and the London surrealists (1944–1945) by Bruno Rodrigues Appendices 5–8 Apenas uma Narrativa Just a Story, translation by Mariana Gray de Castro Appendices 9–11
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Springer International Publishing AG Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations in
Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of the visual and performing arts in higher education and argues for the importance of socially engaged transdisciplinary practices, not just to the college curriculum but also to building an informed and engaged citizenry. The first chapter defines and offers an outline for conducting transdisciplinary research. Chapters two through five present examples of transdisciplinary projects facilitated in Central Florida between 2017 and 2022. Topics and methodological frameworks include ecocriticism and climate change, migration, poverty, and displacement, ageing and disability, and systemic racism and mass incarceration. Each chapter includes descriptions of the projects and outlines how they integrated the essential learning outcomes articulated by the American Association of Colleges and Universities in the Liberal Education and America’s Promise report. A concluding chapter offers reflections on the value of transdisciplinary collaborative work and poses questions for further discussions on the role of the arts in higher education. The book is designed for graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and non-academics interested in engaging in transdisciplinary projects to address complex societal issues.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 -- Crafting Transdisciplinary Collaborations Chapter 3 -- Bringing Ecocriticism to Life: A Look at Florida’s Changing Landscape Chapter 4 -- Finding Home: Staging Refugee Stories and Creating Spaces for Social Engagement Chapter 5 -- Challenging the Narrative of Decline: An Intergenerational Creative Community of Care Chapter 6 -- Our Carceral Landscape: Imagining a Thirdspace of Social Justice Chapter 7 -- Concluding Thoughts Bibliography Index
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Social Impact of Creative Arts in Australian
Book SynopsisThis book brings together discussions about Australian arts policy and funding, outcomes of arts engagement in terms of social inclusion, well-being and education. It presents exemplars of creative programs or case studies that build capacity and lasting impact for communities in urban and regional Australia. This book describes the impact of the arts using narrative case studies. Through this, it develops conceptual understanding and frameworks that can be used to dynamically assess the value and impact of arts engagement across the three types of cultural value: intrinsic value, instrumental value and institutional value. It focuses on how arts engagement creates, supports and extends factors such as well-being, social inclusion and educational achievement. This book provides an innovative examination of the evidence from Australian projects depicting the impact of the arts on a range of indicators and sectors.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Evaluating Intangibles – Social Value, Impact and Notions of Place2 Understanding Social Value and Impact in the Australian Context 3 Building an Embedded Framework: Early Models 4 Nothing About Us Without Us: Co-Creation with Communities for Impact Assessment 5 Arts-based Methodologies for Fostering Inclusion and Understanding with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities 6 Co-creating Stories with Communities: Collaborative Art and Meaningful Participation 7 Creative Partnerships for Social Impact: Addressing Domestic Violence in Regional Queensland 8 Kindy Moves: Using Impact Narratives to Position Children as Stakeholders in Evaluation 9 Community Consultation Using Digital Engagement in the Time of COVID-19 10 Conclusion
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Arco Libros - La Muralla, S.L. Francisco de Zurbarn
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Book SynopsisWelcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and race during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity. Kobena Mercer documents a wealth of insights opened up by the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain as a unique domain of diaspora.Trade Review"A passionate and detailed history of the New Black British Cultural Studies by one of the major players in its making. In its attention to "the formal and strategic aesthetics of hybridity," and to the differences and alliances between Black US and Black British, this book is indeed "intranational and outernational." -- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Monster Metaphors; 2: Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination; 3: Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation; 4: Black Hair/Style Politics; 5: Black Masculinity and the Sexual Politics of Race; 6: Reading Racial Fetishism; 7: Dark & Lovely; 8: Black Art and the Burden of Representation; 9: Welcome to the Jungle; 10: “1968”
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