The Arts Books
Rowman & Littlefield 100 Essential Indian Films
Book SynopsisAlthough the motion picture industry in India is one of the oldest and largest in the worldwith literally thousands of productions released each yearfilms from that country have not been as well received as those from other countries. Known for their impressive musical numbers, melodramatic plots, and nationally beloved stars, Indian films have long been ignored by the West but are now at the forefront of cinema studies. With the prolific number of films available, it can be difficult to know what to watch. In 100 Essential Indian Films, Rohit K. Dasgupta and Sangeeta Datta identify and discuss significant works produced since the 1930s. Examining the output of different regional film industries throughout India, this volume offers a balance of box-office blockbusters, critical successes, and less-recognized cult classics. From early films by Satyajit Ray to contemporary classics such as Salaam Bombay and Lagaan, each entry includes comprehensive details about the film and situates theTrade ReviewStarred review: Media academic Dasgupta and documentarian Datta have lovingly assembled an impressive list of 100 Indian films worth seeking out. Of course there are Bollywood smashes such as Lagann (2001) and Sholay (1975), but the duo’s picks span all genres. They cherry-pick the best of the best, showcasing terrific movies throughout Indian film history. Sweet romantic comedies such as 1965’s Guide and 2013’s The Lunchbox, the 2016 wrestling biopic Dangal, the gritty 2012 Gangs of Wasseypur, and 1975’s vigilante thriller Deewaar, as well as meatier work like 1964’s Charulata (from Bengali auteur Satyajit Ray), are just some of the remarkable movies waiting to be discovered. Dasgupta and Datta give plenty of room to the backstory, plot, and impact of these films, making for an insightful and informative book that never feels rushed. Westerners whose perception of the Indian film industry begins and ends with splashy Bollywood musicals are in for a delightful surprise here, as this is an outstanding survey of a wildly inventive and frequently fascinating area of world film. * Publishers Weekly *Starred Review:Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Films A – Z Appendix: Films by English Title Bibliography Index About the Authors
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McFarland & Co Inc Show Business Homicides
Book Synopsis A companion volume to the author''s Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases (2002), this reference work chronicles 298 cases of what can be broadly defined as celebrity homicides from the early twentieth century onward. Cases are drawn from the realms of film, theatre, music, dance and other entertainment fields. In each instance, the person was either the actual or suspected perpetrator or the victim of a murder. Included are entries on such well-known personalities as film comedian Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, actress Sharon Tate, music producer Phil Spector, rap artist Notorious B.I.G., and superstar Michael Jackson. Each entry covers the crime, its legal disposition, and the subject''s personal and professional background, comprehensively documented with notes and a separate bibliography.Trade Reviewrecommended"" - Choice""well-written...valuable"" - Booklist""highly useful...excellent...a well-researched and well-written resource for scholars of all levels...definitive tool"" - Reference Reviews.Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Foreword by Jimmy McDonough 1 Preface 3 The Cases 5 Appendix 1: Narcocorridos 355 Appendix 2: Occupations 359 Bibliography 369 Index 375
£28.99
Springer New York Solar Sketching A Comprehensive Guide to Drawing
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is all about sketching the Sun, and it is marvelous. … you get a better idea of what to look for, different methods that could be used for observing the Sun and even some activities that would be fun to do with children. … All the different mediums used are explained in a step-by-step tutorial style, that are very easy to follow and there are hundreds of examples of sketches of the Sun.” (AstroMadness.com, April, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction to Solar Observing and Sketching.- Basic White Light Sketching.- Sketching for Science – White Light.- Projection Sketching.- Tracking Active Regions.- Hydrogen Alpha.- Calcium K.- Composite Sketches with more than one type of filter.- Spectrohelioscope.- Transits/occultation.- Eclipse.- Animations.- Solar Inspired Art.- Contributor Gallery.
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Lexington Books Sentient Performativities of Embodiment
Book SynopsisThis collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.Trade ReviewWhat does it mean to feel? Sentient Performativities of Embodiment considers both the social resonance and the political stakes of this question by concentrating the study of affect more closely upon the site of the inexorably mortal human body. By convening an impressive group of scholars whose research sites challenge simplistic distinctions between 'the aesthetic' and 'the real,' Hunter, Krimmer, and Lichtenfels have crafted an anthology that compels us to return our attention to the lived complexity of feeling as a material register of human experience. This beautifully curated book will expand critical conversations between affect studies and performance studies, restoring in our consideration of feeling the fleshy, corporeal timbre of the felt. -- Patrick Anderson, University of California, San DiegoSentient Performativities of Embodiment: Thinking alongside the Human is an immense effort; broad in scope and comprehensive in its attempt to foreground practice-based research in the Arts. This type of scholarship has been gaining ground within a number of prominent institutions and the authors should be congratulated for bringing the views of so many excellent artists/scholars together in one volume. -- Henry Daniel, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ways of Knowing and Ways of Being Known by Lynette Hunter Part I: The Body in Performance—Somatic Complexity Chapter 1. Weird Embodiment by Timothy Morton Chapter 2. The Senses and Sciences of Fascia: a Practice as Research Investigation by Joseph Dumit and Kevin O’Connor Chapter 3. The Petrie Dish: Somatic Praxis, Embryology, Becoming in Marie Chouinard’s “The Rite of Spring” by Hilary Bryan Chapter 4. The Performativity of Performance: Doing Things with Bodies and What Words Might Do in Relation to That. A Lecture/Demonstration (Not for the Squeamish) by Jess Curtis Part II: The Body in Performance—Attentiveness Chapter 5. Enminded Performance: Dancing with a Horse by Nita Little Chapter 6. JUST LIKE THAT: William Forsythe || Between Movement and Language by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi Chapter 7. Her Heart Can Lift Mountains by Beating: Form and Formlessness in Performance Process by Sean Feit Part III: The Body in Performance—Emergence Chapter 8. Transversal Affectivity and the Lobster: Intimate Advances of Deleuze and Guattari, Rodrigo Garcia and La Carnicería Teatro, and Jan Lauwers and Needcompany by Bryan Reynolds & Guy Zimmerman Chapter 9. Kantor’s DIRECTOR: “I will be myself, but I will be with the actors” by Peter Lichtenfels Part IV: Bodies Walking, Bodies Writing Chapter 10. Where Can Walking Be Taking Me? by Álvaro Iván Hernández Rodríguez Chapter 11. Walking with/Com-Pains: (Re-)(Em)bodying Missteps and Messmates by Ilya Noé Chapter 12. Walking Home: A Feminist Tracing of Home and Belonging by Maureen Burdock Part V: Bodies—Critical Race, Politics and History Chapter 13. Jewish Ears and Aryan Dirndls: National Socialist Racial Ideology and Jewish Identity by Elisabeth Krimmer Chapter 14. “So That They Never Forget the Holocaust:” Memorial Tattoos and Embodied Holocaust Remembrance by Verena Hutter Chapter 15. Presidential Dancing: The Bodies of Heads of State by Maxine Leeds Craig Chapter 16. Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist by Halifu Osumare
£94.50
Manchester University Press Creative Approaches to Wellbeing
Book SynopsisA compilation of case studies illustrating how arts, culture and other community assets were used by individuals and communities to cope during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on experiences and voices of those marginalised during the pandemic, vital lessons are drawn out for policy and practice in the arts and provision of health and care. -- .
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc The Last Artists in New York
Book SynopsisAn intimate history of America’s first publicly funded artists’ housing project and its residents, and the precarious place of art-makers in a changing New York City. Westbeth Artists Housing was founded in 1970 to provide affordable housing for artists and their families. It occupies a full city block in what back then was one of New York’s less desirable neighborhoods, the desolate far-West Village. Over the next fifty years, the building complex served as a Great Society for bohemians, home at any one time to more than three hundred and eighty creators, who included the pioneering video artist Nam June Paik, jazz great Gil Evans, and the photographer Diane Arbus, who took her life in her apartment in 1971, barely a year after she’d moved in. To its tenants Westbeth offered the possibility of a middle-class life at affordable rents that freed them to walk along the cliff-edge of their art. Barton Lidice Beneš filled unlikely vessels (a water-gun, a squirting flower) with his HIV-positive blood in a series called “Lethal Weapons.” The actor Black-Eyed Susan played dozens of roles in the legendary Ridiculous Theater Company. After her basement studio was flooded during Superstorm Sandy, Karen Santry dove into the noxious water in rented scuba gear to check the condition of her paintings. With the passing of time, Westbeth’s artists watched their neighborhood gentrify and rebrand as the glitzy Meatpacking District, where the median price for real estate is now near $4 million and thrift shops have given way to designer boutiques. And while some of them achieved fame, obscurity drove others to bitterness and despair. The Twilight of Bohemia frames its story with that of the life and tragic death of Gay Milius, a gifted and flamboyantly eccentric painter, flea-market picker, and novelist who moved into the building in 1970 and committed suicide there in 2006. Sociologists describe Westbeth as a Naturally-Occurring Retirement Community, or NORC; today, a majority of its residents are over 60. But is Westbeth just an arty senior center, a tiny island of nonconformist characters marooned in the midst of a late-stage capitalist sea? Is artmaking a specter of a past way of life or a good that merits our society’s continuing support—and if it is, what larger purpose might it serve? The Twilight of Bohemia explores the changing notions of what it means to be a successful artist and the heartbreaking difficulty of surviving in the 21st century as one. It’s a book for anyone who loves brilliantly written, lyrical stories of passion, idealism, ambition and community, for any reader interested in urban social history or the history of art, and for those who still believe in the old bohemian ethos: of living for art.
£20.89
Monacelli Press Prospect.6
Book SynopsisThe longest running contemporary art triennial in North America presents major artistic projects from more than fifty world-renowned artists, in New Orleans
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc New Cultural and Political Perspectives on
Book SynopsisInitiated by the Balkan History Association, this unique interdisciplinary volume explores the complex history of cultural, diplomatic and religious relations between Serbia and Romania during the late nineteenth and twentieth century. The authors, scholars with a wide range of academic backgrounds, address these themes in the context of Austro-Hungarian imperialism, the interwar period and the Communist era. The essays in Part I examine diplomatic, political and military relations, while those in Part II explore intellectual and artistic links between the two countries, including religion, literature and the visual arts. This is a landmark publication, the first of its kind in English, and will leave readers with a more comprehensive understanding of cultural and political relations in Southeastern Europe. "This volume, the first of its kind, covers political diplomatic, cultural and religious relations between the Romania and Serbia, seen through the processes that shaped the two nations over the past two centuries, but also through case studies of prominent diplomats, educators, artists, rulers and statesmen. The result is a comprehensive survey of Romanian-Serbian relations based on serious archival research, leading to new and more inclusive perspectives. I am quite convinced that the collection will become a standard guide for all those interested in the relations between Serbs and Romanians." —Prof. Slobodan G. Markovich, University of Belgrade "Historically, relations between neighboring nations and the people who populated them, have at various points been plagued by conflict. Yet it is difficult to cast complete blame on either side as it can be surmised that the actions taken were a result of people subject to their times. However, aside from confrontations, neighboring states also cooperated, fought together in the interest of common values, against invaders, while they also intermarried, thus enhancing both cultures. The present volume is a successful attempt by Romanian and Serbian specialists to find the political-diplomatic, cultural, and artistic interferences, that amounted to the elements of cooperation between Romanians and Serbs in the last centuries. Such instances of alliance, far from few in number, certainly prevailed in the history of the two nations, and they shaped the destiny of Romania and Serbia into the modern and contemporary eras." —Prof. dr Ioan Bolovan, Institutul de Istorie “George Bariţ” Cluj-Napoca and University Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-NapocaTrade Review"This volume, the first of its kind, covers political diplomatic, cultural and religious relations between the Romania and Serbia, seen through the processes that shaped the two nations over the past two centuries, but also through case studies of prominent diplomats, educators, artists, rulers and statesmen. The result is a comprehensive survey of Romanian-Serbian relations based on serious archival research, leading to new and more inclusive perspectives. I am quite convinced that the collection will become a standard guide for all those interested in the relations between Serbs and Romanians." —Prof. Slobodan G. Markovich, University of Belgrade "Historically, relations between neighboring nations and the people who populated them, have at various points been plagued by conflict. Yet it is difficult to cast complete blame on either side as it can be surmised that the actions taken were a result of people subject to their times. However, aside from confrontations, neighboring states also cooperated, fought together in the interest of common values, against invaders, while they also intermarried, thus enhancing both cultures. The present volume is a successful attempt by Romanian and Serbian specialists to find the political-diplomatic, cultural, and artistic interferences, that amounted to the elements of cooperation between Romanians and Serbs in the last centuries. Such instances of alliance, far from few in number, certainly prevailed in the history of the two nations, and they shaped the destiny of Romania and Serbia into the modern and contemporary eras." —Prof. dr Ioan Bolovan, Institutul de Istorie “George Bariţ” Cluj-Napoca and University Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-NapocaTable of ContentsAleksandra Djurić Milovanović/Mircea Măran/Christene D’Anca: Introduction – Miodrag Milin/Victor Neumann: The Idea of Nationality among Romanians in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: The Political Involvement of Vincențiu Babeș, Andrei, and Alexandru Mocsonyi as Representatives of the Banat Region – Ivana Spasović: Romanians and Serbs in the Banat Military Border – Felicia Aneta Oarcea: Romanian-Serbian Relations Reflected in Vasile Popeangă’s Works. Historiographical Insight – Srđan Mićić: Boško Čolak-Antić and Yugoslav-Romanian Relations – Anđelija Miladinović: Maria of Yugoslavia: Romanian Princess, Yugoslav Queen – Dragan Bakić: The First Yugoslav Ambassador: Jovan Dučić in Romania, 1937–1940 – Vladimir Lj. Cvetković: Josip Broz Tito, Petru Groza and Yugoslav-Romanian Relations 1945–1947 – Nemanja Mitrović: Tito’s and Ceauşescu’s Personal Contribution to the Development of Yugoslav-Romanian Cooperation in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s – Raluca Prelipceanu: The Circulation of Icon Painters between Banat and Transylvania during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries – Jovana Kolundžija: Stefan Tenecki: The Baroque Painter of Serbs and Romanians – Maria Alexandra Pantea/Virginia Popović: Serbian Intellectuals from Arad, Personalities of Central Europe – Mircea Măran/Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović: Vladimir Dimitrijević and Serbian-Romanian Church Relations in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries – Octavia Nedelcu/Gordana-Nicoleta Peici: Romanian-Serbian Literary Relations at the Beginning of the Millennium – Diana Mihuț: In-between Local Identity and National Artistic Heritage. A Case Study: Naive Painting from Uzdin – Acknowledgments – Notes on Editors and Contributors – Index.
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Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder FlipMat City Sites MultiPack
Book Synopsis Whether your players are just arriving in town,heading out for some shopping, carousing at a local tavern, or fighting fortheir lives in the back alleys, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multi-Pack hasyou covered. This set''s four sides each feature a different city location wheremayhem and trouble is likely to break out. Whether you need a bustlingmarketplace, a popular tavern, a twisting tangle of alleys in the worst part oftown, or a busy urban waterfront, you''ll find a suitable map in thispack.This set includes two flip mats, eachmeasuring 24 x 30 unfolded, and 8 x 10 folded. A Flip-Mat''s coated surfacecan handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable byexperienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into anyGame Master''s arsenal!
£24.56
Makina Books Slugs A Manifesto Expanded Edition
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Intellect Books Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food,
Book SynopsisIn a world where privatisation and capitalism dominate the global economy, the essays in this book ask how to make socially responsive communication, design and art that counters the role of the food industry as a machine of consumption. Food Democracy brings together contributions from leading international scholars and activists, critical case studies of emancipatory food practices and reflections on possible models for responsive communication design and art. A section of visual communication works, creative writings and accounts of participatory art for social and environmental change – curated by the Memefest Festival of Socially Responsive Communication and Art on the theme of "Food Democracy" – are also included here. The beautifully designed book also includes a unique and delicious compilation of socially engaged recipes by the academic, artist and activist community. Aiming not just to advance scholarship, but to push ahead real change in the world, Food Democracy is essential reading for scholars and citizens alike.Trade Review'Food Democracy concludes with editor Vodeb’s visual essay, “Living Out a Situation: The Memefest Food Democracy Brisbane Sessions,” which highlights how the 2013 Festival symposium and workshop applied an extradisciplinary approach that merged experimental research with art and design. As the form and subject of this conclusion show, Food Democracy is not your traditional academic book. By including contributions from academics, activists, and professionals in fields from art, design, the social sciences, and philosophy, Vodeb expands the topic’s scope and shows the benefit of interweaving a variety of approaches and research tactics. In other words, Food Democracy offers everyone a seat at the table.' -- Jennifer A. Vokoun, Design and Culture 10.2'In this compelling collection, Memefest contributors remind us why food lies at the heart of contemporary political struggle. The single most damning truth about contemporary global society is that people continue to starve on a planet that produces enough food to nourish its entire population. This tragedy results from the use of food as a medium of control and a source of profit. The essays in this collection provide a crucial source for developing the tools and practices to support sustainable democracy in a time of global instability. Now more than ever we need the Memefest organization’s prescient blend of theory and practice, aesthetics and politics.' -- Mark Andrejevic, Monash University, Pomona College'The most effective step you can take to save the world, and yourself, is to change the way you eat. The food industry is responsible for more health problems, environmental damage, and social strife than any other. By choosing what to put in our mouths, we can heal ourselves, save the topsoil, feed the hungry, and overturn neoliberalism. Food Democracy shows the many easy, powerful, and delicious ways to achieve a sustainable future. We are what you eat.' -- Douglas Rushkoff, author, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus'This extraordinary new book challenges us to reclaim the role of design and public communication in imagining a democratic future of food. By recognizing that representation, as well as production, distribution and consumption, is a key element in the way the global food system works, this book shows that design is crucial to determine how we think about food. As an answer to this, Oliver Vodeb has curated an inspiring collection of examples of alternative food design bringing together activists, cultural producers and academics and in the process has redefined what food design may mean.' -- Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney'What can tactical sustenance be in a world where hunger is a part and parcel of our current strategic market systems and governance that function to maintain "food insecurity" on a global scale. Food Democracy is a direct response to navigating this Meat-Market-State by focusing on community research initiatives and artist practices of avant-gardening and beyond that can help us re-configure how our food is designed, how our food is sold, and who has access to food. This book is not just about what the problems are – but what can we do about it.' -- Ricardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theater'This large volume is a thought-provoking hybrid between a traditional collection of essays, a set of recipes (one for each essay), and a catalogue of visual and participatory art pieces and social engagement interventions. The format is the direct reflection of Memefest and its Festival of Socially Responsive Communication, Design, and Art, whose participants and contributors believe that academia, social movements, and professional environments should not operate in silos, but interact and cross-pollinate beyond the customary institutional distinctions. Full review to be published in the International Journal of Food Design.' -- Fabio Parasecoli, The Huffington PostTable of ContentsHungry for Change + Thirsty for Life: Socially Responsive Communication, Design and Art Kitchen and its Dishes Oliver Vodeb Mean Cuisine: Being a Polemical Discussion of Food in Excess of Necessity, its Uses and Abuses Darren Tofts The Global eat Autocracy: An Issue of Social Injustice: Cartelization of the Global Meat Industry Cirila Toplak A Shortage of Democracy, Not of Food and Water: Trends Shaping Today's Food Industry Nikola Janović Kolenc Making Time: Food Preservation and Ontological Design Abby Mellick Lopes, Tessa Zettel Everything Has a Story: Decolonization, First Nations Sovereignity, and the Seventh Pillar of Food Sovereignty in the Australian Context Sam Burch Hungry: Self-Employment on Street Food Markets and the Political Dimension of Consumption Aida Baghernejad Marti Guixé's Food Designing: A Critique of Consumerism Katherine Moline Somewhere over the Rainbow: Cooking a Slovenian Path to a 'Better' Future Tanja Kamin, Andreja Vezovnik, Pavlina Japelj $$TM - The Sociosoma Renfah Urban Agriculture in Havana Everything Fresh Including Design Claudio Sotolongo Food for Thought Visual Practice as Activist Research George Petelin Geographies of Hope The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination What Lies Outside the Cavern Eugenio Tisselli Trisikaideka | 13 | UMAMI Veeranganakumari Solanki The Hidden Sacrifice Mariano Mussi Designed Pleasure How Advertising Is Selling Food as Drugs Oliver Vodeb Pleasure Praxis Oliver Vodeb Food Democracy - Friendly Competition 2013 - Visual Communication Practice Curated by Oliver Vodeb Eat for Democracy Miha Mazzini, Marko Plahuta Edible Illusions Ashlea Gleeson, Jack Loel Merry Kurban Bayrami and Happy New Year Rodolfo Medina Flores, Jakub Fišer Seeds of Hope/Destruction Mohammad Naser What Are You Really Eating? Jessica Nuzum Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Marija Jaćimović, Benoit Detalle Orto Diffuso Mariella Bussolati The DIY High Fructose Corn Syrup Kit Maya Weinstein Consciencia Sandra Rojas What Do We Know about the Andean Quinoa Industry? Lucy Datyner Happy Cow Kate Simpson Who do You Feed with the Food You Eat? Maria Isabel Isaza Echeverry Migrants in Europe Marko Damiš, Zdravko Papič (mentor and friend) Untitled Stephan Gross El Futuro se construye en el Campo Andres Rodriguez Land Grab – The Game Katherine Jauczius Guerilla Torches Dylan Leak The Perfect Tomato Hayley Smith Just a Little Money Involved Sybille Neumeyer Pick Me Zayra Dolores Food Democracy Liam Matthews The Patch Oscar Waugh Facing (orig. Im Angesicht) Julia Unkel Engineered Corn Khaula Al Ameri The Food Trade Apparatus (FTA) Thomas Roohan Info(od)graphics Scott Burns Meet & Two Veg Sophie Van Der Drift How Much Is Enough? Eugenia Demeglio, Alberto Novello Los Ojos de las Milpa (The Eyes of Milpa) Eugenio Tisselli (Et All) Seed Matter Christine Matter Conflict in the Kitchen: Dawn Weleski and Jon Rubin Oliver Vodeb Living Out a Situation: The Memefest Food Democracy Brisbane Sessions, Visual Essay Oliver Vodeb Eat Me - Recipes Various
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Intellect Books Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art:
Book SynopsisTime, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art presents a major study of time as a key aesthetic dimension of recent art practices. This book explores different aspects of time across a broad range of artistic media and draws on recent movements in philosophy, science and technology to show how artists generate temporal experiences that resist the standardized time of modernity: Olafur Eliasson's melting icebergs produce fragile temporal ecologies; Marina Abramović's performances test the durations of the human body; Christian Marclay's The Clock conflates past and present chronologies. This book examines alternative frameworks of time, duration and change in prominent philosophical, scientific and technological traditions, including physics, psychology, phenomenology, neuroscience, media theory and selected environmental sciences. It suggests that art makes a crucial contribution to these discourses not by 'visualizing' time, but by entangling viewers in different sensory, material and imaginary temporalities. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: Time Chapter 1: Marking Time in Conceptual Art Chapter 2: Around the Clock: 24/7 Times Chapter 3: Dust and Duration: Timing Women’s Work Part II: Duration Chapter 4: Temporal Fever: Archive and Database Chapter 5: Duration and Endurance: Minimalism and Performance Chapter 6: Microtemporality: Time Perception in Film and Video Chapter 7: Accumulative Art and the Time of Stuff Part III: (Interregnum): Relativity Chapter 8: Special Relativity: Time and the Art of Instability Chapter 9: Cultural Relativity and the Time of the Other Part IV: Change Chapter 10: Beyond Our Time: Entropy and Icebergs Chapter 11: Speculative Time and Contemporary Art Stone in Hand: A Brief Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Peter Lang Ltd Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds: Modernist
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the twentieth century, artists, intellectuals, writers, thinkers and patrons in Europe and the United States created a large number of artistic communities, circles, groups and movements with the aim of providing alternatives to the increasingly conflictual political and intellectual climate; the works and artistic practices of many of these groups were marked by an ethos of collaboration, based on a collective understanding of artistic production, and on the nurturing and exercise of sociability and conviviality. Collaboration, sociability, friendship and collective artistic efforts represented the utopian aspects of the radical experiments carried out by avant-garde and modernist artists; they were also the counterparts of the period's obsession with the notion of genius and the cult of the artist. This book offers studies of under-researched (and often consciously provincial) avant-garde and modernist groups and authors. Their progressive aims are here read as particular forms of utopia based on the ethics and aesthetics of community. The essays in this volume analyse the significance (and failures) of literary coteries as spaces of aesthetic and political freedom. They explore the internationalist and interdisciplinary practices of the Porza Group, the abstrakten hannover and the anthroposophical group Aenigma; the utopian efforts of the artists' communities at Dornach (Switzerland) and Farley Farm, in England; the political and aesthetic implications of collaborative practices of cultural mediation, criticism and translation within the Bloomsbury group, the Young American Critics, and of single individuals in relation to networks and avant-garde coteries, such as Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Djuna Barnes. The volume offers an evaluation of the roots and ethos of sociability in the Enlightenment, as the basis of modernist utopias of community; it also reflects on the problematic notion of individual authorship within artistic groups, as in the case of the early-modernist Finnish author Algot Untola, who created around forty fictitious author-names.
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Reaktion Books Leonardo's Paradox: Word and Image in the Making
Book SynopsisLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He spent an incredible amount of time writing notebooks, perhaps even more time than he ever held a brush, yet at the same time Leonardo was Renaissance culture's most fanatical critic of the word. When Leonardo criticized writing he criticized it as an expert on words; when he was painting, writing remained in the back of his brilliant mind. In this book, Joost Keizer argues that the comparison between word and image fueled Leonardo's thought. The paradoxes at the heart of Leonardo's ideas and practice also defined some of Renaissance culture's central assumptions about culture and nature: that there is a look to script, that painting offered a path out of culture and back to nature, that the meaning of images emerged in comparison with words, and that the difference between image-making and writing also amounted to a difference in the experience of time.
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Intellect Books Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring
Book SynopsisCanadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentering Luxury is a dynamic new contribution to the study of luxury. The essays in this collection challenge Euro- and US-centric perceptions that bind luxury to either a colonial past or a consumerist present. The book announces a new collective of thinkers who focus on Indigenous and Canadian instances of luxurious production, experiences and sites to propose a new definition of luxury that includes a plurality of regional practices highlighting that Canadian luxury centres on community and connection. Each of the interdisciplinary contributions analyse luxury from different vantage points to understand why luxury has succeeded or failed in the Canadian context. From the history of the fur trade to the latest Indigenous fashion movement, from the T. Eaton Co.’s 1920s Made-in-Canada campaign to the on-again-off-again Toronto Fashion Week, from Vancouver public art commissions to Montréal’s future-forward fashiontech sector, the essays in this volume explain what makes and breaks Canadian luxury. These original case studies redefine luxury for Canada – a former colonial possession and contemporary second-tier cultural market – and lay the foundation for the critical study of luxury in other historically secondary geographies that produce, consume and circulate material and symbolic luxuries. The collection ultimately challenges old myths and the mystique surrounding European luxury to give it a new lustre that shines light on those actors who have been historically excluded from its privilege: Indigenous peoples, immigrants, the working classes. It sheds light on the reasons that conventional expressions of luxury may fail in secondary markets and offers guidance for fashiontech innovations that invest in the individual without imposing dehumanizing values of efficiency and rational measurement. Although focused on the Canadian context, the book will appeal to an international audience of scholarly and industry readers. Its interventions about broadening the focus of luxury studies beyond traditional sites in Western Europe make it an important text for global audiences. It offers an alternate reading of conventional luxury histories, sites and practices; in doing so, it models a national approach to luxury that can be applied to alternate national markets. Jessica P. Clark is a historian of Britain and empire, with a focus on gender, consumption and labour, and an associate professor of history at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Nigel Lezama is an associate professor of French studies at Brock University and works at the intersection of fashion, luxury, literary and cultural studies. Contributions are drawn from a number of fields including, but not limited to, Indigenous studies, museum studies, business management, cultural studies, fashion studies, technology and industry. Contributors include Kathryn Franklin, University of Toronto; Rebecca Halliday, Toronto Metropolitan University; Riley Kucheran, Toronto Metropolitan University; Valérie Lamontagne, Concordia University; Marie O'Mahony, Ontario College of Art and Design; Julia Polyck-O'Neill, York University, Ontario. This is a primarily an academic book. It is of great relevance to scholars within the subfield of critical luxury studies, as well as scholars of consumer and commodity cultures more broadly, and those working or interested in Canadian studies, media studies, critical studies, and historians. Researchers and postgraduate students studying luxury as well as those studying the history of the development of Canada, its colonial past and the marginalization of Indigenous people, and with the development of fashion technologies will also find it useful. Academics and practitioners concerned with the development of city and nation branding will find the book of value. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction – Nigel Lezama PART 1: RESURGENCE AND REVISION 1. Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence – Riley Kucheran with Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama 2. Putting Canada on the Map: A Brief History of Nation and Luxury – Jessica P. Clark 3. From Unvalued to Surplus Value: ‘Made-in-Canada’ Luxury at Eaton’s in the 1920s – Nigel Lezama PART 2: SPACE AND PLACE 4. Runway off the Mink Mile: Toronto Fashion Week and the Glamour and Luxury of Yorkville – Kathryn Franklin and Rebecca Halliday 5. Vancouver’s Monuments to Capital: Public Art, Spatial Capital and Luxury – Julia Polyck-O’Neill PART 3: FUTURE OF CANADIAN LUXURY 6. Beyond the Catwalk: What Happens When Luxury Meets Digital? – Marie O’Mahony 7. Contemporary Case Studies of Performative Wearables – Valérie Lamontagne Epilogue – Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama References Contributors Index
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Intellect Socially Engaged Creative Practice
Book SynopsisThis collection is the second in the Performance andCommunities series. Contributions from academics and artists engage with both these notions ofperformance that of identities in and throughtime and space - and of more formal instances ofspecific time-limited performances (textual/embodied/ visual/ communal). 31 b&w illus.
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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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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Compressed Utterances: Collage in a Germanic
Book Synopsis«Compressed Utterances brings focused attention to collage in a Germanic context, whose contours and impact are still so little appreciated. As this stunning volume shows, collage serves as a key medium not only for understanding art historical developments but social and political transformations as well, often embodying the dynamic forces of avant-garde criticality.» (Thomas O. Haakenson, Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, California College of the Arts) «A deep dive into the paradigmatic medium of the twentieth century, Compressed Utterances is the foundational text of the growing field of collage studies. The book’s established and emerging authors investigate an astonishing range of previously unknown collage work to explore German artists’ and writers’ deployment of this medium as appropriative, intertextual, alienating, and temporally slippery.» (Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, The University at Buffalo, State University of New York) Composite pictures create narratives and images from many fragments. They turn often disparate and juxtaposing images and text into a singular image or message. Collage makes from the broken and, arguably, no other country has reflected the fractious nature of its history more than Germany. The collage form is one of the best expressive forms to be taken up and experimented with by German artists since 1912. Compressed Utterances: Collage in a Germanic Context after 1912 brings together essays by scholars, students and curators to examine the use of collage by German-speaking artists, making in their homeland and abroad, whose works are closely connected to the tumultuous histories of Germany and neighbouring German-speaking nations since 1912 to the late 2000s.Table of ContentsContents: Collage’s Interrelations: Text, Geography and Materiality – David Ragnar Nelson: City of Paper: The Materiality of Montage in Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) – Astrid von Asten: «I Was Haunted by the Idea of Doing Something Absolute»: Hans Arp, Pioneer of Non-Objective Collage – Collage and Appropriation – Brett M. Van Hoesen: Colonial Botany and the Collages of Max Ernst – Ana María Gómez López: Fossils and Clippings as Odds and Ends: Johannes Weigelt’s Elusive Photomontages in Nazi Germany – Defining and Re-Defining Collage in a Postwar Context – Adrian Sudhalter: Collage as Symbolic Form: Margaret Miller, Collage and the «Dislocations of War» – Michael White: Montage Reassembled: Dada in the Postwar Archive – Collage and Corporeality – Oona Lochner: Cutting Across Lines: Lil Picard and the Reorienting Effects of Collage – Lisa Lee: Thomas Hirschhorn and the Incommensurable Gesture.
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Northern Ireland: Challenges of Peace and
Book SynopsisMore than twenty years after the peace agreement signed in Belfast on 10 April 1998, an assessment is overdue, particularly given the current political context in Northern Ireland. A serious political crisis led to the suspension of the regional institutions from January 2017 to January 2020, and the Brexit negotiations did not facilitate the search for a solution, especially as the confidence-and-supply agreement between the British Conservative Party and the DUP prevented London from acting as an honest broker between Sinn Féin and the DUP. At the same time, the issue of the Irish border created tensions between Dublin and London. This situation was compounded by the resurgence of rioting, mostly in Loyalist areas of Belfast and Derry/Londonderry, in April 2021, against the backdrop of Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol and communal resentment. Emanating from a conference jointly organised at the University of Caen Normandy and La Rochelle University, this collection of essays – bringing together academic and independent scholars from various disciplines and nationalities – takes a critical look at the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, from the collaboration between Dublin and London to the new political configurations in Northern Ireland, as well as interfaith, cultural, social and economic developments. Divided into three main parts, it furnishes an opportunity to better understand the reasons for the apparent deterioration in inter-community understanding since 1998, but also to study the numerous initiatives that have sought to promote reconciliation, be it in the economy, the working environment, in the literary and artistic spheres, in schools or in the urban landscape.Table of ContentsContents: Olivier Coquelin, Brigitte Bastiat, Frank Healy: Introduction: Twenty Years of Peace and Reconciliation? – Political and Economic Developments – David Mitchell: Facets of the Unionist Experience since 1998: From the Agreement to Brexit and Beyond – Agnès Maillot: War by Other Means? Sinn Féin and Reconciliation since the GFA – Christophe Gillissen: Brexit and the Irish Border: An Historical Overview – Anne Groutel: Twenty Years after the Good Friday Agreement: Achievements, Prospects and Limits of Economic Cooperation between the Two Irelands – Religion, Urbanism and Education – Brian Mac Cuarta SJ: Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: One Jesuit’s Personal Experience – Gladys Ganiel: Protestants and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: Overcoming Opposition, Apathy and a Loss of Legitimacy? – Charlotte Barcat: The Peace Bridge and the Re- branding of the River Foyle in Derry- Londonderry: From a «Divided City» to a «Shared Space»? – Nadège Dumaux: Integrated Education and the Shared Education Programme: A Dichotomy in the Northern Irish Education System – Literature and the Arts – Bertrand Cardin: Troubles Never Come Singly: Paul McVeigh’s The Good Son and Northern Irish Pioneering Fiction about Gender Trouble – Brigitte Bastiat: Connecting with the «Nation» in Northern Ireland: Violence and Reconciliation in Four Plays by Owen McCafferty – Billy Gray: «You Can’t Grab Anything with a Closed Fist»: Reflections on Ulster Protestant Identity in Derek Lundy’s Men That God Made Mad: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland – Fabrice Mourlon: Beyond Trauma? The Expression of Survivors in Post- Conflict Northern Ireland – Hélène Alfaro- Hamayon: Art and Conflict Transformation: Models of Participation and Collaboration in the Shankill.
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Death in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisIn the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, death has become an all too familiar feature of the early 2020s.The 21st century has in fact produced a singular historical moment with its unique intersection of popular politics, environmental extremes, globalisation and technological innovation, which has correspondingly created distinctive expressions of death, as well.This companion reveals our visions of death in the 21st century and what they say about us and the times we live in. Organised into sections on the war on terror, technology, climate change, extremism and global pandemics, the short, reader-friendly essays in this volume highlight crucial encounters with death in the contemporary period.
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Innocence and Experience: Childhood and the
Book Synopsis«With its meticulous documentation, this multifaceted volume brings a range of individual lives and networks to the fore, outlining their inestimable contributions to British culture. It is an inspiring and timely intervention into the fields of exile and childhood studies, demonstrating just how inextricably the two are linked.» (Professor Kiera Vaclavik, Director of the Centre for Childhood Cultures, Queen Mary, University of London) The essays that make up this book cover a diverse range of subjects, all broadly on the theme of child refugees from Nazism in Britain. The book’s three sections – on displacement, children in art, and children in education and play – indicate the various topics considered in the study. The authors come from different academic fields – including German and Austrian exile studies, art history, language and literature, and education – so each chapter offers a depth of research as well as adding to the breadth of the overarching theme. Thus far, there has been no study dedicated to examining both the experience of these refugee children and those who worked with them, and yet they and their own children live on, marked in different ways by their experience and making their own mark in British art and literature too.Table of ContentsContents: Anna Nyburg: ‘A Piece of Rather Formidable News’: Motherhood in British Exile – Michal Shapira: The Psychoanalyst and Jewish Refugee Kate Friedlander (1902–1949) and Her Contribution to the Study of Children in Britain – Charmian Brinson: ‘In loco parentis?’: The Work of the Refugee Youth Organizations, Young Austria and Free German Youth, in Wartime Britain – Lucy Stone: ‘Michelle comprend le malheur’: Reading Writings by Children Displaced in the Nazi Era – Anthony Grenville: Childhood Trauma as Represented in Literary Works by Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Britain – Monica Bohm- Duchen: Innocence Sullied, Innocence Redeemed: Images of Childhood in the Work of Emigre Artists in the UK after 1933 – Julia Winckler: That Baby: Wolf Suschitzky’s and Liselotte Frankl’s Pioneering Children’s Photo Story Book – Ines Schlenker: Foreign Inspirations: Children’s Book Illustrations by Émigré Artists – Rachel Dickson: From Berlin to the Bodley Head: Renate Meyer (1930–2014): The Rediscovery of a Neglected Children’s Book Author, Illustrator and Artist – Elizabeth Lamle: Intergenerational Perspectives on Migration in the 1930s: The Letters of Lucian and Lucie Freud – Rolf Laven: A Pioneer of Children’s Art Pedagogy: Franz Čižek and His Influence in the English- Speaking World – Sian Roberts: Hilde Jarecki, Social Pedagogy and the Transformation of Society through Early Years Learning.
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Lost Unhappy and at Home The Impact of Violence
Book SynopsisThe volume examines the various expressions of violence, its impact, forms of resistance and its representation in Irish society and culture. Its fifteen chapters are divided into four sections, History, Film, Theatre and Poetry, and cover all aspects of violence in its most comprehensive sense.
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers A Cultural History of the Cuban Revolution
Book SynopsisThis is a chronological account of the cultural history of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 2022, examining Cuban revolutionary culture and the control of it by the state. It is a cultural history guidebook about one of the most significant historical events in Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, using the most up-to-date sources.
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Intellect Product Design Technology and Social Change
Book SynopsisExamines the relationshipbetween products, consumption, sustainability,politics and social movements. This 'pockethistory' surveys product design from theagricultural revolution and the birth of cities,through industrialisation, and a digital designrevolution. 58 b&w illus.
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Intellect Product Design Technology and Social Change
Book SynopsisExamines the relationshipbetween products, consumption, sustainability,politics and social movements. This 'pockethistory' surveys product design from theagricultural revolution and the birth of cities,through industrialisation, and a digital designrevolution. 58 b&w illus.
£999.99
Anthem Press Occupational Devotion: Finding Satisfaction and
Book SynopsisThe idea of occupational devotion, or devotee work, was conceptualized and incorporated in the serious leisure perspective as one of the two serious pursuits. The other pursuit is serious leisure itself, with both forms being anchored in activities that are immensely appealing and fulfilling. Despite such desirable qualities the serious pursuits constitute a minority of all work and leisure, these two domains being dominated by disagreeable work and hedonic casual leisure activities. The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, craft-like trades, and creativity-based small businesses. In ways set out in this book, devotee work roots in serious leisure, even while many participants in the latter have no desire to pursue the former.Trade Review“For almost half a century, Professor Robert Stebbins has led the way in terms of helping other people defi ne and determine the boundaries of their systematic pursuit of leisure. Having found ourselves in the midst of a life-changing global pandemic, this insightful and thought-provoking addition to the existing knowledge base could not have come at a more opportune moment in time. This represents a must-read for those who have found themselves questioning their why.” —Dr. Richard Keith Wright, School of Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand“This book will make a worthwhile contribution to the discipline of leisure studies, where the literature on this specifi c topic of occupational devotion remains relatively less developed. In my estimation, this book is poised to provide novel insights into the nature of occupational devotion, which advances serious leisure theory.” —Dr. Rodney Lim Thiam Hock, Lecturer in Marketing and E-Commerce, Swinburne University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Serious Pursuits; Chapter 2 Liberal Professions; Chapter 3 Consultants; Chapter 4 Skilled Trades and Crafts; Chapter 5 Small Businesses; Chapter 6 Conclusions; References; Index.
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Crescent Moon Publishing Installation Art in Close-Up
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Trolley Books Eddy Frankel Blob
Book SynopsisA short story about a man who becomes a blob illustrated by nine British contemporary artists, and written by art critic Eddy Frankel. Blob is part fiction, part art catalogue, part curatorial project. It's about depression, ageing, anxiety, body dysmorphia and erections, but, you know, in a kinda funny way? It's a vile, miserable little short story about a man whose bones disintegrate, published alongside newly commissioned artwork by Rachel Howard, Olivia Sterling, Mary Ramsden, Shadi Al-Atallah, Glen Pudvine, France-Lise McGurn, Emma Cousin, Gareth Cadwallader and Luke Burton. Eddy Frankel, Time Out's art and culture editor, approached a bunch of artists he loves and asked them if they'd be up for making work in reaction to this story he'd written. Was he nervous about sending all these amazing painters what is essentially an incredibly depressing wank joke? Yes. But somehow, they all said yes, and produced stunning paintings and drawings to go along with the story. The works in the book track the physical transformation and emotional degradation of the blob. It starts with Rachel Howard's vision of a man lost in the contemplation of his own bits, before Olivia Sterling goes deep on the blob's relationship with himself and his partner, obsessing over his weight and drinking away the misery as his girlfriend cups his jiggly belly and the material of his bones starts coming out in his semen. Glen Pudvine shows the blob in his fully realised, boneless, horny state, Shadi Al-Atallah depicts him splayed across a hospital corridor with an erection and France Lise McGurn shows the blob losing himself in nothingness. Mary Ramsden abstracts the mundane, everyday misery of his emotions, Gareth Cadwallader shows him as a self-obsessed middle aged man staring at himself in the mirror, and Luke Burton depicts the blob's ultimate nightmare: suburban mediocrity. It all ends with the blobby oblivion of Emma Cousin's three near-formless masses of flesh and goo.
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Archetype Publications Ltd Woven Tapestry: Guidelines for Conservation
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Archetype Publications Ltd Rembrandt Conservation Histories
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Archetype Publications Ltd Ground Layers in European Painting 1550-1750
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Archetype Publications Ltd Dyes in History and Archaeology 33/34
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Archetype Publications Ltd Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin No. 9, 2022
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Archetype Publications Ltd Greener Solvents in Conservation
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Archetype Publications Ltd The Wall Paintings of Bamiyan, Afghanistan:
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Archetype Publications Ltd Conservation of Plaster Casts
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Archetype Publications Ltd Arms and Armour: History, Conservation and
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Archetype Publications Ltd Research on Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas
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Archetype Publications Ltd Dyes in History and Archaeology 37/40
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Archetype Publications Ltd The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators: A
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Archetype Publications Ltd Early Painting in the Northern Netherlands: Style
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Unicorn Publishing Group The Other Side of Silence The Far Side of Time
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Labour Narratives
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Tourisme arts et territoires
Book SynopsisL'art exerce une influence importante sur le secteur touristique et son développement, tout comme le tourisme a parallèlement participé au développement et à l'enrichissement du secteur artistique.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Imagined Cosmopolis: Internationalism and
Book SynopsisThe period from the 1870s to the 1920s was marked by an interplay between nationalisms and internationalisms, culminating in the First World War, on the one hand, and the creation of the League of Nations, on the other. The arts were central to this debate, contributing both to the creation of national traditions and to the emergence of ideas, objects and networks that forged connections between nations or that enabled internationalists to imagine a different world order altogether. The essays presented here explore the ways in which the arts operated internationally during this crucial period of nation-making, and how they helped to challenge national conceptions of citizenship, society, homeland and native tongue. The collection arises from the AHRC-funded research network Internationalism and Cultural Exchange, 1870–1920 (ICE; 2009–2014) and its enquiry into the histories of cultural internationalism and their historiographical implications. This collection has been edited by members of the ICE network convened by Grace Brockington and Sarah Victoria Turner.Trade Review«Imagined Cosmopolis is an ambitious and exciting volume that charts new interdisciplinary territory through the interrogation of international ideals and cosmopolitan experiences in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It provides a welcome corrective to the national and ideological borders that often structure scholarship, and I know it will inspire future work in the field.» (Professor Morna O’Neill, Wake Forest University) «The study of modern history has for so long focused on the nation as the key framework, but recent studies, of which this volume contains excellent examples, have de-nationalized history by globalizing separate national entities. This is a most welcome development, and it is to be hoped that this volume will be followed by many others in transnationalizing modern history.» (Professor Akira Iriye, Harvard University)Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Grace Brockington/Sarah Victoria Turner: Introduction: Art and Culture Beyond the Nation – Daniel Laqua: Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and the Individual – Jessica Wardhaugh: The Fabulous Destiny of Saint-Patrice: Royalist Cosmopolitanism and Republican France – Sharon Hecker: Navigating International Networks for Modern Sculpture at the Fin de Siècle: The Case of Medardo Rosso – Dina Gusejnova: A Prussian Diplomat and Cosmopolitan: Count Harry Kessler’s Cultural Politics during and after the First World War – Marina Dmitrieva: ‘Distance Passes through Me’: Herwarth Walden, Modernism and the Cosmopolitan Utopia – Charlotte Ashby: Introduction: Cultural Networks and Connections – Christopher Reed: Boston as Museum: Cosmopolitan Constructions of Japan – Vibeke Röstorp: Third Culture Artists: Scandinavians in Paris – Juliet Simpson: Art as Cosmopoetics: Ferdinand Hodler, Mallarmé and La Revue de Geneve – Rosie Ibbotson: Synoptic Outlooks: Cosmopolitan Vision and the Arts and Crafts Movement – Sarah Victoria Turner: Introduction: Real Places and Imagined Journeys – Hervé Inglebert and Sandra Kemp: Universal Histories, Universal Exhibitions and Universal Museums in Europe: Henry Cole and the Legacies of the South Kensington Museum – Marta Filipová: Regional Modernity and the Global Exhibition Network: Prague’s Exhibitions of 1891 and 1895 – Wouter Van Acker: World Capital Cities in the Belle Époque: Claiming Centrality through Cosmopolitanism – Charlotte Ashby: European Design Journals as Transnational Spaces – Grace Brockington: Introduction: The Expanded Universal Language Movement – Leonard Bell: Translations: Maori Art Nationalized in Settler-Colonial New Zealand and Internationalized in European Art and Theory – Helena Čapková: The Hawk Princess at the Hawk’s Well: Neo-Noh and the Idea of a Universal Japan – Katja Krebs: ‘So Utterly Foreign to the Spirit of Modern English Drama’: Internationalism and Theatrical Relations in London in the Early Twentieth Century – Sophie Hatchwell: ‘Acquiring a Foreign Accent’: Painting as Cosmopolitan Language in Edwardian Art Writing
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, national and supranational institutions and the mass media have played a central role in presenting the migrant struggle in a sensational way, spreading an unjustified moral panic and relegating migrants themselves to spaces of invisibility. Building on recent theoretical debates in migration studies around the so-called «autonomy of migration» - which sees people on the move as individuals with self-determination and agency - this book reframes migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around the island of Lampedusa. In particular, the book explores how activist and art forms have become a platform for subverting the dominant narrative of migration and generating a vital form of political dissent, by revealing the contradictions and paradoxes of the securitarian regime that regulates immigration into Europe. The analysis focuses on works by, among others, Broomberg & Chanarin, Centre for Political Beauty, Forensic Architecture, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, Isaac Julien, Tamara Kametani, Bouchra Khalili, Kalliopi Lemos, Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Maya Ramsay, Giacomo Sferlazzo, Aida Silvestri, Ai Weiwei, Lucy Woodand Dagmawi Yimer.Trade Review«Reframing Migration interrogates the iconic status of Lampedusa as a centerpiece of the dominant European politics of migration and asylum. Examining a diverse array of artistic interventions into the asphyxiating discursive and scopic regime that frames the Mediterranean border spectacle of desperation and mass death, Federica Mazzara reveals a refreshing aesthetics of subversion.» (Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston)Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Mapping Lampedusa: Spaces of (In)visibility in the Borderscape of Europe – From Bare Lives to Subjects of Power: A Counter-Map of Resistance – Border Aesthetics and Aesthetics of Subversion: Counter-Narratives in Migratory Contexts – Death and Memory after the Journey: Counter-Commemoration in Art.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 'Otherness’ in Space and Architecture: Jews,
Book SynopsisThis conference proceeding (Sessions on "Otherness in Space and Architecture", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 2017 and 2018) is a compilation of articles written by both young and senior scholars, who are working on the question of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultures. The articles examine how material, ‘oriental’ objects and knowledge originating in non-Western communities helped building and strengthening the identity of Iberia’s, southern France and northern Italian nobility and its lineages. It is shown how, in the perception of Christians, the public image of Jews and Moslems became constructed as that of adversaries, while their cultural knowledge, at the same time, would be integrated into Christian culture in a paradox manner, in which the ‘self’ necessarily depends on the ‘other’ and how visual tensions in art and space have been used as symbols of power.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Les plantes d’Adonis
Book SynopsisEn Grande Grèce, le bel Adonis a largement inspiré les peintres, en majorité apuliens, qui ont illustré les différents épisodes du mythe, dont la remontée des Enfers, assimilable au renouveau de la végétation, thème en rapport avec la destination funéraire des vases.Hormis l'arbre à myrrhe, qui lui a donné naissance, trois plantes sont particulièrement associées à Adonis, le myrte, le laurier et le grenadier. Leur représentation est le sujet de cette étude.
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