(Im)permanence: Cultures in/out of Time explores the interplay between permanence and impermanence in cultural and artistic practices in the West and elsewhere. This volume engenders questions of the transition from traditional and contemporary takes on permanence in art, the preservation of ephemeral artwork, permanence and impermanence as understood in the Western, East Asian, and American Indian cultures, and art forms and permanence.
This volume addresses particularly crucial artists, including Robert Smithson and Andy Goldsworthy, as well as a wide variety of...
(Im)permanence: Cultures in/out of Time explores the interplay between permanence and impermanence in cultural and artistic practices in t...
Richard Howells Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Judith Schachter
A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power.
A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection...
Through the voices and perspectives of the members of an extended Hawaiian family, or ohana, this book tells the story of North American imperialism in Hawaii from the Great Depression to the new millennium. The family members offer their versions of being "Native Hawaiian" in an American state, detailing the ways in which US laws, policies, and institutions made, and continue to make, an impact on their daily lives. The book traces the ways that Hawaiian values adapted to changing conditions under a Territorial regime and then after statehood. These conditions involved claims for land...
Through the voices and perspectives of the members of an extended Hawaiian family, or ohana, this book tells the story of North American imperiali...
