Feminist Theatres in the USA: Staging Women's Experience
ISBN: 9780415098052 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feminist Theaters in the USA is a fresh, informative portrait of a key era in feminist and theater history It is vital reading for feminist students, theater historians and theater practitioners. Their continued movement forward will be challenged and enriched by this timely look back at the trials and accomplishments of their predecessors.
Canning interviews over thirty women who took part in the dynamic feminist theater of the 1970s and 1980s. They provide first-hand accounts of the excitement, struggles and innovations which formed their experience. From this foundation Cannning... Feminist Theaters in the USA is a fresh, informative portrait of a key era in feminist and theater history It is vital reading for feminist students, ...
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The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure
ISBN: 9780415099066 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Were the 1970s really the devils decade? Images of strikes, galloping inflation, rising unemployment and bitter social divisions evoke a period of unparalleled economic decline, political confrontation and social fragmentation. But how significant were the pessimism and self-doubt of the 1970s, and what was the legacy of its cultural conflicts? Covering the entire spectrum of the arts - drama, television, film, poetry, the novel, popular music, dance, cinema and the visual arts - The Arts in the 1970s challenges received perceptions of the decade as one of cultural decline. The collection...
Were the 1970s really the devils decade? Images of strikes, galloping inflation, rising unemployment and bitter social divisions evoke a period of unp...
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A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage
ISBN: 9780415106443 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre.
This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley. It also contains full performances texts by two of the most influential and controversial practiitioners of feminist theatre: Dress Suits to... This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and p...
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661,34 zł |
Museum Provision and Professionalism
ISBN: 9780415112819 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything that the political climate and the imagination allows them to be. No two museums are the same.
The papers which make up this volume give ample evidence of the variety of views that exist about museums. They also demonstrate that museums and museum professionals are moving forward with energy and conviction. This volume will be invaluable to... Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places...
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The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader
ISBN: 9780415126113 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the inconsistencies and contradictions which are inherent within them.
As with all books in the Critical Readers in Theory and Practice series, the volume is divided into two halves: the first, a comprehensive and thorough introduction by the editor, offering a schematic survey of the major themes and positions taken in the debates around... For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. Th...
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Art 7-11: Developing Primary Teaching Skills
ISBN: 9780415128414 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aimed at non-specialist primary teachers, this book offers support for the two attainment targets of the national curriculum in art - investigating and making, and knowledge and understanding. It uses examples and materials to explore various areas of children's development in art making and understanding, and also aims to equip teachers with strategies for developing their own understanding and appreciation of the subject. Units included cover such areas as: children's motivation to make art; developing co-operative work with artists in schools; learning about art from other cultures;...
Aimed at non-specialist primary teachers, this book offers support for the two attainment targets of the national curriculum in art - investigating an...
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203,44 zł |
Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings
ISBN: 9780415141284 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text brings together a collection of artists, curators, critics and researchers to consider the question of sexual difference and its significance in the production and reception of visual representation by women artists. Generations indicates a sense of awareness of the historical and political positioning of women whereas Geographies calls attention to their location in terms of nationality, imperialism, migration, exile, diaspora and social difference. Drawing on a range of current theoretical perspectives, works by women artists of the 20th century are examined in terms of themes...
This text brings together a collection of artists, curators, critics and researchers to consider the question of sexual difference and its significanc...
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188,18 zł |
The Art Question
ISBN: 9780415174893 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? The question 'what is art?' is a question many of us want to know but are afraid to ask. It is the very question that Nigel Warburton demystifies in this accessible book. With help of carefully chosen illustrations and photographs, from Cezanne and Van Gogh to Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and the Osmond family, author Nigel Warburton brings a philosopher's eye to art in a jargon-free style. Starting with the idea that art is simply significant form, he explains much talked about but little understood theories of art: art as...
If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? The question 'what is art?' is a question many of us want to know but are afraid to ask...
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661,34 zł |
Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
ISBN: 9780415228756 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wittgenstein, Culture and the Arts is the first full exploration of the profound implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. This stellar collection of original essays by philosophers and critics of the arts addresses the main philosophical topics of importance in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, the philosophy of language, psychology, painting, performance, film and ethics. The essays exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure. This will be an...
Wittgenstein, Culture and the Arts is the first full exploration of the profound implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts ...
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686,78 zł |
The Advertising Handbook
ISBN: 9780415243919 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Advertising Handbook unravels the how and why of advertizing and places the industry in its social, historical and political context. Focusing on key debates, it explores the competitive practices and discourses which govern the industry and those who work in it discussing topics including agency structures, advertizer-agency relationships and regulation. Sean Brierley examines the reasons why companies and organizations advertize; how they research their markets; where they advertize and in which media; the principles and techniques of persuasion and their effectiveness; and how...
The Advertising Handbook unravels the how and why of advertizing and places the industry in its social, historical and political context. Focusing on ...
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Shakespeare in the Present
ISBN: 9780415261951 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre which uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material present and lets that set the interrogative agenda. This book suggests ways in which its principles may be applied to aspects of Shakespeare's plays.
Hawkes concentrates on two main areas in which Presentism impacts on the study of Shakespeare. The first is the concept of... Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presen...
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Shakespeare in the Present
ISBN: 9780415261968 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre which uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material present and lets that set the interrogative agenda. This book suggests ways in which its principles may be applied to aspects of Shakespeare's plays.
Hawkes concentrates on two main areas in which Presentism impacts on the study of Shakespeare. The first is the concept of... Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presen...
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188,18 zł |
Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping Cities
ISBN: 9780415266949 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century.
Specific areas of research include homeless people's organisations and restoration ecology... Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and socie...
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239,05 zł |
Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780415326414 / Angielski / Twarda / 1696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of visual culture is interdisciplinary, deriving in part from the new art history that emerged in the 1980s, the developing studies of design and material culture, and film, as well as the concepts and methods associated with psychoanalysis, semiotics, gender, class and post-colonialism.
This collection brings together essential articles written by the most stimulating academics working in the field of Visual Studies. These texts represent both the formation of visual culture, and the ways in which it has transformed, and continues to transform, our understanding and experience... The study of visual culture is interdisciplinary, deriving in part from the new art history that emerged in the 1980s, the developing studies of desig...
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Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject
ISBN: 9780415345217 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Self/Image" explores the ways in which artists from the nineteenth century onwards have deployed new technologies of representation to explore and articulate shifting modes of subjectivity from the modern through the postmodern, from the urban industrial capitalist to the post-industrial global capitalist periods. The author argues that issues of aesthetics and the self are not esoteric or limited exclusively to art history, but connect with the most pressing political questions of life in industrial and post-industrial or global capitalism. For example, the way in which we understand...
"Self/Image" explores the ways in which artists from the nineteenth century onwards have deployed new technologies of representation to explore and ar...
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686,78 zł |
Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject
ISBN: 9780415345224 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book explores how technology has affected artists' abilities and forms to express themselves. From analogue photography to more recent artistic practices including digital imaging, performance robotics and video installations, Self/Image is one of the first full length studies to investigate the complex relations among these diverse artistic practices. This will make an excellent companion to studies of... Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original ... |
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162,74 zł |
Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780415362474 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture of what he calls 'the mainstream bizarre'.
Over forty-five photos document his artistic experiments and the text not only explores and confronts his political and philosophical parameters; it offers groundbreaking insights into his, and his company's, methods of... Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In E...
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686,78 zł |
Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780415362481 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture of what he calls 'the mainstream bizarre'.
Over forty-five photos document his artistic experiments and the text not only explores and confronts his political and philosophical parameters; it offers groundbreaking insights into his, and his company's, methods of... Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In E...
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183,09 zł |
Network Art: Practices and Positions
ISBN: 9780415364799 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Network Art brings an international group of leading theorists and artists together to investigate how the internet, in the form of websites, mailing lists, installations and performance, has been used by artists to develop artwork. Covering a period from the mid 1990s to the present day, this fascinating text includes key texts by historians and theorists such as Charlie Gere, Josephine Bosma, Tilman Buarmgartel and Sarah Cook, alongside descriptions of important projects by Thomson and Craighead, Lisa Jevbratt and 0100101110101101.org amongst many others. Fully... Network Art brings an international group of leading theorists and artists together to investigate how the internet, in the form of websit... |
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Art and Ventriloquism
ISBN: 9780415370592 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork and audience as a conveyance to the audience of the performer's intentions, emotions and beliefs through a created performative persona. Considering key works, including those of Nietzsche, Foucault, Socrates, Derrida, Cavell and Wittgenstein, Goldblatt examines how the authors use the framework... This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help unders... |
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661,34 zł |