Visual Culture: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780719050206 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field. The coverage is systematic, and the writing accessible.
It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field. Th...
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Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life
ISBN: 9780742517417 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts. Jensen argues that faith in high culture's unproven ability to transform people and society allows social critics to keep faith with the idea of a democratic society while deploring popular culture. Employing perspectives from Tocqueville and Dewey, she argues that the arts are good, but they don't do good. Instead of expecting the arts to improve things (and blaming the media for ruining...
Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an ins...
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212,94 zł |
Art and Celebrity
ISBN: 9780745318493 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The uneasy crossover between art and celebrity has been much discussed in recent years. Artists as celebrities is hardly a new phenomenon, but the growing cult of celebrity in contemporary culture is throwing up paradoxical ideas about the contradictions between 'high' art and mass appeal and blurring the already unstable boundaries between art, commodity and popular culture. This is a lively and accessible study of the phenomenon--the glitzy world where art and celebrity meet--informed by a fundamentally serious look at what happens when the 'serious' world of art collides with celebrity....
The uneasy crossover between art and celebrity has been much discussed in recent years. Artists as celebrities is hardly a new phenomenon, but the gro...
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159,65 zł |
Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics
ISBN: 9780745630380 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics.
Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theo...
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292,79 zł |
Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics
ISBN: 9780745630397 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics.
Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theo...
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166,20 zł |
Attached to the Mouse: Disney and Contemporary Art
ISBN: 9780761834748 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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307,62 zł |
I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
ISBN: 9780786713646 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each of the 30 never-before-published conversations within this collection presents a different facet of Warhol's ever-evolving personality and explores his emergence as socialite, scene-maker, and trendsetter.
Each of the 30 never-before-published conversations within this collection presents a different facet of Warhol's ever-evolving personality and explor...
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132,91 zł |
Critical Issues in Electronic Media
ISBN: 9780791423189 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Issues in Electronic Media is an interdisciplinary sourcebook that offers new critical perspectives directly related to, or arising from, the practice of electronic media art. It sketches the changing topology of culture as it enters electronic space and specifically addresses questions of art practice in that space. Some of the contributions focus on the dynamics of specific emerging media such as interactive media, while others look at the cultural conditions formed by, and forming around, new technological complexes. Still others examine contemporary technocultural manifestations...
Critical Issues in Electronic Media is an interdisciplinary sourcebook that offers new critical perspectives directly related to, or arising from, the...
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Char Davies' Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality
ISBN: 9780802090942 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first book-length study of the internationally renowned Canadian artist Char Davies, Laurie McRobert examines the digital installations Osmose and Eph?m?re in the context of Davies' artistic and conceptual inspirations. Davies, originally a painter, turned to technology in an effort to create the effect of osmosis between self and world. By donning a head-mounted display unit and a body vest to monitor breathing and balance, participants are immersed in 3D-virtual space where they interact with abstract images of nature while manoeuvring in an artificial spatial... In this first book-length study of the internationally renowned Canadian artist Char Davies, Laurie McRobert examines the digital installations ... |
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Reconstructing Pop/Subculture: Art, Rock, and Andy Warhol
ISBN: 9780803957435 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exploration of the phenomena of Andy Warhol's influence on glitter rock and pop art reconceptualizes and re-evaluates many of the theoretical claims of subculture theory. Reconstructing Pop//Subculture provides an historical account of the tensions that arose in Western culture during the 1960s and 1970s between various factions which were forced to engage in explicit confrontations//dichotomies.
Cagle proposes a theoretical framework that incorporates notions of productivity with reception and re-examines the critical relationships between style, youth culture, incorporation,... This exploration of the phenomena of Andy Warhol's influence on glitter rock and pop art reconceptualizes and re-evaluates many of the theoretical cla...
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611,94 zł |
Reconstructing Pop/Subculture: Art, Rock, and Andy Warhol
ISBN: 9780803957442 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exploration of the phenomena of Andy Warhol's influence on glitter rock and pop art reconceptualizes and re-evaluates many of the theoretical claims of subculture theory. Reconstructing Pop//Subculture provides an historical account of the tensions that arose in Western culture during the 1960s and 1970s between various factions which were forced to engage in explicit confrontations//dichotomies.
Cagle proposes a theoretical framework that incorporates notions of productivity with reception and re-examines the critical relationships between style, youth culture, incorporation,... This exploration of the phenomena of Andy Warhol's influence on glitter rock and pop art reconceptualizes and re-evaluates many of the theoretical cla...
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384,35 zł |
Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary
ISBN: 9780804741002 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconocl...
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Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary
ISBN: 9780804741019 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread in the conceptualization of visual images within the Western tradition. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life--the contemporary imaginary--can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries. It was during this period that the church was compelled to...
The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and h...
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Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Lives, Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs
ISBN: 9780815314776 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs, who were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century black women educators. The study identifies and analyzes themes that illuminate Cooper and Burroughs' unique angle of vision of self, community, and society as it relates to their distinctive educational philosophies and contributions to American education.
This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs, who were among the most ...
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657,46 zł |
Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s
ISBN: 9780816628872 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having oneself shot. Putting out fires with the bare hands and feet. Biting the body and photographing the marks. Sewing one's own mouth shut--all in front of an audience. What do these kinds of performances tell us about the social and historical context in which they occurred? Fascinating and accessibly written, CONTRACT WITH THE SKIN addresses the question in relation to psychoanalytic and legal concepts of masochism. 34 photos.
Having oneself shot. Putting out fires with the bare hands and feet. Biting the body and photographing the marks. Sewing one's own mouth shut--all in ...
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121,33 zł |
Artificial Kingdom: On the Kitsch Experience
ISBN: 9780816641178 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From her pet glass-globed hermit crab Rodney to the Victorian era's Crystal Palace, Celeste Olalquiaga offers a meditative look at the origins of kitsch and what kitsch tells us about the conflicts between the real and the artificial, tradition and modernity, nostalgia and melancholy. Olalquiaga artfully traces this form to the mid-1800s and establishes kitsch as a sensibility of loss -- a yearning for objects to help recapture the past -- and explains how these artifacts respond to a deep-seated human need for meaning and connection with nature. The Artificial Kingdom beautifully elucidates...
From her pet glass-globed hermit crab Rodney to the Victorian era's Crystal Palace, Celeste Olalquiaga offers a meditative look at the origins of kits...
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Desperate Measures: Posters, Prints, and More, Vol. 3
ISBN: 9780867195156 / Angielski / Twarda / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank Kozik is one of the leading rock artists of his generation. His work has graced of hundreds of posters, flyers, and album covers, and his originals are held by some of the foremost collectors of contemporary rock art. His posters are colorfully ironic admixtures of pop permutations. He sold his soul for Rock and Roll.
Frank Kozik is one of the leading rock artists of his generation. His work has graced of hundreds of posters, flyers, and album covers, and his origin...
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The New Gods: Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art
ISBN: 9780879728687 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harold Schechter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art--the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusaders and men of steel, and monsters from the ocean floor--and finds close connections between religious myth and popular entertainment. Harold Schechter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art--the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusader... |
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Architectural Anthropology
ISBN: 9780897896832 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are now witnessing a renewal of the anthropological study of the perception and interpretation of landscape as social process, and how space is culturally construed, gendered, envisioned, and most decisively, physically built. While the subdiscipline of Environment-Behavior Studies covers the study of human behavior and the environment, including both the unbuilt and built, Architectural Anthropology focuses solely on human constructive or building behavior. Architectural Anthropology appears as a complex, many-sided field. With the help of insights from architecture and other... We are now witnessing a renewal of the anthropological study of the perception and interpretation of landscape as social process, and how space is ... |
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Underneath the Knowledge Commons
ISBN: 9780955066412 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around knowledge and informational goods. As with the pre-capitalist common lands on which the majority of people subsisted, the idea is that we can build a resource, a life source, of intellectual wealth to sustain people within informatic capitalism. But this endeavour is not without political, tactical and philosophical problems. In this first issue of the new format Mute, we foreground the antagonisms which the Knowledge Commons throw up. Texts by:...
A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around know...
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33,68 zł |