Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
ISBN: 9780226096285 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club. Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors to reveal that beauty provides unexpected...
The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club. ...
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Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
ISBN: 9780226096292 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club. Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors to reveal that beauty provides unexpected...
The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club. ...
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166,64 zł |
Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
ISBN: 9780226538662 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land and applying both anthropological and art historical methods, Howard Morphy explores systematically the graphic representation of traditional knowledge in Yolngu art. He also charts the role that art has played in Aboriginal society both present and past.
The rich symbolism of Yolngu art links the Yolngu directly with the "Dreaming," the time of world-creation that continues as the spiritual... "Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu...
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238,84 zł |
Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
ISBN: 9780226571584 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time.
Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings i...
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High Art Down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market
ISBN: 9780226670843 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?
To answer this question, Stuart Plattner eschews the spotlights and media-hype of glitzy New York galleries, and focuses instead upon the more localized, and much more typical, world of the St. Louis art scene. What emerges is the most comprehensive description ever published of a contemporary regional avant-garde center, where noble aesthetic ambitions compete with the exigencies of economic survival. Plattner's... How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with s...
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Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World
ISBN: 9780226894874 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon critics, dealers, and small exhibitions. In Canvases and Careers, Harrison and Cynthia White examine in scrupulous and fascinating detail how and why this shift occurred. Assimilating a wide range of historical and sociological data, the authors argue convincingly that the Academy, by neglecting to address the social and economic conditions of...
In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred year...
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Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose
ISBN: 9780252072086 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Democracy explores the crisis of our national cultural vitality, as access to the arts becomes increasingly mediated by a handful of corporations and the narrow tastes of wealthy elites. Graves offers the concept of cultural democracy as corrective - an idea with important historic and contemporary validation, and an alternative pathway toward ethical cultural development that is part of a global shift in values. Drawing upon a range of scholarship and illustrative anecdotes from his own experiences with cultural programs in ethnically diverse communities, Graves explains in...
Cultural Democracy explores the crisis of our national cultural vitality, as access to the arts becomes increasingly mediated by a handful of corporat...
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Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
ISBN: 9780262562263 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems -- understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as "things" -- have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality -- how it can be sensed, made use of, and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates the ways the different qualities in media systems can be said to mix and interrelate, and, as he writes, "to produce patterns,... In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems -- understood here a... |
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Art and Business: An International Perspective on Sponsorship
ISBN: 9780275950002 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals how companies support the arts and highlights actual dollar amounts, services rendered, preferred artistic events, and the motives for such support. The consequence of such patronage is shown by the preference for a particular style, choice of artistic event, and the impact of the recession and declining government support on the future of the arts. This edited book shows how business philanthropy to the arts evolved and how public relations and marketing strategies are key to understanding the role of business in art. Several articles deal with the impact of... This book reveals how companies support the arts and highlights actual dollar amounts, services rendered, preferred artistic events, and the motive... |
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Famous Works of Art in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide
ISBN: 9780313318085 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Certain works of art--"Mona Lisa," the "Statue of Liberty," Rodin's "The Thinker," Grant Wood's "American Gothic"--are famous to everyone: those who love art and those who are generally indifferent to it. This volume considers 29 works of art and examines the ways in which they have transcended the art world and become facets of the popular imagination. These art biographies are collected in five sections: Ancient Monuments Monuments to the Modern World Renaissance Art 19th-Century Art 20th-Century Art Bibliographic entries and a subject index are included, making... Certain works of art--"Mona Lisa," the "Statue of Liberty," Rodin's "The Thinker," Grant Wood's "American Gothic"--are famous to everyone: those wh... |
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Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience
ISBN: 9780415025515 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.
Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continua...
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Literary Into Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415066419 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other, popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and post-structuralist theory, transformed this relationship. With the death of literature, the distinction between high and popular culture was no longer tenable, and the field of inquiry shifted from literary into cultural studies.
Modern literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other, popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, i...
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221,57 zł |
Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement
ISBN: 9780415070157 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures; and tourism.
This text investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and ...
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Sociology and Visual Representation
ISBN: 9780415073639 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of sociology and visual representation offers two approaches: the critical paradigm and the empirical. It covers such topics as: critical writing on visual art; the use of visual representation in anthropology and sociology; and visual representation and new literary forms for sociology.
This study of sociology and visual representation offers two approaches: the critical paradigm and the empirical. It covers such topics as: critical w...
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The Power of the Image : Essays on Representation and Sexuality
ISBN: 9780415084604 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging collection is essential reading for all students of film and womens studies.
Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging...
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Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities
ISBN: 9780415088824 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.
Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinia...
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Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN: 9780415088855 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.
Participating in the de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself. A key theme is the place of the postcolonial nation within contemporary cultural theory - particularly those... Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introdu...
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712,36 zł |
Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN: 9780415088862 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.
Participating in the de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself. A key theme is the place of the postcolonial nation within contemporary cultural theory - particularly those... Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introdu...
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The Block Reader in Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780415139885 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of visual and cultural studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the woek of contemporary artists, and bring the concerns of cultural and critical theory, particularly feminist and post-colonial theory, to the study of art and design history. This volume brings together writings by leading cultural theorists and artists which were first published in the journal, to provide a resource for the teaching and study of art and design history, and theory and...
Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of visual and cultural studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to furth...
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Textual Practice V10 Issue 2
ISBN: 9780415145657 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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105,48 zł |