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The King's Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840
ISBN: 9780199266265 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the first study of its early years, re-evaluating the Academy's significance in national cultural life and its profile in an international context. Holger Hoock reassesses royal and state patronage of the arts and explores the concepts and practices of cultural patriotism and the politicization of art...
This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Art...
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The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age
ISBN: 9780415062220 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to inform a variety of the most urgent poltical events, cultural movements, and theoretical debates of our times.
This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement...
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Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images
ISBN: 9780739112618 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century, Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century, Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Politi...
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Marxism And The History Of Art: From William Morris To The New Left
ISBN: 9780745323299 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels's thought, they left no full statement on the arts. Although there is an abundant scholarship on Marxist approaches to literature, the historiography of the visual arts has been largely neglected. This book encompasses a range of influential thinkers and historians including William Morris, Mikhail Lifshits, Frederick Antal, Francis Klingender, Max Raphael, Meyer Schapiro, Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre and Arnold Hauser. It also...
This unique book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and E...
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Image of the Singing Air: Presence and Conscience in Dance and Music Collaboration
ISBN: 9780761829997 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an unprecedented combination of autobiographical cultural criticism and performance analysis, internationally recognized dancer, dance-maker, and musician Eva Gholson presents a personal and theoretical account of music and dance collaboration.
In an unprecedented combination of autobiographical cultural criticism and performance analysis, internationally recognized dancer, dance-maker, and m...
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Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State
ISBN: 9780807856635 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never conquered and taking its enduring independence as a sign of divine favor, free of civil strife and proud of its internal stability, Venice broadcast the image of itself as the Most Serene Republic, an ideal state whose ruling patriciate were selflessly devoted to the commonweal. All this has come to be known as the "myth of Venice."
Exploring the imagery developed in Venice to represent the legends of its origins and legitimacy, David... Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never...
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Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #5, It's Not Easy Being Green
ISBN: 9780955479649 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This issue features articles by Anthony Davies, Paul Helliwell, Howard Slater, and Peter Suchin, and a special section on climate change and capital with texts by Will Barnes, James Woudhuysen, Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young, Kate Rich, George Caffentzis, Anthony Iles, Chris Wright, and Samantha Alvarez.
This issue features articles by Anthony Davies, Paul Helliwell, Howard Slater, and Peter Suchin, and a special section on climate change and capital w...
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Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines
ISBN: 9780976605461 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Citizen artists successfully rebuild the social infrastructure in six communities devastated by war, repression and dislocation. Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Los Angeles), aboriginal Australia, and Serbia, about artists who resolve conflict, heal unspeakable trauma, give voice to the forgotten and disappeared, and restitch the cultural fabric of their communities. Art can be a powerful agent of personal, institutional and community change. The stories in this book have valuable... Citizen artists successfully rebuild the social infrastructure in six communities devastated by war, repression and dislocation. Author Willi... |
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Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts
ISBN: 9781405159272 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in democratic governance at home and abroad.
A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective ...
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Myanmar: Beyond Politics to Societal Imperatives
ISBN: 9789812303011 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeking to look beyond the day-to-day headlines and judgemental comments on developments in Myanmar, this volume gets under the surface to look at the underlying issues which the country faces regardless of its political future. After looking back to essay the historical forces and human agencies which have shaped contemporary Myanmar, the volume addresses health care and public policy provision with suggestions as to what potential roles the international community might have in assisting Myanmar's future socioeconomic development. Myanmar: Beyond Politics to Societal Imperatives broadens...
Seeking to look beyond the day-to-day headlines and judgemental comments on developments in Myanmar, this volume gets under the surface to look at the...
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Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #8
ISBN: 9781906496128 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This issue contains works by Thomas Campbell and Dmitry Vorobyev, John Cunningham, Harry Halpin, Stewart Martin, Benedict Seymour, and Simon Yuill, with commissioned artwork by Theo Michael, John Russell, and Plastique Fantastique.
This issue contains works by Thomas Campbell and Dmitry Vorobyev, John Cunningham, Harry Halpin, Stewart Martin, Benedict Seymour, and Simon Yuill, wi...
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CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
ISBN: 9789810578862 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The art of the snuff bottle has its origins in the introduction of tobacco snuff to the Imperial Court of the Manchus (Qing Dynasty 1642-1911). Powdered snuff was regarded as having medicinal qualities and with Court patronage, grew in popularity. This boo
The art of the snuff bottle has its origins in the introduction of tobacco snuff to the Imperial Court of the Manchus (Qing Dynasty 1642-1911). Powder...
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The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons
ISBN: 9780814720158 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design The Art of Ill Will is a comprehensive history of American political cartooning, featuring over two hundred illustrations. From the colonial period to contemporary cartoonists like Pat Oliphant and Jimmy Margulies, Donald Dewey highlights these artists uncanny ability to encapsulate the essence of a situation and to steer the public mood with a single drawing and caption. Taking advantage of unlimited access to The Granger Collection, which holds thousands of the most significant works of Thomas... 2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design The Art of Ill Will is a comprehensive history of Ameri... |
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The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age
ISBN: 9780415062213 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Most Radical Gesture is the first major study of the Situationist International, a revolutionary movement with great ambition and influence whose reflections on art, everyday life, pleasure, spontaneity, the city, and the spectacle have ensured it a vital, but largely hidden, role in the development of 20th-century culture and politics. Revealing the extent to which situationist ideas and tactics have influenced subsequent political theory and cultural agitation, this book discusses a variety of specific movements and moments of contestation, including Dada, surrealism, the events of May...
The Most Radical Gesture is the first major study of the Situationist International, a revolutionary movement with great ambition and influence whose ...
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Politics of World Views
ISBN: 9783639014303 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book analyzes the organization of political attitudes in Serbia, and the role of ideological dimensions in understanding political behavior. The analysis combines detailed analysis of survey data with qualitative analysis of Serbian politics between 1990 and 2002. The results of structural analyses show that Serbian mass political attitudes vary along fifteen latent dimensions, including dimensions such as nationalism, militarism, economic liberalism, and environmentalism. They converge toward more general ideological dimensions such as the "regime divide" dimension, or the right-wing...
The book analyzes the organization of political attitudes in Serbia, and the role of ideological dimensions in understanding political behavior. The a...
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Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #9
ISBN: 9781906496173 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring; Falling for the Future - Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth. Citizens Banned? - Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles review the AV media arts festival. Crisis in the Visual System - Paul Helliwell argues the art world's favourite philosopher, Jacques Ranciere, does have something to hide. Borders 2.0: Future, Tense - Bryan Finoki and Angela Mitropoulos present an incursion, in text and image, into the contemporary borderlands. Manufactured Scarcity - James Heartfield on Enron's pioneering of green capitalism through cutting production. Battle of All...
Featuring; Falling for the Future - Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth. Citizens Banned? - Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony I...
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The Educational Situation of Roma in Bulgaria
ISBN: 9783639034363 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Bulgaria, Roma are the minority with the highest risk of unemployment and the lowest level of education. Alongside the drop out from education for economic reasons that is widespread among young Roma, patterns that are inherent to the educational system discourage them additionally from school attendance. Roma as an ethnic group, Romani culture and history are not reflected in the curriculum. With few exceptions, teachers are not aware of customs and traditions in Romani families. Therefore deviant behaviour of Romani school-students is perceived as disturbing and abnormal. Cultural and...
In Bulgaria, Roma are the minority with the highest risk of unemployment and the lowest level of education. Alongside the drop out from education for ...
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Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #9 (Us Edition)
ISBN: 9781906496319 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring; Falling for the Future - Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth. Citizens Banned? - Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles review the AV media arts festival. Crisis in the Visual System - Paul Helliwell argues the art world's favourite philosopher, Jacques Ranciere, does have something to hide. Borders 2.0: Future, Tense - Bryan Finoki and Angela Mitropoulos present an incursion, in text and image, into the contemporary borderlands. Manufactured Scarcity - James Heartfield on Enron's pioneering of green capitalism through cutting production. Battle of All...
Featuring; Falling for the Future - Iain Boal brings modernity's futuramas back down to earth. Citizens Banned? - Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony I...
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Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #10
ISBN: 9781906496210 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The state is pouring billions into propping up the collapsing financial sector, but who is going to take care of the rest of us? Between Hollywood's embattled superbats and the gruesome charisma contests of political party leaders, we can be sure of one thing - we don't need another hero Mute surveys some popular myths of political-economic salvation (and damnation), and looks for signs of collective agency in the global Gotham Liverpool - Culture of Capital: Leo Singer & Clara Paillard crash Liverpool's regeneration party Descrambling the Food Crisis: George Caffentzis puts the class...
The state is pouring billions into propping up the collapsing financial sector, but who is going to take care of the rest of us? Between Hollywood's e...
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Foreign Direct Investment - The Ticket to Global Markets and Future Prosperity?
ISBN: 9783639038699 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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