Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, Paperback - Dave Hickey

Reducere. The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through re...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): Ewan WhyteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 15Cover type: Paperback ...

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline o...

Reducere. The relationship between art and anarchism has a long but often hidden history. Artists as diverse as Courbet, Pissarro, Signac, van Gogh, Kandinsk...

The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieua s most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics.Publisher: Polity PressAutho...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

News Literacy and Democracy invites readers to go beyond surface-level fact checking and to examine the structures, institutions, practices, and ro...

Reducere. Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 ...

DescriptionAmerica is turning away from support for democrats in Arab countries in favor of 'pragmatic' deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islami...

Our Values gives readers their first taste of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be par...

In a follow-up to "Justice and the Politics of Difference", Young contributes to the debates about democracy in a multicultural society. She consid...

Poems as big as the sky and as small as the stars.Publisher: BiblioasisAuthor(s): David HickeyNumber of pages: 72Publication date: 2011Dimensions: ...

Reducere. What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authori...

This book is concerned with the place of communication in the troubled relations between the police and young people. Ian Loader presents a forcefu...

Collected essays from the 2011 Breaking Convention conference, which in 2011 brought together over 80 speakers and 600 delegates from 30 countries ...

Reducere. The current U.S. immigration nightmare is a product of capitalism. The familiar, heartbreaking stories of dangerous treks, migrant exploitation, as...

Reducere. Robert V. Remini, the nation's foremost authority on Andrew Jackson, has over the past three decades published numerous books on Jackson and his pr...

The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays'Flaubert believed that it was impossib...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 185 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175 x 249 x 36Cover type: Hard...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Symposium BooksIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 178 x 112 x 14Cover type: Paperback /...

In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdIllustration(s): 65 b 130 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 392Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 2014Dime...

DescriptionIn 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people spa...

Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disc...

Reducere. Justice (al-'adl) is one of the principal values of the Islamic faith. In Islam, Justice, and Democracy, Sabri Ciftci explores the historical, phil...

Reducere. Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve, " this surprising and ...

Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.

John Ruskins insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically al...

This widely used and popular text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship between the media and politics, covering the representation...

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an inf...

With each section beginning with a short introductory essay summarizing Brecht's thought in the relevant year, this volume contains new translation...

John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey's public writings and shows how the...

aeo This is Habermasa s long--awaited work on law and democracy. aeo It develops a distinctive account of the nature of law and an original concept...

Reducere. America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cult...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 5 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

The crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the failure of the Arab uprisings in the Middle East have pushed the question of how to live peacefu...

US government has been repeatedly renewed during its over 230 years. Major aspects of the federal system were broken again during the Trump adminis...

Reducere. DescriptionFor four decades, the legendary painter Wayne Thiebaud taught, passionately, at the University of California Davis, until retiring aged ...

Reducere. Flaubert believed that great paintings required no words of explanation. But, as Barnes notes, it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, t...

Reducere. Corruption is a threat to democracy and economic development in many societies. It arises in the ways people pursue, use and exchange wealth and po...

DescriptionTranslated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist C sar Aira, was delivered at a 2010 c...

John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. A prolific and influential writer for both scholarly and general audiences, he stands out for...

Reducere. In 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, Ben Davis takes on a broad array of contemporary art's most persistent debates: How does creative labor fit into th...

How art has addressed and transmuted trauma over the past half-century, from Louise Bourgeois to Glenn LigonTrauma in all its forms--internal and e...

Publisher: KarmaIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 456Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 x 233 x 39Cover type: Paperbac...

By comparing the scholarship of both Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky with that of Harold Innis, and by making detailed use of Innis's neglected wri...

The goals of budo--the martial arts and ways of Japan--lie in refining the body and spirit. The techniques, methods, and rituals of budo can provid...