Art and Politics

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

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

The critique of modernist ideology from France's leading radical theoristPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Jacques RanciereNumber of pages: 144Publi...

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

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Offers a formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest. Discusses influential performances by Marina Abramovi...

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A richly illustrated and accessible guide to the politically engaged art of the 21st century, exploring some of the most daring and ambitious art p...

A vividly written portrait of Benito Mussolini, whose passion for the theatre profoundly shaped his ideology and actions as head of fascist Italy T...

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Jennifer Allen details a German utopian movement that arose against capitalist triumphalism at the end of the Cold War. Describing public art and h...

Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses...

Reducere. Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peopl...

Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a polit...

Reducere. The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture brings a new set of perspectives to one of the most pressing contemporary topics in Appalachia and the nation as...

Every few years since 1955, the creators of documenta set themselves the task of providing an insight into current trends in art and of capturing t...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joanna PawlikIllustration(s): 48 color, 55 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 296Publication dat...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 74 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 183 x 263 x 17C...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Philip (The Open University, UK) SeargeantNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

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This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking be...

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This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include ...

Reducere. In Latinx Art Arlene D vila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and a...

Reducere. In Latinx Art Arlene D vila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Nizan (California State University, USA) ShakedNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Reducere. In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots...

The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Moritz SchrammNumber of pages: 400Collection: Postmigration StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 3...

Reducere. Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Although he ruled ove...

DescriptionTwo books in one The complete text of the only award-winning English translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War PLUS a special adaptation f...

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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 ...

Contributor(s): Author: Adrienne RichEditor: Sandra M. GilbertAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and ...

Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account of the evolution ...

Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays g...

DescriptionFor the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion...

Publisher: AutonomediaAuthor(s): David GraeberNumber of pages: 122Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 156 x 229 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Hannah Star RogersIllustration(s): 42 figuresNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 3...

This incisive and wholly practical book offers a hands-on guide to developing and assessing social justice art education for K-12 art educators by ...

Using philosophies of immanence - conceived by Deleuze, Braidotti, and others - and the arts to challenge contemporary capitalist ways of being hum...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Briana J. SmithIllustration(s): 79 figuresNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 187 x 30Co...

An accessible guide to the principles and vision of Dag Hammarskj ld, a man John F. Kennedy called "the greatest statesman of our century." Dag Ham...

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This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against...

Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum St LouisAuthor(s): Wassan Al-KhudhairiNumber of pages: 90Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 247 x 216 x 10Cover t...

Publisher: Astra HouseAuthor(s): Farah NayeriNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...

Wilhelm Furtw ngler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. His ...

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

The Happenings that burst on to the late 1950s cultural scene were rapidly declared passe and even 'dead', but this book reveals how an internation...

Contributor(s): Author: John RussonJohn Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and i...

Contributor(s): Author: Julia Bryan-WilsonIn 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization ca...

Artist Sean Scully and Art Critic David Carrier in ConversationPublisher: Hatje CantzAuthor(s): Sean ScullyIllustration(s): 35 Illustrations, unspe...

Institutions shape every dimension of politics. Ranging across formal institutions of government such as legislatures, courts, and bureaucracies an...

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Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

DescriptionMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights o...

How aesthetics--understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity--might become the primary discourse for political and social engagem...

Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regi...

Reducere. Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer, best known for The Prin...

DescriptionThe Long 1980s speculates on the significance of the 1980s for the arts and society today. Arguing that the 1980s saw a fundamental reor...

Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced th...

In this irresistible tour through the grand spas of Central Europe, noted historian David Clay Large traces their history from classical antiquity ...

DescriptionFashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps ...

Reducere. Welche Rolle spielten Kunstwerke im Geflecht der rasch wechselnden politischen Allianzen der Frühen Neuzeit? Dieser Frage gehen die interdisziplinä...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sarah-Neel SmithIllustration(s): 42 color illustrations, 20 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 2...

What tensions and what potential emerge when a community art program seeks to promote collectivity in the present era?

DescriptionCreation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues ...

Reducere. Taking as its premise that the proposed epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this collection explores the relationship betw...