Art and Politics

Reducere. Because every election these days is so important to the future of our great nation, the desire for the average American to choose a side and get i...

Reducere. DescriptionA true crime story set in Ireland and involving kidnapping, the IRA and a phenomenal racehorse named Shergar. Who Kidnap Shergar? A myst...

EMBODIMENT, How Animals and Humans Make Sense of Things: The Dawn of Art, Ethics, Science, Politics, and Religion describes Life from the ground up...

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

DescriptionThe Art of war is a treatise written by Niccolo Machiavelli between 1519 and 1520 under the original title "Dell'arte de la Guerra." The...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Reducere. Dottie Lamm's vibrant, engaged, and passionate personality shines through in this third collection drawn from her popular newspaper columns, coveri...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Publisher: Duke University PressAuthor(s): Kim BrandtIllustration(s): 21 illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politi...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished masterpieces of the Royal Museums ...

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

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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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

In Senghor's Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the admin...

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...

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

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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...

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

Reducere. Still Hear the Wound: Towards an Asia, Politics, Art To Come introduces English language readers for the first time to work by an emerging group of...

Reducere. In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Contributor(s): Author: Deborah StonePolicy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seem...

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

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Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

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

A nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art's carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and ...

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

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