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Why does representational art thrive in the 21st century? This indispensable book skewers contemporary orthodoxies to provide the answer.
Why does representational art thrive in the 21st century? This indispensable book skewers contemporary orthodoxies to provide the answer.
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Pearce delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art. He considers how this skews the orthodoxies of contemporary art with pragmatic wisdom about why representational art thrives in the 21st-century.
Pearce delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art. He considers how this skews the orthodoxies of contemporary art with pragmatic wisdom about why representational art thrives in the 21st-century.
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"What is knowledge?" is as much a philosophic question as "What is an image?" Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.
“What is knowledge?” is as much a philosophic question as “What is an image?” Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.
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Art Writing Online
The State of the Art World
These reviews of art exhibitions tackle institutional critique, race, and class. The book argues that the critic’s role is to create a community for debate, noting that moments of crisis bring conflicts to the surface and make radical change thinkable.
These reviews of art exhibitions tackle institutional critique, race, and class. The book argues that the critic’s role is to create a community for debate, noting that moments of crisis bring conflicts to the surface and make radical change thinkable.
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Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.
Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.
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To understand the concept of “the end of art”, this book analyses the intellectual trajectory of Arthur Danto. It connects his philosophy of art with his whole philosophical system, covering his achievements in philosophy of action, history, and art.
To understand the concept of “the end of art”, this book analyses the intellectual trajectory of Arthur Danto. It connects his philosophy of art with his whole philosophical system, covering his achievements in philosophy of action, history, and art.
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Artistic Ambivalence in Clay
Portraits of Pottery, Ceramics, and Gender
Glimpse into the lives of fifteen prominent women in contemporary ceramics. Spanning generations and geographies, they describe tensions in their art and careers, analyzing the persistence of sexism while celebrating their often neglected perspectives.
Glimpse into the lives of fifteen prominent women in contemporary ceramics. Spanning generations and geographies, they describe tensions in their art and careers, analyzing the persistence of sexism while celebrating their often neglected perspectives.
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From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.
From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.
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Arts, Politics and Social Movements
In the Fields and in the Streets
This collection describes artistic and activist actions challenging the existing order. With case studies from Europe and the US, it questions contemporary ideas in the face of the Great Transition, proposing utopian forms and asking the vital question: "what is to be done?"
This collection describes artistic and activist actions challenging the existing order. With case studies from Europe and the US, it questions contemporary ideas in the face of the Great Transition, proposing utopian forms and asking the vital question: “what is to be done?”
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This volume addresses place, mobility, identity, and community in Transnational and Indigenous Studies. It conceptualizes a comparative paradigm for crossing national boundaries to imagine a shared world of poetics and aesthetics.
This volume addresses place, mobility, identity, and community in Transnational and Indigenous Studies. It conceptualizes a comparative paradigm for crossing national boundaries to imagine a shared world of poetics and aesthetics.
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This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.
This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.
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Au Naturel
(Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
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Audience Reception of Benin Cinema in Nigeria
Empirical Findings and Implications for Nollywood
This pioneering study explores Benin (Edo) cinema, a vibrant and largely unexplored frontier in Nigerian performing arts. It covers the history, filmography, and audience reception of these films, revealing a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture within Nollywood.
This pioneering study explores Benin (Edo) cinema, a vibrant and largely unexplored frontier in Nigerian performing arts. It covers the history, filmography, and audience reception of these films, revealing a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture within Nollywood.
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Audiovisual Translation
Taking Stock
This book explores the main issues, opportunities, and challenges in audiovisual translation (AVT). Covering topics from culture and technology to subtitling and dubbing, it highlights new directions showing how AVT is moving beyond its traditional settings.
This book explores the main issues, opportunities, and challenges in audiovisual translation (AVT). Covering topics from culture and technology to subtitling and dubbing, it highlights new directions showing how AVT is moving beyond its traditional settings.
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Authenticity and Legitimacy in Minority Theatre
Constructing Identity
For ethno-cultural minorities, theatre is a vital space to denounce injustice, explore past trauma, and forge new identities. But should it seek mainstream visibility or remain on the margins to assert its cultural authenticity? This volume tackles these questions.
For ethno-cultural minorities, theatre is a vital space to denounce injustice, explore past trauma, and forge new identities. But should it seek mainstream visibility or remain on the margins to assert its cultural authenticity? This volume tackles these questions.
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This collection traces themes of authority and gender in chronicles from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With contributions from leading specialists, this study spans medieval Europe, drawing on evidence from language, literature, history, and art.
This collection traces themes of authority and gender in chronicles from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With contributions from leading specialists, this study spans medieval Europe, drawing on evidence from language, literature, history, and art.
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Awakening through Literature and Film
Into the Dancing Light
This book, using Zen Buddhism and postmodern ethics, guides you beyond the conventional thematic approach. Learn to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work, ultimately turning the act of reading or watching into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.
This book, using Zen Buddhism and postmodern ethics, guides you beyond the conventional thematic approach. Learn to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work, ultimately turning the act of reading or watching into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.
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Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents
Money in Modern American Drama
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
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Barbara Longhi of Ravenna
Art, Grace and Piety
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
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This collection of essays explores Neo-Baroque tendencies in contemporary art. Scholars reveal how artists and architects fold past traditions into the present, finding parallels between the Baroque's spectacle and fluidity and our own diverse, pluralistic culture.
This collection of essays explores Neo-Baroque tendencies in contemporary art. Scholars reveal how artists and architects fold past traditions into the present, finding parallels between the Baroque’s spectacle and fluidity and our own diverse, pluralistic culture.
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