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Four Plays about Disability
Agency
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute's survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute’s survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
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This hybrid collection of essays and self-portraits explores the ‘mark’—from heritage and race to trauma and scars. Through various art forms, it tackles identity, emancipation, and self-determination in postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.
This hybrid collection of essays and self-portraits explores the ‘mark’—from heritage and race to trauma and scars. Through various art forms, it tackles identity, emancipation, and self-determination in postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.
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John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years
Keeping the Fires of Figurative Art Burning
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate's first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate’s first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
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Trans-Disciplinary Migrations
Science, the Sacred and the Arts
A paradigm shift is challenging our most deeply held beliefs. This book presents a prismatic array of fascinating discourses from doctors, artists, and philosophers. Journeying with a sense of the quantum sublime, they speak with passion about the web of connectivity.
A paradigm shift is challenging our most deeply held beliefs. This book presents a prismatic array of fascinating discourses from doctors, artists, and philosophers. Journeying with a sense of the quantum sublime, they speak with passion about the web of connectivity.
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The Value of Mathematics and Computing in Contemporary Art
Beauty and Mathematics
Artists have always used the tools of their time. Today, computers and mathematics enrich the panoply of tools an artist can deploy. This book reveals the immense artistic qualities and intellectual values of works created with our growing mathematical knowledge.
Artists have always used the tools of their time. Today, computers and mathematics enrich the panoply of tools an artist can deploy. This book reveals the immense artistic qualities and intellectual values of works created with our growing mathematical knowledge.
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The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art
Arnhem Land Bark Painting, 1970-1990
This book reveals how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical to Indigenous contemporary art and self-determination. It charts the art’s trajectory from being understood as an ethnographic form to its appreciation as conceptual art with cultural agency and contemporaneity.
This book reveals how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical to Indigenous contemporary art and self-determination. It charts the art’s trajectory from being understood as an ethnographic form to its appreciation as conceptual art with cultural agency and contemporaneity.
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How can film instructors help students become better writers? This book answers by uncovering the disciplinary expectations for student writing and offering clear, actionable strategies to teach those expectations, helping instructors foster better writing in their students.
How can film instructors help students become better writers? This book answers by uncovering the disciplinary expectations for student writing and offering clear, actionable strategies to teach those expectations, helping instructors foster better writing in their students.
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Thinking Touch in Partnering and Contact Improvisation
Philosophy, Pedagogy, Practice
What happens when artists take touch as a starting point? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, with practitioner and scholarly perspectives on the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, education, and 21st century performance.
What happens when artists take touch as a starting point? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, with practitioner and scholarly perspectives on the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, education, and 21st century performance.
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Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye
New Insights
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
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This book reveals how Sarah Kane’s plays immerse audiences in the raw, embodied experience of violence and trauma. It presents a compelling case for her enduring relevance, cementing her legacy as one of modern theatre’s most provocative and essential voices.
This book reveals how Sarah Kane’s plays immerse audiences in the raw, embodied experience of violence and trauma. It presents a compelling case for her enduring relevance, cementing her legacy as one of modern theatre’s most provocative and essential voices.
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Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
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This book brings together essays by researchers, artists, and curators exploring themes such as identity, memory, and technology. It features a paper by a V&A curator on photographer Maurice Broomfield and includes color portfolios by Broomfield and Craig Easton.
This book brings together essays by researchers, artists, and curators exploring themes such as identity, memory, and technology. It features a paper by a V&A curator on photographer Maurice Broomfield and includes color portfolios by Broomfield and Craig Easton.
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This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.
This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.
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This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
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Contemporary Dance in South Africa
The Toyi-Toying Body
How does the body in South African contemporary dance protest oppressive power? This book examines key post-apartheid works to reveal their social and political meanings, capturing a unique moment in the nation's history and telling the story of its past, present, and future.
How does the body in South African contemporary dance protest oppressive power? This book examines key post-apartheid works to reveal their social and political meanings, capturing a unique moment in the nation’s history and telling the story of its past, present, and future.
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This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.
This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.
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Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century
Dusting Out the Corners
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
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Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies
Changes and Continuities
This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.
This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.
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Leading scholars explore the understudied history of collecting in the American South. This volume examines the rich Renaissance and Baroque art in Southern public and private collections, revealing how these works were acquired, curated, displayed, and preserved.
Leading scholars explore the understudied history of collecting in the American South. This volume examines the rich Renaissance and Baroque art in Southern public and private collections, revealing how these works were acquired, curated, displayed, and preserved.
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This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
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