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  • Cities and Literature

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries, juxtaposed with key ideas from urban cultural and critical theories.Cities and Literature shows how literature frames real and ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Art Rebellion

    The Aesthetics of Social Transformation

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has been crucial to bringing people and ideas together. However, in an increasingly fractured world characterised by upheaval and crisis, what role can art play in ushering in transformation?Malcolm Miles offers a guide to contemporary art and activism, ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Limits to Culture

    Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital's 'cultural' urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grass-roots cultural dissent against capital's continuing project of control via urban planning.In the 1980s, notions of the 'creative class' were expressed though a cultural turn in urban policy towards the 'creative city'. De-industrialisation created a shift away from how people understood ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Avant-Gardes

    Art, Architecture and Change

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted positions.This book looks back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examining ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Art, Space and the City

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Public art - the making, management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries, and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban planning and design, are both socially produced but have emerged from different fields and tend to be discussed in isolation. This book applies a range of critical perspectives which have emerged from ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Eco-Aesthetics

    Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art
    By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics promoting debate, confronting convention and formulating alternative ways of thinking about art ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Paradoxical Urbanism

    Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Malcolm Miles argues ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Urban Utopias

    The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plural possibilities for ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Herbert Marcuse

    An Aesthetics of Liberation

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Modern European Thinkers
    When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, and deals specifically with his aesthetic theories and their relation to a critical theory of society.Although Marcuse is ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities and Cultures

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts, cultural institutions and heritage, distinctive ways of life - are seen to be differently used in or affected by ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Interventions

    Edited by Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall ...
    Series series Advances in Art and Urban Futures
    Interventions is a contribution to current considerations of how cultural initiatives and interventions affect the development of cities. It draws together policies and projects for cultural urban interventions, from the UK, Lithuania, India, and North America. The authors include artists, arts managers, academics in cultural and geographical fields, and policy makers. The book has three sections: ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

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    Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 28 min

    When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the twentieth centuryIn 1900, an eighteen-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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