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  • Mediating Modernisms

    Indigenous Artists, Modernist Mediators, Global Networks

    Edited by Ruth B. Phillips, Norman Vorano ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Mediating Modernisms explores the fertile exchanges between Indigenous artists living in colonial societies and the mid-twentieth century mediators who carried ideas of aesthetic modernism and modernist primitivism into these worlds. Spanning South Africa, North America, Australia, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Brazil, Nigeria, and India, the case studies examine the mediators who played the role of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Museum Transformations

    Decolonization and Democratization

    Edited by Annie E. Coombes, Ruth B. Phillips ...
    MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATIONEdited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPSMuseum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Mapping Modernisms

    Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism

    Edited by Elizabeth Harney, Ruth B. Phillips ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Exhibiting Cultures

    The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

    by Ivan Karp ...
    Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Curatorial Dreams

    Critics Imagine Exhibitions

    by Erica Lehrer, Shelley Butler ...
    What if museum critics were challenged to envision their own exhibitions? In Curatorial Dreams, fourteen authors from disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities propose exhibitions inspired by their research and critical concerns to creatively put theory into practice.Pushing the boundaries of museology, this collection gives rare insight into the process of conceptualizing ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Alternative Art and Anthropology

    Global Encounters

    Edited by Arnd Schneider ...
    While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate.Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture

    1960-2010

    by Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind ...
    1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Third World Modernism

    Architecture, Development and Identity

    Edited by Duanfang Lu ...
    This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism’s part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction of national and cultural identity. Architectural modernism is far more than another instance of Western expansionist ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Colonial Heritage

    New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe

    Edited by Britta Timm Knudsen, John Oldfield, Elizabeth Buettner, Elvan Zabunyan ...
    Series series Critical Heritages of Europe
    Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like.Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores ... Read more

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  • Art, Culture and International Development

    Humanizing social transformation

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development ... Read more

    $82.99 USD