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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

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  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

  • Creative Destruction

    How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    "Argued neatly . . . cultural products that [we] think of as indigenous owe their existence to the cultural exchange brought about by trade." — Wall Street JournalA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. ... Read more

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  • What Is Contemporary Art?

    by Terry Smith ...
    Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the question: What is Contemporary Art?Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by a ... Read more

    $22.99 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

  • Cinema and Landscape

    Film, Nation and Cultural Geography: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography

    Edited by Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner ...
    The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an exploration of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Nataša Durovicová, Kathleen E. Newman ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection"The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World ... Read more

    $58.99 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity

    Edited by Anthony Shay, Barbara Sellers-Young ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are 'not right' for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when 19th century ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • Supernatural Cities

    Enchantment, Anxiety and Spectrality

    by Karl Bell, Maria del Pilar Blanco, Mikhail Vandyshev, Morag Rose, Natalia Veselkova, Oliver Betts, Sharn Waldron, Tom Sykes, Tracy Fahey, William Pooley0, William Redwood1, Alevtina Solovyova2, Alex Bevan3, David J. Puglia4, David Waldron5, Deirdre Flynn6, Elena Pryamikova7, Felicity Wood8 ...
    Since the Enlightenment, supernatural beliefs and practices have largely been derided as ignorant and un-modern - even anti-modern - and cities, being the ultimate symbol of progress and rationality, have not been thought to harbour magic. Scholars have long assumed that the world of the supernatural withered under the impact of urbanisation; yet, as numerous books, films and T.V. series from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD