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  • Pins & Feathers

    Three Plays

    These three plays, all produced by Hertfordshire-based community theatre Pins & Feathers, tell extraordinary stories of ordinary people. With emotion and humour, they bring history to life, portraying characters challenged by events beyond their control, whose defiant voices resonate today. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Possession

    The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

    de Erin Thompson ...
    Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, smuggling, and forgery that lies at the heart of many private art collections and many of the world's most renowned museums.   ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Smashing Statues

    The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

    de Erin Thompson ...
    Narrado por Heather Masters ...

    Completo

    6 hora 27 minutos

    A leading expert’s exploration of the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    The Life And Adventures Of Alexander Selkirk (Unabridged)

    de JOHN HOWELL ...
    Narrado por Erin Thompson ...

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    3 hora 26 minutos

    This work was the true story of Alexander Selkirk , a Scottish sailor who was employed in a number of different trades during his early life. As a young man, Selkirk learned the skills of tanning and shoemaking, and later became a buccaneer on the Cinque Ports, working his way up to the position of ship's sailing master or navigator. But in the case of Selkirk, his experiences would eventually ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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    Covered with Night

    A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

    Narrado por Laural Merlington ...

    Completo

    14 hora 33 minutos

    On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Eruption

    The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

    de Steve Olson ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Yen ...

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    8 hora 34 minutos

    Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster. For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the longquiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    The Season

    A Social History of the Debutante

    Narrado por Cassandra Campbell ...

    Completo

    9 hora 52 minutos

    Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut. But as her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom, she learned that it, and debutantes, are not as simple as they seem.The story begins in England six hundred years ago when wealthy fathers needed an efficient way to find appropriate husbands for their daughters. Elizabeth I's exclusive presentations at her court ... Leer más

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    The Cost of Free Land

    Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

    Narrado por Rebecca Clarren ...

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    9 hora 26 minutos

    **Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General NonfictionWinner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western NonfictionFinalist for The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeShortlisted for The William Saroyan International PrizeA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work."—The Boston GlobeAn award-winning author investigates ... Leer más

    $22.50 USD

  • Artificial Hells

    Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

    de Claire Bishop ...
    This searing critique of participatory art—from its development to its political ambitions—is “an essential title for contemporary art history scholars and students as well as anyone who has . . . thought, ‘Now that’s art!’ or ‘That’s art?’” (Library Journal)Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Antinomies of Art and Culture

    Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

    In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality ... Leer más

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  • Art Beyond Representation

    The Performative Power of the Image

    de Barbara Bolt ...
    Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament, and Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", ... Leer más

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