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  • After the Red Army Faction

    Gender, Culture, and Militancy

    by Charity Scribner ...
    Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj iek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Tales of a Tiller Girl

    by Irene Holland ...
    A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life.This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was so much more to Irene than just a hobby. It was her escape and it took her ... Read more

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  • Dance Movement Therapy

    Theory, Research and Practice

    Edited by Helen Payne ...
    What can dance movement contribute to psychotherapy?This thoroughly updated edition of Dance Movement Therapy echoes the increased world-wide interest in dance movement therapy and makes a strong contribution to the emerging awareness of the nature of embodiment in psychotherapy. Recent research is incorporated, along with developments in theory and practice, to provide a comprehensive overview of ... Read more

    $41.95 USD

  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    by George Hutchinson ...
    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • What We Made

    Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

    by Tom Finkelpearl ...
    In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Cultural Capital

    The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain

    by Robert Hewison ...
    Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial revolution where spending on culture would solve everything, from national decline to crime. Tony Blair heralded it a “golden age.” Yet despite huge ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Curious Visions of Modernity

    Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred

    by David L. Martin ...
    Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Performance and Technology

    Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

    Edited by S. Broadhurst, J. Machon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous contact that must exist between the physical and virtual, together with the resultant corporeal transformation. It features writings from international contributors who specialize in digital art and performance practices. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • It Takes Two

    A Novel

    by Patrizia Chen ...
    Francesca Rivabuona is fifty and exhausted by the monotony of her life. Stuck in a stale marriage with grown children who have long since fled the coop, and desperate to escape the endless cycle of Upper East Side dinner parties and charity luncheons, she jumps at the chance to write an article about Buenos Aires for a glossy travel magazine.Francesca is instantly captivated by Buenos Aires’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World

    Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice

    by Nyama McCarthy-Brown ...
    Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, resulting in cultural clashes in classrooms and studios. The first of its kind, this book provides dance educators with tools to refocus teaching methods to celebrate the pluralism of the United States. The contributors discuss how to diversify ballet technique classes and dance history courses in higher education ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Contemporary British Art

    An Introduction

    by Grant Pooke ...
    The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape – both national and global.This book takes a fresh look at some of the themes, ideas and directions which have informed British art since the later 1980s through to ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Improvisation Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945

    by Roger Dean, Hazel Smith ...
    First Published in 1997. The authors’ purpose in this book is to dissect developments in improvisation in the arts since 1945, with a particular emphasis on process and technique. The approach is analytical and theoretical but is also relevant to practitioners and their audience. Their key argument is that improvisation has been of great importance and value in the contemporary arts, particularly ... Read more

    $67.99 USD