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“julia a walker”

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  • Performance and Modernity

    Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

    by Julia A. Walker ...
    How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social, and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Art Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Contemporary Art

    1989 to the Present

    Edited by Alexander Dumbadze, Suzanne Hudson ...
    An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Toward A Minor Architecture

    by Jill Stoner ...
    A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built.Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's eye tracks differently from most, drawn not to the lauded and iconic but to what she calls “the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Bedside Essays for Lovers (of Cities)

    by Daniel Solomon ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    In this provocative collection of essays, renowned architect Daniel Solomon delves into the complexities of what makes a city vibrant. Acknowledging that a city is not a static thing, he argues we need to pay more attention to nurturing what he calls “continuous cities.” In such a city, he says, “new buildings, new institutions, and new technologies don’t rip apart the old and wreck it. They ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Thinking About Exhibitions

    by Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne ...
    An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales. ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Other Things

    by Bill Brown ...
    From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Play

    Radical Game Design

    by Mary Flanagan ...
    An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-interest

    That Which Will Not Allow Itself to Be Said

    by John Steppling ...
    The collusion of galleries, collectors and curators, following the model of studio film and network TV, has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture.Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation (mimesis) as well as being shaped by its ‘otherness’ and by history. All stories are crime stories, all stories are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Race-ing Art History

    Critical Readings in Race and Art History

    Edited by Kymberly N. Pinder ...
    Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing both. Each essay in this collection is a response to this vision, to the distant mirror of looking at the other. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Humble Theory

    Folklore's Grasp on Social Life

    by Dorothy Noyes ...
    A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to the world.Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus