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  • Exceptional Experiences

    Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

    Edited by Helena Wulff, Petra Rethmann ...
    Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Exceptional Experiences

    Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

    Edited by Petra Rethmann, Helena Wulff ...
    Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Impulse to Act

    A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice

    by Jessica Greenberg, Eirine Avramapoulou, Irene Peano, James D. Faubion, Neni Panourgia, Tania Ahmad, Cymene Howe, Petra Rethmann, John Postill, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Alex Khasnabish, Athanasiou Athena ...
    What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Russia

    Anthropological Insights

    by Petra Rethmann ...
    Series series Anthropological Insights
    This book offers a brief introduction to the anthropological study of Russia. Moving beyond the conceptual iron curtain that has divided past study of Russia into "East" and "West," it situates Russia in a global context and provides readers with all of the necessary analytical tools for understanding the complex cultural and social configurations of the contemporary Russian Federation. Based on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

    A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies

    Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Liedeke Plate, Kathrin Thiele ...
    Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender through geographically diverse case studies on different historical and contemporary figures. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization / Reflect 8

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    Should artists be activists? Is activist art one of an artists primary responsibilities or a pointless sideshow on the fringes of serious politics? The philosopher, writer and art historian Lieven de Cauter, Ruben de Roo and Karel Vanhaesebrouck explore this theme in collaboration with other thinkers and doers in his new book Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization. In a time of globalization ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Critical Architecture

    Edited by Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Mark Dorrian, Murray Fraser ...
    Series series Critiques
    Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    by Alfredo Cramerotti ...
    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Travel & See

    Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

    by Kobena Mercer ...
    Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Unsettling Translation

    Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans

    Edited by Mona Baker ...
    This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of the ... Read more

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