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“verity clarkson”

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  • Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries

    Transnational Exchanges through Art, Architecture, and Design 1945-1985

    Edited by Harriet Atkinson, Verity Clarkson, Sarah A. Lichtman ...
    After World War II, museum and gallery exhibitions, industrial and trade fairs, biennials, triennials, festivals and world's fairs increasingly came to be used as locations for the exercise of "soft power," for displays of cultural diplomacy between nations and as spaces for addressing areas of social and political contestation. Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries opens with a substantial introduction ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • The Story of Contemporary Art

    by Tony Godfrey ...
    An introduction to the rich and diverse history of contemporary art over the past 60 years—from Modernism and minimalism to artists like Andy Warhol and Marina Abramović.Featuring lavish illustrations, this is the perfect gift for art history fans and anyone looking for a more inclusive perspective on ‘the old boys’ club.’Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, "What does it ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    by Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Language of Cities

    by Deyan Sudjic ...
    The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

    Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

    Edited by Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius ...
    Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess ... Read more

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  • 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

  • EMPTY STAGES, CROWDED FLATS. PERFORMATIVITY AS CURATORIAL STRATEGY.

    Performing Urgencies 4

    by Joanna Warsza, Florian Malzacher, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Knut Ove Arntzen, Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi, Claire Bishop, Beatrice von Bismarck, Rui Catalão, Vanessa Desclaux0, Tim Etchells1, Karin Harrasser2, Shannon Jackson3, Ana Janevski4, Lina Majdalanie5, Ewa Majewska6, Maayan Sheleff7, Gerald Siegmund8, Claire Tancons9, Kasia Tórz0, Rachida Triki1, Jelena Vesić2, Catherine Wood3 ...
    Series Book 4 - Performing Urgencies
    During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold a potential that so far has been mostly unused. The book is following J. L. Austin, Judith ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    by Carol Duncan ...
    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Architecture since 1400

    by Kathleen James-Chakraborty ...
    The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan’s Great Pyramid in Mexico City and the Duomo in Florence to Levittown’s suburban tract housing and the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, its coverage includes the world’s most ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Joined Forces

    Audience Participation in Theatre. Performing Urgencies #3

    by Jan Sowa, Dominique Nduhura, Antoine Pickels, Justine Boutens, Elena Basteri, Miriam Tscholl, Roger Bernat, Roberto Fratini Serafide, Ophelia Patricio Arrabal, Ana Vujanović, Tobi Müller, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel, Rimini Protokoll, Lotte van den Berg, Tea Tupajić, Tom Sellar, Adelheid Roosen, Wojtek Ziemilski, Adam Czirak, Johanna Freiburg, Bastian Trost, Gob Squad ...
    Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus der Mode. Zeitgenössische Künstler emanzipieren ihr Publikum, laden es auf die Bühne und in die ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Global Mobilities

    Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives

    Edited by Amy K. Levin ...
    Global Mobilities illustrates the significant engagement of museums and archives with populations that have experienced forced or willing migration: emigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, and others. The volume explores the role of public institutions in the politics of integration and cultural diversity, analyzing their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Practicing Utopia

    An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

    by Rosemary Wakeman ...
    The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with “new towns,” which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren’t a new thing—ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New ... Read more

    $34.59 USD