This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.
The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.
Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work.
This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life.
An die ästhetische Erfahrungswelt der Schülerinnen und Schüler anknüpfenKinder und Jugendliche gestalten gerne und sind umgeben von einer gewaltigen Bilderwelt.
I have written many books which feature original art and original short stories-but after a pancreatic cancer scare (fortunately misdiagnosed), my son Stott suggested this as a topic for a book.
In this novel a couple in Annapolis, Maryland creates a new device to accurately predict heart attacks and provide seasoned medical advice in real-time.
Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work.
This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life.
Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging.
Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational programs for students in correctional institutions.
Redefining the face of the American farmer The growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing the way the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media, and yet, farmers of color are still largely left out of the picture.
De « la vie de bohème » au situationnisme, une histoire de l’art surprenante et indispensable : celle des regroupements dits « secondaires » qui n’ont cessé, depuis le milieu du XIXe Siècle, de saper l’ordre social et culturel.
Si l'on définit le terme « représenter » par rendre présent quelque chose d'absent en l'évoquant, alors on sous-entend que tout peut être représentable.
Safaris, baobabs, tam-tam, artisanat d’art, exploitation des ressources naturelles, fièvres hémorragiques, sous-développement, corruption, nouvelles technologies, indépendances, créativité…, les images véhiculées sur l’Afrique sont foisonnantes et relèvent de registres aussi clivés, imaginés, élaborés par des regards extérieurs au continent que remaniés par ses habitants, ignorés ou combattus par les producteurs d’images issus de l’Afrique et de ses diasporas.
Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.
Focusing on the 'postinternet' art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art.
Focusing on the 'postinternet' art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art.