Romanticized notions of how one becomes an artist have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characterize the art world and conforming our creative potential to well-trodden stereotypes?
Roasted nuts and vegetables, fragrant citrus and cloves, jewelled lingonberries and cardamom buns fresh from the oven - these are the delights that make a Scandinavian vegan Christmas.
Zunächst in England, dann in Frankreich und schließlich auch in Deutschland bildet die Aufklärung eine Kritik am überkommenen Christentum und dessen dogmatischen Grundlagen aus.
Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities.
Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film.
Rooted in the places, cultures, histories, and wisdom of the diverse Asia-Pacific region, this book gathers heterogeneous practices of designing social innovation that address various social, political, and environmental challenges.
This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being.
Los estudios sobre la canción de autor española se han centrado principalmente en análisis literarios o sociopolíticos de las canciones y de los “cantautores” durante el tardofranquismo y la transición.
« Pour l’avenir à partir d’aujourd’hui 12 octobre 1886 je ne tiendrai pour mon élève que Mlle Camille Claudel et je la protègerai (…) par tous les moyens que j’aurai à ma disposition (…).
This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux.
Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the importance of the apple as a symbol of both tradition and innovation.
Il y a quatre siècles, en affirmant que tous les êtres humains avaient le pouvoir de distinguer le vrai du faux, Descartes offrait à chacun d’entre nous, non un modèle à suivre, mais le récit d’un trajet, le sien, vers plus de vérité, et donc, plus de liberté.
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed light on human development, culture, and analytic clinical process.
Los estudios sobre la produccion artistica americana en epocas virreinales han girado desde sus inicios en torno al problema del estilo, del significado o de las atribuciones, entre otros.
The studies on American artistic production in viceregal times have revolved since their beginnings around the problem of style, meaning, or attribution, among others.
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed light on human development, culture, and analytic clinical process.
Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art.
In this unique book, Ahmed Taymour Pasha delves deep into Arab heritage to explore traditional forms of entertainment that have influenced Arab culture throughout the ages.
This book examines the mediated shift in the contemporary human condition, focusing on the ways in which we synthesise with media content in daily life, essentially transmediating ourselves into new forms and (re)creating ourselves across media.
