This book situates the development of 20th and 21st century Chinese art in such fundamental contexts as Chinese politics and social change and is ideally suited for readers to understand the particularities of Chinese art that are distinct from Western art history.
This book situates the development of 20th and 21st century Chinese art in such fundamental contexts as Chinese politics and social change and is ideally suited for readers to understand the particularities of Chinese art that are distinct from Western art history.
This book considers how the presence or absence of writing can influence a culture’s distinctive styles of visual art, proposing that many of the most profound developments in the art world are directly correlative with a cultural transition from orality to literacy (that is, from a culture which only has a spoken form of language, to one which has both a spoken and written form).
Dieses Buch untersucht die Trennung von 'populärer' und 'ernsthafter' Kunst über einen Zeitraum von fast zwei Jahrhunderten, indem es eine ökonomische Perspektive mit soziologischen und historischen Einsichten kombiniert.
This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Scavans during the period 1665 to 1700.
This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Scavans during the period 1665 to 1700.
This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief.
This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief.
This book provides a Renaissance art historian's view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape design, and architecture), and further, how the picturesque aesthetic fundamentally changed the relationship between art and nature, between viewer and image.
This book provides a Renaissance art historian's view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape design, and architecture), and further, how the picturesque aesthetic fundamentally changed the relationship between art and nature, between viewer and image.
Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: They Work Hard for the Money is a transdisciplinary anthology intersecting art theorypraxis, comparative literature, film & media studies, performance art,ethnic studies, gender studies, age & aging, geography, and laborstudies.
Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: They Work Hard for the Money is a transdisciplinary anthology intersecting art theorypraxis, comparative literature, film & media studies, performance art,ethnic studies, gender studies, age & aging, geography, and laborstudies.
This book is centred on the practitioner-led Computer Arts Society founded in 1969 and formed to address creative computation in all the arts - performance, poetry, text, sound, sculpture and graphics.
This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.
This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China.
