The Afterlife of Palestinian Images is a groundbreaking study of how colonial violence alters and changes visual objects - which in turn affects how a society and culture relates to its own images.
The Afterlife of Palestinian Images is a groundbreaking study of how colonial violence alters and changes visual objects - which in turn affects how a society and culture relates to its own images.
In the mid 1980s the Waterboys took a sudden turn away from their climb up the ladder of UK rock stardom and headed out to Ireland--and eventually the rural West of Ireland--to record the remarkable Fisherman's Blues album.
The Unseen Heroes of the Global Missionary MovementThe Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was a Protestant missionary recruiting organization.
Italian graphic design offers a new perspective on the subject by exploring the emergence and articulation of graphic design practice, from the interwar period through to the appearance of an international graphic design discourse in the 1960s.
Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order embracing much of Africa and Eurasia.
In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that prompted these exhibitions to become the global art world's defining events at the end of the twentieth century.
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy.
Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves.
Der Einfluss von Alois Riegls posthumen Buch "Die Entstehung der Barockkunst in Rom" (1908) auf die Entwicklungen der Barockhistoriografie ist von großer Bedeutung.
Die Beiträge in diesem Band beleuchten die Entstehung von bedeutenden Zeichnungssammlungen in Wien und Mitteleuropa, die heute vielfach den Grundstock der großen Kabinette etwa in Wien, Berlin, Dresden und Hamburg bilden.
A comprehensive guide to addressing the present-day challenges of commemorating the past As debates over historical monuments and their meanings unfold, Memorials Now offers a critical exploration of how communities can navigate the complex terrain of commemorative practices.
This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the '60s and '70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the '80s, '90s and today?
Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, douard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.
Variously translated as "e;estrangement,"e; "e;enstrangement"e; or "e;defamiliarization,"e; Viktor Shklovsky's concept of ostranenie is more relevant than ever.
In the 1990s, a young UgandanCatholic nurse named Rose Busingye began working in the slums of Kampala withthe many women there suffering from HIV/AIDS.
This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
