In diesem Band von Tierstudien geht es um die verschiedenen Ebenen der vergeschlechtlichten Beziehung von Menschen zu anderen Tieren, aber auch anderer Tiere untereinander.
This accessible book explores the creative uses of photography with political purpose, both in terms of subject matter and of the political perspectives that have driven attitudes to viewing photographs.
This accessible book explores the creative uses of photography with political purpose, both in terms of subject matter and of the political perspectives that have driven attitudes to viewing photographs.
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colonization to 1826 are primarily intended to aid the scholar and student by suggesting areas of further study and ways of expanding the conventional interpretations of early American history.
This book brings together a selection of articles that have been published throughout a series of special issues of the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies that originally focused on the so-called 'ethnographic turn' in contemporary arts.
In critical yet appreciative dialogue with four different art critics who demonstrated theological sensitivities, Adam Edward Carnehl traces an ongoing religious conversation that ran through nineteenth-century aesthetics.
Die Briefe der Malerin Julie Hagen Schwarz (1824–1902) gehören zu den seltenen erhaltenen Zeugnissen einer nach Profession strebenden Künstlerin der Jahrhundertmitte.
This volume is the first joint publication of the members of the American-Egyptian mission South Asasif Conservation Project, working under the auspices of the State Ministry for Antiquities and Supreme Council of Antiquities, and directed by the editor.
How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question how were these works actually made?
This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations of justice, diversity, and historiography in the fields of theatre and performance studies.
In 1967, Sir David Khalili finished his military service in Iran and travelled to study in the United States with $750 - his remaining royalties from a book he wrote when he was just 14.
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.
This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations of justice, diversity, and historiography in the fields of theatre and performance studies.
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.
Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a bird's-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an international hub of trade, art, and culture.
This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with.
"El elemento central que atraviesa a los artistas que figuran en este libro es que han sido transformados por la guerra", subraya el periodista y editor de CNN en Español, Germán Padinger, y completa: "sus transformaciones han sido públicas y han tenido un impacto en sus comunidades y en sus obras".
This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with.
In seinem Notebook beschreibt Stephen Muecke die Werke des Aborgine-Künstlers Butcher Joe aus Goolarabooloo, der das Hauptgedankengut seiner Kultur in seinen Zeichnungen veranschaulichte, die hier reproduziert sind.
Die englische Schriftstellerin Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, Tochter Lord Byrons, entwickelte bereits in ihrer Jugend ein tiefes Interesse für die Mathematik, insbesondere für Charles Babbages Arbeit an der Analytical Engine (Analytischen Maschine).
Für sein Notizbuch hat der mexikanische Künstler Abraham Cruzvillegas Auszüge und Aufzeichnungen aus seinem persönlichen Skizzenbuch sowie assoziative Fotografien gesammelt.
Der brasilianische Anthropologe Eduardo Viveiros de Castro beschäftigt sich mit den Vorurteilen gegenüber dem binären Denken, mit dem der strukturale Ethnologe Claude Lévi-Strauss assoziiert wird.
Romaine Moreton ist ein australische Autorin, Filmemacherin und poetische Performerin und entstammt den Aborigine-Gemeinschaften der Goernpilund der Bundjalung.
'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations.
»Für mich bedeutet Kreativität auch, ein Hotel in Kabul aufzumachen«, erklärte Alighiero Boetti, und realisierte diesen Plan 1971 während seines zweiten Aufenthalts in Afghanistan, als er mit seinem Freund Gholam Dastaghir das One Hotel eröffnete, das für sechs Jahre bestand.
Arjun Appadurai reflektiert in seiner Abhandlung den Stellenwert der Ideen Gandhis zur Gewaltlosigkeit als Form politischen Handelns in Indien und verfolgt die These, dass sein Denken und seine Praktiken eine doppelte Genealogie aufweisen.
Im Mittelpunkt des Denkens des politischen Philosophen, Ökonomen, Sozialkritikers und Psychoanalytikers Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997) stehen drei wichtige, eng miteinander verknüpfte Begriffe: das Imaginäre, Kreation und Autonomie.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDaily Mail - 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'The Observer - 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'I can think of no one better placed to tell the story behind The Beatles than Peter Brown.
