Contemporary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Enrico Mascelloni
The Fine Arms: Geopolitics of Contemporary Art

Contemporary art and its central role in the global geopolitical landscape> Declaring the category of soft power obsolete, The Fine Arms explores in the first part the relationship of contemporary art …

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The Legacy of Kant in Contemporary Philosophy

A collection of essays examining the topicality of Kant's thought and its impact on the development of contemporary philosophy.How can Kant's philosophy inspire us to search for new solutions to problems …

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Mediterranean Musicscapes in Contemporary Spain

"This volume focuses on the musicscapes that contest, critique, and rethink Mediterraneidad (Mediterraneaness) in Contemporary Spain, and understands it as a fluid and elusive sociological, cultural,…

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Robert Shore,
Blow Up!

THE JOURNEY OF CONTEMPORARY ART FROM MARCEL DUCHAMP'S REPURPOSED URINAL TO MAURIZIO CATTELAN'S TAPED BANANA.How did a urinal become art? A can of soup? A pickled shark? A banana taped to a wall? This grap…

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Adam Geczy,
Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions

What is the position of art in contemporary culture, where it is threatened by an ever-greater diversity of media, discourses, practices, genres and forms? Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions sets out…

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Practical Truth

The sixteen essays in this collection concern the origin of practical truth in Aristotle's ethics, the history of practical truth throughout the intervening centuries, and the role it currently plays in c…

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Geoff King
Arthouse Crime Scenes

How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and film-industrial trends? Crime might be shown or lurk only at the edges. It might be left …

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Amber Creswell Bell
About Face

A vibrant survey of contemporary portrait painters by bestselling author and curator Amber Creswell Bell.

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Cara Wallis
Social Media and Ordinary Life

How Chinese citizens use social mediaFocusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnograp…

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Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Nalini Bhushan, Jay L Garfield
Subject as Freedom

Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1947) was one of the most prominent philosophers in India in the first half of the 20th century. He was King George Professor of Philosophy at Presidency College in Calc…

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Liu Jieyu
Embedded Generations

An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949With Embedded Generations , Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist …

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Irony and Sincerity in Contemporary Television

In the wake of the contemporary Golden Age of Television and political polarization in the United States, this collection argues that the tension between sincerity and irony in nicecore television is cruc…

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Roxanne L Euben
Driven to Their Knees

How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politicsHumiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallie…

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Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America

This transnational study explores gender and sexuality in television programming from across Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

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Jung-Sil Lee, Dong-Yeon Koh
Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950 - Now)

Including over 120 full-colour images throughout, this is a vividly illustrated, in-depth and up-to-date introduction to the world of Korean art from 1950 to the present day.The book covers such as topics…

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Linda Brassington
Indigo and Resist Dyeing

Contemporary textile artist and researcher Linda Brassington provides an unexpected and expansive critical perspective on the practices, meanings and heritage of a global textile technique. Drawing connec…

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Feminist Visions

An in-depth examination of how contemporary films and TV series have incorporated ideas of western feminist movements into their narratives, and how feminist film scholarship has influenced industry pract…

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Doug Bailey, Simon Callery
Disrupting Archaeology and Art

Interdisciplinary and provocative study between an archaeologist and an artist discussing the disciplines' principles, while providing ways to rethink archaeology, the visual arts and the two subjects' sh…

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Jung-Sil Lee, Dong-Yeon Koh
Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950 - Now)

Including over 120 full-colour images throughout, this is a vividly illustrated, in-depth and up-to-date introduction to the world of Korean art from 1950 to the present day.The book covers such as topics…

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Keystone Poetry

"Celebrates Pennsylvania's literary traditions and diverse voices with 179 poems exploring the state's towns, history, and culture. This geographically organized collection offers new perspectives on…

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