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

Mason B Williams
City of Fortune

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The city reemerged from the as…

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Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo,
Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking

An in-depth exploration of how traumatic memories of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) have shaped contemporary filmmaking ethics and aesthetics.

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Sarah Craycraft
The Village Project

Since the collapse of socialism, Bulgaria's population has been on the move---out of rural regions and into cities, or out of the country altogether. Yet today there is a countermovement of young, urban B…

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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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Jacob Leigh
Contemporary Directors' Cinema

Contemporary Directors' Cinemarefreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifies what makes nine recent films successful achievements b…

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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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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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Amber Creswell Bell
About Face

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

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Michael Petry
Mirrormirror

A dazzling and intriguing exploration of the use of mirrors and reflective surfaces as a medium in global contemporary art.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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