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Jim McGuigan discusses cultural policy as a manifestation of cultural politics in the widest sense. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cultural policy initiatives in Britain, the United……続きを見る

Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Lati……続きを見る

By juxtaposing issues and problems, Donald Preziosi's latest collection of essays, In the Aftermath of Art, opens up multiple interpretive possibilities by bringing to the surface hidden resonances ……続きを見る

What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Otto von Busch sees fashion as a totalitarian state, with a population all too eager to enact the decrees of it……続きを見る

Dos fenómenos en apariencia irreversibles se han vuelto insoslayables en el siglo XXI: la devastación de los recursos naturales provocada por los seres humanos y la progresiva digitalización de toda……続きを見る

En abril de 1938, André Breton, el iniciador de la aventura surrealista, llegó a México para dar una serie de conferencias. Tenía la esperanza de ver allí a León Trotski, el revolucionario de Octubr……続きを見る

From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the earliest ages it was app……続きを見る

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1914. The Museum for Art and Industry (now the Museu……続きを見る

What are the differences between democracy, communism and socialism? This book on politics will provide wonderful, easy-to-remember definitions for your elementary student. It will also include exam……続きを見る

In this book, your child will learn about the presidential and parliamentary systems of government. Aside from the most basic, straightforward definitions, this learning resource will also discuss e……続きを見る

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumented Mexican population in New York City since Septemb……続きを見る

After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhe……続きを見る

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portr……続きを見る

In "Sciopticon: Einführung in die Projections-Kunst" entfaltet Franz Paul Liesegang eine faszinierende Erkundung der optischen Projektion als Kunstform und Wissenschaft. Der Autor verbindet technisc……続きを見る

This book analyses the intermeshing of state power and art history in Europe since 1945 and up to the present from a critical, de-centered perspective. Devoting special attention to European periphe……続きを見る

In "Die Huldigung der Künste" entfaltet Friedrich Schiller eine tiefgründige Reflexion über die Rolle der Kunst im menschlichen Leben und ihre Fähigkeit, das Individuum und die Gesellschaft zu trans……続きを見る

La caída de París durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial marca un punto de quiebre en la historia cultural: el mundo del arte se convierte en un espacio sin centro. Con la Europa devastada, el impulso ut……続きを見る

This bookexplores the critical significance of the visual arts to transnational feminist thought and activism. This first volume in Marsha Meskimmon’s powerful and timely Trilogy focuses on some of ……続きを見る

Asfixia – capitalismo financeiro e a insurreição da linguagem reúne dois textos de Franco Berardi: Insurreição (2011) e Respiração (2018). Em Insurreição, o autor de Depois do Futuro, realiza uma es……続きを見る

Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the o……続きを見る

If we denounce the artist, then what becomes of the work that remains? The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliché that has forgiven bad behaviour for years: to be creative is to be prone to eccentr……続きを見る

In "The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature," Selwyn Brinton provides an insightful exploration of the vibrant world of 18th-century caricature as a crucial lens through which to understand the……続きを見る

In "Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America," the author presents a striking visual narrative that chronicles the industrial and societal transformations brought forth by World War I. Combi……続きを見る

This collection of poetry is a reflection of my journey in life for where I stand now. It is a representation of the knowledge I have encountered through various obstacles and from conversations and……続きを見る

This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression. Cory Pillen focuses……続きを見る

In "After Icebergs with a Painter," Louis Legrand Noble crafts a captivating narrative that intertwines artistic exploration with sublime landscapes, capturing the essence of the Arctic from a dual ……続きを見る

The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those r……続きを見る

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was writte……続きを見る

The Law, original French title La Loi, is a 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848 and one year before his death of tuberculosis at age 49……続きを見る

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and Th……続きを見る