Art & Architecture 19

The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates politi……続きを見る

A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to make a crash landing. Performance functions as a diversion from unsavoury reali……続きを見る

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists h……続きを見る

L'exposition Futur antérieur. L'avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) qui s'est tenue au musée d'Art et d'Histoire du judaïsme (M.A.H.J.) à Paris, du 11 février au 17 mai 2009, fut une révélat……続きを見る

Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous. Contributors map the diverse forms such self-censo……続きを見る

This book follows Chagall’s life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through the different milieus of the nineteenth and twentie……続きを見る

How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this dee……続きを見る

The book literally is a dramatic play which can be staged, it is written in an east African setting, it is full of drama addressing politspo, corruptions, assassination, and many more vices within A……続きを見る

Dans "Jehan de Paris, varlet de chambre et peintre ordinaire des rois Charles VIII et Louis XII", J. Renouvier nous plonge dans un récit riche en détails et en couleurs, offrant une vision captivant……続きを見る

Dans 'L'art pendant la guerre 1914-1918', Robert de La Sizeranne offre une analyse approfondie et nuancée des interactions entre la créativité artistique et le contexte tumultueux de la Première Gue……続きを見る

Dans "Les femmes d'artistes", Alphonse Daudet explore les vies tumultueuses et passionnées des muses qui entourent les artistes du XIXe siècle. À travers une prose élégante et évocatrice, Daudet pei……続きを見る

The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art t……続きを見る

Gabriel Rockhill opens new space for rethinking the relationship between art and politics. Rather than understanding the two spheres as separated by an insurmountable divide or linked by a privilege……続きを見る

Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to ind……続きを見る

Theorists critique photography for "objectifying" its subjects and manipulating appearances for the sake of art. In this bold counterargument, John Roberts recasts photography's violating powers of ……続きを見る

Anita Chari revives the concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming at the level of political economy and at the more s……続きを見る

Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics ……続きを見る

In Mythopoetic Cinema, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli explores how contemporary European filmmakers treat mythopoetics as a critical practice that questions the constant need to provide new identities, a ne……続きを見る

In Mythopoetic Cinema, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli explores how contemporary European filmmakers treat mythopoetics as a critical practice that questions the constant need to provide new identities, a ne……続きを見る

The evidential role of matterーwhen media records trace evidence of violenceーexplored through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this book, Susan Schuppli introd……続きを見る

An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products. In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that……続きを見る

How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerogra……続きを見る

“France's most famous unknown artist,” the innovative media provocateur Fred Forest, precursor of Eduardo Kac, Jodi, the Yes Men, RT Mark, and the Guerilla Girls. The innovative French media artist ……続きを見る

An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics. New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist ar……続きを見る

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Albe……続きを見る

If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that……続きを見る

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranci�re develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. He argues t……続きを見る

**Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective of political feminist ar……続きを見る

Songs about Love and Society show how love can help people feel better about what's wrong in society today. It features a series of newly updated songs originally written in 1994 and 1995 that show ……続きを見る

Arte y política son ámbitos fuertemente interconectados, se atraen y se repelen, dibujan continuidades y provocan rupturas, y los ensayos que se recogen en el presente volumen se hallan sujetos a la……続きを見る