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Antimodernism is a term used to describe the international reaction to the onslaught of the modern world that swept across industrialized Western Europe, North America, and Japan in the decades arou……続きを見る

What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave……続きを見る

In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However……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

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form ……続きを見る

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern wo……続きを見る

“Weaving together theory, personal experience and a deep knowledge of the power of Art to transform individuals and communities, Mendel has written a comprehensive and accessible book that fills the……続きを見る

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas addresses the growing number of communities adopting arts and culture-based development methods to influenc……続きを見る

Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search f……続きを見る

The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s “Diefenbunkers”ーeleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect……続きを見る

Will Eisnerーbest known for his influential comic book series The Spirit and his groundbreaking graphic novel A Contract with Godーbelieved in the teaching power of comics, and from 1951 to 1971 he ……続きを見る

Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhereーthe paradigmatic city of ruinsーand the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urb……続きを見る

Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context the practices of art history from 1847, the year the first teaching p……続きを見る

Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of th……続きを見る

In Rage and Denials, philosopher and architectural historian Branko Mitrović examines in detail the historiography of art and architecture in the twentieth century, with a focus on the debate betwee……続きを見る

Coloring Time...Relax Time For eBook users; You can find link of downloadable image for free at end of the book. This book is suitable for adults and older children coloring with colored pencils, fi……続きを見る

The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there ……続きを見る

Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency i……続きを見る

The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella A�sha Azoulay calls ……続きを見る

Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Tim……続きを見る

John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artist……続きを見る

Nerven am Rande des Weltzusammenbruchs. 100 Jahre DADA DADA: Waren das nicht schräge Verkleidungen, schrille Happenings, provokanter Nonsens, kurz: viel Lärm gegen das Nichts einer Kultur, die den E……続きを見る

This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. ……続きを見る

Art/Museums takes the study of international relations to the art museum. It seeks to persuade those who study international relations to take art/museums seriously and museum studies to take up the……続きを見る

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.……続きを見る

As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something oc……続きを見る

Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces? How are national galleries involved in t……続きを見る

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and t……続きを見る

Mit der geplanten Übernahme von Emil G. Bührles Gemäldesammlung durch das Kunsthaus Zürich prangt der Name des Waffenlieferanten Nazideutschlands auf einer wichtigen öffentlichen Kulturinstitution. ……続きを見る

Meet Jesus as a gay man of today in a contemporary city with The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision. In stunning new images, the modern Christ figure is jeered by fundamentalists, tortured by Marine lo……続きを見る