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Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond
What is socially engaged art history? Art history is typically understood as a discipline in which academics produce scholarship for consumption by other academics. Today however, an increasing number of art historians are seeking to broaden their understanding of art historical praxis and look beyond the academy and towards socially engaged art history. This is the first book-length study to focus on these growing and significant trends. It presents various arguments for the social, pedagogical, and scholarly benefits of alternative, community-engaged, public-facing, applied, and socially engaged art history. The international line up of contributors includes academics, museum and gallery c...
The Exile of George Grosz
The Exile of George Grosz examines the life and work of George Grosz after he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and sought to re-establish his artistic career under changed circumstances in New York. It situates GroszÕs American production specifically within the cultural politics of German exile in the United States during World War II and the Cold War. Basing her study on extensive archival research and using theories of exile, migrancy, and cosmopolitanism, McCloskey explores how GroszÕs art illuminates the changing cultural politics of exile. She also foregrounds the terms on which German exile helped to define both the limits and possibilities of American visions of a one world order under U....
The City is an Ecosystem
The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality—which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world’s population currently live. Across more than twenty chapters, the three parts of the book cover historical and scientific perspectives on the city as an ecosystem; human rights to the city in relation to urban sustainability; and the city as a sustainability classroom at all educational levels inside and outside formal classroom spaces. It argues that such efforts must be interdisciplinary and widespread to ensure an informed public a...
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Pittsburgh Collects
Pittsburgh Collects accompanies an exhibition at the Frick Art and Historical Center that ran from October 23, 2004, to January 2, 2005. Highlighting the Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and English schools, the artworks on display are drawn from local private collections as well as the Carnegie Museum of Art. Featured artists include Antonio Canaletto, Guido Reni, Jacopo Tintoretto, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jean Baptiste Pater, Hubert Robert, Anthony Van Dyck, and Thomas Rowlandson. Information about provenance and exhibition history is included, along with a discussion of changes in styles and the role of drawings in artists' training during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
Migrating Histories of Art
Art historians have been facing the challenge – even from before the advent of globalization – of writing for an international audience and translating their own work into a foreign language – whether forced by exile, voluntary migration, or simply in order to reach wider audiences. Migrating Histories of Art aims to study the biographical and academic impact of these self-translations, and how the adoption and processing of foreign-language texts and their corresponding methodologies have been fundamental to the disciplinary discourse of art history. While often creating distinctly "multifaceted" personal biographies and establishing an international disciplinary discourse, self-translation also fosters the creation of instances of linguistic and methodological hegemony.
Corks and Curls
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The Book of Hours and the Body
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.
Guide to Graduate Business Schools
Presenting up-to-date costs and latest school facts and figures, this directory profiles more than 600 accredited business schools in the United States and Canada. Details supplied for each school include admission requirements, minimum GMAT score, available academic programs, course requirements for graduation, career placement services, library, research, and computer facilities, data on both the faculty and student body, and admissions contact, with e-mail and web site addresses. The directory of schools is organized state-by-state. Additional information for prospective students includes advice on choosing a specific business school, the application procedure, financing one’s business school program, and a sample GMAT exam with answer keys and a self-evaluation chart.
Barron's Guide to Graduate Business Schools
Updated for the coming academic year, this manual presents profiles of nearly 640 graduate business schools across the United States, plus leading business schools in Canada. Details are provided on admission requirements, academic programs, fields of specialization, tuition and fees, career placement services, and other specifics that applicants to business schools need to know. Additional features include advice on choosing the school that best fits the business student's circumstances and career goals. The book also includes useful information about taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and a sample GMAT exam with explained answers.
