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Transnational Visual Activism for Women’s Reproductive Rights
Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness, and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely examining the lived experiences of women and their right of free choice. The transnational framing engages with resurgent imperialist and colonial ambitions across global politics and with the attempts at disrupting these positionings by prioritising feminist care as instrumental for democracy and social justice. Key foci of this book include the ways in which arts activism operates, and its strategies and methods related to, for example, the types of artistic practice empl...
Diffracting New Materialisms
This edited book considers the vital position of artistic research in the landscapes and ecosystems of new materialism(s) and post-humanism(s), in and for higher education. The book aims to satisfy an urgent desire for change in the ways we link artistic and critical research practices, asking what new ways of thinking and creating for twenty-first century artistic and educational contexts we need in order to address the kinds of global complexities we face. Organised around five key themes including fictioning, reading, embodying, inhabiting and folding, the book acts as an entry point for academics, artists and scholar-practitioners to participate in the shaping of new forms of artistic research and practice that are relevant, participatory, and that urgently address the kinds of complex issues emergent in our twenty-first century context. In doing so, the book makes a key contribution to the development of emerging inter- and transdisciplinary artistic research practices across a range of fields, responding to the question - what kinds of research and practice worlds do we wish to create in times of urgency, crisis and complexity?
The Story of Contemporary Art
An introduction to the rich and diverse history of contemporary art over the past 60 years—from Modernism and minimalism to artists like Andy Warhol and Marina Abramović. Featuring lavish illustrations, this is the perfect gift for art history fans and anyone looking for a more inclusive perspective on ‘the old boys’ club.’ Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, "What does it mean?" "Is it really art?" and "Why does it cost so much?" These are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his magisterial The Story of Art. Contemporary art seems totally unlike what came before it, departing from the road map supplied by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and other European masters. In The Story of Contemporary Art, Tony Godfrey picks up where Gombrich left off, offering a lively introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes to Marina Abramović’s performance art to today’s biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions. Godfrey, a curator and writer on contemporary art, chronicles important developments in pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, installation art, performance art, and beyond.
A Woman's Right to Know
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life. Pregnancy testing has never been easier. Waiting on one side or the other of the bathroom door for a “positive” or “negative” result has become a modern ritual and rite of passage. Today, the ubiquitous home pregnancy test is implicated in personal decisions and public debates about all aspects of reproduction, from miscarriage and abortion to the “biological clock” and IVF. Yet, only three generations ago, women typically waited not minutes but months to find out whether they were pregnant. A Woman’s Right to Know tells, for the first time, the story of ...
The Two Roads Taken
Dannie Abse s prose anthology draws together essays and autobiographical material spanning a lifetime of writing and practising medicine. We are treated to amusing anecdotes of Abse s time as a trainee-doctor in wartime Britain, as well as more serious pieces on the Holocaust, Jewishness and the impact literature has had on his medical work. His detailed critical essays on poets ranging from Keats to Plath allow us to engage with his own poetic principles: I believe all poetry should be written out of a personal predicament and should be necessary; that there is an unconscious aspect to poetry, that it s not all on the surface. The resounding voice, like that of his poems, is humorous, compassionate and civilised."
Sculpture 1900-1945
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the significant growth of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and America from 1900-1945. Using a clearly-defined thematic structure it identifies key issues and developments throughout this important period in the history of art. Individualchapters cover: public sculpture, the monument, the object, image-making, the built environment, the figurative ideal, and different materials. These themes broadly reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent period which included two world wars, each preceded by widespreadrising nationalism. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of international art markets. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as arecurrent point of reference.
시선의 불평등
“이미지는 어떻게 여성의 몸을 통제해왔는가” 시각문화에 뿌리내린 여성의 사회적 고정관념에 관한 논쟁 역사적으로 ‘보는 행위’는 모두에게 주어진 기본 권리가 아니었다. 본다는 것, 그리고 보는 사람이 누구인가 하는 문제는 우리가 생각하는 것보다 더 권력 및 통제와 관련이 있다. 이는 자신들의 버전으로 이야기를 하는 주체가 누구이고, 누군가를 대상으로 삼는 주체는 누구인가와 연관된다. 특히 지난 수세기에 걸쳐 시각문화 창작을 거의 독점해온 남성들이 어떤 방식으로 여성성의 전형을 구축하는 데 앞장서고 ...
CARMINA ET EPIGRAMMATA AUREAE AETATIS
This collection of Latin poetry in the style of Horace and Virgil was written over a period of sixty years. At first, the poems were exercises set at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, or prize entries – mostly more or less literal “versiones” of original English texts. After a gap of a quarter of a century and peripatetic professional appointments in Finland, Hungary, Poland, Spain and Sicily, Coates took up a position as lecturer at Göttingen University, where the local Classics Department encouraged him to seize his poetic pen again. The ensuing poems were more original, sometimes based on ideas picked up from a literary source that the author admired, which were not always Engli...
British Art of the Long 1980s
A collection of twenty-three interviews with artists, curators, dealers and facilitators that re-examines the history of British sculpture by focusing on the long 1980s and how the era transformed British art.
