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Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies

  • Categories: Art

This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists. The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial, conceptual, and theoretical hierarchies and biased assumptions of ‘peripheries’ are challenged. Chapters provide a diverse collection of viewpoints, analyses, and provocations on ‘peripherality’ through bringing together international specialists to discuss the socio-political, aesthetic, artistic, ethical, and legal implications of ‘peripheral approach.’ The aim is to illuminate the existi...

Postinternet Art and Its Afterlives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Postinternet Art and Its Afterlives

  • Categories: Art

Focusing on the ‘postinternet’ art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art. The ‘postinternet’ art movement is splintered and loosely defined, both in terms of its form and its politics, and has come under significant critique for this reason. This study will provide this definition, offering a much-needed critical context for this period of artistic activity that has had and is still having a major impact on contemporary culture. The book presents a picture of what the art and culture made within and against the constraints of the online experience look, sound, and feel like. It includes works by Petra Cortright, Jon Rafman, Jordan Wolfson, DIS, Amalia Ulman, and Thomas Ruff, and presents new analyses of case studies drawn from the online worlds of the 2010s, including vaporwave, anonymous image board culture, ‘irony bros’ and ‘edgelords’, viral extreme sports stunts, and GIFs. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, and digital culture.

Art Historical Perspectives on the Portrayal of Animal Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Art Historical Perspectives on the Portrayal of Animal Death

  • Categories: Art

This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time. Chapter topics span from religious symbolism to natural history cabinets, from hunting laws to animal rights, from economic history to formalist views on art. In other words, the book asks why artists have represented animal death in visual culture, maintaining that the practice has, through the whole era, been a crucial part of the understanding of our relation to the world and our identity as humans. This is the first truly integrative book-length examination of the depiction of dead animals in Western art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, animal studies, and cultural history.

Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty

  • Categories: Art

This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation. The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts, and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations that are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; and ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cultural theory.

The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form

  • Categories: Art

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ‘formal’ analyses of culture experience. Specifically, the discussion draws on theories of affective aesthetics with the view of addressing the sensual form of culture (i.e. ‘cultural form’). Therefore, the volume puts forward a mode of formalist analysis in visual cultural research which takes purchase on the idea of ‘cultural form’. A continuum of formalist attention between Image analysis (visual media, industrial design) and probing of ‘cultural forms’ establishes the theoretical underpinning of the book. These concepts are expounded through a case study which looks at formal experimentations and debates arising from 1960s avant-garde artistic practices in London.

Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami

  • Categories: Art

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America. Jana Evans Braziel argues that Caribbean and Latinx street artists define and visually mark the city of Miami as a diasporic, transnational urban space. These artists also help define Miami as a cosmopolitan city, yet one that is also a distinctly Caribbean and Latinx urban space, and simultaneously resist but also (at times reluctantly) participate in the forces of gentrification and urban re/development, particularly through the myriad and complex ways in which street art contributes to city branding and art tourism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, urban studies, American studies, and Latin American/Caribbean studies.

Political Graffiti in Critical Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Political Graffiti in Critical Times

  • Categories: Art

Whether aesthetically or politically inspired, graffiti is among the oldest forms of expression in human history, one that becomes especially significant during periods of social and political upheaval. With a particular focus on the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus, the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, and opposition to Donald Trump in the American capital, it reveals the diverse ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.

Sanomalehdet koulutiellä
  • Language: fi
  • Pages: 290

Sanomalehdet koulutiellä

Sanomalehdet koulutiellä kertoo sanomalehtien ja koulujen yhteistyöstä viidenkymmenen vuoden ajalta. Yhtäjaksoinen toiminta alkoi vuonna 1964 Sanomalehtien Liiton järjestämällä opettajien lehdistökurssilla. Alkuvaiheessa sanomalehdet kuuluivat historian ja yhteiskuntaopin opetukseen ja siirtyivät vähitellen myös äidinkielen, kuvaamataidon ja luokanopettajien työkaluiksi. Yhteistyöstä kehittyi monipuolinen ja laaja toiminta, joka kuvasti oman aikansa kouluja, opetussuunnitelmia, oppiaineiden tarpeita. Viidenkymmenen vuoden aikana oppiainerajat ylittävässä opetuksessa siirryttiin joukkotiedotuskasvatuksesta viestintäkasvatuksen kautta mediakasvatukseen. Kirja kertoo myös o...

Joanna Trollope: The Other Family & A Village Affair
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 591

Joanna Trollope: The Other Family & A Village Affair

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-15
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  • Publisher: Random House

This special 2-for-1 collection features two classic Joanna Trollope novels: The Other Family and A Village Affair. The Other Family: Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from her daughters threatens to overwhelm them all. For Richie had still been marrie...

The Other Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

The Other Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02-18
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  • Publisher: Random House

Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love this absorbing, emotionally charged and beautifully written novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. Our lives are not always as rock-solid as we think... 'Inventive, surprising and fascinating' - The Times 'A page-turner that feels like sinking into a warm, deep bath. With Trollope you are always in safe hands. Highly recommended' -- Sunday Express 'Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction' -- Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely gripping' -- ***** Reader review 'I could hardly bear to put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Another unputdownable book from Joanna Tro...