El artista holandés Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920-2005), conocido simplemente como Constant, concibió entre 1956 y 1974 una de las utopÃas más audaces del siglo XX. Su proyecto "New-Babylon" esbozaba el sueño de un hábitat artificial para una humanidad nómada, completamente libre para vivir donde quisiera y como quisiera. En esa sociedad liberada de la necesidad de trabajar gracias a las mÃ…
 The first part of a planned three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy.  Tracing critical positions, personnel, and institutions across this formative period, Noel King, C…
In his outstanding autobiography, Konstantin Stanislavsky reveals his own ideas and experience. "The theatre is the finest medium of intercourse between nations. It reveals their most cherished aspirations. If only these aspirations were revealed more often ... the nations would shake hands, and lift their caps, instead of training guns on each other."—Konstantin Stanislavsky "This wise and d…
Ce livre présente l'Ethiopie telle que des artistes éthiopiens la voient, sans influence extérieure ou étrangère. Les peintres nous offrent, outre la beauté dépaysante de leurs tableaux, une vision de l'Ethiopie vue de l'intérieur. Le grand sujet c'est leur pays, leur société, sa vie quotidienne, ses traditions, son histoire. Un monde où l'humain est au centre. (multiples reproductio…
Art and politics are related through repetition. Both realms are structured by practices of repetition and share a common room of sens(e)uality – aesthetics in the emphatic sense of the word. It is the aesthetics and practices of repetition that reveal the relation between both realms. This volume proposes to explore aesthetic and cultural phenomena that effect change in the non-aesthetical r…
Esta publicación explora los orÃgenes del sistema de patentes de invención en Chile, con énfasis en los discursos, representaciones y prácticas de los principales agentes e inventores que participaron del sistema de propiedad industrial entre los años 1840 y 1880. Se documentan los adelantos técnicos introducidos en el paÃs y la actitud del Estado respecto a la innovación nacional en p…