Signal weaves a story of how culture is central to social transformation, both yesterday and today. This ongoing series is dedicated to documenting and sharing political graphics, creative projects, and cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles. Highlights of the ninth volume of Signal include: * Hell No, We Won't Glow: Selections from the Anti-Nuclear Powe…
O autor Alessandro Flaviano de Souza traz para o campo interdisciplinar dos estudos de cultura contemporânea uma discussão sobre a plasticidade estrutural da edição em narrativas seriadas na internet. O universo observado dentro de Netflix é formado pelas séries 3%, Edha e Sempre Bruxa, nas quais a importância social da edição audiovisual é abordada em sua pertinência para o processo…
Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique genre of ceramic art to describe a framework for a broader art practice. Focusing on the work of four artists from the 1990s through the 2010s—Liu Jianhua, Ai Weiwei, Ah Xian, and Sin-ying Ho—Burchmore reveals how the materiality of ceramics…
Antonin Artaud nasceu em Marselha, no dia 4 de setembro de 1896 e faleceu próximo a Paris, no dia 4 de março de 1948. Em 2018, completam-se, portanto, setenta anos de sua morte. Mesmo setenta anos não foram ainda suficientes, contudo, para elucidar e desvendar a profundidade e a complexidade deste poeta, ator, roteirista, desenhista, diretor de teatro e artífice do espírito. Neste livro, u…
The infamous Salvator Mundi painting sold in 2017 for {dollar}450.3 million, garnering worldwide attention. News stories had everyone thinking that this painting was made by the legendary Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci. However, something major was left out of those headlines. Many da Vinci experts did not believe that he created the work. Several years after the notorious sale, an unkno…
There is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil had been discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out. How have perceptions of Scottish culture been shaped by its role within Britain? What would be different about culture in an Independent Scotland? Why is culture the key to the independence debate? ALEXANDER …
Arts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda MacDonald-Lewis, artist Alexander Moffat and poet Alan Riach discuss cultural, political and artistic movements, the role of the artist in society and the effect of environment on artists from all di…
Mehr als ein Jahrzehnt erkundete Mary Hunter Austin das Gebiet, das sie, nach seinem indianischen Namen, »Land of Little Rain« nannte und dem sie schließlich ihr erstes Buch widmete – geschrieben hat sie es in einem Monat, wie sie sagte. 1903 erstmals erschienen, hat es bis heute nichts von seiner Faszination und Leuchtkraft verloren. Reiseerzählung, Landschaftsbeschreibung, Memoir, ethn…
While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-award-winning book, Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, passi…
O livro conta parte da história da família Campos, vinda de Portugal através do seu Patriarca o português José Joaquim Pereira Campos entre os anos 1826/1830, se estabelecendo em Pernambuco.