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We Are the Music Makers!Preserving the Soul of America's Music
America tells its stories through song. Consolation to the lovelorn, courage to the oppressed, warning to the naive, or a ticket to the Promised Land, a great song can deliver the wisdom of ages directly to our souls. We Are the Music Makers! presents black-and-white portraits of artists who carry these songs from past to present: fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, daughters and sons, grand…
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- 9781469651729
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Vivian Maier: The Color Work
The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier. Photographer Vivian Maiers allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her storythe secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographerhas only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced ab…
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- 9780062795588
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- 1 online resource (240 pages)
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Art in Museums
Canvasses past and contemporary problems of cultural representation and the relationship between the artist, the museum and society.
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Dream SpacesMemory and the Museum
"The dream space, " writes Sheldon Annis, "is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum." In Memory and the Museum, Gaynor Kavanaugh argues that "dream spaces" are the point at which our inner and outer experiences meld. During the museum visit, memory and the present cease to be disparate but fuse into one singular experience. Drawing from such fields as behavioral ger…
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- 9780567605047
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Museums and CommunitiesCurators, Collections and Collaboration
This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities. The book unpac…
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Fashionable Art
Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion. While in the past artistic styles were always inflected with signs of their modernity, today biennales and art markets are defined by the next big thing,…
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- 9780857852250
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Aesthetic Marx
The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire ), from the radical modernism of bourgeois development to the very idea of association (which defined one of the main lines …
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- 9781350024212
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- 1 online resource (344 pages)
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The Handbook of Visual Culture
Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the subject. The Handbook e…
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Badiou and His InterlocutorsLectures, Interviews and Responses
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes s…
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- 9781350026636
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The Art of FrenzyPublic Madness in the Visual Culture of Europe, 1500-1850
The Art of Frenzy presents a masterful analysis of public madness from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age. Frenzy--the most flagrant and political form of madness--is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Its representation incorporates a range of traditional characters and figures, from Hercules and Orlando to Medea and Britannia. Understood as abusive power and b…
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- 9781441143303
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