Art & Politics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193732908Author R RosengartenFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 1087gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 207mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509131Author Jenn WoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver SprocketWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 137mm *...

This book deals with the 1980s - the "golden decade" of Hong Kong pop culture - in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city. Bookended by two major historical incidents, the 1980s will probably enter the annals of Hong Kong...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982389448Author Ciaran FinlaysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Floating Opera PressPublisher Floating Opera Press

This book claims a political value for olfactory artworks by situating them squarely in the contemporary moment of various forms of political resistance. Each chapter presents the current research and art practices of an international group of artists...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as a socio-political and cultural entity. This book probes into the discontinuous processes of mapping the eastern...

What happens to art when feminism grips the curatorial imagination? How do sexual politics become realised as exhibits? Is the struggle against gender discrimination compatible with the aspirations of museums led by market values? Beginning with the...

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the 'old world' of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion. In The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and...

This book investigates the notion of silence as both an oppressing instrument and a powerful tool of resistance under the lenses and practices of cultural production.Taking a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to the study of creative and...

Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604865028Author Cindy MilsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 200g

The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters onto the streets and into the public eye. More than ever, activism relies on spectacle and visibility in order to be noticed in the era of globalized capitalism and networked media. At the same...

Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy most notably in Latin America. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina,...

The spirit of Dada continues to thrive in this stunning annual collection of provocative and disruptive Dada-inspired art and writing culled from a plethora of top international contributors, with 50+ color images. MAINTENANT 11: A JOURNAL OF...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863628Author Josh MacPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 173g

First published in 1956, Fuseli Studies deals with the many-sided artistic achievements of Zurich-born Fuseli's baffling personality, who was one of the most erudite and renowned intellectuals of his day in Europe. The author's intention has been to...

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic...

AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made in response to the AIDS epidemic in America in the 1980s and 1990s. Addressing the work of artists including Mark Morrisroe, Robert Blanchon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres through the...

What does it take to cross a border, and what does it take to belong? Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and of collectivity through the perspective of bodies. By dramaturgical analyses of contemporary artistic work from Lebanon...

There have been few times in US American history when the very concept of freedom of speech-its promise and its contradictions-has been under greater scrutiny. Guided by acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and activist Amar Kanwar, the Vera List Center for Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954765171Author Hannah QuinlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint DistanzPublisher DistanzWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 3mm

First published in 1986, Too Much records the tumultuous period between 1960 and 1975 when, more than at any other time in history, the arts were a battleground for the conflicting forces of social change. With the new affluence of the Sixties the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954763597Author Henrike NaumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Distanz PublishingPublisher Distanz PublishingWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331508Author Dena MerriamFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

First published in 1987, The Heritage Industry sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. The author sets today's obsession with yesterday in the context of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907317668Author Krzysztof WodiczkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Black Dog Publishing London UKPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 340g

Contemporary political philosophy - especially in the works of Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls and Amartya Sen - has assumed that it can separate itself off from other philosophical positions and frameworks. In this book, Den Uyl and Rasmussen challenge this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911164319Author Fereshteh DaftariFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog Press

This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses...

During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such...

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of 'postmigration', offering...

Cecilia Sjoholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and...

This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror,...

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.' Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain...

The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates political communication in democratic countries as a result of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047678Author Nicholas MirzoeffFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Political theatre thrives on turbulence. By turning the political issues of the day into a potent, dramatic art form, its practitioners hold up a mirror to our society - with the power to shock, discomfit and entertain. Scenes from the Revolution is a...

Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum's role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting...

A Decade of Negative Thinking brings together writings on contemporary art and culture by the painter and feminist art theorist Mira Schor. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, she tackles questions about the place of feminism in...

Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest...