Blasted Allegories makes available the best and most representative examples of artists' writings from the past ten years, an era marked by such pluralism and eclecticism that the voice of the artist may be the clearest one to listen to.
The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an array of artistic and critical responses. The 25 essays in this text provide a survey of the most provocative directions taken by art and criticism in the postmodern age. Recent directions in paintings, film, video and photograhy are explored, alongside visual artists ...
When the International Center of Photography launched "Strangers," its first Triennial, in 2003, its curators wrote that their goal was "to demonstrate photography's incomparable richness as a visual medium--in the form of still photographs, video, sculptural objects, and installation pieces. The result is a dynamic coherence that results as much ...
Global Television investigates these and other widespread conflicts arising front the dramatic changes that have taken place in the structure and uses of television in the past decade.
Blasted Allegories is the first comprehensive collection of writing by contemporary artists, making available the best and most representative examples from the past ten years, an era marked by such pluralism and eclecticism that the voice of the artist may be the clearest one to listen to.
Modern Dreams explores the distinction between the theoretical and sociological production of London in the fifties and conceptually related work of New York in the eighties.
Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. "Rock My Religion" collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk ...
During the 1990s American culture has been divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal values and freedom of expression, and a particular focus of these polarizing discussions has been the role of visual arts in public life. In this volume, five cultural critics and two contemporary artists set out to show the ways in which ...
These selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection make up an extraordinary group of images of African Americans in a variety of genres and poses, including formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits and so-called "Southern-views" made for tourist consumption, all dating from 1860 ...
A collection of essays, discussions, critiques, images and texts that examine the state of health of the democratic process and democratic ideal in American culture.
A global wave of reform is fundamentally reshaping the role of the state in national economies. This book provides a fresh and accessible perspective on the political economy of this megatrend. It traces the theoretical roots of the reforms to developments in public economics which emphasize problems of government rather than market failure. It ...
This is an introduction to the cutting edge of technology for the general reader. It explains how the changes in information technology sweeping the world have come about, what they are, and how they will affect our lives in the future. CD-ROM technology, home shopping by television, the information superhighway, the creation of interactive games ...
A global wave of reform is fundamentally reshaping the role of the state in national economies. This book aims to provides a fresh perspective on the political economy of this trend. It traces the theoretical roots of the reforms to developments in public economics which emphasize problems of government rather than market failure. It then develops ...
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