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The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Elie (Author)This enthralling group portrait brings to life a moment when popular culture became the site of religious strife--strife that set the stage for some of the most salient political and cultural clashes of our day. Circa 1980, tradition and authority are in the ascendant, both in Catholicism (via Pope John Paul II) and in American civic life (through the Moral Majority and the so-called televangelists). But the public is deeply divided on issues ...

Weirdumentary: Ancient Aliens, Fallacious Prophecies, and Mysterious Monsters from 1970s Documentaries

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Report copyright infringementby Gary D. Rhodes (Author)In the 1970s, an incredibly popular new film genre emerged, one that would later be reborn on television. And yet there has never been a book on the subject...until now.Weirdumentary examines over 45 movies, positioned as documentaries, that began with Chariots of the Gods (1970) and ended with The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981). Relying on spurious experts, questionable evidence, and low-budget dramatizations, these pseudo-scientific docume...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Dubé (Author)Peter Dubé's Desire as Praxis: Towards a Queer Surrealism dives deeply into the intricate connections between surrealism and the cultures of same-sex attracted queer men, unraveling the complex interplay of the erotic, affect, and the occult. In his groundbreaking first non-fiction work, acclaimed author Dubé-celebrated in *Quill and Quire* as a leading voice in gay surrealist fiction-invites readers on a journey that transcends traditional b...

This Is Not New: Art, Culture, and the Promise of Change

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Report copyright infringementby David Balzer (Author) Praise for Curationism: "Balzer writes with zest, scepticism and sly humour" Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour What does it mean to call something "new"? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change? In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or origi...

The Wages of Cinema: A Christian Aesthetic of Film in Conversation with Dorothy L. Sayers

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Report copyright infringementby Crystal L. Downing (Author)Discover a New Dimension of Faith and Cinema with The Wages of CinemaIn a captivating realm where cinematic narratives enchant countless viewers, how can one harmonize their faith with the craft of filmmaking? The Wages of Cinema encourages a deep dive into this relationship, drawing upon the significant reflections of Dorothy L. Sayers defending the authenticity of art and truth's manifestation.The Wages of Cinema uses examples rangi...

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Cartledge (Editor), Paul Christesen (Editor)The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of s...

Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism: Abstract Art at MoMA 1937-1939

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Report copyright infringementby Elke Seibert (Author)In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa", it displayed a range of copies from the influential collection of the German ethnologist Leo Frobenius. Largely disregarded in modern American art history up until now, this book highlights the importance...

Artifact Recovery: The material management field guide

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Report copyright infringementby Nichole Doub (Author)A resource long needed in CRM.Cultural contexts and artifact identification tend to be the focus of archaeological education, with comparatively little emphasis on the actual materials that were used in the fabrication of the objects we recover, or why that information might even be relevant.Artifact Recovery successfully provides a basic introduction to the chemistry of those artifacts and materials most commonly recovered from North Ameri...

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Report copyright infringementby Tomás Jirsa (Editor), Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Editor)Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural industries worldwide. With the onset of digital technologies and the proliferation of global video-sharing websites at the beginning of the 21st century, music video migrated from TV screens to turn instead to th...

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Report copyright infringementby Costanza Gislon Dopfel (Author)Women, Fertility, and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence examines maternity-centered art to reveal women's crucial function in saving Florence from a depopulation catastrophe.Nativity and Madonna and Child images that graced many households and chapels in Florentine society formed a program of visual indoctrination, championing a 'birth epic' that glorified the social duty of reproduction but dismissed its high risk. As images e...

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Report copyright infringementby Tiina Rosenberg (Editor), Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Editor), Sandra D'Urso (Editor)This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual "origins" of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.Designed for weekly use on performance studies courses, each of the book's ten chapters highlights the key works of feminist performance, including pe...

Photography, Curation, Criticism: An Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Liz Wells (Author)This unique collection brings together the work of photography writer, curator, and lecturer, Liz Wells, reflecting on key themes of landscape, place, nationhood, and environmental concerns. A newly written introductory chapter contextualizes the collection. This is followed by an 'in conversation' with Martha Langford, Concordia University, Montreal, that brings together two leading figures in the field to respond to Wells' thought and the th...

Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity Through Skin and Ink

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Report copyright infringementby Lars Krutak (Author), Sean Mallon (Foreword by)A beautifully illustrated history of Indigenous tattooing practices around the world Tattooing within Indigenous communities is a time-honored practice that binds the tattoo recipient to a deeply felt collective history. More than mere decoration, tattoos embody cultural values, ancestral ties, and spiritual beliefs. Indigenous Tattoo Traditions captures ancient tribal tattooing practices and their contemporary res...

The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii

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Report copyright infringementby Gabriel Zuchtriegel (Author), Jamie Bulloch (Translator)The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage. In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriegel takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Pompeii and reveals new archaeological finds that are being unearthed at the site's biggest dig in a generation. As director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park,...

Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation

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Report copyright infringementby Eliza Garnsey (Editor), Caitlin Hamilton (Editor), Christine Sylvester (Foreword by)Creating Justice, through a series of conversations between a diverse set of artists and scholars from around the globe, explores how art can facilitate a fuller understanding of human rights, highlight injustices, empower individuals and groups, advocate for and effect change, and aid in post-conflict recovery.Author BiographyEliza Garnsey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fell...

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Report copyright infringementby William Connell (Editor), Stanislao Pugliese (Editor)The Routledge History of Italian Americans is a new multi-authored history of one of the largest ethnic groups in America, bringing together the best and brightest scholars and critics to create a narrative of the trials and triumphs of Italians in America. Author BiographyWilliam J. Connell is Professor and LaMotta Chair of History at Seton Hall University.Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of modern Europea...

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Report copyright infringementby John Bradley (Author)What is a spell?In As Blood Is the Fruit of the Heart: A Book of Spells, this question conjures many answers. Ultimately it's this: A spell is that most ancient tool of poets and storytellers using crafted language powered by breath and clear focus, sent forth as a messenger into the cosmos. As Mary Ruefle has said, "The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Schjeldahl (Author), Steve Martin (Foreword by), Jarrett Earnest (Introduction by)Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New Yorker. The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist. "Sensitive and moving. Schjeldahl wrote until the end. We can be grateful for that because we have this book." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Foreword by Steve Martin * Introduction by Jarrett...

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Report copyright infringementby Zach Blas (Editor), Melody Jue (Editor), Jennifer Rhee (Editor)Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway's canonical 1985 essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs." Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power a...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindiwe Dovey (Editor), A?ulika Agina (Editor), Michael W. Thomas (Editor)Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interviews, and specific case studies, the contributors bring to life the complex materialities an...

Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts: A Critical Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Walmsley (Author)This book explores the concept of audience engagement from a number of complementary perspectives, including cultural value, arts marketing, co-creation and digital engagement. It offers a critical review of the existing literature on audience research and engagement, and provides an overview of established and emerging methodologies deployed to undertake research with audiences. The book focusses on the performing arts, but draws from a ri...

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Report copyright infringementby Ria Brodell (Author), Chris E. Vargas (Foreword by), S. E. Fleenor (Contribution by)The much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover--and celebrate--queer subjects from around the world. Ingeniously conceived, Ria Brodell's Butch Heroes books recover and celebrate queer subjects obscured or misrepresented within the dominant narratives of history. More Butch Heroes presents 15 original p...

Faeries, Elves and Goblins: The Old Stories and Fairy Tales - Hardcover

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by Rosalind Kerven (Author)A unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins. Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many other supernatural beings leap vividly off the page in this collection of haunting stories. Included are 25 stories drawing on folklore from the rich narrative heritage of Britain and Ireland.Marvel over ancient spells to summon faeries to your house, tremble at the shapeshifting powers of dangerous faery queens, lose yourse...

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Sharpe (Author)A finalist for the National Book Award in NonfictionA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York magazine, Kirkus, and Barnes and NobleThe critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility"...

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life: Methodologies, History and New Directions

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Giombini (Editor), Adri?n Kvokacka (Editor)Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas. Lisa Giombini and Adri?n Kvokacka bring together an international team of renowned scholars who are shaping the present and future of the discipline. They demonstrate how the historical origins of everyday aesthetics emerges across the ...

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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Report copyright infringementby Bianca Bosker (Author)AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE ECONOMIST"Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I've read . . . Brilliant." --The Washington Post "A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe." --TIME "Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever transform the way you see. . . . I loved every word." --Suleika Jaouad...

Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Kalaidjian (Author)Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity's response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold? Does exposure to a source of dread spur people to action or lull them into fatalism and complacency? Andrew Kalaidjian takes up these and other vital questions in Spectacle Earth, a lively and wide-ranging consideration of media engagement, passivity, and virtual environments i...

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Report copyright infringementby Janice Baker (Author)Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approaches to objects and agency and the incommensurability of western and Indigenous ontologies.Drawing on Indigenous knowledge, humanities and museological literature, continental philosophy, contemporary art and popular culture, Baker acknowledges the autonomous agency of geological forms, including soils, minerals and fossil...

In the Land of Temple Caves: Notes on Art and the Human Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick W. Turner (Author)"I just plain loved In the Land of Temple Caves. Frederick Turner makes a compelling case for civility organized in response to culture-shaping art as our most ancient source of saving graces. Beautifully said, humanely thought out, the story he tells is particularly useful in these sorrowful times. Read, and take heart!" --William Kittredge, author of The Willow Field In the Land of Temple Caves travels back to the very beginning of...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Campion (Editor)For millennia human beings have imagined a journey to the heavens. This dream finally became a reality on 12 April 1961 when Yuri Gagarin made his single, historic orbit of the Earth. This volume celebrates Gagarin's historic achievement and provides a valuable resource in the emerging discipline of Cultural Astronomy. Number of Pages: 410 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: Septemb...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard J. Williams (Author)In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now increasingly crumbling into the ground. How did we build the expressway world in the first place? And what are we going to do now with it now? This eye-opening book explores these questions partly thr...

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Bloch (Author)An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all. On a 90-degree day in Los Angeles, bus riders across the city line up behind the shadows cast by street signs and telephone poles, looking for a little relief from the sun's glaring heat. Every summer such scenes play out in cities across th...