Contemporary Street Arts in Europe: Aesthetics and Politics (Haedicke S.)(Pevná vazba)

Contemporary Street Arts in Europe: Aesthetics and Politics (Haedicke S.)(Pevná vazba)

Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a politicized aesthetic of public space that

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe (Siklodi Nora)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU mobility. Scholars have often addressed these models from separate disciplinary standpoints. National citizenship has been studied through the prism

Contemporary Scenography: Practices and Aesthetics in German Theatre, Arts and Design (Wiens Birgit E.)(Paperback)

Contemporary Scenography investigates scenographic concepts, practices and aesthetics in Germany from1989 to the present. Facing the end of the political divide, the advent of the digital age and the challenges of globalization, German-based designers and scenographers have reacted in a variety of

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (Rancire Jacques)(Pevná vazba)

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Ranci re's key recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics. In this illuminating collection, Ranci re engages

Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain: From Zapatero to Rajoy (Field B.)(Pevná vazba)

This edited volume examines the political, social, and economic developments in contemporary Spain, with a particular focus on the period of the Socialist government (2008-11), the 2011 elections, and the challenges facing Spain and the new Popular Party

Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel (Gonzalez Madelena)(Pevná vazba)

Contemporary aesthetics is characterized by generic mixing on the level of both form and content. The barriers between different media and different genres have been broken down in all literary art forms, whether it be theatre, poetry, or the novel. While the publishing industry is increasingly

Thinking, Childhood, and Time: Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Education (Kohan Walter Omar)(Pevná vazba)

Thinking, Childhood, and Time: Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Education is an interdisciplinary exploration of the notion of childhood and its place in a philosophical education. Contributors consider children's experiences of time, space, embodiment, and thinking. By acknowledging

Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe (Bartlett Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How

Contemporary Mexican Politics, Fourth Edition (Edmonds-Poli Emily)(Pevná vazba)

This comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico's political, economic, and social development and examines the most important policy issues facing the country today. Readers will find this widely praised book continues to be the most current and accessible work available on

The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila (Garrido Marco Z.)(Pevná vazba)

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Garrido's 'patchwork city.' Garrido documents the fragmentation of Manila into a m lange

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (Kalisch Michael)(Pevná vazba)

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction - from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu - has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of

Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice (Milner Davis Jessica)(Pevná vazba)

A lively contemporary study combining in-depth scholarship with a focus on popular comedy and satireSuccessfully integrates numerous cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary perspectives on comedy and humour studiesOffers new research informed by practitioner perspectives and interviews with

Radio Art and Music: Culture, Aesthetics, Politics (Mildorf Jarmila)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English,

Contemporary Russian Politics: An Introduction (Robinson Neil)(Pevná vazba)

Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (Joselit David)(Pevná vazba)

How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.If European modernism was premised on the new--on surpassing the past, often by assigning it to the 'traditional' societies of the Global South--global contemporary art

Sexual Harassment, Psychology and Feminism: #Metoo, Victim Politics and Predators in Neoliberal Times (Lazard Lisa)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo. It explores how women's assumed empowerment in postfeminist and neoliberal feminist discourses has shaped understandings of sexual harassment and social responses to it. This

100 Great Street Photographs (Gibson David)(Pevná vazba)

This celebration of contemporary street photography--in all its edgy, strange, beautiful, haunting, colorful, and humorous glory--brings together the work of a new generation of talented artists. Over the past few decades, the long tradition of street photography has been wholly transformed by the

Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (Poletti Anna)(Pevná vazba)

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we 'get a life,' make sense of who we are and the way we live,

The Eye of History: When Images Take Positions (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's 'photoepigrams.'From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images, War Primer, with war photographs clipped from

On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics (Hamacher Werner)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of essays by one of the foremost figures in contemporary theory takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are essays that are all on the brink, the very extreme at which one can no longer define where one is located, neither on the

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Price Neil)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertiseThe Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders,

Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia(Pevná vazba)

The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film: Power, culture, and society (Beasley Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Using an innovative syncretic 'cultural politics' approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this book unpacks how political myths about states, citizens, community, intimate life and social criticism operate in Hollywood

Images of Europe Landscape, Architecture, People, Street Photography (Ho Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

A Europe Travel Photography Book: Landscape, Architecture, Art, Food, Recipes, People, Street