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Book Synopsis Citadel Culture by : Otto Karl Werckmeister
Download or read book Citadel Culture written by Otto Karl Werckmeister and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-06-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Citadel" evokes a rich mixture of associations—from images of urban centers of commerce and culture to war and the need to defend what is fortified within. Preserving its layered meanings, O. K. Werckmeister plucks the word from its usual moorings and employs it as a compelling metaphor in a brilliant retrospective of contemporary Western culture.
Book Synopsis Recognising European Modernities by : Allan Pred
Download or read book Recognising European Modernities written by Allan Pred and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, Europe has been characterised by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through interrelationships with other countries. Each European commodity society has experienced successive, but different overlapping, periods of industrial modernity (large scale factories and urban growth), high modernity (social modernization promoted by social engineering) and hypermodernity (the acceleration of modernity, yielding new circumstances and sensibilities). Interrogating contemporary hypermodern Europe thus requires an exploration of industrial and high modern Europe. Recognising European Modernities explores a century of civilisation through a critical examination of the extreme case of Sweden. Using montage - relayering multiple pasts and on-going present - the book challenges the contemporary obsession with postmodernity, demanding a deeper, more connective understanding of the pleasures and dangers of the European present. The author visits three spectacular spaces: the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 and the Globe, a contemporary multi-purpose arena. Analysis of these pivotal spaces reveals the on-going process of modernization as new forms of consumption are repeatedly entangled in changing discourses of power to be reworked and translated into cultural politics.
Book Synopsis Too Soon Too Late by : Meaghan Morris
Download or read book Too Soon Too Late written by Meaghan Morris and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Meaghan Morris asks how feminist culture critics can participate in political struggles about history. Questioning both contemporary cultural theory that imagines a world "beyond" history and feminist approaches to culture that minimize questions of economy, class, and nation, Morris argues that history created by popular culture is never truly "national" in scale or force. 11 photos.
Book Synopsis TISS-NET Exam Prep Book 2022 | 1400+ Solved Questions (8 Full-length Mock Tests + 9 Sectional Test + 3 Previous Year Paper) by : EduGorilla Prep Experts
Download or read book TISS-NET Exam Prep Book 2022 | 1400+ Solved Questions (8 Full-length Mock Tests + 9 Sectional Test + 3 Previous Year Paper) written by EduGorilla Prep Experts and published by EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Best Selling Book for TISS-NET Exam with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. • Compare your performance with other students using Smart Answer Sheets in EduGorilla’s TISS-NET Exam Practice Kit. • TISS-NET Exam Preparation Kit comes with 20 Tests (8 Full-length Mock Tests + 9 Sectional Tests + 3 Previous Year Papers) with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 14X. • TISS-NET Exam Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.
Book Synopsis Icons of the Left by : Otto Karl Werckmeister
Download or read book Icons of the Left written by Otto Karl Werckmeister and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author offers a critique of Marxist culture in capitalist society. Focusing on some of the most celebrated instances of traditional "Western Marxism," the author shows how such "icons of the Left" have been progressively detached from their political roots in communist activism to the safe distance of utopian or revolutionary speculations.--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Pollock and After by : Francis Frascina
Download or read book Pollock and After written by Francis Frascina and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition features ten new articles and is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art.
Download or read book Remaking Reality written by Bruce Braun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical approaches to social nature, and engaging with debates in politics, science, technology and social movements surrouding race, gender and class, the contributors explroe important and emerging sites where nature is now being remade with considerable social and ecological consequences. The essays are organised around two themes: 'capitalising and envisioning nature' and 'actors, networks and the politics of hybridity'. An afterword by Neil Smith reflects on the problems and possibilities of future names. For critics and activists alike, Remaking Reality provides essential theoretical and political tools to rethink environmentalism and progressive social natures for the twenty first century.
Book Synopsis Counternarratives by : Henry A. Giroux
Download or read book Counternarratives written by Henry A. Giroux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern counternarratives" as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education within everyday struggles for human identities and loyalties. The authors identify two forms of counternarratives. One functions as a critique of the modernist propensity for grand narratives. The second concept, which is the focus of the book, builds on the first; the idea of "little stories" addressing cultural and political opposition to the "official" narratives used to manipulate public consciousness. Each marks an important point of contestation within contemporary education and culture: curriculum, pedagogy, literacy, media representations and applications of new technologies.
Book Synopsis Đại Việt and Champa: Panduranga, Kauthara, and Indrapura by : Tan Pham
Download or read book Đại Việt and Champa: Panduranga, Kauthara, and Indrapura written by Tan Pham and published by 315Kio Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most travellers to Vietnam will, at some point, visit a Cham tower or view some Cham artefacts in a museum. These were left behind by the Cham people of the now-vanished kingdom of Champa. They are unique, exquisite and mythical. The people who built and carved these beautiful works once inhabited central Vietnam and the northern part of the south, which stretches over 1,000 kilometres from north to south. Today, with a population of less than 200,000, the Chams live primarily in Ninh Thuận, Bình Thuận and other provinces in the Mekong Delta. Champa’s history is broadly divided into three eras: the First Era (5th to 10th centuries), the Second (10th to 15th centuries) and the Third (15th to 19th centuries). This book deals with the First Era, including the three great Houses of Gaṅgārāja, Vicitrasagara and Ujora at three locations. The first house is associated with Simhapura, modern Trà Kiệu in Quảng Nam province. The second house is connected with Virapura and Po Nagar in Panduranga and Kauthara, present-day Ninh Thuận, Bình Thuận and Khánh Hòa provinces. The third house is linked with Indrapura, Đồng Dương Monastery in Quảng Nam province. The book also presents an overview of Champa, a description of the Cham tower and maps of Cham ruins in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên-Huế provinces. To collect materials for this volume, the author visited most of the sites mentioned in the book and referred to Cham inscriptions, Chinese and Vietnamese historical works. Dr. Anne-Valérie Schweyer, the Research Director at CNRS (The French National Centre for Scientific Research), an epigraphist and a world-leading scholar in Champa studies, commented and wrote the foreword for the book. She concludes, “Through his travels, Tan Pham unravels the history and art of the Cham kingdoms from the time of their creation to their apogee, while at the same time making their present-day presence visible. It is a great pleasure to follow in his footsteps, which lead to a better understanding of a glorious part of Việt Nam's history.” This book is Volume 3B of the book series, A Traveller’s Story of Vietnam’s Past; it continues where Volume II, One Thousand Years - The Stories of Giao Châu, the Kingdoms of Linyi, Funan and Zhenla, ends. The book has 384 pages and contains 235 figures and illustrations. A shortened Table of Contents is shown below. Chapter 1 – A summary of this book Chapter 2 – A general overview of Champa 2.1 - The land and its people 2.2 - A trip to the past 2.3 - Champa and Đại Việt (10th to 15th centuries) 2.4 - Champa and the Khmer Empire (10th to 15th centuries) 2.5 - The religions of Champa 2.6 - A tour of Champa Chapter 3 – The towers of Champa 3.1 - The design of a Cham tower 3.2 - The bricks and the resin adhesive 3.3 - Champa deities and icons Chapter 4 – Panduranga – Land of the gods and vineyards, the House of Vicitrasagara – Champa (8th to 9th centuries) Chapter 5 – Po Nagar (Mother of the Land) Temple Chapter 6 – Indrapura, the House of Uroja – Champa (9th to 10th centuries) Chapter 7 – Indrapura and Buddhist Monasteries 7.1 - Indrapura and Buddhism 7.2 - The Đồng Dương Buddhist Monastery Chapter 8 – The Cham ruins and artefacts of Quảng Bình province Chapter 9 – The Cham ruins and artefacts of Quảng Trị province Chapter 10 – The Cham ruins and artefacts of Thừa Thiên-Huế province Chapter 11 – Conclusion Appendix 1 – Wuli, Chiêm Động, Ulik and other names of places in Champa Biography
Download or read book Making Ends Meet written by Ian Wedde and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate, witty, and erudite, these essays by a radical curator describe how museums approach their sometimes conflicting missions to sponsor scholarship, generate popular appeal, and claim social significance. This analysis includes discussions of art and ethnology, the failure of late-Modernist art history, the construction of official culture, the intellectual history of European exploration in the Pacific, problems with cultural studies of the Pakeha Maori, and the conservation of archives and narratives.
Book Synopsis Useful Knowledge by : Alexander G. Bearn
Download or read book Useful Knowledge written by Alexander G. Bearn and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful Knowledge: What will it be for the next millennium? In five symposia, members of the Amer. Philosophical Soc. asked this question in April 1999 at the Society's Millennium Meet. Contents: (1) Math & Physical Sciences: The Laws of Nature; Our Concepts of the Cosmos, Progress, Prospects & Mysteries; Math & Computing; Global Warming: Does Science Matter?; & The Molecular Biology of Huntington's Disease; (2): Biological Sci.: Scientists & the Public: An Ambivalent Partnership; Cancer: The Revolution & the Challenges; Wiring the Brain: Dynamic Interplay between Nature & Nurture; & A Neuroscience of Memory for the 21st Cent.; (3) Social Sci.: Nat. Sovereignty & Human Rights; Econ. Becomes a Science -- Or Does It?; & A Millennium of Economics in Twenty Minutes: In Pursuit of Useful Knowledge; (4) Humanities: Art & Architectural History in the 20th Cent.; More Than One Millennium: The Perennial Return of the History of Religions; & Singularity in an Age of Globalization; & (5) The Professions, Arts & Affairs: 100 Yrs. of the Renaissance; Race & Admission to Univ.; Health Care in a Democratic Soc.; & Culture & Democracy in America. Illus.
Download or read book Indian Art and Culture written by and published by Naveen. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is useful for those who want to learn History and art and Culture. Useful for UPSC and PSC exam students, If you preparing for NET this book also useful for you.
Book Synopsis Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria by : Hugh Kennedy
Download or read book Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria written by Hugh Kennedy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the Muslim castles of greater Syria from c.700 to c.1700 from archaeological and historical perspectives.
Book Synopsis Spain's Long Shadow by : María DeGuzmán
Download or read book Spain's Long Shadow written by María DeGuzmán and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the dependence of American ethnic identity on Spain and Spanish imperialism.
Book Synopsis As Radical as Reality Itself by : Matthew Beaumont
Download or read book As Radical as Reality Itself written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, by a number of established scholars and artists, proposes new directions for Marxist cultural theory and the criticism of modern visual culture. It addresses a diverse range of topics, including the state and revolution, Communist and post-Communist aesthetics, Situationist thought and the avant-garde, subjectivity and commodification, and the politics and problems of contemporary artistic practice. The contributions also consider several other pressing questions in the visual arts, from the practice of digital culture to appropriations of critical theory, from the relations of art and the spectacle to architecture in the age of global modernity. This book on Marxism and art is not offered in a spirit of nostalgia: on the contrary, it testifies to the continuing vitality and confidence of historical materialist thought in the field of cultural theory and practice in the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Beyond Resistance by : Robert Fletcher
Download or read book Beyond Resistance written by Robert Fletcher and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking book is divided into two parts, each of which contains four chapters. In Part I, titled "Rethinking Resistance", contributors assert that "resistance" continues to hold utility as both an analytic concept and mode of action in the world, and therefore demands renewed engagement. Part II contains essays that offer novel frames for addressing progressive social change that might serve to replace "resistance" entirely, and thus is entitled "Thinking Beyond".
Book Synopsis The New Investment Superstars by : Lois Peltz
Download or read book The New Investment Superstars written by Lois Peltz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now, The New Investment Superstars provides you with a unique opportunity to get to know these market masters and learn the original investment strategies they have used in many markets to outperform their peers."--Jacket.
