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Delirious Consumption

Author : Sergio Delgado Moya
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477314350
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Delirious Consumption written by Sergio Delgado Moya and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via perception and emotion. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of development and progress that defines the consumer moment in late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative positioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent position that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodification, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya's view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncommunication—all markers of the aesthetic—while drawing on the terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture.

Vida Americana - Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945

Author : Barbara Haskell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300246692
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Vida Americana - Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 written by Barbara Haskell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portraying social and political subject matter offered an alternative aesthetic at a time when artists were seeking to connect with a public deeply affected by the Great Depression. The Mexican influence grew as the artists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros traveled to the United States to exhibit, sell their work, and make large-scale murals, working side-by-side with local artists, who often served as their assistants, and teaching them the fresco technique. Vida Americana examines the impact of their work on more than 70 artists, including Marion Greenwood, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, and Charles White. It provides a new understanding of art history, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and profound influence the Mexican muralists had on the style, subject matter, and ideology of art in the United States between 1925 and 1945.

The Affinity of Neoconcretism

Author : Mariola V. Alvarez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520388968
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Affinity of Neoconcretism written by Mariola V. Alvarez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the neoconcretists--a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from 1959 to 1961--formed an important part of this national transformation. She maps the interactions of the neoconcretists and discusses how this network collaborated to challenge existing divides between high and low art and between fields such as fine art and dance. This book reveals the way in which art and intellectual work in Brazil emerged from and within a local political and social context, and out of the transnational movements of artists, artworks, published materials, and ideas"--

Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen

Author : Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000450813
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen by : Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

Download or read book Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen written by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors. In this examination of mass-marketed cultural products such as narco-stories, captivity memoirs, gritty travel narratives, and films, Herrero-Olaizola seeks to offer a hemispheric approach to the role played by Colombia in cultural production across the continent where the illicit drug trade has made significant inroads. To this end, he identifies the "Colombian condition" within the parameters of the global economy while concentrating on the commodification of Latin America’s violence for cultural consumption. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English

Author : Roanne Kantor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316510794
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English written by Roanne Kantor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian writers reference Latin American literature to identify against the Anglophone globe, even as they circulate within it.

Popular Pleasures

Author : Paul Duncum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350193410
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Popular Pleasures written by Paul Duncum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thematic chapters. Using illustrative examples from the past, present, and across cultures, he challenges the idea of any decline of cultural standards and argues that no grounds exist for cultural pessimism. Refusing to condemn popular culture on the basis of taste, he reserves critique for the socio-political ideologies aesthetics invariably serve. Art history, film, cultural studies, and philosophical aesthetics are each employed to show that the sensory/emotional lures of today's popular culture are mostly identical to those of premodern fine art. They include the violent, the horrific, the sentimental, the exotic, the erotic, and the humorous. Some of these pleasures derive from our evolutionary biology; they are all an important part of what it means to be human, and central to understanding contemporary society. Examples are wide-ranging, including British seaside postcards, Disney films, Nazi propaganda, burlesque, modern advertising, as well as many exemplars of fine art. The book reveals fresh insights for all those studying visual culture, art history, aesthetics, media studies, and media and art education.

Beauty and the Beast

Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789853
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty and the Beast begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual’s beauty with an often overlooked counterpart, surgeries performed—often on high profile criminals—to disguise one’s identity. Situating this globally shared phenomenon within the economic, cultural, and political history of Colombia, Taussig links the country’s long civil war and its bodily mutilation and torture to the beauty industry at large, sketching Colombia as a country whose high aesthetic stakes make it a stage where some of the most important and problematic ideas about the body are played out. Central to Taussig’s examination is George Bataille’s notion of depense, or “wasting.” While depense is often used as a critique, Taussig also looks at the exuberance such squandering creates and its position as a driving economic force. Depense, he argues, is precisely what these procedures are all about, and the beast on the other side of beauty should not be dismissed as simple recompense. At once theoretical and colloquial, public and intimate, Beauty and the Beast is a true-to-place ethnography—written in Taussig’s trademark voice—that tells a thickly layered but always accessible story about the lengths to which people will go to be physically remade.

Creative Transformations

Author : Krista Brune
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438480636
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Creative Transformations written by Krista Brune and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to the travels of Brazilian artists and intellectuals to the United States and other parts of the Americas, Brune argues that experiences of displacement have had a significant influence on their work. Across Brazilian literary and cultural history, translation becomes a way of navigating and representing the resulting encounters between languages, interactions with Spanish Americans, and negotiations of complex identities. While Creative Transformations engages extensively with theories of translation from different national and disciplinary contexts, it also constructs a vision of translation uniquely attuned to the place of Brazil in the Americas. Brune reveals the hemispheric underpinnings of works by renowned Brazilian writers such as Machado de Assis, Sousândrade, Mário de Andrade, Silviano Santiago, and Adriana Lisboa. In the process, she rethinks the dynamics between cosmopolitan and national desires and between center and periphery in global literary markets.

The Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California

Author : California. Legislature. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Food Studies in Latin American Literature

Author : Rocío del Aguila
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682261816
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Food Studies in Latin American Literature written by Rocío del Aguila and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies"--

Delirium

Author : Augusto Caraceni
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199572054
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Delirium written by Augusto Caraceni and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides palliative care physicians, specialist nurses, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other health professionals with a clear account of how to recognise and treat delirium, the most common neuro-psychiatric complication encountered by patients in the terminal phase of illness.

Blood

Author : Gil Anidjar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537255
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Blood written by Gil Anidjar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law. Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and political thought from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the Bible to Shakespeare and Melville. The prevalence of blood in the social, juridical, and political organization of the modern West signals that we do not live in a secular age into which religion could return. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and theology, and kinship and race. It demonstrates that what we think of as modern is in fact imbued with Christianity. Christianity, Blood fiercely argues, must be reconsidered beyond the boundaries of religion alone.

Geriatric Nutrition

Author : John E. Morley
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420005499
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Geriatric Nutrition written by John E. Morley and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a vicious cycle, poor nutritional health leads to acute and chronic disease, and disease states are catastrophic to nutritional health. The magnitude of nutritional depletion from any cause depends to a large extent on the nutritional reserves an individual has accumulated over time. In our increasingly older population, nutritional reserves are

Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biennial Reports of the Directors and Medical Visitors and ... Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum

Author : Stockton State Hospital (Calif.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Biennial Reports of the Directors and Medical Visitors and ... Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum written by Stockton State Hospital (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guaraná

Author : Seth Garfield
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146967128X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Guaraná written by Seth Garfield and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping chronicle of guarana—a glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plant—Seth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself. The story begins with guarana as the pre-Columbian cultivar of the Satere-Mawe people in the Lower Amazon region, where it figured centrally in the Indigenous nation's origin stories, dietary regimes, and communal ceremonies. During subsequent centuries of Portuguese colonialism and Brazilian rule, guarana was reformulated by settlers, scientists, folklorists, food technologists, and marketers. Whether in search of pleasure, profits, professional distinction, or patriotic markers, promoters imparted new meanings to guarana and found new uses for it. Today, it is the namesake ingredient of a multibillion-dollar soft drink industry and a beloved national symbol. Guarana's journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America's largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage's history reveals not only the structuring of inequalities in Brazil but also the mythmaking and ordering of social practices that constitute so-called traditional and modern societies.