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The Litany in Arts and Cultures

Author : Francesco Marsciani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503586700
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Litany in Arts and Cultures written by Francesco Marsciani and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this book encompass a broad historical panorama and consider the presence of litanic prayers and songs in different religions, beginning with written records in the Egyptian, Sumerian and Hebrew languages and finishing with Christian works from diverse denominations. The research presents the litany as an exceptionally long-lasting genre which for several thousand years existed in the Middle-Eastern and European traditions, easily conforming to changes in religious or historical circumstances. An interdisciplinary approach by scholars representing different fields of study, including the history of the liturgy, Egyptology, Assyriology, literary studies, musicology and ethnosemiotics, allows the eclectic character of litanies to be revealed, litanies which not only were a form of church prayer but also had an impact on the organization of social rituals as well as being appropriated by all the major fields of art, that is poetry, the fine arts and music. The musicological articles in the book address the performance of Sumerian prayers, the liturgical songs of the Middle Ages, litanies in Tudor England and polyphonic works of the great composers, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Role of Art and Culture for Regional and Urban Resilience

Author : Philip Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351365754
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Art and Culture for Regional and Urban Resilience written by Philip Cooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies. Under a multidiscplinary perspective, the book examines the contribution of some creative regions and cities as places in which processes of transformation, innovation and growth are activated in response to external pressures. Through different theoretical frameworks and empirical investigations and suggesting a critical discussion of the notion of resilience, the authors argue that cultural and creative resources may offer a sustainable model in order to afford different typologies of shocks. The book will appeal scholars of regional and urban science and cultural and creative economies and will open up a number of considerations for policy makers. This volume was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

A Companion to Textile Culture

Author : Jennifer Harris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118768647
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Textile Culture written by Jennifer Harris and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and innovative collection of new and recent writings on the cultural contexts of textiles The study of textile culture is a dynamic field of scholarship which spans disciplines and crosses traditional academic boundaries. A Companion to Textile Culture is an expertly curated compendium of new scholarship on both the historical and contemporary cultural dimensions of textiles, bringing together the work of an interdisciplinary team of recognized experts in the field. The Companion provides an expansive examination of textiles within the broader area of visual and material culture, and addresses key issues central to the contemporary study of the subject. A wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the subject are explored—technological, anthropological, philosophical, and psychoanalytical, amongst others—and developments that have influenced academic writing about textiles over the past decade are discussed in detail. Uniquely, the text embraces archaeological textiles from the first millennium AD as well as contemporary art and performance work that is still ongoing. This authoritative volume: Offers a balanced presentation of writings from academics, artists, and curators Presents writings from disciplines including histories of art and design, world history, anthropology, archaeology, and literary studies Covers an exceptionally broad chronological and geographical range Provides diverse global, transnational, and narrative perspectives Included numerous images throughout the text to illustrate key concepts A Companion to Textile Culture is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, instructors, and researchers of textile history, contemporary textiles, art and design, visual and material culture, textile crafts, and museology.

Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478059338
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture written by Stuart Hall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Hall’s work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles two dozen of Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography. Providing rare insights into Hall’s engagement with the “radically different” intellectual and aesthetic space of the visual imaginary, these works articulate the importance of the visual as a site of contestation at the same time as it is a space in which Black artists and filmmakers reframe questions about diaspora, identity, and globalization. Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture demonstrates the breadth and range of Hall’s thinking on art, film, photography, archives, and museums. In so doing, it enables us to arrive at radical and innovative ways of understanding the world.

Visual Culture

Author : Norman Bryson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574236
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture written by Norman Bryson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We can no longer see, much less teach, transhistorical truths, timeless works of art, and unchanging critical criteria without a highly developed sense of irony about the grand narratives of the past,” declare the editors, who also coedited Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (1990). The field of art history is not unique in finding itself challenged and enlarged by cultural debates over issues of class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender. Visual Culture assembles some of the foremost scholars of cultural studies and art history to explore new critical approaches to a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art. CONTRIBUTORS: Andres Ross, Michael Ann Holly, Mieke Bal, David Summers, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Ernst Van Alphen, Norman Bryson, Wolfgang Kemp, Whitney Davis, Thomas Crow, Keith Moxey, John Tagg, Lisa Tickner. Ebook Edition Note: Ebook edition note: all illustrations have been redacted.

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285421
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts written by Clive James and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it." —Jacob Weisberg, Slate This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost.

The Zen Arts

Author : Rupert Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136855580
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Zen Arts written by Rupert Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and images emerged fully as systems for representing the arts during the modern period, produced within Japan as a form of cultural nationalism and outside Japan as part of an orientalist discourse. Practitioners' experiences are in fact rarely referred to in terms of Zen or art, but instead are spatially and socially grounded. Combining anthropological description with historical criticism, Cox shows that the Zen arts are best understood in terms of a dynamic relationship between an aesthetic discourse on art and culture and the social and embodied experiences of those who participate in them.

The Culture of Craft

Author : Peter Dormer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719046186
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Craft written by Peter Dormer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. The question of computer aided design in craft is also addressed.

Modernism, Gender, and Culture

Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136515607
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Modernism, Gender, and Culture written by Lisa Rado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on cultural practices, and gender issues during a period of the early 20th-century that witnessed radical transformations in sex roles, this anthology of original (and one classic) essays will generate a greater understanding of women's contributions to modernist culture, and explore how that culture was affected by gender issues. The essays provide a wealth of insights into literature, painting, architecture, design, anthropology, sociology, religion, science, popular culture, music, issues of race and ethnicity, and the influence of 20th-century women and sexual politics.

Communards and Other Cultural Histories

Author : Adrian Rifkin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326227
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Communards and Other Cultural Histories written by Adrian Rifkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet's Carmen and Edith Piaf's song to the culture of gay cruising, these essays map a work outside discipline.

Women's Culture

Author : Kathleen D. McCarthy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226555844
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Women's Culture written by Kathleen D. McCarthy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-02-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925

Author : Hubert van den Berg
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401208913
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 written by Hubert van den Berg and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries at the start of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, painting as well as photography, architecture and design, film, radio, and performing arts like music, theatre and dance. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective which includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field, but in a broader cultural context. It examines the social and cultural context of the avant-garde: its media, its locations, its reception and audiences, the transmissions between Scandinavia and Europe, and its cultural consequences. The essays trace the connections between the avant-garde and the cultural discourses of contemporary currents such as revolutionary socialism, radical nationalism and occultism, and discuss questions of gender, ideology and politics, geographical location and technological innovation. The cultural history thus focuses on the role of the avant-garde in shaping the ideas of cultural modernity in the Nordic countries.

The Kuyper Center Review

Author : Gordon Graham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868762
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Kuyper Center Review written by Gordon Graham and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some religious traditions -- such as Lutheran, Wesleyan, and Eastern Orthodox -- have aesthetically rich resources on which to draw for the renewal of arts in everyday life. In contrast, Calvinism has generally been suspicious of the arts. The essays in this volume attempt to explore new avenues of thought about Calvinism's relation to the arts. Part historical, part theological, and part practical, they offer a wide-ranging exploration of neo-Calvinism's relationship to the arts, both at a general level and in connection with specific art forms. Overall they suggest that the neo-Calvinism espoused by Abraham Kuyper can and should make more of the arts than the traditional view of Reformed Christianity might be thought to allow. Contributors: Clifford B. Anderson John Barber James D. Bratt Michael Brutigam Janet Danielson Neal DeRoo John De Soto James Eglinton Matthew Kaemingk Jennifer Wang William Baltmanis Whitney Albert M. Wolters

The Culture of Yellow

Author : Sabine Doran
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441169490
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Yellow written by Sabine Doran and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow functions during this period primarily as a color of stigma and scandal. Yellow stigmatization has had a long history: it goes back to the Middle Ages when Jews and prostitutes were forced to wear yellow signs to emphasize their marginal status. Although scholars have commented on these associations in particular contexts, Sabine Doran offers the first overarching account of how yellow connects disparate cultural phenomena, such as turn-of-the-century decadence (the "yellow nineties"), the rise of mass media ("yellow journalism"), mass immigration from Asia ("the yellow peril"), and mass stigmatization (the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany). The Culture of Yellow combines cultural history with innovative readings of literary texts and visual artworks, providing a multilayered account of the unique role played by the color yellow in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European culture.

The Culture of Capital

Author : Janet Wolff
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719024610
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Capital written by Janet Wolff and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feminism And Art History

Author : Norma Broude
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980167
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Feminism And Art History written by Norma Broude and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present. While several of the essays deal with major women artists, the book is essentially about Western art history and the extent to which it has been distorted, in every period, by sexual bias. With 306 illustrations.

Feminist Cultural Theory

Author : Beverley Skeggs
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719044717
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Cultural Theory written by Beverley Skeggs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative new book brings together some of the leading writers on feminism to discuss their work and the key issues involved in feminist research. They draw on a range of different areas such as literature, film, law, television and history.