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Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345734
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."—Women's Review of Books These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes. The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart. This volume collects Rich's essays from the last decade of the twentieth century, including four earlier essays, as well as several conversations that go further than the usual interview. Also included is her essay explaining her reasons for declining the National Medal for the Arts. "The work is inspired and inspiring."—Alicia Ostriker "[S]o clear and clean and thorough. I learn from her again and again."—Grace Paley

Forty-one False Starts

Author : Janet Malcolm
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709726
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Forty-one False Starts written by Janet Malcolm and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction—as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of the painter David Salle, which becomes a dazzling portrait of an artist. Malcolm is "among the most intellectually provocative of authors," writes David Lehman in The Boston Globe, "able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight." Here, in Forty-one False Starts, Malcolm brings together essays published over the course of several decades (largely in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books) that reflect her preoccupation with artists and their work. Her subjects are painters, photographers, writers, and critics. She explores Bloomsbury's obsessive desire to create things visual and literary; the "passionate collaborations" behind Edward Weston's nudes; and the character of the German art photographer Thomas Struth, who is "haunted by the Nazi past," yet whose photographs have "a lightness of spirit." In "The Woman Who Hated Women," Malcolm delves beneath the "onyx surface" of Edith Wharton's fiction, while in "Advanced Placement" she relishes the black comedy of the Gossip Girl novels of Cecily von Zeigesar. In "Salinger's Cigarettes," Malcolm writes that "the pettiness, vulgarity, banality, and vanity that few of us are free of, and thus can tolerate in others, are like ragweed for Salinger's helplessly uncontaminated heroes and heroines." "Over and over," as Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, "she has demonstrated that nonfiction—a book of reporting, an article in a magazine, something we see every day—can rise to the highest level of literature." One of Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013

Freedom and the Arts

Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674069897
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and the Arts written by Charles Rosen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand. Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.

Art and Posthumanism

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452966567
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Art and Posthumanism written by Cary Wolfe and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the question of “life” that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of the relationship between the human and the planet upside down. Wolfe explores a wide range of contemporary artworks—from Sue Coe’s illustrations of animals in factory farms and Eduardo Kac’s bioart to the famous performance pieces of Joseph Bueys and the video installations of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, among others—examining how posthumanist theory can illuminate, and be illuminated by, artists’ engagement with the more-than-human world. Looking at biological and social systems, the question of the animal, and biopolitics, Art and Posthumanism explores how contemporary art rivets our attention on the empirically thick, emotionally charged questions of “life” and the “living” amid ecological catastrophe. One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Wolfe pushes that philosophy out of the realm of the purely theoretical to show how a posthumanist engagement with particular works and their conceptual underpinnings help to develop more potent ethical and political commitments.

The Lost Art of Conversation

Author : Horatio Sheafe Krans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Conversation written by Horatio Sheafe Krans and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Curating Live Arts

Author : Dena Davida
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339648
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Curating Live Arts written by Dena Davida and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field’s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms—not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.

The Lost Art of Conversation

Author : Horatio S. Krans
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428956868
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Conversation written by Horatio S. Krans and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lost Art of Conversation: Selected Essays IT his volume brings together - and it is Odd they have never been so assembled before - what we may venture to call the best essays in English on conversation. These essays hold that con versation is one Of the chief pleasures Of civi lized life, and that, if carefully cultivated, it may become a potent factor in the spread Of culture and intelligence, as it was in its great periods, in the Athens Of Pericles, in the Italy Of the renaissance, in the salons Of seventeenth and eighteenth-century France, and in eighteenth century England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

What We Made

Author : Tom Finkelpearl
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822395517
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book What We Made written by Tom Finkelpearl and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media. Issues discussed include the experiences of working in public and of working with museums and libraries, opportunities for social change, the lines between education and art, spirituality, collaborative opportunities made available by new media, and the elusive criteria for evaluating cooperative art. Finkelpearl engages the art historians Grant Kester and Claire Bishop in conversation on the challenges of writing critically about this work and the aesthetic status of the dialogical encounter. He also interviews the often overlooked co-creators of cooperative art, "expert participants" who have worked with artists. In his conclusion, Finkelpearl argues that pragmatism offers a useful critical platform for understanding the experiential nature of social cooperation, and he brings pragmatism to bear in a discussion of Houston's Project Row Houses. Interviewees. Naomi Beckwith, Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera, Brett Cook, Teddy Cruz, Jay Dykeman, Wendy Ewald, Sondra Farganis, Harrell Fletcher, David Henry, Gregg Horowitz, Grant Kester, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Pedro Lasch, Rick Lowe, Daniel Martinez, Lee Mingwei, Jonah Peretti, Ernesto Pujol, Evan Roth, Ethan Seltzer, and Mark Stern

The Principles of the Art of Conversation

Author : John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110807863X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Principles of the Art of Conversation written by John Pentland Mahaffy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this light-hearted book, the classical scholar J. P. Mahaffy (1839-1919) analyses the art of conversation in the same way that a classical scholar would analyse the art of rhetoric, discussing theoretical models as well as taking examples from history and from his own social life.

The art of conversation

Author : John K. Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The art of conversation written by John K. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What is Art?

Author : Joseph Beuys
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
ISBN 13 : 1905570562
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book What is Art? written by Joseph Beuys and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Beuys’s work continues to influence and inspire practitioners and thinkers all over the world, in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy and new money forms to new art pedagogies and ecological art practices. Here, in dialogue with Volker Harlan - a close colleague, whose own work also revolves around understandings of substance and sacrament that are central to Beuys - the deeper motivations and insights underlying ‘social sculpture’, Beuys’s expanded conception of art, are illuminated. His profound reflections, complemented with insightful essays by Volker Harlan, give a sense of the interconnectedness between all life forms, and the foundations of a path towards an ecologically sustainable future. This volume features over 40 b/w illustrations.

Conversations with Artists

Author : Heidi Zuckerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792379536
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Artists written by Heidi Zuckerman and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jsl Vol 12-N3

Author : JOURNAL OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475811357
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Jsl Vol 12-N3 written by JOURNAL OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of School Leadership is broadening the conversation about schools and leadership and is currently accepting manuscripts. We welcome manuscripts based on cutting-edge research from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations. The editorial team is particularly interested in working with international authors, authors from traditionally marginalized populations, and in work that is relevant to practitioners around the world. Growing numbers of educators and professors look to the six bimonthly issues to: deal with problems directly related to contemporary school leadership practice teach courses on school leadership and policy use as a quality reference in writing articles about school leadership and improvement.

The Art of the Essay

Author : Lydia Fakundiny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395571156
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Essay written by Lydia Fakundiny and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393071391
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters.”—Nadine Gordimer Across more than three decades Adrienne Rich’s essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and transformations. Beyond literary theories, she explores from many angles how the arts of language have acted on and been shaped by their creators’ worlds.

Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy

Author : Lisa Nicole Gurley
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052012520
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy written by Lisa Nicole Gurley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The color of the book's cover alludes to the time and context in which this important volume originated: the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating International Women's Day at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At that time 'orange alerts' were issued by the United States to create a climate of fear and thereby stifle any critical debate of its foreign and domestic policy. The feminist thinkers presented in this volume are alert that such a critique is needed. They draw on the various languages of their fields to address wide-ranging topics and key questions in feminist politics, theory and philosophy. They all confront the state of urgency concerning the role of women in all classes of society, in all fields of research and the academy. This unique collection ranges across disciplines; as such the four major topics - aesthetics and female representation, love and psychoanalysis, care and ethics, the different understandings of 'women' - represent current topics of cross-disciplinary interest for Women's and Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Political Science.

Aesthetical Relations

Author : Christina Catherine Martinez
Publisher : Hesse Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948434034
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetical Relations written by Christina Catherine Martinez and published by Hesse Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Art. Edited by Clare Kelly. AESTHETICAL RELATIONS is a constellation of essays on art, fashion, cancer, comedy, Los Angeles, and your mom. Martinez whips elements of fiction and stand up material into bits and pieces addressing both the critical and personal; including how many times you may kiss an art-world acquaintance, the theoretical stakes of sexting, and why German performance art is quite like French clowning. AESTHETICAL RELATIONS is titled after Martinez's ongoing conceptual comedy talk show of the same name. With an introduction by writer and comedian Jamie Loftus.