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ISBN: 9780226424354 - Power to the People Power to the People
Geoff Kaplan

ISBN10: 0226424359  ISBN13: 9780226424354
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 04 Jun 2013
Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring... More

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ISBN: 9780262518680 - Art Power Art Power
Boris Groys

ISBN10: 0262518686  ISBN13: 9780262518680
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Mar 2013
A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power. Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war... More

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ISBN: 9781848858572 - This is Not Art This is Not Art
Alana Jelinek

ISBN10: 1848858574  ISBN13: 9781848858572
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Feb 2013
Alana Jelinek returns to the question 'what is art?', retelling the history of art practice and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives and explores it from her unique perspective as a... More

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ISBN: 9780262518345 - The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg, Peter Weibel

ISBN10: 0262518341  ISBN13: 9780262518345
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Feb 2013
The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed... More

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ISBN: 9780674065819 - A Continuous Revolution A Continuous Revolution
Barbara Mittler

ISBN10: 0674065816  ISBN13: 9780674065819
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 08 Feb 2013
Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as mere propaganda, not only was liked in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. Considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art from the point of view of its longue duree, Mittler suggests that... More

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ISBN: 9780745333694 - It's the Political Economy, Stupid It's the Political Economy, Stupid
Gregory Sholette, Oliver Ressler

ISBN10: 0745333699  ISBN13: 9780745333694
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Jan 2013
Leading critical artists and theorists analyse the current crisis of capitalism. It's the Political Economy, Stupid brings together internationally acclaimed artists and thinkers, including Slavoj Zizek, David Graeber, Judith Butler and Brian... More

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ISBN: 9781137299956 - The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature
Elena Machado Saez, Raphael Dalleo

ISBN10: 1137299959  ISBN13: 9781137299956
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jan 2013
In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market. More

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ISBN: 9780415645492 - US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology
Christina Luke, Morag M Kersel

ISBN10: 0415645492  ISBN13: 9780415645492
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Dec 2012
"Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso. Archaeology's links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on... More

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ISBN: 9780415530378 - Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
Maria Pia Di Bella, James Elkins

ISBN10: 0415530377  ISBN13: 9780415530378
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 Dec 2012
The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such themes, from the central images of the Passion to the representations of bloody martyrdoms. More

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ISBN: 9781616891084 - 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International
McKenzie Wark

ISBN10: 1616891084  ISBN13: 9781616891084
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2012
From Wikipedia: The Situationist International was a small group of international political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism and Lenninism. They played a central role in the theory underlying the 1968 European uprisings. More