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Nobody's property : art, land, space, 2000-2010
This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth.
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Antitheatricality and the Body Public
Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present-day America provide us with occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of power and political authority. In studies of William Prynne's Histrio-mastix (1633), Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), John Home's Douglas (1757), the burning of the theater at Richmond (1811), and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998) Freeman engages in a careful examination of the political, religious, philosophical, literary, and dramatic contexts in which challenges to theatricality unfold. In so doing, she demonstrates that however differently \"the public\" might be defined in each epoch, what lies at the heart of antitheatrical disputes is a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.By situating antitheatrical incidents as rich and interpretable cultural performances, Freeman seeks to account fully for the significance of these particular historical conflicts. She delineates when, why, and how anxieties about representation manifest themselves, and traces the actual politics that govern such ostensibly aesthetic and moral debates even today.
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The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art
By beginning each chapter of The Prosthetic Pedagogy of
Art with an autobiographical assemblage of personal memory and
cultural history, Charles R. Garoian creates a differential,
prosthetic space. Within these spaces are the particularities of
his own lived experiences as an artist and educator, as well as
those of the artists, educators, critics, historians, and theorists
whose research and creative scholarship he invokes-coexisting and
coextending in manifold ways. Garoian suggests that a contiguous
positioning of differential narratives within the space of art
research and practice constitutes prosthetic pedagogy, enabling
learners to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple
correspondences between and among their own lived experiences and
understandings, and those of others. Such robust relationality of
cultural differences and peculiarities brings about interminable
newness to learners' understanding of the other, which challenges
the intellectual closure, reductionism, and immutability of
academic, institutional, and corporate power.
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On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art \"a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life,\" but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief?
On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art. This book will enable you to walk into a museum and talk about the spirituality that is or is not visible in the art you see.
\"For those searching for a way to broach the intriguing and complicated topic of religion in relation to cintemporary art, this book provides much to talk about...\" -- The Journal of Religion
James Elkins is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Chair of Art History at University College, Cork, Ireland. Among his books are Pictures and Tears, Visual Studies: a Skeptical Introduction, What Painting Is, Stories of Art , and How to Use Your Eyes, all published by Routledge.
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Art, Culture, and Pedagogy
Art, Culture, and Pedagogy: Revisiting the Work of Graeme Chalmers is an anthology of scholarship and a conversation of international scholars who look back and look forward to the enduring potentialities and possibilities inspired by Graeme Chalmers, and his legacy of critical multiculturalism in art education.
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Representations of working in arts education
Negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally. This book provides greater creative and discursive clarity.
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