Objects/Histories – serie
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34 produkter
Camera As Historian
Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
Häftad, 2012
353 kr
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In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the …
Empires of Vision
A Reader
Av Martin Jay, Sumathi Ramaswamy
Häftad, 2014
693 kr
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Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that …
Culture in the Marketplace
Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest
Häftad, 2001
537 kr
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In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had …
Orientalism's Interlocutors
Painting, Architecture, Photography
Av Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts
Häftad, 2002
411 kr
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Until now, Orientalist art-exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars-has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist …
Photography's Other Histories
Av Christopher Pinney, Nicolas Peterson
Häftad, 2003
403 kr
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Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography’s Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of a Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals. This collection …
In Senghor's Shadow
Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
Häftad, 2004
454 kr
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In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of LÉopold SÉdar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of …
Eye Contact
Photographing Indigenous Australians
Av Jane Lydon
Häftad, 2006
454 kr
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An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government …
Eye for the Tropics
Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque
Inbunden, 2007
1448 kr
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Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the …
Native Moderns
American Indian Painting, 1940-1960
Av Bill Anthes
Häftad, 2006
454 kr
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Between 1940 and 1960, many Native American artists made bold departures from what was considered the traditional style of Indian painting. They drew on European and other non-Native American aesthetic innovations to create hybrid works that complicated notions of identity, authenticity, and …
Chicana Art
The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities
Häftad, 2007
495 kr
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In Alma Lopez’s digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons-the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards-embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. Ester …
Gods in the Bazaar
The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
Av Kajri Jain
Häftad, 2007
353 kr
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Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring women, …
Intimate Outsiders
The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature
Av Mary Roberts
Inbunden, 2007
1304 kr
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Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western appropriation of the Orient. In Intimate Outsiders, the art historian Mary Roberts brings to light a …
Intimate Outsiders
The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature
Av Mary Roberts
Häftad, 2007
411 kr
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Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western appropriation of the Orient. In Intimate Outsiders, the art historian Mary Roberts brings to light a …
Unsettled Visions
Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary
Häftad, 2009
512 kr
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In Unsettled Visions, the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, …
Photographies East
The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2009
396 kr
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Introducing Photographies East, Rosalind C. Morris notes that although the camera is now a taken-for-granted element of everyday life in most parts of the world, it is difficult to appreciate “the shock and sense of utter improbability that accompanied the new technology” as it was introduced in …
Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980
Inbunden, 2009
1304 kr
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Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an “Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These …
Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980
Häftad, 2009
411 kr
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Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an “Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These …
Indian Craze
Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915
Inbunden, 2009
1247 kr
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In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, “Indian stores,” dealers, and the U.S. government’s Indian schools. Men and women across the United States indulged in a widespread passion for collecting Native American art, …
Indian Craze
Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915
Häftad, 2009
324 kr
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In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, “Indian stores,” dealers, and the U.S. government’s Indian schools. Men and women across the United States indulged in a widespread passion for collecting Native American art, …
Refracted Visions
Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
Inbunden, 2010
1448 kr
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A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; …
Refracted Visions
Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
Häftad, 2010
485 kr
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A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; …
Camera As Historian
Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
Inbunden, 2012
1448 kr
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In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the …
From a Nation Torn
Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
Inbunden, 2014
1362 kr
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From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are …
Treasured Possessions
Indigenous Interventions Into Cultural and Intellectual Property
Inbunden, 2013
1322 kr
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What happens when ritual practitioners from a small Pacific nation make an intellectual property claim to bungee jumping? When a German company successfully sues to defend its trademark of a Māori name? Or when UNESCO deems ephemeral sand drawings to be "intangible cultural heritage"? In Treasured …
Treasured Possessions
Indigenous Interventions Into Cultural and Intellectual Property
Häftad, 2013
385 kr
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What happens when ritual practitioners from a small Pacific nation make an intellectual property claim to bungee jumping? When a German company successfully sues to defend its trademark of a Māori name? Or when UNESCO deems ephemeral sand drawings to be "intangible cultural heritage"? In Treasured …
Empires of Vision
A Reader
Av Martin Jay, Sumathi Ramaswamy
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that …
Echo of Things
The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
Inbunden, 2013
1578 kr
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The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs …
Echo of Things
The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs …
Remote Avant-Garde
Aboriginal Art Under Occupation
Inbunden, 2016
1258 kr
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In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art …
Remote Avant-Garde
Aboriginal Art Under Occupation
Häftad, 2016
307 kr
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In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art …
