Art and Social Life
Author | : Georgiĭ Valentinovich Plekhanov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art and society |
ISBN | : 9789350021750 |
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Author | : Georgiĭ Valentinovich Plekhanov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art and society |
ISBN | : 9789350021750 |
Author | : Peter Stupples |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-11-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1443870927 |
This study examines not only the objects and processes that make up the artworlds of human history, but also the social and cultural circumstances, the historicised contexts that bring about their making, frame their functioning, inform their properties and influence their effects, both at the time of their creation and throughout their subsequent biographies. In the short span that “art” has played a part in human life, one may conceive of time as a social river, with a strong current towards the capricious mainstream, and eddies and quiet pools near the banks. The current will flow faster in spate and slower in drought. But it will be forever in motion. It will be unpredictable. Nothing will stop its inexorable force. Art runs in that social river, subject to the flow and chance of time.
Author | : Kerry Freedman |
Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2003-08-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780807743713 |
Offering a conceptual framework for teaching the visual arts (K-12 and higher education) from a cultural standpoint, the author discusses visual culture in a democracy.
Author | : Thomas Turino |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2008-10-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226816982 |
In 'Music as Social Life', Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the centre of our most profound personal and social experiences.
Author | : Abigail Williams |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300228104 |
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Author | : Martin Brückner |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2017-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469632616 |
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.
Author | : Rochelle Ziskin |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271037857 |
"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Shawn Chandler Bingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780739149232 |
By treading the common ground between the arts, humanities and social sciences, The Art of Social Critiqueraises important questions about the role of art in society, and posits art as a qualitative form of social inquiry. The authors cover a range of artists whose methods of "seeing" social life -- observing, analyzing and portraying society -- draw on the sociological, psychological, historical, and political imagination.
Author | : John Lewis |
Publisher | : Top Shelf Productions |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1603093028 |
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole). March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.
Author | : Ruy Blanes |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022608180X |
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.