Reading the Contemporary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Contemporary write by Olu Oguibe. This book was released on 1999. Reading the Contemporary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past decade, contemporary African art has been featured in major exhibtions in museums, galleries, international biennials, and other forums. African cinema has established itself on the stage of world cinema, culminating in the Ouagadougou Film Festival. While African art and visual culture have become an integral part of the art history and cultural studies curricula in universities worldwide, critical readings and interpretations have remained difficult to obtain. This pioneering anthology collects twenty key essays in which major critical thinkers, scholars, and artists explore contemporary African visual culture, locating it within current cultural debates and within the context of the continent's history. The sections of the book are Theory and Cultural Transaction, History, Location and Practice, and Negotiated Identities. Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London
The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture
The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture write by Heike Schaefer. This book was released on 2019-08-28. The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary studies, book studies, and media studies, these essays show that a sustained focus on the medial and material formats of literary communication significantly expands our accustomed ways of doing cultural studies. Addressing the changing roles of authors, publishers, and readers while covering multiple bookish formats such as artists’ books, bestselling novels, experimental fiction, and zines, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to current transatlantic conversations on the history and future of the printed book.
The Book
The Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book write by J. Susan Isaacs. This book was released on 2011. The Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addresses the themes of the book as object, subject, and concept, including artist-made books, deconstructed books, and book installations
Reading the World
Reading the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the World write by . This book was released on 2012. Reading the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reading Contemporary Performance
Reading Contemporary Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Contemporary Performance write by Gabrielle Cody. This book was released on 2015-09-25. Reading Contemporary Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key terms and ideas that are central to any discussion of this evolving theatricality. Specially commissioned entries from a wealth of contributors map out the many and varied ways of discussing performance in all of its forms – from theatrical and site-specific performances to live and New Media art. The book is divided into two sections: Concepts - Key terms and ideas arranged according to the five characteristic elements of performance art: time; space; action; performer; audience. Methodologies and Turning Points - The seminal theories and ways of reading performance, such as postmodernism, epic theatre, feminisms, happenings and animal studies. Case Studies – entries in both sections are accompanied by short studies of specific performances and events, demonstrating creative examples of the ideas and issues in question. Three different introductory essays provide multiple entry points into the discussion of contemporary performance, and cross-references for each entry also allow the plotting of one’s own pathway. Reading Contemporary Performance is an invaluable guide, providing not just a solid set of familiarities, but an exploration and contextualisation of this broad and vital field.
