The Lure of the Local - 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 Lure of the Local write by Lucy R. Lippard. This book was released on 1997. The Lure of the Local available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the multiple senses of place in society through cultural studies, history, geography, photography, and contemporary public art
Undermining
Undermining - 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 Undermining write by Lucy R. Lippard. This book was released on 2014-04-15. Undermining available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America’s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. Hailed for "the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place" (The New York Times), Lippard now turns her keen eye to the politics of land use and art in an evolving New West. Working from her own lived experience in a New Mexico village and inspired by gravel pits in the landscape, Lippard weaves a number of fascinating themes—among them fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and water—into a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, she offers a skeptical examination of the "subterranean economy." Featuring more than two hundred gorgeous color images, Undermining is a must-read for anyone eager to explore a new way of understanding the relationship between art and place in a rapidly shifting society.
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans - 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 Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans write by Vicki Mayer. This book was released on 2017-02-24. Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy’s uncomfortable effects on their economy and culture? Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans addresses these questions through a study of the local and everyday experiences of the film economy in New Orleans, Louisiana—a city that has twice pursued the goal of becoming a movie production capital. From the silent era to today’s Hollywood South, Vicki Mayer explains that the aura of a film economy is inseparable from a prevailing sense of home, even as it changes that place irrevocably.
The Lure of the Modern
The Lure of the Modern - 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 Lure of the Modern write by Shumei Shi. This book was released on 2001-04-20. The Lure of the Modern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivity to both history and literature. In many ways, it is the most inclusive historical study of modern Chinese literature in its formative period."—Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation "Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place (ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (language and linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and contemporary historical formation. She succeeds brilliantly."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier "This is the most thoroughly researched study of Chinese modernism published to date. The author's theoretical interventions greatly enrich our understanding of colonial modernity and the stakes of comparison in cross-cultural studies. The book is a major contribution to modern Chinese literary studies and comparative literature."—Lydia Liu, editor of Tokens of Exchange
We Sure Can!
We Sure Can! - 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 We Sure Can! write by Sarah Hood. This book was released on 2011-09-13. We Sure Can! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cookbook and guide to the “preservationists” and locavore aficionados who are rediscovering the lost art of jams and pickles.
