Описание: The untold story of the intersecting lives of the Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk—marking the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk’s assassination November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. The distortions and omissions have piled up since. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transforms into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian,” and a “fascist.” In life, Harvey Milk faked hate crimes, outed friends, and falsely claimed that the U.S. Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and with a U.S. Navy ship named for him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love. In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.
Описание: This edited collection brings together essays that share in a critical attention to visual culture as a means of representing, contributing to and/or intervening with discursive struggles and territorial conflicts currently taking place at and across the outward-facing and internal borders of the People`s Republic of China.
Описание: This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by twelve research seminars, researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and Sao Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Post-conference, a selection of 35 double-blind peer-reviewed papers have been compiled.
Автор: Shirley Jordan, Christoph Lindner Название: Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space ISBN: 1474224415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474224413 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.
Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of 'interruption' in global cities enables new understanding of the forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments.
The idea of 'interruption' addressed in this book refers to deliberate interventions in the spaces and communities of contemporary cities - interventions that seek to disrupt or destabilize the experience of everyday urban life through creative practice. Interruption is used as an analytic and conceptual tool to challenge - and explore alternatives to - the narratives of speed, hyper-mobility, rapid growth, and incessant exchange and flow that have dominated critical thinking on global cities.
Bringing art and creative practice into the centre of discussions about the future of cities, alongside discussions of development, design, justice, health, sustainability, technology, and citizenship, this book is essential reading for anyone working at the intersections of a range of urban, cultural and visual fields, including urban studies, urban design and architecture, visual studies, cultural studies, media studies, art history, and social and cultural geography.
Автор: Minissale Название: The Psychology of Contemporary Art ISBN: 110701932X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107019324 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gregory Minissale demonstrates how using robust methods for mapping conceptual processes, taken from psychology and cognitive science and adapted to the subtleties of contemporary art, can provide important insights into how we structure various kinds of abstract and concrete concepts into a network of thoughts, feelings and actions.
Автор: Zimna Katarzyna Название: Time to Play: Action and Interaction in Contemporary Art ISBN: 1780763034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780763033 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Katarzyna Zimna links the theory and history of 20th and 21st century art with ideas developed within play, game and leisure studies, and the philosophical theories of Kant, Gadamer and Derrida, to critically engage with current discussion on the role of the artist, viewers, curators and their spaces of encounter.
Автор: Minissale Название: The Psychology of Contemporary Art ISBN: 1107562333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107562332 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gregory Minissale demonstrates how using robust methods for mapping conceptual processes, taken from psychology and cognitive science and adapted to the subtleties of contemporary art, can provide important insights into how we structure various kinds of abstract and concrete concepts into a network of thoughts, feelings and actions.
Автор: Grace McQuilten, McQuilten Grace, White Anthony Название: Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art ISBN: 1784534102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784534103 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the idea of art as social enterprise in relation to broader economic and social systems, while also addressing inequities in the art system itself.
Описание: Borders. Dwelling in the borders.- Perception. Perceiving space in pictures .- Dreams. The relational link between nocturnal and diurnal creativity.- Body. Sound Spaces and the Embodied Musical Mind .- Memory. Places and communities memory in "powdered modernity" between literature, history and anthropology.- Landscapes. Expressive landscapes, perception and design.- Metropolis. Sensory ethnography paths in the city of differences.- Reuse. Re-contextualization and re-signification in art and care.- Time. The city as an event of time and space.- Identity. Beyond places, beyond identities, for a cultural redefinition of the relationship between man and nature .- Borders. The design of the unfinished as a new transdisciplinary perspective.- Perception. The Representation of space, from bidimensionality to tridimensionality.- Dreams. The cultural and creative conversion of abandoned buildings as a driver of urban regeneration.- Body. Spatial transitions in the scene architecture between space, event and movement.- Memory. Dwelling in the leftovers.- Landscapes. Bottom-up approach for cultural landscape and local identity mapping.- Metropolis. Urban mindscapes.- Reuse. Urban heritage and liveability.- Time. Hybrid spaces for users-bodies between work and hospitality.- Identity. Place identity between preservation and innovation.
Описание: This book explores how environmental urban design can benefit from established and emerging representation and simulation techniques that meet the need for a multisensory approach.
Автор: Bonnie S. Wasserman Название: Contemporary Afro-Brazil: A Multidisciplinary Anthology ISBN: 1516525906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516525904 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 26955.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contemporary Afro-Brazil: A Multidisciplinary Anthology exposes students to all aspects of Afro-Brazilian culture, including sports, music and dance, ideas of gender, socioeconomic and political disparities, and more. The anthology includes primary and secondary sources that emphasize and demonstrate the African influence in Brazilian culture from the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade to today. Over the course of 10 modules, students learn about the “discovery” of Brazil by the Portuguese, the establishment of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the existence (or not) of a racial democracy in Brazil, and how African traditions are often interwoven with Catholicism to create a unique religious practice and tradition. Additional readings explore the African influence on Brazilian dance, music, and film, the development and policing of favelas, and gender inequality in the nation. The collection closes with sections dedicated to the Afro-Brazilian influence on soccer and modern-day politics, protest, and policy, as Afro-Brazilians struggle to overcome socioeconomic, racial, and political disparities. Contemporary Afro-Brazil is a cross-disciplinary anthology designed to serve as a supplementary text for foundational courses in anthropology, history, political science, sociology, music, dance, religion, and gender studies that focus on Latin America and Brazil.
Описание: This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other challenges that emerge from this book include a better understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that, throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly fascinating phenomenon.
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