Blaze
Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism
How has feminism matured over the years? What are the pressing agendas for today’s feminists working in the arts? Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism, emerges as a navigational text, celebrating past victories while charting new directions for today’s second wave and third wave feminists. A feminist anthology, Blaze is comprised of feminist artists, art historians, critics, journalists, curators, interdisciplinary artists, and arts administrators of diverse backgrounds, living across the United States. The book grows out of the 2006 Annual National Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) conference, held in…
How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.
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Women in Art and Literature Networks
Spinning Webs
This book examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centers on the concept of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories. Within the framework of feminist history and gender studies, the book looks at the careers of salonnières, gallery owners, editors and all types of artists, in Europe and in the USA. They may be famous (Carolee Schneemann) or less so (Yvonne…
This anthology examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centres on the idea of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories.
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Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Western Tradition
No More Miss Perfect
Traditional feminine description and roles within Western literary and artistic cultural artifacts have tended to portray women in very a specific way – one which creates, disseminates and consolidates the gender roles which became foundational to heteropatriarchy and, sometimes, male chauvinism. As an example, women in poetry are often portrayed as fragile, sweet, romanticized creatures who ignite masculine desire or bolster male artists’ creativity. In this sense, most Western lyrical traditions present women as either objects of desire or inspirational muses. These secondary roles, which transform women into subalterns, can…
Western art has often portrayed women as objects of desire or inspirational muses. This multidisciplinary volume challenges these roles, presenting womanhood from new perspectives and highlighting characters who have been neglected, misrepresented, or reduced to the margins.
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Three German Women
Personal Histories from the Twentieth Century
This book presents the life stories of three women of the German-speaking realm whose lives inspired the author directly: mathematician Maria Weber Steinberg (1919-2013); journalist Irmgard Rexroth-Kern (1907-1983); and Viennese art historian Fr. Dr. Anna von Spitzmüller (1903-2001). The lives of these three women serve as emotional mirrors to the cultural transformations and tumultuous history of the 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of intellectual European women in this era. Each woman was related to men who played a prominent role in European cultural life,…
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
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Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema
Queer Visuals
This edited volume offers a comprehensive understanding of the queer space in tandem with the transforming socio-cultural-political relationships in a country that exhibits diversified shades of ideologies and history – that is, India. The featured essays deal with the presence of queerness in visual media, particularly in films and the digital arena, from multilingual and multicultural perspectives, thus creating an exhaustive discourse encompassing argument and analysis. This book aims to depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness, a rare scholastic endeavour.
This volume explores India’s queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.
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This book situates the reader between an original, passionate retelling of the Cole’s life from new sources and a deep investigation into the true meanings of his work. Delving beyond the superficial to discuss the relationship between the artist and his subjects, Thomas Cole’s Americas recounts the interconnected story of art and life as told by Cole through his paintings. With 44 colour plates and 63 black-white figures, it is an original cultural history that describes the life of the creative mind that engendered Cole’s art and details how his…
This book situates the reader between a passionate retelling of Cole’s life and a deep investigation into his work. It recounts the interconnected story of art and life, detailing how his paintings incorporate prophetic stories of human history witnessed by pristine landscapes.
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In the last 50 years, the social importance of stars has steadily grown, to the point that stars have now become key role models who strongly influence people’s behaviours. This book considers the connections between the three main media (cinema, television and the web) and each of the three phases into which the history of stardom can be divided. The first phase can largely be credited with the creation and codification of contemporary stardom, while the second is linked to the spread of television, which weakened the Hollywood stardom model…
This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.
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Pathographies of Modernity with Aby Warburg and Beyond
An Astral Map of Warburgian Constellations
The present volume aims to follow the many intersections and interferences between art history and other disciplines (such as the history of literature, theatre, cinema, photography, and dance) which can be found in Aby Warburg’s writings. In particular, the volume is designed as an “astral map,” whereby each chapter represents a “constellation” of polar keywords, such as Pathosformel, ancient/modern, memory, and performativity, that hark back to a Warburgian linguistic and conceptual tradition. The “word,” just like the “image,” polarises within itself two meanings, or rather two opposed expressive…
This volume follows the intersections between art history and other disciplines in Aby Warburg’s writings. Designed as an “astral map,” each chapter is a “constellation” of keywords used to investigate an artwork’s “dynamic energy”—its ability to move and change over time.
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Pop Culture Matters
Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture—YouTube videos, hip hop music, movies, adverts, greeting cards, videogames, and comics, to name just a few possibilities—and far too often we pay only scant critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation by probing a wide range of topics within the field of popular culture studies. Written in engaging and jargon-free prose, contributions critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas. Moreover, they often pay special attention to…
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.
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The Shaping of Persian Art
Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia
While the impact of the Persian style is undeniably reflected in most aspects of the art and architecture of Islamic Central Asia, this Perso-Central Asian connection was chiefly formed and articulated by the Euro-American movement of collecting and interpreting the art and material culture of the Persian Islamic world in modern times. This had an enormous impact on the formation of scholarship and connoisseurship in Persian art, for instance, with an attempt to define the characteristics of how the Islamic art of Iran and Central Asia should…
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
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This study sheds light on the impressive work done by writers of television series, highlighting their sources of inspiration and their exceptional talent for maintaining interest and mirroring changes in mentalities in lifestyle. It offers numerous original interpretations of various categories of such television shows, and explores the ways in which older series have been developed, and what has been maintained and changed in more modern TV series.
This study highlights the impressive work of television writers, their inspiration, and their talent for mirroring society. It offers original interpretations of TV shows and explores how series have evolved, noting what has been maintained and changed over time.
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This volume explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. The focus is particularly on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day which offer alternatives to notions of reality as manufactured by the collusion between the neo-liberal state and the media. The book also discusses Italy’s relationship with its own cultural past by investigating how Italian authors deal with the return of the specter of Neorealism as it haunts…
This book explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. It focuses on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day.
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Lucian of Samosata, the prolific Greek-speaking satirist of the 2nd century AD, left us a wide range of works ranging from harsh invective against cult-leaders and philosophers to playful pastiche of Herodotus' Histories. Art and artists, teachers of rhetoric, inconsistent myths, parasites in rich households, authors seeking imperial patronage and the rich and powerful themselves all provide rich material for his wit and humour. In this volume the focus is not on the literary values of Lucian's works, but rather on what they show us about the intellectual, political, religious…
The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.
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Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural
Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Throughout history, both art and science have been employed to visualise things unseen and to image/imagine things unknown as part of the quest to understand nature. In light of this, perhaps our contemporary tendency to see art and science as completely divergent, mutually exclusive fields of study with similarly distinct methodologies may be profitably re-examined. This volume brings together recent work by both junior and senior scholars treating the art/science connection in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art. The essays are individual case studies dealing with historical…
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
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This volume offers a stimulating perspective on the status of representations of a new kind of female character who emerged on the scene on US television in the mid-2000s, that of the anti-heroine. This new figure rivaled her earlier counterpart, the anti-hero, in terms of her complexity, and was multi-layered and morally flawed. Looking at the cable channels Showtime and HBO, as well as Netflix and ABC Television, this volume examines a range of recent television women and shows, including Homeland, Weeds, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Veep,…
Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.
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Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various “scapes”, such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge “scapes” by imposing or suggesting aesthetic, evaluative or ideological orderings and perceptual as well as emotive…
This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
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With dramatic advances in media technology, the practice of sexing or erotically enhancing images has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon. The eroticized “look,” as both noun and verb, the thing or image that draws our look, and the look that we bestow on images that elicit our visual, physiological, and emotional attention, is the focus of the essays in this volume. Every day, whether we are out in the world or in the workplace or in the privacy of our homes, we enter visual fields that heighten and distort reality,…
This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.
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With reference to recent neurological research into Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) using new imaging technologies and models of implicit and explicit memory systems developed from this research, The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art examines the capacity of an artist’s cinema of experimental and avant-garde film to perform and communicate traumatic experience. De Bruyn analyses key films from the 1940s to the present that perform aspects of overwhelming experience through their approach, structure, content and perceptual impact, mapping a trajectory from analogue to contemporary digital moving image practice. He…
Referencing neurological research, this book examines how experimental cinema performs traumatic experience. It argues that ‘materialist film’ perceptually performs disorientation and flashbacks, giving this practice a renewed relevance in the digital age.
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The Willow and the Spiral
Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination
Octavio Paz (México, 1914–1998) was one of the foremost poets and essayists of the twentieth century. Read in translations into many of the world’s languages, Paz received numerous awards and prizes during his lifetime, participated in major artistic and political movements of the twentieth century, served as Mexico’s ambassador in India (1962–1968), and was the editor of Plural and Vuelta, two literary journals of prominent influence in Mexico, Latin America, and Spain. In 1990 Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book of essays is a commemoration of…
This book of essays commemorates Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Top scholars offer studies of his poetry and essays in relation to art, politics, translation, and world cultures, celebrating his legacy of criticism and open viewpoints.
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Monuments and Site-Specific Sculpture in Urban and Rural Space presents a collection of essays discussing works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration. By addressing projects that range from war memorials to commemorations of individuals, as well as works that engage real and virtual environments, this book brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture. The book addresses the work of, among others, Günter Demnig, Michael Heizer, Thomas Hirschhorn, Dani Karavan, Costantino Nivola, Melissa Shiff…
This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
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