Kunst, Konflikt, Kollaboration (Schriften der Forschungsstelle "Entartete Kunst")
Hildebrand Gurlitt zählte zu jenen Kunsthändlern, die sich an dem Verkauf der 1937 in deutschen Museen als „entartet" beschlagnahmten Kunstwerke beteiligten. Rund 400 Kunstwerke aus dem Kontext der Einziehung verblieben in seinem Besitz. Sie befinden sich heute als Legat Cornelius Gurlitt im Kunstmuseum Bern. Der Band basiert auf umfangreichen Forschungen zur Entstehung des Kunstbesitzes Hildebrand Gurlitts. Die Beiträge thematisieren die Positionierung des Museumsleiters und Kurators Gurlitt z...
Can art provide a critique of political economy? This question, originally formulated by the romantic philosophers John Ruskin and William Morris, continues to be at the core of contemporary anti-capitalist and post-colonial struggles. As art and culture feed an urban rentierism based on gentrification, mass-tourism and hyper-consumption, art commons are radicalizing urban politics across the globe through new political and artistic practices. Art/Commons is the first book to theorise the comm...
Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
This original and insightful study explores the points at which theater and propaganda meet. Defining propaganda as a form of "activated ideology," George H. Szanto discusses the distortion of information that occurs in dramatic literature in its stage, film, and television forms. Szanto analyzes the nature of "integration propaganda," which is designed to render the audience passive and to encourage the acceptance of the status quo, as opposed to "agitation propaganda," which aims to inspire th...
Fish Design Notebook Large Size 8.5 x 11 Ruled 150 Pages
by Wild Pages Press
I Do This For The Fame & Money Said No Athlete Ever
by Starry Novelty Bubbles
This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse. It takes seriously the idea of the artist as moral witness to this realm, considering war photography, for example, as a form of humanitarian intervention. War poetry, war films and war diaries are also considered in...
Red Jamaican Crab Coloring Book For Kids Ages 4-12
by Nasheem Yeash
Christmas Math Color By Number Coloring Book For Kids Ages 8-12
by Ht Mir Color Number Publishing
Wine, Women & Westminster: Behind the Scenes Stories of Mps at Play Over 50 Years
by Chris Moncrieff
In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New...
I Murales e il linguaggio visivo nella lotta indipendentista nordirlandese a Belfast e Derry
by Nicola Guerra