|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics,
few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the
social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our
social surroundings. This collection engages the "material turn" in
the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of
original contributions on creativity in diverse global and
contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday
objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the
relationship between material culture and the social imagination.
What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies
and influences our idea of the social world.
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics,
few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the
social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our
social surroundings. This collection engages the "material turn" in
the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of
original contributions on creativity in diverse global and
contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday
objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the
relationship between material culture and the social imagination.
What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies
and influences our idea of the social world.
'Timed out' is a pioneering study of modern and contemporary art in
the aftermath of empire. It addresses the current 'global turn' in
the study of art by way of the transnational Caribbean, offering an
in-depth account of the Atlantic world in relation to the
mainstream history of art. It looks at why art of the Anglophone
Caribbean and its diaspora have been placed not only 'outside' but
'behind' the dominant art canons, and how the politics of space and
time can be used to rethink the global geography of art. This is an
essential addition to the growing field of 'world art studies',
bringing concerns around temporality together with cross-cultural
issues and debates. It shows how art and artists of the Caribbean
have encountered and challenged the charges of belatedness,
anachronism, provincialism and marginalisation that are fundamental
to the time-space logic of art history. -- .
This collection explores the creative responses of artists to the
legacies of war, colonialism, genocide and oppression. Based on a
major project of international collaboration supported by the
European Science Foundation, it brings together professional art
practices, art history and visual culture studies, social
anthropology, literary studies, history, museology and cultural
policy studies. Case studies are drawn from diverse contexts,
including South Africa, Germany, Namibia, the United Kingdom,
Nigeria, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Australia. The results reveal a
courageous and carefully examined global picture, with a variety of
new approaches to confronting dominant historical narratives and
shaping alternative interpretations. -- .
|
|