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Drawing on social media, cinema, cultural heritage and public
opinion polls, this book examines Indonesia and Malaysia from a
comparative postcolonial perspective. The Indonesia-Malaysia
relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships
in Southeast Asia, especially because Indonesia, the world's fourth
most populous country and third largest democracy, is the most
populous and powerful nation in the region. Both states are
committed to the relationship, especially at the highest levels of
government, and much has been made of their 'sibling' identity. The
relationship is built on years of interaction at all levels of
state and society, and both countries draw on their common culture,
religion and language in managing political tensions. In recent
years, however, several issues have seriously strained the once
cordial bilateral relationship. Among these are a strong public
reaction to maritime boundary disputes, claims over each country's
cultural forms, the treatment of Indonesian workers in Malaysia,
and trans-border issues such as Indonesian forest fire haze.
Comparing the two nations' engagement with cultural heritage,
religion, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, democracy and
regionalism, this book highlights the social and historical roots
of the tensions between Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the
enduring sense of kinship.
Drawing on social media, cinema, cultural heritage and public
opinion polls, this book examines Indonesia and Malaysia from a
comparative postcolonial perspective. The Indonesia-Malaysia
relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships
in Southeast Asia, especially because Indonesia, the world's fourth
most populous country and third largest democracy, is the most
populous and powerful nation in the region. Both states are
committed to the relationship, especially at the highest levels of
government, and much has been made of their 'sibling' identity. The
relationship is built on years of interaction at all levels of
state and society, and both countries draw on their common culture,
religion and language in managing political tensions. In recent
years, however, several issues have seriously strained the once
cordial bilateral relationship. Among these are a strong public
reaction to maritime boundary disputes, claims over each country's
cultural forms, the treatment of Indonesian workers in Malaysia,
and trans-border issues such as Indonesian forest fire haze.
Comparing the two nations' engagement with cultural heritage,
religion, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, democracy and
regionalism, this book highlights the social and historical roots
of the tensions between Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the
enduring sense of kinship.
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a
consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on
American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in
works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and
scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through
collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and others,
Rauschenberg bridged the music, dance, and visual-art worlds,
inventing a new art for the last half of the twentieth century.
Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that
tells the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists
through a series of interviews with key figures in his
life—family, friends, former lovers, professional associates,
studio assistants, and collaborators. The oral historian Sara
Sinclair artfully puts the narrators’ reminiscences in
conversation, with a focus on the relationship between
Rauschenberg’s intense social life and his art. The book opens
with a prologue by Rauschenberg’s sister and then shifts to New
York City’s 1950s and ’60s art scene, populated by the
luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows Rauschenberg’s
eventual move to Florida’s Captiva Island and his trips across
the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and
others’ art. The narrators share their views on Rauschenberg’s
work, explore the curatorial thinking behind exhibitions of his
art, and reflect on the impact of the influx of money into the
contemporary art market. Included are artists famous in their own
right, such as Laurie Anderson and Brice Marden, as well as
art-world insiders and lesser-known figures who were part of
Rauschenberg’s inner circle. Beyond considering Rauschenberg as
an artist, this book reveals him as a man embedded in a series of
art worlds over the course of a long and rich life, demonstrating
the complex interaction of business and personal, public and
private in the creation of great art.
One of the fundamental concepts of toxicology is that chemicals act
at selective receptors and that such interactions result in phar
macologic responses which, depending on dose, mayor may not result
in toxicity. For us to understand how insecticides produce their
toxic effects, we must first understand their molecular
interactions with their target receptors. With this in mind, we
organized a symposium which was given in conjunction with the XVII
International Congress of Entomology in Hamburg on August 21, 1984.
The goal of this symposium was to bring together researchers with a
wide range of expertise who shared a common interest in the action
of insecticides on the insect nervous system. It was decided to
restrict the scope of the symposium so that selected topics could
be discussed in greater depth. The volume which resulted from this
symposium, -Membranes Receptors and Enzymes as Targets of
Insecticidal Action-, details a number of bio chemical modes of
action of insecticides on the insect nervous system. The volume is
divided into two sections; the first dealing with the action of
insecticides on the GABA-ch1oride channel complex. This section
evolves from a discussion of the symptoms of cyclodiene toxicity
presented by Dr. D. E. Woolley, to the structure-activity
relationships and pharmacology of the channel complex and is
concluded with the extremely interesting work of Dr. C. C. Wang on
the action(s) of avermectin at this receptor.
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a
consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on
American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in
works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and
scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through
collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and others,
Rauschenberg bridged the music, dance, and visual-art worlds,
inventing a new art for the last half of the twentieth century.
Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that
tells the story of one of the twentieth century's great artists
through a series of interviews with key figures in his life-family,
friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants,
and collaborators. The oral historian Sara Sinclair artfully puts
the narrators' reminiscences in conversation, with a focus on the
relationship between Rauschenberg's intense social life and his
art. The book opens with a prologue by Rauschenberg's sister and
then shifts to New York City's 1950s and '60s art scene, populated
by the luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows
Rauschenberg's eventual move to Florida's Captiva Island and his
trips across the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect
on his and others' art. The narrators share their views on
Rauschenberg's work, explore the curatorial thinking behind
exhibitions of his art, and reflect on the impact of the influx of
money into the contemporary art market. Included are artists famous
in their own right, such as Laurie Anderson and Brice Marden, as
well as art-world insiders and lesser-known figures who were part
of Rauschenberg's inner circle. Beyond considering Rauschenberg as
an artist, this book reveals him as a man embedded in a series of
art worlds over the course of a long and rich life, demonstrating
the complex interaction of business and personal, public and
private in the creation of great art.
Maskulinitas is a ground-breaking treatment of the representation
of men and masculinity in Indonesian culture, from Suharto's New
Order era to the present. The book includes critical analyses of
Indonesian cultural expressions in literature, cinema, society, and
politics. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Maier, and
others, author Marshall Clark explores, with acute insight and a
critical eye, constructions of the masculine in contemporary
Indonesian society. Maskulinitas also challenges the way scholars
of Indonesia have held firm to the categories and frameworks of
gender studies - a field still often equated with women's studies -
while offering fascinating insights into representations and images
of men as engendered and engendering subjects. As a timely addition
to the generally conservative field of scholarship on gender in
Southeast Asia, Maskulinitas demonstrates that gender studies need
to encompass 'the man question, ' especially considering
Indonesia's strongly patriarchal society, where the norms of
feminine subordination and submission are legitimized by the
ideologies of the state and the strictures of religion. Ultimately,
this book challenges the reader with the notion that if the
subordinate status of Indonesian women is to be highlighted and
some sort of gender equality achieved, then the representations,
subjectivities, and practices of Indonesian men must be addressed
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