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Cornelia Parker (Hardcover)
Rachel Kent, Margaret Iversen
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R820
R633
Discovery Miles 6 330
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This is a detailed analysis of how understandings of health
management past, present and future has transformed in the digital
age. Since the mid-20th century, we have witnessed 'healthy'
lifestyles being pushed as part of health promotion strategies,
both via the state, and through health tracking tools, and
narratives of wellness online. This marks a seismic shift from a
public welfare state responsibility for health towards
individualised practices of digital self-care. Today health has
become representative of 'lifestyle corrections' which is performed
on social media. Putting the spotlight on neoliberalism and digital
technology as pervasive tools that dictate wellness as a moral
obligation, Rachael Kent critically analyses how users navigate
relationships between self-tracking technologies, social media, and
everyday health management. .
Newly revised and updated, this authoritative book presents the
exciting, ironic, and often subversive work of Yinka Shonibare MBE,
one of the stars of the international art scene. Born in London and
raised in Nigeria, Shonibare employs a diverse range of media--from
sculpture, painting, and installation to photography and film--to
probe matters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. He is
perhaps best known for his signature use of a colorful "African"
batik fabric that actually originated in Indonesia and was
introduced to Africa in the19th century by British and Dutch
colonizers. Incorporated into Victorian costumes, covering
sculptures of extraterrestrials, or stretched like canvas for
paintings, these vibrant textiles cleverly challenge issues of
origin and authenticity. This book--the most comprehensive resource
available on Shonibare--presents the best work of the London-based
artist's career, including his high-profile project for the Fourth
Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square and other innovative public
sculptures. Whether lampooning Victorian propriety or commenting on
what it means to be an "alien," Shonibare makes art that challenges
straightforward interpretations.
Highly illustrated, Full of Love, Full of Wonder explores the
oeuvre to date, showcasing Savvas' processes as well as the
finished works, thus offering an unprecedented insight into both
her large and small-scale works. Born in Canberra, Australia, from
Greek-Cypriot parents, and moving to London in the mid-1990s in
order to develop her career as an artist, her artistic identity is
therefore an eclectic reflection of her multiple heritages.
Contributors Rachel Kent, Patricia Ellis and Stephan Little offer
their disparate view points and contextualize Savvas' work both
within the Australian, Greek and British contemporary art scenes,
the historical canon of art and the pop, kitsch and Zen cultures
which Savvas' work balances with curiously harmonious ease.
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