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Exhibitions have become "the" medium through which most art becomes
known and assessed. But the art exhibition is an increasingly
critical and unstable category. Constantly reshaped by artists and
curators, the exhibition has become both a prominent and diverse
part of contemporary culture. "Thinking About Exhibitions" presents
a multi-disciplinary anthology of writings on exhibition practice
by curators, critics, artists, sociologists and historians from
North America, Europe and Australia. Texts in the collection are
grouped in sections which focus on the history of the exhibition,
forms of staging and spectacle, and questions of curatorship,
spectatorship and narrative. As well as critical essays, the
anthology includes exhibition proposals, dialogues, position
papers, case studies, polemic articles and interviews.
With the 50th Anniversary of Victory in World War II comes PROTECT
& AVENGE: The 49th Fighter Group in World War II.\nAfter six
years of research, author and illustrator S.W. Ferguson, Along with
49ERS Association historian William K. Pascalis, have recreated the
war-years odyssey of the famous 49ERS, the most successful fighter
group in the war against Japan. Flyers Paul Wrutsmith, Bob
Morrissey, Ernie Harris, Gerry Johnson, Bob DeHaven and leading
American ace Dick Bong, are but a few of the men who contribute to
the 49ERS legend. \nFrom their desert air strips of Northwest
Territory, Australia, through their jungle camps of New Guinea and
the Philippines, to the final moment of victory on the Japanese
homeland, all are detailed in this new volume. Derived from the
diaries and logs of 49ERS veterans, the groups official USAF
history and the U.S. National Archives, the story chronicles more
than thirty aces and their crews who achieved over 600 aerial kills
in three years of continuous combat.\nThe text is highlighted by
more than 600 black and white photos, six compaign maps, and
twenty-four color profiles of select P-40s, P-57s, and P-38s.\nS.W.
Ferguson lives in Colorado Springs where he has pursued his
teaching, writing and art career for the last ten years. His
interests are American writers and history of the 20th century, and
swift waters that yield trout. \nBill Pascalis is a veteran
aircraft mechanic of the 49ERS Selfridge AFB cadre and served
through the New Guinea campaign of mid-1943. After the war, he
established a long career with Tranworld Airlines. He now lives
with his wife in retirement in Florida, enjoying golf, his
grandchildren and research in the 5th Air Force archives.
First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally
passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the
figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means
unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work
sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic criticism. This
collection of essays gathers together disparate and often
conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural
figure. Critics familiar with the traditions of Milton scholarship
and with debates in literary theory reconstruct Milton from
evidence provided by his own prose and poetry, by his
contemporaries (including some little-known women writers), by
Romantics such as Blake and Wordsworth, and, finally, by a
tradition of Afro-American writing that reflects Milton's influence
in ways previously unexamined by critics. The process of
reconstruction can also be seen as a process of "re-membering." The
volume draws inspiration from, but also interrogates, the figure
used in Areopagita to describe the quest for truth. Likening Truth
to the dismembered body of Osiris, Milton urges Truth's friends to
seek up and down, gathering "limb by limb" the body scattered
through time and space. Re-membering Milton includes work by
established critics from both sides of the Atlantic. Together these
contributors place Milton and different Milton traditions firmly
within the arenas of modem critical debate. As a result, the
collection will be of interest to a wide range of readers: scholars
concerned with Milton and Renaissance literature and history;
advanced undergraduates and graduate students; researchers in
women’s studies; and all readers generally concerned with trends
in literary and cultural theory.
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales.
First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally
passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the
figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means
unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work
sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic criticism. This
collection of essays gathers together disparate and often
conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural
figure. Critics familiar with the traditions of Milton scholarship
and with debates in literary theory reconstruct Milton from
evidence provided by his own prose and poetry, by his
contemporaries (including some little-known women writers), by
Romantics such as Blake and Wordsworth, and, finally, by a
tradition of Afro-American writing that reflects Milton's influence
in ways previously unexamined by critics. The process of
reconstruction can also be seen as a process of "re-membering." The
volume draws inspiration from, but also interrogates, the figure
used in Areopagita to describe the quest for truth. Likening Truth
to the dismembered body of Osiris, Milton urges Truth's friends to
seek up and down, gathering "limb by limb" the body scattered
through time and space. Re-membering Milton includes work by
established critics from both sides of the Atlantic. Together these
contributors place Milton and different Milton traditions firmly
within the arenas of modem critical debate. As a result, the
collection will be of interest to a wide range of readers: scholars
concerned with Milton and Renaissance literature and history;
advanced undergraduates and graduate students; researchers in
women's studies; and all readers generally concerned with trends in
literary and cultural theory.
Elizabeth Cary (c.1585-1639) was an accomplished scholar of
languages and theology. Her considerable strength of character was
demonstrated by her public conversion to Catholicism in 1625
thereby creating an irrevocable rift in her marriage and her
family. Her biography, written by her daughter, says she wrote 'for
her private recreation' and mentions various works, now lost,
including the lives of saints, and poems to the Virgin Mary. She is
best known today, however, for the works reproduced here.
A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated
This new edition of "Canadian History For Dummies" takes readers
on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous
native cultures and early French and British settlements through
Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This timely update
features all the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical
and archeological research. In his trademark irreverent style, Will
Ferguson celebrates Canada's double-gold in hockey at the 2002
Olympics, investigates Jean Chretien's decision not to participate
in the war in Iraq, and dissects the recent sponsorship
scandal.
The discovery and re-examination of women authors has been a key
part of early modern women's studies, but a major problem has been
the inaccessibility of the texts themselves. This series is
designed to make available a comprehensive collection of writing in
English from 1500 to 1700, both by women and for and about them.
Each text is preceded by a short introduction providing an overview
of the life and work of the writer, along with a survey of
important relevant scholarship. The series is in two parts,
covering the periods 1500 to 1640, and 1641 to 1700. It is
complemented by a separate facsimile series of essential works and
original monographs.
"The Tragedy of Mariam" (1613) is the first original play by a
woman to be published in England, and its author is the first
English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is
included with this edition of the play.
"Mariam" is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves
the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not merely how
women were represented in the early modern period but also how they
themselves perceived their own condition.
With this textually emended and fully annotated edition, the play
will now be accessible to all readers. The accompanying biography
of Cary further enriches our knowledge of both domestic and
religious conflicts in the seventeenth century.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
This volume presents fifteen original essays that move from
structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and
cultural significance. Contributors to Quick Springs of Sense cover
a remarkably wide variety of the literary interests and figures of
England from the Augustan Age until midcentury including the
periodical, Gulliver's Travels, Defoe, Fielding, the episodic novel
as a genre, Smollett, Sterne, and the poetry of Swift and Pope. Its
variety and liveliness aptly convey the vigor of the neoclassical
age itself where there were many quick springs of sense.
With Special Particulars For Intending Settlers.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
With Special Particulars For Intending Settlers.
With Special Particulars For Intending Settlers.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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