State Of The Arts

Author : Iain M. Banks
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748110070

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The works of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The State of the Art is the only collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction and includes the acclaimed Culture novella of the same name. From science fiction to horror, dark fantasy to twisted comedy, all eight stories bear the indefinable stamp of Banks's staggering talent. Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks: 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The novels of Iain M. Banks: The Culture series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata The State of the Art Other books by Iain M. Banks Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist Also now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

Author : Alana Wilcox,Christina Palassio,Jonny Dovercourt
Publisher : Coach House Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 155245178X

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The State of the Arts by Alana Wilcox,Christina Palassio,Jonny Dovercourt Pdf

City Hall proclaimed 2006 the Year of Creativity. 'Live With Culture’ banners flap over the city. And across the city, donors are ponying up millions for the ROM and the AGO. Culture’s never had it so good. Right? The State of the Arts explores the Toronto arts scene from every angle, applauding, assailing and arguing about art in our fair burg. The essays consider the big-ticket and the ticket-free, from the Opera House and the CNE to the subconscious art of graffiti eradication and underground hip-hop. In between, you'll find considerations art in the suburbs, how business uses art to sell condos, questions of infrastructure, an examination of Toronto on film and a history of micro press publishing. You'll read about the fine line between party and art, the trials of being a capitalist in a sea of left-wing artists, the power of the internet to create arts communities and a plea for spaces that cater to musicians and their kids. Throughout, you'll find equal doses of optimism and frustration, and a good measure of T.O. love. Taken together, the thoughts of these writers, thinkers, musicians and city-builders aim to create an honest survey of where we're at and where we can go.

Author : Judith Kapferer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781845455781

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The taken-for-granted assumption about the place of the arts in liberal or social democratic states and the role of the arts in supporting or opposing the ideological work of government and non-government institutions is been the issue of this book. The challenges posed by the state to the arts and by the arts to the state, focusing on several transformations of the interrelations between state and commercial arts policies in the current era. These ongoing challenges include the control of repressive tolerance, complicity with and resistance to state power, and the commoditization of the arts, including their accommodation to market and state apparatuses. The contributors tackle social and cultural policy and practice in the arts as well as connections between national states and dissenting art from a range of genres.

Author : Gene Edward Veith
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0891076085

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Art permeates our culture, yet many have lost all criteria for making aesthetic judgments. This resource chronicles biblical foundations of art as well as the role of Christians in the artistic arena.

Author : Jonas Tinius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009321167

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This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural production positions itself in relation to the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult heritage, and self-cultivation through the arts. Jonas Tinius' fieldwork with professional actors, directors, cultural policy makers, and activists unravels how they constitute theatre as a site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct and how they grapple with the pervasive German cultural tradition of Bildung, or self-cultivation through the arts. Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide a way to understand the entanglement of cultural policy, institution-building, and subject-formation. An ambitious and interdisciplinary study, the work demonstrates the crucial role of artistic intellectuals in society.

Author : Art Shimamura
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578047676

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Ted Shearing, mild mannered professor of art history, is depressed and dismayed by his academic life. He begins to express his own feelings with explosives and blowtorch. Suddenly, Ted finds himself at the center of the art world and christened the "Anarchist of Art"! Follow Ted in this satiric romp as he questions the state of the arts.

Author : Alana Wilcox,Christina Palassio,Jonny Dovercourt
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770562141

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The State of the Arts by Alana Wilcox,Christina Palassio,Jonny Dovercourt Pdf

City Hall proclaimed 2006 the Year of Creativity. ‘Live With Culture’ banners flap over the city. And across the city, donors are ponying up millions for the ROM and the AGO. Culture’s never had it so good. Right? The State of the Arts explores the Toronto arts scene from every angle, applauding, assailing and arguing about art in our fair burg. The essays consider the big-ticket and the ticket-free, from the Opera House and the CNE to the subconscious art of graffiti eradication and underground hip-hop. In between, you'll find considerations art in the suburbs, how business uses art to sell condos, questions of infrastructure, an examination of Toronto on film and a history of micro press publishing. You'll read about the fine line between party and art, the trials of being a capitalist in a sea of left-wing artists, the power of the internet to create arts communities and a plea for spaces that cater to musicians and their kids. Throughout, you'll find equal doses of optimism and frustration, and a good measure of T.O. love. Taken together, the thoughts of these writers, thinkers, musicians and city-builders aim to create an honest survey of where we're at and where we can go.

Author : Tal Shafir,Hod Orkibi,Felicity Anne Baker,David Gussak,Girija Kaimal
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889635610

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The State of the Art in Creative Arts Therapies by Tal Shafir,Hod Orkibi,Felicity Anne Baker,David Gussak,Girija Kaimal Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Prince Hoare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Art
ISBN : NYPL:33433081863551

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An Inquiry Into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England by Prince Hoare Pdf

Author : Rocco Giansante,Luna Goldberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004530720

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Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts by Rocco Giansante,Luna Goldberg Pdf

Imagined Israel(s) presents a nuanced image of Israel by considering multiple artistic representations of the Jewish state, stretching beyond stereotypical representations of war and conflict, while also encompassing the experience and perspective of the Jewish diaspora and other communities.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art and state
ISBN : PURD:32754068259815

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Interrelationship of Federal and State Funding for the Arts in Illinois by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Arts Alliance of Washington State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211480707

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Artsplan: The arts in Washington State by Arts Alliance of Washington State Pdf

Author : Chong Terence
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813236905

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The State and the Arts in Singapore by Chong Terence Pdf

This book covers Singapore's key arts policies and art institutions which have shaped the cultural landscape of the country from the 1950s to the present. The scholars and experts in this volume critically assess arts policies and arts institutions to collectively provide an overview of how arts and culture have been deployed by the state. The chapters are arranged chronologically to cover milestone events from the forging of 'Malayan culture'; the government's 'anti-yellow culture' campaign; the use of 'culture' for tourism; the setting up of the Advisory Council on Arts and Culture, the Renaissance City Report, the setting up of the School of the Arts, and others. Putting to rest the notion that Singapore is a 'cultural desert', this volume is valuable reading for students of cultural policy, policy makers who seek an understanding of Singapore's cultural trajectory, and for international readers interested in Singapore's arts and cultural policy.

Author : Michael Bamberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292988

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Narrative – State of the Art by Michael Bamberg Pdf

Narrative – State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with very different concerns, and have them express their conceptions of the current state of the art from their perspectives. Looking back and taking stock, this volume further attempts to begin to deliver answers to the questions (i) What was it that made the original turn to narrative so successful? (ii) What has been accomplished over the last 40 years of narrative inquiry? (iii) What are the future directions for narrative inquiry? The contributions to this volume are deliberately kept short so that the readers can browse through them and get a feel about the diversity of current narrative theorizing and emerging new trends in narrative research. It is the ultimate aim of this edited volume to stir up discussions and dialogue among narrative researchers across these disciplines and to widen and open up the territory of narrative inquiry to new and innovative work.

Author : Julia F. Lowell,Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0833040871

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The Arts and State Governments by Julia F. Lowell,Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje Pdf

State government spending on the arts is minimal-and may be losing ground relative to other state expenditures. The authors examine efforts made by state arts agencies, or SAAs, to address a changing political and fiscal environment and present their findings on the risks and rewards of bringing the arts and political worlds closer together.