The Social Life Of Art

Author : Peter Stupples,Jane Venis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443870924

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The Social Life of Art by Peter Stupples,Jane Venis Pdf

This study examines not only the objects and processes that make up the artworlds of human history, but also the social and cultural circumstances, the historicised contexts that bring about their making, frame their functioning, inform their properties and influence their effects, both at the time of their creation and throughout their subsequent biographies. In the short span that “art” has played a part in human life, one may conceive of time as a social river, with a strong current towards the capricious mainstream, and eddies and quiet pools near the banks. The current will flow faster in spate and slower in drought. But it will be forever in motion. It will be unpredictable. Nothing will stop its inexorable force. Art runs in that social river, subject to the flow and chance of time.

Author : Georgiĭ Valentinovich Plekhanov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9350021757

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Art and Social Life by Georgiĭ Valentinovich Plekhanov Pdf

Author : Kerry Freedman
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807743712

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Teaching Visual Culture by Kerry Freedman Pdf

Offering a conceptual framework for teaching the visual arts (K-12 and higher education) from a cultural standpoint, the author discusses visual culture in a democracy.

Author : Shawn Chandler Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0739149237

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The Art of Social Critique by Shawn Chandler Bingham Pdf

By treading the common ground between the arts, humanities and social sciences, The Art of Social Critiqueraises important questions about the role of art in society, and posits art as a qualitative form of social inquiry. The authors cover a range of artists whose methods of "seeing" social life -- observing, analyzing and portraying society -- draw on the sociological, psychological, historical, and political imagination.

Author : Abigail Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300228106

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The Social Life of Books by Abigail Williams Pdf

“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post

Author : Janice E. Graham,Christina Holmes,Fiona McDonald,Regna Darnell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774865241

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The Social Life of Standards by Janice E. Graham,Christina Holmes,Fiona McDonald,Regna Darnell Pdf

Standards. We apply them, uphold them, or fail to meet them. But how do they get made? The Social Life of Standards reveals how these political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, subverted, contested, and reassembled by local communities interacting with standards created by others. Using ethnographic approaches, contributors investigate biomedical, agricultural, and other contexts that reveal the mismatch between the inconsistent implementation of standards in the real world and the non-negotiable criteria presupposed by external forces. These cases support a reflexive process that involves local engagement at every stage in the production and application of standards.

Author : Ruy Blanes,Diana Espírito Santo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226081809

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The Social Life of Spirits by Ruy Blanes,Diana Espírito Santo Pdf

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521357268

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The Social Life of Things by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia. Includes bibliographies and index.

Author : Oscar Tuazon,Moyra Davey,Louis Lüthi,Avigail Moss,Jon Bywater,Louise Menzies,Marnie Slater,Matthew Stadler,James Hoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2918252441

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The social life of the book by Oscar Tuazon,Moyra Davey,Louis Lüthi,Avigail Moss,Jon Bywater,Louise Menzies,Marnie Slater,Matthew Stadler,James Hoff Pdf

Author : Martin Brückner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469632612

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The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 by Martin Brückner Pdf

In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745658513

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The Art of Life by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice. In this society we are all expected, rightly or wrongly, to give our lives purpose and form by using our own skills and resources, even if we lack the tools and materials with which artists’ studios need to be equipped for the artist’s work to be conceived and executed. And we are praised or censured for the results – for what we have managed or failed to accomplish and for what we have achieved and lost. In our liquid modern society we are also taught to believe that the purpose of the art of life should be and can be happiness – though it’s not clear what happiness is, the images of a happy state keep changing and the state of happiness remains most of the time something yet-to-be-reached. This new book by Zygmunt Bauman – one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today – is not a book of designs for the art of life nor a ‘how to’ book: the construction of a design for life and the way it is pursued is and cannot but be an individual responsibility and individual accomplishment. It is instead a brilliant account of conditions under which our designs-for-life are chosen, of the constraints that might be imposed on their choice and of the interplay of design, accident and character that shape their implementation. Last but not least, it is a study of the ways in which our society – the liquid modern, individualized society of consumers – influences (but does not determine) the way we construct and narrate our life trajectories.

Author : Rochelle Ziskin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271037851

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Sheltering Art by Rochelle Ziskin Pdf

"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Susie Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351581509

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The Social Life of Nothing by Susie Scott Pdf

Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are imaginatively possible. This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places – that lies behind the mirror of experience. Taking a symbolic interactionist perspective, the author argues that these objects are socially produced, emerging from and negotiated through our relationships with others. Nothing is interactively accomplished in two ways, through social acts of commission and omission. Existentialism and phenomenology encourage us to understand more deeply the subjective experience of nothing; this can be pursued through conscious meaning-making and reflexive self-awareness. The Social Life of Nothing is a thought-provoking book that will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, arts and humanities, but its message also resonates with the interested general reader.

Author : Martin Patrick
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1783208546

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Across the Art/life Divide by Martin Patrick Pdf

Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance, authorship, and identity, Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most defining feature of contemporary art is the ongoing interest of artists in the problematic relationship between art and life. Looking at underexamined forms, such as stand-up comedy and sketch shows, alongside more traditional artistic media, he situates the work of a wide range of contemporary artists to ask: To what extent are artists presenting themselves? And does the portrayal of the "self" in art necessarily constitute authenticity? By dissecting the meta-conditions and contexts surrounding the production of art, Across the Art/Life Divide examines how ordinary, everyday life is transformed into art.

Author : Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758199376

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Art and Social Life by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov Pdf