Abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique
List abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique
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Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation an as new unread copy see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop canterbury phillip brian harper nyu press;(25 deche advocates for african american aesthetic abstractionism,a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character)Â Â in a major reassessment of african american culture, phillip brian harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the "proper" depiction of black people
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He argues over the book's eight chapters that a great deal of the period’s literary output takes the form of a critique of reason, its political value, and the types of knowledge attainable through itbritish romanticism and the critique of political reason, hardcover by michael, timothy, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk author timothy michael gives readers an in-depth examination of the political philosophy that dominated britain and france in the romantic periodhe examines the works of kant, burke, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, shelley, and many other writers and philosophers of the periodthe author is a faculty member of lincoln college and university of oxford in the ukannotation © ringgold, incportland, or ()
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Likewise, those instances where sensory faculty is perceived to be 'disabled' in some way also become key sites for ideological commentary and critiquethrough this process these 'disabled' characters are recast as individuals capable of employing certain strategies which destabilize the stigma imposed upon them and tactical performers who can subversively achieve their social goalslawrence seeks to initiate a variety of interdisciplinary dialogues with disability studies and sensory anthropology in a quest to refigure characters with sensory disabilities featured in the gospels and provide alternative interpretations of their conditions and social interactionsin each instance the identity of those stigmatised as 'other' (according to particular physiological, social and cultural 'norms') are recovered by exploring ethnographic accounts which document the stories of those experiencing similar rejection on account of perceived sensory 'difference' in diverse cross-cultural settingshowever, often biblical scholarship, itself 'disabled' by eye-centric and textocentric 'norms', has read sensory-disabled characters as nothing more than inert sites of healing; their agency, including their alternative sensory modes of communication and resistance to oppression, remain largely unaddressedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein response, louise joxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, only very slight shelf wear the senses are used within new testament texts as instruments of knowledge and power and thus constitute important mediators of cultural knowledge and experience
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Finally, the book argues for the value of the arts in attaining sustainable cultures, promoting poverty alleviation, encouraging self-empowerment, stimulating creativity and the social imagination, which in turn flow back into wider processes of social transformationthis innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development studies by introducing new ways of conceptualizing art in relation to developmentwithout a cultural content to economic and social transformation the problems found in much development - up-rooting of cultures, loss of art forms, languages and modes of expression and performance - may only acceleratediscussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal to help foster further thinking and debatethis book is an inspiring read for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of development studies, cultural studies and sociology of developmentit advocates not so much culture and development, but rather for the development of culturethe book shows how the arts and development are related in very practical ways - as means to achieve development goals through visual, dramatic, filmic and craft-inspired wayssee oxfam website for delivery information read morepaying attention to the development of the arts as the content of development helps to amend this culturally destructive processculture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical developmentoxfam bookshop leeds 158pp
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Review in this beautifully produced, lushly illustrated, and energetically composed visual cultural history, french journalist brunet explores the rich artistic, design, and social value of wallpaperartist about the author genevieve brunet is a french journalist who writes about design and architecture
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Makdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social purposeshis study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groupsthe ottoman reform movement launched in and the growing european presence in the middle east contributed to the disintegration of the traditional lebanese social order based on a hierarchy that bridged religious differencesmakdisi's book is important to our understanding of lebanese society today, but it also makes a significant contribution to the discussion of the importance of religious discourse in the formation and dissolution of social and national identities in the modern worldmakdisi highlights how european colonialism and orientalism, with their emphasis on christian salvation and islamic despotism, and ottoman and local nationalisms each created and used narratives of sectarianism as foils to their own visions of modernity and to their own projects of colonial, imperial, and national developmentthe religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in , was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it condition good, some minor warping to front cover as can be seen in digital imagesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford focusing on ottoman lebanon, ussama makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country
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This book discusses the origins, impact and aftermath of the civil war in warwickshire, examining administration, religion and politics in their social contextthe focus is mainly on the landed élite, but the importance of relationships between members of the élite and their social inferiors is also stressedearly chapters discuss the economic and social character of warwickshire; a middle section examines the onset of the civil war in ; and finally there is a discussion of the economic impact of the war and the administrative, political and religious changes of the s and s, culminating in an assessment of the significance of the restoration boards and spine lightly wornoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , cambridge university presssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is intended as a contribution to a general understanding of the civil war, rather than as a study of one particular countylight staining on a few pagesdustwrapper clean and lightly worndr hughes takes a critical approach to recent historiography, and challenges the concept of a 'county community'
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Oxfam bookshop preston this treatise is a look at how social reality is constructed from sense impressions - at how, for example, a "five-pound note" is constructed, with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper that is seen and touchedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book has some annotations in ink, but is otherwise in very good condition
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The purpose of the series is to highlight the basic features of commonly shared patterns of culture and social institutions among the different lowland filipino ethnolinguistic groupsthere are marks on the front cover and the corners are creased and bumpedthis paperback edition is in a reasonable, used conditionoxfam bookshop hexham this book is the third in the series of integrated studies on filipino society and culturejocano served as professor emeritus at the asian center of the university of the philippines and executive director of punlad research house, inchowever, the text block appears to be clean a free from annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe has authored numerous books on various aspects of filipino society and culturethis volume addresses the following questions: is it possible to speak of a generalized filipino kinship and family organization, or, is it too risky to make such a generalization because of the geographical distances and dialect differences? felipe landa jocano was a filipino anthropologist, educator, and author known for his works in philippine anthropology, in particular for documenting and translating the hinilawod, a western visayan folk epic
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In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of oxford classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of german scholarshipthe book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of classics in oxfordoxfam bookshop raeburn place "oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, culturalsee oxfam website for delivery information read more" fine conditionits rival, cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while oxford's leading study was classicsgreats (literae humaniores) is the most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reformsan opening chapter sets the scene by comparing oxford with cambridge classics, and several old favourites are revisited, including such familiar oxford products as liddell and scott's "greek-english lexicon", the "oxford classical texts", and zimmern's "greek commonwealth"
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This volume brings together some of africa's best economists and social scientists to reflect on africa's previous experiences with alternative paradigms to structural adjustment and related problemsthe assumption is that the continent's decades of experience since independence embody lessons and reflect alternative policy approaches which, if properly understood, could be of real value in charting a viable future for its people -- provided african countries are set free to chart their own courses of action that address their particular circumstances and meet the social and economic needs of their own populationsgood governance is analysed, as is corporate governance see oxfam website for delivery information read morebook condition: minor shelf wearthe occasion for these essays was the 70th birthday of one of africa's most eminent economists and a leading public servant -- professor adebayo adedejioxfam bookshop beverley nepad -- the new partnership for africa's development -- is the latest attempt to chart a new course of good governance combined with an effective development strategy for the african continentthe intention is to learn from the past in order to chart viable new policy directions for the future, including critically assessing the prospects for nepad measuring up to the challenges involvedformer executive secretary for the economic commission on africa and under secretary general of the united nations,scholar, and author of numerous books and papers, adebayo adedeji is perhaps best known for his pioneering work developing the african alternative framework to structural adjustment at a time when the damage being caused by the latter policies being imposed on africa was only just beginning to become clearthere is a special emphasis on issues of human development, including poverty, hiv/aids, and the refugee problemthis rich collection of essays examines a wide range of economic issues such as the importance of planning, the continuing reality of the debt crisis, and the new parameters for regional integration in the context of the global economy
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Barbed wire and cucumber sandwiches is the compelling story of a cricket tour framed in a landscape of turbulent social historyfifty years on, acclaimed author and social historian dr colin shindler has delved deep into the mcc archives for new information and gained exclusive interviews with key players of the timebarbed wire and cucumber sandwiches brings you the full untold story of one of cricket's biggest controversies - the significance of which reaches far beyond the realm of sportcricket, england's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing global disgust at apartheid, ahead of south africa's planned toursee oxfam website for delivery information read morealongside the views of cricketers mike brearley and ray illingworth are the opinions of labour politician peter hain, who was chairman of the stop the seventy tour campaignthe battle to stop and then to save the tour split the nation, drove a wedge between the generations and destroyed friendships in an uncanny foreshadowing of brexit
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Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywherebeat poets: this rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movementoxfam shop exmouth jazz poems: this rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movementsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewriting with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive rangeleroi jones's plaintive ''preface to a twenty volume suicide note'' and bob kaufman's stirring ''abomunist manifesto'' appear here alongside statements on poetics and the alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of beat generation writersthe defining work of allen ginsberg and jack kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such beat legends as gregory corso, lawrence ferlinghetti, gary snyder and michael mcclure and the work of such women writers as diane di prima and denise levertov
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" this major claim has, however, remained underscrutinized by scholars working on girard's theory, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciencesequally, girard's theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to darwin-something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergence" french philosopher of science michel serres states that girard's theory provides a darwinian theory of culture because it "proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanationthe contributors provide major evidence in favor of girard's hypothesisoxfam books & music lancaster from his groundbreaking violence and the sacred and things hidden since the foundation of the world, rené girard's mimetic theory is presented as elucidating "the origins of culturesee oxfam website for delivery information read more" he posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of "how we became humanjoining disciplinary worlds, this book aims to explore this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy
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Starting with the history of the potato as a member of the botanical genus solanum, its adaptation by man as a cultivated plant, and the record of its spread throughout the world; secondly the author considers the influence the potato has exerted upon the social structure and economy of different peoples at different timesoxfam bookshop woodbridge first published in , this remarkable book is the culmination of a life-long study of every aspect of the potatono inscriptions or annotations see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Waughs works are placed in their rich literary and historical context, enabling readers to appreciate for the first time the range and complexity of his thinking and artistic practice, and linking this to the work of his contemporaries in britain, america and europealexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson, is editing a twelve-volume personal writings sequence for the series, intercalating over letters with the complete, unexpurgated diariesthis first volume of evelyn waugh's articles, essays, and reviews contains every traceable piece of journalism that research could uncover written by waugh between january , when he first went up to oxford, and december , when he had recently returned from british guiana and was enjoying the runaway success of a handful of dustlong interred in fashion magazines, popular newspapers, sober journals, undergraduate reviews, and bbc archives, 110 of the 170 pieces in the volume have never before been reprintedseveral typescripts of articles and reviews are published here for the first time, as are a larger number of unsigned pieces never before identified as waugh'sthe volume embraces university journalism; essays from waugh's years of drift after oxford; forcefully emphatic articles and contrasting sophisticated reviews written for the metropolitan press from to (the most active and enterprising years of waugh's career); reports for three newspapers of a coronation in abyssinia and essays for the times on the condition of ethiopia and on british policy in arabiathe edition's general editor is alexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume personal writings sequenceoriginal texts, so easily distorted in the production process, have been established as far as possible using manuscript and other controlsoxfam bookshop victoria the complete works of evelyn waugh offers the first scholarly edition of waugh's work, bringing together all of his extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, parerga, drawings, and designsfiction and non-fiction volumes will also contain a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantsfinally, in early waugh travelled for three months in remote british guiana, resulting in nine travel articles and a handful of dust, acclaimed as one of the most distinguished novels of the centurythis volume is part of the complete works of evelyn waugh critical edition, which brings together all waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantswaugh was 19 when his first oxford review appeared, 31 when the spectator printed his last review ofthis is a young writer's book, and the always lucid articles and reviews it presents read as fresh and lively, as challenging and opinionated, as the day they first appearedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe origins of the works are explored, and annotations to each piece seek to assist the modern readerno other edition of a british novelist has been undertaken on this scaleall volumes will be beautifully produced, and have comprehensive introductions and detailed annotationthe complete works will revolutionize waugh studies, and offer new insights for twentieth-century literary and cultural studies generallyonly 15% of waugh's letters have previously been published
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road very slight shelf wear, scuffing and creasing to dust cover, very good overall condition a comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from hertz and van gennep to contemporaries such as metcalf and huntington and bloch and parryhe investigates why mourning can occur among petitioners in a sanctuary setting even given mourning's death associations; why certain texts proscribe some mourning rites (laceration and shaving) but not others; and why the mixing of the rites of mourning and rejoicing, normally incompatible, occurs in the same ritual in several biblical textssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe author identifies four types of biblical mourning, and argues that mourning the dead is paradigmatic
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