The Routledge Companion to African American Art History

The Routledge Companion to African American Art History

Author: Taylor & Francis Group

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780367553647

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This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and professors and may be used in African American art, visual culture, and culture classes.


Playing with the Past

Playing with the Past

Author: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1623568242

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Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play with, recreate, subvert, reverse and direct the historical past, and what effect this has on the ways in which we go about constructing the present or imagining a future. What can World War Two strategy games teach us about the reality of this complex and multifaceted period? Do the possibilities of playing with the past change the way we understand history? If we embody a colonialist's perspective to conquer 'primitive' tribes in Colonization, does this privilege a distinct way of viewing history as benevolent intervention over imperialist expansion? The fusion of these two fields allows the editors to pose new questions about the ways in which gamers interact with their game worlds. Drawing these threads together, the collection concludes by asking whether digital games - which represent history or historical change - alter the way we, today, understand history itself.


For America

For America

Author: Jeremiah William McCarthy

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0300244282

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Featuring paintings by American icons like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book illustrates the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over 200 years.


American Horizons

American Horizons

Author: Keith F. Davis

Publisher: Hudson Hills

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1555952305

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This revealing monograph explores how Sinsabaugh's wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth as suggested by his images of wide horizons, interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos and highways. 96 colour & 200 b/w illustrations


The Revenge of the Real

The Revenge of the Real

Author: Benjamin Bratton

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1839762594

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The future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions. Everywhere, lockdown transformed everyday life, introducing an epidemiological view of society based on sensing, modeling, and filtering. What lessons are to be learned? The Revenge of the Real envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple interconnected dilemmas—climate change, pandemics, the tensions between the individual and society—all of which have to be addressed on a planetary scale. Even when separated, we are still enmeshed. Can the world govern itself differently? What models and philosophies are needed? Bratton argues that instead of thinking of biotechnologies as something imposed on society, we must see them as essential to a politics of infrastructure, knowledge, and direct intervention. In this way, we can build a society based on a new rationality of inclusion, care, and prevention.


Ray Gloeckler, Master Printmaker

Ray Gloeckler, Master Printmaker

Author: Andrew Stevens

Publisher: Chazen Museum of Art

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780932900340

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With a sharp eye for the ludicrous in American society and an abiding sense of humor, Wisconsin artist Ray Gloeckler creates images that lampoon the inflated and celebrate the everyday. This publication goes beyond the Elvehjem's (now Chazen's) 2004 exhibition to publish over 200 prints Gloeckler made from 1955 through 2004. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison