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Book Documenting Movements  Identity  and Popular Culture in Latin America   Papers of the Forty Fourth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials  Nashville  Tennessee  May 30 June 3  1999

Download or read book Documenting Movements Identity and Popular Culture in Latin America Papers of the Forty Fourth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials Nashville Tennessee May 30 June 3 1999 written by Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Inc. Meeting and published by Salalm Secretariat. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Download or read book The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico written by Stephanie J. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them professed Communists, sought free expression in matters both artistic and political, Smith reveals how they simultaneously learned the fine art of negotiation with the increasingly authoritarian government in order to secure clout and financial patronage. But the government, Smith shows, also had reason to accommodate artists, and a surprising and volatile interdependence grew between the artists and the politicians. Involving well-known artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as some less well known, including Tina Modotti, Leopoldo Mendez, and Aurora Reyes, politicians began to appropriate the artists' nationalistic visual images as weapons in a national propaganda war. High-stakes negotiating and co-opting took place between the two camps as they sparred over the production of generally accepted notions and representations of the revolution's legacy—and what it meant to be authentically Mexican.

Book The Colonial Andes

Download or read book The Colonial Andes written by Elena Phipps and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.

Book New West Indian Guide

Download or read book New West Indian Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sargasso

Download or read book Sargasso written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Departmental Reports

    Book Details:
  • Author : University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Departmental Reports written by University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book SALALM  the First Fifty Years

Download or read book SALALM the First Fifty Years written by Nancy L. Hallock and published by Salalm Secretariat. This book was released on 2008 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books In Print 2004 2005

Download or read book Books In Print 2004 2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Advocate

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001-08-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Book Understanding Media

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marshall McLuhan
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-09-04
  • ISBN : 9781537430058
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Understanding Media written by Marshall McLuhan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Book Black Identities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary C. WATERS
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780674044944
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book Black Identities written by Mary C. WATERS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.

Book Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico  1920 1940

Download or read book Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico 1920 1940 written by Leonard Folgarait and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 is the first full-length account of this major movement in the history of Modernism. Following the Revolution of 1910, Mexican society underwent a profound transformation in every sector of political and cultural life. Mexican artists participated in this social revolution during a vital two-decade period through public art programmes funded by the government and other institutions. Applying a social-historical methodology, Leonard Folgarait examines this phenomenon and focuses on the mural paintings of Diego Rivera, José Orozco, and David Siqueiros produced during this period. He provides an indepth analysis of the form and meaning of these mural cycles, while documenting the system of patronage, the critical connections between state policy and aesthetics, and the visual strategies devised by patrons and artists in order to maximise the impact of these propagandistic images.

Book It s Complicated

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danah Boyd
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-02-25
  • ISBN : 0300166311
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book It s Complicated written by Danah Boyd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.

Book Library as Place

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  • Author : Geoffrey T. Freeman
  • Publisher : Council on Library & Information Resources
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Library as Place written by Geoffrey T. Freeman and published by Council on Library & Information Resources. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.

Book Pentagon 9 11

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred Goldberg
  • Publisher : Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
  • Release : 2007-09-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Pentagon 9 11 written by Alfred Goldberg and published by Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi. This book was released on 2007-09-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.

Book Conditional Cash Transfers

Download or read book Conditional Cash Transfers written by Ariel Fiszbein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office, receiving vaccinations, or the like. They have been hailed as a way of reducing inequality and helping households break out of a vicious cycle whereby poverty is transmitted from one generation to another. Do these and other claims make sense? Are they supported by the available empirical evidence? This volume seeks to answer these and other related questions. Specifically, it lays out a conceptual framework for thinking about the economic rationale for CCTs; it reviews the very rich evidence that has accumulated on CCTs; it discusses how the conceptual framework and the evidence on impacts should inform the design of CCT programs in practice; and it discusses how CCTs fit in the context of broader social policies. The authors show that there is considerable evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people and argue that conditional cash transfers have been an effective way of redistributing income to the poor. They also recognize that even the best-designed and managed CCT cannot fulfill all of the needs of a comprehensive social protection system. They therefore need to be complemented with other interventions, such as workfare or employment programs, and social pensions.