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Book Realism as Protest

Download or read book Realism as Protest written by Tara Forrest and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realism as Protest draws on the »realistic method« developed by Alexander Kluge to counter the limited image of reality generated by the mainstream media. Focusing on innovative productions produced by Kluge, Schlingensief and Haneke, this groundbreaking study explores how the experimental form of their work in film, television and theatre facilitates thinking, discussion and debate about the possibilities for cultural and political change.

Book The Dialectics of Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Molyneux
  • Publisher : Haymarket Books
  • Release : 2020-08-04
  • ISBN : 1642592137
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book The Dialectics of Art written by John Molyneux and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the question of &lquo;what is art?&rquo;, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying. In a tour de force spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and commodification brought about by capitalism. The pieces and individuals Molyneux examines — from Michelangelo’s Slaves to Rembrandts Jewish Bride to the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock – are presented as embodying the social contradictions of their times, giving art an inherently political relevance. In its relationship of creative and dialectical tension to prevailing social relationships and norms, such art points beyond the existing order of things, hinting at a potential future society not based on alienated labour in which creative production becomes the property and practice of all.

Book The Logic of Contemporary English Realism

Download or read book The Logic of Contemporary English Realism written by Raymond Preston Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Socialist Realism

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  • Author : Trisha Low
  • Publisher : Emily Books
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781566895514
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Socialist Realism written by Trisha Low and published by Emily Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving west--from Singapore to America, from New York to California--a woman examines the myth of "finding home" even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.ibilities.

Book The Poetry of Protest Under Franco

Download or read book The Poetry of Protest Under Franco written by Eleanor Wright and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Book A Study of the Realistic Movement in Contemporary Philosophy

Download or read book A Study of the Realistic Movement in Contemporary Philosophy written by Matthew Thompson McClure and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miss Burma

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  • Author : Charmaine Craig
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2017-05-02
  • ISBN : 0802189520
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book Miss Burma written by Charmaine Craig and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history. Years later, Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom. “At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga.” —Refinery29 “Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap.” —Los Angeles Times

Book The Ethical and Economic Theories of Adam Smith

Download or read book The Ethical and Economic Theories of Adam Smith written by Glenn Raymond Morrow and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Democracy Looks Like

Download or read book What Democracy Looks Like written by Amy Schrager Lang and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The convergence of activists in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings captured the headlines in 1999. These demonstrations marked the first major expression on U.S. soil of worldwide opposition to inequality, privatization, and political and intellectual repression. This turning point in world politics coincided with an ongoing quandary in academia-particularly in the humanities where the so-called "death of theory" has left the field on tenuous footing. In What Democracy Looks Like, the editors and twenty-seven contributors argue that these crises-in the world and the academy-are not unrelated. The essays insist that, in the wake of "Seattle," teachers and scholars of American literature and culture are faced with the challenge of addressing new points of intersection between American studies and literary studies. The narrative, the poem, the essay, and the drama need to be reexamined in ways that are relevant to the urgent social and political issues of our time. Collectively urging scholars and educators to pay fresh attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this path-breaking book inaugurates a new critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a crucial link in the growing need to merge theory and practice with the goal of reconnecting the ivory tower elite to the activists on the street.

Book A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism

Download or read book A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism written by Christopher Douglas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering the unacknowledged role of sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers in America.

Book Social Realism  Art as a Weapon

Download or read book Social Realism Art as a Weapon written by David Shapiro and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an introductory essay, David Shapiro appraises the roots and achievements of Social Realism, providing an overall framework within which the source material that follows can be understood. Was Social Realism only a response to the economic collapse of the 1930s, or was it part of a continuing American art tradition? A primary selection of documents -- ranging from Hugo Gellert's exultant" We Capture the Walls" (1932) to Oliver Larkin's retrospective "Common Cause" (1949) -- fixes the period's social and aesthetic background. It includes spirited contributions by Diego Rivera, Meyer Schapiro, Stuart Davis, and others. A second selection of documents focuses on five major Social Realists -- Philip Evergood, William Gropper, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, and Ben Shahn -- for closer study. This section includes individual biographical outlines, personal statements by the artists, and representative critical analyses of their work. The book concludes with an especially compiled list of major Social Realists, an extended bibliography, and a detailed index. Includes ten reproductions. --! From book jacket.

Book Capitalist Realism

Download or read book Capitalist Realism written by Mark Fisher and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

Book Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States

Download or read book Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a selection of major decisions of the GAO. A digest of all decisions has been issued since Oct. 1989 as: United States. General Accounting Office. Digests of decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. Before Oct. 1989, digests of unpublished decisions were issued with various titles.

Book Alexander Kluge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tara Forrest
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9089642730
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book Alexander Kluge written by Tara Forrest and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television producer." This work features scholarly essays, plus articles, stories, and interviews involving Kluge. -- from back cover.

Book American Protest Essay and National Belonging  The

Download or read book American Protest Essay and National Belonging The written by and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index Digest of the Published Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States

Download or read book Index Digest of the Published Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protest and Dissent

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  • Author : Melissa Schwartzberg
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN : 147984800X
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Protest and Dissent written by Melissa Schwartzberg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the justification, strategy, and limits of mass protests and political dissent In Protest and Dissent, the latest installment of the NOMOS series, distinguished scholars from the fields of political science, law, and philosophy provide a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the potential—and limits—of mass protest and disobedience in today’s age. Featuring ten timely essays, the contributors address a number of contemporary movements, from Black Lives Matter and the Women’s March, to Occupy Wall Street and Standing Rock. Ultimately, this volume challenges us to re-imagine the boundaries between civil and uncivil disagreement, political reform and radical transformation, and democratic ends and means. Protest and Dissent offers thought-provoking insights into a new era of political resistance.