Art and writings by Surrealist painters and poets from a wide range of countries. In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism. The concept and contents were discussed with Robert Motherw…
Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we in…
The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as those interested in music. The book describes a set o…
"With a focus on political art and protest, this book examines demonstration-practiced as pedagogy, art form, and public protest by artists-as a powerful powerful agent of change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Shows why the design field has consistently failed to attract Black professionals, how Eurocentric hegemony impacts Black designers & how to create an antiracist, pro-Black design industry instead"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Introduces a new field of study adapted from STS that the author refers to as art, science, and technology studies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The merging of the autobiographical with the philosophical or theoretical traced through feminist conceptual art, performance art, literature, philosophy, and activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The untold history of experimental art in a late GDR; analyzes photography, performance art, film, publications & galleries as a form of public life that destabilized the State"--Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions. Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making--from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking--are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective …
"Visusalization argues for the importance of using traditional humanistic methodologies for the interpretation of graphical images (bar graphs, pie charts, network diagrams, etc.)"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.