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The Art of Controversy
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative?and incendiary?cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through... more...
The Network
Smithsonian 2013; US$ 39.95As the nation grapples with some of the greatest developments and challenges to date, The Network presents a dynamic portrait of the people who help shape America's current technology, policy, and education. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon's 1976 photographic portfolio, The Family , The Network consists of generative video portraits of... more...
Studies in Ephemera
Bucknell University Press 2013; US$ 89.99The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world?ephemeral print?but which have received little scholarly attention in the past. more...
Thomas Nast
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 35.00Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly... more...
US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Archaeology?s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores how international partnerships inherent in archaeological... more...
Introducing Lyotard
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he... more...
The Properties of Violence
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 137.50The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound... more...
Paths Toward Utopia
PM Press 2012; US$ 9.99Consisting of 10 collaborative picture-essays that weave poetic words with intricate yet bold images, this collection aims to challenge readers into thinking of community action in a positive light. Depicting what it would be like to live, every day, in a world created from below, where coercion and hierarchy are largely vestiges of the past, Paths... more...
Cinema and Inter-American Relations
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of inter-American narratives in films from across... more...
Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 88.00A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power. more...









