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Secrecy in Japanese Arts
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00Exploring the Japanese tradition of hidden (or the secret transmission of) knowledge within a closed and often hereditary group, the author investigates how esoteric practices function, how people make meaning of their practices, and how this form of esotericism survived into the modern age. These questions are examined through the use of esoteric... more...
Embattled Avant-Gardes
University of California Press 2007; US$ 45.00This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations... more...
Performance on the Edge
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 150.00Performance on the Edge takes the reader on a journey across geographical borders and conceptual boundaries in order to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, the book explores performance as both process and contact, as the commitment to political... more...
Pop L.A.
University of California Press 2006; US$ 28.95Andy Warhol said about his road trip to Los Angeles in 1963: ?The farther West we drove, the more Pop everything looked on the highways.? In this original and engaging book, Cécile Whiting examines what Pop looked like when it left the highbrow cloisters of Manhattan?s art galleries and ventured westward to the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles. She... more...
Action Art
ABC-CLIO 1993; US$ 133.95This comprehensive international bibliography is the first to attempt documentation of this diverse field, covering the history of Artist's Performance. It focuses on its early twentieth-century antecedents in such movements as Futurism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, and the Bauhaus as well as its peak period in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with... more...
Arts and Culture in Rural, Regional and Remote Australia
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2003; US$ 99.00This Special Issue of Rural Society explores arts and culture in rural, regional and remote Australia, documenting cultural history and asserting the centrality of the arts in both marginalised and dominant communities. more...
We Have Never Been Postmodern
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 60.00This book sets out a variety of reasons why we should move away from seeing the recent era as 'postmodern' and our culture as 'postmodernist' through a series of analyses of contemporary culture. more...
Modernism at the Barricades
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 31.99Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the groundbreaking innovations of the modernist project and its shaping of the radical imagination, as well as its creation of a new political vision for the twentieth century. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, Bronner... more...
Forgotten Islands of Indonesia
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 45.00Forgotten Islands of Indonesia presents a unique survey of the finest examples of Southeast Moluccan art. This volume contains many photographs and descriptions which have never before been published. Set against the cultural background and supplemented by rare photographs taken in the field, the material culture of Maluku Tenggara, which is regarded... more...
Desi Divas
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 137.50Desi Divas: Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam, and the grassroots feminist political organization... more...









