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This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilized by local and national governments attempting to brand their cities in contemporary regional and global markets for lucrative industries, tourism and heritage recognition. Looking at cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand, Da Zha Lan in China, Bogata in Colombia and Rio de Janiero in Brazil and case studies in ...

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While scholars and critics generally agree that the 1960s signaled the end of high modernism, what is less clear is how to characterize contemporary art since the 1960s. Acclaimed art scholar Jonathan Harris here tackles this question by assembling a rich body of essays, along with an extended interview with renowned feminist art scholar Amelia Jones, that track the movements in and issues central to contemporary art practice since this pivota...

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From the phenomenally successful new Tate Modern to the DIA: Beacon and Liverpool Biennial, contemporary visual art seems more than ever enmeshed in prominent public institutions and new forms of patronage, whether public commissions or corporate sponsorships. In "Art, Money, Parties, " renowned figures from the art world--including artists, dealers, and gallery owners--join scholars to consider these new institutional faces of contemporary ar...

Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World after 1150 is a collection of thirteen original articles which focus on the religious identity, cultural exchange, commercial networks, and the construction of political legitimacy among Christians and Muslims in the late Medieval eastern Mediterranean.

Perfect for beginning artists, The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions will help you create mind-bending optical illusions to fool your brain and tease your senses.

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on "European Shakespeares, " which highlights how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. Contributors to this issue come from Europe, North America, South Africa, and India. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, essays in this volume consider issues of character and the genre o...

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This Training Guide is a truly informative and unique book, full of reliable and tested information - written for the admirers of this wonderful breed. It is an easy-to-read, and in-depth text which you will thoroughly enjoy, and it contains a wealth of interesting facts and reliable information. Contributed to by a series of specialist Chukchi Husky trainers, this is a must have addition to your collection.

A truly informative Guide for your Cirneco dell'Etna" You will greatly benefit from this easy-to-read Guide Book which will help you along with your lovely Cirneco dell'Etna. It contains a wealth of helpful and reliable information, along with detailed advice for current or soon-to-be owners.

An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years. * Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revolutionary social transformation * Provides a strong historical narrative that adds structure and clarity * Features a cogent and innovative critique of contemporary art...

This volume brings together the most important works on sustainable human and economic development. It offers a broad overview of the subject and gives readers a quick and thorough guide to this highly diffusive topic. Tables, figures, & index.

Published in 1989 to wide acclaim, Come the Morning was one of the first novels for older children to treat the problem of homelessness realistically. Fifteen years later, with unemployment and poverty on the rise again and homeless families haunting the streets of all our major cities, the book remains as sobering and timely as it was in the late 1980s. Come the Morning tells the story of the Gibsons, a working-class family from El Paso, Texa...

Untimely Matter in the Time of ShakespeareJonathan Gil Harris"A stylish, readable, and important intervention in early modern studies. In recalling a past that never was, it invites us to a future that might not be the same."--Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University"It is difficult to do justice here to the extraordinarily wide range of critical and theoretical models that Harris draws on, or the ease with which he brings them together. . . . Harr...

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development