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Author : Richard Danson Brown
Release : 2008
Genre : Arts
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Book Rating : 020/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The arts past and present. 3. Cultural encounters by : Richard Danson Brown
Download or read book The arts past and present. 3. Cultural encounters written by Richard Danson Brown. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Wood
Release : 2013-12-23
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Western Art and the Wider World by : Paul Wood
Download or read book Western Art and the Wider World written by Paul Wood. This book was released on 2013-12-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. Explores the origins, influences, and evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas Makes the case for ‘world art’ long before the fashion of globalization Charts connections between areas of study in art that long were considered in isolation, such as the Renaissance encounter with the Ottoman Empire, the influence of Japanese art on the 19th-century French avant-garde and of African art on early modernism, as well as debates about the relation of ‘contemporary art’ to the past. Written by a well-known art historian and co-editor of the landmark Art in Theory volumes
Author : Thomas Hertel
Release : 2018
Genre : Middle East
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Book Rating : 873/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History by : Thomas Hertel
Download or read book Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History written by Thomas Hertel. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and cheaper travel have led to a rapid increase in cross-cultural encounters worldwide--which makes understanding problems of conflict, prejudice, interaction, and adaptation ever more important. Fortunately, we have a powerful historical example to draw on: the closely knit, yet very different cultures that inhabited and interacted in the Near East. Contributors look at the interactions of nomads, traders, religious groups, armies, and more to help answer questions about cultural encounters through both theoretical and empirical lenses. They present cases drawn from a range of fields within the overall history of the Near East, including Mesopotamian history, the rise of Islam, and the effects of Hellenism.
Author : Marija Knežević
Release : 2009-10-02
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 601/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Recounting Cultural Encounters by : Marija Knežević
Download or read book Recounting Cultural Encounters written by Marija Knežević. This book was released on 2009-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions reprinted in this book highlight some of the wide ranging ways in which the issues of culture and identity can be approached in a literary text, while focusing on the ways in which cultural encounters have been changing both the world and its reflection in literature. The beginning of the twenty first century is an appropriate time to repay careful attention to these issues. Understanding how our perception of the Other changes with the concept of the world we inhabit, we want to emphasize the rising importance of fostering cultural pluralism and global understanding. Having based their research on widespread readings in academia, such as deconstruction, post-colonialism, post-modernism, new historicism, and narratology, the authors of these papers proceed by addressing the metaphor of travel as one of the strongest metaphors for the evolution of mankind, especially if considered under the light of the historically and politically imposed opposition between the progressive western and the static eastern or African societies. However, as the end of the imperialist era brought about poignant awareness of cultural relativism, as well as deconstruction of the great narrative of progress, facing the Other as an unconceptualized entity became a major moral concern of a modern traveller. It is pronounced that this concern should be textually testified to dramatize the human inability to avoid verbal appropriation of the other. The final question we seek to answer is whether the era of advanced technology and globalisation, along with a post-modern ironical attitude to hyper realities and textual transparencies, has rendered the sphere of the text the only available point of concern of contemporary literature and thought in general. ... For its argumentation strongly founded in recent literary studies and humanities in general, its interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the actual global problems of abrupt cultural change and exchange, its heightened understanding of the necessity of coexistence of differences in a changing world, its spirit of tolerance, and its international spirit in general, we assume this collection will not only attract academic literary scholars but will also appeal to the general reading public.
Author : Alison Rowley
Release : 2007-10-24
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Helen Frankenthaler by : Alison Rowley
Download or read book Helen Frankenthaler written by Alison Rowley. This book was released on 2007-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary examination of the work of 'colour field' painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about the artist, whose work has been burdened by its label as 'the bridge between Pollock and what was possible'. Trained as a painter, Alison Rowley brings a keen eye to Frankenthaler's paintings, returning to the fore the artist's debt not only to Jackson Pollock but also to Cezanne, and speculating for the first time as to her artistic responses to wider political events, in particular the Rosenberg trial. Making a fascinating case, too, for the connections between the 'breakthrough' work 'Mountains and Sea' and Lily Briscoe's painting in Virginia Woolf's novel 'To the Lighthouse', this beautifully written book provides crucial new insights into Frankenthaler's practice, as a painter who is also a woman.
