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  • The Art of Orality

    Cultural Aesthetics in the Absence of Writing

    de Declan Lloyd ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers how the presence or absence of writing can influence a culture’s distinctive styles of visual art, proposing that many of the most profound developments in the art world are directly correlative with a cultural transition from orality to literacy (that is, from a culture which only has a spoken form of language, to one which has both a spoken and written form). The study ... Leer más

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  • Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth Century

    Painterly Poetics

    de Declan Lloyd ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book explores the great influence of twentieth-century artists and art movements on many major writers of the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on four seminal writers who were strongly influenced by very different movements: they are Gertrude Stein and Cubism, William S. Burroughs and Dada, J. G. Ballard and Surrealism, and Douglas Coupland and Pop Art. For these authors the ... Leer más

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  • Digressions in Deep Time

    Ecocritical Approaches to Literature and the Arts

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    “Deep time” is a term which attempts to capture temporal scales far beyond human comprehension. These are stretches of time epitomised by geological and cosmic scale processes, vast enough to make the entirety of human existence appear as little more than a footnote. The past few years have seen a boom in texts dedicated to the study of deep time, extending across a broad range of disciplines ... Leer más

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  • Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture

    Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination closes the gap between ornithological and humanities knowledge. This book contains fifteen innovative essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies in order to include birds in current conversations within the field of animal studies. This collection challenges species centrism, ... Leer más

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  • Kissing Architecture

    de Sylvia Lavin ...
    Series series POINT: Essays on Architecture
    An exploration of the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art from the author of Form Follows Libido.In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art—particularly multimedia installations ... Leer más

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  • Essays on Modern Art: Cy Twombly - Criticisms and Essays on Previously Unseen Art in the Koolhaas Collection

    Justice Koolhaas's Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist's works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism written in deliberate opacity, is inspired by her collection of art refuse.Twombly is explored ... Leer más

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  • Living by Fiction

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  • The Power of Movies

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  • A Director Prepares

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