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Introduction
Chapter 1 , discusses the relevance of new materialist theories to environmental activism as well as eco art,...
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Spectatorship and Ekphrasis
D. S. MacColl’s 1898 review of Charles Conder’s paintings on silk provides an opportunity to analyse the embodied, subjective and multisensory...
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Truth, Virtue and Beauty: Art in the Post-Cultural Revolution (1977–1984)
As art of the Cultural Revolution generated momentum for artists to bounce back towards a humanistic direction, the art of Post-Cultural Revolution...
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Transparency as Aesthetic Fetish: Planar Intensifications at the Bauhaus
During the 1920s, avant-garde movements coincided with rationalist ideas to form what came to be known as Modernism. This mode of thinking would...
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Introduction
This chapter reviews game studies scholarship concerned with the concept of poverty. It explores historical contexts for such work, with special...
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The Modernist Culture of Building Materials in Umbria
The essay analyses the Modernism in Umbria, a central region of Italy, emblematic case study of a time and meaning translation of the progressive way...
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Evolution and Revolution
Mella looks at the conflicting ways in which human progress is constructed. The chapter ponders whether social movements are inspired by materialism...
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The Undisciplined Body: Phia Ménard and Her Experience of Organic Performance
This chapter addresses the work of Phia Ménard, the founder of the theatre company Compagnie Non Nova, whose oeuvre continually raises questions...
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Introduction
Many of the painters who dominated the history of British art at the beginning of the twentieth century had studied under FrederickBrown, Frederick...
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‘In-Between’ the Autonomous and Contingent Worlds of Music
“When and how does music ‘do’ things?” An answer is sought in the area of intersection between the autonomous and contingent worlds of music. The...
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“Boria Everywhere in the World”: A Penang Burlesque and the Politics of Heritage
This chapter complicates heritage as a ready-made historical narrative by exploring the Boria, whose beginnings can be traced to Muharram...
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Art for All
The demand to democratise art can be traced back to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. But through their critique or negation...
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Artfrom: Researching the Canon Through Publications of Art and Design
Contributors Inc. is a collaborative archive-based artistic research project with a very specific focus: what can working only with the information...
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Performing the Self
The Romantic author is seen as unique for his active involvement in self-fashioning of the authorial persona. The chapter asserts that the Romantic...
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Feminist Auratics and the Radical Re-envisioning of Revolutionary Militancy
Analyzes Heiny Srour’s 1984 experimental feature, Leila and the Wolves, in the context of its simultaneously anti-fascist and anti-patriarchal...
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Significance and Method of Studies of Comparative Journalism and Communication
An independent discipline holding a place in the academia must have its special object and unique values. The significance, object and method of the...
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We Are All Art Historians Now: Teaching Media Studies and/as Cultural Studies
This chapter is based on my experience of teaching cultural studies over 30 years, at graduate and/or undergraduate levels in many countries as a...
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A Multimodal Dialogue Framework for Cloud-Based Companion Systems
Companion systems are cooperative, cognitiveKraus, Matthias systems aiming at assisting a user in everyday situations. Therefore, theseSchiller,...
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Conclusion: Socialized Maternity and Other Utopian Notions
The Russian Revolution of October 1917 came as a shock to orthodox Marxists. The traditional doctrines of historical materialism held that a...
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Materials, Materiality, New Materialism
The arguments made in this book relate primarily to a mode of experimental film practice commonly referred to as ‘materialist’, that is, works that...