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A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art from the eighteenth century to our own day

Music Business The Key Concepts second edition is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today This updated second edition responds to the music industry s increasingly digital and ever evolving environment with definitions from a number of relevant fields including general business marketing e commerce intellectual property law economics entrepreneurship In an accessible A Z format and fully cross referenced throughout this book is essential reading for music business students as well as those interested in the music industry

This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts management and marketing Using case studies of successful art managers the author illustrates the creative role so central to value making in contemporary economies performed by aesthetic play in art firms

This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice Historically photography has acted as a technology for documenting the industrial transformation of the world around us usually to benefit the interests of capitalist markets An alternative photographic tradition exists however in which the indexical image is used evidentially to protest against incidents of industrial pollution By providing a definition of environmental activism in photographic praxis and identifying influential practitioners this publication demonstrates that photography plays a vital role in the struggle against environmental despoliation This book will be of interest to scholars in photography art and visual culture environmental humanities and the history of photography

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth century was aligned with the question what is art a key question for many artists and thinkers in the twenty first century has become where is art Contributors explore the challenge of meaningfully identifying and evaluating works located across multiple versions and locations in space and time In doing so they also seek to find appropriate language and criteria for evaluating forms of art that often straddle other realms of knowledge and activity The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history contemporary art art criticism and philosophy of art

How does the art market choose its winners thereby also deciding what millions of visitors to galleries and museums will view year after year Whereas art historical writing and contemporary commentary tend to highlight the efforts of specific artists this book illustrates how money and marketing in combination with general trends play decisive roles in shaping the art world and in propelling specific artists and artworks to positions of prominence Today perhaps more than ever before the high profile art world is primarily shaped by buyers and those who cater to buyers The actual artists although most visible to the public tend to play a secondary role The time seems particularly ripe for transparency about how the art world works given the growth in the art market media attention on and popular interest in high priced art and controversy surrounding public funding for art and the value of art for contemporary society With a combination of marketplace observations marketing insights and relevant research findings this book contributes to increased transparency while providing thought provoking digressions and anecdotes along the way Money and Marketing in the Art World offers an accessible analysis of the art market for scholars and graduate student

«Hay en la pintura, en el cuadro, por acabado, logrado que esté, un estar siempre haciéndose». Así se aproxima María Zambrano, desde el exilio, a la pintura. El autor del discreto volumen que tenéis

An original and breathtakingly beautiful perspective on how art developed through the ages this book reveals how new materials and techniques inspired artists to create their greatest works The Story of Painting will completely transform your understanding and enjoyment of art Covering a comprehensive array of topics from the first pigments and frescos to linear perspective in Renaissance paintings the influence of photography Impressionism and the birth of modern art it follows each step in the evolution of painting over the last 25 000 years from the first cave paintings to the abstract works of the last 100 years Packed with lavish colour reproductions of paintings and photographs of artists at work and the materials they used it delves into the key paintings from each period to analyse the techniques and secrets of the great masters in detail Immerse yourself in the pages of this stunning book and find yourself dazzled by new colours marvel at the magic of perspective wonder at glowing depictions of fabric and flesh understand cubism and embrace abstraction You will look at paintings in a whole new light

Developing and executing marketing strategies is a vital aspect of any business and few books currently cover this with relation to creative industries This textbook provides students and managers in the creative industries with a solid grounding in how to maximize the impact of their marketing efforts across a range of business types in the creative and cultural industries The author an experienced cultural marketing educator provides sector contextual understanding to illuminate the field by taking a strategic approach to developing marketing plans bringing together strategic planning market research goal setting and marketing theory and practice explaining how content marketing on social media encourages a relationship with consumers so that they co promote the creative product With a range of learning exercises and real life examples throughout this text shows students how to create successful marketing plans for their creative businesses This refreshed edition is a valuable resource for students and tutors of creative cultural and arts marketing worldwide

This book discusses the role of cultural practices and policy for sustainable development in West Africa across different artistic disciplines including performance video theatre community arts and cultural heritage Based on ethnographic field research in local communities the book presents findings on current debates of cultural sustainability in Nigeria Ghana Cameroon and Benin It provides a unique perspective connecting cultural studies conflict studies and practical peacebuilding approaches through the arts The first part pays particular attention to aspects of social cohesion and the circumstances of internally displaced persons e g caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria The second part focuses on cultural policy issues and challenges in the context of sustainable development investigating participatory approaches and bottom up processes the role of governments and civil society as well as performing arts organizations and universities in policy making and implementation processes Performing Sustainability in West Africa presents research results and new methods on the role of artistic and cultural practices in conflict situations as well as current debates in cultural policy for researchers academics NGOs and students in cult

This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription that we engage imaginatively with its content The contributors address the fundamental questions of how we can define fiction and especially whether we can define fiction in terms of imagination The second part focuses on a distinct but related question can we point to some distinctive experiential features of our engagement with fiction In the third part the focus lies on the cognitive value of fiction and on the role that imagination plays in that respect The chapters in this part discuss the cognitive value of fiction with respect to issues such as the training of the faculty of imagination phenomenal experience empathy and the emotions The Philosophy of Fiction will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics philosophy of mind epistemology and literary studies Chapter 13 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www routledge com It has been made available under a Creative

This substantial collection of newly commissioned essays presents an ambitious entertaining and accessible guide to developments in Asian art over the past 20 years of the epoch of globalization The term global Asia signals the genesis and evolution of contemporary art within the context of global economic social political and intellectual change related to the end of the Cold War decolonization the emergence of postcolonial societies and cultures and the rise of a global contemporary art world In the handbook its editors establish in an extended introductory section and in four section introductions the theoretical geographical and historical parameters within which the contemporary visual arts of global Asia may be described analyzed and evaluated The collected chapters provide a diverse multiauthored heterogeneous and genuinely plural account of art and its contexts The democratic and inclusive character of globalization is reflected and produced within this anthology which includes different styles of writing as well as varieties of analytic and thematic focus The anthology will appeal to both scholars and students in art history art practice curation contemporary art fine art cultural studies and globalization studies

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation in both the Third Reich and occupied territories After the war the famed Monuments Men and women recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans makeshift repositories in churches castles and salt mines Well publicized restitution cases such as that of Gustav Klimt s luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today But what happened to looted art that was never returned to its rightful owners In France Belgium and the Netherlands postwar governments appropriated the most coveted unclaimed works for display in museums embassies ministries and other public buildings Following cultural property norms of the time the governments created custodianships over the unclaimed pieces without using archives in their possession to carry out thorough provenance ownership research This policy extended the dispossession of Jewish owners wrought by the Nazis and their collaborators well into the twenty first century The custodianships included more than six hundred works in Belgium five thousand works in the Netherlands and some two thousand in France They included paintings by traditional and modern maste

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated comprehensive examination of design research celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual methodological technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research This volume comprises thirty eight original and high quality design research chapters from contributors around the world with offerings from the vast array of disciplines in and around modern design praxis including areas such as industrial and product design visual communication interaction design fashion design service design engineering and architecture The Companion is divided into four distinct sections with chapters that examine the nature and process of design research the purpose of design research and how one might embark on design research They also explore how leading design researchers conduct their design research through formulating and asking questions in novel ways and the creative methods and tools they use to collect and analyse data The Companion also includes a number of case studies that illustrate how one might best communicate and disseminate design research through contributions that offer techniques for writing and publicising research The Routledge Co

Mosque examines the history culture evolution and functions of the Muslim house of worship through the prism of its artistic objects and architectural elements Contributors present a range of elements from dome to mihrab to mosque furniture including lamps prayer rugs and Qur an stands In addition the book draws attention to the importance of mosque heritage through special projects and initiatives that study preserve and revitalize the traditional arts of the mosque This unique book brings together prominent architects art historians artists historians and curators to explore innovative approaches towards the study of mosques through the presentation of original research and insights about mosque related cultural objects It is essential reading for anyone interested in the art and culture of the Muslim world

Feelings of rootlessness fragmentation and loneliness are endemic in today s secular societies In the late nineteenth century Emile Durkheim described this kind of social malaise as anomie a concept which this book locates within a historical narrative of the emergence of Modernism from Modernity The book focuses on two representative figures Benedictus de Spinoza and Vincent van Gogh on whose work it offers some significant new perspectives Spinoza drew up a blueprint for Modernity which is to say the cultural transformations that took place as a result of the Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation In counterpoint to his overriding confidence in reason a persistent current in Spinoza s writing shows how concerned he was about a possible loss of confidence in his governing idea of a single Substance the philosophical God with which he sought to replace the creator God of the Bible In promoting art as a means of filling the gap left by the absence of Spinoza s philosophical God and the failures of traditional Christianity Van Gogh also discovered the limitations of the vocation to which he had dedicated himself He concluded that in the tension between art and anomie a new kind of religious sensibility and understanding might emerge This

Looking beyond the impact photographs have on the perpetuation and expression of social norms and stereotypes and the influence of the act of taking a photograph this new collection brings together international scholars to examine the camera itself as an actor Bringing the camera back into view this volume furthers our understanding of how and in what ways imaging technology shapes us our lives and the representations out of which we fashion knowledge base our judgments and ultimately act Through a broad range of case studies the authors in this collection make the convincing claim that the camera is much more than a mechanical device brought to life by the photographer This book will be of interest to scholars in photography visual culture anthropology and the history of photography

Sustainability Teaching for Impact is an essential step by step practical guide for those wanting to inspire and engage higher education students in the areas of sustainability The book encourages new and experienced university teachers across disciplines to adopt and adapt dramatic methods with a view to inspire and engage their students It introduces applied drama and performance arts methods that have been tried and tested across disciplines to deepen and broaden sustainability knowledge skills mindsets and practices Sustainability Teaching for Impact assumes no previous experience of the methods as university teachers with and without experience in drama carefully walk you through some of the teaching practices they have used to create an impact in their teaching The book is for higher and further education tutors who wish to build on their experience and deliver exciting and accessible classroom techniques and practices that are highly interactive creative and engaging to help further the teaching of sustainability The Open Access version of this book available at www taylorfrancis com has been made available under a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4 0 license

The Green New Deal is the most exciting idea in American politics for decades and as theses powerful posters make clear it s grabbed the attention not just of policy wonks but of artists who can translate these ideas into images that move us Bill McKibben bestselling author of Deep Economy Posters with a purpose A clarion call for our time the Green New Deal is a bold and far reaching legislative plan to fight climate change create millions of good paying jobs promote economic and racial equality and so much more In its ambition it s a vision that mirrors President Franklin D Roosevelt s New Deal which helped pull the country out of the Great Depression And just as WPA artists mustered support for the New Deal with their work here are 50 powerful posters to champion the Green New Deal The posters are original colorful and visually striking with text on the back that explains each issue and how the Green New Deal seeks to address it Perforated pages make them easy to tear out and hang or use as signs at marches and demonstrations because it s not just a book to flip through Climate change affects everything the air we breath the water we drink the food we eat the places we call home and the people we love And the time to act on it is now

Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes For these pieces colour is not only a tool like a paintbrush or a canvas but the fundamental secret to their success Colour allows artists to express their individuality evoke certain moods and portray positive or negative subliminal messages And throughout history the greatest of artists have experimented with new pigments and new technologies to lead movements and deliver masterpieces But as something so cardinal we sometimes forget how poignant colour palettes can be and how much they can tell us When Vermeer painted The Milkmaid the amount of ultramarine he could use was written in the contract How did that affect how he used it When Turner experimented with Indian Yellow he captured roaring flames that brought his paintings to life If he had used a more ordinary yellow would he have created something so extraordinary And how did Warhol throw away the rulebook to change what colour could achieve Structured chronologically Colours of Art provides a fun intelligent and visually engaging look at the greatest artistic palettes in art history from Rafael s use of perspective and Vermeer s ultramarine to Andy Warhol s hot pinks and Lis