Culture of Complaint af Robert Hughes (Bog)

Art and the Century of Change "The shock of the New combines style, wit, pertinent anecdote, critical poise and scholarship to provide an exhilarating history of a century of art that has puzzled, threatened and outraged its detractors - and captivated its admirers. Robert Hughes has written a major new chapter which not only brings us into the present with the story of the art that was modern, but confronts that art with a powerful challenge for its future."--BOOK COVER. Udgivelsesår: 1981 Sider: 444 Sprog: Engelsk

Not just another 9/11 book, this controversial United Kingdom bestseller is for those who are trying to understand why America is a target for hate. The authors explore the global impact of America's foreign policy, corporate power, and the TV and Hollywood machine. "American corporations and popular culture affect the lives and infect the indigenous cultures of millions around the world. The foreign policy of the U.S. government, backed by its military strength, has unprecedented global influence now that the USA is the world's only superpower - its first 'hyperpower.'" "America also exports its value systems, defining what it means to be civilised, rational, developed and democratic - indeed, what it is to be human. Meanwhile, the U.S. itself is impervious to outside influence, and if most Americans think of the rest of the world at all, it is in terms of deeply ingrained cultural ster

Forlag: Ejner Johansson, Gregers Dirckinck-Holmfeld Type: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel's "greatest hits." Terkel's oral histories have been enjoyed by millions of Americans, and have earned him a Pulitzer Prize, induction into The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Humanities Medal, and The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, among other honors. My American Century collects the best of his interviews and the introductions from each of his eight classic books, along with a major new introduction to Terkel's work by Robert Coles. It is a both stellar collection of portraits and a panoramic chronicle of America from the 1920s onward. Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was a free spirit, an outspoken populist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a terrible ham, and one of the best-loved characters on the American scene. Born in New York in 1912, he lived in Chicago for over eig

Assesses current theories and approaches in anthropology and envisages future directions of the discipline. Contributors include: Clifford Geertz, Roy Rappaport and Eric Wolf. Contemporary theory is emphasized in the text. Forfatter: Robert Borofsky Forlag: McGraw-Hill Udgivelsesår: 1994 Sider: 644 Sprog: Engelsk

Based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Said's essays explore what it means to be an intellectual today. He argues that the intellectual's role is to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation. Titel: Representations of the intellectual : the 1993 Reith lectures Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: In these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today. It is, he argues, the intellectual's role to represent a message or view not only to but for a public and to do so as an outsider, someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation. Type: Paperback

artikler og essays 1979-2004 Artikelsamling der følger polemikeren, livsnyderen, sportsmanden, musik- og kvindeelskeren Ulrik Høy (f. 1945) gennem hans første 25 år i dansk presse Forlag: Lindhardt og Ringhof Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 269 Sprog: Dansk

Traces the conceptual lineage of modernism, examining its evolution in Western art and literature through empiricism, idealism, and romanticism. Berman demonstrates how modern social, political, and scientific developments -- including capitalism, socialism, humanism, psychoanalysis, fascism, and modernism itself -- have altered attitudes toward time, space, self, creativity, the natural world, and community. "Deserves careful study." -- Choice Titel: Preface to modernism Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: Bogen tilbyder læsere en omfattende indsigt i modernismen, undersøger dens konceptuelle historie, udvikling inden for vestlig kunst og litteratur, og hvordan sociale og politiske udviklinger har formet moderne perspektiver. Type: Paperback