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The Sound Handbook
By Tim Crook
The Sound Handbook is an essential practice and theory guide that sets out the best methods in producing sound for multimedia, and the academic theories that underpin the history and analysis of sound expression. The Sound Handbook teaches how qualitative sound can be produced for drama,...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-55152-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education: Second Edition, 2nd Edition
By New Museum
For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-96085-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Contemporary British Art: An Introduction
By Grant Pooke
The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape – both national and global. This book takes a fresh look...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-38974-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media
Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso
Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-58278-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
By Marsha Meskimmon
Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the...
July 2010 | 978-0-415-46920-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Practice of Public Art
Edited by Cameron Cartiere, Shelly Willis
This exciting new collection of essays by practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators offers divergent perspectives on the numerous facets of the public art process. The volume also includes a useful graphic timeline of public art history....
December 2009 | 978-0-415-87839-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class
By Patricia A. Banks
Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of...
December 2009 | 978-0-415-80060-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art and Politics
By Dustin Kidd
How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the...
November 2009 | 978-0-415-87119-8 | Hardback (Routledge)