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Stolen Life
The second volume of the landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being.
Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914
Explores the early history of animal rights through the images and the people who harnessed their power.
Performing Endurance: Art and Politics since 1960
Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.
Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
Provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World.
Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma
From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, the publication analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramović, Pope.L, and Chris Burden.
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries.
Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution
Initially galvanized by the sweeping obliteration of architecture and art under the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, Gamboni investigates other instances of destroyed art and architecture around the globe, uncovering a disquieting and surprisingly widespread phenomenon.
Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities
Profiles established ensemble groups from inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York, and cross-continental Native America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Selma Selman catalogue
A catalogue of one of the most important contemporary Roma artists: a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre and a concise insight into the complex questions of the life of ethnic minorities. In Slovenian, Roma and English.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Jones travels the border regions of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects, and their dire consequences for the majority of the people in the world.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
