Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With Resisting Abstraction, the first English-language study of Delaunay in more than thirty years, Gordon Hughes mounts a powerful argument that Delaunay was not only one of the earliest artists to tackle abstraction, but the only artist to present his abstraction as a response to new scientific theories of vision. The colorful, optically driven canvases that Delaunay produced, Hughes shows, set him apart from the more ethereal abstraction of contemporaries like Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, and František Kupka. In fact, Delaunay emphatically rejected the spiritual motivations and idealism of that group, rooting his work instead in contemporary science and optics. Thus he set the stage not only for the modern artists who would follow, but for the critics who celebrated them as well.

Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Arts & Photography

Hughes, Gordon

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

This timely book offers a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of the complex issues and debates in the politics of crime and community safety.

The Politics of Crime and Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

This timely book offers a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of the complex issues and debates in the politics of crime and community safety. Drawing on new research and evidence, the text adopts an original comparativist perspective to the understanding of the culture of control in contemporary society. Truly international in its scope, it uses both local and global case studies to provide compelling insights into important developments in crime control. With an accessible and lively style, this text is essential reading for all students of crime and criminology

Palgrave

* How can criminological, sociological and historical perspectives illuminate the elusive concept of crime prevention? * Are we witnessing a new governance of crime control? * What are the futures of crime prevention in late modernity? This book offers a comprehensive overview of current and historical debates about crime prevention in particular and social control more generally. It moves beyond the traditional boundaries of criminology and offers an original re-framing of the field of crime prevention based on a synthesis of exciting new thinking in social theory. In particular, recent theorising around late modernity, risk society, communitarianism and globalization are put forward as important ways of linking trends in crime prevention to wider social transformations. This innovative text looks at the contested history of crime prevention in the modern era and considers present and future trends in social control in late modernity. Hughes focuses on the question of the "managerialization" of crime prevention in recent decades, the extent to which crime control may become dominated by privatized security and insurance against risks, and the attractions and pitfalls of informal community-based approaches. Understanding Crime Prevention will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field as well as many professional and lay people interested in crime prevention and community safety.

Understanding Crime Prevention (Crime and Justice Series)

Open University Press

Offering a comprehensive overview of current and historical debates about crime prevention, this text seeks to move beyond the traditional boundaries of criminology and offer a re-framing of the field of crime prevention based on a synthesis of late-1990s thinking in social theory. In particular it examines theorizing about late modernity, risk society, communitarianism and globalization as ways of linking trends in crime prevention to wider social transformations.

Understanding Crime Prevention: Social Control, Risk and Late Modernity (Crime and Justice)

Open Univ Pr

Crime, Violence and Modernity

Crime, Violence and Modernity: Connecting Classical and Contemporary Practice in Sociological Criminology

Routledge

Brazil: Managing Water Quality : Mainstreaming the Environment in the Water Sector (World Bank Technical Paper)

Business & Money

Azevedo, Luiz Gabriel T.

Margulis, Sergio

Gambrill, Martin

Economics

World Bank

Urban Security in Europe: Problems, responsibilities and expertise (Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice)

Edwards, Adam

Lord, Nicholas

Reference

Gordon Hughes' Hard Drive! is the remarkable story of Seagate Technology, as it confronted and overcame the technical and business challenges as the pioneer in computer hard disks for personal computers.

Hard Drive! (As the Disc Turns)

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

CreateSpace Publishing

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