For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. The Anti-Aesthetic is a touchstone volume for postmodern debate and theory. Though the cultural stakes and terms have changed over the last decade, this collection still illuminates--perhaps now even more lucidly--a vital current in contemporary criticism. Contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jrgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward Said, and Gregory Ulmer.

The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on postmodern culture

Politics & Social Sciences

FOSTER, HAL

Philosophy

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City of Dreams: A Guide to Port Townsend Washington

History

World

Nonfiction. "HOW DO I LOOK? is an articulation of that dream in the dark we've all had-gazing at those flickering images, searching for ourselves and too often settling for less. This collection begins to ask the provocative questions we dared not ask aloud. As lesbians and gays, as people of color, whose vision will we accept? The questions here are full of pain and clarity"-Jewelle Gomez.

How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video

Humor & Entertainment

Object-Choices, Bad

Movies

Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Photography. MAGIC EYES is a collaboration that grew out of Wendy Ewald's experiences in the village of Raquira in the Colombian Andes between 1982 and 1984. The book combines photographs taken by Ewald and her students with stories told by two local women, Maria Vasquez and her daughter, Alicia. Together, Ewald's students and the Vasquezes present the images and experiences of what Barbara Majuica has called "the rich Andean folk culture, in which magic and nature are inseparable components of equal value." The magic eyes belong to Alicia, who recounts her story of the evil eye, which she associates with the camera lens. Alicia and her mother powerfully convey the difficult life in the squatter settlements outside of Bogata. Great poverty and violence are seen through eyes taught from early in life to notice the magical; the results are deeply poetical. The New York Times has called MAGIC EYES "moving, intimate, and unsparing."

Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Childhood

Arts & Photography

Ewald, Wendy

Individual Artists

Nonfiction. What is terrorism? Who defines the term and for what purpose? In this powerful collection multiple and oftentimes conflicting meanings of terrorism are revealed and argued in compelling and accessible essays, discussions, and images. This collaboration between internationally respected thinkers, political activists, and artists serves as a visually engaging guidebook to contemporary world politics, a most valuable antidote to status-quo political reporting.

Violent Persuasions: The Politics and Imagery of Terrorism

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

anthology featuring Trinh Mihn-ha, others

Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture

Nonfiction. Art. Activisim. Criticism and Theory. An anthology that explores the rise of activist public art that agitates for social change. Included are discussions of such leading and controversial artists as: the Guerrilla Girls, Gran Fury, Group Material, Women's Action Coalition, and the Artist and Homeless Collaborative.

But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism

Literary Nonfiction. Art History, Theory &amp; Criticism. "In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... This book will prove as valuable to art and cultural historians and critics as it will be to public policy makers, students and a diverse public audience"—Moira Roth, Mills College. "Energized by ideas and experiences in performance art, community art, installation, social history, and urban planning, artists are creating and invigorating new public art that imbues daily life with meaning and significance"—Richard Andrews, University of Washington.

Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art

Cultural Writing. African-American Studies. Performing Arts. LET'S GET IT ON: THE POLITICS OF BLACK PERFORMANCE is a "provocative examination of issues of cultural identity through an investigation of innovative performance practice"-Catherine Ugwu. Produced by ICA Live Arts, a contemporary arts institute in Boston, LET'S GET IT ON, features the art of Reza Abdoh, Elia Arce, Chila Kumari Burman, Ronald Fraser-Monro and more as well as essays by Cosco Fusco and bell hooks and others. The collection evaluates various forms of African-American performance art from the circle of the dance under slavery to carnival and its masquerade of identities, and the validity of the art form in a contemporary society. "This passionate and provocative collection brings together a rich mix of voices to reveal the dazzling creativity of live arts performance at the critical edge of contemporary cultural politics"-Kobena Mercer.

Let's Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance

Book by Lehrer, Warren, Shtern, Adele

Nicky D. from L.I.C.: A Narrative Portrait of Nicholas Detommaso (Portrait Series)

Warren Lehrer

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