Nicholas Cook, Mark Everist (eds.): Rethinking Music (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · criticism, music theory, musicology
Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.
Publisher Oxford University Press, 1999
ISBN 019879004X, 9780198790044
Length 574 pages
Tony Schirato, Jen Webb: Reading the Visual (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, image, visual culture
An engaging guide to the skills needed to analyse images of all kinds, and a lucid introduction to the emerging field of visual culture.
From the body to the ever-present lens, the world is increasingly preoccupied with the visual. What exactly is the visual’ and how can we interpret the multitude of images that bombard us every day?
Reading the Visual takes as its starting point a tacit familiarity with the visual, and shows how we see even ordinary objects through the frameworks and filters of culture and personal experience. It explains how to analyse the mechanisms, conventions, contexts and uses of the visual in western cultures to make sense of visual objects of all kinds.
Drawing on a range of theorists including John Berger, Foucault, Bourdieu and Crary, the authors outline our relationship to the visual, tracing changes to literacies, genres and pleasures affecting ways of seeing from the Enlightenment to the advent of virtual technology.
Reading the Visual is an introduction to visual culture for readers across the humanities and social sciences.
Publisher Allen & Unwin, 2004
ISBN 1865087300, 9781865087306
224 pages
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Comment (0)Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance (2003)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · art history, performance, performance art
A look at key moments in the history of performance art. Featuring pieces by leading practitioners in the field, the art of performance is considered through objects, photography, reconstructions, film and video. Accompanies Tate’s first major exhibition devoted to the history and continuing significance of this art form, held at Tate Liverpool, Winter 2003/2004.
Contributors: RoseLee Goldberg, Tracey Warr, Jean-Paul Martinon, Aaron Williamson, Alice Maude-Roxby, Andew Quick.
Edited by Adrian George
Publisher Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, with Tate Publishing, London, 2003
ISBN 9781854375377, 1854375377
91 pages
PDF (17 MB, updated on 2017-7-11)
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