Charles Harrison, Paul Wood (eds.): Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (1992) [English, French]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1900s, abstract art, abstraction, aesthetics, art, art history, art theory, autonomy, avant-garde, beauty, capitalism, colour, communism, conceptual art, constructivism, cubism, dada, expressionism, formalism, futurism, happening, impressionism, institutional critique, language, machine, marxism, minimal art, modernism, postmodern, poststructuralism, productivism, psychoanalysis, realism, representation, revolution, romanticism, socialism, structuralism, surrealism, symbolism
“This volume provides comprehensive representation of the theories, which underpinned developments in the visual arts during the twentieth century. As well as writings by artists, the anthology includes texts by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures. The content is structured into eight broadly chronological sections, starting with the legacy of symbolism and concluding with contemporary debates about the postmodern.”
Publisher Blackwell, 1992
Reprinted 1999
ISBN 0631165754, 978-0631165750
1220 pages
Review: Patricia Railing (Art Book, 2004).
Art in Theory 1900-1990 (English, 1992, 13 MB, updated on 2015-9-5)
Art en théorie 1900-1990 (French, 1997, 24 MB, added on 2016-6-26)
Pierre Bourdieu: On Television (1996–) [French, English]
Filed under book | Tags: · journalism, mass media, politics, television
On Television exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what appears on the small screen. Bourdieu shows how the ratings game has transformed journalism — and hence politics — and even such seemingly removed fields as law, science, art, and philosophy. Bourdieu had long been concerned with the role of television in cultural and political life when he bypassed the political and commercial control of the television networks and addressed his country’s viewers from the television station of the College de France. On Television, which expands on that lecture, not only describes the limiting and distorting effect of television on journalism and the world of ideas, but offers the blueprint for a counterattack.
Publisher Liber-Raisons d’Agir, Paris, 1996
95 pages
English edition
Publisher New Press, 1998
Translated by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
ISBN 1565844076
104 pages
Publisher (EN)
Sur la télévision; suivi de l’emprise du journalisme (French, added on 2014-8-29)
On Television (English, updated on 2014-8-29)
Nicolas Donin, Bernard Stiegler (eds.): Révolutions industrielles de la musique (2004) [French]
Filed under book | Tags: · computer music, electronic music, music history
“Si les pratiques musicales du XIXe siècle ont été largement structurées par la standardisation de l’orchestre symphonique et le saut – qualitatif et quantitatif – du piano vers l’universel, le XXe siècle n’est-il pas celui d’une nouvelle révolution industrielle de la musique ? Cette dernière passerait à la fois par l’adoption, dans la diffusion puis la création musicales, des techniques et technologies nouvelles que sont la radiodiffusion, l’enregistrement sonore ou la synthèse des sons par ordinateur ; et par la gestation d’un nouveau système fonctionnel de la musique, désormais enjeu majeur des industries culturelles, mais aussi arme politique et économique émancipée de ses anciennes fonctions militaires, religieuses et familiales. Depuis une dizaine d’années, enfin, une nouvelle époque de cette organologie semble advenir : c’est pour essayer de la comprendre que nous avons interrogé les bouleversements, parfois encore sous-estimés, qu’ont subis instruments et dispositifs musicaux au siècle dernier.”
Nicolas Donin et Bernard Stiegler (éd.), Révolutions industrielles de la musique : Cahiers de Médiologie, n° 18, 2004.
Publisher (archived)
PDF (45 MB, updated on 2020-8-7)
Audio recording of book launch discussion (130 min, added on 2020-8-7)