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Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics
Douglas Howland (Ed.)
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Description for Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics
Hardback. Editor(s): Howland, Douglas; Lillehoj, Elizabeth; Mayer, Maximilian. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, 15 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: AB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 565.
This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions of human experience that have rarely been explored by scholars in one conceptual space. Several chapters consider the intertwining of modern philosophical currents and modernist artistic forms, in particular those revealing formal abstraction, stylistic experimentation, self-conscious expression, and resistance to traditional definitions of Art. Other chapters deal with currents that emerged as facets of art became increasingly commercialized, merging ... Read more
This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions of human experience that have rarely been explored by scholars in one conceptual space. Several chapters consider the intertwining of modern philosophical currents and modernist artistic forms, in particular those revealing formal abstraction, stylistic experimentation, self-conscious expression, and resistance to traditional definitions of Art. Other chapters deal with currents that emerged as facets of art became increasingly commercialized, merging ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
565g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349950157
SKU
V9781349950157
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About Douglas Howland (Ed.)
Douglas Howland is Buck Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He is, most recently, author of International Law and Japanese Sovereignty: The Emerging Global Order in the 19th Century (2016) and co-editor (with Luise White) of The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations (2009). Elizabeth Lillehoj is Professor of Asian ... Read more
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