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Book 2020.0

Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt (1999-2019)

Július Fujak | Ľubomír Pavelka

Dependent title
Reprezentačný zborník
Edition
1 edition

Arts - performing | visual Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre Filozofická fakulta | Katedra kulturológie 9788055815237 Available

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Other title information: 2 dekady oneho umenia v Nitre

Annotation: In Slovakia, especially outside the capital, unconventional art has never been given the space it deserves. It was and is no different in Nitra, where – although it is home to two universities – progressive, experimental and alternative artistic initiatives still do not bloom like roses... They find themselves in an alienated position, often on the fringes of interest, somehow “they cannot come up with a name” – in which case they are called “that” in the local dialect. Perhaps that is why we have chosen the adjective of not another, but “that” art in the title of this publication, which in many ways deviates from the norm, is significantly different, provocative, and at the very least thought-provoking. The monographic publication Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt – 2 two decades of that art in Nitra aims to map retrospectively, in a chronological manner, the entire two decades of the existence of the international cycles, or rather festivals HERMOVO UCHO V NITRE and POSTMUTART, focused from the end of the 20th century to the present precisely on these artistic initiatives, often moving in a taxonomically indefinable interspace – on the border of intermedial overlaps and innovative fusions of new music, visual art, video art, performance, sound art, happening –, testing their limits and crossing the boundaries of discursive and non-discursive symbolism in the period of late postmodernism.

Identifier: 9788055815237

Status: Available

Journal Article 1998

Uncovering the layers of diversity: A semiotic analysis of the corporate training video series ‘Valuing Diversity’

Jacqueline M. Layng

In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Pages
251-268

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.119.3-4.251

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.119.3-4.251

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Book 1996.0

Analysing performance

edited by Patrick Campbell

Arts - performing | visual Manchester University Press 071904250X Available

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Other title information: a critical reader

Annotation: Each chapter tackles the theory and practice of contemporary performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos

Identifier: 071904250X

Status: Available

Book 1994.0

Signs of Life in the USA

Snia Maasik | Jack Solomon

Dependent title
Readings On Popular Culture For Writers

Culture Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 031209020X Available

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Annotation: The transformation from a text-centred to an image-centred culture presents a certain challenge to writing teachers. How can such a textually based enterprise as writing instruction respond to a video-driven world? How are reading and writing related to seeing and hearing? Can the habits of critical thinking that are so central to the analytical tasks of academic writing be adapted to McLuhan's Brave New World? We have written Signs of Life in the U.S.A. because we believe not only that such bridges can be built but that building them represents our best hope for training a new generation of students in critical thinking and writing. Thus, while the goal of our text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, our method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: The world of American popular culture, wherein images, often electronically conveyed, can be more important than words.

Identifier: 031209020X

Status: Available

Book 1991.0

Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism

Frederic Jameson

Edition
1 edition

Culture Verso 9780860915379 Available

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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.

Identifier: 9780860915379

Status: Available