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Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman's earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and criticism. In this book he explores the tension between the authority of the past—which may act not only as a restraint but as a challenge and stimulus—and the potentially liberating gift of invention. He examines the ways in which artists and writers on art have ...
Mirages of Transition
This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that although the political, economic, and administrative structures of colonialism were gradually dismantled by the region's advancing market economy, colonial modes of constructing power and social identity have lingered on even to this day. The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands.
Décrire l'insaisissable :
Ce livre répond à une question majeure et manifeste une urgence. Les théories généralistes sur le brassage des cultures, le prétendu « choc des civilisations », la mondialisation – la « globalisation » déclamées par les nouveaux empires économiques et politiques ne parlent que du saisissable– o preensivel -, l'immédiat compréhensible, objets de consommation.
A Mind Always in Motion
The renowned physicist Emilio Segr� (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid portraits of some of this century's most important scientists, such as Enrico Fermi, E. O. Lawrence, and Robert Oppenheimer. Born in Italy to a well-to-do Jewish family, Segr� showed early signs of scientific genius--at age seven he began a notebook of physics experiments. He became Fermi's first graduate student in 1928 and contributed to the discovery of slow neutrons, and later was appointe...
Entrecartas: ensaiando escritas
"Este livro, organizado pelo Grupo de Pesquisa PERFORMATIVIDADES E PEDAGOGIAS (UNESP-CNPq), reúne cartas escritas por 20 autores(as), endereçadas a filósofos(as), poetas, pensadores(as), ativistas, humanos(as). Trata-se de uma obra poética (no sentido mais amplo da palavra), que nos leva a mergulhos sensíveis, profundos, criativos. "Fato é que a troca de cartas de teor afetivo e intelectual tem se manifestado ao longo da história, tecendo belos diálogos entre literatura, filosofia, artes e educação, entre outras áreas do conhecimento... pode até soar paradoxal continuarmos falando aqui sobre cartas, ou melhor, trocando cartas em um livro publicado em pleno século XXI, século este perpassado pelas novas tecnologias, pela comunicação via e-mail (e-pistolar) e pelas redes sociais, entre outras possibilidades. No entanto, é possível também notar que, independentemente da época em que se dê a correspondência escrita entre humanos, esse tipo de produção textual tem permanecido como um gênero fascinante e sedutor. Constatação, quem sabe, da afirmação de Deleuze e Guattari de que "as cartas são um rizoma, uma rede, uma teia de aranha"."
Clio in the Italian Garden
This text examines the long historical development and disciplinary diversity of Italian garden studies.
A Civil War
A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, as a young man, took part in the struggle against Mussolini’s fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone’s masterwork has become indispensable to anyone seeking to understand this period and its continuing importance for the nation’s identity. Pavone casts a sober eye on his protagonists’ ethical and ideological motivations. He uncovers a multilayered conflict, in which class antagonisms, patriotism and political ideals all played a part. A clear understanding of this complexity allows him to explain many details of the post-war transition, as well as the legacy of the Resistance for modern Italy. In addition to being a monumental work of scholarship, A Civil War is a folk history, capturing events, personalities and attitudes that were on the verge of slipping entirely out of recollection to the detriment of Italy’s understanding of itself and its past.
