This book by Lea Vergine, which discusses seventeen different art movements in separate chapters, offers, within the panorama of contemporary art criticism books, a blend between a handy art - history manual and an assessment of a cultural adventure that has passed through and overturned the parameters of taste of the last forty years

This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. This new edition provides expanded coverage of film and video, and an additional chapter on the work of artists who have risen to prominence in recent years

The book explores themes addressed and raised by the art, such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, as well as issues such as the collection, presentation and preservation of digital art

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life

Mary Gray's A Guide to Chicago's Murals is the first definitive handbook to the treasures that can be found all over the city. With full-color illustrations of nearly two hundred Chicago murals and accompanying entries that describe their history—who commissioned them and why, how artists collaborated with architects, the subjects of the murals and their contexts—A Guide to Chicago`s Murals serves both a general and a specific audience. From post offices to libraries, fieldhouses to banks, and private clubs to street corners, Gray chronicles the amazing works of artists who have sought to make public declarations in this most social of art forms

Sonic Boom is the definitive story of how technologies have brought out the best and worst in artists and consumers alike. It reveals how even as the star-marker machinery of record companies remains in the hands of the old guard, innovators are finding ways to route around it. Sonic Boom exposes the recording industry's plight as a fascinating microcosm of the vast cultural, ethical, and legal issues that all industries face in the information age

This is the story of two great sports. One is "America's game," while the other is "the world's game." Baseball and soccer are both beloved cultural institutions. What draws fans to one game is often a mystery to fans of the other. Despite superficial differences, however, the business and culture of these sports share more in common than meets the eye. This is the first in-depth, cross-cultural comparison of these two great pastimes and the megabusinesses that they have become. The authors illustrate how the different traditions of each sport have generated different possibilities for their commercial organization and exploitation

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Global Sport Sponsorship is the first text to provide a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of this industry. Leading scholars from marketing, management, sociology, cultural studies, tourism, and gender studies address issues central to current debates in each of these disciplines