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Published: 10 October 2023
... exhibition Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the symposium ‘Art without Space’. These two examples are evidence of a preoccupation with art’s relationship to space, but also New York’s rather narrow notion of it. This introduction acquaints readers with new, complex conceptualisations of space...
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Published: 10 August 2021
...Up until 1931, the race issue had not been a significant element in the Communist agenda for the Spanish-speaking territories of the Caribbean Basin. The establishment of the Caribbean Bureau of the Comintern in New York in early 1931, however, forced a reassessment of the subject, as the Communist...
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Published: 11 October 2022
... African art anti colonial movements anti racism contact zone Pratt cosmopolitanism nationalism Rosenberg Harold universalism Cold War colour line Craven David Eurocentrism Gottlieb Adolph Native Americans Newman Barnett New York School Pollock Jackson Rothko Mark Soviet Union...
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Published: 30 June 2013
... Guild of Empire Stephensen Percy Reginald Flaws Conservatism Mussolini Parvus Continuity New York Intellectuals Stalinism Solzhenitsyn New Philosophers There were glaring flaws, continuities, and ideological muddles in the case of the most infamous of renegades, Benito Mussolini. Here...
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Published: 30 June 2013
... Marx Karl Mussolini Benito Rubin Jerry Yippies Yuppies Harman Chris Hitchens Christopher Koestler Arthur Kristol Irving Parvus Alexander Israel Helphand Podhoretz Norman Burnham James Hitler Adolph Nazi Party Germany Pankhurst Walsh Adela Conclusions New York Intellectuals Mandel...
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Published: 21 April 2022
...While this essay sketches the life of the Jamaican political activist, W.A. Domingo, its focus is on the summer months of 1919 in New York City when a pamphlet written by Domingo was highlighted by the Lusk Committee of the New York State Senate as exhibiting ‘a startling plan for the organisation...
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Published: 01 March 2016
... that largely remain beneath the surface of their public activities. The photo-essay and accompanying video and sound recordings derive from Irving’s experimental practice-based, research project, New York Stories, for which he recorded more than a hundred interior dialogues of random strangers...
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Published: 07 May 2020
... studies cover tenures in geographically disparate centres including London, Nottingham, New York, Melbourne and Dunedin. Britannia Theatre London Davis Tracy C death Globe Theatre London Lane Sara management misogyny music hall New Royalty Theatre London Nottingham Theatre Royal Prince...
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Published: 01 July 2016
...This chapter describes the life and work of a few filmmakers who have inspired the author, and set him an example as to how be a creative and moral filmmaker.George Stoney, the first to be described, gave Rosenthal his first job in New York,and then let the author sit in on his film classes...
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Published: 01 January 2016
... of home; the country and the city; both are Europeans who have developed a distinctive artistic relationship with New York City; both are concerned with the place of autobiography in their work, using captions, inter-titles, diary entries, photographs, and 1st person commentary to complicate...
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Published: 28 February 2014
... fever Australia Bashford Alison Medical Officers of Health New Zealand Canada deportation migration agents Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter Royal Commission on Alien Immigration 1902–03 sanitary surveillance Board of Trade Boston Burnett John Finland New York Parliament Philadelphia Russia...
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Published: 04 May 2021
... and assembling whole by marginal subjects. Koestenbaum Wayne queer culture socialization subjectivity Warhol Andy embodiment New York 1960s art scene advanced art art history body art dance culture dance studies performance art The Bed Heide Robert Herko Fred Judson Dance heater languid posture...
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Published: 30 June 2013
... Kristol Irving Rahv Philip Rockefeller Nelson Weaver Paul H British Foreign Office City College of New York CCNY Communist Party France Glazer Nathan Koestler Arthur McClelland Jim New Deal Short Laurie New York Stock Exchange Rubin Jerry Yippies Yuppies Chicago Eight Davis Rennie Luce...
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Published: 01 December 2007
...This chapter studies the three main themes of language, writing and New York. It studies New York for the ways the characters, particularly Quinn in ‘City of Glass’, relate to the urban experience. It then discusses Auster's persistent theme of language and its capacity to engage and represent...
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Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 December 2007
...This book provides an extended analysis of Paul Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York...
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Published: 04 July 2023
... access analysis gender reflexivity setting writing abandonment ‘going native’ participation risk street homelessness outreach street care provision mobility ethnography ethnomethodology reflexivity fieldnotes New York In the pages that follow I discuss the notion of ‘intermissions...
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Published: 18 August 2020
... become. There is a detailed examination of the challenges posed by shifts in soul music styles such as New York disco and jazz funk. The chapter draws on a range of primary sources in making sense of the politics of the dance floor in clubs such as Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca and Cleethorpes Pier...
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Published: 01 August 2009
.... The presence of so many Young Irelanders in the United States, particularly New York, and the transportation of the state prisoners to Van Diemen's Land, extended Irish political debate to three continents. Australasian League Bermuda death sentence commuted Launceston Association Martin John 1812–75...
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Published: 01 January 2012
... unusually lavish production values and the highly positive reaction to it. In America Topsy-Turvy was named the Year's Best Picture by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. It also marked a breakthrough for Leigh in that it was the first film he...
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Published: 01 July 2016
...This chapter in essence details the author’s apprenticeship as a filmmaker. It describes how the author, after studying law at Oxford, becomes a film student purely by accident while a graduate student at Stanford. It then follows his first steps in film in New York, and his tentative steps as he...