Citizen Spectator
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Citizen Spectator
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Author : Wendy Bellion
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Citizen Spectator written by Wendy Bellion and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Art categories.
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.
Spectators In The Field Of Politics
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Author : Sandey Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Spectators In The Field Of Politics written by Sandey Fitzgerald and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Political Science categories.
The book uses the long-standing theatre metaphor to bring political spectators out into the open, finding that they can be politically powerful. Filling out the metaphor with theatre theory, the book also finds that the metaphor can produce a viable model of democratic politics that incorporates spectators in a positive, meaningful way.
Dramaturgy Of The Spectator
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Author : Tatiana Korneeva
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019-05-24
Dramaturgy Of The Spectator written by Tatiana Korneeva and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author argues that while a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon.
The Political Thought Of Hannah Arendt
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Author : Michael G. Gottsegen
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
The Political Thought Of Hannah Arendt written by Michael G. Gottsegen and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Political Science categories.
It explicates Arendt's major works - The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Life of the Mind, and Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy - and explores her contributions to democratic theory and to contemporary postmodern and neo-Kantian political philosophy.
Vision In Context
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Author : Teresa Brennan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Vision In Context written by Teresa Brennan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Philosophy categories.
Vision and the gaze are key issues in the analysis of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism. In recent radical theory, generally, and French theory in particular, vision has been seen as a means of control. But this view is often unnuanced. It bypasses questions such as: Why is it that contemporary theories have been so critical of vision, and generous towards listening (in psychoanalysis) and language (in philosophy)? This collection of original essays brings together historical studies and contemporary theoretical perspectives on vision. The historical papers focus in turn on Ancient Greece, medieval theology, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the nineteenth century. These historical studies are themselves thoroughly informed by poststructuralist theory. They provide a rigorous background for several new, exciting articles on vision and its bearings for feminism, race, sexual orientation, film and art. This collection is the first of its kind in juxtaposing historical and contemporary
The Citizen Audience
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Author : Richard Butsch
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2008
The Citizen Audience written by Richard Butsch and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Social Science categories.
"Americans spend a remarkable amount of time as audiences: adults spent over nine hours per day using media in 2004, more than half of all waking hours; and this does not include unmediated live performances and spectator sports, let alone church and school where people act largely as audiences. It is important therefore what is said about these audiences. Today, as in the past, people have been criticized for how they play their role as entertainment audiences. Audiences have been depicted variously as good or bad, threatening public order or politically disengaged, culitvated or cultural dupes, ideal citizens or pathological, and so on. This book seeks to make sense out of the profusion of representations of audiences in the historical record and the political implications of those representations."--p. 1.
Democracy For Busy People
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Author : Kevin J. Elliott
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-05-09
Democracy For Busy People written by Kevin J. Elliott and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Political Science categories.
Advances an alternative approach to democratic reform that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics. How do we make democracy more equal? Although in theory, all citizens in a democracy have the right to participate in politics, time-consuming forms of participation often advantage some groups over others. Where some citizens may have time to wait in long lines to vote, to volunteer for a campaign, to attend community board meetings, or to stay up to date on national, state, and local news, other citizens struggle to do the same. Since not all people have the time or inclination to devote substantial energy to politics, certain forms of participation exacerbate existing inequalities. Democracy for Busy People takes up the very real challenge of how to build a democracy that empowers people with limited time for politics. While many plans for democratic renewal emphasize demanding forms of political participation and daunting ideals of democratic citizenship, political theorist Kevin J. Elliott proposes a fundamentally different approach. He focuses instead on making democratic citizenship undemanding so that even busy people can be politically included. This approach emphasizes the core institutions of electoral democracy, such as political parties, against deliberative reforms and sortition. Timely and action-focused, Democracy for Busy People is necessary reading.
The Eyes Of The People
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Author : Jeffrey Edward Green
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2010
The Eyes Of The People written by Jeffrey Edward Green and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Philosophy categories.
For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this book, Green argues that it is both possible and desirable to understand democracy in terms of what the People gets to see instead of the traditional focus on what it gets to say.
Staged Narrative
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Author : James Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-08-13
Staged Narrative written by James Barrett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Combining several critical approaches - narrative theory, genre study, and rhetorical analysis - this lucid and sophisticated study develops a synthetic view of the messenger of Greek tragedy, showing how this role illuminates some of the genre's most persistent concerns, especially those relating to language, knowledge, and the workings of tragic theater itself.".
The State As A Work Of Art
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Author : Eric Slauter
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-05
The State As A Work Of Art written by Eric Slauter and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with History categories.
The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate and monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial nature of the state, these early politicians believed the culture of a people should inform the development of their governing rules and bodies. The author explores these central ideas in this account of the origins and meanings of the U.S. Constitution. He reveals the cultural histories upon which the document rests, highlights the voices of ordinary people, and considers how the artifice of the state was challenged in its effort to sustain inalienable natural rights alongside slavery and to achieve political secularization at a moment of growing religious expression.