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Confronting Modernity
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Author : Richard Megraw
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2008
Confronting Modernity written by Richard Megraw and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana examines how the conflicts and benefits of modernity's nationalizing influences were reflected and resisted by the state's artists in the first half of the twentieth century. In Louisiana, such change not only produced the turbulent politics of the Huey Long era but also provoked debate over new ideas on art and social roles for artists. By using two of Louisiana's most prominent cultural figures of the era as lenses, Megraw reveals the state's complex relationship with modernity. Artist Ellsworth Woodward and writer Lyle Saxon battled to retain artistic control over what they considered the exceptional character of Louisiana. Woodward defended localized assumptions through art in the world-renowned pottery program he established in 1892 and directed for more than forty years at Sophie Newcomb College. Saxon, on the other hand, fought against modernity's encroachment from within, serving as director of the Federal Writers Project in Louisiana. He used his position to promote literature and culture that preserved local place and historic structure from the transformations wrought by industrialism, consumerism, and the mass media. Confronting Modernity vividly explores how Louisiana's struggles with America's rush to modernize mirrored battles for autonomy happening between artists and governments across the country. Richard Megraw is associate professor of American studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His work has been published in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies.
Confronting Modernity In Fin De Si Cle France
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Author : C. Forth
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-11-27
Confronting Modernity In Fin De Si Cle France written by C. Forth and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-27 with History categories.
The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.
Confronting Modernity
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Author : H. Lee Cheek, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-03-27
Confronting Modernity written by H. Lee Cheek, Jr. and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book offers a survey of the most vital themes of Wesleyan theology, and helps the contemporary student of theology appreciate the classical, consensual tradition of Christianity.
Confronting Modernity
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Author : Erin E. Kelley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
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This dissertation examines how the avant-garde pursuit of individuality during early twentieth century Japan constituted a confrontation over state-sponsored modernism and how these confrontations played out among emerging technologies like print media. I analyze key moments in modern Japanese art and culture by focusing upon the careers of three Shirakaba Society artists--Takamura Kotaro (1883-1956), Umehara Ryuzaburo (1888-1986), and Kishida Ryusei (1891-1929)--and their struggle to form distinct identities not defined through a collective style or national ideology. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Japanese government was keenly aware of the political, economic, and social potential of yoga or "Western-style oil painting" in creating a modern national identity. Using the medium of the art journal as their tool of intervention, the Japanese artists and writers affiliated with Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910-1923) reframed the debate on modern painting and sculpture by subverting government established styles and exhibition formats that reinforced the cultural and political objectives of Japan's nation building efforts. These activities opened a critical space that allowed Japanese artists to explore and complicate the established narratives of the emerging avant-garde: on a personal level, as a member of an artistic collective, and as a citizen of the Japanese nation. By using the art journal as a lens through which to critique scholarly paradigms that frame Japan's construction of a new modernity as merely derivative, I argue that Shirakaba's dialogue with modern styles in painting and sculpture revolutionized the production and exhibition of art in Tokyo during the nineteen-teens and twenties. "Modernism," I propose, became a transnational language, style, and attitude, transformed for early twentieth century Japan.
Confronting Modernity In The Cinemas Of Taiwan And Mainland China
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Author : Tonglin Lu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002
Confronting Modernity In The Cinemas Of Taiwan And Mainland China written by Tonglin Lu and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Performing Arts categories.
This book examines the formation of cultural identity in Taiwan and mainland China through paradigmatic films.
Confronting Modernity
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Author : Kathlean C. Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Confronting Modernity written by Kathlean C. Fitzpatrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with United States categories.
Confronting Modernity
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Author : Joseph Federico
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Confronting Modernity written by Joseph Federico and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Facing Modernity
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Author : Jon Hughes
language : en
Publisher: MHRA
Release Date : 2006
Facing Modernity written by Jon Hughes and has been published by MHRA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Ambivalence categories.
This is the first monograph on the work of Joseph Roth (1894-1939) to be published in English by a British-based academic, and should prove useful both to those with a specialized interest in Roth, whose novels and journalism continue to gain admirers around the world, and to those interested more broadly in an extraordinarily rich period in twentieth century European culture. It serves both as an introduction to the early part of a body of work whose variety and volume were for many years overshadowed by the reputation of the historical novel Radetzkymarsch (1932), and as a re-assessment of Roth's writing, both of fiction and of journalism, within the modern tradition. A perceived fragmentation of social, political, cultural and other traditions was a particular concern for Roth, as for many contemporaries, and the thematic chapters present a detailed contextual survey of Roth's intense and often ambivalent engagement with aspects of modern life, including travel, gender, technology, the city, and cinema. Besides assessing the continuities and discontinuities in Roth's attitudes, these chapters examine how his responses to the contemporary world impact upon both the form and content of his writing. The author argues that Roth's writing of the 1920s should be considered modernist not just in its often prescient sensitivity to cultural and political developments, but in its employment of a formal aesthetics and narrative self-consciousness which eventually made possible the illusory wholeness of the later fiction.
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Author : John Mark Eckman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Confronting Modernity written by John Mark Eckman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with American fiction categories.
Hospicing Modernity
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Author : Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2021-09-21
Hospicing Modernity written by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Social Science categories.
A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity—for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of. Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. We take more than we give; we inoculate ourselves in positive self-regard while continuing to make harmful choices; we wreak irreparable havoc on the ecosystems, habitats, and beings with whom we share our planet. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability? Machado de Oliveira breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance—the do-gooder who does “good enough,” then retreats to business as usual; the incognito capitalist who, at first glance, may seem like a radical change-maker—and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently. She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back . . . and why it's time now to gradually disinvest. Including exercises used with teachers, NGO practitioners, and global changemakers, she offers us thought experiments that ask us to: • Reimagine how we learn, unlearn, and respond to crisis • Better assess our surroundings and interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure • Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for difficult and painful things • Understand the “5 modern-colonial e’s”: Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment in low-intensity struggle activism • Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm • Create space for change driven neither by desperate hope nor a fear of desolate hopelessness For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Arundhati Roy, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all.