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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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A cultural history of the human desire behind the emergence of kitsch.
From her pet glass-globed hermit crab Rodney to the Victorian era's Crystal Palace-Celeste Olalquiaga offers a meditative look at the origins of kitsch ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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A multifaceted history of New York's influential alternative art scene during a time of rapid social change.
By the mid-1960s, New York's art establishment-its major museums and galleries-had ceased to reflect the city's diversity and ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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What becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced in Caribbean cultures . . . not only in the familiar milieu of the carnival but in political language, social conduct, and cultural expressions that mimic, ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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Explores how Latino gang culture mirrors the most destructive aspects of the American Dream through a look at novels and memoirs.
In Gang Nation, Monica Brown offers a sophisticated analysis of these narratives produced by ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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In Culture Incorporated, Rectanus calls for full disclosure of corporate involvement in cultural events and examines how corporations, art institutions, and foundations are reshaping the cultural terrain. In turn, he also shows how that ground ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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The first sustained critique of the ways museum exhibits shape cultural assumptions and political values.Each year the more than seven thousand museums in the United States attract more attendees than either movies or sports. Yet ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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The most complete and compelling analysis available of Altman's films.With his complex and unconventional films, Robert Altman often draws an impassioned response from critics but bafflement and indifference from the general public. Some audiences have ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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Reasserts the centrality of Jewish culture to contemporary discussions of diaspora.
Diaspora: the scattering of a people, often described as a condition of helplessness and a pathology to be overcome. It can also be, ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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A new take on a famous collection of shipwreck narratives that places them at the center of resistance to colonialism.
Shipwreck, death, and survival; terror, hunger, and salvation-these are the experiences of the passengers ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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Offers a new way of understanding the relationship between violence and the formation of foundational myths.
Civilization and violence are not necessarily the antagonists we presume-with civilization taming violence, and violence unmaking civilization. Focusing on ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
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Celebrating the power, artistry, and history of these Plains Indian masterpieces.
To the Plains Indians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, elaborately decorated hide shirts were symbols of bravery earned only by the most courageous ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2001)
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An illuminating examination of colonization's ongoing cultural legacy. Americans like to see themselves as far removed from their European ancestors' corrupt morals, imperial arrogance, and exploitation of native resources. Yet, as Patricia Seed argues in ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2001)
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An innovative examination of the interaction between culture and politics in Mexico.
In Mexico, as elsewhere, the national space, that network of places where the people interact with state institutions, is constantly changing. How ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2001)
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The first major book devoted solely to the drawings of this influential artist.
Early in his career, Belgian painter James Ensor (1860-1949) broke away from Impressionism, rejecting its prettiness in favor of an original, highly ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2001)
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A clear explanation and provocative look at the impact of new technologies on world society.Needing guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Europe approached Pierre Lévy, one of the world's most important and well-respected theorists ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2001)
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In a substantial introduction based on extensive original research, Timothy Brennan explores Carpentier's career prior to the writing of his novels. Looking especially at Carpentier's work as a music reviewer, radio producer, and musical theorist, ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2001)
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A balanced appraisal of the bitter debate surrounding the autobiography of Guatemala's 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2001)
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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of great colonial expansion, marked by a mercantile frenzy of ships carrying merchants, aristocrats, missionaries, sailors, Inquisitors, botanists, and statesmen pursuing the spoils of empire.
Among the ...