Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

... the trajectory of contemporary art are laid out for an earlier period by Alexander Alberro in his remarkable book about the marketing of conceptual art at a time when corporate collecting was first becoming ... making instrumental demands on art. Corporations want to use art to assure an attachment to the 88 Contemporary Art brand that cannot be purchased by advertising; the state wants...

Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2014, 21:21

... breakfast plate of bacon and eggs were examples; others included a Black Magic box containing female body fragments made of chocolate, and a plate of salad with a (papier-mâché) reclining female ... between the fascination with popular commercial culture of that avant-garde a hundred years ago, and our apparently similar fascination at the present time, and we must pay attention to th...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:42

... ecclesiastical sphere, religious images were seen as having an important role to play in the propaganda campaign waged by Lutheran Reformers against the Catholic church and its contemporary abuses. ... of, Christian art significantly. Large ecclesiastical commissions for altarpieces all but disappeared in many areas, and in others there was a distinct reduction in the demand for many tradi...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 17:06

... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast, Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parents allocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences in nutritional ... due care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together, a...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21

... Von Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away. Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that 90 Information all ... in launching an angry attack on Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour might then easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail to notice that he isn’t...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23

... the planet, sending up a gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidly expanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered into the planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear to have collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and records abound of flood, fire, qu...

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43

... is an index of a speaker; writing of a hand employing a pen or moving over a keyboard; traffic signs of both a fabricator and an act of planning. What is particular, and peculiar, about photographs is ... a distinction between actual and virtual phenomena.) Assuming a good, flat mirror with a clean surface, there are three factors that enable a beholder to determine that what...

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:44

... is moral; offense is immoral.’ Ironically, three and a half decades later, James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O’Hanlon argued a national security policy that deliberately leaves the American people ... Watkins concluded, to have a long-range programme to ‘develop systems that would defeat a missile attack’. Reagan gravitated to Watkins’s missile defence idea as a way to alleviate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:44