Critical vices : the myths of postmodern theory : essays / / Nicholas Zurbrugg ; commentary, Warren Burt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450354303321
• Autore: Zurbrugg Nicholas.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : G+B Arts, an imprint of Overseas Publishers Association, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-135-29996-X; 1-280-15692-9; 0-203-98533-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Collana: Critical voices in art, theory and culture
• Altri autori (Persone): BurtWarren <1949->
• Disciplina: 809/.9113
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; contents; introduction to the series; acknowledgments; 0 one or two final thoughts (a retrospective preface); 1 marinetti, boccioni and electroacoustic poetry futurism and after; 2 the limits of intertextuality barthes, burroughs, gysin, culler; 3 postmodernity, métaphore manquée, and the myth of the trans-avant-garde; 4 baudrillard's amérique and the "abyss of modernity"; 5 jameson's complaint video art and the intertextual "time-wall"; 6 postmodernism and the multimedia sensibility heiner müller's hamletmachine and the art of robert wilson; 7 baudrillard, modernism, and postmodernism8 "apocalyptic"? "negative"? "pessimistic"? baudrillard, virilio, and technoculture; 9 baudrillard, giorno, viola and the technologies of radical illusion; 10 zurbrugg's complaint, or how an artist came to criticize a critic's criticism of the critics; notes; sources; index
• Sommario/riassunto: In these essays, Nicholas Zurbrugg charts the developments in late 20th-century multimedia art. He challenges accounts of postmodern techno-culture, and interweaves literary and cultural theory and visual studies to demonstrate the neutering of mass-media culture and the ; exceptions to it.

Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition [[electronic resource] ] : politicized art under late socialism / / edited by Ale?s Erjavec ; with a foreword by Martin Jay and contributions by Boris Groys ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456431203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-282-35679-8; 0-520-92855-5; 9786612356797; 1-59734-825-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ErjavecAle?s; Gro?isBoris
• Disciplina: 709/.171/709049
• Soggetti: Art - Political aspects; Postmodernism; Socialism and art; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; The Other Gaze: Russian Unofficial Art's View of the Soviet World; Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans; Neue Slowenische Kunst-New Slovenian Art: Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Self-Management, and the 1980's; Hungarian Marginal Art in the Late Period of State Socialism; The New Cuban Art; Post-Utopian Avant-Garde Art in China; List of Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without ; precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took-how artists in the 1980's marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future-emerges in this remarkable volume. With in-depth perspectives on art and artists in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Mitteleuropa, China, and Cuba-all from...

Autobiographical writing by early modern Hispanic women / / Elizabeth Teresa Howe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787122903321
• Autore: Howe Elizabeth Teresa <1945-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-138-37999-9; 1-317-17692-8; 1-317-17691-X; 1-315-56847-0; 1-4724-3578-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: Women and gender in the early modern world
• Disciplina: 860.9/92870903
• Soggetti: Spanish literature - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Spanish literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Autobiography - Authorship; Spanish literature - Mexico - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Telling li(v)es: women and autobiography -- Court and convent: Leonor López de Córdoba and Sor Teresa de Cartagena -- Carmelite and Cloister: Santa Teresa de Jesús -- In the footsteps of Santa Teresa: Carmelite nuns and the reform(er) -- Soldier in New Spain: Catalina de Erauso -- Defending her life: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
• Sommario/riassunto: Women's life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a ; countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period, both in Spain and in Mexico.