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Book Review: Why Photography Matters by Jerry L. Thompson
Catherine Allerton casts her anthropologist’s eye over Jerry Thompson’s Why Photography Matters, and finds an endlessly thought-provoking and illuminating read for students interested in ethnography,...
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Book Review: Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in...
In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory...
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Book Review: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities...
Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, Doris Sommer looks to steer the humanities back to engagement with the world. Among the cases that she covers are top-down initiatives...
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LSE Review of Books in Brazil Podcast: Episode 2: Favela life: From drug...
Following on from Episode 1 “Rio in Transition”, the second instalment in our three-part series on Brazil will take you to Rio de Janeiro’s morros, or hills, to explore just how two grassroots...
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Book Review: The Impact of Racism on African American Families: Literature as...
In focusing on what literature can tell us about various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the...
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Book Review: Good and Plenty: The Creative Success of American Arts Funding...
The Arts Council this week announced which arts organisations it would be awarding funding to for the next three years. Under the biggest change to arts funding in a generation, 110 new organisations...
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Book Review: Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance, edited by Helmut Anheier...
The preparation for the Olympic Games in London and its legacy have brought into question the efficacy of top-down marketing strategies and private ownership. Rebecca Litchfield finds the essays in...
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Book Review: Guattari Reframed by Paul Elliott
Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century’s most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and psychiatrist, Guattari’s...
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Book Review: Adorno Reframed by Geoffrey Boucher
Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of high art, Theodor W. Adorno is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers....
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Book Review: Plato on Art and Beauty, edited by Alison E. Denham
This collection of essays presents various aspects of Plato’s views on art and beauty, not only in the Republic but in the Ion, Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The selection aims to...
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