Employing a cross-disciplinary methodology and analytic approach, the book investigates the new cultural meanings in play around a creative career. It shows how classic ideals of design and the creative arts, re-interpreted and promoted within contemporary art schools, validate the lived experience..
Employing a cross-disciplinary methodology and analytic approach, the book investigates the new cultural meanings in play around a creative career. It shows how classic ideals of design and the creative arts, re-interpreted and promoted within contemporary art schools, validate the lived experience..
The book reconsiders definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. It highlights the gendered and racialised histories of this modernity, arguing that today they continue to play a significant role in global circulations of..
This intriguing, engrossing, and comprehensive collection looks at the cultural and commercial dimensions of creative borrowing around the world with an international cast of contributors and case studies from India to Ireland, Canada to China...
In exploring contemporary culture, this book touches on the role of architecture to provoke feelings of sublimity, the role of art in the aftermath of destructive events, literature’s place as an establisher of the historical moment as a point of sublime transformation and change, and the place of n..
This book offers critical reflection on Pierre Bourdieu’s account of the relationships between class, culture, power and taste. It compares and contrasts different theoretical and conceptual approaches, and brings empirical investigations to bear on relevant theoretical issues about social distincti..