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Creativity in transition : politics and aesthetics of cultural production across the globe /

In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Svasek, Maruska (Éditeur intellectuel), Meyer, Birgit (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Collection:Material mediations ; v. 6.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction
  • Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement; Chapter 1
  • African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design; Chapter 2
  • Heads Against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity: Indian Luxury Embroidery Between Craft, Fashion Design and Art; Chapter 3
  • The Social Life of Kottan Baskets: Craft Production, Consumption and Circulation in Tamil Nadu, India; Chapter 4
  • Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India.
  • Chapter 5
  • Approximation as Interpretative Appropriation: Guaraní-Inspired Ceramics in Misiones, ArgentinaChapter 6
  • Positioned Creativity: Museums, Politics and Indigenous Art in British Columbia and Norway; Chapter 7
  • 'We Paint Our Way and the Christian Way Together': Transforming Yolngu and Ngan'gi Art through Creative Ancestral-Christian Practice; Chapter 9
  • 'The Eye Likes It': National Identity and the Aesthetics of Attraction Among Sri Lankan Tamil Catholics and Hindus.
  • Chapter 10
  • Narrative, Movements, Objects: Aesthetics and Power in Catholic Devotion to Our Lady of Aparecida, BrazilChapter 11
  • The Art of Imitation: The (Re)Production and Reception of Jesus Pictures in Ghana; Afterword
  • Creativity in Transition; Index.