Showcases the work emerging from the ethnography of media. This title covers topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally.
Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.
Suitable for students, teachers, and general readers interested in the future of history, this book includes such topics as diverse as parades in 19th- century America, 16th-century Spanish texts, English medical writing, and the visual practices implied in Italian Renaissance frescoes.