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This multifaceted book is the latest collaboration between Glenn Kaino and Derek DelGaudio, who work together as the conceptual performance art duo A.Bandit to make magical art. A.Bandit is an experimental performance art group started by conceptual artist Glenn Kaino and magician Derek DelGaudio. Together they have exhibited and performed their work in venues that span a diverse range of cultural activities. The book introduces their pioneering work in the fields of art and magic, along with interviews and stories from noteworthy practitioners from both fields. It will be a generous access point into the normally secret practice from which A.Bandit operates. The book itself will contain several secret elements and magical features that will distinguish it as a type of performance in and of itself.
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• Part 1. The poetics of education
• 1. The arts, postmodern culture and the inner dynamic of authentic education
• 2. On the spiritual in art, culture and education
• 3. The rise and fall of the new arts paradigm in education
• Part 2. The poetics of culture
• 4. The three faces of wisdom
• literature and the arts as radical routes to understanding
• 5. The creative word and the creative life: a cultural map of autobiography from classical Greece to the postmodern crisis
• 6. Music, metaphor, meaning: a poetics before and after postmodernism
• 7. Thirty-nine
• Notes towards a new metaphysical poetry
• 8. Art against the Zeitgeist: on the work of four contemporary art-makers.
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• Part I: on the spirituality in art, culture and education
• the meaning of Socratic education
• postmodernism, education and the community of recognition
• on the place of the ethical and aesthetic in education
• a poetics of education for the 21st century. Part II: literature as the quest for wisdom
• the rise and fall of the new arts paradigm in education
• the creative word and the created life - the cultural context for deep autobiography
• a convivial poetics for and beyond postmodernism
• the failure of conceptualism and the visionary element in British art.
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At once provocative and inspiring, Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the present education system as being inimical to creativity and authentic learning and instead, narrowly focused on the quantitative measuring of results. This absence of a creative and ethical dimension in education has implications for art making in wider society. Art is shown as emerging from, and appealing to, the ironic postmodernist sensibility and mass media-led culture, while being devoid of philosophical significance. This book opens up a fresh and timely debate about the vital power of creativity in modern education. Drawing on examples from modern poetry, literature and visual art, it is an eloquent and passionate argument for the need to develop ethical and aesthetic energies to confront the growing vacuity of contemporary culture.
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For centuries, artists have been inspired by muses to create poignant works of art and literature; this beautifully illustrated volume is a celebration of these women and the artists they influenced. American Lee Miller was a successful New York fashion model before traveling to Paris to become the apprentice, lover, and muse of surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray; Nancy Cunard, British writer, heiress, and political activist, captivated numerous members of the twentieth century's art and literary circles, including Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; and Parisian-born artist and poet Dora Maar had a profound influence on the work of her notorious lover, Pablo Picasso.

• Foreword, by Emily Jacir Preface Introduction
• Chapter 1: Knowledge of Self Roots / Al-nafs / On Being Iraqi / New Word Order
• Chapter 2: Decolonizing Care On Care / On Teachers / Approach with Caution / The Role of the Artist
• Chapter 3: Decolonizing the Art World We Are The Medium / The Industry / Breaking Down the Walls / Interventions / Me, We, Muhammad Ali / Minister of Culture: Emory Douglas / Narratives 63
• The Living Room: Images and Words by the Artists (w/ color plates)
• Poetry "Ode To Myself" // Soukayna "Women Pt. 1" // Jessica Powless "Untitled" // Teeanna Munro
• Chapter 4: Curating Care Care-full Curation / Curating as Artist-Curator / Intentionality / Ceremony / The Stories in Between / Shim El Yasmine [Smell the Jasmine] / Poetry / "Taking Care of Us": The Workshop
• Chapter 5: Space Safe(r) Space? / The Challenges We Face / Behind the Scenes / Take Space, Make Space
• Conclusion Epilogue: Care and the Pandemic Appendix: #Arabs4BlackPower Statement / Take Care of Your Self CuratorialStatement Acknowledgements Bibliography Glossary Index About the Artists About the Author About We Are The Medium.
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Take care of yourself. How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger will we be? More importantly how much stronger will our communities be? In Take Care of Your Self, Iraqi artist and curator Sundus Abdul Hadi turns a critical and inventive eye on the notion of self-care, rejecting the idea that self-care means buying stuff and recasting it as a collective practice rooted in the liberation struggles of the oppressed. Throughout, Abdul Hadi explores the role of art in fostering healing for those affected by racism, war, and displacement, weaving in the artwork of twenty-seven artists of color from diverse backgrounds to identify the points where these struggles intersect. In centering the voices of those often relegated to the margins of the art world and emphasizing the imperative to create safe spaces for artists of color to explore their complicated reactions to oppression, Abdul Hadi casts self-care as a political act rooted in the impulse toward self-determination, empowerment, and healing that animates the work of artists of color across the world.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: "I'm gonna start a riot!"
• Chapter 1: The inability to compromise: examining Black rage and revolt in the revolutionary theatre of Amiri Baraka and Ben Caldwell
• Chapter 2: "Blackblues": The BAM aesthetic and Black rage in Gwendolyn Brooks's "Riot"
• Chapter 3: The crisis of Black revolutionary politics in Sonia Sanchez's "The Bronx Is next" (and "Sister Son/ji")
• Chapter 4: Black politics and the neoliberal dilemma in Henry Dumas's "Riot or revolt?"
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic writings. Start a Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry analyzes riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how BAM artist-writers like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ben Caldwell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, and Henry Dumas challenge misconceptions regarding Black protest through experimental explorations in their writings. Representations of riots became more pronounced in the 1960s as pivotal leaders shaping Black consciousness, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., were assassinated. BAM artist-writers sought to override the public's interpretation in their literary exposes that a riot's disjointed and disorderly methods led to more chaos than reparative justice. Start a Riot! uncovers how BAM artist-writers expose anti-Black racism and, by extension, the United States' inability to compromise with Black America on matters related to citizenship rights, housing (in)security, economic inequality, and education-tenets emphasized during the Black Power Movement. Abdul-Ghani argues that BAM artist-writers did not merely write literature that reflected a spirit of protest; in many cases, they understood their texts, themselves, as acts of protest.
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One of Pakistan's most notable contemporary artists, Bani Abidi creates videos and multimedia works that interweave autobiographical fiction with socio-political commentary and satire. Her practice explores the sobering realities of the political conditions, bureaucracy, and urban infrastructure in Asia, exposing the absurdities emerging from the dysfunctionalities of everyday life. The Artist Who is the first monograph to look at the work of this Berlin-based Pakistani artist. Envisioned as an artist project, the publication explores notions of humor, playfulness and experimentation by engaging with forms of writing, design, printing, and assembly. Containing a documentation of artworks created over two decades as well as archival material and a rich selection of texts, it represents the wide range of relationships Abidi has fostered during this period.
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• Preface / Wim Beeren
• Prologue / Frank Lubbers
• The wall. The walk. The alien / Ulay
• Great walk talk / Thomas McEvilly
• Boat emptying. Stream entering / Marina Abramović
• Two times an individual experience / Dorine Mignot.

• Cast
• Introduction / Marina Abramović
• Consumption - LaTraviata
• Jumping - Tosca
• Strangulation - Otello
• Hara-KIRI - Madame Butterfly
• Knifing - Carmen
• Madness - Lucia di Lammermoor
• Burning - Norma
• The Eighth Death

7 Deaths of Maria Callas is an opera project created by Marina Abramovic premiering at the Bayerische Staatsopera in Munich 2020. In collaboration with an all star creative team and through a mix of narrative opera and film, Abramovic re-creates seven iconic deaths from Callas' most important roles throughout her career, followed by an interpretive recreation of Callas' actual death played by Abramovic on stage. This book serves as a companion to the live performance and provides a behind the scenes look into the different elements that make up this conceptual and dynamic homage to the classic and iconic singer.
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