Art's Visionary Moment

Art's Visionary MomentIn describing their personal encounters with works that have stayed with them, scholars and artists here address the aesthetic, philosophical, and historical reasons that inform what T. Eliot has called great arts experience both of a moment and of a lifetime.

By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization

fantasy and desire in modern cinema

as well as the extensive history of representing China – and the Chinese in America – on US movie screens

A comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history

This book demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in China’s and India’s rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally

material and imaginary temporalities

"Dr Faustus"

The 2005 rioting in France’s suburbs caught the world’s attention and exposed the limits of the Republic’s integration policies concerning its ‘immigrant-origin’ populations

ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

”—Otto Piene

Centring on a 1927 libel trial

The book reveals the depth of female complaint but contends that women did not passively submit