University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Inside the Gate
Sigrid Undset's Life at Bjerkebæk
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset’s life at Bjerkebæk, her retreat in Lillehammer, Norway
Inside the Gate offers readers a rare glimpse into Sigrid Undset’s life at her home, Bjerkebæk, now a museum and national landmark in Lillehammer, Norway. Immensely protective of her privacy, Undset...
From Light to Dark
Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From...
by Marcel O'Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O’Gorman takes aim at “the collusion of death and technology,” drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to digital art and handmade “objects-to-think-with.” Throughout, O’Gorman mixes philosophical speculation...
City Choreographer
Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from...
Constitutional Modernism
Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces. Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in the Cuban Republic, Timothy Hyde reveals how architects...
Architectural Agents
The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Buildings are not benign; rather, they commonly manipulate and abuse their human users. Architectural Agents makes the case that buildings act in the world independently of their makers, patrons, owners, or occupants. And often they act badly.
Treating buildings as bodies, Annabel Jane Wharton...
Commemorating and Forgetting
Challenges for the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The...
The Art of Protest
Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of...
Little White Houses
How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues...
Airport Urbanism
Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Thirty years ago, few residents of Asian cities had ever been on a plane, much less outside their home countries. Today, flying, and flying abroad, is commonplace. How has this leap in cross-border mobility affected the design and use of such cities? And how is it accelerating broader socioeconomic...
A Capsule Aesthetic
Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti...
Consumers And Citizens
Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
In *Consumers and Citizens,* Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage...
Becoming Past
History in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all—as much as we may want to consider it otherwise—is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane Blocker’s Becoming Past. The important point...
Japanese Counterculture
The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In this inventive and revealing work, Steven Ridgely examines Terayama's life and art to show that a conventional notion of him does not do full justice to the...