University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Mechademia 1
Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
After decades in which American popular culture dominated global media and markets, Japanese popular culture—primarily manga and anime, but also toys, card and video games, and fashion—has exploded into a worldwide phenomenon. From Pokémon and the Power Rangers to Paranoia Agent and Princess Mononoke,...
by Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan’s Great Pyramid in Mexico City and the Duomo in Florence to Levittown’s suburban...
Scenes of Projection
Recasting the Enlightenment Subject
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Theorizing vision and power at the intersections of the histories of psychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes of Projection poaches the prized instruments at the heart of the so-called scientific revolution: the projecting telescope, camera obscura, magic lantern, solar microscope,...
There But for Fortune
The Life of Phil Ochs
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The life and influence of singer Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs burst onto the American music scene just as the popularity of folk music was breaking through on the national consciousness. Along with friend and rival Bob Dylan, Ochs wrote some of the most compelling topical music of his time. In There...
First Thought
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
“The way to point to the existence of the universe is to see one thing directly and clearly and describe it. . . . If you see something as a symbol of something else, then you don't experience the object itself, but you're always referring it to something else in your mind. It's like making out with...
The Stakes of Exposure
Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
How would artistic practice contribute to political change in post–World War II Japan? How could artists negotiate the imbalanced global dynamics of the art world and also maintain a sense of aesthetic and political authenticity? While the contemporary art world has recently come to embrace some of...
René Magritte
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of René Magritte’s writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter—the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theorist—in his own words....
Designing the Creative Child
Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and designers...
West of Center
Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West—from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest—broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the...
When the Hills Are Gone
Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Fracking is one of the most controversial methods of fossil fuel extraction in the United States, but a great deal about it remains out of the public eye. In Wisconsin it has ignited an unprecedented explosion in the state’s sand mining operations, an essential ingredient in hydraulic fracturing...
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
Beijing, Chicago, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth...
Early Blues
The First Stars of Blues Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt.
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Murray Talks Music
Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916–2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence...
Picturing the Cosmos
Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
The vivid, dramatic images of distant stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have come to define how we visualize the cosmos. In their immediacy and vibrancy, photographs from the Hubble show what future generations of space travelers might see should they venture beyond our solar system....