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Occasional Paper No 4: Properties and Social Imagination

On: August 10, 2014

In: From the editors, Occasional Paper Series

Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology We are pleased to announce the latest issue of our Occasional Paper Series as well as the relaunch of the site with new and improved design by our newest editor, Matt Hockenberry. Properties and Social Imagination is a book length project that drew on explorations and experimentsContinue Reading

Exhibition: "An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design 1915–1928"

By: Material World

On: November 6, 2013

In: Announcements and Listings, Art, Literature and Poetry

On View September 27, 2013–February 2, 2014 At the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY By Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, Curator of the Exhibition An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915-1928 examines the efforts of the American Museum of Natural History to educate and inspireContinue Reading

Call for Papers: Cultural Heritage and Technology

On: November 29, 2019

Via Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences The project “Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts” (DigiCONFLICT), in cooperation with Editorial Board of the biannual “Santander Art and Culture Law Review” (SAACLR), is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on the impact of the digital turn

ERC Research Group Indigeneities in the 21st Century: 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships and 1 Doctoral Position

On: October 11, 2019

2020/21 Fellowship Competition: Royal Museums Greenwich

On: August 30, 2019

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Occasional Paper 6: Destructivistas

Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016) With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes fitted out with a tremendous affectation. Let us take leave of these piles of counterfeit objects on the altars, in the palaces,

Occasional Paper 5: Mr Coperthwaite – a life in the Maine Woods

Anna Grimshaw, Emory University In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to the land movement of Scott and Helen Nearing, Bill Coperthwaite was committed to what he called“a handmade life.” For over fifty years

Occasional Paper No 4: Properties and Social Imagination

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