Art and Collecting Art (English Edition)

Art and Collecting Art (English Edition)
Author: Oei Hong Djien
Publisher: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 6024244479

Oei Hong Djien, Indonesia's distinguished art collector hailling from Magelang, Central Java, is also a writer. From 1990 to the present day, which spans a period of about 20 years, he has written numerous pieces on art. Most are introductions to exhibition catalogues; some are texts for speeches, lectures and discussions; others are articles that have appeared in the catalogues of auction house, magazines and books.

Grief

Grief
Author: Ed Lark
Publisher: Osiris Press Ltd
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2005-04
Genre:
ISBN: 1905315023

Juan has left his past behind for the seductions of the city and the Crystal Realm - a world of ever-changing fashion, daily plastic surgery, mind-altering drugs and bizarre sex. He effortlessly climbs the social hierarchy, gaining money and power until the city thrills to his every move - but something is missing from his life, which perhaps only the picaresque troupe of troubadours who are trekking across the desert in search of him can explain. Grief is both a unique dystopia, or perhaps an interpretation of the present, and a remarkable psychological fantasy, disturbing, witty and moving by turns.

Cultural Technologies

Cultural Technologies
Author: Göran Bolin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136302964

The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities, covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, server farms and search engines, cultural technologies and epistemology, virtual embassies, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology.