LIBROS DEL AUTOR: stefan szczelkun

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  • Can Working Class Culture be Knowledge?
    Stefan Szczelkun
    This booklet fills a gap between my two previous books on working class culture and oppression. It looks a the first defences of popular culture by Herbert J. Gans and then Richard Shusterman. I looks for theorising about the aesthetics of working class cultures and finds some interesting ideas. ...
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    10,02 €

  • DEMENTIA PAINTING
    Stefan Szczelkun
    A book about one persons experience of painting through dementia. A historical background is given to look at the reasons that Joan my have become an artist and also the other conditions of her life - especially being a housewife and mother. There is also some polemic about working class artists and the invisible limitations on amateur art.Includes many full page colour illustr...
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    21,31 €

  • Exploding Cinema 1991 - 1999
    Stefan Szczelkun
    The Exploding Cinema is a collective of artists that produce what can be described as a hybrid fusion of projection, performance and social space. It began in South London in late 1991. Architectural spaces, transformed with the use of slides and loop film projections are used as an environmental context for a programme of short films and video. A ’master of ceremonies’ sets up...
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    12,67 €

  • Plotlands of Shepperton
    Stefan Szczelkun
    This book provides photographic documentation of the houses on five plotland sites in Shepperton. 27 small colour photographs document Hamhaugh Island in 2004. There are then 14 full page photos of views across the Thames showing the riverside dwelling on the other bank. In addition there are 21 full page photographs of the plotland chalets in close-up view. Two of these are pa...
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    10,08 €

  • Chalet Fields of The Gower
    Owen Short / Stefan Szczelkun
    This is a new ’pocket’ edition with better quality photo reproduction and additional materials.'A slump in agricultural profits in the Britain of the 1920s and 30s,and a consequent precipitous drop in the value of land,led to the growth of the 'Plotland' movement.Enterprising farmers would divide their fields into small plots which would be rented out or sold outright at low pr...
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    11,77 €

  • SILENCE!
    Stefan Szczelkun
    This book argues that British working-class urban culture was silenced in the period 1900 - 1950 and that the effects of this are still felt. The agencies of this silencing were state education, the BBC Radio and the commercialisation of working class cultural institutions (from 1850). The effects in my own life are picked up from the fifties onwards and some of the fightback a...
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    15,12 €

  • SENSE THINK ACT
    Stefan Szczelkun
    This practical core of this book is a collection of about 200 exercises to experience basic human ability.The senses pick up information in various media from outside and inside the body. They monitor what is happening. This sensory information then travels along nerve pathways to the brain where it is compared with past experience, analysed and evaluated. The result of this pr...
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    15,96 €

  • The Conspiracy of Good Taste
    Stefan Szczelkun
    “The Conspiracy of Good Taste is a passionate analysis of the way working class culture has been appropriated and sanitised by middle class mediators of taste. Using the case studies of William Morris, Cecil Sharp and Clough William-Ellis, Szczelkun challenges their often widely seen role as enlightened political artists. He persuasively argues that there is a classist agenda t...
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    20,95 €

  • Improvisation Rites
    Stefan Szczelkun
    An account of an intergenerational project that used my experience of The Scratch Orchestra (1969 - 72) to work with a younger generation of people. We started by doing two performances of John Cage's magnum opus 'Song Books'. Then we worked with the improvisation rites in Cornelius Cardew's collective work 'Nature Study Notes'. This book documents the c...
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    20,95 €