Böcker utgivna av University of Washington Press

Looks at black women artists and video art. This survey examines an intriguing and unbounded scope of work, including experimental film, projections, and installations. It presents creative projects by established artists who became interested in time-based media such as Camille Billops, Barbara McCullough, Howardena Pindell, and Adrian Piper.

Composed of staggered tercets, this book features poems that track the chaotic rush and swerve of life as we live it. It teems with expertly realized lyrics, monologues, and narratives, as well as poems based on historical figures from Ovid to Janis Joplin.

Offers insight into concepts of linking inside and outside rooms and of combining private and public spaces. This book describes the process through which the authors transformed a steep forested hillside in the heart of Seattle into a deciduous woodland garden with banks of perennials, a dell, and a site for ornamental and food-producing plants.

Discusses how ecology activists in Slovakia generated a social movement that led to political dialogue about freedom, ethnicity, and power. This work explains why Slovakia's ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidly despite the persistence of serious ecological maladies in the region.

Examines how members of Native American and Canadian First Nation groups situate their art in contemporary global environments, creating a different kind of nexus between the requirements of Native communities and the forms of public display that are of interest to worldwide audiences.

Examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, this title traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values.

Explores the influence of Yue opera - a subgenre of Chinese opera that transformed all-male opera into an all-female art form, with women cross-dressing as male characters. This volume details the contributions of opera stars and related professionals and examines the relationships among actresses, patrons, and fans.

Presents a glimpse into Chinese folk literature through translated verses secretly written by the oppressed village women of Hunan, who bravely scribed their stories, in their own words.

Monterey, California is home to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and provided the setting for John Steinbeck's novel "Cannery Row", yet the city's coastline was also the stage for a great shift in the junction of industry and tourism. This book looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labour and leisure.

Features landscape paintings of Michael Dailey balances line and colour to produce paintings about the nuances of space, light, and atmosphere that comprise our memories of time and place.

Presents a collection of essays offering treatment of the development of architecture in the Middle East. This book also demonstrates the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it.

Contains sixteen essays which approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora with insightful results. This book analyzes how the diasporic experience of Puerto Ricans is played out in the context of class, race, gender, and sexuality and how other themes emerging from post-colonialism and post-modernism come into play.

Demonstrates the interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at different levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This book explores the role of rituals - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange.

The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. This book examines the way in which names link members of a lineage to a past and to the places where that past unfolded.

When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on pre-modern conceptions of sacred kingship. This title follows Naser al-Din Shah on a tour of Europe in 1873 that led to his importing a new public image of monarchy - an image based on the European late imperial model.

Tells the story of a young woman named Meng Jiang who makes a long, solitary journey to deliver winter clothes to her husband, a drafted labourer on the grandiose Great Wall construction project of the notorious First Emperor of the Qin dynasty (BCE 221-208).

Examines the cities of Algeria and Tunisia under French colonial rule and those of the Ottoman Arab provinces. By shifting the emphasis from the 'centers' of Paris and Istanbul to the 'peripheries', this title presents a more nuanced look at cross-cultural exchanges.

It was not until Japan's opening to the West during the Meiji period (1868-1912) that terms for "art (bijutsu) and "art museum" (bijutsukan) were coined. This title documents Japan's unification of national art and cultural resources to forge a modern identity influenced by European museum and exhibition culture.

Explores the interrelationships between two Norwegian giants of European modernism. Edvard Munch's work stretches from portraits of Ibsen to innovative depictions of scenes from Ibsen's plays such as Ghosts and Peer Gynt to set designs. Joan Templeton is professor of English at Long Island University and president of the Ibsen Society of America. She is the author of Ibsen's Women.

Examines the life and work of Chinese born painter Yun Gee and his Chinese American daughter Li-lan in the context of trans-nationalism and hybridity, race, identity, and globalization.

Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body.

Northwest artist Frances Blakemore had a lifelong love affair with Japan. She first went to Japan in 1935 and spent most of her adult life in Tokyo. Her experience with Japan encompassed the entire period from pre-World War II militarism to post-war modernization. This book introduces the adventures of an American artist.

For nearly four decades, Joseph Goldberg has produced paintings of great intelligence and sumptuous beauty. The paintings of the 1980s pursued a variety of motifs abstracted from architecture and landscape. This title includes an essay that examines Goldberg's oeuvre and explores the role of poetry in the artist's life and work.

Explains the technological, economic, cultural and narrative transformations necessary to make genetic thinking possible. This book offers a cultural history that challenges our own ways of organizing knowledge even as it explicates those of an earlier era.

Looks at how people in the world manage to store and process massive amounts of information that overloads their senses and their systems, and discusses how tools can help bring these real information interactions closer to the ideal. This book offers approaches to conceptual problems of information management.

Contains stories from a historic period of national American politics, portraying brilliant and not-so-brilliant leaders and ideas, and also illuminate politics' darker side.

Pike Place Market is a space that annually draws more people than any of the city's major sporting and cultural events. It has a reputation among American markets that is comparable to Les Halles in Paris and Convent Garden in London - the difference being that it has survived. This book illustrates the many people who have fought to sustain it.

Drawing on contemporary accounts of those involved in the trade - printers, booksellers, publishers, and distributors, this work describes the labours through which literature was produced: both the physical labour of making books and the underlying cultural work performed by a set of ideologies about who counted as a maker of texts.

There is something offensive about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope.

Accomplishes what has proven to be so difficult for poets across time: a deeply satisfying balance of the spiritual and political. This book focuses on both singular and communal: the self on its journey through the world and our responsibilities as a people for the precarious state of that world.