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Art, Politics, and Development.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781439910863
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 701/.82
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Perspective: A Window to the World and to the Future -- Perspective -- Anticipation of a New Weltanschauung: Transgressing Medieval Boundaries -- 2. From Art to Worldview -- The Disenchantment of the Physical World -- Toward a New Horizon: The Discovery of Linear Time and the Idea of Progress -- Condorcet: From the Linear Perspective Worldview to the Development Mind-set -- The Notion of the "Other" prior to the Esquisse -- The Development Mind-set Further Concretized: The Idea of Civilizing and Civilization -- Linear Perspective and the Development Mind-set: A Summary of Key Concepts -- 3. Modern Development -- The Contemporary Development Mind-set -- Educating the "Others" -- The "Rage de Vouloir Conclure" -- 4. Counterperspectives -- Resistance to the Perspective Worldview -- Antiperspective Movements in Art History -- Proposals for Development Alternatives -- A Nonlinear Approach -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Perspective: A Window to the World and to the Future -- Perspective -- Anticipation of a New Weltanschauung: Transgressing Medieval Boundaries -- 2. From Art to Worldview -- The Disenchantment of the Physical World -- Toward a New Horizon: The Discovery of Linear Time and the Idea of Progress -- Condorcet: From the Linear Perspective Worldview to the Development Mind-set -- The Notion of the "Other" prior to the Esquisse -- The Development Mind-set Further Concretized: The Idea of Civilizing and Civilization -- Linear Perspective and the Development Mind-set: A Summary of Key Concepts -- 3. Modern Development -- The Contemporary Development Mind-set -- Educating the "Others" -- The "Rage de Vouloir Conclure" -- 4. Counterperspectives -- Resistance to the Perspective Worldview -- Antiperspective Movements in Art History -- Proposals for Development Alternatives -- A Nonlinear Approach -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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