Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

... the trajectory of contemporary art are laid out for an earlier period by AlexanderAlberro in his remarkable book about the marketing ofconceptual art at a time when corporate collecting was ﬁrstbecoming ... making instrumental demands onart. Corporations want to use art to assure an attachment to the88 Contemporary Artbrand that cannot be purchased by advertising; the state wants toheal the destructive ... political past hasbeen paraded in the mid-1990s as an archaeological curiosity,isolated, and bearing with him (undoubtedly against his intentions) a heavy whiff of safe and powerless nostalgia.Sponsorship...

Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

... breakfast plate of bacon and eggs wereexamples; others included a Black Magic box containing femalebody fragments made of chocolate, and a plate of salad with a (papier-mâché) reclining female ... between the fascination withpopular commercial culture of that avant-garde a hundred yearsago, and our apparently similar fascination at the present time,and we must pay attention to those aspects ... Contemporary Arts,Paolozzi discovered that he was not alone among artists andcultural commentators in his passion. With the architecturalhistorian Reyner Banham, artist Richard Hamilton, and...

Christian Art: A Very Short Introduction

... ecclesiastical sphere, religious images were seen ashaving an important role to play in the propaganda campaignwaged by Lutheran Reformers against the Catholic church and its contemporary abuses. ... of,Christian art signiﬁcantly. Large ecclesiastical commissions foraltarpieces all but disappeared in many areas, and in others therewas a distinct reduction in the demand for many traditional typesof ... generally held sway, just as conﬂicting beliefs andinterests had always been a part of the so-called universal Catholicchurch of the Middle Ages. It may be, as several scholars haveargued, that...

Economics: A Very Short Introduction

... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast,Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parentsallocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences innutritional ... duecare has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protectionagainst moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Lawof Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together,are ... equal. There is evidence that this is so, both in theIndian sub-continent and in sub-Saharan Africa.The ratio of females to males in sub-Saharan Africa is 102 to 100,which means the female–male...

Game theory: A very short introduction

... VonNeumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away.Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aimto maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that90Informationall ... in launching an angry attackon Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour mightthen easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail tonotice that he isn’t necessarily acting ... capableof sustaining high levels of reciprocal altruism? How wouldhumans be capable of the same feat if we always had to spend halfan hour or more calculating what to do before taking any action?Some...

Global catastrophes: A very short introduction

... the planet, sending up a gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidlyexpanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered intothe planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, andwildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear tohave collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and recordsabound of flood, fire, quake, ... trepidation. Seismologists predict that a quakeas large as magnitude 7 could strike at any time – directly beneaththe capital. This event, known locally as a chokka-gata quake, willcause severe...

Photography: a very short introduction

... is an index of a speaker; writing of a hand employing a penor moving over a keyboard; trafﬁc signs of both a fabricator and anact of planning. What is particular, and peculiar, about photographsis ... a distinction between actual and virtualphenomena.) Assuming a good, ﬂat mirror with a clean surface,there are three factors that enable a beholder to determine thatwhat they see is an image, ... vision. Cameraimages are of a different order.An analogy with natural vision underpins many assumptions aboutphotography. It is often said that the camera is a truthful recorder inso far as it...

Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction

... is moral; offense is immoral.’ Ironically, three and a half decades later, James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O’Hanlon argued a national security policy that deliberately leaves the American people ... Watkins concluded, to have a long-range programme to ‘develop systems that would defeat a missile attack’. Reagan gravitated to Watkins’s missile defence idea as a way to alleviate his moral ... Department’s budget, much larger than the estimates initially offered by the Reagan administration.Meanwhile, arms negotiator and diplomat Paul Nitze had presented a three-part formula that any...

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