At the Pivot of East and West

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"At the Pivot of East and West is the companion volume to Michael M. J. Fischer's Probing Arts and Emergent Futures. In this book, Fischer continues his investigation into artistic practices with a focus on documentary films and novels, and introduces three analytics to do so: pivots, knots, and hinges. For Fischer, "pivots" signals geopolitical spaces, like art markets and commissions, as places to think with; "knots" speak to feminist and intercultural knots in women-authored novels; and "hinges" as a counterpoint to the notion of an event, a persistent slow change that only retrospectively seems dramatic and that remains unfinished. At the Pivot of East and West draws widely from global arts with a focus on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia"--

subjects: Anthropology and the arts,  Documentary mass media and the arts,  Arts and society,  Documentary films,  History and criticism,  Southeast Asian literature,  Social change in motion pictures,  Social change in literature,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social,  LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature