New Releases by David Goldblatt

This book presents photos by David Goldblatt taken between 1952 and 2016 of Fietas in Johannesburg, with an emphasis on his 1976-77 images of the suburb''s last Indian residents before they were forcibly removed under apartheid. Known affectionately by its inhabitants as Fietas, though officially called Pageview, this was one of the city''s few "non-racial" suburbs, where Malay, African, Chinese, Indian and a few white people lived. Composed of narrow streets and small houses of two rooms and a kitchen for up to 15 people, here different races and religions formed a strong, safe community where children played in the streets. There were two mosques, Hindu, Tamil and Muslim schools, cricket, soccer and bridge clubs, and 170 shops--customers came from all over the Witwatersrand. In 1948 the National Party came to power and made the clearance of all "non-white" inhabitants of Pageview an immediate objective. Some 5,000 Africans and other people of color were evicted or "persuaded" to leave by the promise of better townships, while under the Group Areas Act the Indians were to move to Lenasia, an apartheid creation 35 kilometers from the city. For 20 years the remaining Indians fought against removal, principally in the courts, but in 1977 police and their dogs finally forced them out, except for a few. Almost all buildings were destroyed and in their place new houses for lower-income whites built. Today these are occupied by a mix of people from Africa, Europe and Asia; no sense of community remains except that of the homeless sheltering in the spaces left by demolition.

The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism of football, by the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round. 'David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times In the twenty-first century football is first. First among sports themselves, but it now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon. In the three most populous nations on the earth - China, India and the United States where just twenty years ago football existed on the periphery of society - it has now arrived for good. Nations, peoples and neighbourhoods across the globe imagine and invent themselves through playing and following the game. In The Age of Football, David Goldblatt charts football's global cultural ascent, its economic transformation and deep politicisation, taking in prison football in Uganda and amputee football in Angola, the role of football fans in the Arab Spring, the footballing presidencies of Bolivia's Evo Morales and Turkey's Recep Erdogan, China's declared intention to both host and win the World Cup by 2050, as well as the FIFA corruption scandal. Following the intersection of the game with money, power and identity, like no previous sports writer or historian, Goldblatt's sweeping story is remarkable in its scope, breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, and is a brilliantly original perspective of the twenty-first century. It is the account of how football has come to define every facet of our social, economic and cultural lives and at what cost, shaping who we think we are and who we want to be.

少了足球，世界史就不完整！ 世界盃是史上最多人觀看的活動，是唯一真正由國際大眾共同參與的時刻…… 生活在全球化的世界中，你怎麼能不懂足球！ 「有的人認為足球攸關生死，這種態度我聽了很失望，我可以告訴你，足球遠遠超越生死。」 ——比爾．香克利（Bill Shankly） 創立自己的球賽規則，是愛爾蘭和蘇格蘭能否脫離英格蘭掌控的指標 踢出自己的球風，象徵了南美洲、非洲國家的民族精神 一九五四年的世界盃冠軍，打造了西德的經濟奇蹟 奧斯曼帝國的末代蘇丹及後來的中國文化大革命，都下令禁止人民踢球 足球為什麼這麼重要？正史又為何總是忽略足球？ 足球是最全球化的文化活動，影響力跨越種族、性別、宗教、時區……，透過踢球、觀戰、組織團體和追蹤賽事等行動，人群界定了彼此的分際，建立了自我的認同。因此沒有哪一段歷史可以不談足球，也沒有哪一個足球活動從當代社會中抽離了以後，還能描述其發展過程及意義。 運動社會學學者大衛?哥德布拉特補足了這個世界史的缺口，闡述在歷史長河中，足球如何影響政治、經濟、社會和文化層面，如何一步步型塑現代社會的樣貌，以及在足總弊案頻傳、分離主義盛行的今天，足球的未來會如何，而我們的未來又該怎麼走？ 或許把世界置於足球的象徵之下，一如把自己攤在球賽的變化無常之前，願我們能有那樣的胸襟和智慧，把球穩穩控在腳下。 ★專文推薦 石明謹│資深足球球評、詩人、社會觀察家 ★ 熱血推薦 宋世祥│【百工裡的人類學家】創辦人 蔣竹山│東華大學歷史學系副教授 魏寶生│凱基銀行董事長 ★各界讚譽 「足球之所以有其魅力，是因為勝負有著高度的不確定性，但是同時擁有公平、普及的精神，對足球的熱愛，是人類對於混沌中秩序的追求。翻開這本《足球是圓的》，你會發現它帶給你的不只是足球的歷史軌跡，更是人類的社會學、經濟學、理則學——看懂了足球，我們也就看懂世界、看懂了人生。」 ——石明謹│資深足球球評、詩人、社會觀察家 「足球早已不單是一項運動，更是全球通行的語言。這本《足球是圓的》帶我們回顧足球的歷史，以及歷史上足球運動發展的重要階段和社會脈絡。這本書讓足球迷們不只欣賞球場上的球技，更帶我們看到背後在時間長河中積累起來文化與情感，真正走入足球的『世界』。」 ——宋世祥│【百工裡的人類學家】創辦人 「哥德布拉特不只是當今最優秀的足球歷史學家，可能是史上最傑出的一位。」 ——《週日泰晤士報》（Sunday Times） 「足球用驚人的能力征服了全世界，這是貨真價實的歷史。」 ——《獨立報》（Independent） 「這絕對是個全球化的現象，卻一直無人能有辦法把它寫下來。如今哥德布拉特做到了！這本卓越的書成為衡量這類研究的唯一指標。」 ——《衛報》（Guardian） 「哥德布拉特用幽默又熱情的筆觸寫下這本重磅鉅作，整本書中貫穿著各場重要的賽事紀錄……這本書無疑成就非凡。」 ——《泰晤士報文學增刊》（Times Literary Supplement） 「這本近千頁的大作，雄心萬丈地想讓人印象深刻。所有喜歡足球的人都會愛上這本書——只是小心不要砸到腳了！」 ——《每日電信報》（The Daily Telegraph） 「充滿智性的書，輕鬆好讀又發人深省。」 ——《今日歷史》（History Today） 「無可挑剔的學術研究，令人印象深刻，裡頭包含了所有我們需要了解的足球故事，告訴我們這個十九世紀英格蘭公學校的遊戲，如何成為今日全球性的產業。」 ——《週日獨立報》（Independent on Sunday）? 出版社 商周出版 (城邦)?

Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz. It covers such diverse topics as minstrelsy, bebop, Voodoo, social and tap dancing, parades, phonography, musical forgeries, and jazz singing, as well as Goodman’s allographic/autographic distinction, Adorno’s critique of popular music, and what improvisation is and is not. The book is organized into three parts. Drawing on innovative strategies adopted to address challenges that arise for the project of defining art, Part I shows how historical definitions of art provide a blueprint for a historical definition of jazz. Part II extends the book’s commitment to social-historical contextualism by exploring distinctive ways that jazz has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. It uses the lens of jazz vocals to provide perspective on racial issues previously unaddressed in the work. It then examines the broader premise that jazz was a socially progressive force in American popular culture. Part III concentrates on a topic that has entered into the arguments of each of the previous chapters: what is jazz improvisation? It outlines a pluralistic framework in which distinctive performance intentions distinguish distinctive kinds of jazz improvisation. This book is a comprehensive and valuable resource for any reader interested in the intersections between jazz and philosophy.

"Die Olympischen Spiele sind das größte Spektakel der Welt. David Goldblatt erzählt ihre Geschichte von den antiken Vorläufern bis zu den Massenevents von heute. Er zeigt, wie die Zahl der Teilnehmer und Disziplinen immer weiter gewachsen ist. Er beleuchtet, wie die Spiele politisch instrumentalisiert wurden. Und er berichtet von den ersten Fernsehübertragungen, der zunehmenden Kommerzialisierung, Dopingproblemen und Bestechungsskandalen. Dabei vergisst Goldblatt nie den eigentlichen Gegenstand der Spiele: den Sport und seine herausragenden Athleten. ""Eines der besten Sportbücher, das je geschrieben wurde."" (Kirkus) ""Eine exzellente, flotte, anekdotenreiche Geschichte der Spiele der Neuzeit."" (The Times) ""Goldblatt ist wohl der führende englischsprachige Sporthistoriker. Dieses Buch ist erhellend, wohlunterrichtet, unvoreingenommen, schön zu lesen, temporeich erzählt und stellt die Spiele in ihren gesellschaftlichen und politischen Kontext."" (Financial Times) ""Eine lebhafte Geschichte der Spiele, die ihnen den Nimbus nimmt, geschrieben mit der Intelligenz und dem sozialen Verständnis, wie man sie von Goldblatt kennt, mit einem hervorragenden Auge für die entlarvenden Details."" (Guardian) ""Ein ambitioniertes Buch, das auch abschrecken könnte, aber Goldblatt ist ein kompetenter Führer. Sein Buch zeichnet das Verständnis und die Reichweite aus, wie man sie von seiner heldenhaften Geschichte des Fußballs The Ball Is Round kennt."" (Observer) ""Eine elegante und anspruchsvolle neue Studie."" (The Economist) ""Eine Hochgeschwindigkeitsrodelfahrt durch die Geschichte."" (New Statesman) ''Goldblatts detailreiche Recherche der politischen und finanziellen Betrügereien der heutigen olympischen Spiele ist beeindruckend. Seine Analyse ist faszinierend zu lesen."" (Wall Street Journal)"

As with previous editions, the new Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts uses classic and contemporary readings of leading philosophers of the arts. This Third Edition includes more than a dozen new essays either written or adapted especially for this volume. Containing more than 90 essays in total, the new edition offers generous choices for class readings, thus minimizing supplementary material needed for required assignments and independent research. In keeping with earlier editions, the Third Edition is a large collection of essays, most comparatively brief and organized first by groupings of art forms and then by general essays about the arts. It attempts to keep pace with theorizing about those art forms not traditionally covered in most books on aesthetics, like the jazz, rock, comics, video games, and even the aesthetics of junkyards. There is, then, an emphasis on the popular and mass arts and everyday aesthetics, as well as on time-honored problems in philosophy of the arts. This edition, which contains contributions by both analytic and continental philosophers, expands upon offerings in non-Western art and aesthetics. Finally, although intended to keep pace with topics and issues currently debated, instructors and students will find, in a special section, key classic texts.

“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.

Avventure mozzafiato che ti catapulteranno per magia in un mondo lontano Rivivi la storia in prima persona Diciotto incredibili viaggi nel passato, diciotto avventure mozzafiato che ti catapulteranno come per magia in un mondo lontano nel tempo e nello spazio: ecco la promessa degli autori Wyllie, Acton e Goldblatt. Grazie alle informazioni e alle tante curiosità raccolte nel volume, potrai vedere con i tuoi occhi l’eruzione del Vesuvio a Pompei, visitare la mitica Xanadu di Kublai Khan insieme a Marco Polo, veleggiare con il capitano Cook verso Tahiti e l’Australia, marciare con le donne di Parigi durante la Rivoluzione francese. E ancora, arrivando a epoche più recenti, accompagnare i Beatles nella loro tournée di Amburgo, o magari assistere alla caduta del Muro di Berlino... Dimentica i musei, dimentica i libri di storia: è questo il modo giusto per conoscere il passato... riviverlo in prima persona! «Le ricerche sono incredibilmente accurate... Una lettura divertente e educativa.» Press Association - L’eruzione del Vesuvio: 23-25 agosto 79 d.C. - L’esecuzione di Carlo I: 30 gennaio 1649 - La serata d’apertura al Globe di Shakespeare: 11-12 giugno 1599 - La Grande Esposizione: 1 maggio - 11 ottobre 1851 - L’assassinio dell’arciduca Ferdinando: 28 giugno 1914 - La nascita del Bebop: 15-16 febbraio 1942 - Il giorno della vittoria in Europa: 7-8 maggio 1945 - Woodstock: 15-18 agosto 1969 - Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman: 30 ottobre 1974 e molti altri viaggi... David Goldblatt Ha firmato due tra i libri più autorevoli sulla storia del calcio mondiale, The Ball is Round e The Game of Our Lives. Si occupa di sport per il «Guardian» e per BBC radio. Johnny Acton è autore di diversi libri sugli argomenti più vari. È coautore, con David Goldblatt, di How to Watch the Olympics. James Wyllie è uno scrittore e sceneggiatore, il suo ultimo libro è The Codebreakers, la storia del gruppo di spionaggio che ha cambiato il corso della prima guerra mondiale.

Not many of us can claim to have dipped our handkerchiefs in Charles I's blood after his execution, or to have watched Vesuvius erupt, but that's about to change... Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt's Time Travel Handbook offers eighteen exceptional trips to the past, transporting you back to the greatest spectacles in history. We offer the chance to join Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and to march on Versailles with the revolutionary women of Paris. You can sail with Captain Cook to Tahiti and Australia, and spend time at Xanadu with Marco Polo and Kubla Khan. Or, closer to the present, you might accompany Charlie Parker at the birth of bebop or The Beatles in Hamburg, and take part in the VE Day celebrations in London or the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The notable authors and time travel agents, Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt are your guide to these and other unmissable events, charting the action as it will unfold, and advising on local customs, and what to wear, eat and drink, for the most authentic of experiences. Forget museums, forget history books - the only way to do history is to live it.

WINNER of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015 In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and now calamitous bust. A must-read for the thinking football fan, The Game of Our Lives will appeal to readers of Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby and Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson. It will also be relished by readers of British social history such as Austerity Britain by David Kynaston. 'Brilliantly incisive. Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been. Goldblatt's book could hardly be more impressive' Sunday Times

No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic. Futebol Nation is an extraordinary chronicle of a nation that has won the World Cup five times and produced players of miraculous skill, such as Pel', Garrincha, Rivaldo, Zico, Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho. It shows why the phrase O Jogo Bonito -- the Beautiful Game -- has justly entered the global lexicon. Yet there is another side to Brazil and its game, one that reflects the harsh sociological realities of the "futebol nation." David Goldblatt explores the grinding poverty that creates a vast pool of hungry players, Brazil's corrupt institutions exemplified by its soccer authorities, and the pervasive violence that has seeped onto the field and into the stands. Futebol Nation illuminates both Brazilian soccer and Brazil itself; its brilliance, its magic, its style, and the fabulous myths that have been constructed around it; as well as its tragedies, its miseries, and its economic and political injustices. It is the story of Brazil told through its chosen national game.

This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork and audience as a conveyance to the audience of the performer's intentions, emotions and beliefs through a created performative persona. Considering key works, including those of Nietzsche, Foucault, Socrates, Derrida, Cavell and Wittgenstein, Goldblatt examines how the authors use the framework of ventriloquism to construct and negate issues in art and architecture. He ponders 'self-plagiarism'; why the classic philosopher cannot speak for himself, but must voice his thoughts through fictional characters or inanimate objects and works. With a close analysis of two ventriloquist paintings by Jasper Johns and Paul Klee, a critical commentary by Garry L. Hagberg, and preface by series editor Saul Ostrow, Goldblatt's thoroughly fascinating book will be an invaluable asset to students of cultural studies, art, and philosophy.

Following a series of portraits of his compatriots made at the beginning of the 1970s, photographer David Goldblatt, for a very short and intense period of time, naturally turned to focusing on peoples'' particulars and individual body languages "as affirmations or embodiments of their selves." Goldblatt''s affinity was no accident: Working at his father''s men''s outfitting store in the 1950s, his awareness of posture, gesture and proportion-technical as it was-formed early and would accompany him throughout his life. In this series we see hands resting on laps, crossed legs, the curved backs of sleepers on a lawn at midday, their fingers and feet relaxed, pausing from their usual occupations. This deeply contemplative work is framed by Ingrid de Kok''s poetry. The photographs in Particulars were taken beginning in 1975, and the first edition of the book was published by Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, in 2003. Goldblatt has revised Particulars for this new Steidl edition.

This book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental degradation and environmental politics.

''For the first time in one volume, the complete sequence of Bosman''s "In die Voorkamer" sketches. Published to a weekly deadline over 1950 - 51 as hilarious satires of the issues of the day ... These deft conversation pieces, set in Jurie Steyn''s backveld Marico post office, raise the art of idle talk to a level unequalled in South African humour.''--Back cover.

Billy Monk worked as a bouncer in the notorious Catacombs club in the dock area of Cape Town, South Africa, during the 1960s. He originally began taking pictures in the club with the intention of selling the photos to his customers - the people he was photographing. But this scheme turned into something far more vital as he captured the raw energy of the club, its decadence, humanity and joy. These are powerful, poignant photos from a cult photographer whose work has never previously been published.

『헬로 풋볼』은 축구의 역사에서부터 경기 방법, 전략, 기술, 전 세계 클럽 및 대회까지, 축구의 모든 것을 담은 ‘축구 백과사전’이다. 지역 방어와 개인 방어에 대한 비교 분석을 시작으로 유럽의 축구장에서 울려 퍼지는 노래, 베컴처럼 공을 차는 방법, 마다가스카르 리그에서 149-0의 경기가 나올 수 있었던 이유까지 축구와 관련된 다양한 내용들을 빠짐없이 다루었다. 그림 백과사전이라는 이름에 걸맞게 일러스트레이션 중심의 디자인으로 화려한 볼거리를 제공하는 것 또한 특징이다.

Offers an introduction to the economy, and explains such topics as division of labor, currencies and exchange rates, inflation, and unemployment.

This is a luxurious box containing two books, a large book on Johannesburg,TJ, with astonishing pictures by David Goldblatt, and a smaller second book,Double Negative, with a novel by Ivan Vladislavic. This collection is an exceptional duo-edition in a special format--part fiction and part photo-essay. The book is about Johannesburg and about life in the city, home, habit, change, memory, mortality, friendship, ghosts, gardens, walking, falling, selling, and stealing. It is a partial account of both authors'' lives in their neighborhoods; it is a selective self-portrait. David Goldblatt is the recipient of Henri Cartier-Bresson Award 2009 for this work. Ivan Vladislavic is one of the most talented authors of South Africa.

Découvrez le fonctionnement de l'économie mondiale. Quels sont ses grands principes ? Qui sont ses principaux acteurs ? Pourquoi y a-t-il des crises ? Qu'est-ce que la déflation ? A quoi servent les impôts ? Voici l'essentiel à connaître pour comprendre les crises ou les booms ainsi que les mécanismes du crédit et de la mondialisation.