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The OysterWhere, How and When to Find, Breed, Cook and Eat It
The Oyster: Where, How and When to Find, Breed, Cook and Eat It is a comprehensive and engaging guide dedicated to the fascinating world of oysters. Originally published in the 19th century, this book offers readers an in-depth exploration of oysters from multiple perspectives—natural history, practical harvesting, culinary preparation, and cultural significance. The author delves into the bi…
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Technics ImprovisedActivating Touch in Global Media Art
Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures In this challenging work, a leading authority on new media art examines that curatorial and aesthetic landscape to explore how art resists and rewires the political and economic structures that govern technology. How do inventive combinations of artistic and theoretical improvisation counter t…
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- 9781452967035
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- 1 online resource (262 pages)
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Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 191…
The harsh realities of wartime and Weimar-era Germany called for a new kind of art. Dada, followed by Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), confronted social and political issues in new and bold ways. This book highlights how Otto Dix (1891–1969) – one of the leading artists connected to these artistic movements – employed these new approaches to reveal the injustices of wartime and post-W…
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- 9781350354647
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Storied DishesWhat Our Family Recipes Tell Us About Who We Are and Where We'v…
We are what we eat—not just physiologically, but culturally. This collection of cross-cultural, generational essays, and accompanying recipes shows the profound importance of food dishes within American women's lives. For people of every ethnicity, food provides much more than mere fuel for the body—it contains an invisible component that ties families and generations together with the cont…
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We Make Each Other BeautifulArt, Activism, and the Law
We Make Each Other Beautiful focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a part of their art practice. Defined by public protest, rule-breaking, rebellion, and resistance to governmental and institutional abuse, direct-action "artivism" draws on the aims, radical spirit, and tactics of the civil rights and feminist movemen…
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- 9781501775611
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Confessions of a CuratorAdventures in Canadian Art
In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country's most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise of our national are in institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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- 9781459722378
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Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century
Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing centuries in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period from 1900 to the present. Murray shows how, beginning with Tonalism at the start of the century, new directions in art emerged - starting with our early Modernists, among them Tom Thomson and the Group…
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Tom ThomsonDesign for a Canadian Hero
This is an intimate biography of an artist who became a legend after his death, but who in his private life stands revealed as a troubled man who was, in many ways, his own victim. Joan Murray's new biography is part detective work, too: she investigates his beliefs, and the origins of his great masterpieces, and provides a convincing description of the possible circumstances of his death. …
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Swampoodle LilyThe Jesuit Church of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. Reflections on So…
A boutique book on St. Aloysius Church renovation, with history, commentary, verse, archival materials, original photographs and fine illustrations. The renaissance of an historical DC landmark.
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Mapplethorpe and the FlowerRadical Sexuality and the Limits of Control
Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of …
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