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El idiota gastronómicoY el arte comersar
A nadie gusta que le llamen idiota. Sin embargo, lo que el sociólogo Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz defiende aquí es que, una vez cocinado convenientemente el término, solo desde ese tipo de subjetividad y desde su capacidad de abismarse ante lo que ve, tiene la gastronomía la posibilidad de estar a la altura del complejo mundo que habita y de los retos que debe enfrentar en el futuro. Este …
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Art and Globalization
The "biennale culture" now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, political economy, sociology, and anthropology. Art and Globalization brings political and cult…
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James Hall on the Self-Portrait
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
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Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook
Joanne Stuttgen's popular book Cafe Wisconsin guides travelers to Wisconsin's best home-style cafes. Now, continue the journey with the Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook, a compilation of more than one hundred cherished recipes that showcase the distinct culinary and cultural traditions of Wisconsin. From classic pot roasts and country-style pies to long-simmering soups and herit…
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As Linhas Contam Histórias
O presente trabalho traz como foco de investigação a linguagem do desenho, mais especificamente o uso da técnica das hachuras no processo de criação de ilustrações autorais. Neste sentido, antes de iniciarmos um estudo mais aprofundado sobre a técnica da hachura, é preciso trazer à tona os meios em que a técnica se encontra, ou seja, as linguagens visuais nas quais é utilizada.Texto…
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The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting
The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of René Brimo's classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Originally published in French in 1938, Brimo's foundational text is a detailed examination of collecting in America from colonial times to the end of World War I, when American collectors came to domi…
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A Wise ExtravaganceThe Founding of the Carnegie International Exhibitions, 18…
Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and a major American philanthropist, sought to bring world-class art and culture to Pittsburgh. This book looks at how the Carnegie International exhibit came into being in 1895, the early exhibitions, the art, artists, and the public reception to it.
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Traces of a Jewish ArtistThe Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biogra…
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Traces of a Jewish ArtistThe Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biogra…
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Color in the Age of ImpressionismCommerce, Technology, and Art
This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of a…
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