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Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century
In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography's vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development of a cheaper and more reliable postal service, the rise of the mass-circulation press, and the emergence of the railway dramatically changed …
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Biennial BoomMaking Contemporary Art Global
In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that prompted these exhibitions to become the global art world's defining events at the end of the twentieth century. Returning to the early post-Cold War years, Checa-Gismero examines the early iterations of three well-known biennials at the borders of North Atlantic liberalism: t…
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Out of BoundsExploring the Limits of Medieval Art
Where are the limits of medieval art as a field of study? What happens when conventionally trained art historians disregard the chronological, geographical, or cultural parameters that both direct and protect their scholarship? Beginning with Thelma K. Thomas and Alicia Walker's acute assessment of the need for a "medieval art history for now," the essays in Out of Bounds ask what happens when …
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Wie rationale Maschinen romantisch wurdenKI, Kreativität und algorithmische …
Ausgehend von Daniel Kehlmanns Reise ins Silicon Valley und seinem Versuch, mithilfe einer KI eine Erzählung zu schreiben, zeigt Philipp Schönthaler, wie die Romantik als kulturelles Deutungsschema selbst dort noch ihre Wirkmacht entfaltet, wo die Technik am fortschrittlichsten erscheinen will: in Visionen einer Singularität und Superintelligenz. Standen noch in den Sechzigerjahren der in di…
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Hot Date!Sweet & Savory Recipes Celebrating the Date, from Party Food to Ever…
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by Real Simple, The New Yorker, Serious Eats, and Publishers Weekly "This bright and lively tome is not only the best-looking cookbook of the year—it's very cookable, packed with playful recipes featuring this humble Middle Eastern fruit."—Slate "The beautiful book—rich with photos, Alkhatib's own water-color illustrations, and her handw…
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A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects
Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship. Black artisans have long been central to American art and design, creating innovative and highly desired work against immense odds. Atlanta-based chairmaker and scholar Robell Awake explores the stories behind ten cornerstones of B…
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Requiem for a nationReligion and Politics in Post War Italian Cinema
The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of post-war Italy's cultural history, starting from the assumption that conducting a critical reflection on Italian postwar visual culture requires investigating the inevitable impact of Catholic religion on everyday life in its social, political and…
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La verità dipende da una passeggiata intorno al lagoLe Corbusier e la capann…
Il cabanon di Le Corbusier è una piccola costruzione di legno in cima a una roccia battuta dalle onde. È qui, nella Provenza, che Le Corbusier trova rifugio per trascorrere le vacanze, ma anche per lavorare in stretto contatto con la natura. In un giorno d'estate, la magia del luogo, trasfigurato dalla fantasia, diventa teatro di una lunga passeggiata nel corso della quale si compie l'incontr…
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Selected Writings on Visual Arts and CultureDetour to the Imaginary
Stuart Hall's work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together Hall's work on the visual, this volume assembles two dozen of Hall's essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography. Providing rare insights into…
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Self Help Graphics at FiftyA Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artm…
The definitive historyof a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building. Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States. Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help G…
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