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Imagined MuseumsArt and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco
Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when museum monuments start to crumble. In an analysis of museum history, exhibition policy, the lack of national museum space for mo…
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A Capsule AestheticFeminist Materialisms in New Media Art
How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Piccinini, and Mariko Mori—contribute to the urgent conversation about…
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SchizogenesisThe Art of Rosemarie Trockel
A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity Popular and pioneering as a conceptual artist, Rosemarie Trockel has never before been examined at length in a dedicated book. This volume fills that gap while articulating a new interpretation of feminist theory and bodily identity based around the idea of schizogenesis cen…
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Maguey JourneyDiscovering Textiles in Guatemala
The name "maguey" refers to various forms of the agave and furcraea genus, also sometimes called the century plant. The fibers extracted from the leaves of these plants are spun into fine cordage and worked with a variety of tools and techniques to create textiles, from net bags and hammocks to equestrian gear. In this fascinating book, Kathryn Rousso, an accomplished textile artist, takes a d…
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Contract With The SkinMasochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s
Having yourself shot. Putting out fires with your bare hands and feet. Biting your own body and photographing the marks. Sewing your own mouth shut. These seemingly aberrant acts were committed by performance artists during the 1970s. Why would anyone do these things? What do these kinds of masochistic performances tell us about the social and historical context in which they occurred? Fascinat…
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Das Altarwerk der Stadtkirche St. Reinoldi in DortmundChristliche Kunst als k…
Das Altarwerk in der Stadtkirche St. Reinoldi wurde um 1415 aus der seinerzeit bedeutenden Kunstmetropole Brügge im Kontext des Luxusgüter-Transfers der Hanse importiert. Es schmückt seither die städtische Hauptkirche in Dortmund. Das Retabel zählt zu den bedeutendsten Kunstwerken, die vom Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts im nördlichen Europa überliefert sind: Die außerordentliche Qualität …
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Zwischen Pixel und Pigment: Malerei in der postdigitalen GegenwartBetween Pix…
Was ist mit »postdigital« gemeint? Der Begriff beschreibt nicht etwa das Ende des Digitalen, sondern vielmehr dessen Allgegenwart im Alltag, in gesellschaftlichen Strukturen, Arbeitsbedingungen und selbstverständlich auch in der Kunst. Künstler: innen wie Avery Singer, Corinne Wasmuht, Laura Owens, Seth Price und Rafaël Rozendaal nutzen digitalisiertes Bildmaterial, Drucker, Grafiksoftware…
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Adjusted MarginXerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by making it convenient an…
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Plants and Flowers of MaineKate Furbish's Watercolors, 2 vol set
Celebrating the life and work of botanist Kate Furbish, Rowman and Littlefield is pleased to partner with the Bowdoin College Library to publish the first ever catalog of Furbish's artwork. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a field dominated by her male counterparts, Kate Furbish made a name for herself traveling the length and breadth of Maine, collecting, classifying, …
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Cooking Alone
Supper for one? Whether you're a career girl, bedsitter or bachelor, this vintage 1950s cookery gem introduced by Bee Wilson is ' wonderful ... funny and full of charm' (India Knight) including 'lots of ideas worth nicking' (Rachel Cooke) The Career Woman (who buys a chicken as a treat) The Bedsitter (who experiments with newfangled gadgets) The Old Lady (who feeds her menagerie of pets) The S…
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