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Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine, but historically picnics came in many forms, served any time of the day. This first culinary history reveals rustic outdoor dining in its more f…
Las diversas implicaciones que tiene hoy el tema de la imagen, en sus sucesivas transformaciones de las posibilidades tecnológicas de producción, circulación y recepción, así como la riqueza y complejidad que adquieren los lenguajes y las técnicas artísticas, encuentran en la fotografía una particular y fecunda condición, que dinamiza problemas tanto de estética como de psicología de…
A Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of one of his former students, Bannard set down his thoughts in a short book, Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Bett…
Among Walter Anderson's best-loved books, An Alphabet and Robinson: The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat are much admired by children and parents, and have long been given as special gifts emblazoned with Anderson's unique art. In that vein and long in demand is this revived edition of Anderson 's Alice, which carries the renowned artist's visual translation of Lewis Carroll's classic story, …
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Die aktuellen Interventionen westlicher Mächte in Drittweltländern haben vieles gemeinsam mit den unzähligen Gewaltkonflikten an der Peripherie seit der Eroberung Amerikas im 16. Jahrhundert. Wie ihre Vorgänger sind die modernen Imperialkriege vor allem von den Gegebenheiten des Raums und der ausgeprägten Asymmetrie von Militärorganisation, Ressourcen, Kriegführungsstilen und Gewaltkultu…
The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater's text of 1893, with a record of all verbal variations in other editions, from the early magazine versions to the Library Edition of 1910. Mr. Hill pr…
The Katcina Altars in Hopi Worship is a non-fiction book written by Jesse Walter Fewkes. The book explores the religious practices and beliefs of the Hopi people, with a particular focus on their use of Katcina altars in their worship. The Hopi are a Native American tribe who live in the southwestern United States, primarily in the state of Arizona. The tribe has a rich and complex religious tr…
Not Your Mother's Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of…