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Gendered Aesthetics of BlacknessAfro-Cuban Women's Visual Art and Activism
Explores how Afro-Cuban women's visual art challenges dominant narratives of race, gender, and identity. Gendered Aesthetics of Blackness delves deeply into the visual artistry and activism of Afro-Cuban women in Cuba and the United States. Influential in their communities yet overlooked in the mainstream art world and academic discourse, Harmonia Rosales, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Belkis …
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Surrealism and AnimationTransnational Connections, 1920-Present
From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences between the art of animation and the International Surrealist Movement. Sharing a deep commitment to a reanimation of everyday life, surrealist artists and animators sought a marvellous, living form …
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Paintbrush for HireThe Travels of James and Emma Cameron, 1840–1900
“I was pulled into the story and read every word.” –Randolph Delehanty, author ofArt in the American South: Works from the Odgen Collection Throughout the nineteenth-century, itinerant painters traveled the length and breadth of Europe and American in search of patronage. In the company of the his crupulous wife, Emma S. Cameron (1825–1907), the Scots-born James Cameron…
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TRUE GRIT - MEAN BUSINESS
Five U.S. Marshals and a wagon-load of prisoners...A boy appears, with news of a bloody double-murder...Two of the marshals ride out to investigate...TRUE GRIT: MEAN BUSINESS is a free 24-page comic adapted from the novel TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis, now a major motion picture by the Coen Brothers.Inspired by the dime novels that first brought fame to the heroes and villains of the old American…
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Taproots of TennesseeHistoric Sites and Timeless Recipes
What was served at President James K. Polk’s White House dinners? What foods graced the table of John Sevier, Tennessee’s First Governor? InTaproots of Tennessee,Lynne Drysdale Patterson answers these questions and more, exploring nearly two centuries of Tennessee foodways. Readers will discover that Tennessee taste encompasses the exquisite, such as President Polk’s French-in…
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Fantastic Four For Dummies
Discover Marvel's Founding Family! Before the Avengers, the X-Men, or the Defenders, there was the Fantastic Four. This team of super heroes made their name through their dynamic origin, forced together by circumstance but bonded forever as family. Fantastic Four For Dummies introduces you to Marvel's First Family and the major villains that they've encountered, including the infamous Doctor D…
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On Barbecue
John Shelton Reed is one of today’s most knowledgeable authors on the subject of barbecue.Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue, written with his wife, Dale Volberg Reed, won the National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence in 2017 and was a finalist for the 2009 International Associate of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award. In this collection,On Barbecue, Reed compi…
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Museo contemporaneo
L'evoluzione dei musei, da quelli settecenteschi che celebrano il potere e conservano i patrimoni storici, artistici e archeologici, a quelli del XIX secolo (come il British Museum e il Louvre), nati per educare il pubblico e celebrare i progressi, riflette i cambiamenti sociali e politici nel tempo. Nei secoli successivi, i musei americani, come il Metropolitan, si sono distinti per la loro mi…
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Southern Appalachian Farm CookingA Memoir of Food and Family
"In Southern Appalachian Farm Cooking, a sixth-generation highlander writes from the heart and captures not only the food and culture of southern Appalachia but also the strength and leadership of highly acclaimed women. With its country biscuits, pear butter, and leather britches, Appalachia enjoys an amazing food tradition that is distinct from that of the wider South.” —Mark…
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Like the SeaDancing with Mary Glass
An exploration of the mythical Mary Glass—her art, her life, and her times Mary Glass (1946–2021) was an innovative modern dancer and choreographer, quietly instrumental to the San Francisco Bay Area art scene of the 1960s and '70s—barely known today—admired for her experimental movements based on sounds and images of the Pacific.As a child, Mary Glass took her first dance class with An…
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