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Whisky and ScotlandA Spiritual Journey from Glen to Glass
'One of the most important Scottish writers of the twentieth century' TLS A beautiful celebration of Scottish malt whisky and the illustrious lands that produce it A classic since its original publication in 1935, Whisky and Scotland will enlighten and entertain all who delight in the amber spirit that evokes 'the world of hills and glens, of raging elements, of shelter, of divine ease'. Whis…
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The Nazi PerpetratorPostwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question looms over German disputes about the past like few others. It also looms over the art and architecture of postwar Germany in ways that have been surprisingly neglected. In The Nazi Perpetrator, Paul B. Jaskot fundamentally reevaluates pivotal develo…
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Obras CompletasLos Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanálisis y la Mente Humana
Las Obras Completas de Sigmund Freud reúnen los textos que dieron origen al psicoanálisis y transformaron para siempre la comprensión de la mente humana. En estos escritos, Freud explora el inconsciente, los sueños, la sexualidad, los mecanismos de defensa y la psicopatología. Influyentes y polémicos, sus trabajos han impactado profundamente la psicología, la filosofía, el arte y la cul…
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Praktisches Kochbuch
Bei welchem Wetter pflücke ich am besten Äpfel? Wie werden Eier besonders lange haltbar? Worin unterscheidet sich Fluss- von Seefisch? Dieses illustrierte Kochbuch ist Ratgeber und Rezeptsammlung zugleich. In 1500 Rezepten führt uns Henriette Davidis, die wohl berühmteste deutsche Kochbuchautorin, zu den Ursprüngen der deutschen Küche. Neben Tipps zur Konservierung über Rezepte für Sauc…
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Place-KeepersLatina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities
An in-depth look at how Latina/x artists transform art into activism and reclaim space in the Twin Cities In Place-Keepers, Jessica Lopez Lyman examines how Latina/x artists in the Twin Cities navigate and challenge the region’s deep-seated racial injustices. Using “Inter-Latina movidas”—subtle yet strategic actions through which Latina/x artists forge solidarities, mob…
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The Persistence of MasksSurrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject
An examination of surrealism’s unofficial ethnography of marginalized subjectivities In interwar Paris, the encounter between surrealism and the nascent discipline of ethnology led to an intellectual project now known as “ethnographic surrealism.” In The Persistence of Masks, Joyce Suechun Cheng considers the ethnographic dimension of the surrealist movement in its formative…
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Fantasies of PrecisionAmerican Modern Art, 1908-1947
Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism In the early decades of the twentieth century, a loose contingent of artists working in and around New York City gave rise to the aesthetic movement known as precisionism, primarily remembered for its exacting depictions of skyscrapers, factories, machine parts, and other symbols of a burgeoning modernity. Although often re…
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TsuchiEarthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art
An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history Collectively referred to by the word tsuchi, earthy materials such as soil and clay are prolific in Japanese contemporary art. Highlighting works of photography, ceramics, and installation art, Bert Winther-Tamaki explores the many aesthetic manifestations of tsuchi and their connection to th…
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In Visible ArchivesQueer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s
Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars. In Visible Archives document…
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Art and PosthumanismEssays, Encounters, Conversations
A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the question of “life” that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolf…
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