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Brave New Avant GardeEssays on Contemporary Art and Politics
Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to postmodern post-politics and the view that radical practice has no ot…
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FOODICTION. Sus 100 mejores recetasIdeas fáciles de recordar
¡COCINAR RICO Y SIN COMPLICACIONES ES POSIBLE! Vivimos una evolución rápida, muy rápida. Llegaron a nuestras vidas productos fáciles que nos mejoraban notablemente la vida, electrodomésticos, tuppers, aditivos, comida precocinada, alimentos envasados, etc. y disfrutamos mucho de ellas, sin querer ver que nos destruían poco a poco, podríamos ganar tiempo, pero también ganamos en enf…
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The Rickenbacker Electric Bass50 Years as Rock's Bottom
With the introduction of the two-pickup 4001 model in 1961, the Rickenbacker bass became a phenomenon. The Beatles's use of Rickenbacker instruments was pivotal: teen groups everywhere wanted to have the same instruments the Beatles used so they could achieve the "right" sound. With its ultra-modern design that made the classic Fender precision bass look downright old-fashioned, the Rick quickl…
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Claude CahunThe Soldier with No Name
Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the Paris avant-garde, lived through two World Wars and, as "Der Soldat ohne Namen", risked death by inciting mutiny on Nazi-occupied Jersey. And yet, she's until recently been merely a peripheral figure…
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El proyecto PicassoAcróbatas, pantallas, autorretratos
Sentado ante la pantalla translúcida de Clouzot en "Le mystère Picasso" de 1955, Picasso pinta. Pinta y borra. Corrige y las formas se van metamorfoseando. Entonces es un gran maestro, rico y aclamado por todos, como siempre deseó ser. Pese a todo, a pesar del éxito y del cuidado a la hora de diseñar su propia imagen en el "proyecto Picasso", una duda última surge frente a este hombre ya …
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Pigs, Pork, and Heartland HogsFrom Wild Boar to Baconfest
Among the first creatures to help humans attain the goal of having enough to eat was the pig, which provided not simply enough, but general abundance. Domesticated early and easily, herds grew at astonishing rates (only rabbits are more prolific). Then, as people spread around the globe, pigs and traditions went with them, with pigs making themselves at home wherever explorers or settlers carri…
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Now and ForeverTowards a Theory and History of the Loop
Elvis Presley and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Beatles and Andy Warhol. Terry Riley and Ken Kesey. What all these artists have in common is that loops have played a significant role in their work. The short sequences of sounds or images repeated using recording media have proved to be an astonishingly flexible, versatile and momentous aesthetic method in post-World War II art and music. Today, lo…
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Aquí comemos todos100 recetas fáciles para toda la familia
¿Te aburre cenar siempre lo mismo? ¿A tus hijos les cuesta comer fruta y verdura? ¿Te tiras de los pelos cada día, porque ya no sabes qué cocinar? Con este libro, quiero que aprendas de forma fácil, saludable y sencilla, a tener elaboraciones listas para las cenas de diario, para los desayunos y meriendas para llevar, y esos momentos especiales que a todos nos gusta celebrar. 100 recetas,…
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Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe
Art meets today's political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe's retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the creative gaze of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized make…
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After the Great RefusalEssays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Dif…
A Western Marxist reading of contemporary art, focusing on the question of the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressive impulse. Taking art’s ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussens new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary ar…
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