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Live from the Mississippi Delta
Live from the Mississippi Delta showcases a rare collection of photographs and stories about musicians from Robert Plant, B. B. King, and ZZ Top to local guitarists playing gigs on the weekend. Panny Flautt Mayfield, a lifelong Delta resident from Tutwiler and an award-winning journalist, documents multiple decades of blues and gospel music in her native land. Her first book collects over two h…
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- 9781496813756
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Artificial HellsParticipatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
The award-winning, highly acclaimed Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." In recent decades, the art gallery and the museum have become a place for participatory art, where an audience is encouraged to take part in the artwork. This has been heralded as a revolutionary practise that can prom…
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- 9781781683972
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New York Life at the Turn of the Century in Photographs
Here are 120 wonderful vintage views from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Remarkable for clarity, definition and detail, the prints comprise a richly evocative portrait of turn-of-the-century life street scenes, parks, restaurants, commercial interiors, Easter Parade, Blizzard of '99, Coney Island, a dinner for Mark Twain, etc. Informative text.
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- 9780486319407
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Wolf TracksPopular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
How did a country whose past is intertwined with African slavery ignore its cultural legacies through much of history? And how did Blackness recently break through this amnesia so that nearly a third of Panamanians now self-identify as Afro-descendants? Wolf Tracks explores these and other related questions through the lens of Panamanian street culture. Popular art is a masculine and working-c…
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- 9781626744592
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SupercommunityDiabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art
"I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software." Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on-sit…
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The Male and Female Figure in Motion60 Classic Photographic Sequences
Now artists, illustrators, photographers, and scientists can have Eadweard Muybridge's rare, unparalleled true action photographs in an inexpensive paperbound edition. Sixty classic photographic sequences of the male and female figure in motion, selected from the monumental original collection of 781, have been painstakingly reproduced on fine coated stock. Taken at speeds ranging up to 1/6000t…
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- 9780486319346
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Rolland GoldenLife, Love, and Art in the French Quarter
In the early twentieth century, the French Quarter had become home to a vibrant community of working artists attracted to the atmosphere, architecture, and colorful individuals who populated the scene (and who also became some of its first preservationists). Louisiana native Rolland Golden was one of these artists to live, work, and raise a family in this most storied corner of New Orleans. Wit…
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- 9781626743816
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Fanny KembleA Performed Life
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and …
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Leonardo on the Human Body
"It is a miracle that any one man should have observed, read, and written down so much in a single lifetime." Kenneth Clark Painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, architect, engineer, inventor . . . perhaps no other figure so fully embodies the Western Ideal of "Renaissance man" as Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was not content, however, to master an artistic technique or record the mechanics of…
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The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised EditionA Century of Japanese Animation
"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive— The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work." —Neil Gaiman With over 10, 000 entries nothing comes close... from classics to hidden gems, all the anime you love is finally at your fingertips. This 3rd edition of The Anime Encyclopedia brings the landmark reference work up to date with six additional years of information on…
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- 9781611729092
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