Quench your thirst for zero-proof drinks Non-Alcoholic Drinks For Dummies is full of recipes for non-alcoholic libations. With over 300 recipes for the home mixologist, this book is a great place to start learning how to make and serve tasty and satisfying alcohol-free drinks. You'll learn the history of non-alcoholic drinks, great zero-proof brands to try, and important tools and ingredients…
A beautifully illustrated history of one of the most important cultural categories in Japan The Japanese term meibutsu refers to things of the highest cultural value, evolving over time to encompass both craft and fine art, high and low culture, and manufactured and natural items. Material goods designated as meibutsu range from precious art objects to regional products like bamboo baskets and…
In The Human in Bits, Kris Cohen examines black abstractionist painting to demonstrate how race and computation are intimately entangled with the personal computer's graphic user interface. He shows how the personal computer and the graphical field of its screen meant to transform the human by transforming what environments humans were to labor in. It also provided the means for whiteness to ti…
S'il est un homme qui représente la renaissance avec plus d'éclat qu'aucun autre de ses contemporains, c'est Michel-Ange. Le caractère est chez lui à l'égal du génie. Sa vie, presque séculaire et prodigieusement active, est sans tache. Quant à l'artiste, on n'ose croire qu'il puisse être surpassé. Il réunit dans sa prodigieuse personnalité les deux facultés maîtresses qui sont en …
La biografía que revela los primeros pasos de Inge Feltrinelli, antes de ser una leyenda del mundo editorial. De niña, a Inge Schönthal la llaman Ingemaus, «ratoncita». Pero no hay nada diminuto en ella. Crece en la Alemania nazi, en un cuartel de Gotinga, después de que su padre se vea obligado a huir por ser judío. Comparte techo con su padrastro y con Trudel, su madre: terca, expl…
La giornata di studi "Etruschi del Novecento. Approfondimenti. La ricezione dell'arte etrusca nel Novecento", curata da Lucia Mannini, Anna Mazzanti, Giulio Paolucci e Alessandra Tiddia, rappresenta la terza tappa della proficua collaborazione tra la Fondazione Luigi Rovati di Milano e il Mart di Rovereto, dopo le due tappe della mostra "Etruschi del Novecento", aperta a dicembre 2024 al Mart e…
In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on Aimé Césaire's rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Caliban becomes the sole author of his own story, dissolving his fixed position as colonized in relation to Prospero as colonizer. James shows how visual …
Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant's work as a visual and literary editor allowed him to pioneer and develop the genré of picture-based journalism at a period that saw the emergence of modern mass communications. Lorant became a guiding force on an international scale, disseminating his ideas and political knowledge throughout Europe in the late-twenties and thirties by working in Hungary, Germany, …
An American Art Colony demonstrates the social dimension of American art in the twentieth century, paying special attention to the role of fellow artists, nonartists and the historical context of art production. This book treats the art colony not as a static addendum to an artist's profile but rather as an essential ingredient in artistic life. The art colony here becomes a historical entity t…
Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars traces the near-miraculous progress of modern art in France in the first half of the twentieth century. Before World War I, it was a marginal phenomenon, largely absent from the museums and bought and sold by a handful of second-string dealers; by the early 1950s it had been canonized as the representative form of the epoch. The triumph …