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Counter PrintThe alternative art press in Britain after 1970
The history of contemporary art is also a history of its newsletters, manifestos, magazines, pamphlets, and journals. Those periodical publications do not simply communicate or record ideas but have worked in exciting ways to shape art's practices, histories and communities. As a new generation of artists, activists and scholars seek to uncover the histories of alternative publishing and artist…
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Beyond Blue and WhiteThe Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind the…
An engaging work of cultural history that reveals the stories behind one of the world's most coveted and beloved ceramic. When over seventy-five pieces of rare and intriguing 17th and 18th century Delftware are rediscovered in an historic Manhattan townhouse, decorative art advisor and writer Genevieve Wheeler Brown quickly recognizes that, together, these pieces tell an amazing story. What be…
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Good Art/Bad ArtA Guide to Judging Quality
Amanifesto and impassioned plea for artistic excellence When he attended The Cooper Union in the late 1960s, artist Robert Florczak navigated a world of avant-garde experimentation, where modern art reigned supreme. Yet, within this bastion of innovation, and surrounded by cutting-edge, conceptual art, he, along with a few like-minded peers, quietly questioned the legitimacy of the contemporar…
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Matisse in MoroccoA Journey of Light and Color
The remarkable and little-known story of the two groundbreaking winters that Henri Matisse spent painting in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and marked his work until the very end. In winter of 1912, Henri Matisseforty-two, nearing mid-career, and yet to find lasting critical acceptance, public admiration, or financial security since exploding to the forefront of the avant-g…
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Eat What Elephants EatVegan Recipes for a Strong Body and a Gentle Spirit (A …
Eat What Elephants Eat is a vegan cookbook featuring an unforgettable personal narrative, eighty recipes, and easy meal plans. Dominick (Dom) Thompson comes from the West Side of Chicago, where he was lured into the drug trade, as much for comradeship as for power and money. One summer, he agreed to a last hustle. It was a sting, and Dom went to federal prison. It was there in his darkest hou…
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Eat Better, Sleep Better75 Recipes and A 28-Day Meal Plan That Unlock the Foo…
What you eat directly impacts how you sleep. Science-based and easy to understand, Eat Better, Sleep Better includes 75 recipes that incorporate sleep-supporting ingredients that work with the body’s rhythms and hormones to unlock quality restand the health benefits that come with it. More than half of all Americans have difficulty falling or staying asleep. Drawing on the science that h…
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Gespräche mit einem TotenGustaf Nagel, Prophet vom Arendsee
Als die Ethnologin Heike Behrend nach der Wende das Haus ihres Großvaters besucht, stößt sie am Arendsee in der Altmark auf den christlichen Propheten Gustaf Nagel, der 1874 im Kaiserreich geboren wurde und 1952 in einer Irrenanstalt in der DDR starb. Als Teil der Lebensreformbewegung war der deutschnationale Prophet sein Leben lang vielfältiger Verfolgung ausgesetzt. Anhand seiner Selbstbi…
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Larry Clark and MasculinityMale Subjectivity and Visual Culture
This book explores the visual representation of masculinity in the work of Larry Clark, using this to prompt a wider conversation about the male body in visual culture and art. Infamous for his often deeply personal depictions of teenage sexuality, subcultures and drug use, filmmaker and photographer Larry Clark also paid close attention to male identity, as revealed for the first time in this …
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El templo del convento de San Agustín de San Luis Potosí, 1599-1788: imagin…
La presente obra constituye un esfuerzo por analizar y entender desde diversas vertientes –fundamentalmente a partir de la historia cultural– las representaciones religiosas y el discurso iconográfico que se asociaban al conjunto arquitectónico del templo del convento de San Agustín, erigido en la ciudad de San Luis Potosí a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII. Así, junto con esta valo…
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Who Owns Beauty?
Beauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose genius they embody? To the enlightened collectors who saw their value and appropriated them? Or to the whole of humanity which has access to them through institutions dedicated to their preservation? …
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