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"As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has dedicated her life to empowering working artists. Intimate yet practical, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs, residencies, and institutional funding."--Publisher description.
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A hand-signed porcelain urinal. An abstract drip painting. A silent 700 hour performance. Art has changed since the days of Giotto, Michelangelo, and even Picasso--and many of us are perplexed. Do modern and contemporary artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, and Marina Abramovic represent civilization's highest achievements? Or is something else afoot? Art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not...
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Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents...
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"An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Isabella Stewart...
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The mystery and beauty of modern-day Vietnam is skillfully unveiled in Camilla Gibb's fourth novel, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, which takes its title from a short-lived group of artists and intellectuals who spoke out against Ho Chi Minh's policies, following the country's liberation from colonial rule. Set in the recent past, amidst the vibrancy of Hanoi, and with a cast of young characters who long for the status of American consumer products...
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La Revolución mexicana también ocurrió en las artes plásticas. Si la revuelta popular produjo hondos cambios en el campo y las ciudades, la renovada actividad de muralistas, pintores y grabadores durante la etapa armada y sobre todo después de ésta transformó el alcance político y social de la gráfica y la pintura. En las primeras décadas del siglo XX se fortalecieron los nexos entre el movimiento obrero -cada vez más protagónico en una...
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"In turns beloved and reviled, twentieth century art, painter, filmmaker, and designer Salvador Dali set Europe and the United States ablaze with his uncompromising genius, sexual sadism, and flirtations with megalomania. His shocking behavior and work frequently alienated critics; his views were so outrageous, even prominent Surrealists tried to ostracize him. Still, every morning he experienced "an exquisite joy--the joy of being Salvador Dali,"...
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This collection of poetry is a reflection of my journey in life for where I stand now. It is a representation of the knowledge I have encountered through various obstacles and from conversations and interactions. I have met people who have impacted my creative life and this is to pay tribute to everyone.
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Por un lado Donald Trump haciendo su típico baile en plena campaña electoral mientras suena una famosa canción de Village People, por el otro, el colectivo chileno Lastesis llevando adelante su intervención estético-política Un violador en tu camino. Los dos casos reúnen los elementos característicos de una performance, ¿pero acaso son lo mismo?
En Activismos tecnopolíticos, Marcela Fuentes sostiene que las performances de lxs líderes...
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What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can 'culture jamming' contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And, might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this stimulating new book, "Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth", de-growth scholar Samuel Alexander explores these questions, both in theory and practice. He begins...
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In taking on the project, Paul, Gabriel, his agent, and myself are obviously hoping that this book will increase awareness surrounding an undoubtedly talented artist. He deserves the acknowledgements that will arrive very soon, I am sure of that, and to be part of his future success story is indeed a great honor.
From Paul, Gabriel, and myself, I sincerely hope his story will touch you, and his paintings mesmerize you, just like I have been mesmerized...
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Des années après la chute du mur de Berlin, à l'heure de la mondialisation et du libre-échange, une cinquantaine de murs sont toujours érigés dans le monde, notamment autour du territoire d'Israël et à la frontière du Mexique et des États-Unis, o des barrières d'environ 500 km de long se dressent. Si les justifications énoncées par les États sont multiples, immigration clandestine, terrorisme, contrebande, etc., l'élévation d'une barrière...
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Van Jones said it well: "If we're going to end this fiscal madness and start rebuilding America, we're going to have to get creative! We need a tsunami of music, film, poetry and art. The Culture of Possibility shows us how creativity can take our story back from Corporation Nation, tilting the culture towards justice, equity, and innovation. I urge you to read this book!" We are in the midst of seismic cultural change. In the old paradigm, priorities...
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The overall subject of the book is visual culture. What sets it apart and gives it such an original emphasis is its multi-disciplinarity and the range of critical voices, ranging through film studies, architecture, creative practice, biology, pedagogy and media theory, which are brought to bear upon the question of visuality and its relationship to futurity.
In our everyday lives, we navigate across a vast sea of visual imagery. Yet, we rarely pause...
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Democracia con Dignidad es la propuesta de un sistema económico, político y social fundamentado en el ciudadano como protagonista real de la democracia, y no como víctima obediente del Estado.
La base económica y social de este nuevo sistema es el pago de salarios justos y el aporte social proporcional que permita a empresas sociales privadas gestionar los recursos, con permanente auditoría ciudadana, sin que el Estado pueda tener acceso al...
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Le roman 'La prison Al-aqrab' (La prison scorpion) est un mini-roman, qui se déroule à l'intérieur de l'une des prisons les plus protégées d'Egypte, o le jeune homme 'Mohammed Mazloum', qui a été soumis aux conditions dans les bastions de torture les plus célèbres juste parce qu'il est tombé dans une embuscade de sécurité, portant une chemise avec les mots « un pays sans torture ».
Le roman raconte des faits réels et l'idée est tirée...
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