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"Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in this autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss. How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres's artworks--piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles--as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo, to...
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"Joseph Keckler's signatures are his magnificent three-plus-octave operatic voice and the mesmerizing stories he tells. Combining new work with material from his acclaimed performances, Keckler confirms his storytelling mastery, revealing still more of himself on the page. In these tales, one can't easily draw a line between reality, embellishment, and fantasy. What is it like to work for a blind man who runs an art gallery? Or for an aging club kid...
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A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis. In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, representations of Jesus, early tourist photographs, and...
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One day Hart, a bored New York City transplant, decided to make a fake cooking show for a friend back in California. In her book, she presents a collection of stories, drawings, drink recommendations, cooking tips, and recipes to make and enjoy between drinks. The result is a hilarious -- and surprisingly useful -- reminder to enjoy life, and that together we can make it through.
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"Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the United States in the 1830s, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s imagines how individuals at the time experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, this book follows painters, poets, enslaved individuals, farmers, and artisans through various settings. Some, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nat Turner, Thomas Cole, and Edgar Allan Poe, are well-known; others are not. All are creators...
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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is, known first-and-foremost, as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But, Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost-daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves).
Many of these writings have been unavailable for decades....
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Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 — 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist best known as the author of "The Prophet" (1923), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Gibran's work covers such themes as justice, religion, science, free will, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death. He is widely considered to have been one of the most important figures in Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth...
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La revolución digital ha aumentado este abismo: ¿qué sentido tiene ir al museo cuando podemos ver los cuadros por el ordenador? ¿Podrá una inteligencia artificial crear arte? ¿Cómo afecta nuestra continua exposición a pantallas y estímulos a nuestra experiencia estética actual?
Este libro es una respuesta coral a estas preguntas. Una respuesta que abarca diferentes formatos, desde el ensayo hasta la ilustración, pasando por el poema o...
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La filosofía occidental primaria se conoce a través de fragmentos. Así parece terminar, en estructuras tan condensadas que son, como antes lo fueron desde su pedacería, meras abstracciones. Esa fragmentación es la misma que somete a los miles de millones de seres humanos confinados por la pandemia, quienes ahora concluyen aquel contraseño de la razón occidental: el aislamiento biológico, en algo infinitesimal (al fin fragmento) que colapsa...
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Una de las pruebas más contundentes de que Bertolt Brecht era un completo hombre de teatro se ve en el mejor de los montajes que dirigió: su propia vida. Este ensayo se pretende como una poética de la escena, que engloba la estética y se inspira en el concepto aristotélico para configurar un universo propio, en un lenguaje ágil y accesible; sus reflexiones parten del hecho vivo de las representaciones teatrales, no de frías lecturas de gabinete....
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El artista Carlos Correa ha pasado relativamente inadvertido para la investigación académica y para la historia del arte en nuestro país. Si bien en los años cuarenta del siglo xx era una figura destacada en el panorama nacional, desde la consolidación del arte de vanguardia en la década del sesenta quedó prácticamente en el olvido. Se ha avanzado mucho en el estudio, la comprensión y la valoración de la vida y la obra de artistas como Débora...
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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is, known first-and-foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But, Nicholas Roerich, was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost, daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves).
13) Fiery Stronghold
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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is, known first-and-foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But, Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost-daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves).
Many of these writings have been unavailable for decades....
14) Heroica
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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known first and foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost-daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves).
Many of these writings have been unavailable for decades....
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Del desafío ecológico actual depende la supervivencia de la especie humana. Es necesario ya mismo luchar contra el desastre medioambiental, pero ¿qué puede hacer el arte en esta lucha? Contra la ola de calamidades que prevalecen con la irresponsabilidad humana, este libro da cuenta de un combate en muchos aspectos desesperado: el de los pintores, escultores, land artists, fotógrafos, videastas, performers, instaladores y creadores de web comprometidos...
16) Masks of Origin
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Brian George's debut collection invites the reader on a journey beyond the normal categories of space, time, and narrative structure, and guides them toward a further shore of multidimensional experience. These are "essays" in the sense of attempts or explorations of a subject which is too vast, and too profound, yet also, paradoxically, too familiar to some deepest part of us, to be exhausted by any one expression or approach.
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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known, first-and-foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But, Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost-daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves).
Many of these writings have been unavailable for decades....
18) Derribando muros
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La artista de performance Marina Abramovic, ha pasado toda su vida derribando barreras, dolor, resistencia, miedo, en una exhaustiva búsqueda de transformación emocional y espiritual tanto en la vida como en el arte. En estas extraordinarias memorias relata su conmovedora y épica historia, desde su difícil y abusiva infancia en la Yugoslavia de la posguerra, pasando por la convulsa relación artística y amorosa con el fotógrafo y artista Ulay,...
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Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new standard for Indian cinema with his Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959). His work was admired for its humanism, versatility, attention to detail, and skilled use of music. He was also widely praised...
20) Adamant
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A collection of artistic and philosophical essays of Nicholas Roerich, the keynote of which is the conquering of materialism through beauty and knowledge.
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is, known first and foremost, as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explorethe mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But, Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was...
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