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Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project's national mural program. In Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene author Diana L. Linden demonstrates that Shahn mined his Jewish heritage and left-leaning politics for his style...
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Una severa estatua en una plaza, el piadoso vitral de una iglesia, la simpática efeméride en la portada de una revista infantil representan objetos portadores de significado social, diseñados para transmitir una determinada impronta donde el pasado se temporaliza en un presente épico, perpetuo e inamovible. Desde lo alto del pedestal, el héroe nos asegura que las cosas sucedieron así y no de otra manera, aunque el proceso recordatorio puesto...
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The Vietnam War (1964—1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art dominated the American art world, individual artists and art collectives played a significant role in antiwar protest and inspired subsequent generations of artists. This significant...
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As the title may indicate, this chapbook/poetry book contains approximately 50 thought provoking, conversation 'kickers', icebreakers, or personal, nodding to yourself style poetry. Mostly political yet is inclusive of a variety of opinionated commentary on prominent issues of the press & journalists behind the scenes. Please allow me to further explain my impetus behind this book. What has brought me to this juncture (to become a published poet)...
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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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Graffiti crews are willing to risk anything for their art. Called vandals, criminals, even creative terrorists, graffiti artists set out to make their voices heard and alter the way people view the world. But when one crew finishes the biggest graffiti bomb of their careers, the consequences get serious and spark a public debate asking, "Where does art belong?"
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This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day, are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death, the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse, approaches...
10) Her Book: Poems
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With intelligence and crystalline clarity, a chorus of female voices speaks through the poems in Her book, Éireann Lorsung's inspired second collection. From the poet who brought us Music For Landing Planes By, Éireann Lorsung's luminous voice is distilled through multiple unnamed female speakers in this, her second collection. Full of youth, wonder, and imagination, Her book crosses distances and generations to celebrate the lives of women, their...
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An inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change
An artist's mural of George Floyd becomes an emblem of a renewed movement for racial equality. A documentary film injects fuel into a popular mobilization to oust a Central American dictator. Freedom songs course through the American civil rights movement.
When artists and organizers combine forces, new forms of political mobilization follow-which...
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Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892—1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil. Building on existing literature, this book innovates through chapters that consider issues such as Ramos's dialogue with literary tradition, his cultural legacy for contemporary writers, and his treatment of racial discrimination...
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Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, racism and big data, Guantánamo and reggaeton, soccer and baseball, Obama and the Rolling Stones, Europe and Donald Trump-Iván de la Nuez approaches his criticism with singularity of purpose. In Cubanthropy he does not set out to explain Cuba to the world, but rather to put the world into a Cuban context. In these sparkling essays, filled with erudition and humor, de la Nuez confronts the thicket of Cuban geopolitics,...
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Robert Slifkin is associate professor of fine arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He is the author of Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. He lives in New York City.
How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculpture
In the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to...
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A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States.
One of the hallmarks of Surrealism is the encounter, often by chance, with a key person, place, or object through a trajectory no one could have predicted. Penelope Rosemont draws on a lifetime of such experiences in her collection of essays, Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields. From her youthful forays as a radical-student...
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Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States...
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Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity.
This first collection by award-winning author John Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black, Asian, Latinx, and Native American artists: sculptors Luis Jimenez and Ruth Asawa; "second generation Abstract Expressionists" such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu; the performance artists James Luna and...
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