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Afro-Cuban Religions and the Arts: A Dog Has Four Legs but Takes Only One Path

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Report copyright infringementby Alan West-Durán (Author)This book examines the philosophical and spiritual facets of religions like Regla de Ocha, Palo, Abakuáaacute;, and Vodou, and how deeply embedded they are in Cuban popular culture and art, be it music, the visual arts, film, or literature.Author BiographyAlan West-Durán is professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies (CSGS) at Northeastern University. Number of Pages: 294 Dimensions: 0...

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$75.00

Report copyright infringementby Raymond Saunders (Author), Jarrett Earnest (Author), Darby English (Contribution by)Discover Raymond Saunders's dynamic paintings and his extraordinary legacy as an artist and thinker in this first ever monograph. Saunders's work brings together his extensive formal training with his own observations and lived experience. His assemblage-style paintings frequently begin with a monochromatic black ground elaborated with white chalk--a pointed reversal of the trad...

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Report copyright infringementby Carmen Ripollés (Author)The first English-language monograph to explore the remarkable life and diverse oeuvre of one of the most famous artists of the Portuguese Baroque era. Josefa de Ayala, known as Josefa de Óbidos (ca. 1630-1684), was among the most celebrated artists of the Portuguese Baroque. She learned still-life painting from her father in her youth and developed into a versatile artist whose paintings feature a range of sacred and secular subjects. ...

Art as Capital: The Intersection of Science, Technology, and the Arts

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Report copyright infringementby Polona Tratnik (Author), Lev Kreft (Afterword by)Art as Capital addresses the role of art and creative practices in contemporary society. Author BiographyPolona Tratnik is professor and dean of the Faculty for Slovene and International Studies at New University in Ljubljana. She is research advisor at the Institute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment. She is the president of the Slovenian Society of Aesthetics, and...

The Women Who Made Early Disneyland: Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations

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Report copyright infringementby Cindy Mediavilla (Author), Kelsey Knox (Author)The Women Who Made Early Disneyland tells the story of the many women who designed, built, and operated early Disneyland from their various positions and departments and highlights how their work contributed to Disneyland's early success.Author BiographyCindy Mediavilla is retired lecturer from the department of information studies, University of California, Los Angeles.Kelsey Knox is university archivist at the Un...

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Report copyright infringementby David W. J. Gill (Author)Artwashing the Past: Context Matters contributes to the wider discussion about the appropriate due diligence process that should be conducted prior to the acquisition of cultural objects.Author BiographyDavid W. J. Gill is honorary professor in the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent, and academic associate in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. He is a former Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and ...

Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists

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Report copyright infringementby Luciana Namorato (Editor), Debora Thome (Editor), João Nemi Neto (Editor)This book explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different Latin American countries, and seeks to understand their contributions and their complex lives, celebrating their creativity and impact on Latin American art.Author BiographyLuciana Namorato is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. Débora Thomé conducts post-d...

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Snow Fleas and Chickadees: Everyday Observations in the Sierra

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Report copyright infringementby Eve Quesnel (Author), Anne Chadwick (Illustrator)In Snow Fleas and Chickadees, Eve Quesnel invites readers to join her on strolls through the forest surrounding her neighborhood in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe. The book serves as an extended field guide and natural history reference for residents of the region and those visiting and exploring the Sierra. Through her writing, the author shares personal narratives and information gleaned from exper...

Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus: A People's History Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Anna M. V. Bowden (Author)In an effort to demonstrate the (im)practicalities of John's command for withdrawal (18:4), this book reconstructs the marble economy of Roman Ephesus and reads Revelation through the daily lives of its workers. It concludes that John's call for zero cultural participation is utterly devastating for its workers. Author BiographyAnna M. V. Bowden is visiting assistant professor of biblical studies at Albion College and an instructor in ...

Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship

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Report copyright infringementby Agnes Czajka (Editor), Áine O'Brien (Editor)This edited volume explores the contribution of migrant and refugee artists to the performance and production of radical democratic citizenship in Europe.Author BiographyAgnes Czajka is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Open University. Áine O'Brien is co-founder and curator of Learning and Research at Counterpoints Arts. Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN...

Caribbean Women and Their Art - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ellen Snodgrass (Author)This is a chronology of creative contributions made by Caribbean women. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources.Author BiographyMary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of several award-winning reference volumes, including Encyclop...

Autonomous Art Institutions: Artists Disrupting the Creative City

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Report copyright infringementby Alberto Cossu (Author)This book explores the current wave of artistic activism by looking at the way in which theirantagonism may lead to the creation of autonomous artistic institutions.Author BiographyAlberto Cossu is Assistant Professor in media and communication within the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is a sociologist, researching the intersection between digital media and activism, qualitative and digital ...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniela Bini (Author)Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture examines how the strong mother-son relationship not only affected, but actually shaped the work of Italian artists as different as Pirandello, Carlo Levi, Buzzati, Pasolini, Fellini, concluding on with a look at mammismo/vitellonismo in some Italian film comedies.Author BiographyDaniela Bini is professor of Italian studies and comparative literature at the University...

Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson

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Report copyright infringementby Ashley Marshall (Editor), John Barrell (Contribution by), Ann Bermingham (Contribution by)This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation.Author BiographyAshley Marshall is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.4 x...

Paul and Image: Reading First Corinthians in Visual Terms

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Erwin (Author)In Paul and Image, Philip Erwin challenges conventional interpretations of First Corinthians by focusing on the role that ancient Roman visual culture played in the lives of Paul and those of the people of Corinth.Author BiographyPhilip Erwin (Ph.D, Graduate Theological Union) is a scholar of the New Testament whose research focuses on the relationship between the letters of Paul and the material and discursive elements of ancient Greco-Rom...

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Report copyright infringementby Allison Lee Palmer (Author)This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on major artists of the romantic era as well as entries on related art movements, styles, aesthetic philosophies, and philosophers.Author BiographyAllison Lee Palmer is an Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art Histo...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ellen Snodgrass (Author)This is a resource about the creative contributions made by women of the British Empire. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources.Author BiographyMary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of several award-winning reference volumes, i...

Belle Baranceanu: Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Peoples Hernandez (Author)In this first biography of artist Belle Baranceanu, Jennifer Peoples Hernandez tells the riveting story of a woman who overcame insurmountable odds to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and one of California's foremost Modern artists.Author BiographyJennifer Peoples Hernandez teaches at San Diego Mesa College. Number of Pages: 376 Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 6 I...

Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie H. Tepper (Author), Janice George (Author), Willard Joseph (Author)Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernatural realm and made manifest in the natural world through ancestral guidance. The blankets are protective garments that at times of great life changes--birth, marriage, death--offer emotional s...

Race, Gender, and Film Censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Ooten (Author)This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. Ooten uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political, economic, and cultural hierarchies that structured Virginia in the mid-twentieth century.Author BiographyMelissa Ooten is associate director of the WILL program and lecturer at the University of Richmond. Number of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Yoshitomo Nara (Artist), Clare Preston (Editor), Ralph Rugoff (Foreword by)More than a mere survey of Nara's signature children and animals, this clothbound publication features the artist's newest works, personal photographs and pictures of his studioSpanning four decades of work, this book offers readers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the personal and creative world of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, best known for his bold images of children wi...

Kent Monkman: History Is Painted by the Victors

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Report copyright infringementby Kent Monkman (Artist), John P. Lukavic (Editor), Ned Blackhawk (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The renowned Cree artist unmasks a whitewashed, Eurocentric history through provocative paintings full of sexuality and dramaOne of Canada's most renowned artists, interdisciplinary Cree artist Kent Monkman challenges the art historical narrative of settler cultures that colonized First Peoples from North America. He incorporates influences from the canon of European and E...

You Can't Have It All: Poem by Barbara Ras, Paintings by Terrell James

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Ras (Author), Terrell James (Artist)Poetry and painting have enjoyed a long life together, with artists like Cy Twombly and Joan Mitchell using poetry in their works and poets like John Ashbery and Ron Padgett working closely with visual artists. The tradition of artists and poets collaborating continues in You Can't Have It All. This elegant and intimate book presents Ras's poem "You Can't Have It All," which has enjoyed a long life of appreciation by ...

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It's Too Late. Do It Anyway!: A Book about Being a Cultural Worker in the Apocalypse + a Hologram Starter Kit

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Report copyright infringementby Cassie Thornton (Editor), Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova (Editor)Hey culture worker! Are you feeling alone and afraid while the world burns? It's Too Late. Do It Anyway! is two books in one, created for cultural workers who want to get off the racial capitalist high-speed-train-to-nowhere and start structuring revolution through collective care.It's Too Late. Do It Anyway! offers two routes into a fractal support network designed to shed absurd, useless forms of a...

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Report copyright infringementby Mamma Andersson (Artist), Lærke Rydal Jørgensen (Editor), Marie Laurberg (Editor)Works from the past two decades and a new series from the Swedish master of the oneiric and the unsettlingMamma Andersson (born 1962) ranks as one of the most important painters of her generation. The Swedish artist is an eminent interpreter of the unique language of painting. With a sharp sense of mood, color and materiality, she has developed a personal take on the classical genr...

Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir: Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby Hal Foster (Author), Brian M. Kane (Editor)In the works for several years, Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir presents never-before-published Prince Valiant art by the strip's legendary creator, Hal Foster, collected in a series of six annotated portfolio volumes. Part sketchbooks, part biography, part tutorial, part memoir--Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks is an unprecedented look into Foster's personal life and creative proc...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Ballo (Author)Celebrate the essence of Black women with this relaxing, inspiring, and empowering coloring book from Andrea Ballo, the artist behind Coloring with Coco and Coco Michele Illustrations.Rest, reflect, and spend quality time with this elegant, bold and easy coloring book for adults that features Black women embodying their confidence, their style, and their beauty! Each illustration was created by Andrea Ballo, the artist and influencer behind...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Polan (Artist), Jason Fulford (Editor), Marcel Dzama (Contribution by)A collection of whimsical mail art sent to and from the late illustrator known for his playful sketches and line drawings, with contributions from Marcel Dzama, Stefan Marx and moreThis volume engages with the broader artistic practice of artist and illustrator Jason Polan, famous for his ink sketches of the city's people and places, as collected in the cult favorite tome Every Person i...

Vargas Girls Pin-Ups: Coffee Table Book 2

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Report copyright infringementby R. S. Rodella (Author)This Coffee Table Book 2 features 40 pin up girls in various poses. Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads. The full color pages are 8.5" x 11". All four cover images are in this edition. This is a 2 volume set featuring Alberto Vargas's famous "Vargas Girls". They are printed on one side with the back side left blank so you can cut and frame them if you want.Author BiographyVisit my author page to see many other coloring and coffee table books a...

The Art of Lesbian Lovemaking a Lesbian Kama Sutra

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Report copyright infringementby Rose Black (Author), Lilly Glück (Author)At last, by popular demand here is the paperback edition of the website www.lesbiankamasutra.com. This lesbian sex guide for book lovers will stimulate awareness and create new possibilities. Lesbian Kama Sutra focuses on women's sexuality from a lesbian point of view and encourages women to enrich their sexual experiences. Women from all over the world have contributed to The Art of Lesbian Lovemaking and so this book i...

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Report copyright infringementby Venus Pleasure (Author)Vaginas: A book with pleasure Full Color Close-up Photos For many years the vagina has symbolized the joy and pain for a man, is that part of the female anatomy that has many fans. In this book you will find the best pictures of vaginas of different types and flavors, of white women, blondes and brunettes. This book is designed for both men and women due to its highly graphical presentation. Warning: explicit material, its content is rese...

Discovering Shibari: A Comprehensive guide to Japanese Rope Arts and Kinbaku for Beginners

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Richards (Author)Step into the captivating world of Discovering Shibari, the ultimate beginner's guide to the art of Japanese rope bondage. This beautifully crafted book is your gateway to a sensual, artistic, and deeply intimate form of connection. Whether you are a curious novice or an experienced practitioner looking to refine your skills, this guide offers a comprehensive journey into the captivating world of Shibari.Written by a seasoned Shibari artist...