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Restless Infections: Public Art and a Transforming City

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Report copyright infringementby Jay Pather (Editor)Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing diverse forms of expression such as site-specific performances, immersive installations, film, photography, and online performances. The book is divided into three sections: The Restless City, Public...

Lionello Perera: An Italian Banker and Patron in New York (COLOR)

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Report copyright infringementby Diego Mantoan (Author)The book presents the long-lost biography of Lionello Perera, principal banker, patron, and philanthropist of the Italian American community in New York at the inception of the twentieth century. Born and raised in Venice, Lionello Perera took over his uncle's financial activity in Wall Street and developed the family business into a stronghold of the Italian American community. His remarkable career led him to become the Vice President of...

Lionello Perera: An Italian Banker and Patron in New York (B&W)

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Report copyright infringementby Felix Stalder (Author), Josephine Berry Slater (Editor), Anthony Iles (Editor)Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked political organisation which have met the onset of the global economic crisis of 2008. Following Karl Marx, Stalder lays out how in the current period there are emergent contradictions between applied innovation and technical progress and the economic institutions...

A Joy for Ever, and Its Price in the Market

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author)In all probability the greatest Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin had an enormous influence on his age and our own, and like so many Victorians of the age, he had astonishing energy. While carrying on a voluminous correspondence with the intellectual luminaries of his day, he published poetry, children's literature, and books and essays on geology, botany, church politics, political economy, painting, sculpture, literature, ar...

Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Spencer (Author)Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late 1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed a...

Useful Information Concerning Book Impositions: Including All The Modern And Many Special Layouts Hitherto Not Generally Known (1920)

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Report copyright infringementby J. F. Tapley Company (Author)Useful Information Concerning Book Impositions is a book written by J. F. Tapley Company in 1920. The book provides a comprehensive guide to book impositions, including all the modern and many special layouts that were not generally known at the time. It covers various topics related to book printing, such as the selection of paper, typefaces, and binding methods. The book also provides practical advice on how to create different ty...

A Joy for Ever (and Its Price in the Market) - Two Lectures on the Political Economy of Art

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author)Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2008

L. L. L. Catalogue Of Engravings Of Some Distinguished British Jurists: And A Few Other Noted Men (1907)

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Fenn Parker Pruyn (Author)L. L. L. Catalogue Of Engravings Of Some Distinguished British Jurists: And A Few Other Noted Men (1907) is a book written by Anna Fenn Parker Pruyn. The book is a comprehensive catalogue of engravings of some of the most distinguished British jurists and a few other noted men. The engravings are accompanied by brief biographies of each jurist, providing readers with a better understanding of their contributions and achievements. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Urszula Szulakowska (Author)Alchemy in Contemporary Art analyzes the manner in which twentieth-century artists, beginning with French Surrealists of the 1920s, have appropriated concepts and imagery from the western alchemical tradition. This study examines artistic production from c. 1920 to the present, with an emphasis on the 1970s to 2000, discussing familiar names such as Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Yves Klein, Joseph Beuys, and Anselm Kiefer, as well as ...

Old Hanging Ditch: Its Trades, Its Traders, And Its Renaissance (1910)

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson (Author)""Old Hanging Ditch: Its Trades, Its Traders, and Its Renaissance"" is a historical book written by Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson in 1910. The book documents the history of Hanging Ditch, a street in Manchester, England, from the medieval period to the early 20th century. The author explores the various trades and industries that existed in the area, including the textile industry, the leather trade, and the production of goods s...

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Report copyright infringementby Ignatius Mouradgea D'Ohsson (Author)Tableau General De L��Empire Othoman V4, Partie 1 (1791) is a book written by Ignatius Mouradgea D'Ohsson. The book is a detailed account of the Ottoman Empire during the late 18th century, covering its history, culture, and political system. The book is divided into several parts, with Partie 1 focusing on the history of the empire, including its rise and fall, its wars, and its relationships with other countries. The a...

Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Borgman (Author)Harry Borgman's professional career has spanned many fields including graphic design, cartooning and illustration. He was art director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell - Ewald advertising agency and the Chariman of the Advertising Department at the Society of Arts and Crafts ( now the College for Creative Studies ). He has written several art technique books for Watson Guptill Publications, Dover Publications recently reprinting his bo...

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Report copyright infringementby Chee Min Ng (Author)Australia, as an immigrant nation, has many migrant success stories. Each wave of migration generates its own migrant success stories. Many of the large corporations today are the results of the enterprising ingenuity of post-World War II migrants. The ending of the 'White Australia' immigration policy in the 1970s brings another set of success stories - this time from migrants of non-European backgrounds. The Ethnic Business Award entries f...

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

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Report copyright infringementby Gary W. Gallagher (Author)More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war -- why it was fought, what was won, what was lost -- not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected and influenced the political, social...

Politics simple explained: For Millennials, Gens XYZ and Future Generations

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Rodulfo (Author)Politics has been difficult to understand since its beginnings. In one hand because of the philosophical, social and academic approach of last centuries, and on the other hand because politicians and the interest groups they represent have no interest to make it comprehensible and easy to discuss and digest.Presented in simple language, social media like format, the author offers the IMDb of politics, with simple concepts, pictures, likes a...

Making Livable Places: Transportation, Preservation and the Limits of Growth

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Report copyright infringementby Todd Shallat (Editor), David Eberle (Editor)Making Livable Places explores the history and politics of the issues and places that shape Boise's metropolitan growth. Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Manuel 1890-1974 Komroff (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of P...

Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Saltzman (Author)A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old Masters, New World is a backstage look at the cutthroat competition, financial maneuvering, intrigue, and double-dealing often involved in these purchases,...

Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy Armstrong (Author)Carpet specialist Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories surrounding twelve of the world's most fascinating carpets.Dorothy Armstrong's Threads of Empire is a spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets. Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans and samurai crave them as symbols of earthly domination. Shamans and priests desire them to evoke the spiritu...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Strauss (Author), Bernard Chang (Author) Claudia Corvette. From her tousled bedroom hair to her name-all the porn stars in this world take their names from supermodels and sports cars-she is adult entertainment's prototypical femme fatale. Her life is the collision of countless troubled-childhood cliches and grown-up wet dreams, projected onto her as surely as her videos project their blue light onto lonely men around the world. From its first panel, How t...

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Model (Author)Watching silent films is an immersive, dreamlike experience. The storytelling and characters of these movies can only exist in the Silent Film Universe, where a purely visual cinematic language commingles with the viewer's imagination. How this works - for both yesterday's and today's filmgoers - is explored and explained in this groundbreaking, insightful, and entertaining book that will leave you with a new appreciation of silent film. ...

Drawn from the Wild: A Practical Guide to Making Your Own Foraged Art Materials

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Ross (Author)Re-wild your art practice, by transforming foraged and found materials into vibrant, sustainable drawing media, from richly pigmented pastels and smoke-black charcoal to deep, lightfast inks. 'If you love culture, but know in your bones you are also part of nature, like me, you'll want to make your art practice more ecologically sound and sustainable.' - Caroline Ross This stunning, practical book, sequel to the best-selling Found and Grou...

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Report copyright infringementby Marieke de Winkel (Author), Rudie Van Leeuwen (Author), Volker Manuth (Author)The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of history's greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669). Despite never leaving his native Netherlands, Rembrandt projected his oeuvre past the boundaries of his own experience, producing some of art's most diverse and impactful works across portraiture, biblical, alleg...

The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest in America

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren O'Neill-Butler (Author)How artists have changed America through direct action Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the 1960s to the present. In contrast to the financialized art market and celebrity artists, the book explores the power of collective effort -- from protesting to philanthro...

Painting Nature: Techniques, Tutorials and Projects

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Report copyright infringementby Gemma Koomen (Author)Drawing inspiration from the natural world that surrounds us, Painting Nature contains 20 projects that will help you to discover how to find your seasonal style, use colour and paint what you see. Packed with tips and tricks, this book features practical projects from the starting sketch to building up your scene and that all-important final flourish - learn how to pick up a paint brush and paint nature through the seasons. The themes inc...

Fast Food Frenzy: Food and Sweets Coloring Book

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Report copyright infringementby Hue Coloring (Author)Craving something fun and delicious to color? Fast Food Frenzy: Food and Sweets Coloring Book is packed with all your favorite treats and snacks, from burgers and fries to donuts and ice cream. This bold and easy-to-color book is perfect for food lovers of all ages who want to unwind and enjoy a creative coloring experience.�� What's Inside? 50 mouth-watering illustrations of fast food, sweets, and treats Bold, simple outlines designed ...

Whimsical Woods: Easy and Bold Forest Creatures and Plants to Color

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Report copyright infringementby Hue Coloring (Author)Escape into a world of wonder and creativity! Whimsical Woods invites you to explore a magical forest filled with adorable creatures and whimsical plants just waiting to be brought to life with color. Whether you're coloring a sleepy owl, a buzzing bee, or a sprouting tree, every page is designed with bold, simple lines to make coloring effortless and enjoyable for all skill levels.Perfect for beginners, kids, or anyone looking to unwind, t...

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Report copyright infringementby Hue Coloring (Author)Step into a world of cuteness and creativity with Kawaii: Bold and Easy Coloring Book! Designed for kids, teens, and kawaii lovers of all ages, this charming coloring book is filled with adorable illustrations of cute animals, yummy treats, magical creatures, and fun everyday objects.✨ What's Inside?✔️ Bold, simple designs for stress-free coloring✔️ Delightful kawaii-style illustrations, from smiling cupcakes to playful kittens✔️ Large, eas...

Snooze and Relax: Bold and Easy Coloring of Sleeping and Lazy Creatures

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Report copyright infringementby Hue Coloring (Author)Unwind and immerse yourself in a world of calm with Snooze and Relax! This coloring book invites you to de-stress with a unique collection of lazy animals and cozy creatures at rest. Each page is designed to soothe your mind with bold, simple lines and relaxing images, perfect for both beginners and experienced colorists who want a peaceful, stress-free coloring experience.What You'll Find Inside: 50 Unique Illustrations featuring adorable...

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