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No other artist working in mid-century pulp fiction created work as twisted as Lee Brown Coye. By the 1970s, after surviving a life-threatening illness, Coye would outdo himself, creating lurid illustrations exclusive to rare privately published books and fanzines. With nearly one hundred gloriously rendered Coye-penned images, Pulp Macabre showcases Coye's final and darkest era, containing some of the most passionately ghoulish artwork ever made....
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This Is Not a Photo Opportunity is a street-level, full-color showcase of some of Banksy's most innovative pieces ever.
Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Once viewed as vandalism, Banksy's work is now venerated, collected, and preserved.
Over the course of a decade, Martin Bull has documented dozens of the most important and impressive works...
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Vincent van Goghs life was driven by passions, from the religious to the romantic. These passions illuminated his work as an artist, but also led to his many disappointments in life. Whether attempting to be a missionary, falling in love with his cousin, sheltering a prostitute and her children, proposing to his neighbors spinster daughter or establishing an art colony with Paul Gauguin failure haunted him. Although his uniquely vibrant colors and...
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Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011 detainment. In an astonishing new large-scale project, he turns his attention to Alcatraz-a place he cannot visit because he is not permitted to leave China, but that stands as a world-famous symbol of...
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This book, The Art of Arthur Rackham, celebrates 150 years of one of the best and most loved artists in British history. Over his long and illustrious career, he contributed to an extensive number of books, magazines and periodicals, resulting in a vast array of original artworks. In this book, Pook Press brings together 150 of the best of Rackham's stunning illustrations, sourced from rare and original books. These incredible images cover Rackham's...
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"Heilige Mutter Gottes, erlöse Russland von Putin."
Im August 2012 wurden Maria Aljochina, Nadescha Tolokonnikowa und Jekaterina Samuzewitsch, drei Mitglieder des Punk-Kunstkollektivs Pussy Riot, wegen "Rowdytum aus religiös motiviertem Hass" zu zwei Jahren Straflager verurteilt - ein politischer Skandal, der ein riesiges Presse-Echo und weltweit Solidaritätsbekundungen hervorgerufen hat.
In dem vorliegenden Band wird bisher unveröffentlichtes...
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Nés aux quatre coins du monde, ils nous racontent leur Paris.
À l'initiative du musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration (installé au Palais de la Porte dorée), vingt écrivains comptant chacun une longue bibliographie et lauréats de nombreux prix littéraires ont répondu à l'invitation de parler de LEUR Paris, tel qu'ils le vivent tous les jours, avec tendresse, forts de leur choix, conscients de leur chance. On n'est jamais aussi bien perçus...
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Art keeps good alive in the worst of times. In the face of ugliness, pain, and death, it's art that has the power to open us all to a healing imagining of new possibility, it's art that whispers to the collective that even in the ashes of loss, life always grows again. That's why right now, in this tumultuous time of war and pandemic, we need poets more than we need politicians.
In response to the multitude of global crises we're currently experiencing,...
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A highly diverting retrospective of the 'queen of the tea towel', Pat Albeck, whose prolific textile designs shaped the homes of post-war Britain. This fascinating visual history explores the creative process behind 80 iconic illustrations, retro and contemporary. Pat Albeck, who died in September 2017, was a prolific and well-known textile and homewear designer, affectionately known as 'the Queen of the Tea Towel'. Her obituary appeared in The Times...
13) Van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh's illness. The author of the article saw the painter as "a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always...
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What do artist models think about while posing nude on the stand? Do they watch you as much as you watch them? Are they musing about their misadventures or what they want to do when they put their clothes back on and go home? Is it possible that they are living, breathing bodies who may be reminiscing about their trips to Europe, Morocco or New York City? Are they perhaps cold, itchy or trying not to sneeze? Was it different for artist models...
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A true crime anthology exploring the dangerous side of romance-with couples who bonded over murder, mayhem and more.
What brings criminal couples together? And what drives them apart? This volume of The Best New True Crime Stories attempts to answer these questions with a deep dive into true tales of lawless love. Everyone's heard of Bonnie and Clyde, but the annals of crime history are full of dysfunctional duos whose deadly escapades are equally...
16) Essays on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Prof. Zdzisław Najder (1930-2021). Eseje o Josephie Conradzie k
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This volume of essays - dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzisław Najder (1930–2021) - is a collective gift made by Conrad scholars from the United States, Canada and Europe. It comprises seventeen essays in English and twelve in Polish (including several texts containing reminiscences of Professor Najder), a bibliography of Professor Najder's publications and an index of names. The essays discuss Joseph Conrad's literary achievements and the...
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Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban design practices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing from the exuberant architectural projects of the 1940's...
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Treize écrivains et trois photographes réveillent en nous le sentiment que Bruxelles sommeille dans les plis de nos cœurs.
Une ville singulière et énigmatique que l'on aime ou que l'on rejette car elle est insaisissable, mais bien présente en nous.
Un ensemble de textes tendres, ironiques, intimistes, pour entrer en empathie avec une ville unique !
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J'aime Bruxelles et son grand corps mystérieux traversé par un cours d'eau qu'on...
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"The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that studying early modern European literary forgeries is a fascinating cultural adventure" (Lina Bolzoni author of The Gallery of Memory).
This comprehensive study of literary and historiographical forgery goes well beyond questions of authorship. It spotlights the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was...
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