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  • The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume)

    Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia

    The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely ... Read more

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  • Essays on Modern Art: Andy Warhol - Criticisms and Essays on Previously Unseen Art in the Koolhaas Collection

    Justice Koolhaas’s Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist’s works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism written in deliberate opacity, is inspired by her collection of art refuse. She unblinkingly ... Read more

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  • What Are You Looking At?

    The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

    by Will Gompertz ...
    For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join ... Read more

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  • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

    Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism.In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, ... Read more

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  • The Lumière Galaxy

    Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and museums, onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our habits and excite our imaginations.Casetti travels from the remote corners of film history and theory ... Read more

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  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Read more

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  • How to Be an Artist

    by Jerry Saltz ...
    **Instant New York Times Bestseller"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve Martin**Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a ... Read more

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  • The Word Made Flesh

    Literary Tattoos from Bookworms

    A beautifully packaged full-color collection of literary tattoos and short personal essays, The Word Made Flesh is an intimate but anonymous confessional book, in the vein of thought-provoking anthologies like PostSecret and Not Quite What I Was Planning. Gorgeous photographs and candid commentary are collected by authors Eva Talmadge—whose short story “The Cranes” was cited as Notable Nonrequired ... Read more

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  • Citizen

    An American Lyric

    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

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  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    by Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Read more

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  • Erotic Comics

    A Graphic History, Vol 1 (PB)

    Crammed full of exquisite art from around the world, with fascinating background stories about the artists, editors and publishers, Erotic Comics: A Graphic History examines how this much maligned artform developed into a publishing phenomenon that spans the globe. Volume 1 delves deep into comic history, from the bawdy English cartoons of the 17th century, through the magazines impacted by the ... Read more

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  • Pop Song

    Adventures in Art & Intimacy

    by Larissa Pham ...
    "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed).Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let ... Read more

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  • The Wizard of Oz 15 Book Collection: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Box Set, The Marvellous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road ... of Oz and More (The Wizard of Oz Collection) by L. Frank Baum (2014) Paperback

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Welcome to the Wonderful World of Oz! Collected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the beloved series starring such timeless characters as Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. Included in 'The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: The Complete Collection of the Oz Series (Illustrated)' are: • All fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum. • An individual ... Read more

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  • Film: A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

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  • The Design Way, second edition

    Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World

    A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world.Humans did not discover fire—they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things—technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of thinking—we engage in design. With this expansive view of design ... Read more

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  • Musica, danza, teatro

    Scritti ritrovati 1937-1986

    by Cesare Brandi ...
    Cesare Brandi non è stato soltanto un grande storico e teorico dell'arte, ma anche un finissimo conoscitore delle arti dello spettacolo. Questo volume raccoglie recensioni, interventi, polemiche su argomenti come la musica, la danza e il teatro, scritti da Brandi dagli anni Trenta agli anni Ottanta dello scorso secolo e pubblicati su "L'Immagine", sul "Corriere della Sera" o presentati in varie ... Read more

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  • Panaesthetics

    On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts

    Series series Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities
    While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many. In this fascinating book, Daniel Albright addresses the fundamental question of comparative arts: Are there many different arts, or is there one art which takes different forms? He considers various artistic media, especially literature, music, and painting, to discover ... Read more

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  • Da sitzt das Scheusal wieder

    Die besten Theaterkritiken

    Die kurzweiligsten und angriffslustigsten Theaterkritiken Fontanes. Lachen entwaffne die Kritik, meint Fontane, unfreiwillig Komisches aber rufe den Theaterkritiker auf den Plan. Mit Fontane sitzen wir auf Parkettplatz 23 im Königlichen Schauspielhaus Berlin. Ob Klassiker oder Kassenschlager, ob französisches Theater oder „Freie Bühne“: Unvoreingenommen, aber mit scharfer Zunge beobachtet er den ... Read more

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  • Un colore tira l'altro

    Diario cromatico

    Michel Pastoureau è un uomo che non si annoia mai. Gli piace sedersi da qualche parte e osservare le persone, come sono vestite, cosa dicono, raffigurarsele nel contesto in cui vivono. Porta sempre con sé qualche foglio di carta e una matita, per disegnare e annotare le sue riflessioni. In treno, ai giardini, in spiaggia, al supermercato, ogni spunto è buono per lui per fermarsi a osservare e ... Read more

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  • Harald Szeemann

    Un caso singolare

    Series Book Volumi - Il punto J&L
    Nel settembre del 1988 una giovane Nathalie Heinich fa visita ad Harald Szeemann nel suo studio sul Monte Verità. Heinich è lì per intervistarlo, vuole trovare conferma a un’intuizione: la figura del curatore è sempre più assimilabile a quella di autore e nessuno può dirlo meglio di Szeemann, che realizza mostre da trent’anni e ha ridefinito le pratiche curatoriali secondo una metodologia ... Read more

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  • Ritmi universali

    by Piet Mondrian ...
    Translated by Alessandro Terraboni ...
    Negli anni Venti Piet Mondrian è a Parigi, e nel clima di apertura intellettuale della capitale francese il pittore sviluppa il suo percorso verso un’arte di astrazione. Fondamentale in tale progresso è la musica. In quel periodo, infatti, Mondrian viene a contatto con il jazz e i balli da sala americani, quali il fox-trot e il charleston, mentre al Théatre des Champs-Elysées assiste alle ... Read more

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  • Nocturne

    Night in American Art, 1890-1917

    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern AmericaThe turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the ... Read more

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  • Abitare la Terra n.41/2017 – Dwelling on Earth

    Rivista di geoarchitettura

    editoriale / editorial La maschera verde The green mask Paolo Portoghesi Maria Beatrice Andreucci Boeri Studio Bosco verticale Vertical forest Lucia Galli Elio Fiore Anna Magnani Danilo Iervolino Next. La società 4.0 Next. society 4.0 Corrado Di Domenico Architettura di / Architecture by Renato Rizzi Il teatro elisabettiano di Danzica The elizabethan theatre in Gdansk Mario Pisani ZAO ... Read more

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  • Il mondo che ho visto

    by Mario Praz ...
    Questo libro è l’ultimo lavoro a cui si dedicò Mario Praz: una vasta scelta dai suoi scritti di viaggio (in buona parte mai prima raccolti), preceduta da un’introduzione inedita, che è un magistrale profilo della storia del Grand Tour. In queste pagine Praz osserva che «pochi viaggiatori sanno essere personali, sanno vedere con occhi che penetrano nell’essenza delle cose» – e accenna a certi ... Read more

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