Leaving the Atocha Station

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Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892929
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving the Atocha Station by : Ben Lerner

Download or read book Leaving the Atocha Station written by Ben Lerner and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.

Dryland

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ISBN 13 : 9781735869032
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Dryland by : Viva Padilla

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel

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Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0316323799
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel by : Ransom Riggs

Download or read book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel written by Ransom Riggs and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple forgeries designed to stir up his youthful imagination. Or were they...? Following his grandfather's death - a scene Jacob literally couldn't believe with his own eyes - the sixteen-year-old boy embarks on a mission to disentangle fact from fiction in his grandfather's tall tales. But even his grandfather's elaborate yarns couldn't prepare Jacob for the eccentricities he will discover at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!

Urban Exile

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903491
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Exile by : Harry Gamboa, Jr.

Download or read book Urban Exile written by Harry Gamboa, Jr. and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, installation, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own creation. Working in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Gamboa has pioneered multimedia formats for nearly three decades, setting a precedent for the work of artists such as Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Daniel J. Martinez. Urban Exile gathers Gamboa's diverse creations in a visually compelling collection that reveals a rich vein of Chicano avant-garde production reaching back to the early 1970s. Gamboa was a founding member of Asco (1972-1987), the East L.A. multimedia art group that critically satirized high art and cinema while parodying the utopian nationalism of the Chicano Arts Movement. Urban Exile comprises works Gamboa created with Asco as well as solo efforts -- Mexican fotonovelas rewritten as performance pieces, mail art, No Movies (images presented as stills from nonexistent movies). Firmly grounded in the megalopolis of Los Angeles, these texts present a unique perspective on the bizarre racialized and class-stratified fabric of that city -- the "urban desert in ruins". Gamboa's work is crucial to an understanding not only of Chicano art but also of the post-1968 avant-garde in the United States; he consistently debunks traditional categories, creates innovative alternatives, and reveals a history rendered invisible by the dominant art institutions and media industries. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes dreamlike, always unexpected, these texts present a compelling critique of urban life at the end of the millennium and are essential reading for all "orphans of modernism".

Joy Division

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ISBN 13 : 9781911253334
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Book Synopsis Joy Division by : Glenn Brown

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Aztlangst 2

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781477615829
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Aztlangst 2 written by Harry Gamboa, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aztlangst 2, a fotonovela written/photographed/designed by Harry Gamboa Jr. and performed by Virtual Verite. Aztlangst 2 satirizes contemporary capitalism, surveillance, and popular culture. Definition: Aztlangst a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition and/or the state of Aztlan in general... Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has been actively creating works in various media that documents and interprets the contemporary urban Chicano experience. He co-founded Asco (Spanish for nausea) 1972-1987, the East L.A. conceptual-performance art group. In 2005, he founded Virtual Verite, an ensemble performance troupe that is engaged to realize photo/media projects, fotonovelas, audio plays, and ephemeral actions in Los Angeles, Mexico City, Antwerpen, Paris, and other world-class cities. His work has been exhibited in major museums throughout the United States, Mexico, England, and France. He is a faculty member of the Photo/Media Program at California Institute of the Arts."

Young Austerlitz

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Young Austerlitz by : Winfried Georg Sebald

Download or read book Young Austerlitz written by Winfried Georg Sebald and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Young Austerlitz taken from the last book W. G. Sebald saw published we are told the story of a man who learns that his past is a lie.

Unrecounted

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217262
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Unrecounted by : Winfried Georg Sebald

Download or read book Unrecounted written by Winfried Georg Sebald and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his "micropoems"--miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works--with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp. The lithographs portray, with stunning precision, pairs of eyes--the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Maurice. Brief as haiku, the poems are epiphanic and anti-narrative. What the author calls "time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death" here find a small home. The art and poems do not explain one another, but rather engage in a kind of dialogue. "The longer I look at the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp," Sebald comments in his essay, "the better I understand that behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the metaphysical lining of reality, so to speak."

Witnessing, Memory, Poetics

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Publisher : Studies in German Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781571135896
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Book Synopsis Witnessing, Memory, Poetics by : Helen Cleugh Finch

Download or read book Witnessing, Memory, Poetics written by Helen Cleugh Finch and published by Studies in German Literature. This book was released on 2014 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945.

Gronk

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780895511010
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Gronk by : Max Benavidez

Download or read book Gronk written by Max Benavidez and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gronk was born in 1954 in the barrios of East Los Angeles. An autodidact by circumstance, he began his career as an urban muralist who had to look up the word “mural” to know whether he could paint one. Over time, he has grown into an international figure who has created grand sets for operas and computerized animation for panoramic screens. In this sweeping examination of Gronk's oeuvre, Max Benavidez elucidates how the artist can cross genres, sexual categories, and ethnic barriers, yet still remain true to himself. From street murals to mail art, from large-scale action painting to performance art and operatic set design, Gronk has made a lasting mark on the Chicano art movement, the punk scene, gay art, and the cultural world stage. As a founder of the East L.A. avant-garde art collective Asco (Spanish for nausea), Gronk and his contemporaries responded to Hollywood's rejection of Chicanos by creating a conceptual countercinema, the No Movie, that incorporated Hollywood imagery and style even as it wickedly dissected the banality and biases of the mass media. In collaborations with Cyclona, Mundo Meza, Jerry Dreva, and Tomata DuPlenty, Gronk challenged the limits of sexuality, gender norms, and taste. What Benavidez ultimately reveals is Gronk's uncanny power to reinvent himself and his art, moving through one vivid artistic and subcultural scene to another. Add large doses of Gronk's wit, irony, and talent and you have the story of his major contribution not only to Chicano art but to late twentieth-century culture. Max Benavidez is a writer, independent scholar, essayist for the Los Angeles Times, and a consultant to a wide range of cultural and academic institutions.

For Years Now

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Publisher : Short Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis For Years Now by : Winfried Georg Sebald

Download or read book For Years Now written by Winfried Georg Sebald and published by Short Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a collaboration between two artists. It contains 23 short poems by W.G. Sebald, each of them paired with a related image by Tess Jaray. The oblique nature of his poems complements the tension and weightlessness of her works.

The Emergence of Memory

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800613
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Memory by : W.G. Sebald

Download or read book The Emergence of Memory written by W.G. Sebald and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation. With contributions from poet, essayist, and translator Charles Simic, New Republic editor Ruth Franklin, Bookworm radio host Michael Silverblatt, and more, The Emergence of Memory offers Sebald’s own voice in interviews between 1997 up to a month before his death in 2001. Also included are cogent accounts of almost all of Sebald’s books, thematically linked to events in the contributors’ own lives. Contributors include Carole Angier, Joseph Cuomo, Ruth Franklin, Michael Hofmann, Arthur Lubow, Tim Parks, Michael Silverblatt, Charles Simic, and Eleanor Wachtel.

The Cinematic Works

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cinematic Works by : Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Download or read book The Cinematic Works written by Eija-Liisa Ahtila and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The films deal with separations, teenage girls' sexuality, relationships among family members, mental disintegration, and death. They investigate the processes of perception and the attribution of meaning, while the installations break down the story and divide it across the exhibition space. The stories are based on interviews and research, the results being transformed into material for the imagination during the scriptwriting process. The impossibilities generated by the imagination are seemlessly incorporated into realistic settings using special cinematic techniques, and it is these fantastic events that give Ahtila's films their distinctive style.--Container.

Culture Clash

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366842
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Culture Clash written by Culture Clash and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-person troupe is unique not only for its imaginative explorations of contemporary Latin/Chicano culture but also for its vision of a society in transition.

Made in Aztlan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Book Synopsis Made in Aztlan by : Philip Brookman

Download or read book Made in Aztlan written by Philip Brookman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalog, the exhibit, "Made in Aztlán," and special events are an attempt to present and credit those individuals and groups that have helped move the Centro along. Four essays, written by Philip Brookman, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, omás Ybarra-Fraust and Shifra Goldman will also attempt to put in perspective these attitudes and developments over the course of time and the lay of the land--Mexico, the U.S., Aztlán and the rest of the world. -- Introduction.

Chicanos and Film

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Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Book Synopsis Chicanos and Film by : Chon A. Noriega

Download or read book Chicanos and Film written by Chon A. Noriega and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cantos

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Cantos written by Alfred Arteaga and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: