Raiding the Icebox

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789604117
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis Raiding the Icebox by : Peter Wollen

Download or read book Raiding the Icebox written by Peter Wollen and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art. Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet, Wollen argues that modernism has always had a hidden, suppressed side which cannot easily be absorbed into the master-narrative of modernity. Wollen reviews the hopes, fears and expectations of artists and critics such as the Bauhaus movement, as fascinated by Henry Ford's assembly line as they were by the Hollywood dream factory, concluding with Guy Debord's caustic dystopian vision of an all-consuming "Society of the Spectacle." Finally, Wollen chronicles the emergence of a subversive sensibility as he explores some of the unexpected new cultural forms which non-Western artists are taking as modernism enters into crisis at the beginning of a new century: reversing the rules of the game and raiding the icebox of the West.

Raid the Icebox Now

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ISBN 13 : 9780578611907
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Raid the Icebox Now written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andy Warhol’s Raid the Icebox exhibition [held at the RISD Museum of Art, April 23-June 30, 1970], and the many similar museum projects it has spawned throughout the world over the past fifty years allow us to reconsider what storage is and might be. How do we recuperate the lost narratives residing in storage? How do we write new histories? How do objects that have become disassociated from their original contexts acquire fresh lives? How does storage evolve from a problem to be solved to an opportunity for discovery?"--Prelude.

The Artist as Curator

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Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783960981787
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Book Synopsis The Artist as Curator by : Elena Filipovic

Download or read book The Artist as Curator written by Elena Filipovic and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an anthology of essays that first appeared in The Artist as Curator, a series that occupied eleven issues of Mousse from no. 41 (December 2013/January 2014) to no. 51 (December 2015/January 2016). It set out to examine what was then a profoundly influential but still under-studied phenomenon, a history that had yet to be written: the fundamental role artists have played as curators. Taking that ontologically ambiguous thing we call "the exhibition" as a critical medium, artists have often radically rethought conventional forms of exhibition making. This anthology surveys seminal examples of such exhibitions from the postwar to the present, including rare documents and illustrations. It includes an introduction and the twenty essays that first appeared in Mousse, a newly commissioned afterword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and two additional essays that appear here for the first time."

Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138769524X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (876 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid by : Martin Caidin

Download or read book Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid written by Martin Caidin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Caidin's Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid tells of the United States Air Force's massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany's industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses - escorted by squadrons of nimble P-47 Thunderbolts - miraculously fought their way through swarms of Messerschmitt Me-109's, Focke-Wulf FW-190's, Heinkel He-113's and more on their way to cripple the enemy's vital ball-bearings plant at Schweinfurt.

In/Different Spaces

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520202993
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis In/Different Spaces by : Victor Burgin

Download or read book In/Different Spaces written by Victor Burgin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-12-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book on art and philosophy

Addressing the Century

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Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Book Synopsis Addressing the Century by : Peter Wollen

Download or read book Addressing the Century written by Peter Wollen and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the converging worlds of art and fashion in the twentieth century.

Signs and Meaning in the Cinema

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253181411
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by : Peter Wollen

Download or read book Signs and Meaning in the Cinema written by Peter Wollen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." --Cinema "... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry--from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists--in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." --Times Literary Supplement

Vintage Cakes

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Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607741032
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Vintage Cakes by : Julie Richardson

Download or read book Vintage Cakes written by Julie Richardson and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming collection of updated recipes for both classic and forgotten cakes, from a timeless yellow birthday cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, to the new holiday standard, Gingerbread Icebox Cake with Mascarpone Mousse, written by a master baker and coauthor of Rustic Fruit Desserts. Make every occasion—the annual bake sale, a birthday party, or even a simple Sunday supper—a celebration with this charming collection of more than 50 remastered classics. Each recipe in Vintage Cakes is a confectionary stroll down memory lane. After sifting through her treasure trove of cookbooks and recipe cards, master baker and author Julie Richardson selected the most inventive, surprising, and just plain delicious cakes she could find. The result is a delightful and delectable time capsule of American baking, with recipes spanning a century. With precise and careful guidance, Richardson guides home bakers—whether total beginners or seasoned cooks—toward picture-perfect meringues, extra-creamy frostings, and lighter-than-air chiffons. A few of the dreamy cakes that await: a chocolatey Texas Sheet Cake as large and abundant as its namesake state, the boozy Not for Children Gingerbread Bundt cake, and the sublime Lovelight Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Whipped Cream. With recipes to make Betty Crocker proud, these nostalgic and foolproof sweets rekindle our love affair with cakes.

Visual Display

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Publisher : Bay Press (WA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Visual Display by : Lynne Cooke

Download or read book Visual Display written by Lynne Cooke and published by Bay Press (WA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "highly recommended" (Library Journal) contribution to interdisciplinary debate about how cultural differences are implicit within visual forms.

Bush At War

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471104699
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Bush At War by : Bob Woodward

Download or read book Bush At War written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet, make BUSH AT WAR an unprecedented chronicle of a modern presidency in a time of grave crisis. Based on interviews with more than a hundred sources and four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, BUSH AT WAR reveals Bush's sweeping, almost grandiose vision for remaking the world. Woodward's virtual wiretap into the White House Situation Room reveals a stunning group portrait of an untested president and his advisers, three of whom might themselves have made it to the presidency. In BUSH AT WAR, Bob Woodward once again delivers a reporting tour de force.

Readings and Writings

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 086091755X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Readings and Writings by : Peter Wollen

Download or read book Readings and Writings written by Peter Wollen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1985-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant-gardes in film and in painting—these are among the many topics of Peter Wollen’s essays. Interwoven with fictional treatments of such themes as memory, dream, sexuality and writing, they compose a remarkable, perhaps unique, volume. These “readings and writings” are informed by Marxism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the history of art itself. Their concern is with signification: with the ways in which meanings are produced in dominant art forms and with the counter-strategies by which these meanings may be questioned or dislodged, in the practice of politically and aesthetically radical alternatives. A concluding retrospect reviews the political, intellectual and aesthetic avant-garde currents of the fifteen years over which these texts were written, outlining some perspectives for oppositional art today.

Howard Hawks

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Howard Hawks by : Jim Hillier

Download or read book Howard Hawks written by Jim Hillier and published by . This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of the best criticism produced about Hawks' films. Among the critics collected together in this book are Andrew Sarris and Robin Wood who go towards demonstrating the coherence and integrity of Hawks' work.

The Origins of Postmodernity

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842225
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis The Origins of Postmodernity by : Perry Anderson

Download or read book The Origins of Postmodernity written by Perry Anderson and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the genesis, consolidation and consequences of the postmodern idea. Beginning in the Hispanic world of the 1930s, the text takes the reader through to the 70s, when Lyotard and Habermas gave the idea of postmodernism wider currency and finally the 90s, with the work of Fredric Jameson.

A Wing and a Prayer

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067320
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis A Wing and a Prayer by : Harry H. Crosby

Download or read book A Wing and a Prayer written by Harry H. Crosby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling account of the air war against Germany” written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV’s Masters of the Air (Publishers Weekly). They began operations out of England in the spring of ’43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the “Bloody Hundredth” a legend. Harry H. Crosby—depicted in the miniseries Masters of the Air developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg—arrived with the very first crews, and left with the very last. After dealing with his fear and gaining in skill and confidence, he was promoted to Group Navigator, surviving hairbreadth escapes and eluding death while leading thirty-seven missions, some of them involving two thousand aircraft. Now, in a breathtaking and often humorous account, he takes us into the hearts and minds of these intrepid airmen to experience both the triumph and the white-knuckle terror of the war in the skies. “Affecting . . . A vivid account . . . Uncommonly thoughtful recollections that address the moral ambiguities of a great cause without in any way denigrating the selfless valor or camaraderie that helped ennoble it.” —Kirkus Reviews “Re-creates for us the sense of how it was when European skies were filled with noise and danger, when the fate of millions hung in the balance. An evocative and excellent memoir.” —Library Journal “The acrid stench of fear and cordite, the coal burning stoves, the heroics, the losses . . . This has to be the best memoir I have read, bar none.” —George Hicks, director of the Airmen Memorial Museum

Fashion and Orientalism

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0857854267
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Book Synopsis Fashion and Orientalism by : Adam Geczy

Download or read book Fashion and Orientalism written by Adam Geczy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientalism is a central factor within the fashion system, both subtle and overt. In this groundbreaking book, the author shows the extent of the influence that the Orient had, and continues to have, on fashion. Our concept of Western fashion is unthinkable without it, whether in terms of the growth of the cotton industry or of garments we take for granted, such as the dressing gown. From pre-modern to contemporary times, this book demonstrates that, in the realms of fashion, the Orient is not simply a construction or a fascination of the imperial West with its eastern other. Rather, it reveals the extent of cross-pollination, exchange and multiple translation that has taken place between East and West for the last 500 years. Exploring topics including Chinoiserie, masquerade, bohemianism, Japonisme, the "de-Orientalization" of the Orient, perfume and the birth of couture, Fashion and Orientalism is an essential read for students and scholars of fashion, cultural studies and history.

438 Days

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501116290
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis 438 Days by : Jonathan Franklin

Download or read book 438 Days written by Jonathan Franklin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

Double Vision

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 152473294X
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis Double Vision by : William Middleton

Download or read book Double Vision written by William Middleton and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ART BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ARTNEWS** The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights. Dominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston, they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum. Now, with unprecedented access to family archives, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace, to their own early years in France, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect, and we see how, by the 1960s, their collection had grown to include 17,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, rare books, and decorative objects. And here is, as well, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in.