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Nothing Ever Just Disappears

Author : Diarmuid Hester
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639365567
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Ever Just Disappears written by Diarmuid Hester and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of artistic freedom, survival, and the hidden places of the imagination, including James Baldwin in Provence, Josephine Baker in Paris, Kevin Killian in San Francisco, and E. M. Forster in Cambridge, among other groundbreaking queer artists of the twentieth century. Nothing Ever Just Disappears is radical new history of seven queer lives and the places that shaped these groundbreaking artists. At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams about the sun-warmed bodies of ancient Greece. Under the dazzling lights of interwar Paris, Josephine Baker dances her way to fame and fortune and discovers sexual freedom backstage at the Folies Bergère. And on Jersey Island, in the darkest days of Nazi occupation, the transgressive surrealist Claude Cahun mounts an extraordinary resistance to save the island she loves, scattering hundreds of dissident artworks along its streets and shorelines. Nothing Ever Just Disappears brings to life the stories of seven remarkable figures and illuminates the connections between where they lived, who they loved, and the art they created. It shows that a queer sense of place is central to the history of the twentieth century and powerfully evokes how much is lost when queer spaces are forgotten. From the suffragettes in London and James Baldwin's home in Provence, to Kevin Killian's San Francisco and Derek Jarman’s cottage in Kent, this is both a thrilling new literary history and a celebration of freedom, survival, and the hidden places of the imagination.

Fandom as Methodology

Author : Catherine Grant
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 191268523X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Fandom as Methodology written by Catherine Grant and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated exploration of fandom that combines academic essays with artist pages and experimental texts. Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. Key to the idea of “fandom as methodology” is a focus on the potential for fandom in art to create oppositional spaces, communities, and practices, particularly from queer perspectives, but also through transnational, feminist and artist-of-color fandoms. The book provides a range of examples of artists and writers working in this vein, as well as academic essays that explore the ways in which fandom can be theorized as a methodology for art practice and art history. Fandom as Methodology proposes that many artists and art writers already draw on affective strategies found in fandom. With the current focus in many areas of art history, art writing, and performance studies around affective engagement with artworks and imaginative potentials, fandom is a key methodology that has yet to be explored. Interwoven into the academic essays are lavishly designed artist pages in which artists offer an introduction to their use of fandom as methodology. Contributors Taylor J. Acosta, Catherine Grant, Dominic Johnson, Kate Random Love, Maud Lavin, Owen G. Parry, Alice Butler, SooJin Lee, Jenny Lin, Judy Batalion, Ika Willis. Artists featured in the artist pages Jeremy Deller, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Anna Bunting-Branch, Maria Fusco, Cathy Lomax, Kamau Amu Patton, Holly Pester, Dawn Mellor, Michelle Williams Gamaker, The Women of Colour Index Reading Group, Liv Wynter, Zhiyuan Yang

Sabu

Author : Michael Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838717900
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Sabu written by Michael Lawrence and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Indian to become an international film star, Sabu rose to fame as a child actor in Elephant Boy (1937), and subsequently appeared in a succession of British pictures before relocating to Hollywood, where he died in 1963. Repeatedly cast in orientalist extravaganzas and jungle thrillers, he was associated with the 'exotic' and the 'primitive' in ways that reflected contemporary attitudes towards India and 'the East' more generally. In this captivating study, Michael Lawrence explores the historical, political, cultural contexts of Sabu's popularity as a star, and considers the technological and industrial shifts that shaped his career – from the emergence of Technicolor in the late 1930s to the breakdown of the studio system in the 1950s. Attending to the detail of Sabu's distinctively physical performances, Lawrence shows how his agency as an actor enabled him to endure, exceed and exploit his unique star image.

The American Play

Author : Marc Robinson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015612X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The American Play written by Marc Robinson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.

Flaming Creatures

Author : Constantine Verevis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851308
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Flaming Creatures written by Constantine Verevis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smith’s incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause célèbre of the New York underground. Championed and defended by Jonas Mekas and Susan Sontag, among others, the film wildly and gleefully transgresses nearly every norm of Hollywood morality and aesthetics. In a surreal and visually dense series of episodes, the titular “creatures” reenact scenes drawn from the collective cinematic unconscious, playing on mainstream film culture’s moral code in a way that is at once a love letter to classical Hollywood and a searing send-up of its absurdities. Tracing the film’s production and reception history, Constantine Verevis argues that it embodies a unique type of cinematic rewriting, one that combines Smith’s multifaceted artistic work with exotic fragments drawn from the cinematic past. This study of Smith’s magnum opus explores its status as a cult film that appropriates the visual texture, erotic nuance, and overt fabrication of old Hollywood exoticism.

Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

Author : Powers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019768338X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture written by Powers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them with meanings and values adjacent to those of semiprofessional film culture. By reasserting the physicality of the body in making time-lapse and kinesthetic sequences with the Bolex, filmmakers conversed with other art forms and integrated broader spheres of humanistic and scientific inquiry into their artistic process. Drawing from the photographic qualities of stocks such as Tri-X and Kodachrome, they discovered pliant metaphors that allowed them to connect their artistic practice to metaphysics, spiritualism, and Hollywood excess. By framing film labs as mystical or adversarial, they cultivated an oppositionality that valorized control over the artistic process. And by using the optical printer as a tool for excavating latent meaning out of found footage, they posited the reworking of images as fundamental to the exploration of personal and cultural identity. Providing a wealth of new detail about the making of canonized avant-garde classics by such luminaries as Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage, as well as rediscovering works from overlooked artists such as Chick Strand, Amy Halpern, and Gunvor Nelson, Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture uses technology as a lens for examining the process of making: where ideas come from, how they are put into practice, and how arguments about those ideas foster cultural and artistic commitments and communities.

The Taylor Mac Book

Author : David Roman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472220020
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The Taylor Mac Book written by David Roman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes designed by collaborator Machine Dazzle, sang the history of the United States for 24 straight hours in October 2016. The MacArthur Foundation soon thereafter awarded their “genius” award to a “writer, director, actor, singer, and performance artist whose fearlessly experimental works dramatize the power of theater as a space for building community . . . [and who] interacts with the audience to inspire a reconsideration of assumptions about gender, identity, ethnicity, and performance itself.” Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac’s theatrical imagination, the singularity of their voice, the inclusiveness of their cultural insights and critiques, and the creativity they display through stylistic and formal qualities and the unorthodoxies of their personal and professional trajectories. Contributors consider the range of Mac’s career as a playwright, performer, actor, and singer, expanding and enriching the conversation on this much-celebrated and deeply resonant body of work.

The First Traitor

Author : R. S. Twells
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039140866
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The First Traitor written by R. S. Twells and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heading into his final year at the secret spy school known as the Orphanage, Bennet is hoping to get through to graduation with no hiccups. With the help of his classmate, Darcy, Bennet has moved on from the death of his brother, Collin, last fall. He's successfully started training as a field agent, and he's managed to earn the respect of the agents at the Orphanage with his successful assignment against an oil tyrant last June. He’s confident nothing can stop him from having a terrific final year. But events soon prove him wrong. The Orphanage is frantically on the hunt for the mysterious person known as the Shepherd, who they are convinced is set on wreaking havoc in the world. Bennet and Darcy have been kicked off the assignment and told to focus on their training. But during a routine assignment to Google headquarters, Bennet encounters the last person he expected to see—and barely survives. In the aftermath, Bennet feels like someone is shadowing him every time he leaves the Orphanage. No one believes him except Oliver, the new kid from the organization’s British location. He teams up with Bennet to try to find and stop this unknown shadow. On a class assignment, Bennet and Oliver risk everything to catch Bennet’s shadow and come face to face with a ghost from Bennet's past who forces him to make some difficult decisions. Who is his family? Whom can he trust? Will he become a traitor? Or . . . is a traitor already among them?

Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool

Author : Jack Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852424282
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool written by Jack Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'During thirty years ... as a filmmaker, photographer, and performer, Jack Smith produced a body of creative, antic writing that intersects and transcends the genres of hothouse fantasy, criticism, and social comment. Bringing together long unavailable essays, performance scripts, interviews, and other material, [this compilation] reveals the ideas and personality of an artist whose distinctive vision has influenced generations of filmmakers and performance artists"--Provided by publisher.

Myth's Treasure

Author : John Ulanich
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469135876
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Myth's Treasure written by John Ulanich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Saturday, a statue come to life in a strange garden. He leaves it to discover that life is different in other places. He finds a kingdom of flying toads, and then a labyrinth containing even more life. Saturday explores the maze and learns about the creatures that inhabit it. He finds out about art, music, and other important things. Then he finds out how big his adventure really is. Witness the story through his eyes, and let it become your experience as well. But a word of caution; this existential fairy tale is not for the weak of heart. Abandon all despair, all ye who find... Myth's Treasure.

Debts and Vows: The Deirdre and Elio Duet Box Set

Author : Vero Heath
Publisher : Peace Weaver Press Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debts and Vows: The Deirdre and Elio Duet Box Set written by Vero Heath and published by Peace Weaver Press Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic dark mafia duet now in one single volume... A Debt So Ruthless At the stroke of midnight on my twentieth birthday, he comes in darkness and in blood. Elio Titone, heir to Toronto’s most brutal Cosa Nostra famiglia. Elio has come for one thing and one thing only – to claim what he is owed. And what he’s owed is me. My captor is dangerous and demanding. Tortured, possessive, and wealthy beyond belief. He traps me in his gilded, violent world and offers me no hope of escape. But the longer I spend with him, with his dark eyes and scarred hands, the less I want to claw my way out of his cage. When new enemies threaten me, I see a side of Elio I didn’t know existed – a ruthlessly protective side. He forces me to do the one thing that guarantees my safety, even if it means I’ll forever be his prisoner. I’ll no longer be shackled by debt, but by marriage vows. Because he’ll make me his bride. A Vow So Soulless I’ve taken everything from my Songbird. Her freedom. Her innocence. Even her name. She’ll no longer be known as Deirdre O’Malley, but Deirdre Titone. My wife. Whether she wants to be or not. It’s the only real way to show this city who she belongs to. The only way to tell the world that she’s as protected as she is possessed. I’ll keep her safe, even if there’s no one left to keep her safe from me. My Songbird made me believe in souls again. And maybe I don’t have one. Maybe I never did. But she does. And I won’t stop until I’ve taken it along with everything else. Debts and Vows is the complete Deirdre and Elio dark mafia duet collection boxset. It contains the novels A Debt So Ruthless and A Vow So Soulless by Vero Heath. It is a dark, steamy, age-gap mafia romance ideal for fans of Jill Ramsower, BB Easton, and SJ Tilly.

Beyond the Dream Syndicate

Author : Branden W. Joseph
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Dream Syndicate written by Branden W. Joseph and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Tony Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections in 1960s art. Tony Conrad has significantly influenced cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, "concept art," postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt's radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and the first incarnation of The Velvet Underground, and early associate of Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman, Conrad has eluded canonic histories. Yet Beyond the Dream Syndicate does not claim Conrad as a major but under-recognized figure. Neither monograph nor social history, the book takes Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections in 1960s art. Such an approach simultaneously illuminates and estranges current understandings of the period, redrawing the map across medium and stylistic boundaries to reveal a constitutive hybridization at the base of the decade's artistic development. This exploration of Conrad and his milieu goes beyond the presentation of a relatively overlooked oeuvre to chart multiple, contestatory regimes of power simultaneously in play during the pivotal moment of the 1960s. From the sovereign authority invoked by Young's music, to the "paranoiac" politics of Flynt, to the immanent control modeled by Conrad's films, each avant-garde project examined reveals an investment within a particular structure of power and resistance, providing a glimpse into the diversity of the artistic and political stakes that continue to define our time.

The Rest is Silence

Author : Carla Guelfenbein
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1846273501
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Rest is Silence written by Carla Guelfenbein and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the adults sit down to gossip over a long wedding lunch and the rest of the children rush off to play, a young boy slips out of sight beneath the table. Tommy is twelve years old but his weak heart prevents him from joining his cousins' games, so he sets his MP3 player to record the voices chattering above him. But then the conversation turns to his mother's death and he overhears something he was never meant to know: that she didn't die of an illness, but took her own life. Confused and hurt, Tommy keeps what he has learned to himself and begins his own secret investigation into what really happened. At the same time, his father and stepmother have problems of their own to contend with. Juan is racked by private grief and guilt after the death of one of his patients, and Alma, his second wife, senses an increasing distance in their marriage and gradually finds herself drawn back towards an old flame. As all three withdraw into their own worlds, leaving more and more unsaid between them, their family story moves inexorably, affectingly towards its devastating conclusion.

The Boy's Own Annual

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Boy's Own Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lilith's Reflection

Author : Brigitte Wynn Karey
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466936436
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Lilith's Reflection written by Brigitte Wynn Karey and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilith's Reflection explores the concept of possibilities rather than facts. If facts dominate most of our daily thinking, we'd leave out possibilities that might exist in our lives-the unseen from other dimensions that intercept our paths of life. Things or events exist for a reason, and there is more than one way to look into every situation. Lilith was introduced as an orphan and a tragic victim who was abandoned by her psychopathic father at the age of six. She was mentally not well, she thought at first. Now she realized her condition has never been that simple. Her illness wasn't strong enough to poison her mind, but something else was. Her mental illness was just the image she portrayed to others, but her true self was far beyond her sickness. Love, in this novel, is represented in an unnoticeable and unusual way rather than in a traditional way. There is no such thing as the "correct" or the "wrong" way of loving someone. Love could be in holiness, or love could be in such sinfulness, but love is love. Lilith, after countless struggles with her search for true love, she had found not only her greatest love of all, but also her "true" soul mate, not for one life, but for eternity. Author Brigitte Wynn Karey is a lover of words. The author expresses her thoughts not only to her audiences but also to herself. Her ability to use words to express her thoughts creatively in her own way was excellent. The imagination created in this book would let the audiences enjoy their mental imaginary visions as well as to open up the possibilities that they might have missed out.

Tarzan and Jane's Guide to Grammar

Author : Mark Phillips
Publisher : A J Cornell Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780972743938
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Tarzan and Jane's Guide to Grammar written by Mark Phillips and published by A J Cornell Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Phillips has taught at Northwestern University, had worked as an editor in the publishing field for more than 30 years, and is the author of eight books. He resides in Bayside, NY.

Silent Terror

Author : Helena Cowan
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146695521X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Silent Terror written by Helena Cowan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Terror has a powerful message for all adult readers. Treated cruelly by her mother Ilona's spirituality is rooted in her six-year old heart when she discovers the old rugged cross. Rape and rape attempts during WWII mature Ilona very quickly. Under the Communist regime she experiences theft, dishonesty, hatefulness and disregard for dignity and humanity. Ilona is pressured into an arranged marriage with a vindictive man, who defrauds the Communist military and is targeted for elimination. To save his life, she is forced by her husband to flee during the Hungarian revolution with two toddlers. After their struggle to freedom in January, they are captured at the Austrian border. While being shipped to a Siberian labor camp, they jump the train and sneak by the Russian patrols to catch a train to the Yugoslavian border, where they are captured again. Under tight security in a former concentration camp, near starvation, Ilona literally eats dirt to save her children's lives. When she finally gains her freedom and arrives in Canada, her troubles are not over. The description of these tragic events has all the sharpness and intensity of a fictionalized action adventure or mystery thriller story. Except that is real. The details are fascinating and spot on and give away the fact this actually took place. Sometimes it is grim to handle the silent terrors of life, but with faith it is possible. By reading Silent Terror you will realize it yourself.