Download or read book Everything Flowers written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time are the beautiful and exotic paintings of Clare Rojas. One of the San Francisco Bay Area's most beloved art stars, Rojas is influenced by craft, folk art, and the beauty and wisdom of the garden. Her work weaves together flowers, plants, animals, and various folk figures to create mysterious narratives. Through the language of flowersdelicate yet resilient, powerful yet flexibleRojas tells enchanting stories with color.
Download or read book We Need a Horse written by Sheila Heti and published by McSweeney's McMullens. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A speckled horse wonders why he was made a horse and discovers that everything in the world has purpose, created to bring joy to someone or something else.
Download or read book Clare Rojas written by Clare Rojas and published by Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University. This book was released on 2007 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Michael Rush. Edited by Raphaela Platow. Text by Raphaela Platow, Suzanne Snider.
Download or read book Barry McGee written by Barry McGee and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Aaron Rose.
Download or read book Prospect 1 New Orleans written by Dan Cameron and published by Picturebox, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the accompanying publication to the largest exhibition of contemporary art ever assembled in the U.S., the Prospect.1 New Orleans catalogue is one of the most sought-after art books of 2008-09. Featuring new illustrated essays on New Orleans and its place in twenty-first century America by Prospect.1 organizer Dan Cameron, art historian Barbara Bloemink, journalist Lolis Eric Elie and curator Claire Tancons, the book also includes a fully illustrated section on each of the 81 participating artists, who include William Kentridge, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Fred Tomaselli, Cai Guo Qiang, Sanford Biggers, Tony Fitzpatrick, Amy Sillman, Malick Sidibe, Clare E. Rojas and Monica Bonvicini, among many others. Locating contemporary art in the cauldron that is New Orleans adds a new dimension to the book and its visuals: It's an incisive statement on art making and humanity today. Dan Cameron, the Director and Curator of Prospect.1 New Orleans, is an international New York-based curator who was inspired to organize an exhibition in New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Cameron has been a frequent visitor to New Orleans since the late 1980s, and he organized the 1995 New Orleans Triennial for the New Orleans Museum of Art. In May 2007 Cameron took on the position of Visual Arts Director at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), one of the leading venues for new art in the South, and a principal venue for Prospect.1 New Orleans.
Download or read book Painting with Words Writing with Pictures written by Franco Ricci and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricci's book ranges widely over Calvino's oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative. The book's main theme is the difficult interface between word and image that Calvino struggled with throughout his career, the act of perception that rendered visible that which was invisible and transformed what was seen into what is read. Ricci holds that Calvino's narrative has an 'imagocentric' program and that his literary strategy is 'ekphrastic' i.e. it is characterized by literary description of visual representation, real or imaginary. The book is interdisciplinary in nature and will interest not only scholars of literature but also those who work with the visual arts and with information technology.
Download or read book The Every written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous—and, oddly enough, most beloved—monopoly ever known: the Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free? Studded with unforgettable characters, outrageous outfits, and lacerating set-pieces, this companion to The Circle blends absurdity and terror, satire and suspense, while keeping the reader in apprehensive excitement about the fate of the company—and the human animal.
Download or read book Book of D s written by Danica Phelps and published by Zach Feuer Gallery. This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years, Danica Phelps has been documenting and drawing her life, in visual codes that tracked first her monetary and then later also her erotic activity. Calendars chart the daily comings and goings of an artistic existence, watercolors illuminate amounts spent and gained, and sinuous graphite line drawings record quotidian intimacy between Phelps and her lover Debi. As Julie Caniglia wrote in Artforum "there's a mild voyeuristic thrill in scanning the minutae of her daily life, but she epitomizes restraint compared to the self-indulgent tell-all nature of some other female artists her age... This refusal to reveal everything throws the spotlight from her life onto the work itself and the system she's built around it: getting and spending, and doing what one must do not only to get by, but to get something one values--art."
Download or read book The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry written by Ilan Stavans and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.
Download or read book The Chairs Are Where the People Go written by Misha Glouberman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you're against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn't making the city more fun for you and your friends a super-noble political goal? Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting easier? What can spam tell us about the world? Misha Glouberman's friend and collaborator, Sheila Heti, wanted her next book to be a compilation of everything Misha knew. Together, they made a list of subjects. As Misha talked, Sheila typed. He talked about games, relationships, cities, negotiation, improvisation, Casablanca, conferences, and making friends. His subjects ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. But sometimes what had seemed trivial began to seem important—and what had seemed important began to seem less so. The Chairs Are Where the People Go is refreshing, appealing, and kind of profound. It's a self-help book for people who don't feel they need help, and a how-to book that urges you to do things you don't really need to do.
Download or read book The Middle Stories written by Sheila Heti and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildly acclaimed in Canada, this book marks the debut of a remarkable young writer first published by McSweeney's when she was twenty-three and living at home with her dad and brother. The Middle Stories is a strikingly original collection of stories, fables, and short brutalities that are alternately heartwarming, cruel, and hilarious. This edition, marking the 10th anniversary of The Middle Stories, will be designed in the newly iconic McSweeney's paperback style, and will be published shortly before Heti's newest novel, How Should A Person Be?, emigrates from Canada via Henry Holt & Co.
Download or read book Stories for Ways and Means written by Jeff Antebi and published by Waxploitation Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories for Ways and Means features original "grown up" story collaborations by some of this era's most compelling storytellers from the worlds of music and contemporary art. Ten years ago Jeff Antebi, the founder of music publisher Waxploitation, had an idea to ask his favorite music artists and favorite contemporary painters to come together and collaborate on original children's stories for a benefit project. The resulting 350-page book includes stories from Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Frank Black, Justin Vernon, Laura Marling, Devendra Banhart, Alison Mosshart and Kathleen Hanna as well as painters/illustrators like Anthony Lister, Dan Baldwin, Swoon, Will Barras, James Jean, Ronzo, Kai & Sunny, and more. Guest narrators came along for fun as featured voices in short promo films: Danny Devito, Zach Galifianakis, Nick Offerman, Phil LaMarr, King Krule, and Lauren Lapkus. The project supports NGOs and nonprofit organizations advancing children's causes around the world, including Room to Read, Pencils of Promise, 826 National, and many more.
Download or read book Portrait of a Generation written by and published by Hole/Anteism. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of a Generation features more than 150 of today's most interesting and influential young artists pairing off and exchanging unique portraits of each other. This catalogue, which accompanied the exhibition held at The Hole in New York, illuminates the aesthetic and nature of the current young art scene, rendered by artists themselves in their own styles and hands, to create a juicy and illustrious yearbook, a who's who of the art world at this time. The collection features an astounding array of artists, including Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Donald Baechler, Allison Schulnik, Andre Saravia, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Aurel Schmidt, Slater Bradley, Jo Bradley, Jim Drain, Fab Five Freddy, Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Ben Jones, Bijou Altimirano, Dash Snow, Robert Lazzarini, Ryan McGinley, Tim Noble, Yoko Ono, Eddie Martinez, Eric Yahnker, Lola Schnabel, Raymond Pettibon, Matthew Stone, Terence Koh, Kenny Scharf, Sue Webster and others.
Download or read book Artificial Hells written by Claire Bishop and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.
Download or read book What Libraries Mean to the Nation written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book McSweeney s Issue 17 written by Dave Eggers and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents a new compilation of writings from the popular literary journal, which began in 1998 as a small literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines.
Download or read book My New Roots written by Sarah Britton and published by Appetite by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holistic nutritionist and highly-regarded blogger Sarah Britton presents a refreshing, straight-forward approach to balancing mind, body, and spirit through a diet made up of whole foods. Sarah Britton's approach to plant-based cuisine is about satisfaction--foods that satiate on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Based on her knowledge of nutrition and her love of cooking, Sarah Britton crafts recipes made from organic vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts, and seeds. She explains how a diet based on whole foods allows the body to regulate itself, eliminating the need to count calories. My New Roots draws on the enormous appeal of Sarah Britton's blog, which strikes the perfect balance between healthy and delicious food. She is a "whole food lover," a cook who makes simple accessible plant-based meals that are a pleasure to eat and a joy to make. This book takes its cues from the rhythms of the earth, showcasing 100 seasonal recipes. Sarah simmers thinly sliced celery root until it mimics pasta for Butternut Squash Lasagna, and whips up easy raw chocolate to make homemade chocolate-nut butter candy cups. Her recipes are not about sacrifice, deprivation, or labels--they are about enjoying delicious food that's also good for you.
