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Book The Autobiography of Daniel J  Isengart

Download or read book The Autobiography of Daniel J Isengart written by Filip Noterdaeme and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as a template, Filip Noterdaeme's The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart tells the story of two eccentric expats who find love in New York City and carve out a delirious, dadaesque life on the margins of the contemporary art world.

Book The Autobiography of Alice B  Toklas

Download or read book The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas written by Gertrude Stein and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover. It is a fascinating insight into the art scene in Paris as the couple were friends with Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. They begin the war years in England but return to France, volunteering for the American Fund for the French Wounded, driving around France, helping the wounded and homeless. After the war Gertrude has an argument with T. S. Eliot after he finds one of her writings inappropriate. They become friends with Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway. It was written to make money and was indeed a commercial success. However, it attracted criticism, especially from those who appeared in the book and didn't like the way they were depicted.

Book Another Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Herring
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2010-06
  • ISBN : 0814737196
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Another Country written by Scott Herring and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Another Country' expands the possibilities of queer studies beyond the city limits, investigating the lives of rural queers across the United States, from faeries in the Midwest to lesbian separatist communes on the coast of Northern California.

Book Queering the Kitchen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Isengart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-08-05
  • ISBN : 9781944853501
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Queering the Kitchen written by Daniel Isengart and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manifesto for reclaiming the lost history and influence of gay men in the culinary arts. Gay identity has long been openly linked to the decorative and performing arts--fashion, interior design, dance, opera, and theater. Isengart aims to add the kitchen to the list. Even though gay men widely populate America's food industries, their role and impact remain firmly in the closet. Queering The Kitchen is a grand coming-out. Gay men's history of culinary sophistication dates back to a time when socializing was safer behind closed doors--at home, the only place where they could be themselves and let their hair down, or wear that wig. Isengart explores these hidden histories and customs, while reminding us of gay lives only recently in the light--including Dean & Deluca, James Beard, Craig Clayborne, Graham Kerr and many others. With the rise of gay identity, Isengart charts a concurrent counter-swing with the rise of Emeril Live and other media phenomena, erasing a movement of culinary refinement and replacing it with a lowbrow circus for beginners. Sometimes brutal, other times nuanced, the history charted by Isengart extends to the macho bro-kitchens of Anthony Bourdain and the superior skills of many lesbian chefs. With Queering The Kitchen, Isengart offers a spirited and well-researched contribution to an ongoing conversation about gay men and America's food.

Book The Art of Gay Cooking

Download or read book The Art of Gay Cooking written by Daniel Isengart and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Daniel Isengart, home cooking has always been an essential part of living a creative life. A cabaret performer and sought-after private chef in New York City, he knows how to deliver one delectable meal after another with the ease of a seasoned entertainer. The Art of Gay Cooking is a witty literary portrait that takes the reader from the author's grandmother's kitchen in southern Germany to his formative childhood years in Paris, from the attic apartment in Brooklyn Heights where he lives with his husband to his clients' posh homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons. Alternating intimate anecdotes and wry observations about the culinary world with over 250 easy-to-follow recipes, the book explores a rich, gay life devoted to beauty and art where the home kitchen always takes center stage. Jeremiah Tower, the eminent Godfather of modern American cooking, adds words of wisdom in his candid Foreword that describes how Isengart's inspired approach to cooking brought back memories of his own beginnings as the original chef of the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley. Cleverly composed as an homage to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, The Art of Gay Cooking adheres closely to Toklas's idiosyncratic style, mirroring specific passages and echoing her amusingly eccentric tone. A chapter devoted to recipes from friends presents a poignant contrast to the limelight on celebrity chefs and restaurant food, proving that, at least in Isengart's lively social circle of individualists, sophisticated yet unpretentious home-cooking is not a lost art.

Book Dear Professor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Filip Noterdaeme
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dear Professor written by Filip Noterdaeme and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Professor: A Chronicle of Absences is a collection of over two hundred often involuntarily comical emails in which students excuse themselves for missing class. The result is a satirical yet unexpectedly sympathetic collective portrait of modern-day academia where both students and teachers feel pressured to comply with the impositions of hyper-connectivity.

Book Dear Professor  A Chronicle of Absences

Download or read book Dear Professor A Chronicle of Absences written by Filip Noterdaeme and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Professor: A Chronicle of Absences is a collection of over two hundred often involuntarily comical emails in which students excuse themselves for missing class. The result is a satirical yet unexpectedly sympathetic collective portrait of modern-day academia where both students and teachers feel pressured to comply with the impositions of hyper-connectivity.

Book Queering the Kitchen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Isengart
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-09-10
  • ISBN : 9781727154535
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Queering the Kitchen written by Daniel Isengart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay identity has long been openly linked to the decorative and performing arts - fashion, interior design, dance, opera, and theater. Daniel Isengart aims to add the culinary arts to the list. Even though gay men widely populate America's food industries, their role and impact remain firmly in the closet. Queering The Kitchen makes a case for a grand, industry-wide coming-out. Gay men's history of culinary sophistication dates back to a time when socializing was safer behind closed doors - at home, the only place where they could be themselves and let their hair down, or wear that wig. Isengart explores these hidden histories and customs, while reminding us of gay lives only recently in the light - including Dean & Deluca, James Beard, Craig Claiborne and many others. With the rise of gay identity, Isengart charts a concurrent counter - swing with the rise of Emeril Live and other media phenomena, erasing a movement of culinary refinement and replacing it with a lowbrow circus for beginners. Sometimes brutal, other times nuanced, the history charted by Isengart extends to the macho bro-kitchens of Anthony Bourdain and the superior skills of many lesbian chefs. With Queering The Kitchen, Isengart offers a spirited and well-researched contribution to an ongoing conversation about gay men and America's food.

Book Alternative Art and Anthropology

Download or read book Alternative Art and Anthropology written by Arnd Schneider and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

Book An Honest Ghost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rick Whitaker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781937543389
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book An Honest Ghost written by Rick Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has managed to achieve a very unique piece of work, with litte of his own originality. He has pieced together some of the best works of literature into a cohesive novel with a personal touch.

Book Genealogical And Personal History Of Western Pennsylvania  Volume Ii

Download or read book Genealogical And Personal History Of Western Pennsylvania Volume Ii written by John W. Jordan and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogical And Personal History Of Western Pennsylvania (Volume Ii), has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Book The Gay Cookbook

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  • Author : Chef Lou Rand Hogan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-04-27
  • ISBN : 9781939438935
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The Gay Cookbook written by Chef Lou Rand Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sensous sixties, Chef Hogan wrote his Wild and Wacky book. A reprint of the original edition, when the author was decades ahead of his time. The Gay Cookbook is filled with the jokes and innuendo of the time. Even on the frontispiece, in the book's first pages, a line reads "All rights reserved, Mary." An essential part of mid-century campy dialogue, was the use of female nicknames among gay men: Hogan addresses the reader by many, including Myrtle, Mabel, and Mame. The recipes are lengthy and chatty. But while written humorously, the recipes often are complex and cosmopolitan. While his repertoire includes French and American classics, it also features Mexican, Southeast Asian, and Hawaiian recipes. For a guacamole recipe, Hogan gives the basics as avocado, tomatoes, fresh lime, and salt. Those wanting to mix it up can add onion and spices, he writes, but he forbids more variation. "This is an 'original' Mexican recipe," he writes, "before it's been crapped up by some Hollywood or Brooklyn chef." Hogan also explains how to prepare an elaborate rijsttafel buffet, a many-coursed Indonesian banquet with roots in Dutch colonialism. A chili recipe spans several pages and requires hours of cooking.

Book Fading Ads of New York City

Download or read book Fading Ads of New York City written by Frank Jump and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City is eternally evolving. From its iconic skyline to its side alleys, the new is perpetually being built on the debris of the past. But a movement to preserve the citys vanishing landscapes has emerged. For nearly twenty years, Frank Jump has been documenting the fading ads that are visible, but less often seen, all over New York. Disappearing from the sides of buildings or hidden by new construction, these signs are remnants of lost eras of New Yorks life. They weave together the citys unique history, culture, environment and society and tell the stories of the businesses, places and people whose lives transpired among them the story of New York itself. This photo-documentary is also a study of time and space, of mortality and living, as Jumps campaign to capture the ads mirrors his own struggle with HIV. Experience the ads shot with vintage Kodachrome film and the meaning they carry through acclaimed photographer and urban documentarian Frank Jumps lens.

Book Hotel Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 1619028204
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Hotel Theory written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum’s invigoratingly inventive style, the two books — one fiction, one nonfiction — run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles “a,” “an,” and “the” never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author’s dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. Hotel Theory gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique manifesto, the place where writing disappears. A new mode of theorizing — in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest — arises in this dazzling work.

Book Circus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2019-07-09
  • ISBN : 1593765630
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Circus written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a “dazzlingly seductive” fever dream written in “brilliant poetic vernacular” (Bookforum) by a beloved poet and cultural critic, now with an introduction by Rachel Kushner. For five years, concert pianist Theo Mangrove has been living at his family’s home in East Kill, New York, recovering from a nervous breakdown that derailed his career, and attempting to relieve his relentless polysexual appetite in the company of male hustlers, random strangers, music students, his aunt, and occasionally his wife. As he prepares for a comeback recital in Aigues-Mortes, a walled medieval town in southern France, he becomes obsessed with the idea that the Italian circus star Moira Orfei must join him there to perform alongside him. Extravagantly (and tragicomically) describing his hallucinatory plans in a series of twenty-five notebooks, he assembles an incantatory meditation on performance, failure, fame, decay, and delusion. "If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this. --John Ashbery

Book The Book Lover s Publication

Download or read book The Book Lover s Publication written by David Maroto and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Visual artists create different strategies to integrate their novels into their practice. Introducing traits that are particular to narrative literature into the visual arts implies the accentuation of some features over others, such as narration, fiction, identification, and the act of reading and its protracted engagement, as well as distribution in public space. An artist’s approach comes fundamentally from the visual arts. The creation of an artist novel doesn't differ from any other artwork. Both processes feed into each other as they evolve within the same body of works. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.

Book Boyhood with Gurdjieff

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hirsch Giovanni Publishing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-05
  • ISBN : 9781957241043
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Boyhood with Gurdjieff written by Hirsch Giovanni Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fritz Peters became perhaps the most intimate student of his headmaster, G. I. Gurdjieff, founder of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France. This enigmatic, controversial, and mercurial mystic. Gurdjieff was more than just a teacher to Fritz. This stunning memoir covers Peters' first years at the Institute as he retains a child's naive perspective while offering a photorealistic recall of Gurdjieff, the workings of his intentional community, and the eccentric characters who lived there.