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Book The Andy Warhol Collection

Download or read book The Andy Warhol Collection written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hoarders

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  • Author : Scott Herring
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-11-09
  • ISBN : 022617185X
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Hoarders written by Scott Herring and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The verb “declutter” has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it’s only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV programs and commercials, while clutter professionals and specialists referred to as “clutterologists” are just a phone call away. Everywhere the sentiment is the same: clutter is bad. In The Hoarders, Scott Herring provides an in-depth examination of how modern hoarders came into being, from their onset in the late 1930s to the present day. He finds that both the idea of organization and the role of the clutterologist are deeply ingrained in our culture, and that there is a fine line between clutter and deviance in America. Herring introduces us to Jill, whose countertops are piled high with decaying food and whose cabinets are overrun with purchases, while the fly strips hanging from her ceiling are arguably more fly than strip. When Jill spots a decomposing pumpkin about to be jettisoned, she stops, seeing in the rotting, squalid vegetable a special treasure. “I’ve never seen one quite like this before,” she says, and looks to see if any seeds remain. It is from moments like these that Herring builds his questions: What counts as an acceptable material life—and who decides? Is hoarding some sort of inherent deviation of the mind, or a recent historical phenomenon grounded in changing material cultures? Herring opts for the latter, explaining that hoarders attract attention not because they are mentally ill but because they challenge normal modes of material relations. Piled high with detailed and, at times, disturbing descriptions of uncleanliness, The Hoarders delivers a sweeping and fascinating history of hoarding that will cause us all to reconsider how we view these accumulators of clutter.

Book Like Andy Warhol

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  • Author : Jonathan Flatley
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-12-06
  • ISBN : 0226823946
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Like Andy Warhol written by Jonathan Flatley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonné, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition catalogues and anthologies. But nowhere is there an in-depth scholarly examination of Warhol’s oeuvre as a whole—until now. Jonathan Flatley’s Like Andy Warhol is a revelatory look at the artist’s likeness-producing practices, not only reflected in his famous Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens but across Warhol’s whole range of interests including movies, drag queens, boredom, and his sprawling collections. Flatley shows us that Warhol’s art is an illustration of the artist’s own talent for “liking.” He argues that there is in Warhol’s productions a utopian impulse, an attempt to imagine new, queer forms of emotional attachment and affiliation, and to transform the world into a place where these forms find a new home. Like Andy Warhol is not just the best full-length critical study of Warhol in print, it is also an instant classic of queer theory.

Book Art Nouveau  Art Deco  American Arts   Crafts

Download or read book Art Nouveau Art Deco American Arts Crafts written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-03-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-03-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Yesterday

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  • Author : Tobias Becker
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 067425175X
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Yesterday written by Tobias Becker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of the present and future and thus worth careful thought. Yesterday argues that nostalgia's critics defend an idea of progress as naïve as the longing they denounce, while conflating nostalgia itself with historical whitewashing.

Book Andy Warhol  1928 1987

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  • Author : Andy Warhol
  • Publisher : Prestel Publishing
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9783791312774
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Andy Warhol 1928 1987 written by Andy Warhol and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition held at the KunstHausWien, Austria from 23 February to 31 May 1993, and two other venues in Florida, USA.

Book Collecting Art

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  • Author : Eileen Chanin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Collecting Art written by Eileen Chanin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art collecting - Art market - Auctions - Dealers - Contemporary market - Art as an investment - Protecting treasures - Fakes, forgeries, fraud, replicas - Display & storage - Framing - Care of paper - Conservation & restoration - Security - Insurance - Valuations.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-04-25
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-04-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Elton

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  • Author : David Buckley
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1556527136
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Elton written by David Buckley and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of music’s true global superstars and most admired figures, Elton John has sold an estimated 200 million albums worldwide to date, and continues to appear regularly in the singles charts, thanks largely to a series of high-profile collaborations with new faces. But he is loved as much for his outrageous personality and witty outspokenness as for his music: recent memorable outbursts have included a public comment that "people who charge �75 and lip-sync should be shot” and calling some pushy photographers "rude, vile pigs.” He has even admitted that, in one of his more comedic cocaine-fueled moments, he phoned one of his management team "to tell him to do something about the wind outside my hotel room.” Such shamelessness and sheer silliness rivals anything uttered by punk rockers, yet it is so typically Elton: honest and wittily intemperate. Tragedy and heartbreak have played a large part in his life too. Behind the parties, the hedonism, the lavish stage costumes and silly glasses lies a more somber story. There have been disputes with managers, legal wranglings, splits with partners, and a divorce. Added to that there have been serious health problems, a very public battle with his expanding waistline and receding hairline, drug addictions, and spells when he wanted to quit the music business altogether. But now, at 60 years old, Elton enjoys a stable relationship with his husband David Furnish. His demons have been overcome. His commercial and critical stock is rising. With popular acts like the Scissor Sisters sounding more like Elton than Elton himself, Elton John is finally cool again. Drawing on many firsthand interviews with his associates and musical collaborators, this page-turning story of high drama and prodigious talent traces Elton’s astonishing journey through life as the colossus of camp, while also offering a critical history of his work and analyzing afresh his contribution to popular music.

Book 20th Century Decorative Arts

Download or read book 20th Century Decorative Arts written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Retro

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  • Author : Elizabeth E. Guffey
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2006-11-15
  • ISBN : 9781861892904
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Retro written by Elizabeth E. Guffey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a wealth of original research and entertaining anecdotal material, Guffey unearths the roots of the term “retro” and chronicles its evolving manifestations in culture and art throughout the last century.

Book Newsletter

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  • Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Newsletter written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Modern Divine Comedy Book 8  Paradiso 2 Departure

Download or read book The Modern Divine Comedy Book 8 Paradiso 2 Departure written by Andrew J. Farrara and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PARADISO is considered the most perfect part of the hereafter where the souls are permitted to live eternally if they can successfully complete the very difficult Celestial Examination process engaging the intellectual and personal guilt and forgiveness requirements system. Many celestial citizens take years, decades or centuries to complete. The Celestial Trial of Josephus, the Annual Lantern Parade and Romano’s awakening from his dream nightmare at the ending are the major subjects in this Book. This Celestial Trial of the ancient Jewish General and Roman writer, propagandist and collaborationist Flavius Josephus in discovering the real Spiritual Truths at the Celestial Supreme Court headed by the Biblical prophets Noah, Abraham and Moses is portrayed. Josephus is defended in Court by a late 19th century mortal American Barrister named Darryl Buchanan from Philadelphia who just successfully defended John D Rockefeller before Almighty GOD Himself in God’s Personal Supreme Peoples Court. The goal of the Celestial Trial of ‘Josephus verses the Celestial Kingdom’ is to discover the Holy Secrets and Spiritual Truths of his writings as to determine whether he did or did not fabricate and/or conceal the Biblical truths and steal the Prophecy that the next Ruler of the Roman Empire was destined to come from Judea to save his own body and soul? The Annual Lantern Parade at the Celestial Circus Maximus on Christmas Day has been a tradition since Jesus died on the Cross in the first century AD. The theme this year is called the Ancient & Divine Mysteries of the Universe. BOOK FOUR ends with the Devil and his Three Crown Princes still trying to manipulate, dominate and overthrow the Kingdom with a Final Curtain Call where the Tragic End Game occurs and the Mise-en-Abime shows the hero Journalist Romano home awoken immediately after his dream in his basement apartment at a New York City Catholic Church.

Book Pantone  The Twentieth Century in Color

Download or read book Pantone The Twentieth Century in Color written by Leatrice Eiseman and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, d cor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. This vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-06-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-06-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Moon Dallas   Fort Worth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonanna Widner
  • Publisher : Moon Travel
  • Release : 2014-05-13
  • ISBN : 1612385273
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Moon Dallas Fort Worth written by Jonanna Widner and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Worth native Jonanna Widner covers the best of the Dallas & Fort Worth area, including the South Lamar District, Lakewood, Frisco, the Metroplex, and Arlington. Widner provides a variety of unique travel strategies, including Eat Like a Texan, Drink Like a Texan, and DFW: History Buff's Dream. Including expert advice on the ritziest Park Cities shopping, the historical sights of Central Dallas, and where to dine on the best southern cooking in Uptown, Moon Dallas & Fort Worth gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.