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Laszlo Moholy-NagyBiographical Writings
Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work—an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing. In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstructivist model of the "signature effect" to an intellectual biography of a Constructivist artis…
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Pop OutQueer Warhol
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Y…
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BonoLa voce degli U2 tra musica, impegno e spiritualità
Da oltre 40 anni sulle scene con gli U2, in pochissimo tempo Paul David Hewson, in arte Bono, è divenuto uno dei protagonisti del panorama musicale internazionale, calamitando l'attenzione su di sé al di là della carriera discografica della band di Dublino. Voce intrigante e performer di rara effi acia, ha sempre affiancato la propria voracità musicale a una costante ricerca spirituale e a …
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Slow Ball CartoonistThe Extraordinary Life of Indiana Native and Pulitzer Pri…
Slow Ball Cartoonist takes readers on a journey to an earlier era in America when cartoonists played a pivotal role each day in enabling major daily newspapers to touch the lives of their readers. No American cartoonist was more influential than the Chicago Tribunes John T. McCutcheon, the plainspoken Indiana native and Purdue University graduate whose charming and delightful cartoons graced th…
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John JenningsConversations
John Jennings (b. 1970) is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award–winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred. However, Jennings is also a graphic designer and comic book scholar who, throughout his career, has conducted several interviews that shed light on the importance of Black Speculative narratives. T…
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L'azienda Prevost. Una storia di famiglia
Quando Alessio Calandra mi ha interpellata per leggere la sua tesidi laurea ‘Il caso dell’Azienda Prevost’, prima di presentarla,ho subito pensato che, senza saperlo, avevo vissuto nella storiadel cinema e che quella tesi avrebbe dovuto essere trasformatain un libro, portandola da testo puramente tecnico a raccontocircondato da aneddoti. Non che mentre ero in famiglia non sape…
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Trail of an Artist-NaturalistThe Autobiography of Ernest Thompson Seton
"Trail of an Artist-Naturalist" is the 1940 Autobiography of Ernest Thompson Seton. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860 – 1946) was an English author and wildlife artist who founded the Woodcraft Indians in 1902. He was also among the founding members of the Boy Scouts of America, established in 1910. He wrote profusely on this subject, the most notable of his scouting literature including "The Birch…
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This Woman in ParticularContexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr
What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits? "Biography," says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, "is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence patterned by conventions that have also shaped the reader's experience." In This Woman in Particular, Walker explores versions…
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Roland PenroseThe Life of a Surrealist
The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century As an artist, an impresario, a biographer and a collector, Roland Penrose (1900-1984) is a key figure in the study of art in England from 1920 to 1984. In the first biography of Penrose, acclaimed biographer James King explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and work tra…
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Giuseppe PaganoDesign for Social Change in Fascist Italy
Giuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture, media, design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer, curator, photographer, editor, writer and architect. A dedicated Fascist turned Resistance fighter, he was active in Italy's most dramatic social and political era. Giuseppe Pagano provides a comp…
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