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1 2 >>>     sort list by title | author Prison/Culture Sharon E. Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, Steve Dickison, Mark Dean Johnson, Rebeka Rodriguez Nearly fifty artists, poets, and activists examine the contemporary prison system through heartrending art and community Life As We Show It Writing On Film Brian Pera, Masha Tupitsyn Writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination Hello, I'm Special How Individuality Became the New Conformity Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty that they are one of a kind: Individuality is the new conformity. Life Studies, Life Stories Drawings Lawrence Ferlinghetti Close to 100 figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some "disastered by life," some with incisive or caustic words integrated in the images. This is a retrospective of Ferlinghetti's graphic work and... A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) Raymond Borde, Etienne Chaumeton When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre. Now this classic is at last available in English translation. This clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is "a 'benchmark' for all later... Insurgent Muse Life and Art at the Woman's Building Terry Wolverton In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the... The Shadow and its Shadow Surrealist Writings on the Cinema Paul Hammond Here is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. Forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical essays document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. The essayists include such names as... Constellations of Miro, Breton Paul Hammond During the early days of the Second World War, the Catalan painter Joan Miro created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent with the nightmare of contemporary events. In 1958 the French poet Andre Breton... Codex Espangliensis From Columbus to the Border Patrol Enrique Chagoya, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Felicia Rice Inspired by the pre-Hispanic codices that escaped immolation during colonial invasions, this artists' book opens out in accordion folds expanding to a length of over 21 feet. Rice has created a series of beautiful and jarring montages in which the... Postcards from the Underground Portraits of the Beat Era Larry Keenan In 1965, Larry Keenan spent over a year photographing the Beats-in their homes and with their families and friends. His portraits constitute a unique chronology and reportage of this era, and many of these photos have since become iconic images that... Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems A Book of Lives Juan Felipe Herrera, Artemio Rodriguez The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular loteria images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium... The Monstrous and the Marvelous Rikki Ducornet With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous... Fantasies of the Master Race Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians Ward Churchill Chosen an "Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. In this volume of incisive essays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature... The New World Border Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century Guillermo Gomez-Pena If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then a book about performance art is surely like a sonata about sculpture. In the case of The New World Border, however, there is little lost in translation; the force and originality of... 1 2 >>>