Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series)
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of its publication, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and Texas Tech University Press are proud to release a newly updated version of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose , the seminal anthology of Vietnamese American literature. Contextualized by a
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TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television
While critics have long disparaged commercial television as a vast wasteland, TV has surprising links to the urbane world of modern art that stretch back to the 1950s and ’60s During that era, the rapid rise of commercial television coincided with dynamic new movements in the visual arts—a poten
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Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (Great Comics Artists Series)
2022 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society Steve Ditko (1927–2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider-Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Ditko made an indelible mark on Americ
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The Manchester Art Book: The city through the eyes of its artists
A remarkable collection of artworks that shine a light on the city's grand edifices, quirky nooks, hidden quarters and modern architecture with equal affection and pride. From cotton mills – for this city was once the centre of textile manufacture – to classical composers and the successful ca
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The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition
Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter?Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognize
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Brunelleschi's Basilica: The Building of Santo Spirito in Florence (Kent State University European Studies)
Brunelleschi's basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence was not only a product of creative genius, but also of communal bureaucracy, socio-economic traditions, human and financial resources, factionalism, and rivalry. This complex network of forces behind the monument serves as testimony to the determi
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Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity
From Henry Darger's elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the Reverend Howard Finster, the work of outsider artists has achieved unique status in the art world. Celebrated for their lack of traditional training and their position on the fringes of society, o
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Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Volume 20) (Electronic Mediations)
Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here
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Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945
“Don’t start an art collective until you read this book.” —Guerrilla Girls “Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. Collectivism after Modernism convincingly proves that art collectives did not stop after the proclaimed
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Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai, Thailand―artists operating at the intersection
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Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated “Negro Units” set up under the FTP, African American artists took on theatre work usually reser
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Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market
This compelling account of collaboration in the genre of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) offers a new approach to understanding the production and reception of print culture in early modern Japan. It provides a corrective to the perception that the ukiyo-e tradition was the product of the c
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Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents―including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved and b
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Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905-1944)
In early twentieth-century France, a vast network of artists, writers, and religious seekers were drawn to Roman Catholicism's elaborate panoply of symbols centered on suffering. A preoccupation with affliction dominated the movement now known as the French Catholic revival, or the renouveau cathol
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The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age
In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases it has discouraged creativity or terminated careers. Exploring technolo
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The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison
The story of how a summer job spawned a long and rewarding career as an artist Coca-Cola is a true American original and one of the world's most recognized and popular American products. In The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison, the artist traces his lifelong love affair with the Coca-Cola trademark
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CrossCurrents: Cinema―The Georeligious Aesthetic: Volume 70, Number 3, September 2020
CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and commu
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Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City (Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press)
After Bob Dylan came to Nashville in 1966 to record his classic album Blonde on Blonde , his embrace of Nashville and its unmatched session musicians—known as the Nashville Cats—inspired many other artists, among them Neil Young, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, and Paul McCartney, to follow. Around t
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Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)
Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creatin
James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence
As chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, James Jesus Angleton built a formidable reputation. Although perhaps best known for leading the agency's notorious "Molehunt"the search for a Soviet spy believed to have infiltrated the upper
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