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Photographing Thoreau's Walden Pond in Its Altered 21st-Century Landscape
From 2010 to 2014, photographer S.B. Walker explored the shores of Walden Pond, where Thoreau's bucolic environment now bustles with recreation and development.
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A Compendium of Shakespeare’s Plants, from Juliet’s Rose to Ophelia’s Bouquet
The book Botanical Shakespeare, by historian Gerit Quealy with illustrations by Sumié Hasegawa-Collins, compiles the roughly 175 mentions of plants in Shakespeare's plays.
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A Wordless Journey from Crappy Art to Actual Crap
Tara Booth's graphic memoir D.U.I.I is an exploration of shame and failed expectations
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101 Unflinching Portraits of Survivors of US Gun Violence
Kathy Shorr's photography book helps to de-normalize what has become painfully normal
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Hirato Renkichi: The Black Shadow-Man Illuminated
Already in the three short volumes which Hirato had hoped to publish, but for which he was unable to raise money, we see a growing tendency to break up the language and images, abstracting them into a pulse of pure energy that conveys the meaning rather than simply expressing it.
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Drenching Found Negatives in Washes of Vivid Color
After discovering a series of negatives in an abandoned skyscraper in St. Louis, Aaron Farley altered the degraded images with caustic colors.
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A Graphic Memoir About Learning to Cope with What's Left Behind
Kristen Radtke’s graphic memoir uses photos and the death of her uncle as touchstones to illustrate parallel forms of decay and loss.
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From Ceramic Sea Creatures to Bauhaus Blocks, a Compendium of Exquisite Chess Sets
A new book features detailed photos and short essays about an eclectic range of elaborate chess sets from across multiple centuries and continents.
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A Graphic Memoir About Growing Up with Modernist Playgrounds
Julia Jacquette's Playground of My Mind is a graphic memoir of growing up with the modernist playgrounds of Manhattan, and how their concrete geometries influenced her later art.
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A Comprehensive and Contemporary Guide to Figurative Drawing
Figurative artists know the importance of learning “the rules” before they break them, which is precisely the opportunity this book intends to offer its most ambitious readers.
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In Photographs of Estate Sales, Price Tags Mark the Possessions of the Dead
For a year, photographer Norm Diamond visited up to 10 estate sales a week, documenting the stranded possessions for his series What Is Left Behind.
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An Art of Dislocation and Reinvention Reflects the Epic of Black America
Quite simply, the history, not just of art in Los Angeles, but of modern American art generally will have to be reconceived on the basis of Now Dig This!, the exhibition curated by Kellie Jones, and her new book, South of Pico.