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Hard Looking: Proust and Gauguin on Art
Gauguin’s art furthered the dematerialization of beauty that Proust discerned in Rembrandt's use of light by freeing color from form and drawing from realism.
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The Graphic Beauty of Vintage Bookplates
The University of British Columbia Library has digitized hundreds of highly personalized bookplates from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The Beauty and Devastation of Mankind's Impact on Earth
In his book Overview: A New Perspective of Earth, photographer Benjamin Grant uses satellite imagery to convey the enormity of mankind's effects on the planet.
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A Graphic Novel Reincarnates a Sinister Shirley Jackson Story
Hyman’s adaptation is a strong effort to retain the original tale’s sparse horror while making the most of its compelling visual possibilities.
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Reader’s Diary: Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Lost Daughter’
What distinguishes the novella from the novel is not length, but the pursuit of intensity rather than breadth. A novella is devastating or it is nothing.
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Reader’s Diary: Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Lost Daughter’
What distinguishes the novella from the novel is not length, but the pursuit of intensity rather than breadth. A novella is devastating or it is nothing.
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Jet-Age Dreams in the Vintage Posters of Pan Am Airlines
Pan Am: History, Design & Identity, a new book by Matthias C. Hühne, retraces the distinct design history of the defunct Pan Am airlines.
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A Graphic Novel Reimagines 'Romeo and Juliet' in 1980s Brooklyn
Combining a deep examination of Shakespeare’s play with memories of Wimberly’s own teen years, Prince of Cats is electric.
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The Persistence of Hunger: Dalí's Dissatisfying Cookbook
Salvador Dalí's 1973 cookbook, now reprinted by Taschen, doesn’t seem to know what Surrealist cuisine is.
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Reader’s Diary: ‘Bresson on Bresson’
Before starting to make films, Robert Bresson had been a painter. Or rather, he remained one, since according to him, “It’s not possible to have been a painter and to no longer be one.”
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A Spin Through the History of Photographic Album Covers
Though revisiting the vinyl record is in danger of becoming little more than an act of nostalgia, 'Total Records' explores the art of the album cover within the context of our thoroughly modern practice of image sharing.
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An Artist’s 50-Year Project to Alter and Deconstruct a Victorian Novel
After five decades of mutating an obscure Victorian novel, Thomas Phillips's A Humument is printed in its final form.