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The Uncanny Nature of Fake Flowers
The 73 photographic plates in Robert Voit's The Alphabet of New Plants each frame a different floral detail, from bursting blooms to twisting branches.
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Reader’s Diary: On Richard Bellamy
Richard Bellamy is one of the very few art dealers around whose name the word “legendary” floats like an aura. But how to convey what was so special about him is a nice problem for a biographer.
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Our Architectural Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Post–World War II, architects were confident that a better life could be built, that design could improve society through efficiency and community.
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Getting Closer to Vermeer with Three New Books on the Artist
Vermeer died twice. The first time was in 1675, after the Dutch art market collapsed.
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The Nostalgic Glow of New York City’s Remaining Historic Neon Signs
Neon and New York City had their ups and downs over the 20th century, from the glowing signage being an innovative advertisement in the 1920s and '30s to already telegraphing seediness with its flickering in the 1940s and '50s.
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Reader’s Diary: Robert Glück’s ‘Communal Nude’
Some of Robert Glück’s essays came my way in the 1980s via such publications as Poetics Journal.
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Squaring the Circle
John Peck is the author of ten volumes of poetry, a psychoanalyst, translator of Euripides and C. G. Jung’s The Red Book, a poet under-appreciated by or unfamiliar to most, yet long and deeply admired by a cadre of serious poets and critics on both sides of the Atlantic.
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All that Glitters Isn't Gold — Sometimes It's Silver from Tiffany's
The Morgan Library and Museum continues to spotlight some of its glittering books beneath the revamped lighting in its historic 1906 McKim Building.
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Comics that Bend and Borrow from Reality
Sean Karemaker dispenses with the rigid panel grids and other conventions that most people commonly associate with comics for The Ghosts We Know from Conundrum Press.
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A History of Photography in Which the Camera Is Absent
A new book takes is a broader, global look at cameraless photography.
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Reader’s Diary: Kevin Young's ‘Jelly Roll’
So many poets out there.
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Knowing Better: Brian Blanchfield's Essay Collection 'Proxies'
The 25 essays in Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies are erudite and intensely personal, deftly traversing the distance between the intellectual and the corporeal, between the meditative and the resolute.