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Weimar book artists mashed up the styles of new art movements — Expressionism, New Objectivity, Constructivism, plus photography — to design unique and politically provocative covers and jackets.
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Art Nouveau's organic shapes surfaced thanks to some underwater inspiration.
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Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female “hysterics” of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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With the rapid development of transportation infrastructure in the 20th century, much of our urban land was shrouded in shadow.
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Poetry not always but periodically seeks its upper limit — music, as readers of Louis Zukofsky know — and that includes Juliana Spahr’s.
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Midway through the retrospective of Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers currently at the Museum of Modern Art, the visitor comes across the witty short film La Pluie (Projet pour un texte) [The Rain (Project for a text), 1969].
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Dave Hickey has had some ... trouble with women before.
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Sometimes you get to know writers best in their minor works; a commissioned text can disclose more than an obsessively personal project.
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My editors asked me for notes on books I’d been reading — about three hundred words. I’ve already figured out that it’s not in me to be quite that concise.
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In a 16th-century triptych of the crucifixion at the Musée National de la Renaissance, north of Paris, Christ has wings. In fact the whole piece is made of feathers.
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For most archivists, finding mold among collections represents the beginning of one's worst nightmares.
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Jaimy Gordon passed through my field of vision some time in the early 1980s.