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Out of seemingly meager materials, Herriman created a complete world, a place where nothing ever changes and where his characters never develop, yet his sense of humor is almost infallible.
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"The images in this book are a reflection of what I hear beneath the waves," photographer Christian Vizl writes in Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves, his stunning book of undersea photography.
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Nostalgia and despair form the emotional undercurrent of these stories about the afterlife of an immigrant childhood.
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The poet challenges assumptions about how thinking is a form of language.
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In BOOM: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art, Michael Shnayerson paints a vivid portrait of the dizzying ascent of the contemporary art market and the powerful succession of dealers responsible for its rise.
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Rich with meticulous archival detail and more than 200 years of the East India Company's history, Company Curiosities provides little in the way of argument or critical intervention, leaving the reader to interpret its vast expanse of material.
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Kate Zambreno's Screen Tests show us that all good criticism is about what it means to look, slowly and closely.
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Murray’s sculpture develops a unique perspective, despite synthesizing many aspects and themes of contemporary sculpture emerging from New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Almost four years after her death, My Mother Laughs, the last book by the pioneering director, has been translated into English.
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Insect Artifice is divided into two parts: one consisting of an intellectual biography of Joris Hoefnagel, and another, which analyzes Hoefnagel’s seminal work Four Elements, a compendium of the known animal world.
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With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.
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What makes Ha Seong-nan's Flowers of Mold so powerful is her ability to reveal the almost imperceptible slippage between actual events and the protagonists' perceptions.