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The Modernists Marginalized Under Colonialism
Mapping Modernisms points us to the unequal way in which Western Modernist art histories characterize influence between cultures.
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A Book Traces the Evolution of Smooching for the Camera
People Kissing: A Century of Photographs begins in the Victorian era and traces attitudes about kissing from “chaste” to “performance for the camera.”
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A Journalist’s Year of Sunday Interviews with Diego Rivera
Alfredo Cardona Peña's conversations with the loquacious 63-year-old artist are available for the first time in English.
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An Outsider’s Lens of 1960s New York
Japanese photographer Sumiharu Watanabe may not have known enough about the US to understand the changes taking place in New York City, but his lens captured them.
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Jaw-Dropping Books in the Making, from Illustrated Fairytales to Limited Edition Poetry
There are some eye-popping books in Kickstarter's Exquisite Objects initiative.
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A Brief History of the Books Depicted in Western Painting
The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint explores centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts through more than 150 paintings.
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Traveling Through Lush Typographic Jungles
The Canadian designer/letterer/artist Marian Bantjes's book I Wonder is a wildly illuminated manuscript of observational philosophy.
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Bringing Back from Obscurity a Jamaican Photographer Who Worked with Duchamp
Enacting a posthumous reassessment, the book Percy Rainford: Duchamp’s “Invisible” Photographer has poignantly rescued the neglected artist Percy Rainford from erasure.
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Reflections of America in a British's Author's Wall
The nightmares in John Lanchester's The Wall seem like a logical endpoint of the West's recent relapse into chauvinistic nationalism.
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Ilya Kabakov Harnesses His Inner Misanthrope to Maintain Artistic Independence
Ilya Kabakov's essays allow for a close look at the artist’s nonconformist path as an artist in the USSR and the USA.
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A Series of Spells Conjured in Graphite and Watercolor
A Book of Staves by artist Jesse Bransford features painted charms inspired by Icelandic magic.
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A Close Look at the Art of Genji
The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion serves as a thorough introduction to a work of great literary and art-historical importance.