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An Early 19th-Century Flower Painter's Guide to Identifying Colors of the Natural World
Published in 1814 by a Scottish flower painter, 'Werner's Nomenclature of Colours' was one of the world's first systemic taxonomy of colors.
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A Harrowing Memoir Illustrates Modern-Day Slavery on Sea and Land
A testimony of human rights abuses occurring in Southeast Asia is charted in The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery.
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A Cartoonist's Playful and Pragmatic Mental Health Guide
In the follow-up to her 2012 graphic memoir about bipolar disorder, Marbles, Ellen Forney offers practical strategies for achieving mental stability.
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A Poet's Minecraft Romanticism
References to shadows, ghosts, and other “gothic” images in Nadia de Vries's debut poetry collection can be read as representing relationships experienced online.
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A Compendium of Places with Sad Names, from Despair Island to Mount Hopeless
For Triste Tropique, Topographies of Sadness, Damien Rudd sought out the world's glummest-sounding spaces.
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What Blockchain Means for Contemporary Art
Now that the wild speculation on Bitcoin’s value and the explosion of fringe cryptocurrencies has died down, what has been revealed is a contiguous conversation regarding the use of blockchain technology in the work of several artists, designers, and thinkers.
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Néstor Perlongher Conjures the Disappeared and the Dead
Perlongher evokes Argentina, its people, and their resistance in the face of violent dictatorship.
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A Graphic Novel Considers How to Raise a Feminist
Even before her daughter was born, artist Tyler Cohen was determined to raise a feminist.
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A Cartoonist’s Early Morning Art-Making Ritual
According to Grant Snider, "genius" is: 1% inspiration, 29% perspiration, 5% improvisation, 8% aspiration, 7% contemplation, 15% exploration, 13% daily frustration, 11% imitation, 10.9% desperation, and 0.1% pure elation.
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An Artist's Portrait of State Violence in a Contested Corner of Turkey
Originally conceived as a video monument project, Still Life is a book that juxtaposes the Roboski families with the Turkish government’s war on terror.
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A Philosopher's Journey to the Real
In Journey to the Land of the Real we get a glimpse of the utter foreignness that Victor Segalen experienced in China over a century ago.
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A Photographer Captures the Unique Personalities of New York City Pigeons
Andrew Garn's book of photographs invites readers to see pigeons as friendly, feathered neighbors rather than pesky foe.