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On Impious Poetry and Poetic Faith
Navid Kermani puts his finger on what’s divisive in poetry and culture.
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Drug Culture: Picturing Pharmaceuticals Since 1850
PhotoRx: Pharmacy in Photography Since 1850 explores a pharmaceutical company's collection of art on drugs.
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The Utopian Leisure of Soviet Sanatoriums
Unlike Westerners, Soviets preferred to vacation at sanatoriums, which were modernist structures infused with a sense of utopia.
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Rebellious, But Still Sexist: Revisiting a Giant of Underground Comix
A new book on Spain Rodriguez revisits his innovative repertoire, but ignores the extent to which some of his comix revel in the sexism regularly broadcast in the era’s male-authored strips.
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A Satiric History of Video Games
Do the games Earthworm Gym, Lizard Designer Pro, Vin Diesel's Weasel Easel, Silent Butcher, or Wrestlechess intrigue you? If so, then this book is for you.
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16 Art and Design Books for Your Holiday Gift List
A list of art and design books that are some of this year's must-reads.
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The Man Who Spent 60 Years Photographing the North American Railroad
Essential Witness features photographs from Jim Shaugnessy's 60 years documenting the evolution of the North American railroad.
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Aleksandra Mir Delves into the Mysteries of the Universe
Mir shares the interviews she conducted with 16 space scientists and academics, many of whom helped to inform her series of black-and-white drawings of space travel.
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Uncanny Images from an Investigation into Gef, a 1930s Talking Mongoose
In Gef!: The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose, Christopher Josiffe investigates a 1930s mystery on the Isle of Man.
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The Golden Age of the Illustrated Book Dust Jacket
The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970 chronicles the rise of the book dust jacket from disposable object to a creative platform for publishing design.
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A Portrait of an 18th-Century Hermit as Both Man and Myth
Amani Willett's The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer uses photography, archival material, and found objects to retrace the story of an 18th-century hermit.
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Street-Level Photographs Capture the Citizens and Signage of Postwar NYC
The new book I See a City chronicles the 1940s and '50s street photography of Todd Webb, who documented postwar New York City.