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How the Animal Menagerie of Versailles Changed 17th-Century Art
1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins delves into the radical influence of Louis XIV's menagerie at Versailles on the art of animals.
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The Resonant Resistances of Political Poetry
Oakland-based publisher Commune Editions’ advocacy of community-based ethics animates volumes of poetry by Nanni Balestrini and Heriberto Yépez.
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Photographs of Men Who Believe They Are Christ's Second Coming
For The Last Testament, Jonas Bendiksen photographed seven men from around the world who each believe they are the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
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The Desolate Spanish Province Where Hollywood Westerns Were Filmed
Mark Parascandola's photos tell the strange, melancholy story of the erection, disintegration, and repurposing of the 1960s film sets.
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How Ghosts Became Transparent, and Other Spectral Evolutions
The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens explores the evolution of the ghost in British art and literature, from Hamlet's father to Marley's ghost.
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Working at the Threshold of Prose
Renee Gladman investigates the moments when writing crosses over into another mode of expression.
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The Making of a Modernist in the First-Ever Biography of Alexander Calder
Jed Perl makes the case that Calder was both an avant-gardist and a populist.
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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.