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25 Years of Photographing the Human Skull
Lynn Stern's 25 years of skull photographs are compiled in a new book, which considers the art historical context of this vision of death.
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"Ornament Is Crime:" A Visual Manifesto for the Modernist Home
Ornament is Crime is a visual compendium of the Modernist home, from early 1900s designs to contemporary structures carrying the austere style into the 21st century.
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Revisiting the Greenbelt Towns, a Forgotten 1930s Attempt at American Utopia
Photographer Jason Reblando explored the 1930s Greenbelt Towns, a Great Depression attempt at communal living, for his series New Deal Utopias.
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An Experimental Book Tests Our Ability to Perceive Multiple Mediums Simultaneously
Chilean electronic-music composer Nicolas Jaar's project feels like a cross between an art experience and solving a book of logic puzzles.
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Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing
For a writer whose life was so enmeshed with the experiences of being seen and talked about, Acker never truly established a fixed identity outside of language.
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From Chocolate Gramophones to MP3s: The History of Sound in Images
The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles by Terry Burrows is an illustrated history of recorded sound, from gramophones to the rise of digital.
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A Photographer's Infrared Journey to the Island of the Colorblind
Photographer Sanne de Wilde's The Island of the Colorblind investigates a Pacific atoll where an unusually high percentage of the population has total color blindness.
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A Graphic Designer's Love Letter to the Endangered Signage of Barcelona
Graphic designer Louise Fili photographed the distinctive signage of Barcelona, as a design inspiration, and argument for preservation.
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A Mysterious 17th-Century Artist Who Saw Visions in Firewood's Rings
In What Heaven Looks Like art historian James Elkins imagines the artist behind a series of 17th-century visions painted from the ends of firewood logs.
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If These Books Could Talk, This Is What They’d Say
In a collection of one-page graphic stories, anthropomorphic books and imaginative characters take on God, museums, and identity crises.
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The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs
Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable.
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Stan Brakhage Defines His Filmmaking Practice with Metaphors
Metaphors On Vision, Stan Brakhage’s first book, is highly peculiar for a fully fleshed out credo on cinema, for it contains prose poetry, scripts, script fragments, sketches, and letters.