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A Cartoonist's Dazzling History of NYC
Julia Wertz's new black-and-white book of comics, Tenements, Towers & Trash, is a stirring ode to America’s most densely populated metropolis.
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Literary Luminaries Respond to a Painter's Dark Scenes of Maine
In a new book, fifteen major contemporary authors respond to Linden Frederick's series of nocturnal paintings of small Maine towns.
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Vivian Maier, the Photographer Who Wanted to Go Unobserved
Maier didn’t want people to know where she lived, and often lied about her personal history.
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The Arrest of a Turkish Photographer in the Encroaching Night
Erdoğan’s book Control depicts an imaginary night out in Gazi, one of the most dangerous districts of Istanbul, commonly viewed as an autonomous zone of underground activity.
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The Rise of Paleoart, and the Artist's Role in Our Visions of Dinosaurs
Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 argues for the art history importance of dinosaur illustrations, as they shape our understanding of this extinct world through the visual culture of the present.
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Good Vibrations: Prose Poetry as Stand-Up Comedy
In Jeremy Sigler's My Vibe offers refreshing honesty about failure within the system of calculation and profit.
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When a Poem's Wrongness Is Right
The leap between image and utterance in Anthony Madrid's poetry is the challenge and, sometimes, the delight.
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The Surrealist Satire of Leonora Carrington
These stunningly strange, arrestingly intellectual constructs treat the human imagination with humor and forgiveness.
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Considering the Clarity of X-ray Photography
Ultimately, in the collection of images, one can see the painter and contemporary image maker that is Miller vying against the Miller who is more sentimental.
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The Physics of Race, History, and Everyday Life
Samiya Bashir's poems attempt to describe with scientific precision the position of the black body in American culture.
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A Photographic Tribute to Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
In a new book, Raoul Ries uses his camera to weave together a new, 21st-century narrative of the mountain.
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Scathing Comics About the Crisis of Being Jewish Today
In his new book Diaspora Boy, Eli Valley analyzes the contradictions lodged within the heart of Zionist ideology and how they're an indictment of American Jews.