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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.
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The Elaborate Survey of an Imaginary Comics Artist in Singapore
In The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, cartoonist Sonny Liew collaborates with a figment of his imagination.
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Drawings that Trace the Contours of Thought
Renee Gladman's drawings in Prose Architectures resemble not-quite-legible script, registering somewhere on the visual spectrum between image and language.
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The Earth as a Dump and Refuge
The Astropastorals, a new collection of poetry by Douglas Crase, brings together two decades of material in 18 pages.
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Two Comics Artists Draw Their Ways Through Depression
New books by Keiler Roberts and Sina Grace share accounts of their ongoing battles with depression and their careers as comic artists.
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A World in Crisis: Bending, Quaking, Breaking
The Great Regression, edited by Heinrich Geiselberger, portrays the state of international politics as already hellbent.
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An Art Critic's Independent Gaze
Michael Glover takes nothing for granted in his art criticism; he is not dogmatic, nor does he seem to have axe to grind.
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The 19th-Century French Novelists Who Wove Painting into Their Fiction
In The Pen and the Brush, Anka Muhlstein mines the special relationship between writers and painters in 19th-century France.