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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brown’s ingenious escape from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, by mailing himself in a wooden postal crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia, was unique and well documented. But that is not the story that most interests the author of this elegant cultural history. Cutter focuses on how Brown turned his experience in slavery into performance art on various tracks in many different locales" * Pennsylvania Heritage *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Abbreviations for Archives Consulted Introduction. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown, the Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom Chapter 1. Slavery and Freedom in US Visual Culture: The Performative Personae of William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth Chapter 2. Becoming Box Brown, 1815–1857 Chapter 3. Performing Fugitivity: Henry Box Brown on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage, 1857 Chapter 4. Performing New Panoramas, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Second Sight, England, 1857–1875 Chapter 5. Canada, the United States, and Beyond: Performing Slavery and Freedom, 1875–1897 Chapter 6. The Absent Presence: Henry Box Brown in Contemporary Museums, Memorials, and Visual Art Chapter 7. Playing in the Archives: Box Brown in Contemporary Children’s Literature and Visual Poetry Coda. The Resilience of Box Brown and the Afterlives of Slavery Appendix. Selected Contemporary Creative Works About Henry Box Brown Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn detailed drawings and nontechnical language, this work identifies the basic house types of St Augustine, Florida, and records their dimensions, construction techniques, materials and design details from foundations to roofs.

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Book SynopsisGathering oral stories and visual art from Haiti and two of its ‘motherlands’ in Africa, Istwa across the Water recovers the submerged histories of the island through methods drawn from its deep spiritual and cultural traditions.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology seeks to revolutionize the way the Harlem Renaissance is viewed. It seeks to redress the emphasis on male writers, offering a balanced collection of writers - men and women, gay and straight, famiiar and obscure. It includes poetry, short stories, drama, essays, music and art.Trade ReviewWith this new anthology of Harlem Renaissance literature, Patton (Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction) and Honey (editor, Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance), both at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, attempt to "restore and underline the importance of women's writing" and sexual orientation to the Harlem Renaissance. The balanced selection of women and men is similar to that found in Henry Louis Gates's Norton Anthology of African American Literature but the inclusion of lesser-known figures and works is aimed at focusing on the ideology of the renaissance, gay and lesbian themes, and differences in gender-based issues. Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are among the authors represented, and the selected works include essays, poetry, prose, and drama, with lyrics and visual art used as illustration. The editors also break with the tendency to define the beginning and end of the renaissance with political events by focusing on specific literary works, which allows them to broaden the period to 1916-37. Both editors have done previous research in the field of African American women's literature and include a biographical sketch of each writer to underline how their gender, class, and sexual orientation shaped their work. Necessary for all academic libraries. * Library Journal *With this new anthology of Harlem Renaissance literature, Patton (Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction) and Honey (editor, Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance), both at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, attempt to "restore and underline the importance of women's writing" and sexual orientation to the Harlem Renaissance. The balanced selection of women and men is similar to that found in Henry Louis Gates's Norton Anthology of African American Literature but the inclusion of lesser-known figures and works is aimed at focusing on the ideology of the renaissance, gay and lesbian themes, and differences in gender-based issues. Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are among the authors represented, and the selected works include essays, poetry, prose, and drama, with lyrics and visual art used as illustration. The editors also break with the tendency to define the beginning and end of the renaissance with political events by focusing on specific literary works, which allows them to broaden the period to 1916-37. Both editors have done previous research in the field of African American women's literature and include a biographical sketch of each writer to underline how their gender, class, and sexual orientation shaped their work. Necessary for all academic libraries. * Library Journal *Double-Take is a thick, rich stew of an anthology. It will compel a reevaluation of our most common assumptions about the Harlem Renaissance. -- Deborah McDowell * University of Virginia *Double-Take truly is a revisionist anthology - with attention to scores of minor figures, especially women. The essays and illustrations, juxtaposed with poems and short fiction, will allow the student to appreciate the Harlem Renaissance in its multiple dimensions. -- Amritjit Singh * author of The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Song Lyrics Acknowledgements Introduction A Note on the Text Chronology ESSAYS Alain Locke A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen William Stanley Braithwaite Ruth Whitehead Whaley James Weldon Johnson Brenda Ray Moryck George S. Schuyler Langston Hughes Amy Jacques Garvey W.E.B. DuBois Richard Wright Zora Neale Hurston Jessie Redmon Fauset Marcus Garvey W. A. Domingo Randolph Fisher Elsie Johnson McDougald Marita O. Bonner Alice Dunbar-Nelson Marion Vera Cuthbert Alain Locke Joel E. Rogers Gwendolyn B. Bennett CREATIVE WRITING James Weldon Johnson Alice Dunbar-Nelson Georgia Douglas Johnson Angelina Weld Grimke Anne Spencer Jessie Redmon Fauset Effie Lee Newsome (aka Mary Effie Lee) John F. Matheus Fenton Johnson Claude McKay Willis Richardson Anita Scott Coleman Zora Neale Hurston Nella Larsen Eulaine Spence Jean Toomer Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. Randolph Fisher Eric Walrond May Miller Marita O. Bonner Sterling A. Brown Langston Hughes Gwendolyn B. Bennett Wallace Thurman Arna Bontemps Countee Cullen Gladys May Casely Hayford (aka Aquah Laluah) (William) Waring Cuney Richard Bruce Nugent (aka Richard Bruce) Dorothy West Helene Johnson Mae V. Cowdery Bibligoraphy Credits Index of Writers and Artists

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Book SynopsisExamines the work of contemporary African-American women artists, focusing on four ""problems"" that recur when these artists confront their histories: the documentation of truth; the status of the black female body; and the relationships between art and cultural contact, and art and black girlhood.Trade ReviewThis is a perceptive study of the forthright work of contemporary African American women painters, sculptors, photographers, and installation artists....Why, she asks, has black art remained marginalized while black music and literature thrive? Collins concludes that images, especially portraits, possess a uniquely volatile power, and that the disregard of black art is the result of the ways slavery, ongoing racism, and class conflict have politicized the depictions of African Americans, especially women. * Booklist *The Art of History addresses the paradox that African American studies largely neglect the history of art and works by serious visual artists. This contemporary perspective is one of the strongest aspects of the publication, affording insightful analysis of work by a number of exciting artists, accessible and engaging. * Library Journal *This important study is the first to confront head-on the avoidance of the visual that has plagued black studies in the United States. The Art of History opens the often hermetic world of black visual culture to a much broader realm in which questions central to contemporary feminism, black studies, and cultural theory are brought to bear. -- Judith Wilson * University of California, Irvine *The Art of History is an important book that expands the significance of visual culture to African American studies debates. It provides cogent and insightful explorations of the work of contemporary African American women artists. Scholars and general readers alike are sure to be compelled by this original and innovative study. -- Valerie Smith * author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings *A compact and complex publication, The Art of History addresses the paradox that African American studies, while preoccupied with visual culture, largely neglects the history of art and works by serious visual artists...accessible and engaging...authoritative and convincing text. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisA survey of community-based performance in the US from its roots, to its flourishing during the 1960s, to present-day popular culture. It provides descriptions of performances and processes, first-person stories, and analysis and shows how ritualism reinforces community identification while aestheticism enables locals to transgress cultural norms.Trade ReviewCohen-Cruz's book is a highly effective local (and global) act in itself; paralleling the culturally democratic acts it is inspired by, Local Acts will in turn inspire others. -- Lucy R. Lippard * author of The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society *Cohen-Cruz's book is a highly effective local (and global) act in itself; paralleling the culturally democratic acts it is inspired by, Local Acts will in turn inspire others. -- Lucy R. Lippard * author of The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Legacies 1. Early Antecedents 2. Motion of the Ocean 3. Establishing the Field Part II. Principles 4. Between Ritual and Art 5. Criticism Part III. Methodologies 6. Storytelling 7. Performance Structures Closing: Boundary Jumping Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith illustrations, this book explores the radical change that occured in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how the collapse of slavery in the US brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women in the same way that it did for blacks.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Foreword Preface Not at home: the nineteenth-century new woman Homer's ambiguously new women The manly new woman Photography credits Notes on the contributors List of lenders Trustees of the Newark Museum Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a tour de force, a grand jeté, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture." -- Virginia Jackson * University of California-Irvine *"Don’t Act, Just Dance is an exceptional study of cold war culture. Americanists will find indispensable Kodat's brilliant meta-political analyses of works by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Stanley Kubrick, and Marianne Moore. I cannot recommend this book too highly." -- Harilaos Stecopoulos * author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976 *"An important manifesto for dance as a subject of serious scholarly attention in academic disciplines beyond dance history and dance studies … the book's final case studies are brilliant comparative meditations on the complex, multilayered relationship between Cold War art and politics." * Dance Chronicle *Table of ContentsPrefacePart I Rethinking Cold War Culture1 Combat Cultural2 History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)3 Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality)4 Dancing: “Don’t Act, Just Dance”Part II Rereading Cold War Culture5 Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, “Persia”6 Spartacus7 From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in ChinaNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a tour de force, a grand jeté, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture." -- Virginia Jackson * University of California-Irvine *"Don’t Act, Just Dance is an exceptional study of cold war culture. Americanists will find indispensable Kodat's brilliant meta-political analyses of works by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Stanley Kubrick, and Marianne Moore. I cannot recommend this book too highly." -- Harilaos Stecopoulos * author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976 *"An important manifesto for dance as a subject of serious scholarly attention in academic disciplines beyond dance history and dance studies … the book's final case studies are brilliant comparative meditations on the complex, multilayered relationship between Cold War art and politics." * Dance Chronicle *Table of ContentsPrefacePart I Rethinking Cold War Culture1 Combat Cultural2 History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)3 Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality)4 Dancing: “Don’t Act, Just Dance”Part II Rereading Cold War Culture5 Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, “Persia”6 Spartacus7 From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in ChinaNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm brought together Jewish creative personnel from every corner of the Soviet Union and served as an unlikely haven for dissidents who were banned from working in other industries.Trade Review"A superbly researched treatise that will be of keen interest to readers of Soviet history, Jewish studies, and film history. Students of animation will take particular delight in the detailed explorations of Yuri Norstein’s famous film Tale of Tales and of Cheburashka, the phenomenally popular character also known as the Soviet Mickey Mouse." * Library Journal *"Drawing on their Jewish heritage" - an interview with Maya Balakirsky Katz * The Jewish Standard *"From Dishes to Spyware,Quirky Mementos of Soviet Dominion" - Eve M. Kahn on the recent surge of interest in East-Bloc mementos, including Drawing the Iron Curtain * The New York Times *"Katz has written a very important book exploring an area of popular significance but little scholarly attention." -- David Shneer * University of Colorado-Boulder *"Maya Balakirsky Katz’s new book is a welcome addition to Soviet animation studies" "This book contains a significant amount of useful information, and I would ultimately recommend it... to all scholars of Soviet cinema and culture, and to all academic libraries with holdings in Russian and Soviet culture" -- Bella Ginzbursky-Blum * The Russian Review *"Drawing the Iron Curtain is an important contribution to Jewish studies, animation studies, and Russian studies" -- Lora Wheeler Mjolsness * Slavonic and East European Review *"A Beast of Unknown Origins: May Day: The surprising Jewish origins of the animated character who taught a generation of Soviet children to be good communists" by Maya Balakirsky Katz * The Tablet *"A noteworthy contribution to such disparate fields as animation history, Soviet cultural history, and Jewish studies, the author’s primary disciplinary affiliation". * H-Net *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Puppeteering a Self in the Soviet Union1 Behind the Scenes: Jews and the Studio System, 1919–19892 Black and White: Race in Soviet Animation3 The Brumberg Sisters: The Fairy Grandmothers of Soviet Animation4 Big City Jews: Setting and Censoring the Modern Fairytale5 Tropical Russian Bears: Cheburashka’s Jewish Roots6 The Pioneer’s Violin: Animating the Soviet Holocaust7 Cartoon Cosmopolitans: Drawing Jews into Soviet Culture8 Tale of Tales: The Rise of the Jewish Auteur Director Conclusion: Tell-Tale Signs and Soviet Jewish Animation Notes Glossary Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm brought together Jewish creative personnel from every corner of the Soviet Union and served as an unlikely haven for dissidents who were banned from working in other industries.Trade Review"A superbly researched treatise that will be of keen interest to readers of Soviet history, Jewish studies, and film history. Students of animation will take particular delight in the detailed explorations of Yuri Norstein’s famous film Tale of Tales and of Cheburashka, the phenomenally popular character also known as the Soviet Mickey Mouse." * Library Journal *"Drawing on their Jewish heritage" - an interview with Maya Balakirsky Katz * The Jewish Standard *"From Dishes to Spyware,Quirky Mementos of Soviet Dominion" - Eve M. Kahn on the recent surge of interest in East-Bloc mementos, including Drawing the Iron Curtain * The New York Times *"Katz has written a very important book exploring an area of popular significance but little scholarly attention." -- David Shneer * University of Colorado-Boulder *"Maya Balakirsky Katz’s new book is a welcome addition to Soviet animation studies" "This book contains a significant amount of useful information, and I would ultimately recommend it... to all scholars of Soviet cinema and culture, and to all academic libraries with holdings in Russian and Soviet culture" -- Bella Ginzbursky-Blum * The Russian Review *"Drawing the Iron Curtain is an important contribution to Jewish studies, animation studies, and Russian studies" -- Lora Wheeler Mjolsness * Slavonic and East European Review *"A Beast of Unknown Origins: May Day: The surprising Jewish origins of the animated character who taught a generation of Soviet children to be good communists" by Maya Balakirsky Katz * The Tablet *"A noteworthy contribution to such disparate fields as animation history, Soviet cultural history, and Jewish studies, the author’s primary disciplinary affiliation". * H-Net *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Puppeteering a Self in the Soviet Union1 Behind the Scenes: Jews and the Studio System, 1919–19892 Black and White: Race in Soviet Animation3 The Brumberg Sisters: The Fairy Grandmothers of Soviet Animation4 Big City Jews: Setting and Censoring the Modern Fairytale5 Tropical Russian Bears: Cheburashka’s Jewish Roots6 The Pioneer’s Violin: Animating the Soviet Holocaust7 Cartoon Cosmopolitans: Drawing Jews into Soviet Culture8 Tale of Tales: The Rise of the Jewish Auteur Director Conclusion: Tell-Tale Signs and Soviet Jewish Animation Notes Glossary Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro surveys a wide range of music videos, highlighting some of their most striking innovations. In sampling and reworking a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts, these videos create a whole new digital world for the music industry that offers a plethora of visions and sounds never before encountered. Trade Review"A beautiful book! With wide-eyed curiosity and a sense of joy, Steven Shaviro discovers new levels of richness and density in music video. Shaviro precisely captures the genre’s latest turns, its shimmering surfaces, its cultural meanings--and why it seems ever more central to our culture." -- Carol Vernallis * author of Unruly Media *"Digital Music Videos combines genuine fandom with lightly-worn erudition, infra-red insight, and page-turning readability." -- Dominic Pettman * author of Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 SuperimpositionsLabrinth, “Let It Be” (Us, 2014)Rihanna, “Disturbia” (Anthony Mandler, 2007)Lana Del Rey, “Shades of Cool” (Jake Nava, 2014) 2 Glitch AestheticsAllie X, “Catch” (Jérémie Saindon, 2015)FKA twigs, “Papi Pacify” (Tom Beard and FKA twigs, 2013)Janelle Monáe, “Cold War” (Wendy Morgan, 2010) 3 RemediationsAnimal Collective, “Applesauce” (Gaspar Noé, 2013)Kylie Minogue, “All the Lovers” (Joseph Kahn, 2010)Dawn Richard, “Choices” (Jayson Edward Carter, 2015) 4 LimitsMassive Attack, “Take It There” (Hiro Murai, 2016)Sky Ferreira, “Night Time, My Time” (Grant Singer, 2013)Kari Faux, “Fantasy” (Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2016) Further ReadingAcknowledgmentsWorks CitedVideos CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisNew African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers in the new millennium by offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema as it has evolved since the 1960s into the new medium, known as “new African cinema,” it is today. Trade Review"New African Cinema manages the formidable task of depicting the depth, breadth, and great diversity of cinema on the African continent by highlighting different genres and themes. This book will appeal to anyone who is interested in film." -- Cécile Accilien * The University of Kansas *"An impeccable introduction to the exciting films being produced today, New African Cinema delineates the important broad distinctions between Anglophone and Francophone movies, and the finer lines between North African, sub-Saharan, West African, Maghrebian, and other regional bodies of film." -- Kenneth W. Harrow * author of Trash! African Cinema from Below *"Valérie K. Orlando offers an excellent, highly engaging analysis of twenty-first century cinema from and about Africa, examining some of the most pressing issues facing the continent today." -- Hakim Abderrezak * author of Ex-Centric Migrations: Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, & Music *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note vii Introduction 1 1 From Revolution to the Coming of Age of African Cinema, 1960s–1990s 39 2 New Awakenings and New Realities of the Twenty-First Century in African Film 82 Conclusion: The Futures of African Film 141 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Further Reading and Useful Websites 155 Works Cited 157 Selected Filmography: Twenty-First-Century Films 167 Index 169

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Book SynopsisNew African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers in the new millennium by offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema as it has evolved since the 1960s into the new medium, known as “new African cinema,” it is today. Trade Review"New African Cinema manages the formidable task of depicting the depth, breadth, and great diversity of cinema on the African continent by highlighting different genres and themes. This book will appeal to anyone who is interested in film." -- Cécile Accilien * The University of Kansas *"An impeccable introduction to the exciting films being produced today, New African Cinema delineates the important broad distinctions between Anglophone and Francophone movies, and the finer lines between North African, sub-Saharan, West African, Maghrebian, and other regional bodies of film." -- Kenneth W. Harrow * author of Trash! African Cinema from Below *"Valérie K. Orlando offers an excellent, highly engaging analysis of twenty-first century cinema from and about Africa, examining some of the most pressing issues facing the continent today." -- Hakim Abderrezak * author of Ex-Centric Migrations: Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, & Music *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note vii Introduction 1 1 From Revolution to the Coming of Age of African Cinema, 1960s–1990s 39 2 New Awakenings and New Realities of the Twenty-First Century in African Film 82 Conclusion: The Futures of African Film 141 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Further Reading and Useful Websites 155 Works Cited 157 Selected Filmography: Twenty-First-Century Films 167 Index 169

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Book SynopsisA reconstruction of three modernist poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters, this sequel to ""Orientalism and Modernism"", investigates the ways in which three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces.Trade ReviewThe Modernist Response to Chinese Art is a work of both erudition and sympathy that reveals the root of modernist poets' otherwise baffling interest in and use of Chinese art. Most impressive, perhaps, is the depth of their embrace of it, as Qian has so convincingly documented. - Patricia C. Willis, Yale University, author of Marianne Moore; ""Qian provides a scrupulously scholarly and valuable study - a goldmine of important and useful facts and insights."" - Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, author of Twenty-first-Century Modernism: The ""New"" Poetics; ""Enormously impressive, The Modernist Response to Chinese Art will be highly useful to all levels of readers in Pound, Moore, and Stevens, and absolutely indispensable to scholars sorting out the development of the three poets' work."" - Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford, author of The Genesis of Ezra Pound's Cantos

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Book SynopsisDraws a correlation between the American fashion industry and early twentieth-century literature. As American fashion diverged from a class-conscious industry governed by Parisian designers to become more commercial and democratic, Lauren S. Cardon argues, fashion designers and journalists began appropriating the same themes of self-transformation to market new fashion trends.Trade ReviewLauren Cardon gives us a broad-spectrum study of how we read, manipulate, blend, and perform fashion in American society and literature. She deftly moves from theory to practice, placing novelists and designers of the Gilded Age in the context of current conversations about the many meanings of fashion. Seeing new patterns in familiar novels, Cardon stitches together a book that is lush, smart, and a joy to read."" — Katherine Joslin, Western Michigan University, author of Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

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Book SynopsisThis first book-length critical study of Saul Steinberg's art and its relation to literature, explores his complex literary roots, particularly his affinities with modernist aesthetics and iconography. The Steinberg who emerges is an artist of far greater depth than has been previously recognised.

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Book SynopsisStudies the works of Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis's analysis serves as a cultural biography, examining the liberation impulses in Bambara's writing.Trade ReviewLewis intervenes by re-establishing the boundaries and intergenerational building blocks of the Black Arts Movement by situating Bambara as a midwife for the creative legacy of the moment. He also reorients his readers to Bambara's role as foremother to some of the most acclaimed and well-read works by black women. This is essential for recognizing and placing Bambara within a more sustained discourse on the Black Arts Movement and Black women's evolution from that moment into their own creative renaissance. A necessary and overdue study. Lewis captures the significance of one of the most important figures in black and women's liberation struggles of the 60s and 70s in the U.S. Though Bambara has been undervalued as a revolutionary writer/activist/theorist of the Black Arts Movement, Lewis articulates in new ways, through an examination of her short stories and novels, the nature of her Black nationalist/feminist commitments and her 'spiritual wholeness aesthetic.' Lewis also underscores how Bambara practices 'nation building in her art' in unapologetic, creative, and brilliant ways. Lewis does a superb job of defending a unique and overdue analysis of Toni Cade Bambara's fiction. The technique of viewing Bambara's fiction through the lens of the spiritual wholeness aesthetic with its most frequent source in the Black Aesthetic Movement moves readers' attention from the dominant paradigm of viewing Bambara's fiction from a heavily womanist perspective to an interrogation of how Bambara's spiritual, political aesthetic reflects an interweaving of self and ethnic identity, community engagement and responsibility, a balancing of black male and black female identity and of how self-awareness or lack of it influences interactions within and outside the black community. 'Black People Are My Business' offers an insightful and empathetic analysis of Bambara's complete corpus-her popular short stories, her novels, and her nonfiction prose. Thabiti Lewis is an astute reader who illuminates the many ways in which Bambara was and is an indispensable writer. There can't be enough good books on Toni Cade Bambara, so Thabiti Lewis's 'Black People Are My Business' is a real gift. His close readings of Bambara's fiction adds an important layer to the conversation about Bambara and, as importantly, about reading/writing as a practice of liberation in African American literary studies.

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Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of contemporary Brazilian cinematic production, this volume discusses which queer representations are erased and which are acknowledged in the complex processes of cultural translation, adaptation, and ‘devouring’ that defines the Brazilian understanding of sexual dissidents and minorities.

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Book SynopsisLos Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915. Photography aided the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in opening the region to the rest of nation. Painters gave traditions that were fading in Europe a new lease on life in the California sun, with signature colors and techniques that would be adopted by L.A. real estate companies, agribusiness, and health retreats. Tourism infused the iconography and signature styles of art with cultural mythology of the state''s colonial past, offering proto-cinematic experiences to those who ventured west. Author John Trafton explores how

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Book SynopsisA pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life. Schor's compelling biography shines new light on this little-known artist and enriches our understanding of modern Palestinian history.Trade ReviewA rich, nuanced, and sensitive treatment of this brilliant but often neglected painter. The work is especiallyvaluable for its investigation of Halaby’s formative years as a Russo-Palestinian artist growing up in Kiev and Mandate Palestine.Schor’s skillful and painterly approach to Sophie Halaby’s life, work and city gives insight into the remarkable character of a Arab-Russian woman . . . and into her cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem, sketching for us memoriesof a place that we can barely perceive through the dismal haze of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Like Sophie Halaby’s paintings and work, Schor’s book outlines the wispy contours of a world full of potential where the salons of Paris were just a steamer ticket away for an aspiring Arab woman artist, but one that is constricted by war, colonialism, nationalism, and expropriation over the course of the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisIn his Cullercoats paintings, Winslow Homer took as his main subject the lives and labours of the village's women and their strong sense of community. These paintings display his masterly uses of watercolor. The Cullercoats paintings show Homer in a new light, and Tatham's revelatory account provides the long-overdue attention they deserve.

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art. It traces the evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European and American painting and the ways in which this evolution reflects ideological changes in society over 2000 years.

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Book SynopsisAt a time when nationalism was taking root across Europe and the US, the painted riverscape played an important role in transforming the abstract idea of the nation into a potent visual image. This book explores the significance of painted riverscapes for the creation of national identities in 19th- and early 20th-century Europe and America.

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Book SynopsisPresents a call to rethink binary categories of “religion” and “secularism” in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. This book juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir.

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Book SynopsisA pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life. Schor's compelling biography shines new light on this little-known artist and enriches our understanding of modern Palestinian history.Trade ReviewA rich, nuanced, and sensitive treatment of this brilliant but often neglected painter. The work is especiallyvaluable for its investigation of Halaby’s formative years as a Russo-Palestinian artist growing up in Kiev and Mandate Palestine.Schor’s skillful and painterly approach to Sophie Halaby’s life, work and city gives insight into the remarkable character of a Arab-Russian woman . . . and into her cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem, sketching for us memoriesof a place that we can barely perceive through the dismal haze of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Like Sophie Halaby’s paintings and work, Schor’s book outlines the wispy contours of a world full of potential where the salons of Paris were just a steamer ticket away for an aspiring Arab woman artist, but one that is constricted by war, colonialism, nationalism, and expropriation over the course of the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisOutlines an exciting new approach to this confluence of art, media, and poetry.The experimental art and poetry of the last half of the twentieth century offers a glimpse of the emerging networked culture that electronic devices will make omnipresent. Craig J. Saper demarcates this new genre of networked art, which uses the trappings of bureaucratic systems—money, logos, corporate names, stamps—to create intimate situations among the participants. In Saper’s analysis, the pleasures that these aesthetic situations afford include shared special knowledge or new language among small groups of participants. Functioning as artworks in themselves, these temporary institutional structures—networks, publications, and collective works—give rise to a gift-exchange community as an alternative economy and social system. Saper explains how this genre developed from post-World War II conceptual art, including periodicals as artworks

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Book SynopsisA major reevaluation of collaboration's role in art since 1968. The lone artist is a worn cliché of art history but one that still defines how we think about the production of art. Since the 1960s, however, a number of artists have challenged this image by embarking on long-term collaborations that dramatically altered the terms of artistic identity. In The Third Hand, Charles Green offers a sustained critical examination of collaboration in international contemporary art, tracing its origins from the evolution of conceptual art in the 1960s into such stylistic labels as Earth Art, Systems Art, Body Art, and Performance Art. During this critical period, artists around the world began testing the limits of what art could be, how it might be produced, and who the artist is. Collaboration emerged as a prime way to reframe these questions. Green looks at three distinct types of collaboration: the highly bureaucratic identities created by Joseph Kosuth, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, and other

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the remarkable resurgence of interest in the aestheticRecent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning aesthetics is self-evident anymore. Determined to recover the value of aesthetic experience for artistic, cultural, and social analysis, the contributors to this volume—prominent scholars in literature, philosophy, art history, architecture, history, and anthropology—begin from a shared recognition that ideological readings of the aesthetic have provided invaluable insights, in particular, that analyses of aesthetics within historical and social contexts tell us a great deal about the experience of aesthetic encounters. From multiple and complementary perspectives, the contributors address topics as varied as Nabokov and Dickens, Caravaggio and Shelley Winters, gender and sexuality, advertising and AIDS. Taken together, their essays constitute a sus

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Book SynopsisReveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.Trade Review"The Aesthetics of Disengagement is the only book on contemporary art that provides a satisfying and profound theory of why art looks the way it does today and how this art is related to broader and deeper structures of subjectivity and meaning in North American and European culture." -Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing the SubjectTable of ContentsContents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Withering of Melancholia2. The Laboratory3. Image-Screens, or the Aesthetic Strategy of Disengagement4. Nothing to See?5. Against the De-mentalization of the Subject NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA new understanding of visual rhetoric offers unique insights into issues of representation and identityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Naturalizing RhetoricThomas Patin1. Being Here, Looking There: Mediating Vistas in the National Parks of the Contemporary American WestRobert M. Bednar2. Remembering Zion: Architectural Encounters in a National ParkGregory Clark3. Roadside Wilderness: U.S. National Park Design in the 1950s and 1960sPeter Peters4. Critical Vehicles Crash the Scene: Spectacular Nature and Popular Spectacle at the Grand CanyonMark Neumann5. How German Is the American West? The Legacy of Caspar David Friedrich’s Visual Poetics in American Landscape PaintingSabine Wilke6. Yellowstone National Park in Metaphor: Place and Actor Representations in Visitor PublicationsDavid A. Tschida7. Image/Text/Geography: Yellowstone and the Spatial Rhetoric of LandscapeGareth John8. Can Patriotism Be Carved in Stone? A Critical Analysis of Mount Rushmore’s Orientation FilmsTeresa Bergman9. Thinking like a Mountain: Mount Rushmore’s GazeWilliam Chaloupka10. George Catlin’s Wilderness UtopiaAlbert Boime11. Memorials and Mourning: Recovering Native Resistance in and to the Monuments of the NationStephen Germic12. America’s Best Idea: Environmental Public Memory and the Rhetoric of Conservation CivicsCindy Spurlock13. America in Ruins: Parks, Poetics, and PoliticsThomas PatinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe definitive critical history of the new Cuban art.Trade Review"Rachel Weiss is a major expert on contemporary art in Cuba. Her knowledge is the result of profound research and, more importantly, of her very active personal involvement. Her discussions on the ‘New Cuban Art’ are the result of a social and contextual approach, bursting with sharp views, provocative ideas, and personal experiences. To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art is the most important historical publication on the subject, and everyone who reads it will learn about Cuba and what’s more: will live Cuba." —Gerardo MosqueraTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: To Build the Sky 1. Everyday Museum of the Revolution, Volumen Uno, Ricardo Brey, José Bedia, Juan Francisco Elso, Tomás Sánchez, Gustavo Pérez Monzón, Marta María Pérez, María Magdalena Campos Pons, Consuelo Castañeda, Ana Albertina Delgado, Leandro Soto, Flavio Garciandía, Gory, Alejandro Aguilera, Adriano Buergo. René Francisco Rodríguez, Grupo Puré, Segundo Planes, Tomás Esson, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, Juan-Sí González, Arturo Cuenca 2. Laughing Glexis Novoa, Chago, Rubén Torres Llorca, ABTV (Tanya Angulo, Juan Pablo Ballester, José Ángel Toirac and Ileana Villazón), Raúl Martínez, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, Aldito Menéndez, Ponjuán and René Francisco, Arte Calle, Grupo Provisional, Art-De (Arte-Derechos), Meditar, Baseball Game, Ángel Delgado, Tonel, Fernando Rodríguez, Pedro Álvarez, Douglas Pérez, Armando Mariño, Lázaro Garcia, Luis Gómez, Kcho, Manuel Piña, Sandra Ramos, José Angel Toirac, Félix Ernesto Pérez, Joel Rojas, Lázaro Saavedra, Alberto Casado, Luis o Miguel, Yoan Capote Interlude: Withdrawal 3. Museum National Museum of Fine Arts, Carlos Garaicoa, Manuel Piña, Iván Capote, Ernesto Leal, Gabinete Ordo Amoris, Las Metáforas del Templo. , Jorge Luis Marrero, Osvaldo Yero, Esterio Segura, Abel Barroso, Ibrahim Miranda, René Peña, Cirenaica Moreira, Juan Carlos Alom, Ezequiel Suárez/Sandra Ceballos/Espacio Aglutinador, Fernando Rodríguez, Luis Gómez, Abdel Hernández, Proyecto Hacer, Proyecto Pilón, DUPP (Desde una pedagogía pragmática, From a Pragmatic Pedagogy), Enema, Los Carpinteros, Kcho, Abigaíl González, Beverley Mojena, Ángel Delgado, Tania Bruguera, Taller Arte de Conducta, Celia y Yunior, Eduardo Ponjuán, Glenda León, Arturo Montoto, Jimmie Bonachea, Wilfredo Prieto, Adrián Soca, Fabián Peña Epilogue on the Horizon Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"We may think we know everything about Diane Arbus just from looking at her photographs, but Frederick Gross has challenged the usual easy readings of Arbus as a gimlet eyed ironist by exploring the artist's philosophical, journalistic and political contexts in depth, and offering many surprising insights into her multifaceted motives and carefully arrived at methods. One comes away with a much enhanced appreciation of the complexity of Arbus's vision and the heroic dimensions of her empathetic activism. Such a study is especially important now because the artist's enormous cultural influence tends to obscure accurate hindsight into her development and process." —Glenn O’Brien"Gross skillfully discusses a range of subjects (e.g., documentary photography, portraiture, the body, the social climate) and how they relate to Arbus and her work. Highly recommended for all photography and art collections as well as for photography enthusiasts." —Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface: “Sylvia Plath with a Camera”Introduction: Between Intention and Effect1. Documentary Photography and the Positivist Social Gallery2. Portraits, Pastiche, and Magazine Work3. The Body in the 1960s4. Madness, Disability, and the “Untitled” Series5. The Social Panorama in ContextRevelations: Darkness and Illumination

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Book SynopsisThe advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and 30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss's Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Transformed by the populisTrade Review“Impossible Heights is an original account of the American fascination with the skyscraper and the airplane and the enthusiasm for the new perspective on high from which people surveyed the city and landscape. Adnan Morshed examines the intersections between intellectual biography, visuality, and cultural history and brings together the ‘art of architecture’ with mass culture and spectatorship. In doing so, he illuminates ‘the aesthetics of ascension’ as a widely shared cultural phenomenon that characterized the interwar period.” —Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York"A valuable contribution to the tradition of scholarship on aerial perspective and the history of visuality by focusing upon the interwar period and the American fascination with aviation and skyscrapers."—CHOICE"Impossible Heights. . . offers a site of rich cultural exploration regarding the architectural history of flight."—Science Fiction Studies"Impossible Heights is driven by extensive archival research presented in clear, accessible prose capable of engaging architectural historians as well as readers intrigued by the twentieth century’s unquenchable reach for the skies. In a fascinating read that is enhanced with over a hundred images, Morshed’s Impossible Heights brings to life this period of spectacular vision for the American metropolis."—Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Aesthetics of Ascension1. Hugh Ferriss and the “Harmonious Development of Man”2. Ascension as Autobiography: Buckminster Fuller and His “Land to Sky, Outward Progression”3. The Master Builder as Superman: Norman Bel Geddes’s FuturamaEpilogue: The God’s-Eye VisionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste. Yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations looking to sell us more stuff. In Things Worth Keeping, Christine HarTrade Review"For too long, the contemporary individual’s relationship with ordinary things has been prematurely chastised as commodity fetishism or blindly embraced as conspicuous consumption. Christine Harold offers a welcome alternative, in which objects are cast in complex, subtle roles amid a broader human drama."—Ian Bogost, author of How to Talk about Videogames"With thrift stores overflowing with ‘fast fashion,’ China hitting its limit for outsourced recycling, and even decluttering queens suddenly hawking crystals, it’s clear that Westerners buy too much shit. But permit yourself one more acquisition: Christine Harold’s beautiful new book, which explores how practices ranging from hacking and crafting to artisanship and storytelling can help us forge more sustained and, thus, sustainable relationships with the objects in our lives."—Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age"Things Worth Keeping pushes audiences to be shaped by their emotional reactions to the environmental impact of their consumption. Harold suggests that the days of trying to make environmental arguments via statistics—and “finger wagging” or “shaming”—ought to give way to emotional catharsis via art."—Women’s Review of Books"Harold offers the book as part of an existing conversation that will continue in a variety of contexts, including the domains of design practice and vernacular experience, not to mention the university classroom."—Material Culture"What to get and how to get it, how to take care of stuff, and what to get rid of and how—these are vexing everyday matters, with vast if often unseen consequences. Christine Harold’s Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World takes up these issues by analyzing big box stores and offbeat brands, mainstream trends and rogue artworks, political economic theory and journalistic hot takes."—ISLETable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Turning toward Things: Accumulation, Attachment, and Agency1. The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of: Attaching to Inanimate Objects2. On Target: Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of Design Democracy3. Some Assembly Required: IKEA, Project Value, and What Happens When Things Come Apart4. The Value of Story: Extending the Value of Objects5. The Handmade Tale: Crafting, Making, and the Lure of the ArtisanalConclusion: Expanding and Intensifying the Value(s) of ObjectsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"For too long, the contemporary individual’s relationship with ordinary things has been prematurely chastised as commodity fetishism or blindly embraced as conspicuous consumption. Christine Harold offers a welcome alternative, in which objects are cast in complex, subtle roles amid a broader human drama."—Ian Bogost, author of How to Talk about Videogames"With thrift stores overflowing with ‘fast fashion,’ China hitting its limit for outsourced recycling, and even decluttering queens suddenly hawking crystals, it’s clear that Westerners buy too much shit. But permit yourself one more acquisition: Christine Harold’s beautiful new book, which explores how practices ranging from hacking and crafting to artisanship and storytelling can help us forge more sustained and, thus, sustainable relationships with the objects in our lives."—Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age"Things Worth Keeping pushes audiences to be shaped by their emotional reactions to the environmental impact of their consumption. Harold suggests that the days of trying to make environmental arguments via statistics—and “finger wagging” or “shaming”—ought to give way to emotional catharsis via art."—Women’s Review of Books"Harold offers the book as part of an existing conversation that will continue in a variety of contexts, including the domains of design practice and vernacular experience, not to mention the university classroom."—Material Culture"What to get and how to get it, how to take care of stuff, and what to get rid of and how—these are vexing everyday matters, with vast if often unseen consequences. Christine Harold’s Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World takes up these issues by analyzing big box stores and offbeat brands, mainstream trends and rogue artworks, political economic theory and journalistic hot takes."—ISLETable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Turning toward Things: Accumulation, Attachment, and Agency1. The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of: Attaching to Inanimate Objects2. On Target: Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of Design Democracy3. Some Assembly Required: IKEA, Project Value, and What Happens When Things Come Apart4. The Value of Story: Extending the Value of Objects5. The Handmade Tale: Crafting, Making, and the Lure of the ArtisanalConclusion: Expanding and Intensifying the Value(s) of ObjectsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisVered Maimon shows that the perception of the photographic image in early nineteenth-century England was symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries.Trade Review"Singular Images, Failed Copies offers a significant contribution to the scholarship on William Henry Fox Talbot and the scientific and philosophical climate in which he produced his photographs."—Frederick Gross, Savannah College of Art and Design "A striking new analysis of William Henry Fox Talbot’s famous ‘pencil of nature’ botanical photos as diagram rather than index, Singular Images, Failed Copies argues against familiar ideas of the photograph in relation to objectivity or impersonality. Vered Maimon revisits from a fresh angle questions about photography and its role in art, science, and society."—John Rajchman, Columbia University"Singualar Images, Failed Copies will take its rightful place as an important addition to the literature on both the history of early photography. . . and the espistemological changes of the early years of the nineteenth century."—Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Photographic ImaginationPart I 1. Method: The Engine of Knowledge2. Imagination: The Art of DiscoveryPart II3. Time: Singular Images, Failed Copies4. History: Displaced Origins and The Pencil of NatureAcknowledgmentsAppendixesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Living Cargo is an elegant and beautifully imagined book that reactivates archival records and makes them speak anew."—Shane Vogel, Indiana University"Grounded in rigorous theoretical inquiry, archival research, and sophisticated textual analysis, Living Cargo is a rich and nuanced contribution to black Atlantic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural theory."—Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsContents Introduction. History Unhoused: Performing the Life of Human Bio-Cargo Part I. History and Human Cargo 1. Beautiful Remnants, Brutal Remains: Dwelling on the Melancholy Archive 2. Living Rough: The Disposition and Dispensation of Aleatory Life Part II. Assembling Human Bio-Cargo 3. Compound Fractures: Archival Constellations, Narrative Violations 4. Blood Pressures: Queer Inheritance and Intimate Affiliations Part III. Exorbitant Life in an Age of Austerity 5. Bespoke History: Redressing the Past, Tailoring the Present, Fashioning the Future 6. @Bristol: Dissident Publics in a Neoliberal City Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between art, architecture, war memory, and Franco-American relations. Kate Clarke Lemay addresses the many functions, both original and more recent, that the American war cemeteries have performed, such as war memorials, diplomatic gestures, Cold War political statements, prompts for debate about Franco-American relations, and the nature of French identity itself.Trade ReviewTriumph of the Dead provides much needed information on post-WWII American military cemeteries in Europe, as well as the US agenda in postwar Europe in general." — Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

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