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Book SynopsisThe majesty of Natural Bridges. The mystery of Devil’s Tower. Explore them and your creativity in National Monuments & Historic Sites Coloring. With over 100 pages to color, you’ll never run out chances to creatively engage in these revered American places. From the landscapes of the West to locations where major events took place, this coloring book takes you on a journey. You’ll cross stunning landscapes and travel back in time in this coloring book, with features and benefits that include:   Gorgeous images of some of America’s most cherished places A great activity for road trips, vacations, bed rest and recovery, and rainy days Suitable for adults or children A wonderful gift for travelers, history buffs, and aspiring artists You don’t have to be an artist to enjoy this coloring book. Anyone can open the pages, flip to a stunning page, and dive right in

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases the most important work by celebrated street artist and activist JR—the award-winning global street-art project he has been working on for the last six years, involving a quarter of a million people. Artist and activist JR exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. Known for plastering cities with huge black-and-white wheatpaste photographic portraits of the people who live there, JR won a $1 millian TED Prize in 2011 with his “TED Wish”: to create a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work by making digitally uploaded images into posters to display in diverse communities. To accomplish this, JR has visited cities on nearly every continent. Since the project’s inception, approximately 200,000 people have contributed their portraits. From the suburbs of Paris to Israel and P

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Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive book to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally.Forty years ago, graffiti in New York evolved from elementary mark-making into an important art form. By the end of the 1980s, it had been documented in books and films that were seen around the world, sparking an international graffiti movement.This original edition, now back in print after several years, considers the rise of New York graffiti and the international scenes it inspired--from Los Angeles to São Paulo to Paris to Tokyo--as well as earlier and parallel movements: the break dancing and rap music of hip-hop; the graffiti used by Chicano gangs to mark their territory; the skateboarding culture that began in Southern California. Expertly researched, beautifully illustrated, and featuring contributions by many of the most significant curators, writers, and artists involved in the graffiti world, this now classic volume is an in-depth exa

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Book SynopsisMohammad Rawas stands at the peak of an artistic career. This work presents an introduction to his work in 235 reproductions. It provides an insight into his life and work, his compositional techniques and sources of inspiration. It constructs the narratives around the diverse elements of his paintings.Trade Review'Rawas's complex multi-media collages speak to the contemporary experience of fragmentation that is at once universal, and, one suspects, distinctly Middle Eastern. Combining a pop sensibility akin to Warhol, the obsessiveness of Joseph Conell, a visual density echoing Robert Rauschenberg and an acute wit all of his own, Rawas's work is haunting, surprising, and seductive at once.' Helena Reckitt, Director of Exhibitions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Centre 'Open to multiple perspectives, Rawas's works suggest simultaneously both a critique of institutions and linear models of progress and an equally powerful wariness of the belief in nature as an ideal uncontaminated condition.' Fran Lloyd, head of the School of Art & Design History, Kingston University

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Book SynopsisBold public artwork. Events and tours with internationally known artists and thinkers. A space dedicated to creative conversation and idea generation

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Book SynopsisJudith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita (1978-2001) in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers University, USA. She is the founder of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, established by Brodsky in 1986, renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor in 2006, and now located at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Brodsky is also the co- founder of the Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art (the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities) and The Feminist Art Project. She is a former president of the College Art Association, the Women's Caucus for Art, and ArtTable. Her publications include The Fertile Crescent, Gender, Art, and Society (2012) and Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts (2018).Trade ReviewAt last! A book that restores women to the history of digital art and shows how they transformed it. What is unique about Brodsky’s brilliant book are the firm lines of connection from the feminist art movement of the 1970s to the digital art of today. Brodsky highlights women digital artists informed by feminist theory, who are ‘dismantling the patriarchy,’ subverting and replacing the hierarchic binaries at its root. * Norma Broude & Mary D. Garrard, Professors Emeritae of Art History, American University, USA, and authors of The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s *Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit is a broad look at women who embrace feminist theory and use technology to create art. Brodsky argues that these artists have influenced the development of technology, which is widely considered a male domain. * Kathy Rae Huffman, Curator, co-founder of the online community FACES: Art, Gender, Technology *This book reclaims and contextualizes important female practitioners of technology—like Joan Jonas, Charlotte Moorman, Jenny Holzer, Vera Frenkel, Muriel Magenta, Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, VNS Matrix, subRosa, and countless others—and resituates them on a par with their male contemporaries. This is a must-read for all interested in Feminist Art and New Media. * Maura Reilly, author of Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating *With the explosion of interest in digital art recently, Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology provides a needed overview of the creative and critical work that artists in this realm are doing to disrupt hegemonic forces. -- Charlotte Kent * Woman's Art Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Reinserting Women into the History of Digital Art: Pioneer Feminist Artists 2. The 1970s: Feminism and Digital Art Inside and Outside the Academy 3. Reimagining the Binary Nature of Digital Technology 4. Using Websites and Browsers to Deliver Social Justice Messages 5. Provoking the Patriarchy Through Digital Language 6. Queerness, Race, and Digital Art 7. The Avatar 8. The Female Body Disappears 9. Creating Feminist Paradigms of Knowledge through Digital Technology 10. Surveillance 11. Feminist Artists and the Gaming Industry 12. Japanese Feminism, Video Games, and Anime 13. Artificial Intelligence (AR), Facial Recognition, and Virtual Reality (VR) 14. Digital Public Art and Augmented Reality (AR) Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChloé Ragazzoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the History Faculty of University Paris Sorbonne, France. She is the author of Eloge de la Ville. Histoire et Littérature (2008) and La grotte des scribes à Deir el-Bahari. La tombe MMA 504 et ses graffiti (forthcoming).Ömür Harmansah is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His work focuses on the art and material culture of the ancient Near Eastern world, with particular emphasis on Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia. He is the author of Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East (2013) and Place, Memory and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments (2015). Chiara Salvador is reading for a doctorate in Egyptology at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research treats a corpus of hieratic, hieroglyphic and figural graffiti from the temple complex of Karnak, in modern Luxor with the support of the Centre Franco-Égyptien d'ÉtuTrade ReviewThis volume highlights the enormous value of using ancient graffiti to understand the ancient environment, social interactions, and, ultimately, the human experience. * American Journal of Archaeology *Though historical specificities and differences are made clear in the essays, a shared quality does emerge over this collection. Various approaches are tapped to explain this, most compellingly the idea of marginality discussed in Janine Rogers's "Graffiti and the Medieval Margin". * Times Literary Supplement *Fascinating ... All-in-all this is a nice book which provides a different way of thinking about graffiti. * Graffiti Review *This volume actualizes a unique meeting of different corpora of graffiti, treating graffiti making as a “practice” that is well-embedded in its immediate physical and socio-cultural context. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *These fascinating local studies demonstrate the importance of graffiti as an archival resource and as a topic of rising conceptual significance. * Juliet Fleming, Professor of English, NYU, USA *Offers an excellent introduction to, and many astute observations on, the issues and methodologies involved in studying ancient (and modern) graffiti and is thus recommended to anyone working on this fascinating category of evidence. * Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists *Table of ContentsPreface (C. Ragazzoli, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France) Introduction (C. Ragazzoli, O. Harmansah, C. Salvador) Part 1: Graffiti and the Landscape (with an introduction by O. Harmansah) Chapter 1: The Scribes’ Cave: Graffiti and the Production of Social Space in Ancient Egypt circa 1500 BC (C. Ragazzoli, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France) Chapter 2: Christian Graffiti in Egypt: Case Studies on the Theban Mountain (A. Delattre, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Belgium) Chapter 3: Graffiti or Monument? Inscription of Place at Anatolian Rock Reliefs (Ö. Harmansah, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Chapter 4: Tweets from Antiquity: Literacy, Graffiti, and Their Uses in the Towns and Deserts of Ancient Arabia (M. Macdonald, University of Oxford, UK) Chapter 5: Gezi Graffiti: Shout-Outs to Resistance and Rebellion in Contemporary Turkey (C. Gruber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Part 2: Graffiti and the Wall (with an introduction by C. Salvador) Chapter 6: Gladiators, Greetings, and Poetry: Graffiti in First Century Pompeii (R. Benefiel, Washington and Lee University, USA) Chapter 7: A New Look at Maya Graffiti from Tikal (E. Olton, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) Chapter 8: Visitors' Inscriptions in the Memphite Pyramid Complexes in Ancient Egypt (c. 1543-1292 BC) (H. Navratilova, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition) Chapter 9: Carving Lines and Shaping Monuments: Mortuary Graffiti and Jews in the Ancient Mediterranean (K. Stern, Brooklyn College, USA) Part 3: Graffiti and the Written Page (with an introduction by C. Ragazzoli) Chapter 10: Verses on Walls in Medieval China (G. Dudbridge, University of Oxford, UK) Chapter 11: Graffiti and the Medieval Margin (J. Rogers, Mount Allison University, Canada) Chapter 12: Graffiti under Control: Annotation Practices in Social Book Platforms (M. Jahjah, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it.

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Book SynopsisUnder the Skin examines tattoos from three different angles, through the work of more than 37 artists.

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Book SynopsisCombines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of 30 female activists, Anarchists, feminists, freedom-fighters and visionaries.

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Book SynopsisThe story of the revolutionary street artist's collective ASARO, whose woodcut slogans chronicle the social unrest in today's Mexico.

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Book SynopsisHow to subvert the adverts that control us - a call-to-arts for a generation raised on advertising.

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Book SynopsisA new book from poly-dimensional artist, Jesse Draxler.Provoking the specter of desire itself, The World Is Mine & I’m Thinking About You brings us into the perspective of one of today’s most compelling artists and creators.Spanning medium and context Draxler’s work effortlessly carries his unique aesthetic philosophy through these 150+ pages, and with clever use of minimally interspersed texts he loosely narrates a practice of continually raising the bar, confronting social media and industry, remaining on the bleeding edge of both aesthetic and new media, and obsessively questioning it all as he encounters it.Draxler’s second major publication with Sacred Bones is a snapshot of an artist at a high, while tirelessly chasing after the next.

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Book SynopsisShepard Fairey is arguably the most influential street artist in the world. His art captures the spirit of our times, while he asks viewers to "question everything". Fairey's work has challenged artistic conventions, visual formulas, and traditional social boundaries with much fanfare and criticism. OBEY Shepard Fairey, Inc is a critical and authorized examination of the artist's life and work.

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