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62) Carrie Mae Weems
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Since the 1980s, the artist Carrie Mae Weems has challenged the status of the black female body within the complex social fabric of American society. Her photographic work probes various spaces from the American kitchen table, to the historical archives of the Hampton School, to the ancient landscapes of Rome. Tugging at established roots of power that perpetuate violence and injustice, Weems's photographic portraits of her muse have not only become...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For nearly six decades, the iconic and incomparable Bob Mackie has been designing stunning, unforgettable clothing. His unique, glamorous--sometimes hilarious--creations have appeared on Broadway stages, TV screens, runways, and red carpets worldwide. For his pioneering genius and continual reinvention, he is a Tony Award and nine-time Emmy Award winner, a three-time Oscar nominee, and recipient of the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
No band has ever been able to demonstrate the enduring power of rock and roll quite like The Rolling Stones, who continue to enthrall, provoke, and invigorate their legions of fans more than fifty years since they began. InCounting Down The Rolling Stones: Their Finest 100 Songs, rock writer Jim Beviglia dares to rank the band{u2019}s finest songs in descending order from the 100th to their number 1 greatest song.Counting Down The Rolling Stones is...
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Cassatt's tender and profound paintings redefined portraiture and broke down barriers for women in art--both as artists and as subjects. This collection celebrates the artist's insightful portrayal of women and children in their everyday lives. Fifty magnificent portraits cover the scope of Cassatt's career, and essays by professor of American art Judith Barter and author Sue Roe contextualize her innovative career. Offering a fresh look at...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips...
Author
Publisher
Times Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
This behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic 1976 movie features interviews with cast and crew, notes from the screenwriter, and a discussion of the film's lasting impact on broadcast television and pop culture.
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo...
Author
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Rethinking Fandom: How To Beat The Sports Industrial Complex at Its Own Game, sportswriter (and lifelong sports fan) Craig Calcaterra outlines endemic problems with what he calls the Sports-Industrial Complex, such as intentionally tanking a season to get a high draft pick, scamming local governments to build cushy new stadiums, actively subverting the players, bad stadium deals, racism, concussions, and more. But he doesn't give up on professional...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"En una amena conversaci̤n informal junto a su amigo Leonardo Garc̕a Tsao, cr̕tico de cine con una larga trayectoria, Guillermo del Toro recorre en estas p̀ginas sus tempranas influencias, sus inquetudes infantiles y sus primeras aventuras creativas en Guadalajara; una historia de pasi̤n juvenil que da paso a una de las carrreras cinematogr̀ficas m̀s celebradas de nuestro tiempo. Desde la odisea que signific̤ la filmaci̤n del cortometraje...
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