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19
Nov
2009
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories, Vol. 1

2 days ago by Marc

If buying a book was like buying, oh, I don’t know, peanuts (for example), there would a word count on the back cover near the price, and the cost breakdown per 1000 words. Then, you could walk through the store and pick up the books and think to yourself, “Hmm. Do I feel like 50,000 words? Or shoul ...

SKRONTZ! - skrontz.com

10
Nov
2009
Heidegger and hate

11 days ago by Carole Bass '83, '97MSL

Never got around to reading Heidegger? Now we have a great excuse. The German philosopher’s work — which provided the underpinnings of existentialism, postmodernism, and deconstructionism — reeks of another ism: Nazism. So argues a book by French scholar Emmanuel Faye, newly published in English tra ...

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Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates

11 days ago by Reviews

Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates, edited and translated by John Gerassi This is the record of a Intellectual with an In who takes a tape recorder to the feet of a Master. In the case of John Gerassi’s new book, the Master, of course, is his godfather Jean-Paul Sartre, but like other bo ...

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09
Nov
2009
Muhammad, unbanned

12 days ago by Carole Bass '83, '97MSL

Just in case you’d forgotten about those Muhammad cartoons that the Yale University Press decided to omit from its book about the Muhammad cartoons, here they come again. Muhammad: The “Banned” Images stands as a direct response to Jytte Klausen’s image-purged The Cartoons That Shook the World. Its ...

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05
Nov
2009
Marilynne Robinson’s Absence of Mind

16 days ago by brian

I am a fan of Marilynne Robinson’s writing, so I was happy to learn yesterday that her next book will arrive in 2010. It is an essay collection titled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, and it will be released by Yale University Press. It seems likely tha ...

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01
Nov
2009
Charlotte Klonk, Spaces of Experience

20 days ago by brian

Published in Frieze 127 (November-December 2009). To see the review in context (website registration required), click here. Charlotte Klonk Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000 Yale University Press, 2009 ($75) Thirty years ago, artist and writer Brian O’Doherty revealed som ...

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30
Oct
2009
Colección en uso

22 days ago by bibliotecaiie

Viernes / “The arts of intimacy : christians, jews and muslims in the making of Castilian culture” by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal and Abigail Krasner Balbale “This lavishly illustrated book explores the vibrant interaction among different and sometimes opposing cultures, and how their con ...

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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

22 days ago by Matthew Deleget

Arshile Gorky, Agony, c. 1947 October 21, 2009 – January 10, 2010 The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major traveling retrospective celebrating the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (American, born Armenia, c.1904-1948), a seminal figure in the movement towards gestural abstract ...

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28
Oct
2009
2 Charged in Attempt to Kill Danish Cartoonist, Editor

24 days ago by Rob Tornoe

Kurt Westergaard's 2005 caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. Two Chicago men have been arrested for allegedly plotting to kill a Danish newspaper’s cartoonist and cultural editor for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad back in 2005. FBI agents arrested David Headley en route to Pakistan earli ...

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16
Oct
2009
Review of Paul Goldberger’s Why Architecture Matters

36 days ago by brian

My brief review of Paul Goldberger’s Why Architecture Matters ( Yale) appears in the fall issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Click here (and scroll down) to read it. “[Goldberger] is suitably temperate while discussing the balance of ‘aesthetic ambition’ and ’social purpose,’ exterior form and ...

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