Futura

Futura
Title Futura PDF eBook
Author Futura
Publisher Rizzoli Publications
Pages 258
Release 2020-10-28
Genre Art
ISBN 0847866025

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The most in-depth and comprehensive survey of the life and career of one of the pioneering artists of the original graffiti generation. Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf. As the commercialization of street culture in the 1990s inspired collaborations with fashion and lifestyle brands, Futura's work moved toward a more refined expression of his abstract graffiti style. Commissions from era-defining brands such as A Bathing Ape, Stüssy, Supreme, and Mo' Wax saw his artwork canonized as an elemental component of the street aesthetic. Collected here, among never-before-published reproductions of earlier paintings and drawings, is an archive of personal photography and ephemera that reveals how integral Futura has been to the evolution of street art and culture. Guided through more than forty years of work, and with interviews with key players in Futura's career, this is at once a definitive monograph of a legend of contemporary art and an indispensable chapter in the history of graffiti.

Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex

Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex
Title Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex PDF eBook
Author Howard K. Gloyd
Publisher Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
Pages 0
Release 1990
Genre Agkistrodon
ISBN 9780916984205

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Comprehensive treatment of 33 taxa of pitvipers included in four genera: Agkistrondon of Asia and America, Calloselasma of Southeast Asia and Java, Deinagkistrondon of China, and Hypnale of India and Sri Lanka.--Publications List.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales
Title Diana, Princess of Wales PDF eBook
Author Martin Gitlin
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 160
Release 2008-04-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0313348804

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Long before her tragic death, Diana, Princess of Wales was a beloved modern icon, relatable to the general public in a way that transcended the barrier between royal and commoner. As a member of the royal family in an age of mass media, her fairy-tale wedding to, and painful divorce from, Prince Charles was played out on the world stage. Later, her humanitarian work for the Red Cross, her campaigns against landmines, and her work with the sick, especially AIDS victims, added a compassionate element to the royal family in the eyes of the world—and the world, ten years later, still hasn't gotten enough of Lady Di. This objective, accessible volume explores Diana's fascinating life, including her aristocratic upbringing, her whirlwind engagement to Prince Charles, her rocky marriage, her post-divorce status as global humanitarian icon, the media's frenzied treatment of her death, and her charitable legacy, including her sons' coming-of-age and their attempts to honor her memory.

Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art

Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art
Title Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art PDF eBook
Author Maia Wellington Gahtan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 456
Release 2018-02-19
Genre Art
ISBN 135177820X

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This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. Exhbitions covered include Nathaniel Hone’s 1775 exhibition, the Holbein Exhibition of 1871, the Courbet retrospective of 1882, Titian's exhibition in Venice, Poussin's Louvre retrospective of 1960, and El Greco's anniversaty exhibitions of 2014.

Structures of Power

Structures of Power
Title Structures of Power PDF eBook
Author Terry J. Peavler
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 206
Release 1996-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780791428399

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Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction.

Illinois Biological Monographs

Illinois Biological Monographs
Title Illinois Biological Monographs PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 630
Release 1927
Genre Biology
ISBN

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Dark Assemblages

Dark Assemblages
Title Dark Assemblages PDF eBook
Author Kay Pritchett
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Pages 215
Release 2015-10-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611486734

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This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic fiction writer Pilar Pedraza (Spain, 1951). While critics have long associated the Bildungsroman with Gothic fiction, this study takes a close look at the developmental process itself: the means by which a protagonist, young or old, might transcend a deprived status to achieve a complete sense of self. Pedraza's works imply that, regardless of the path followed, a character's ability to think differently is crucial to progress. The fixed image, representative of an inflexible, socially determined mindset, arises as an obstacle to maturation. In "Días de perros," for example, a triangular arrangement of coins in a cigar box elucidates the connection between individual lives and the social order or assemblage. Literary texts, such as this one, serve as collective assemblages of enunciation, capable of exposing fixed images as powerful instruments of control. "Tristes Ayes del Águila Mejicana" discovers fixed images among the icons of Colonial Spain's exequias reales, used in this case to territorialize the evolving identity of indigenous peoples. The territory thatPedraza's fictionbest illuminates is, in reality, the image. When images remain fixed or territorialized, they uncannily infect the assemblages over which they exert influence. Placing emphasis on images that impact women, Pedraza, in "Anfiteatro," for example, deconstructs "cat woman," which, albeit a potentially subversive image in its early manifestations, eventually ceases to empower the feminine, lashing it, rather, to a burdensome stereotype. Territorialized, the feminine must, then, break free from the image in order to discover representations more capable of illuminating present-day challenges. The phrase "dark assemblages," drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, gestures toward societal stagnation as a decisive factor in individual evolvement. Gothic fiction represents an uneven landscape, in that it tenders the possibility of a social critique yet, equally well, lends itself to the exclusion of specific identities and practices that society brands as anomalous. Pedraza's Gothic fiction is, indeed, subversive, in that it offers readers original perceptions of modern day people and the assemblages, dark or otherwise, to which they belong.