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A Place of Greater Safety
From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.
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Borrowing from Our Foremothers
Amy Helene Forss explores the suffragist and feminist movements’ distinct public attributes and action strategies to establish connections between the generations of women’s rights activists.
The Plains Indians
"In this exhibition, you will discover objects produced by 135 artists; objects that offer an unprecedented view of the continuity of the aesthetic traditions of the Plains Indians, from the 16th to the 20th century."--Musée du quai Branly brochure.
My Heart Is Bound Up with Them
Centering historically neglected Indigenous voices as its primary source material, author David Martínez shows how Carlos Montezuma's correspondence and interactions with his family and their community influenced his advocacy--and how his important work in Arizona specifically motivated his work on a national level.
Covered in Time and History
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, organized by Lynn Lukkas and Howard Oransky for the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2022-2024
Every two years the fall issue of The Met's quarterly Bulletin celebrates notable recent acquisitions and gifts to the collection. Highlights of Recent Acquisitions 2022–2024 include the monumental handscroll painting Streams and Mountains without End, a masterwork by the Qing-dynasty painter Wang Yuanqi; the nineteenth century painting Bélizaire and the Frey Children which offers a rare depiction of an identified Black teenager with the children of his enslaver; Helene Schjerfbeck’s The Lace Shawl, which is a layered, dramatic portrait of the artist’s friend and landlady. Meanwhile, Leopoldo Méndez’s linocut depiction of the great Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada expands the already distinguished collection of twentieth-century Mexican graphic arts in the Department of Drawings and Prints. This publication also honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of The Met collection.
Chicago Renaissance
A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago’s cultural development from the 1893 World’s Fair through mid-century, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century, a period of sweeping aesthetic transformations all over the world. From Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olson’s enthralling study...
Calculating Race
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Racial Formation in the Risk Society -- Life -- Crime -- Home -- Proxies -- Sharing Risk Equitably.
School-University-Community Research in a (Post) COVID-19 World
The American Psychological Association (2020) reported that some 81% of teenage children (13 to 17 years-of-age) were negatively impacted in a range of ways due to school closures in connection with COVID-19, including 47% who indicated that they “didn’t learn as much as they did in previous years” (para. 21). That perhaps many more than 47% of teenage children in the United States did not learn as much as they did in previous years was documented in the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report which found that “the national average score declines in mathematics for fourth- and eighth-graders were the largest ever recorded in that subject” (Wilburn & El...
