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Made in Canada
Leading Canadian artists, curators, and art historians from Douglas Coupland to Paul Bourassa look at questions of design and national identity in the 1960s.
Hurvin Anderson
This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered 'observations' of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning. Anderson's painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20thcentury abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place. Drawing on interviews with the artist, Michael J. Prokopow offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson's painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers and collectors of contemporary painting.
新世界的流亡者：美國獨立戰爭中的輸家，如何促成大英帝國重拾霸權
歷史是贏家寫的 那失敗者的聲音呢？ 新生代最才華洋溢的歷史學家瑪雅‧加薩諾夫力作。 作品榮獲： ◎坎迪爾歷史獎（非虛構歷史獎最高獎金） ◎美國國家書評人協會獎非小說類獎項 ◎喬治華盛頓好書獎 ◎達夫‧庫珀獎（歷史書四大獎） ◎紐約時報百大好書 在《新世界的流亡者》一書中，我們看見： *美國革命是大英帝國在第二次世界大戰前最嚴重的慘敗 *美國獨立戰爭啟迪了法國大革命的自由與平等，但不是所有人都贊同這場革命 *除了白人，許多黑人與印地安人都是英國的支持者 *這群支持英國、最終被迫離開美國...
40 Under 40
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, July 20, 2012-February 13, 2013.
Smith House II
Over the course of his distinguished career, architect Arthur Erickson (1924-2009) designed numerous houses, each an exercise in transforming the needs of his clients into tangible form in the context of site and place. Artists Gordon Smith (1919-) and Marion Smith (1918-2009) of Vancouver were the only Erickson clients to commission him to design two homes. The first (1955) was a straightforward exercise in post-World War II modernism that represented the transplantation of prevailing North American design thinking to the mountainous rain forests of coastal Vancouver. The second house (1966) - Smith House II as it came to be known - likewise situated in a forest but with the added benefit o...
My Soul Has Grown Deep
My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists and quilters working throughout the southeastern United States and Alabama in particular. Their paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures, and textiles include pieces ranging from the profoundly moving assemblages of Thornton Dial to the renowned quilts of Gee’s Bend. Nearly sixty remarkable examples—originally collected by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art—are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the history of modernism and the context of the African American experience in the twentieth-century South. This re...
It Takes a Storyteller to Know a Storyteller
If it is indeed impossible to think beyond capitalism, then capital has become reality. If global capitalism organizes reality through the stories it weaves, capital is (as strong as) its fictions. If capital is reality and capital is fiction, then reality as such is fiction as well. It is by reading this fiction for both patterns and inconsistencies that contemporary individuals can challenge global capital and unveil its hypocrisies; and it is by fighting fiction with fiction, i.e. projecting new realities – such as those in the post-millennial novels by William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, and Dave Eggers – that people can imagine the world anew.
American Culture and the Media
[The book] is based on [the author's] belief that reading and writing skills are best taught together and in the context of high-interest subject matter. In section I, the mass media ... form a familiar and reassuring, yet rich and complex, subject for exploration and analysis. Section II, the rhetoric and brief handbook, gives advice and information for students to use as they work on their papers.... Fifty thematically unified high-interest readings in section I. -Pref.
