Art in Transit
Author : Keith Haring
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Graffiti
ISBN :
Author : Keith Haring
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Graffiti
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Author : Christopher B. Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1994-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521457521
African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect so-called 'primitive' art in Europe and America is based on extensive field research among the art traders in Côte d'Ivoire. Steiner provides a lucid interpretation which reveals not only a complex economic network with its own internal logic and rules, but also an elaborate process of transcultural valuation and exchange. By focusing directly on the intermediaries in the African art trade, he unveils a critical new perspective on how symbolic codes and economic values are mediated in the context of shifting geographic and cultural domains. He questions conventional definitions of authenticity in African art by demonstrating how the categories 'authentic' and 'traditional' are continually redefined.
Author : Sandra Bloodworth
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
The authors conduct a tour through New York's underground museum of contemporary art, works commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit for the subway system. 200 full-color illustrations.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Local transit
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Author : Dalia Judovitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520213760
"Transit, transitional, transition: Dalia Judovitz catches Marcel Duchamp on the run with his art in a suitcase and his thought all boxed and ready to go. . . . She demonstrates how the theme of transition, reappearing from work to work, makes each piece reproduce some other piece, while all continue to exemplify an original which can no longer be found and which has no creator."—Jean-François Lyotard
Author : Steven Beaucher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0262048078
A richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America’s most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA. A lively tour of public transportation in Boston over the years, Boston in Transit maps the complete history of the modes of transportation that have kept the city moving and expanding since its founding in 1630—from the simple ferry serving an English settlement to the expansive network of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA. The story of public transit in Boston—once dubbed the Hub of the Universe—is a journey through the history of the American metropolis. With a remarkable collection of maps and architectural and engineering drawings at hand, Steven Beaucher launches his account from the landing where English colonists established that first ferry, carrying passengers between what is now Boston’s North End and Charlestown—and sparing them what had been a two-day walk around Boston Harbor. In the 1700s, horse-drawn coaches appeared on the scene, connecting Boston and Cambridge, with the bigger, better Omnibus soon to follow. From horse-drawn coaches, horse-drawn railways evolved, making way for the electric streetcar networks that allowed the city’s early suburbs to sprout—culminating in the multimodal, regional public transportation network in place in Boston today. With photographs, brochures, pamphlets, guidebooks, timetables, and tickets, Boston in Transit creates a complete picture of the everyday experience of public transportation through the centuries. At once a practical reference, local history, and travelogue, this book will be cherished by armchair tourists, day-trippers, and serious travelers alike.
Author : Rafael A. Osuba, Sr.
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780998174952
Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374714576
National Bestseller • A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize • Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award • One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Guardian, BOMB Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Commonweal, Southern Living, NOW Magazine, The Washington Independent Review of Books, Book Depository, The Globe and Mail, and The National Post (Canada) The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015 In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, and practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this second book of a precise, short, yet epic cycle, Cusk describes the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one’s life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.
Author : Marion F. Mecklenburg
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
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Author : Jack Stewart
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810975262
The definitive book on New York's subway graffiti movement, "Graffiti Kings" features personal interviews with the artists and more than 275 full-color, previously unpublished photographs that bring the movement's origins to life.