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From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Foods complexity of form and meaningand the fact that its often at handhave made it a much-photographed subject throughout the history of photography.

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Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frederic Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, this book argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting.

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What happens when nothing happens

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True portraits of transgender women.

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In Fiery Cinema, Weihong Bao traces the permutations of cinema as an affective medium in China from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.

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The paintings in this book depict 'object-type' - general yet specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are 'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape.

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A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world

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Gathering twenty essays written over twenty years, Figments of the Architectural Imagination explores the frontiers of speculative architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and incisive treatments of some of the most important projects, practices, and polemics at work making contemporary architecture contemporary.

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Antonio T. Tiongson draws on interviews with Bay Area-based Filipino American DJs to explore the authenticating strategies they rely on to create a niche within DJ culture. He shows that while the engagement of Filipino youth with DJ culture speaks to the broadening racial scope of hip-hop, such involvement also upholds deracialized accounts of hip-hop and renders difference benign.

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Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching filmexamining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another.

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Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the countrys origins by competing geopolitical interests, by mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups.

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The photographs in "First Fleet" serve as a time capsule of a unique time in the history of manned spaceflight.

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Why do we design where we live and work Why do we not just live in nature, or in chaos Why does society care about architecture Why does it really matter This book answers these questions through a fresh examination of the basic purposes and elements of architecture - beginning in nature, and combining function and expression.

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Floating Island traces the historical trajectory of a WWII aviation facility town while reflecting on the landscape's fantastical aspects.

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An exploration into the architecture of fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be understood and used to design and fabricate objects and space differently.