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Bizarre Beauty is the definitive study of the American artist William Harper and his work, including a full biography, as well as thematic essays and primary texts.

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The first presentation of Bjorn Ransve's painterly oeuvre - and at the same time a catalogue of this important Norwegian artist's works that meets the highest aesthetic standards.

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A simple and powerful graphic poem celebrating black identity and culture. It aims to connect us through words and images in our shared origins and humanity.

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"National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford".

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Largely drawn from international private collections, this book presents contemplative works on paper and clay inscribed with Rengetsu's elegant poetry and understated calligraphy, reflecting the beatury of the imperfect and unconventional.

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Tucked away in the dusty halls of the Smithsonian archives and nearly forgotten by most historians, black culture is a vast, complex, interconnected web of different people, trends, and lifestyles. Deborah Willis has dug through the archives and hunted down the remnants that tell the wonderful and tragic history of a people.

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Tucked away in the dusty halls of the Smithsonian archives and nearly forgotten by most historians, black culture is a vast, complex, interconnected web of different people, trends, and lifestyles. Deborah Willis has dug through the archives and hunted down the remnants that tell the wonderful and tragic history of a people.

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"A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation"--

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"A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation"--

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Acutely aware of how popular culture acts as a carrier of social prejudice and invective, Shaheen Merali's work is exercised specifically by the racial and racist content of popular culture. This title covers the last decade of his work while referring to his earlier work of the 1980s.

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What is Blaxploitation In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts, really cool soul, R 'n' B and disco music soundtracks, characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and even bigger 'fros, and had some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way across our screens....

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Ofuda, Japanese idol and pilgrim images, are now becoming objects of academic-ethnological investigation, and here the recently discovered collection of Wilfried Spinner is examined. Text in English, German, and Japanese.

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The legendary Minnesota musician tells the story of making music from folk outpost to pop paradise to stages shared with stars from Seeger to Springsteen

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Features three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects. This book captures three moments: "Ether"; "The Stimulus Progression" and "Quartzsite, Arizona". It is a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, and media.

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An enquiry into the blues and the mind. It illuminates the blues' deepest creative sources and explores its far-reaching power and influence. It also analyzes classic blues lyrics with their highly charged symbols of aggression and desire: Eros, crime, magic, night, drugs and animals.

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Boathouses of Lake Minnetonka is a beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched history and photography book that gives the reader an insider's view into the most enchanting boathouses of Lake Minnetonka.

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How can cinema make us live time

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Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all ages and corners of the globe. From this collection David Vaisey, former Bodleys Librarian and Keeper of the University Archives, has selected over one hundred treasures that have a story to tell.