The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism (book review) Stuart Sim (Editor)
(Routledge Companions) 070215: this is a curious five. this is written for the usual 'analytic' philosopher and many of the cultural...
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The Hawaiian Archipelago (book review) Isabella Lucy Bird
Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands 110317: i surprised myself by so enjoying this...
Ad Reinhardt (book review) Lucy R. Lippard
200317: i have found what i have been looking for in abstract art. art is art. art is abstract art. art is ad reinhardt more than any...
Daughters of Earth (book review) Justine Larbalestier (Editor) et al.
Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century 100817: an excellent critical/anthology work. several stories i have read before (and i...
Stolen Continents (book review) Ronald Wright
500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas 261017: this book alternates between inspiring anger and mourning. there is not much...
Face Value (book review) Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives 230618: this is an excellent work on the getting, living, giving, of beauty. primarily by...
Amos Tutuola Revisited (book review) Oyekan Owomoyela
(World Authors Series) 190618: this is the most complete book on Tutuola, without jargon, prejudice on language, on the multiple...
Installation Art (book review) Claire Bishop
050119: there was an installation art (ia) exhibit at the u gallery last year. i was always busy but finally saw it alone about two weeks...
Alain Robbe-Grillet (book review) Ben Stoltzfus
The Body of the Text 220219: review before i forget. i have read r-g for decades in translation. saw ‘le dernier anne at marienbad’,...
Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude (book review)
Barnaby Wright, Peter Vergo, Gemma Blackshaw 130319: not the best images but excellent 3 essays. rather than chronological, this...
What Is a Superhero? (book review) Robin S. Rosenberg (Editor) et al.
Michael E. Uslan (Foreword) 021119: popular culture fascinates me, perhaps because i do not experience it originally as popular culture,...
Ways of Seeing (book review) John Berger
281219: exactly the text i wish i had read as a young artist... also clarifies some reasons i do not like, for example much oil painting,...
The Water Will Come (book review) Jeff Goodell
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World 080120: every year in february i visit my mom’s hometown of waimea,...
Letters to a Young Novelist (book review) Mario Vargas Llosa
Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 201010: exactly what i would have wanted to read at fifteen, as an aspiring novelist. concise, capacious,...
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