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www.thisiscolossal.com
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| | | | | Known for transforming Barcelona's architectural landscape, Antoni Gaudí famously combined nature, materiality, religion, and influences of Orientalism into a widely recognized aesthetic that's captured in a new book from Taschen. Throughout more than 350 pages, Gaudí: The Complete Worksencompasses the Catalan architect's projects from the Casa Batlló to his first house, Casa Vicens, to hisContinue reading "A New Book Compiles an Expansive Collection of Gaudí's Unorthodox Architectural Works" | |
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aaronhertzmann.com
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| | | | | Over the past year, I've spent a lot of time reading books about the definition of art and the contemporary art world, and also talking to a few artists. Many of the books I've read recently were meant or recommended as introductions to contemporary art, and some explicitly promised to demystify contemporary art and to explain what it is. And the differing approaches surprised me: it wasn't just that different authors have different answers, but they seemed to be answering completely different questions. These discussions seem endlessly confusing because not only have people not explained some basic assumptions they've made about the scope of the term "art," it's hard to even tell that they're talking about different things. Most authors do not even answer t... | |
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onartandaesthetics.com
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| | | | | Born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1987 and of Palestinian descent, Dana Awartani reinterprets the forms, techniques and concepts that shape Middle Eastern culture through painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A particularly striking work of hers is "Love is my Law, Love is my Faith" (2016)---inspired by eight love poems by Ibn Arabi, a 12th-century... | |
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clairemcalpine.com
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| | | This is my first read of American author Percival Everett, a prolific writer I have been aware of for a few years and wanted to read. So Much Blue is partly set in France so I chose to read that first. I loved it. It's a multi-layered novel with different strands contributing to an eventual... | ||
