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06/04/2018

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Geta Brătescu : Atelierul The Studio / Editată de Edited by Alina Şerban ; Texte de Texts by: Anca Arghir, Geta Brătescu, 3013, Adrian Guța, Magda Radu, Magdalena Ziółkowska

"The book is dedicated to Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, one of the most remarkable personalities of the Eastern European postwar avant-garde. The main part of the publication comprises visual materials and texts written by the artist that span several decades of her activity, outlining the exceptional manner in which she has appropriated the lesson of modernism and interrelated it with conceptual challenges. Brătescu focuses on the artistic process, advancing a multidisciplinary approach by using various media: film, happening, tapestry, engraving, collage, objects, and text. The book comes as a result of long-term research conducted in the artist’s archive. It contains theoretical contributions that track the multilayered dialectics of Brătescu’s work: from the remarkable conceptualization of the act of drawing to the crucial role advocated by the studio, from the preoccupation with self-representation and seriality to the subtle diffusion of theatricality in her work."

Link to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=16/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9783956790164

06/04/2018

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I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou

"Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of r**e by her mother's lover. 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' (Maya Angelou)"

Link to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=14/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9780860685111

06/04/2018

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In Cuba I was a German shepherd / Ana Menéndez

"This Pushcart Prize-winning story--a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak--unfolds a series of family snapshots that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community rich in heritage, memory, and longing for the past. At once tender and sharp-fanged ( L.A. Weekly)."

Link to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=12/TTL=4/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9780802138873

06/04/2018

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Graphic Design for Art, Fashion, Film, Architecture, Photography, Product Design & Everything In Between / by Andy Cooke 'Foreword by Angharad Lewis

"This collection of ground-breaking campaigns for the creative industries and insights from the world's leading design studios shows how today's graphic designers are thinking, collaborating and breaking the rules."

Link to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=9/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9783791383507

06/04/2018

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The secret lives of colour / Kassia St Clair

"The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture."


Link to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=7/TTL=3/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9781473630819

06/04/2018

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The naked gaze : reflections on Chinese modernity / Carlos Rojas

"This is a study of visuality in early modern and modern China. Its focus, however, is not so much on imagery per se but rather on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts. Of particular interest is how these discourses of vision have been used to articulate issues of gender and desire, and specifically processes of gendered subject formation. Through detailed readings of narrative works by eight nineteenth and twentieth century authorsranging from the canonical to the popular to the esotericthe study identifies three distinct constellations of visual concerns corresponding to the late imperial, mid-twentieth century, and contemporary periods, respectively. At the same time, however, it argues that those historical periodizations themselves do not reflect a smooth, unidirectional temporal movement; rather, they are the result of a complex process of retrospection and anticipatory projection. The goal of this volume is to use a focus on tropes of visuality and gender to reflect on shifting understandings of the significance of Chineseness, modernity, and Chinese modernity."


Link to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=4/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9780674031746

06/04/2018

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Across boundaries : the journey of a South African woman leader / A memoir by Mamphela Ramphele ; foreword by Johnnetta B. Cole ; historical and political background by Carla Sutherland

"''Survival,'' writes Mamphela Ramphele, ''is a stronger force than the fear of offending others.'' In Across Boundaries, Ramphele, one of the most distinguished women of the African continent, recounts her personal journey from schoolgirl in rural, apartheid-era South Africa, to medical doctor and founder of community health clinics, to leading activist in the struggle against apartheid, to university president and mother of two sons. In addition to the fascinating and often gripping events of her life, she describes the personal side of her experiencesher early struggles to maintain dignity and hope in a world that devalued both black people and women; her battles against despair, especially after the murder of her colleague and lover Steven Biko; and the death of their first child, a daughter, in infancy. Across Boundaries chronicles Ramphele's inspiring journey and reveals the staggering personal losses that coexisted with her astonishing political and professional achievements."

Link to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=3/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9781558611665

06/04/2018

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Where's Warhol? / Catherine Ingram & Andrew Rae


"ANDY WARHOL - Top of the Pops, devout Catholic, silver-wig wearer, and now the star of Where's Warhol? Spot Warhol in the corridors of the Bauhaus or the Sistine Chapel as he and his famous friends pop up in 12 spectacles of art history. Expand your art horizons and indulge in some celebrity spotting: all ages will enjoy this original take on a classic format."

Link to our catalogue:
http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=1/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9781780677446

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Parallel encyclopedia / Batia Suter

"Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. “In my work, I collect groups of images based on various themes and characteristics, and I investigate how they can manipulate each other, depending on where and how they are placed. In the process of making this book, narrative lines unfolded before my eyes as I shifted images around.”

Linki to our catalogue: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=1/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9789492811141

21/03/2018

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Het oog van de dichter : 25 schilderijgedichten belicht / Anton Korteweg ; redactie Pieter Coupé (eindredactie), Luc Devoldere, Hans Vanacker, Dirk Van Assche, Tomas Vanheste

"Een uitvoerig geïllustreerd literair kunstboek, met essays van Anton Korteweg over gedichten die op schilderijen zijn geïnspireerd.

Deze bloemlezing met vijfentwintig duetten van gedichten en schilderijen is een Musée imaginaire. De gedichten zijn de zaalteksten van de conservatoren. De lichtvoetige essays van Anton Korteweg vormen het commentaar van de eigenwijze directeur in de catalogus.
Het oog van de dichter nodigt de lezer uit om, als een padvinder of rechercheur, een eigen denkbeeldig museum van favoriete schilderijgedichten in te richten.
Met gedichten van o.a. Joost Zwagerman, Hugo Claus, Luuk Gruwez, Jan van Nijlen, Ingmar Heytze, Anna Enquist, Judith Herzberg, Ida Gerhardt, Eddy van Vliet, M. Vasalis, Roland Jooris en Charlotte Mutsaers.
En schilderijen van o.a. Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Renoir, Gauguin, Khnopff, Raveel en Morandi.

Anton Korteweg (Zevenbergen, 1944) debuteerde in 1971 als dichter en publiceerde sindsdien twaalf dichtbundels en vier bloemlezingen. In 2015 verscheen Ouderen zijn het gelukkigst en alle andere gedichten van 1971 tot nu. In 1986 ontving hij voor zijn poëzie als eerste de A. Roland Holstpenning. Korteweg was van 1979 tot 2009 directeur van het Letterkundig Museum. Hij is redacteur van het Vlaams-Nederlandse culturele tijdschrift Ons Erfdeel."

Link: http://opc-ubm.oclc.org:8180/xslt/DB=3/SET=9/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=7&SRT=YOP&TRM=9789079705269