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  • Memorial Mania

    Public Feeling in America

    by Erika Doss ...
    In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that ... Read more

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  • The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials

    Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials

    by Erika Doss ...
    Series series Meertens ethnology cahier
    From the commemoration of September 11to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new publicmemorials built in both Europe and theUnited States. This volume considers thecontemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling. Positingmemorials as the ... Read more

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  • Grandma Moses

    A Good Day's Work

    A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American masterGrandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

    Women, Memory, and Public Space

    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this ... Read more

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  • Spiritual Moderns

    Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion

    by Erika Doss ...
    Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art.Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images ... Read more

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  • Simming

    Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning

    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    At an ecopark in Mexico, tourists pretend to be illegal migrants, braving inhospitable terrain and the U.S. Border Patrol as they attempt to cross the border. At a living history museum in Indiana, daytime visitors return after dark to play fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. In the Mojave Desert, the U.S. Army simulates entire provinces of Iraq and Afghanistan, complete with bustling ... Read more

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  • Lies My Teacher Told Me

    Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

    "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."—Howard ZinnA new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the authorSince its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one ... Read more

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  • Would You Kill the Fat Man?

    The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, a fascinating tour through the history of moral philosophyA runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

    A Life-Changing List

    by James Mustich ...
    "The ultimate literary bucket list. . . . 948 pages later, you still want more!" —The Washington PostCelebrate the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the one,zero-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, ... Read more

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  • Covering

    The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

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  • New Art City

    Manhattan at Mid-Century

    by Jed Perl ...
    In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known figures as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric ... Read more

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