Pdf: Torture The Artist

Aliens don't come to Earth often, but when they do, you better hire a good lawyer. And God can't help you, for he's busy watching a new reality TV show. ...

"A few short days has changed my status in this country, although I myself have not changed at all." On December 8, 1941, artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953 ...

I am guilty not because of my actions, to which I freely admit, but for my accession, admission, confession that I executed these actions with not only del ...

Essay inspired by conversations with the artist Jean-Luc Moulène addressing abstraction as a multifaceted project in the general domain of thought, and as ...

In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premo ...

Great art comes from great pain. Or that's the impression left by these haunting profiles. Pieced together, they form a revealing mosaic of the creative mi ...

Life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution A Man of the Theater tells the personal story of a theater artist caught between ...

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unm ...

The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with s ...

After the Brazilian military took power in a coup in 1964, many artists tried to distance themselves from politics; others went into exile. This book cover ...

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Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' covers—or more specifical ...

Five powerful stories: "Free," the story of a man trying, as his wife lies dying, to understand why he never found happiness in marriage plus "The Second C ...

In a small anonymous town in the mid-west, five eccentric misfits find each other and form a rock band to rail against the endless homogeneity and conformi ...

Manuel Vason’s collaborations include some of the most iconic images of performance in the UK and internationally. His practice shapes a unique hybrid ar ...

The first novel by Irish writer, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a coming-of-age tale about the religious and intellectual awakenin ...

'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicen ...

A groundbreaking exploration of how women artists of the 1970s combined art and protest to make sexual violence visible, creating a new kind of art in the ...

Torture of Women, Spero's epic, 14 panels, 125-foot-long collage work, fuses startling imagery from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten fir ...

A revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker famed for ...

"Ray Johnson, considered the progenitor of Correspondence art, blurred the boundaries between life and art, authorship and intimacy. The defining nature of ...

The book is a common, everyday object, yet its destruction has become overloaded with potent symbolism. 'Book burning' has become a shorthand for barbarism ...

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(Amadeus). The Artist as Citizen is a compilation of Joseph W. Polisi's articles and speeches from his more than three-decade tenure as president of the Ju ...

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are th ...

THE NIGHTMARE - For young artist Gina and her lover Jim, it began with a terrifying vision of Gina's long-missing sister, once thought dead, now a prisoner ...

During the final editing of this book the Vienna Balkan Conference took place. As an opening two soccer teams (EU and non-EU) had a friendly game on Vienne ...

"The more who learn the truth the better off the country will be, because there is no better safeguard against the revival of torture than a well-informed ...

An original and valuable intervention in the fast-growing field of feminist and new art histories, Nancy Spero, Encounters offers a sophisticated interpret ...

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This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that the abuses that took place th ...

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis, and fortitude in the time of ...

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Shows that the elite of the art world are sustained by new forms and styles created by artists outside the mainstream. ...

Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding ...

While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for ...

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