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Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/11/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, History, Media Arts, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

E-book titled Dada Magazines: The Making of a Movement (2021) - synopsis: Dada magazines made the Dada art movement what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This first volume entirely devoted to Dada periodicals retells the story of Dada by demonstrating the centrality of these graphically inventive, provocative periodicals. The book includes magazines from well-known Dada cities like New York and Paris as well as Zagreb and Bucharest, and reveals that Dada continued to inspire art journals into the 1920s.

E-book titled Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media (2024) - synopsis: Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan’s media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never been examined in detail before—including the cinepoem, the tape recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music video poem, the online sign language poem, and the augmented reality poem.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/09/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, English, History, Media Arts

E-book titled The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats (1994) - synopsis: The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other, ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire. The anthology is arranged in two sections. Part One contains poets’ writings on the nature, qualities and purpose of poetry, and Part Two is a chronological collection of poets’ writings on their peers, with an individual entry for each poet.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/07/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, Counseling, English, Media Arts

E-book titled The Arts Therapies: A Revolution in Healthcare (2020) - synopsis: The separate arts therapies - drama, art, music and dance - are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people. This fully updated new edition of The Arts Therapies provides, in one volume, a guide to the different disciplines and their current practice and thinking in different parts of the world. Each chapter draws on a variety of perspectives and accounts to develop understandings of the relations between theory, research, and practice, offering perspectives on areas such as the client-therapist-art form relationship or on outcomes and efficacy to help articulate and understand what the arts therapies can offer specific client groups.

E-book titled Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (2016) - synopsis: There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers—Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben—as prime examples of how modern poetry presents us with a profitable vantage point from which to survey the ongoing struggle of living in a highly fragmented world.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/05/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Ethnic Studies, History, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

E-Book titled Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts (2015) - synopsis: Designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What’s Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work—much of which has never been seen before.

E-Book titled ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets (2017) - synopsis: Containing the work of more than 40 poets—equally divided between men and women—who self-identify as Afro-Latino, ¡Manteca! is the first poetry anthology to highlight writings by Latinos of African descent. The themes covered are as diverse as the authors themselves. Many pieces rail against a system that institutionalizes poverty and racism. Others remember parents and grandparents who immigrated to the United States in search of a better life. Anthony Morales’ grandmother, like so many others, was “hardwired to hold on to hope.” There are love poems to family and lovers. And music—salsa, merengue, jazz—permeates this collection.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/03/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, English, History, Media Arts

E-Book titled Design by IKEA: A Cultural History (2014) - synopsis: Sara Kristoffersson’s compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Drawing on original research in the IKEA company archive and interviews with IKEA personnel, Design by IKEA traces IKEA’s symbolic connection to Sweden, through its design output and its promotional materials, to examine how the company both promoted and profited from the concept of Scandinavian Design.

E-Book titled Doom Scroll: Poems (2023) - synopsis: Doom Scroll explores an anxious domesticity. These prose poems hedge toward moments of levity—a Joy Division song, a meal at Denny’s—as a pandemic lockdown, busted politics, and other existential dreads loom in the margins.

Art and Poetry Month - eBooks

04/01/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, English, Media Arts

E-book titled Slam Your Poetry: Write a Revolution (2020) - synopsis: Miles Merrill, spoken word artist and founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award-winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take you from novice to spoken word superstar in no time. Slam Your Poetry provides step-by-step instructions and exercises that will inspire you to: 1. Write a poem that pops 2. Rehearse like a winner 3. Wow your audience 4. Beat stage fright 5. Run a winning competition for your school or community group. Part how-to guide, part masterclass, part manifesto, this book will help teachers, students, and wannabe spoken word artists of all ages slam like a pro.

E-book titled Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head (2023) - synopsis: Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel’s dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation of comic book writers whose work at Marvel in the 1970s established their own authorial voice within the strictures of corporate comics.

Women's History Month - eBooks

03/11/2025

Zachary Brown

History, Medicine and Health, Rehabilitation & Health Services, Women and Gender Studies

E-book titled Beyond Rosie: A Documentary History of Women and World War II (2015) - synopsis: Within the Allied countries, women of all ages proved to be invaluable in the fight for victory. Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women’s involvement in World War II. What Rosie represented, however, is only a small portion of a complex story. As wartime production workers, enlistees in auxiliary military units, members of voluntary organizations or resistance groups, wives and mothers on the home front, journalists, and USO performers, American women found ways to challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes.

E-book titled Birth Justice: From Obstetric Violence to Abolitionist Care (2024) - synopsis: In this collection of essays, the cause of reproductive injustice is understood as the institutionalized isolation of (potentially) pregnant people, making them vulnerable for bio- and necropolitical disciplination and control. The central thesis of this book is that reproductive justice must be achieved through a radical reappropriation of relationality in reproductive care to safeguard the access to knowledge and care needed for safe bodily self-determination. Through empirical research as well as decolonial, feminist, midwifery, and Black theory, reproductive justice is reimagined as abolitionist care, grounded in the abolition of authoritative obstetric institutions, state control of reproduction, and restrictive abortion laws in favor of community practices that are truly relational.

Women's History Month - eBooks

03/09/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, Communication Studies, History, Women and Gender Studies

E-book titled Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism (2009) - synopsis: Zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied, do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded with handwriting, collage art, stickers, and glitter. Though they all reflect the personal style of the creators, they are also sites for constructing narratives, identities, and communities. Girl Zines is the first book-length exploration of this exciting movement. Alison Piepmeier argues that these quirky, personalized booklets are tangible examples of the ways that girls and women do feminism today. The idiosyncratic, surprising, and savvy arguments and issues showcased in the forty-six images reproduced in the book provide a complex window into feminism’s future, where zinesters persistently and stubbornly carve out new spaces for what it means to be a revolutionary and a girl.

E-book titled Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016) - synopsis: Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction offers readers a comprehensive selection of works by genre luminaries, including author C. L. Moore, artist Margaret Brundage, and others who were well known in their day, including poet Julia Boynton Green, science journalist L. Taylor Hansen, and editor Mary Gnaedinger. Providing insightful commentary and context, this anthology documents how women in the early twentieth century contributed to the pulp-magazine community and showcases the content they produced, including short stories, editorial work, illustrations, poetry, and science journalism.

Women's History Month - eBooks

03/07/2025

Zachary Brown

Art, History, Music, Women and Gender Studies, Biography

E-book titled Never Don't Pay Attention: The Life of Rodeo Photographer Louise L. Serpa (2015) - synopsis: Born in 1925 and growing up in New York society with a mother who was never satisfied with her rather lanky, unpolished daughter, teenager Louise eventually found happiness when she spent a summer on a Wyoming dude ranch scrubbing toilets, waiting tables, and wrangling cattle. Later in life, she settled in Tucson, Arizona, where her introduction to photographing rodeos came about after a friend invited her to watch his children participate in a junior rodeo competition. Using a cheap drug-store camera, Louise began photographing youngsters as they bounced and bucked on small sheep and calves, then sold the pictures to proud parents, beginning a career that would span fifty years and take her to the highest pinnacles of rodeo photography.

E-book titled Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s and Their Influence on Popular Culture in Britain and America (2015) - synopsis: Musician and music historian Sean MacLeod surveys the hundreds of girl groups that appeared not only in the United States but also in Great Britain during the early 1960s. This study corrects the neglect of their critical contribution of popular music history by exploring the social and political climate from which the girl groups emerged and their effect, in turn, on local and national music and culture. This book looks at seven “sister” groups that serve as the basis for a broader look at the many girl groups of the period, offering a roadmap through the work of the many stakeholder—the singers, songwriters, producers, and record labels—that the girl group phenomenon made possible. MacLeod also reviews the significant influence girl groups had on the many male bands of the 1960s, as well as their influence on the post-’60s movements, from punk to new wave, ultimately serving as the template for the girl groups and all-girl bands that emerged in the 1980s.

Women's History Month - eBooks

03/05/2025

Zachary Brown

Criminal Justice, History, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

E-book titled Justice Blindfolded: The Historical Course of an Image (2018) - synopsis: Justice Blindfolded gives an overview of the history of “justice” and its iconography through the centuries. Justice has been portrayed as a woman with scales, or holding a sword, or, since the fifteenth century, with her eyes bandaged. This last symbol contains the idea that justice is both impartial and blind, reminding indirectly of the bandaged Christ on the cross, a central figure in the Christian idea of fairness and forgiveness. In this rich and imaginative journey through history and philosophy, Prosperi manages to convey a full account of the ways justice has been described, portrayed and imagined.

E-book titled Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America (2019) - synopsis: Because sports evoke such passion, they are fertile ground for understanding the formation of social classes, national and racial identities, sexuality, and gender roles. Futbolera tells the stories of women athletes and fans as they navigated the pressures and possibilities within organized sports. This book charts the rise of physical education programs for girls that laid the groundwork for women’s sports clubs, which began to thrive beyond the confines of school systems. Futbolera examines how women challenged both their exclusion from national pastimes and their lack of access to leisure, bodily integrity, and public space. This vibrant history also examines women’s sports through comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and others.

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