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Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Baker, George

RENDELL,RUTH

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques. &nbsp; Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former medium constraints. Simultaneous with this development in contemporary art, however, photography was moving toward total digitalization. &nbsp; Lateness and Longing presents the first account of a generation of artists--focused on the work of Zoe Leonard, Tacita Dean, Sharon Lockhart, and Moyra Davey--who have collectively transformed the practice of photography, using analogue technologies in a dissident way and radicalizing signifiers of older models of feminist art. All these artists have resisted the transition to the digital in their work. Instead--in what amounts to a series of feminist polemics--they return to earlier, incomplete, or unrealized moments in photography's history, gravitating toward the analogue basis of photographic mediums. Their work announces that photography has become--not obsolete--but "late," opened up by the potentially critical forces of anachronism. &nbsp; Through a strategy of return--of refusing to let go--the work of these artists proposes an afterlife and survival of the photographic in contemporary art, a formal lateness&nbsp;wherein photography finds its way forward through resistance to the contemporary itself. &nbsp;

Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography (Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

University of Chicago Press

The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist--has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabia's eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade--Marcel Duchamp's anti-art invention, which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. But in Picabia's hands, Baker argues, the Dada readymade aimed to reinvent art rather than destroy it. Picabia's readymade opened art not just to the commodity, but to the larger world from which the commodity stems: the fluid sea of capital and money that transforms all objects and experiences in its wake. The book thus tells the story of a set of newly transformed artistic practices, claiming them for art history--and naming them--for the first time: Dada Drawing, Dada Painting, Dada Photography, Dada Abstraction, Dada Cinema, Dada Montage. Along the way, Baker describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events, from the almost lunatic range of the Paris Dada "manifestations" to Picabia's polemical writings; from a lost work by Picabia in the form of a hole (called, suggestively, The Young Girl) to his "painting" Cacodylic Eye, covered in autographs by luminaries ranging from Ezra Pound to Fatty Arbuckle. Baker ends with readymades in prose: a vast interweaving of citations and quotations that converge to create a heated conversation among Picabia, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Art history has never looked like this before. But then again, Dada has never looked like art history.George Baker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at October magazine and October Books. He is the editor of James Coleman (MIT Press) and a frequent contributor to Artforum.

The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris (October Books)

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky. Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject-the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue, or under the spell of mundane lived experience. A Solid House, developed in conjunction with Kantarovsky's exhibition A Solid Houseat the Aspen Art Museum, includes more than 200 full-color image plates and spans the artist's oeuvre, focusing on his most recent output following his previous monograph, No Joke (2014). The publicationalso includes a conversation between Kantarovsky and art historian Isabelle Graw, as well as essays by the psychoanalyst and writer Jamieson Webster and art historian George Baker.

Sanya Kantarovsky: Selected Works 2010-2024

Graw, Isabelle

Webster, Jamieson

Kantarovsky, Sanya

The MIT Press

A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.
The artist Francis Picabia―notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist―has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabia's eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade―Marcel Duchamp's anti-art invention, which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. But in Picabia's hands, Baker argues, the Dada readymade aimed to reinvent art rather than destroy it. Picabia's readymade opened art not just to the commodity, but to the larger world from which the commodity stems: the fluid sea of capital and money that transforms all objects and experiences in its wake. The book thus tells the story of a set of newly transformed artistic practices, claiming them for art history―and naming them―for the first time: Dada Drawing, Dada Painting, Dada Photography, Dada Abstraction, Dada Cinema, Dada Montage. 
Along the way, Baker describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events, from the almost lunatic range of the Paris Dada “manifestations” to Picabia's polemical writings; from a lost work by Picabia in the form of a hole (called, suggestively, The Young Girl) to his “painting” Cacodylic Eye, covered in autographs by luminaries ranging from Ezra Pound to Fatty Arbuckle. Baker ends with readymades in prose: a vast interweaving of citations and quotations that converge to create a heated conversation among Picabia, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Art history has never looked like this before. But then again, Dada has never looked like art history.

Understanding the New Religions

Essays by contemporary writers and scholars probe the role, nature, historical context, significance, phenomenology, and sociological ramifications of new religions in America

Religion & Spirituality

Seabury Pr

Irish artist Gerard Byrne (1969) focuses on the way photography and film have influenced visual culture in the twentieth century. Byrne's conceptually-based photos and videos explore the genealogies underlying each picture, the different frames which guide its perception, as well as the references in which a mediated image evolves. Demonstrating a wide-ranging engagement with quotation and citation, the work seizes upon mass-media forms that were never intended to serve as ''models,'' but now have become such. ----------- George Baker has written a theoretical essay where he links Byrne's work to theater and notes that the presence of avant-garde dramatist Bertolt Brecht has never been less discussed, but more widely explored, than in the last decade of artistic practice. The author traces ''a set of provisional conjectures about the 'underground connection' of ... contemporary art to the present forms of capitalist crisis. They are new forms on both sides--the crises and transformatio

Gerard Byrne: Books, Magazines, and Newspapers (Pocket-Book, 9)

GEORGE BAKER

Individual Artists

Sternberg Press

We Take Electric Power for Granted. Threats to Our Electric Grid are Real. Here's How to Prepare. (See back cover below for Endorsements.) Powering Through is an action guide and contains, for the first time, a comparison of critical infrastructures that can suffer long duration outages caused by five high impact threats: high altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP); solar geomagnetic storms; cyber-attacks; physical attacks; and Radio Frequency(RF) weapons. We are accustomed to short duration power failures. However, disruptions of weeks, months, or over a year are more and more possible, yet this risk is largely unrecognized. The book examines the interdependent, and critical, infrastructures that would be threatened by a sustained electric grid failure, such as our water and wastewater systems, communications, transportation, emergency and healthcare services, government and military defense, to name only a few. Importantly, the book concentrates on consequence management, starting at the individual, household, and community levels of preparedness. This book heralds a call to action to begin preparing NOW. There are five additional authors: William Kaewert, David Hunt, John Contestabile, John Rosica, Mark Walker. Proceeds from the book are being used by the InfraGard EMP SIG™ for further research.

Powering Through "From Fragile Infrastructures To Community Resilience

Reference

HUNT, David

Lasky, Mary

Harris, William (Bill)

Volandt, Stephen

Bieber, Steve

Koza, Frank

Lokmer, Stephanie

Thomas, Janet

Rosa, Fred

Survival & Emergency Preparedness

InfraGard National Disaster Resilience Council

We can outsmart disaster through intelligent planning. 
There is more to critical infrastructure than roads and dams—our everyday life relies on invisible infrastructure, from wastewater management to communications technology. Whether we’re charging our phones or seeking emergency healthcare, we trust that our electrical grid will be reliable. So what happens to that infrastructure when disaster hits? 
Will the kitchen tap bring us water after a freak weather event? At the supermarket, will we find what we need during a pandemic? Or might water systems and supply chains turn out to be underprepared for surviving disruption? 
We don’t need to wait for a cyberattack, hurricane, or severe winter storm to find us. Resilience is a plan, not an afterthought, when the grid is down. When emergency alerts blare and the lights go out, our nation’s critical infrastructure can be prepared. 
After reading this book, you will know: How our power grid arrived at a state of vulnerability What obstacles we face to preventing mass, long term power failure How industry professionals can push for a more resilient critical infrastructure\nWith a focus on our nation’s electric grid, Powering Through offers a comprehensive look at multiple threats, reaching across infrastructure sectors to address interdependencies. It serves as an actionable consequence management handbook for any professional seeking a route to greater resilience. Each chapter concludes with a chart that helps the reader assess current approaches and orient an action plan towards greater resilience. 
Chapters concentrate on key infrastructure areas: Electric Power Communications Water & Wastewater Food & Agriculture Transportation Healthcare & Public Health Emergency Management Chemical Information & Operations Technology\nA key addition to any library of natural disaster and survival books, Powering Through focuses on disaster preparation and prevention. This updated edition builds on its 2016 predecessor through three key questions: What happens to each critical infrastructure sector in the event of electric power failure? How can each sector help restore electric power in a grid down scenario? What can each sector change now to become more resilient?\n“Powering Through: Building Critical Infrastructure Resilience provides the most comprehensive review of threats, impacts, consequences, and preventative measures any organization can take to be more resilient to extended power outages that we have seen in our 16 years in the disaster management and business continuity field.” - Tom Moran, Executive Director of the All Hazards Consortium\nAdditional contributors to the 2020 edition: 
Frederick Ferrer 
Edward Goldberg 
Gregory Hertz 
James LeBlanc 
Stephanie Lokmer 
Chuck Nettleship 
Fred Rosa 
Janet Thomas 
Apolonio Garcia 
Daniel Honore 
John Reasbeck 
Cheryl Santor 
Anthony Adebonojo 
Nathan Edwards 
Eleanora Ann Gianni 
John Juhasz 
Mitchell Kerman 
Roger Rosewall 
Henry Cooper

Powering Through: Building Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Harris, William

Christensen, David

Churchill, Bruce

Volandt, Steve

Winks, David

Chill, Stephen

Krieg, Richard

Bowker

The History of Rome

History

BiblioLife

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