Shoot The Buffalo is Matt Briggs's American Book Award-winning novel about the slow undoing of a working class hippy family in the 1970s and '80s. Originally published by Clear Cut Press, it is available now in a Jank Edition.
The 93 works of sculpture and painting come from the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most of them previously unshown in Europe, these works chart the development of American culture and art from the 1950s to the 1990s, with a clear focus on New York, the very hub of cultural and artistic life, the place where anything and everything could and can happen. The exhibition covers the wide diversity of works produced in this period, ranging from the realism of Edward Hopper to instinctive spontaneity of Jackson Pollock's action painting; from the geometrical precision of Frank Stella to the irreverent irony of such street artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and concluding with the digitally-transformed images of Tony Oursler. This is the first such overseas exhibition on this scale that the Museum has ever directly put together from its permanent collection.
Performance art, video, ceramics, mail and stamp art, artist's books, and works on paper are part of the range of pioneering and influential work by Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha that are showcased with scholarly essays in this exhibition catalog.
This volume presents the obsidian sculptures of French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964). Othoniel first discovered the volcanic glass in the early 1990s, and has returned to it in recent years, making huge, angular totems out of obsidian, wood and concrete.
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This is a continuation from my first bibliography A 1950s American Childhood in Morocco. It sets the ground for why my brothers ended up the way they did in adulthood and my parents. It's what parents should not be.
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