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Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture

Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara, and Bob Dylan

By: Rona Cran

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Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture

Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara, and Bob Dylan

By: Rona Cran

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst, employed cathartically, aggressively, and experimentally. Collage's catalytic effect, Cran argues, enabled each to overcome a potentially destabilizing crisis in representation. Cornell, convinced that he was an artist and yet hampered by his inability to draw or paint, used collage to gain access to the art world and to show what he was capable of given the right medium. Burroughs' formal problems with linear composition were turned to his advantage by collage, which enabled him to move beyond narrative and chronological requirement. O'Hara used collage to navigate an effective path between plastic art and literature, and to choose the facets of each which best suited his compositional style. Bob Dylan's self-conscious application of collage techniques elevated his brand of rock-and-roll to a level of heightened aestheticism. Throughout her book, Cran shows that to delineate collage stringently as one thing or another is to severely limit our understanding of the work of the artists and writers who came to use it in non-traditional ways.

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259

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Routledge

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1317164296

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9781317164296

The Rough Guide to Florida

By: Loretta Chilcoat,Rona Gindin,Mick Sinclair

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The Rough Guide to Florida

By: Loretta Chilcoat,Rona Gindin,Mick Sinclair

From the Florida Keys to the theme parks, the beauty of the Everglades and the excitement of Miami, this guide covers one of America's most popular states. With informed accounts and lively reviews, the guide lays bare the state's history, modern life, culture and points of interest. Hundreds of places to eat, sleep, and drink, to suit every taste, are included as is expert guidance on outdoor activities from swimming with dolphins to snokelling in Florida's reef.

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524

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1858287243

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9781858287249

No Average Day

The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944

By: Rona Simmons

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No Average Day

The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944

By: Rona Simmons

On Tuesday, October 24, 1944, nearly three years after the United States entered World War II, over 2,600 Americans perished—more than on any other single day of the conflict—yet the day remains overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history. Drawing from the accounts of men from diverse backgrounds who served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps, Rona Simmons offers a gripping retelling of the fateful day, hour by hour and incident by incident. The book begins with Army Private First Class Paul Miller’s demise in a prisoner of war camp and ends with the death of Navy Seaman Second Class Wanza E. Matthews after the Japanese submarine I-56 attacked his ship off New Guinea. The sinking of the Japanese “hellship” Arisan Maru—a lesser-known tragedy of the war—looms large, deftly interwoven through each part of the narrative. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of No Average Day is its attention to the human side of conflict, telling the stories of ordinary individuals—clerks, radio operators, cooks, sailors, machinist mates, riflemen, and pilots and their air crews—as they grapple with the horrors of the war. Despite its narrow focus, or perhaps because of it, No Average Day reveals the vastness of World War II through a consideration of the largely overlooked events that unfolded on what, for members of the US Armed Forces, was its deadliest day.

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363

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University of Missouri Press

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0826275060

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9780826275066

The Secret Life of Teachers

By: Rona Selby,Joanna Ferrone,Sue Rose

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The Secret Life of Teachers

By: Rona Selby,Joanna Ferrone,Sue Rose

Have you ever wondered what your teachers do in their spare time, when they are not in school boring you with boring details of boring stuff? Well in this hilarious book, Angela Anaconda discovers she is in for some big surprises when she decides to find out just what her teachers get up to when school is out. This is a beautifully reproduced large format trivia book.

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Book's by Rona Selby

Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture

Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture

The Rough Guide to Florida

The Rough Guide to Florida

No Average Day

No Average Day

The Secret Life of Teachers

The Secret Life of Teachers

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