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Ugo Rondinone

Pure Sunshine

By: Ugo Rondinone

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Born in 1964, New York-based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone is one of the leading voices in the contemporary visual arts.Using photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and text in turn, he is a virtuoso of forms and techniques. Rondinone particularly enjoys destabilizing the viewers' perceptions and unsettling their certainties by developing surprising sensorial environments. Rearranging content and formal elements through a personal poetic filter while drawing directly on the outside world, he envelops the audience in a synesthetic experience.The artist has developed very precise and repetitive series--clown sculptures and videos, target acrylic paintings on linen, rubber masks, aluminium face sculptures, oversized wax lightbulbs, striped paintings on polyester, stone sculptures, landscape ink painting, bronze still-life objects, video and sound installations--through which he explores themes of fantasy and desire, branching out in literature and poetry, contemporary cinema, and the visual arts.A new series of three publications extensively documents three of his most renowned series: the Landscape paintings, the Horizon paintings, and the Sun paintings.In the first volume dedicated to the Sun paintings (1992-2012), critic and art historian Lionel Bovier offers a visual and perceptual analysis, while Morgan Falconer examines the main characteristics of this series in relation to Rondinone's work and biography, stating that, "If the circles do have a connection to Rondinone's biography, it is allegorical. A motif in his work links to a moment of life experience just as a part does to a whole, or as a link in a chain sits next to its partners: we see only the link that Rondinone chooses to illuminate, the rest is in darkness.

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317

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Jrp Ringier

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3037645059

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9783037645055

Nightmare Factories

The Asylum in the American Imagination

By: Troy Rondinone

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Nightmare Factories

The Asylum in the American Imagination

By: Troy Rondinone

How the insane asylum came to exert such a powerful hold on the American imagination. Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the "asylum" of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots. In Nightmare Factories, Troy Rondinone offers the first history of mental hospitals in American popular culture. Beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," Rondinone surveys how American novelists, poets, memoirists, reporters, and filmmakers have portrayed the asylum and how those representations reflect larger social trends in the United States. Asylums, he argues, darkly reflect cultural anxieties and the shortcomings of democracy, as well as the ongoing mistreatment of people suffering from mental illness. Nightmare Factories traces the story of the asylum as the masses have witnessed it. Rondinone shows how works ranging from Moby-Dick and Dracula to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Halloween, and American Horror Story have all conversed with the asylum. Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.

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345

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JHU Press

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1421432684

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9781421432687

Friday Night Fighter

Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing

By: Troy Rondinone

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Friday Night Fighter

Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing

By: Troy Rondinone

Friday Night Fighter relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports. During the 1950s and 1960s, viewers tuned in weekly, sometimes even daily, to watch widely recognized fighters engage in primordial battle; the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Friday Night Fights was the most popular fight show. Troy Rondinone follows the dual narratives of the Friday Night Fights show and the individual story of Gaspar "Indio" Ortega, a boxer who appeared on prime-time network television more than almost any other boxer in history. From humble beginnings growing up poor in Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega personified the phenomenon of postwar boxing at its greatest, appearing before audiences of millions to battle the biggest names of the time, such as Carmen Basilio, Tony DeMarco, Chico Vejar, Benny "Kid" Paret, Emile Griffith, Kid Gavilan, Florentino Fernández, and Luis Manuel Rodriguez. Rondinone explores the factors contributing to the success of televised boxing, including the rise of television entertainment, the role of a "reality" blood sport, Cold War masculinity, changing attitudes toward race in America, and the influence of organized crime. At times evoking the drama and spectacle of the Friday Night Fights themselves, this volume is a lively examination of a time in history when Americans crowded around their sets to watch the main event.

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306

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University of Illinois Press

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0252094662

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9780252094668

The Great Industrial War

Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950

By: Troy Rondinone

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The Great Industrial War

Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950

By: Troy Rondinone

The Great Industrial War, a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept: industrial war. Moving beyond the standard account of labor conflict as struggles between workers and management, Troy Rondinone asks why Americans viewed big strikes as "battles" in "irrepressible conflict" between the armies of capital and laborùa terrifying clash between workers, strikebreakers, police, and soldiers. Examining how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike news, Rondinone argues that the Civil War, coming on the cusp of a revolution in industrial productivity, offered a gruesome, indelible model for national conflict. He follows the heated discourse on class war through the nineteenth century until its general dissipation in the mid-twentieth century. Incorporating labor history, cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociology, The Great Industrial War explores the influence of historical experience on popular perceptions of social order and class conflict and provides a reinterpretation of the origins and meaning of the Taft-Hartley Act and the industrial relations regime it supported.

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Rutgers University Press

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081354811X

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9780813548111

Do We Know Why We Believe What We Believe?

By: James Rondinone

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Do We Know Why We Believe What We Believe?

By: James Rondinone

Do We Know Why We Believe What We Believe? Many believers know WHAT they believe, but do not know WHY they believe what they believe. Does this sound like you? This book will help answer some of your questions as we look at these biblical topics present from opposing views.

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362

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Xulon Press

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1498498396

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9781498498395

Abuse of Trust

By: James Rondinone

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Abuse of Trust

By: James Rondinone

Should Everything That Church Leadership Teaches Be Viewed As God s Will Without Examination By The Scriptures? Can The Teachings And Decisions Made By Those In Leadership be Questioned? Can A Wrong Action Committed By Leadership Be Justified If The End Result Is That It Seemingly Furthers The Kingdom Of God? This book will help you to understand the leadership model that espouses these kinds of teachings, and how, through it, a church wrongfully uses the Word of God to their own advantage. Furthermore, you will be informed that there is a way out from under this unreasonable exercise of power and exploitation. You will be introduced to a different leadership model that will provide for you a perspective concerning these topics in which the leadership instead leads by their examples of mature Christian character, such as would be emulated by others.

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154

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Xulon Press

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1498449271

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9781498449274

Advancing Writer

Sentences and Paragraphs

By: Karen L. Greenberg,Greenberg,Rondinone,Wiener

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Advancing Writer

Sentences and Paragraphs

By: Karen L. Greenberg,Greenberg,Rondinone,Wiener

[The book] is a rhetoric/worktext that concentrates on building sentence and paragraph writing skills while it provides extensive grammar instruction and practice. Part 1 describes the writing process in seven steps that take the students from prewriting to revising. Part 2 covers the nuts and bolts of writing, discussing sentence structure, grammatical issues, vocabulary development, spelling and mechanics.-Back cover. [The book] does not exclude intellectual and creative matters for reflection and analysis by taking a "remedial" approach; instead, it provides rigorous college-level tasks while showing students how to analyze the decisions they confront as they think and compose.-From the series editor

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436

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HarperCollins Australia

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0065003012

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9780065003017

Book's by Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone

Nightmare Factories

Nightmare Factories

Friday Night Fighter

Friday Night Fighter

The Great Industrial War

The Great Industrial War

Do We Know Why We Believe What We Believe?

Do We Know Why We Believe What We Believe?

Abuse of Trust

Abuse of Trust

Advancing Writer

Advancing Writer

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