The Carousel King and the Space Mission

The Carousel King and the Space Mission

Author: Leticia Ordaz

Publisher: Cielito Lindo Books, LLC

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781733294287

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Maxton is a curious young boy having fun with his family at the zoo. Upon being encouraged to ride the carousel, he finds out: he's scared of the ride!Through determination and his community and family's support, Maxton delves into what happens when you help creative and inquisitive kids to explore their imaginations. An out-of-this-world story from INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD HONOR author Leticia Ordaz, CAROUSEL KING AND THE SPACE MISSION encourages readers to go on a journey with him, dream big, and see the endless possibilities in life.As the Carousel King says:"I AM FIERCE!I AM BRAVE!I CAN DO ANYTHING!"


Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America

Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America

Author: Emilie L. Bergmann

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0520065530

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“This collection, because of its exceptional theoretical coherence and sophistication, is qualitatively superior to the most frequently consulted anthologies on Latin American women’s history and literature . . . [and] represents a new, more theoretically rigorous stage in the feminist debate on Latin American women.”—Elizabeth Garrels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


The Optical Unconscious

The Optical Unconscious

Author: Rosalind E. Krauss

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1994-07-25

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780262611053

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The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. The account of modernism presented here challenges the vaunted principle of "vision itself." And it is a very different story than we have ever read, not only because its insurgent plot and characters rise from below the calm surface of the known and law-like field of modernist painting, but because the voice is unlike anything we have heard before. Just as the artists of the optical unconscious assaulted the idea of autonomy and visual mastery, Rosalind Krauss abandons the historian's voice of objective detachment and forges a new style of writing in this book: art history that insinuates diary and art theory, and that has the gait and tone of fiction. The Optical Unconscious will be deeply vexing to modernism's standard-bearers, and to readers who have accepted the foundational principles on which their aesthetic is based. Krauss also gives us the story that Alfred Barr, Meyer Shapiro, and Clement Greenberg repressed, the story of a small, disparate group of artists who defied modernism's most cherished self-descriptions, giving rise to an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s and continues to disrupt it today. In order to understand why modernism had to repress the optical unconscious, Krauss eavesdrops on Roger Fry in the salons of Bloomsbury, and spies on the toddler John Ruskin as he amuses himself with the patterns of a rug; we find her in the living room of Clement Greenberg as he complains about "smart Jewish girls with their typewriters" in the 1960s, and in colloquy with Michael Fried about Frank Stella's love of baseball. Along the way, there are also narrative encounters with Freud, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. To embody this optical unconscious, Krauss turns to the pages of Max Ernst's collage novels, to Marcel Duchamp's hypnotic Rotoreliefs, to Eva Hesse's luminous sculptures, and to Cy Twombly's, Andy Warhol's, and Robert Morris's scandalous decoding of Jackson Pollock's drip pictures as "Anti-Form." These artists introduced a new set of values into the field of twentieth-century art, offering ready-made images of obsessional fantasy in place of modernism's intentionality and unexamined compulsions.


Jazz Italian Style

Jazz Italian Style

Author: Anna Harwell Celenza

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-06

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1107169771

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This book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development, and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America.


The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Author: Junot Diaz

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0571246206

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Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a literary triumph, that confirms Junot Díaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time.


Anarchism in Latin America

Anarchism in Latin America

Author: Ángel J. Cappelletti

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1849352836

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The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator. Ángel J. Cappelletti (1927–1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over forty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.


Daily to Do Notebook Planner Womens Mi Clase Es Su Clase Bilingual Spanish Teacher Gifts

Daily to Do Notebook Planner Womens Mi Clase Es Su Clase Bilingual Spanish Teacher Gifts

Author: Ebonie Brook

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-03

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13:

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Daily To Do Notebook Planner Womens Mi Clase Es Su Clase Bilingual Spanish Teacher Gifts. This Daily To Do Notebook Planner Womens Mi Clase Es Su Clase Bilingual Spanish Teacher Gifts includes sections to jot down notes, plan your meals for the day and keep track of your daily water intake. This Daily To Do Notebook Planner Womens Mi Clase Es Su Clase Bilingual Spanish Teacher Gifts is perfect for your your mother, children, family, sister, girlfriend, girl, friends, boy . This notebook makes a great gift for any anniversary, christmas, graduation, birthday, thanksgiving.