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Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent

by Site Owner | Feb 6, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography

A Nun’s Work! Edited by Ian Berry & Michael Duncan Prestel, $49.95, 257 pages Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent is a gorgeous representation of what an art book can be. Opening with a detailed essay about the Catholic nun’s radical politics, pop art,...

New Fashion Photography

by Site Owner | Nov 20, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography

Superb Contemporary Fashion Photography By Paul Sloman & Tim Blanks Prestel, $45.00, 208 pages The collection of photographs by twenty-eight artists (some as collaborating duos) combines contemporary fashion, photographic art and technology in New Fashion...

Kawaii!: Japan’s Culture of Cute

by Site Owner | Nov 20, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Pop Culture

All Things Cute and How They Dominate Japan By Manami Okazaki & Geoff Johnson Prestel, $24.95, 224 pages This in-depth look at Japanese cute culture addresses a plethora of perspectives on the subject. Supported through examples from food to fashion and everything...

A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures

by Site Owner | Nov 1, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography

Moving Like A Mountain Brook     By Mark Doty & Darren Waterston Prestel, 112 pages, $34.95 Sometimes art can be too artsy.  A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures is a throwback to the bestiaries of old. In between some of the collages of...

Yoko Ono: Half A Wind Show: A Retrospective

by Site Owner | Oct 31, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater

The Amazing Creativity of Yoko Ono     Edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer & Max Hollein Prestel, 208 pages, $60.00 “Yoko Ono’s art has always moved between categories. She has worked with literature and music and created works concerned with the theme of...
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