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Art History + Literary History + Paris= This Book

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed

November 20, 2022 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed My rating: 4 of 5 stars Combining the worlds of art and literary history, this is the story of Khayyam who’s trying to find a connection between the rumored painting that Delacroix gave to Dumas and to use this research to help her get into Chicago’s Art Institute Young Scholars program.Whether you know who Delacroix or Dumas are, this is a fun read that takes you into paintings, poetry, letters, and the streets of Paris. During […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: art history, Bad & Dangerous to Know, Mad, paris, Samira Ahmed

The Chancellor's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: art history, Bad & Dangerous to Know, Mad, paris, Samira Ahmed ·
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If Chuck Tingle Did Graffiti

Bansky: Completed by Carol Diehl

September 11, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 16: Cold A lot of Banksy: Completed is about how the art world establishment looks down on Banksy and his popularity with the general public; the whole thing is almost more of a manifesto in defense of the popular as it is an introduction to the graffiti artist and his work. A good chunk of the middle of the book is less about Banksy and more about the art world and art critics who have given this type of art and the people who […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: art, art criticism, art history, Banksy: Completed, Carol Diehl, cbr14bingo, graffiti, graffiti artists, pop art

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:68 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: art, art criticism, art history, Banksy: Completed, Carol Diehl, cbr14bingo, graffiti, graffiti artists, pop art ·
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Slow but informative history

Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

January 2, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

The second of my trio of books this year related to WWII (All The Light We Cannot See and Exodus), this is also the only non-fiction one.  Monuments tells the story of the group of soldiers in WWII who were part of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) section. This group was underfunded, unrecognized and very small (at its largest, after the war, it numbered 350 people), yet responsible for saving most of western Europe’s art. The action opens by introducing us to the […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: art history, Monuments Men, robert m. edsel, WWII

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: History · Tags: art history, Monuments Men, robert m. edsel, WWII ·
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Draw Draw, Draw Your Pen Manically Across the Page

River of Ink by Etiene Appert

July 22, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo  People I am not sure if what I read was the entire book of River of Ink by Etiene Appert or not as I found an online edition for booksellers via a newsletter I occasional get. It did feel complete, had a what felt like a solid ending; therefore, I am assuming, yes, I read all of Appert’s book. However, regardless of what I did read, I know I read enough to know two things: One: WHAT THE FLYING MONKEYS did I just read? […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Poetry Tagged With: art, art history, cbr13bingo, Etiene Appert

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:208 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Poetry · Tags: art, art history, cbr13bingo, Etiene Appert ·
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“We will find life, joy, and longevity in breaking what needs to be broken.”

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

January 24, 2021 by zinka 4 Comments

Glitch Feminism, by Legacy Russell, is a powerful manifesto that challenges gender binaries as well as other binaries including hegemonic understandings of our relationship to our bodies and cyberspace. Part critical theory, part art theory, art history, and contemporary art survey, I don’t think I’ve been so deeply entranced by reading a text like this in some time, maybe ever. I also know, that to really understand it, I’ll have to reread it a few more times but I’m attempting to review it anyway, so […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: AFK, art history, art theory, contemporary art, critical theory, cyberfeminism, cyborg manifesto, IRL, Legacy Russell, Manifesto

zinka's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: AFK, art history, art theory, contemporary art, critical theory, cyberfeminism, cyborg manifesto, IRL, Legacy Russell, Manifesto ·
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That Turkey Is Not Pining for the Fjords

Goya by Robert Hughes

January 22, 2020 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

What an awesome book.  I remember Robert Hughes from back in the day.  He was the art critic (as well as an artist in his own right) for Time Magazine, when I used to read it religiously.  He is also Australian, with rather a tumultuous past (including a five week coma following an accident), and the man has Opinions.  So I was ready to hear what he had to say about the Spanish artist Francisco Goya y Lucientes. But what I was not expecting was […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: art history, Robert Hughes, Spanish history

elderberrywine's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: History · Tags: art history, Robert Hughes, Spanish history ·
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