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Explore Frank Walter’s relationship to Antigua through a range of
works and writings that express his intimate connection to
Caribbean nature, landscape, and place. “Nothing seems to be
reworked—it is as if each piece drew or painted itself without
being adjusted, revised, or fussed over.” — Hyperallergic
Influenced by his studies of agriculture and the sugar industry in
the former British colony of Antigua as well as his extensive
travels in England, Scotland, and West Germany, Walter created work
inspired by his thoughts, knowledge, journeys, and
surroundings—work that encompassed painting, drawing, writing,
sculpture, photography, and sound. This focused selection focuses
on paintings—tender, quiet, and lush—that transcend the
traditional tourist’s view of island life in favor of
perspectives that explore how and why we look at where we are.
Published on the occasion of the 2022 exhibition at David Zwirner,
this catalogue includes an introduction by the show’s curator
Hilton Als. Barbara Paca, the leading expert on Walter, writes a
text detailing her personal experience meeting Walter and being in
his presence. An essay by Charlie Porter takes readers on a walk as
he muses about Walter’s life and the nature depicted in his
paintings. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro travels to Antigua to explore the
history of the island and Walter’s lasting impact there.
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one
of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers, set out to
explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the
Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical
study of the region, "The Traveller's Tree," Leigh Fermor's first
book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of
Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti,
among other islands. Here we watch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty
roads of the countryside and the broad avenues of former colonial
capitals, equally at home among the peasant and the elite, the
laborer and the artist. He listens to steel drum bands, delights in
the Congo dancing that closes out Havana's Carnival, and observes
vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generous curiosity and
easy erudition that readers will recognize from his subsequent
classic accounts "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the
Water."
"The maps themselves are things of beauty."-The New York Times
Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New
York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas. From
Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. In the
past decade, Rebecca Solnit-aided by local writers, artists,
historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers-has
compiled three stunning atlases that have radically changed the way
we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at
the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by its different
inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that
make up urban life. This three-volume paperback set contains: The
original, gorgeously designed atlases-Infinite City: A San
Francisco Atlas; Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas; and
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas Three new and updated,
full-color, fold-out posters for each city, including the popular
"City of Women" map A new and thoughtful essay by Rebecca Solnit
reflecting on the project ten years after the publication of the
first atlas A stunning collection, this boxed set is a perfect
treasury of imagination and insight, a rich people's history of
these infinite cities.
"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time,
of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to
fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly
terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Nonstop Metropolis, the
culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable
unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative
maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of
dozens of experts-from linguists to music historians,
ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists-amplified
by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five
boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are
invited to travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot
Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to
the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The
contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously
illustrated volume celebrate New York City's unique vitality, its
incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they
also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental
impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to
excavate New York's buried layers, to scrutinize its political
heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic
cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New
Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of
capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly
Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler,
Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju
Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo
Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu
Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante,
Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T.
Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter
Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA
The iconic 20" x 20" "City of Women" map, updated for 2019 with
dozens of new NYC icons including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cardi
B, and all the All-Girl Robotics Teams of the Bronx. "How does it
impact our imaginations that so many places in so many cities are
named after men and so few after women? What kind of landscape do
we move through when streets and parks and statues and bridges are
gendered-Astor Place, Lafayette Street, Madison Avenue, Lincoln
Center, Washington Square, the Frick, Rockefeller Center, Penn
Station, the Bronx, the Hudson-and it's usually one gender, and not
another? What kind of silence arises in places that so seldom speak
of and to women? This map was made to sing the praises of the
extraordinary women who have, since the beginning, been shapers and
heroes of this city that has always been, secretly, a City of
Women. And why not the subway? This is a history still emerging
from underground, a reminder that it's all connected, and that we
get around." -Rebecca Solnit Cartography by Molly Roy. Design by
Lia Tjandra. Adapted from the original NYC Subway Map.
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In this
fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel
and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips away the fantasy
and myth to expose the real islands, and the real people, that make
up the Caribbean.
"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time,
of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to
fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly
terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Nonstop Metropolis, the
culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable
unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative
maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of
dozens of experts-from linguists to music historians,
ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists-amplified
by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five
boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are
invited to travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot
Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to
the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The
contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously
illustrated volume celebrate New York City's unique vitality, its
incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they
also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental
impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to
excavate New York's buried layers, to scrutinize its political
heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic
cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New
Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of
capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly
Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler,
Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju
Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo
Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu
Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante,
Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T.
Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter
Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA
This is a 10-pack of the City of Women poster, which includes an
additional free display copy. Individual copies of the poster are
also available under ISBN 9781642590197. The iconic 20” x
20” “City of Women” map, updated for 2019 with dozens
of new NYC icons including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cardi B, and
all the All-Girl Robotics Teams of the Bronx. “How does it impact
our imaginations that so many places in so many cities are named
after men and so few after women? What kind of landscape do we move
through when streets and parks and statues and bridges are
gendered—Astor Place, Lafayette Street, Madison Avenue, Lincoln
Center, Washington Square, the Frick, Rockefeller Center, Penn
Station, the Bronx, the Hudson—and it’s usually one gender, and
not another? What kind of silence arises in places that so seldom
speak of and to women? This map was made to sing the praises of the
extraordinary women who have, since the beginning, been shapers and
heroes of this city that has always been, secretly, a City of
Women. And why not the subway? This is a history still emerging
from underground, a reminder that it’s all connected, and that we
get around.” —Rebecca Solnit Cartography by Molly Roy. Design
by Lia Tjandra. Adapted from the original NYC Subway Map.
Celebrants of an ever-emerging 'globalization' fly the banner of
free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and
rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to
globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely
for the purposes of keeping one 'commodity' in its place: the labor
commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type
are often steeped in economic and social discourse. Race and
ethnicity are seen as either being subsumed by this discourse or
are entirely ignored as incidental to this type of political
thought. In Ethnicity, Class and Nationalism: Caribbean and
Extra-Caribbean Dimensions specialists writing on the Caribbean
form of the nation-state place race and ethnicity along with class
in its proper context: at the very foundations of the modern
nation. Editor Anton L. Allahar has handpicked scholarship that is
both contemporary and expert in its consideration of Caribbean
geo-politics. Furthermore, essays in this volume include
comparative cases from around the globe. In the interest of
locating race and ethnicity as sociological and political
categories that are inimical to contemporary conceptions of the
nation state, Allahar explores spaces other than the Caribbean. The
result is a comparative study that is unique in scope and also in
its level of scholarly reflection. This book is the first of its
kind. It is essential reading for anyone interested in advancing
their analysis of political, economic, social, and cultural thought
in the Caribbean."
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