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More than 200 artful, provocative images celebrate the best of
Southern California's tattooed models, a diverse and gorgeous group
known as the Ink Nymphs. The two dozen featured women show how
tattoos on the female form can serve up an irresistible, edgy
cocktail of fashion, beauty, art, and personality. The book is
inspired by Los Angeles's Angels of Ink festival, an annual
family-friendly gathering that brings together a community of
tattoo lovers, gear-heads, and rock 'n' roll enthusiasts, along
with local, organic and eco-friendly businesses. Angels of Ink, a
philanthropic organization, promotes and supports LA's unique
alternative kulture through the festival and its related events.
This lavish, beautifully shot photography book takes the reader on
a trip straight into the heart of that kulture, where smoking-hot
women adorn themselves with the coolest of tattoos.
A dynamic look at the vast creative production of contemporary
women artists from around the globe A celebration of the work of
women artists of color, this book explores the ways in which
struggles for freedom and equality are deeply intertwined with
shared feminist practices, art techniques and movements, and the
notion of diaspora through the extraordinary collection of social
activist and patron Eileen Harris Norton. Featuring work by Sonia
Boyce, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Shirin Neshat, Adrian Piper, Faith
Ringgold, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and many others, All These
Liberations draws out the intimate connections among artist,
collector, and the social worlds that surround them. For nearly
five decades, Harris Norton has championed both artists and
curators of color, helping to reshape museum practice and the
surrounding art market. Â Essays in this volume by art
historians and curators address vital political, social, and
personal issues, as well as topics such as spirituality, domestic
life, memory and historical trauma, the body, intimacy, power
dynamics, and violence toward women. The book also features an
interview with Harris Norton by Thelma Golden, director and chief
curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem; a foreword by artist Lorna
Simpson; and a roundtable conversation among leaders in the art
world discussing Harris Norton’s impact on their careers and on
the careers of contemporary women artists globally. Distributed for
Marquand Books Â
Illustrated essays that broaden our understanding of modernism by
centering Black artists and experiences, with a contribution
featuring the work of Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner Simone
Leigh In this volume, ten leading scholars examine the
contradictions of modernity and Black agency that continue to
define the Western art world. Illustrated essays explore the work
of artists such as Roy DeCarava, Ben Enwonwu, James Hampton, Norman
Lewis, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, and Carrie Mae
Weems, always with an eye toward reframing our understanding of
Black artistic producers. The interdisciplinary avenues of inquiry
remake the boundaries of modernist art—its notions time and again
focused on the singular white male European or American
artist—with another set of imperatives, ethics, and histories,
broadening our understanding of the past and present of modernism.
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study
in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press
Since Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef first appeared in
mid-2011, infrastructure testing has begun to flourish in the web
ops world. In this revised and expanded edition, author Stephen
Nelson-Smith brings you up to date on this rapidly evolving
discipline, including the philosophy driving it and a growing array
of tools. You'll get a hands-on introduction to the Chef framework,
and a recommended toolchain and workflow for developing your own
test-driven production infrastructure. Several exercises and
examples throughout the book help you gain experience with Chef and
the entire infrastructure-testing ecosystem. Learn how this
test-first approach provides increased security, code quality, and
peace of mind. Explore the underpinning philosophy that
infrastructure can and should be treated as code Become familiar
with the MASCOT approach to test-driven infrastructure Understand
the basics of test-driven and behavior-driven development for
managing change Dive into Chef fundamentals by building an
infrastructure with real examples Discover how Chef works with
tools such as Virtualbox and Vagrant Get a deeper understanding of
Chef by learning Ruby language basics Learn the tools and workflow
necessary to conduct unit, integration, and acceptance tests
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized
France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to
racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I,
having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin
America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded
its dominion to the four corners of the earth. This volume examines
how an official French visual culture normalized the country's
colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects alike to
racialized ideas of life in the empire. Essays analyze aspects of
colonialism through investigations into the art, popular
literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that
represented, celebrated, or were created for France's colonies
across the seas. These studies draw from the rich documents and
media--photographs, albums, postcards, maps, posters,
advertisements, and children's games--related to the nineteenth-
and twentieth-century French empire that are held in the Getty
Research Institute's Association Connaissance de l'histoire de
l'Afrique contemporaine (ACHAC) collections. ACHAC is a consortium
of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting
discussions of race, iconography, and the colonial and postcolonial
periods of Africa and Europe.
In the Story of Daniel the Prophet, a few of the interesting facts
in regard to God's dealings with His people have been gathered into
a simple narrative. The book is the result of much prayerful study.
It is sent forth with an earnest prayer, that in the hands of the
parents it may be the means of making the study of the Bible in the
family a blessing to young and old; and that the teacher in the
schoolroom may see precious rays of light flashing from its pages,
pointing both teacher and pupil to the Great Divine Teacher. God
grant that as it falls into the hands of the careless and
unbelieving, they may be influenced to read, and as they read, may
behold the beauty of our God, and be led to worship toward His holy
temple. We trust that while its simplicity will attract many who
might not be inclined to read a deep argumentative treatise: the
most studious will find food for thought, and thus become better
acquainted with the character of our Heavenly Father. We earnestly
pray that even the skeptic may not cast this book aside; but rather
give it a careful reading, and while tracing the fulfilled prophecy
in the history of the world, learn to prize the Word of God.
Many Christians crave something more from their prayer time. We
pray knowing that God hears and answers our prayers, but we also
know that prayer should be something more than recited phrases and
personal wish lists. God wants prayer to become vital to everything
we do. Using Scripture passages, applications, and a prayer guide,
"Praying with Purpose" is a five-week study designed to teach
believers how to pray without ceasing. Perfect for church use,
small groups, or individual study.
With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape
photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey's vivid evocations of
race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American
photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of
underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering
dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has
also found inspiration in the past, and in two recent series,
presented together here for the first time, he addresses African
American history explicitly, with renderings both lyrical and
immediate. In 2012 Bey created The Birmingham Project, a series of
paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of
the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street
Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the
violent aftermath. Night Coming Tenderly, Black is a group of
large-scale black-and-white landscapes made in 2017 in Ohio that
reimagine sites where the Underground Railroad once operated. The
book is introduced by an essay exploring the series' place within
Bey's wider body of work, as well as their relationships to the
past, the present, and each other. Additional essays investigate
the works' evocations of race, history, time, and place, addressing
the particularities of and resonances between two series of
photographs that powerfully reimagine the past into the present.
Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(February 15-October 12, 2020) High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(November 7, 2020-March 14, 2021) Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (April 16-October 3, 2021)
The one constant in the American federal system is change--change
that is not always beneficial. American Intergovernmental
Relations: A Fragmented Federal Polity examines how the dynamic
social, economic, and political forces that impinge on American
government at all levels shape the way that our federal system
functions.
Stephens and Wikstrom--both senior scholars specializing in
federalism, intergovernmental relations, and fiscal policy--offer
concise, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand coverage of these
materials. Beginning with the key elements of federalism, the
authors trace these principles as they have evolved since the
founding of the republic and through the various phases and types
of federal arrangements as they exist today. They examine and
analyze the extreme complexity of the system and the cooperative
and conflicting components of vertical and horizontal
intergovernmental relations. Stephens and Wikstrom also discuss the
impact of public policy and intergovernmental relations on American
society in light of rising globalism, rapidly changing technology,
and new security concerns. Featuring relevant case studies from the
headlines, American Intergovernmental Relations is an ideal text
for undergraduate and graduate courses in federalism and
intergovernmental relations. It is also an excellent text for a
different approach to a course in American government.
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