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Art Books
Mariana Valencia’s Album and Bouquet
By Gillian JakabDance artist Mariana Valencia wants to leave breadcrumbs for her biographer. “I’m not sure who will write a history about me so I’m starting now to help them have good notes.
en plein air: Ethnographies of the Digital
By Brianna LeatherburyThe six chapter anthology attempts to apply this approach to a survey of the digital in global culture. Each of the key words in this problem are resoundingly relevant in the notion of the “digital,” a word associated with duplication, with loss and losslessness of information, multiplicity of images, and communication.
Decoding Dictatorial Statues
By Cara JordanExactly two years ago, a horde of torch-wielding white nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a local park.
Meghann Riepenhoff's Littoral Drift and Ecotone
By Megan N. LibertyIn much the same way her wall works create a relationship between humans and nature, her two-part publication, Littoral Drift + Ecotone, pushes the form of the book towards water, highlighting the surprising formal qualities these two mediums share.
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