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Afflicted Powers(Updated)
Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
by Iain A. Boal, T.J. Clark, Michael Watts, Joseph Matthews, Retort Retort
Paperback, 217 Pages, Published 2005 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-031-4, ISBN: 1-84467-031-7

"Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present’s lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. The world careers backward into forms of ideological and geo-political combat that call to mind the Scramble for Africa, and the Wars of Religion. But this brute return of the past is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrap ..."

September 11
by Peter Eleey, Alexander Dumbadze, Alexander Kluge, Robert Hullot-Kentor, Klaus Biesenbach, W.H. Auden, Professor Robert Hullot-Kentor, John Chamberlain, Ellsworth Kelly, Maureen Gallace, Diane Arbus, Bruce Conner, Retort
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Moma Ps1
ISBN-13: 978-0-9841776-3-9, ISBN: 0-9841776-3-9

"The attacks of September 11, 2001 were among the most pictured disasters in history, yet they remain, a decade later, underrepresented in cultural discourse--particularly within the realm of contemporary art. Responding to these conditions, MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey brings together more than 70 works by 41 artists--many made prior to 9/11--to explore the attacks' enduring resonance. Eschewing both images of the event itself and art m ..."

The Perfection Method of Wood Steaming
Live High Pressure Steam vs. Low Pressure, Its Application to Wood for Bending (Classic Reprint) by Perfection Wood Steaming Retort Co (2017, Hardcover)
by Perfection Wood Steaming Retort Co
Hardcover, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-265-91736-7, ISBN: 0-265-91736-0

The Perfection Method of Wood Steaming
Live High Pressure Steam vs. Low Pressure, Its Application to Wood for Bending (Classic Reprint) by Perfection Wood Steaming Retort Co (2017, Paperback)
by Perfection Wood Steaming Retort Co
Paperback, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-5278-1646-6, ISBN: 1-5278-1646-X

Appropriation(1st Edition)
(Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
by David Evans, Gustave Flaubert, Raoul Hausmann, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Reiko Tomii, Guy Debord, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Jeff Wall, Cildo Meireles, Miguel Orodea, Susan Stoops, Johan Grimonprez, Jean Baudrillard, Sherrie Levine, Douglas Crimp, Paul Éluard, Michael Newman, Richard Prince, Thomas Crow, Elisabeth Sussman, John Stezaker, David Mellor, Barbara Kruger, Jo Spence, Lisa, Georges Didi-Huberman, Gil J. Wolman, Lucy R. Lippard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Laura Mulvey, Deborah Cherry, Malek Alloula, Kobena Mercer, Jorma Puranen, Okwui Enwezor, Robert Fisk, Slobodan Mijuskovic, Walter Benjamin, Boris Groys, Nicolas Bourriaud, Katrina M. Brown, Lucy Soutter, John C. Welchman, Johanna Burton, Isabelle Graw, Sven Lütticken, Anonymous, Retort, Iwona Blazwick, Andrã Breton, Sven Luetticken
Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2009 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-55070-3, ISBN: 0-262-55070-9

"Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of "stealing" images and forms from other makers. Among the diverse, often contestatory strategies included under the heading "appropriation" are the readymade, détournement, pastiche, rephotography, recombination, simulation and parody. Although appropropriation is often associated ..."

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