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Unpackaging Art of the 1980s

Unpackaging Art of the 1980s

Alison Pearlman

Alison Pearlman rejects this picture, which is truer of the period's criticism than of its art. Pearlman reassesses the works and careers of six artists who became critics' biggest targets.
Great Shakespeareans Set IV

Great Shakespeareans Set IV

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However, as Elihu Pearlman remarks, 'Throne of Blood can be thought of as ending three times' (Pearlman, 1986, 71). The death of the protagonist himself is at the hands – or rather arrows – of his own soldiers, which, although treasonable , ...
Binocular Vision

Binocular Vision

Edith Pearlman

Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection.
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans:

Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans:

Courtney Lehmann

However, as Elihu Pearlman remarks, 'Throne of Blood can be thought of as ending three times' (Pearlman, 1986, 71). The death of the protagonist himself is at the hands – or rather arrows – of his own soldiers, which, although treasonable , ...
Food, Power, and Agency

Food, Power, and Agency

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... valuable, “smart casual,” as food critic Alison Pearlman calls it.53 Joseé Johnston and Shyon Baumann show how authenticity has emerged as “a key element of how foodies evaluate and legitimate food choices.”54 A fiction of ...
Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the ...

Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the ...

Deborah A. Harris

This turning away from tradition appears to offer new opportunities for American chefs to reinvent what is considered great food and allows for new culinary perspectives and techniques to flourish. Alison Pearlman (2013) points out in her book ...
Food Media: Celebrity Chefs and the Politics of Everyday ...

Food Media: Celebrity Chefs and the Politics of Everyday ...

Signe Rousseau

This corroborates Alison Pearlman's characterization of the 'human' selling point of television chefs: 'Paradoxically, . . . despite the fact that the TV chef's image as dedicated professional openly parades some of the truth of chefs' personallife ...
Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

D. Hall

Elihu Pearlman has argued convincingly that the threat to social and familial equilibrium which Mrs Joe embodies originates in her appropriation of traditionally masculine behaviors. The props which define her are distinctly phallic,' Pearlman ...
After Modernist Painting: The History of a Contemporary Practice

After Modernist Painting: The History of a Contemporary Practice

Craig Staff

... 2006), Douglas Eklund, The Pictures Generation, 197441984 (New York: Metropolitan Museum ofArt; New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press 2009) and Alison Pearlman, UnpacleagingArt ofthe 1980s (Chicago and London: The ...
Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern ...

Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern ...

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As Pearlman says in his fascinating psychoanalytic study of Crusoe, he had plenty of places to hide on the island, ... It is on this foundation that expansion and 73 Elihu Pearlman, "Robinson Crusoe and the Cannibals,” Mosaic 10.1 (Fall 1976): ...
Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style ...

Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style ...

Alison Pearlman

Explores the evolution of gourmet restaurant style in recent decades, which has led to an increasing informality in restaurant design, and examines what these changes say about current attitudes toward taste.
Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style ...

Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style ...

Alison Pearlman

... Fire, After—Hours Exploits, and What Really Goes on in the Kitchen (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2009); John Delucie, The Hunger: A Memoir ofan Accidental Chef(New York: HarperCollins, 2009); Jason Sheehan, Cooking Dirty: A Story ...
Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art

Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art

Jordana Moore Saggese

For further discussion of their critical reception, see Alison Pearlman, Unpackaging Art of the 1980s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 20– 24; and Irving Sandler's “Postmodernist Art Theory,” in Art of the Postmodern Era: From the ...
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

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Author of the print: Alison Games. Reproduction of drawing; greeting card folder. © Alison Games d. b. a. AliBon; 15Sep72; KL03724. ELO3725. Love and peace. ... Alison Games d. b. a. Alison; 15Sep72; KL03725. KL03726. Let it shine.
Molly's Cue

Molly's Cue

Alison Acheson

Alison Acheson. Molly's Cue ALISON ACHESON © Alison Acheson, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of. www.coteaubooks.com. Title.
The Treasure of Como Bluff

The Treasure of Como Bluff

Alison Henderson

Praise for Alison Henderson HARVEST OF DREAMS “This is the first time I have read Alison Henderson but it definitely won't be the last. She writes from a view that has you inside her stories, living the lives and feeling the emotions.” ~ Happily ...
The indelible Alison Bechdel: confessions, comix, and ...

The indelible Alison Bechdel: confessions, comix, and ...

Alison Bechdel

"The success of Alison Bechdel's 'Dykes To Watch Out For' is impressive for any comic strip and unheard of for one with a lesbian theme". -- Boston Globe
Alison White Poems

Alison White Poems

Alison White

Alison White. Alison White Poems Alison White Poems Alison White Photography By Mark Finon.
But Names Will Never Hurt Me

But Names Will Never Hurt Me

Bernard Waber

Or to be teased about rabbits when you're trying to catch a fly ball? That's the problem Alison Wonderland has and this is Alison's lively, funny story.
How to Write about Yourself: A Practical Guide to Using Your ...

How to Write about Yourself: A Practical Guide to Using Your ...

Alison Chisholm

They say everyone's got at least one book in them--and what better way to start than with your own life? Alison Chisholm shows you how
Changing Markets and Hospitals: Managed Care and Strategic ...

Changing Markets and Hospitals: Managed Care and Strategic ...

Alison Evans Cuellar

Managed Care and Strategic Alliances with Physicians Alison Evans Cuellar. * * * -o .* s - o * • *. o § The dissertation of Alison Evans Cuellar is approved: 3D8t 2001.
Someone's Uncle: A Story

Someone's Uncle: A Story

Alison Espach

Alison Espach, acclaimed author of The Adults, brings her razor sharp insight and storytelling magic to bear in this entrancing tale.
A Fraction from Parallel

A Fraction from Parallel

Alison Chisholm

Alison Chisholm's eleventh collection brings together poems of joy, observation, nostalgia, pain, humour, fantasy and rather a lot of chocolate. Enjoy.
Blood Sisters

Blood Sisters

Jane Corry

Art teacher Alison looks fine on the surface. But the surface is a lie. When a job in a prison comes up she decides to take it - this is her chance to finally make things right. But someone is watching Kitty and Alison.
Hot, throbbing dykes to watch out for

Hot, throbbing dykes to watch out for

Alison Bechdel

Alison's Bechdel's cartoons are a libidinous commentary on the tsunami of lesbian erotica surging through the culture. The familiar cast of characters will keep readers laughing as their carnal mores are revealed.
Count on Yourself

Count on Yourself

Alison Griffiths

Are you afraid to look at your money during a recession? Are you worried that you’ll have to retire to the back seat of your car? Alison Griffiths gives you easy, prescriptive advice on how to take charge of your money.
Contemporary Fiction and Christianity

Contemporary Fiction and Christianity

Andrew Tate

I have benefited from many conversations over the last few years, but would like to mention the following friends and colleagues for their valuable input: David Ashbridge, _]ohn Batchelor, Andrew Dix, Alison Easton, Alison Findlay, Lee Horsley ...
Nobody Was Here: Seventh Grade in the Life of Me: Penelope

Nobody Was Here: Seventh Grade in the Life of Me: Penelope

Alison Pollet

In this paperback debut, Alison Pollet brings us the story of an observant uptown girl named Penelope, whose posh upbringing can't protect her from changes at home and at school.

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