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Animals and Desire in South African Fiction: Biopolitics and ...

Animals and Desire in South African Fiction: Biopolitics and ...

Jason D. Price

See Frida Beckman, “What Is Sex? An Introduction to the Sexual Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze,” in Deleuze and Sex, ed. Frida Beckman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 1–26. There Beckman explains that “[h]omosexuality ... is  ...
Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality

Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality

Frida Beckman

And, most importantly, how can it contribute to an expansion of what they mean?Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman ...
Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze

Frida Beckman

In this book, Frida Beckman traces Deleuze’s remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the many rich encounters from which his life and work emerged.
Superheroes and Identities

Superheroes and Identities

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Good Girl Art – facing images of women in David Good Girl Art – facing images of women in David Mack's Kabuki Frida Beckman* Frida Beckman* Frida Beckman* Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden Department of English, ...
Frida by Frida: Selection of Letters and Texts

Frida by Frida: Selection of Letters and Texts

Frida Kahlo

" This is a Frida Kahlo far removed from the distorted image so often found in films, plays and supposedly serious writings and studies--a beautiful book about Frida, by Frida.
Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

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FRIDA BECKMAN dawn of the new millennium, was almost instantly absorbed into theoretical discourses, the notion of the posthuman is, arguably, a neologism that bears a potentially significant relationship to how we understand concepts ...
Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress: The Fashion of Frida Kahlo

Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress: The Fashion of Frida Kahlo

Denise Rosensweig

Frida Kahlo remains one of the most popular artists of our timesales of Frida books number into the hundreds ofthousandsand yet no volume has ever focused on one of the most memorable aspects of her persona and creativeoeuvre: her wardrobe.
Deleuze and Sex

Deleuze and Sex

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Frida Beckman. Deleuze Connections 'It is not the elements or the sets which define the multiplicity. What defines it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND – stammering.
The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. ...

The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. ...

Michael Lundblad

For an important critique of Haraway's reading of Deleuze and Guattari in this regard, however, along with a cogent explanation of Deleuze and Guattari's broader project, see Frida Beckman, Between Pleasure and Desire. Foragood ...
Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present

Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present

Frida Beckman

Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in contemporary Anglo-American mainstream culture, and ...
Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of ...

Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of ...

Frida Beckman

As full frame images crowd pornographic sites and pornographic sites crowd the internet, and thereby prolong the search for individual satisfaction, Zabet Patterson notes, surfing itself becomes part of the pleasure. The deferral itself, Patterson ...
Kahlo

Kahlo

Gerry Souter

Despite this, Frida and Diego managed to save their frayed relationship. The story and the paintings that Frida left us display a courageous account of a woman constantly on a search of self discovery.
Divining Divas: 100 Gay Poets on Their Muses

Divining Divas: 100 Gay Poets on Their Muses

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I dream I am a wreck ofa woman. Study #5: After Frida Kahlo from “Seven Studiesfor a SelfPortrait” Jee Leong Koh on FRIDA KAHLO Dan Vera on CARMEN MIRANDA In Hats ofHer Own Making 58 Divining Divas Jee Leong Koh on FRIDA ...
Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Adam G. Klein

Discusses the life of the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, best known for her self-portraits.
Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence

Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence

Arnold Thackray

Fausto Bucheli is at front; Dennis McDonald is behind. Courtesy Beckman Coulter, Inc. rushed to get the manifesto into paid advertisements in various newspapers. Once it was published to their satisfaction, the terrorists agreed to begin ...
Me, Frida

Me, Frida

Amy Novesky

Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.
Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Gerry Souter

She received the Ministry of Education National Prize of Arts and Sciences and the sum of five thousand pesos. Frida Kahlo's ingenuous use of language in her diary and here, explaining one of her more densely populated and philosophically ...
Frida Kahlo: A Spiritual Biography

Frida Kahlo: A Spiritual Biography

Jack Rummel

This book is a biography about Frida Kahlo, artist and wife of the famous Diego Rivera.
Frida Kahlo at Home

Frida Kahlo at Home

Suzanne Barbezat

Fully illustrated, the book features Frida's paintings together with archive images and family photographs, objects and artefacts she collected and photographs of the surrounding landscape to provide an insight into how these places shaped ...
Frida Kahlo: Painter of Strength

Frida Kahlo: Painter of Strength

Lissa Jones Johnston

An introduction to the life of Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter who overcame polio and crippling pain to achieve world renown.
Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954

Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954

Andrea Kettenmann

Frida Kahlo (1907-1945) is one of the most important 20th-century painters and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputain.
Frida Kahlo's Garden

Frida Kahlo's Garden

Adriana Zavala

This vibrant book provides a thrilling new perspective from which to appreciate Frida Kahlo's paintings against the backdrop of her home and garden as explored in The New York Botanical Garden's groundbreaking exhibition.
Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist

Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist

Emma Carlson Berne

Introduction to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who has shaped the world, impacted humanity, and changed the course of history.
Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life

Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life

Catherine Reef

A lushly designed young adult biography exploring the tumultuous lives, marriage and work of the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is illustrated with archival photos and full-color reproductions. 20,000 first printing.
Frida Kahlo: Face to Face

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face

Judy Chicago

This volume examines the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). The authors present Kahlo's story through their interpretations of and their commentary about 100 of Kahlo's paintings.
Data Systems Engineering

Data Systems Engineering

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Frida Kahlo: Fashion As the Art of Being

Frida Kahlo: Fashion As the Art of Being

Susana Martinez Vidal

Frida Kahlo was not only an iconic artist, she was also a bold beauty and an avant-garde fashionista whose timeless sense of style continues to inspire and influence the worlds of fashion, media, and art today.
Frida's Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with ...

Frida's Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with ...

Guadalupe Rivera Marín

The stepdaughter of Frida Kahlo gathers recipes for more than one hundred dishes that exemplify the food served to friends and family members by Kahlo over the course of an eventful year, in a cookbook-memoir highlighted by archival family ...

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