Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Art & Politics

This book follows a six months journey of a Zulu man born under Apartheid and raised in the new South Africa.

It is set in the first half of 2015 and captures Themba's dream for a future beyond freedom.

The invitation to the reader is to believe in themselves and work together for change before it is too late.

My dearest children,

I write this to be read on your twenty first birthday because I want you to understand why I was not able to fulfil my deepest desire to be a hands on dad. As you know I grew up without a father so understand...

November 9, 2016

Last Day, First Day proposes Presidential letter-writing as a reflexive and political act.

You are invited to write and share two letters: one for a President leaving, and another for a President arriving. The mental, physical, poetic, and political space of letter-writing is a platform to communicate outwards to our leaders at profound moments in their careers as much as it is for us a means to reflect inwards during a profoundly fractured moment in American history.

Writing prompts a communicative space to rebel, to...

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764 1838) and Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine (1762 1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of imperial sovereignty by inverting the symbols of monarchy and revolution, constructing meeting rooms resembling military encampments and gilded thrones that replaced the Bourbon lily with Napoleonic bees. Yet in the wake of political struggle, each foundation stone that the architects laid for the...

The West Wing premiered in 1999. That's a long time ago. Back then, we were worrying about the Millennium Bug, paying $700 for DVD players, and using pagers. 1999: a century ago.

And yet, the show continues to have an impact that is arguably unique. If you live or work in DC, references to it are inescapable. People have walked down the aisle to the theme music. Or they've named children, pets, GPS systems, and even an iPhone app after the characters. Or they've started Twitter accounts as the characters to continue the storyline and comment on current political...

The is a well-researched, profusely-illustrated history of war memorials and cemeteries, dating from the 19th C. to today in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. The book examines how the American Civil War and the Great War of 1914-1918 launched new practices for honoring the dead as individuals, and how monuments and memorial landscapes have been used for nation-building. We also examined how countless streams of private grief have joined the main stem of public mourning.

Art historian Maxwell Anderson's Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) analyzes continuing threats to our heritage, and offers a balanced account of treaties and laws governing the circulation...

Color Me POLITICIANS contains a large selection of political caricatures for coloring. Loaded with entertaining portraits of current politicians such as DONALD TRUMP, HILLARY CLINTON, BERNIE SANDERS, TED CRUZ, BARACK OBAMA, JOE BIDEN, JOHN McCAIN, PAUL RYAN, CHRIS CHRISTIE and many others.

Color Me POLITICIANS will provide hours of enjoyment coloring world leaders and pundits such as ANGELA MERKEL, VLADIMIR PUTIN, THERESA MAY, FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, JUSTIN TRUDEAU and others.

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