Posts from the ‘Technology’ Category

New Books

• Love nailed to the doorpost : poems / Richard Chess
• The ivory mirror : the art of mortality in Renaissance Europe / Stephen Perkinson ; with contributions by Naomi Speakman, Katherine Baker, Elizabeth Morrison, Emma Maggie Solberg
  "We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions of Death personified, of decaying bodies, of young lovers struck down in their prime. These morbid themes run riot in the remarkable array of artworks featured […]
• Mexico City blues / Jack Kerouac
• Urban utopias : the built and social architectures of alternative settlements / Malcolm Miles
  International in scope with a focus on everyday life and governance issues, this study looks at today's efforts to build a new society, exploring detailed case analyses within a wide theoretical and cross disciplinary framework
• An accidental environmental artist / John Dahlsen