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  Valentin Serov - Serov and the...

  Dmitri V. Sarabianov

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  Among the "young peredvizhniki" who joined the World of Art group, the most brilliant portraitist was Valentin Serov. Like many of his contemporaries, he delighted in painting out of doors, and some of his most appealing portraits – such as Girl with Peaches, Girl in Sunlight and In Summer - owe their naturalness to their setting or to the interplay of sunlight and shadows. Indeed, Serov regarded them as "studies" rather than portraits, giving them descriptive titles that omitted the sitter's name. The subject of Girl with Peaches – painted when Serov was only twenty-two – was in fact Mamontov's daughter Vera. The model for In Summer was Serov's wife. When only six years old, Serov began to display signs of artistic talent. At nine years old, Repin acted as his teacher and mentor, giving him lessons in his studio in Paris, then let Serov work with him in Moscow, almost like an apprentice. Eventually Repin sent him to study with Pavel Chistiakov – the teacher of many of the World of Art painters, including Nesterov and Vrubel. Chistiakov was to become a close friend. Because Serov's career spanned such a long period, his style and subject matter vary considerably, ranging from voluptuous society portraits (the later ones notable for their grand style and sumptuous dresses) to sensitive studies of children. Utterly different from any of these is the famous nude study of the dancer Ida Rubinstein, in tempera and charcoal on canvas, which he painted towards the end of his life. Although Serov's early style has much in common with the French Impressionists, he did not become acquainted with their work until after he had painted pictures such as Girl with Peaches.

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  The Midnight Special - The...

  Colin Asher

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  This innovative history explores the rich tradition of music behind bars and shows how policing and prisons have shaped our musical culture from blues to hip-hop. 
    
  In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system’s impact on our musicians, explored through compelling portraits of five artists whose careers span the twentieth century. 
    
  Opening with folk and blues artist Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, who was made to perform wearing prison clothes, Asher traces the intertwined histories of music and incarceration, from Southern prison farms of the Jim Crow era, through the heroin-driven mid-century drug wars that villainized a generation of jazz artists, and to our present era of mass incarceration. 
    
  Asher shows how the suggestion of criminality has often benefited white artists, while prosecutions often hurt Black musicians. Comparing the divergent trajectories of jazz pianist Elmo Hope with country singer Johnny Cash, Asher examines how violent and discriminatory policing stifled Hope’s career and led to the creation of his album Sounds from Rikers Island (1963), while forgiveness and lenience brought us Cash’s masterpiece At San Quentin (1969). 
    
  With keen musical analysis and sociological insight, The Midnight Special examines key themes in culture and criminal justice, from the movement for prison reform that allowed soul musician Ike White to stage thrilling concerts while locked up and record his album Changin’ Times (1977), to the crushing cultural weight of mass incarceration a generation later. Closing with Tupac Shakur’s Me Against the World (1995) and stories of music in prisons today, The Midnight Special recounts how prisons occasionally incubate talent but more often shorten careers and distort the public’s perception of musicians and their value to society. 
    
  An urgent book about the ways music can affirm an individual’s sense of humanity in dehumanizing circumstances, The Midnight Special writes the history of prisons into American music—a story as important as it is overlooked. 
    
  "Asher creates rich, vivid portraits of all five of his subjects … He discusses at length these artists’ morally ambiguous songs about murderers and convicts, written with a touch of grace and a recognition of shared humanity. This chronicle is full of little epiphanies … A well-written and mesmerizing group portrait of five musical outlaws."—Booklist (starred review)

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  Kiki Man Ray - Art Love and...

  Mark Braude

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  In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir—featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemingway—made front-page news in France and was immediately banned in America. All before she turned thirty. 
   
   
   
  Kiki was once the symbol of bohemian Paris. But if she is remembered today, it is only for posing for several now-celebrated male artists, including Amedeo Modigliani and Alexander Calder, and especially photographer Man Ray. 
   
   
   
  Kiki and Man Ray met in 1921 during a chance encounter at a café. What followed was an explosive decade-long connection, both professional and romantic, during which the couple grew and experimented as artists, competed for fame, and created many of the shocking images that cemented Man Ray's reputation as one of the great artists of the modern era. 
   
   
   
  Charting their volatile relationship, award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates for the first time Kiki's seminal influence not only on Man Ray's art, but on the culture of 1920s Paris and beyond.

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  In The Western Night

  Nolan D. Insyte

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the Western Night is Nolan Insyte’s second novel over a 20 year span. This fictional novel follows in the vein of classic adventure, travel and journey stories, where the trip is both metaphorical and real. 
  The novel’s main character travels west in search of something that will move him in any way; emotionally, spiritually, or metaphysically. Through times of hardship and drama, where almost everything around him should have threatened him in some way, he pushes on to always try to make the best of times. In this sense it is a journey of hope and he perseveres through endless disasters. 
   
  WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: “Insyte’s writing is sparse, intimate, and steeped in bruised lyricism. He understands the poetry of drifting: how loneliness can feel expansive, how the search for human connection can be both humbling and transcendent. The narrator’s mind, “as wide open as the sky itself,” becomes the true landscape of the novel — a place where longing, clarity, and uncertainty coexist. Ultimately, In the Western Night is a meditation on movement — physical, emotional, and spiritual. It captures the weight of longing, the quiet beauty of uncertainty, and the fragile hope that keeps us walking toward the next town, the next morning, the next version of ourselves. It is a powerful, resonant novel that lingers long after the final page.” – Dianne Reeves Angel, author of Every Restaurant Tells A Story

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  Lost Time And The Meaning of...

  Jason Williams

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Do you ever feel like your memories are slipping away—until a photograph brings them flooding back? 
  In a world drowning in images, we're still haunted by one central question: What do photographs do to our memories—and our sense of self? 
  If you've ever wondered why a single photo can evoke tears, trigger buried trauma, or transport you across decades, Lost Time and the Meaning of Photography is your essential guide. Whether you're a photographer, historian, grieving loved one, or simply a human being living in the age of visual overload, this book will challenge your understanding of memory, mourning, and meaning. 
  Unlock the hidden power behind every photograph you've ever taken—or kept. 
  In this gripping and poetic exploration, you'll learn: 
  •	Why photography isn't just a way to capture life, but a way to construct identity. 
  •	How grieving individuals and entire cultures use images to keep the dead alive—and what that means for healing. 
  •	Why do some photographs bring comfort while others deepen the ache of loss? 
  •	The neuroscience behind memory and image—how your brain processes pictures and how it changes who you are. 
  •	How national tragedies and historical trauma are archived, mythologized, or erased through visual media. 
  •	What we risk losing in the flood of selfies, algorithm-curated memories, and disappearing snaps. 
  You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how personal photos shape the story you tell yourself—and how collective images shape the stories nations tell about themselves. 
  Ready to rediscover your past—and reshape your future—one image at a time? 
  Buy Lost Time and the Meaning of Photography today and start your journey into the memory behind the lens.

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  Architecture Of Segregation -...

  Jerel McCants

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  Architecture of Segregation examines the powerful role architecture and the built environment have played in shaping systems of racial, ethnic, and social division throughout history. Through a comprehensive analysis spanning Indigenous displacement, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, apartheid, the Holocaust, segregation-era America, and other historical examples, author Jerel McCants reveals how buildings, cities, institutions, and public spaces have often been designed or utilized to control, separate, and marginalize populations. 
  Blending architecture, history, sociology, and cultural analysis, this thought-provoking work uncovers the ways physical spaces have reflected and reinforced structures of power, inequality, and exclusion. More importantly, it challenges readers to consider how the lessons of the past can inform the creation of more equitable and inclusive communities in the future. 
  A compelling resource for architects, urban planners, historians, educators, students, and social justice advocates, Architecture of Segregation offers a unique perspective on the intersection of design, society, and human rights.

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