Author: Nader Vossoughian File Type: pdf The Journal of Architecture, 2015. doi10.108013602365.2015.1072232

Author: Michael W. Lucas File Type: pdf This straightforward, practical, and complete guide to mastering the powerful and complex OpenBSD operating system, is for the experienced UNIX user who wants to add OpenBSD to his or her repertoire. The author assumes a knowledge of basic UNIX commands, design, and permissions. The book takes you through the intricacies of the platform and teaches how to manage your system, offering friendly explanations, background information, troubleshooting suggestions, and copious examples throughout.ReviewPeople have been clamoring for an OpenBSD-specific book for years. Michael has stepped up to provide one. -- Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSDI recommend AbsoluteOpenBSD to all programmers and administrators working with the OpenBSD operating system -- UnixReview.coma broad and mostly gentle introduction into the world of the OpenBSD operating system -- Chris Palmer, San Francisco Open BSD Users Group, August 7, 2003a well-written book that hits its market squarely on target -- Slashdot.org, August 14, 2003About the AuthorMichael W. Lucas is a networksecurity engineer who keeps getting stuck

Author: Jed Perl File Type: epub Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there.In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy of painters such as Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and Kline, this revolution generated an exuberant and contentious body of writing without parallel in our cultural history. In the words of editor Jed Perl, there has never been a period when the visual arts have been written about with more mongrel energywith more unexpected mixtures of reportage, rhapsody, analysis, advocacy, editorializing, and philosophy. Perl has gathered the best of this writing together for the first time, interwoven with fascinating headnotes that establish the historical background, the outsized personalities of the artists and critics, and the nature of the aesthetic battles that defined the era. Here are statements by the most significant artists, and major critical essays by Clement Greenberg, Susan Sontag, Hilton Kramer, and other influential figures. Here too is an electrifying array of responses by poets and novelists, reflecting the free interplay between different art forms John Ashbery on Andy Warhol, James Agee on Helen Levitt, James Baldwin on Beauford Delaney, Truman Capote on Richard Avedon, Tennessee Williams on Hans Hofmann, Jack Kerouac on Robert Frank. The atmosphere of the time comes to vivid life in memoirs, diaries, and journalism by Peggy Guggenheim, Dwight Macdonald, Calvin Tomkins, and others. Lavishly illustrated with scores of black-and-white images and a 32-page color insert, this is a book that every art lover will treasure.**ReviewIts a plump, unbuttoned and convivial book, streaked like bacon with gossip and cogitation. . . . [Mr. Perl] is interested in the eras tumult, its howls and murmurs, its wolf whistles and rebel yells. He has raided memoirs, magazines and interviews for material hes also rummaged through forgotten pamphlets and yellowed correspondence. This is a party that spills out onto the lawn. *Dwight Garner, The New York Times*** Every student ought to have a copy in the studio or carrel. . . . For readers generally concerned about art, Art in America is likely to remain essential for quite a while. *Wall Street Journal*** A powerhouse time capsule of a singular era. Jed Perls masterful compilation of interviews, diaries, and essays from the post-war legends of word (Capote, Sontag, Kerouac) and image (Warhol, Avedon, Frank) reads like the dinner party of a lifetime. *B&N Review* In this fascinating anthology Jed Perl has given narrative shape and structure to a wide range of voices poets, artists themselves, and various other articulate observers of the amazing metamorphoses of postwar American art. What emerges is surely one of the defining records of our artistic age. *John Ashbery* Jed Perl has compiled an invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with his incisive commentaries. As todays art writers suffer diminishing visibility, the pleasures to be had exploring this collection comes as a salutary shock. An unexpectedly compulsive read. *Elizabeth C. Baker, editor-at-large, Art in America* magazine** Wondrous. . . . A singular book. *Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News*** Perl is a fiercely fluent word-spinner, with a staggering knowledge of American artists and their critics. *John Updike*About the Author JED PERL is the art critic for The New Republic. A former contributing editor at Vogue, he has written on contemporary art for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review and Elle, and is the author of New Art City Manhattan at Mid-Century (2005), Eyewitness Reports from an Art World in Crisis (2000), Gallery Going Four Seasons in the Art World (1991), and Paris Without End On French Art Since World War I (1988). He teaches art history at the New School.

Author: Rae Armantrout File Type: epub The poems in Money Shot are forensic. Just as the money shot in porn is proof of the male orgasm, these poems explore questions of revelation and concealment. What is seen, what is hidden, and how do we know? Money Shots investigation of these questions takes on a particular urgency because it occurs in the context of the suddenly revealed market manipulation and subsequent great recession of 20082009. In these poems, Rae Armantrout searches for new ways to organize information. What can be made manifest? What constitutes proof? Do we know it when we see it? Looking at sex, botany, cosmology, and death through the dark lens of disaster capitalism, Armantrout finds evidence of betrayal, grounds for rebellion, moments of possibility, and even pleasure, in a time of sudden scarcity and relentless greed. This stunning follow-up to Versedwinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a finalist for the National Book Awardis a wonderfully stringent exploration of how deeply our experience of everyday life is embedded in capitalism.**