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	Aernout Mik Mik is that rare artist who successfully combines video with architecture, live performance, photography and sculpture-his work has much in common with both behavioral psychology and the work of artists like Mike Kelly....
	Aernout Mik Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By interrogating the most basic ideas of narrative and reality and rejecting classical cinematic ideals, Mik creates works that ...
	Aernout Mik: Shiftings ...
	The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion: Markets and Value in Clothing and Modelling (Dress, Body, Culture) Fashion is bound up with promoting the "new," concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favored styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on next season. If fashion is defined, in part, by the incessant requirement to be "new," this requirement means aesthetic qualities are always in motion and, therefore, unstable. How, then, are fashionable commoditie...
	The Aesthetic Glencannon (The Glencannon Series) Can it be? Our Mr. Glencannon a connoisseur of the arts? These eleven stories investigate his appreciation of the finer things in life -- Duggan's Dew, art, Duggan's Dew, music, Duggan's Dew . . ....
	The Aesthetics of Resistance: Searching for Gramsci Artist Alfredo Jaar creates a series of works directly related to the city of Como, Italy. As a visiting professor for the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Como, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar developed a workshop and exhibition project exploring new strategies of presentation and re-presentation in the hope of creating new models for public intervention and resistance. Jaar proposed a series of works inspired by Giuseppe Terragni's Casa del Fascio, one of the most iconic examples of modern archit...
	Affinities of Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection (African art) "Affinities of Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas" is as much a fascinating study of the art of collecting as it is of the objects themselves. Indiana University of Art Museum houses one of the finest collections of indigenous art in the world- the product of the Wielguses' diligent and painstaking acquisition over a period of just twenty years. The photograhy of these rare and beautiful objects is breathtaking....
	Afghan Girl - Card Box This box contains 12 postcards and 12 blank greetings cards (with envelopes) illustrated with Steve McCurry's popular portrait "Afghan Girl". The photograph, taken in Pakistan in 1985, is of a 12-year-old refugee from the war in Afghanistan....
	Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures Almost 30 years ago, a precious trove of art was spirited away from the National Museum of Afghanistan by a small group of "keyholders" museum guards, curators, and antiquities lovers who risked their lives to save the country’s cultural treasures. Their actions spared these magnificent pieces from the threat of destruction, first by the invading Soviets in 1979 and more recently by the Taliban. Exquisitely crafted in gold and ivory, the artifacts illustrate Afghanistan’s key place at the ...