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Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 53/54, Spring and Autumn 2008: Edited by Francesco Pellizzi; Paperback November 2008

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media: Walter Benjamin; Edited by Michael W. Jennings; Edited by Brigid Doherty; Edited by Thomas Y. Levin; Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the “Work of Art” essay—the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin’s observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting.; Paperback May 2008

A Principality of its Own: Edited by José Luis Falconi; Edited by Gabriela Rangel; Foreword by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; This collection of critical essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society's visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the United States. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society has played a pivotal role in Latin American art, from Pre-Colombian to modernism. A Principality of Its Own explores the achievements and experiments that modeled the institution from the Cold War to the present.; Paperback May 2007