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Entertainment is a critical reader accompanying the Vancouver artist's recent exhibition of photographs at The Power Plant in Toronto. This body of work is a meticulous studio project for which Douglas assumed the identity of a character working as a Weegee-esque photojournalist and commercial photo... Read More about Stan Douglas: Entertainment

This book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, th... Read More about At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke

CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE A scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the twentieth century. At Wit's End explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the ... Read More about At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke

READERS COMMENTS: 1."I thought I could only get a laugh out of killing people. Thank you for expanding my universe." -A. Hitler 2."Please stop littering literature." -W. Shakespeare 3."So now I have lost money purchasing this book and lost 10 points of IQ." -A. Einstein 4."Cease and desist wri... Read More about Europe: The Historical, Hysterical, History

Readers' Comments Never was so much condensed into so little by so few. Just one; Louis. -Winston Churchill Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...about this book. -Clark Gable Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...with books like these. -Jesus Christ A journey of a th... Read More about The History of Mankind: And Stories about Some Other People

Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work-an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing.In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstruct... Read More about Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings