Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust (New Perspectives on Jewish Studies)

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Impossible Images brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture, photographs, museums, and monuments.

Exploring frequently neglected aspects of contemporary art after the Holocaust, the volume demonstrates how visual culture informs Jewish memory, and makes clear that art matters in contemporary Jewish studies. Accepting that knowledge is culturally constructed, Impossible Images makes explicit the ways in which context matters. It shows how the places where an artist works shape what is produced, in what ways the space in which a work of art is exhibited and how it is named influences what is seen or not seen, and how calling attention to certain details in a visual work, such as a gesture, a color, or an icon, can change the meaning assigned to the work as a whole.

Written accessibly for a general readership and those interested in art and art history, the volume also includes 20 color plates from leading artists Alice Lok Cahana, Judy Chicago, Debbie Teicholz, and Mindy Weisel.

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Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust.(Book Review): An article from: American Jewish History
Samantha Baskind
Manufacturer: American Jewish Historical Society
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ASIN: B00082TMMM
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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Title: Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust.(Book Review)
Author: Samantha Baskind
Publication: American Jewish History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: American Jewish Historical Society
Volume: 91 Issue: 1 Page: 169(3)

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One of the few artists who can bring qualities of animation to the printed page

Kings don't mean a thing on the boulevard of dreams...

I smoked a cigarette while reading this book.

Excellent read

Wonderful

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Kim Deitch
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Binding: Hardcover

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David Boring

ASIN: 0375421912
Release Date: 2002-09-24

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The newest addition to Pantheon's growing list of graphic novels: a visually beautiful, narratively intricate, and powerful book by one of the most original, and–until now–least recognized comic artists at work today.

The place is New York City in 1933. The setting: the Fontaine Talking Fables animation studio. Teddy Mishkin–definitely alcoholic, possibly insane–is hard at work on the latest cartoon short for Waldo the Cat, the "star" of Fontaine's stable of animated characters. But little does anyone (except Teddy) realize that Waldo is real–and that he is Teddy's insidiously helpful assistant.

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One of the few artists who can bring qualities of animation to the printed page.......2007-06-10

Kim Deitch is one of the great "underground" cartoonists, one of the artists whose groundbreaking work in the sixties and early seventies broke taboos against adult subject matter in comics. His work, though, always stood apart from that of contemporaries R. Crumb, Jack Jackson, Richard Corben and others. First, his visual style was never an attempt to mimic reality. It has always been, for lack of a better term, "cartoony". Second, though sex, drugs and rock `n' roll figure in his comics, they're usually in service of an actual story.

Deitch's best-known character is Waldo, a cat, and Waldo is a featured character in the graphic novel, Boulevard of Broken Dreams. The book is a thinly-disguised history of animation focusing on artist Ted Mishkin's slow decline as Disney comes to dominate the industry. Deitch's art is astounding. He's one of the few comics artists who can bring the qualities of animation to the printed page. At first his art appears crude and one-dimensional. But as you look at it you realize there's so much more going on than talking heads in front of a sparse background.

Kings don't mean a thing on the boulevard of dreams..........2005-10-11

Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a fascinating comic about the steady decline of an animator named Ted and the industry into which he breathed new life. An animation company of the '30s era creates "Waldo the Cat" shorts, but with the rise of Disney, the company tosses originality in favor of the cutesy watered-down style that has become so popular. New bosses, scandal, and tragedy rides the degradation of the cartoons all the way into the '90s. And all the while, Ted is tormented by hallucinations of the cartoon cat he created. This is the twisted story that Deitch has woven.

And it's a good one, to be sure. From Ted's mind springs a popping, psychedelic world brimming with confusion and madness. While Ted is engulfed by his delusions, the people around him, his shifty brother Al, his uncertain romantic interest Lillian, and the aging great Winsor Newton all face the harsh realities of a business that loses its heart. The story makes references to classic animators, so cartoon history buffs can enjoy a few in-jokes. Tension and mystery abound, and it's a wonderful story for those who understand alienation or like a bit of bizarro reading.

I smoked a cigarette while reading this book........2003-12-08

I don't smoke, but I felt compelled to smoke while reading this book JUST to add to the cool facade that reading this was creating.

you WILL look cool wherever you read this book. This is not lie. I repeat, you WILL look cool while reading this book.

It's a good book about cool things, and if someone doesn't think you look cool while reading this book, you can be really pretentious and say something like, "well, nobody would expect you to understand anyways..." and slightly brush your hand against the air in dismay. "And besides, my thrift-store-Bohemain style is way cooler than your Wal-Mart style..."

And the art and story are alright too.

Excellent read.......2003-11-05

One of the very best comic stories I've ever read. The art is amazing. The layouts from page to page are staggering in their creativity. The story itself is meshed so much with historical elements from early animation that you don't know where the fiction begins. The story is quite compelling, and very dark. Reads like non-fiction, if it were possible. This book will stay with you long after you put it down. Highest recommendation for anyone, comic fan or not.

Wonderful.......2002-10-22

This is a wonderful book by underground artist Kim Deitch. Deitch's b&w artwork is early-20th-century-cartoonish yet extremely inticate. I found myself first reading a couple of pages, then going back and visually deciphering everything that was going on in (and around and through) the panels. Not for kids, this is definitely an adult tale. If you are a fan of the works of Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Kaz, et al, then this book is for you!

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean

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Terrible View of James Dean
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Incompetent
superb style, memorable quotes
Disgusting

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean
Paul Alexander
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Terrible View of James Dean.......2007-06-20

I am a huge fan of James Dean and while I had time at my local bookstore, I was dying to have a book about him. I saw Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times and Legend of James Dean and immediately, without thinking twice, I purchased it. I was excited about reading it but when I got home, I immediately became disgusted and disappointed about what I was reading, so disgusted that I returned it the next day. To me, it was purely porn, but in a different form. Although I only skimmed through pages and pictures and did not read the whole thing, the bits and pieces I did happen to read made me feel sick. It portrayed Dean as being a masochistic, sex-craving, selfish individual, opposite the descriptions of others he had been associated with (Julie Harris, Pier Angeli, Martin Landau, etc.), those who I believe, would have the advantage of actually knowing him. Of course, other books about James have touched up on his alleged bisexuality/homosexuality but this book by far has proven to be a flop. The picture of the nude man that the author claims to be Dean is truly wrong because extensive research has proven that the man in the photo is not James, but a mentally-disabled young man who had been exploited by his cousin. This book is disgusting filth and is in no way a tribute to the late actor, but a way to tarnish his image and the person he was best remembered to be. Don't waste your time or money on this like I did.

Judge for yourself and don't neccessarily believe all the negative reviews.......2007-03-15

It's quite frustrating to read all the negative reviews here. Paul Alexander has written other critically acclaimed biographies and from this background there is no reason to believe he was just some lousy reporter interested in writing a badly researched, scandalous tabloid biography, although this is just what some reviewers here wrongly claim.

There are two rather detailed (homo)sexual scenes, and that's all. Of course one wonders how Alexander recreated them (he doesn't list his sources in footnotes and just mentions how he tried to recreate dialogue and scenes through in-depth interviews) but they are in no way the common theme of the book.

Alexander's prose is elegantly clear, empathic and evocative. What seems to annoy some reviewers is that he tries to bring to light elements of Dean's life biographies back then (this book was originally published in 1995) - and maybe even today - tried to avoid or probably suppress. From this point of view this is still an informed and reasonably balanced piece of work and in no way the lurid scam it is depicted to be in some reviews here. Some "fans" probably hate their romantic myths about Dean shattered or are too uncomfortable with homosexuality to see it mentioned in a James Dean biography.

What is strange, though, is the fact that the recently published book by Willam Bast, which probably deals more with Dean's (homo)sexuality than Alexander's book, doesn't get as many negative reviews as this book here. Maybe times have changed.

Anyway, I think there is no such thing as "the" James Dean biography. If you want to seriously know more about him you should read several biographies to get to know different points of view. But Paul Alexander's work should not be missed.

Incompetent.......2006-07-03

Yes, this biography is numbingly obsessed with James Dean's sexuality, but it's also terribly written and edited.

It's full of redundancies, horribly constructed sentences, narrative strands that are left hanging, and amateurish reporting. (Although the author tries to overcompensate with an excessively detailed, boring account of the days leading up to Dean's fatal car crash.)

Don't waste your money.

superb style, memorable quotes.......2006-03-25

I am surprised that no one has remarked upon this biography's excellent style. Here are a few memorable passages:

1. In Salt Lake City, [his mother's] coffin, covered with flowers, was removed from the train and placed on the station platform near Jimmy's window [he was a boy of nine] "Oh, my mother! That's my mother!" Jimmy was supposed to have said. "I'm going out there. I'm going to stand right beside her!" And with the train's nurse by his side, that's what he did, until the coffin was moved back on board.

2. For years, the people of Fairmount would gossip about what Jimmy was supposed to have said when [...] on his eighteenth birthday, he reported to the local draft board. Was there a reason why he should'nt be drafted? [...] Yes, there was. [...] "You can't draft me," he said. "I'm homosexual."

3. [Of his father's resistance to the idea of him becoming an actor] A father's pull on a son may be basic, but an art form's pull on an artist is hypnotic.

4. No true artist fits into the world in which he lives. If he did, he would cease to be the observer and become the observed.

It certainly seems plausible that much of Dean's rebellion proceeded from his homosexuality. After all, our inherited culture denies that men can ever really love each other, with the limited and highly qualified exception of father and son. In other cultures Dean would not have been such a rebel, perhaps. But Dean seems also to have had a certain heterosexual component to his nature. So he seems to have resembled pagan Greek men, bisexual, but with the emphasis on the homosexual side. This is what most of the people who knew him most intimately said about him. But he was promoted by an intensely homophobic culture as a heterosexual sex object of a somewhat new kind - rebellious, but safely hetero. Nevertheless there was just enough of the gay element lurking in the shadows (especially in Rebel Without a Cause) to add a certain wicked allurement.

All this must have made him personally very uncomfortable, to say the least. Montgomery Clift (see Leonard's bio) and Errol Flynn (see Bret's bio) were made so uncomfortable by this pretense that they indulged in very self-destructive behavior. It cannot be very rewarding to be idolized by strangers who, if they knew about one's most basic personality trait - who one falls in love with - would find one utterly hateful and contemptible. There certainly was a kind of death wish in driving a car at 100 or 120 mph on a highway.

The homophobes here seem to be most disturbed by the few sex scenes Alexander inserts. They are in fact rather prim, except for a sentence or two. But even these are more clinical than pornographic.

The famous nude photo of Dean as Greek faun is included.

Modern biographies are almost always written in a wooden, journalistic style that makes them more a duty than a pleasure to read. This bio does not entirely avoid the fault, but is nevertheless full of beautiful phrases and memorable lines. I enjoyed reading it.

Disgusting.......2005-08-26

This book focuses not on the life, influence or anything of meaning about James Dean, just his supposed sexual history. In detail. I have no idea where this information was obtained, but I seriously doubt it holds true. This was the worst book I have read on him. Maybe he was bisexual, maybe he wasn't. And while, yes, it is fine to discuss it briefly, this seemed to overtake the entire book. If you are obsessed with untrue and "juicy" information, then this book is for you, but if you want actual truth and information on the beauty of James Dean as a person, the DO NOT READ THIS. A much better book is "James Dean the Mutant King."

Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century

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Why Am I the First?

Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century
Howard M. Wachtel
Manufacturer: Pluto Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0745319254

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This is the story of America's most famous street, Wall Street. No other place is so inextricably linked to the nation's history, the development of capitalism and the dramatic highs and lows of the financial markets. No other place has provoked such mythology, or has been the subject of so many dreams and illusions.

Howard Watchel's book provides a fascinating account of the origins of this famous street. Exploring its development through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he charts its dramatic transformation, offering a window on the past that helps us understand how it became the center of world finance that we see today. Drawing on original archive research, and illustrated throughout with photographs, "Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts" is lively and informative narrative that reads not only as a popular history of one of America's great icons, but also as a critical assessment of Wall Street's role in the political, economic and cultural evolution of the country in the nineteenth century.

Watchel looks at the key characters -- both better-known and lesser-known -- who shaped the course of Wall Street's early years; he traces its wider social history and its physical development and architecture; he focuses on the New York Stock Exchange as the most important institution on the street, including a wider history of banking houses and competing exchanges; he explores how Wall Street has influenced politics, and how it has been shaped by larger political forces around it; and he examines its love-hate relationship with two other streets -- Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street -- the forces of government and the people of America.

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Why Am I the First?.......2003-08-13

I can hardly believe that I'm the first person to comment on this book. What with the way I see finance guys follow the stock market like a casino room, you'd think more of them would want to know the history of the street. I'll make the assumption that they don't and this shows you that history truly repeats itself.

The little money I have invested in Wall Street is in a company 401k. recently I've looked into ways of investing without the craziness that surrounds much of the market; the speculation is insane at times. I was looking into vanilla index funds and equity-linked funds. In the research process I saw this book and decided to get a quick primer on what the street is about.

That's what you get here, a crash course in the economic history of the United States. It was interesting and surprising to learn that "bubbles" have occurred over the last 200 years. And it's always the same jumping on the bandwagon of new technologies or financial instruments that drives them.

And then there is the inside info that's behind the major wealth of the street. Wall Street, and the book shows this, is really one big clubhouse, if your not in the club don't count on getting cheese on your crackers.. as a matter of fact you won't get crackers at all, you'll get the 5-7% crumb at the end of the year and think you're in the big time.

No complaints. I see this as how the game is played. The thing is to know the rules and realize what your getting into, know the risk involved and how the engine operates.

Without pointing fingers at conspiracy theories and laboring that point, it shows how the system has worked in the past and continues to this day.

It's a good read, especially if you have money in the market.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams (sheet music)

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams (sheet music)
Al Dubin , and Harry Warren
Manufacturer: Remick Music Corp.
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JAMES DEAN: BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS.

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams - The Life, Times and Legend of James Dean. (book reviews): An article from: Video Age International

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams - The Life, Times and Legend of James Dean. (book reviews): An article from: Video Age International
Fred Hift
Manufacturer: TV Trade Media, Inc.
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Title: Boulevard of Broken Dreams - The Life, Times and Legend of James Dean. (book reviews)
Author: Fred Hift
Publication: Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1994
Publisher: TV Trade Media, Inc.
Volume: v14 Issue: n9 Page: p10(1)

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On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Ricardo Jon Angel
Manufacturer: Broken Dream Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0971989435

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Colin, a writer, confides his confession in us through three novels of a trilogy, then, as if straight out of central casting, comes a voice. God? He doesn’t quite know how to respond. Colin is reminded of an experience he had had not long before. In a jewelry shop in Westwood Village, California, after a movie, a woman approached him from behind the counter. She was written in dark browns and blacks. She had an accent. He asked, "What nationality are you?" She was a little, just a least little bit hesitant to answer, then came the answer. "Jordanian." He noticed those eyes. The largest, darkest, expressive, liquid, Egyptian, bigger than Egyptian eyes in the world. Wet, they were lit like an evening pool under a moon. He wondered what exigencies of natural seduction—Darwin mistook it for selection--produced those eyes It wasn’t nature. It was God. There would be no natural reason for beauty of that kind. Could culture have produced those eyes. Imagine them veiled. Veiled over centuries. Perhaps these women had for centuries to express their soul in single moments, without speech, to men, to whomever through a flash of those incredible eyes. Recalling the incident, Colin thought how to answer the voice he heard. He responded to the voice, "Please if you're ever in Westwood Village, California go and see those eyes, and thank God that he made you."

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Previously unpublished short stories rounding out last year's smash hit Box Office Poison. More Box Office Poison stories from Alex Robinson! There were several short stories featuring Sherman, Ed and friends which were not collected in the giant Box Office Poison collection. BOP! reprints all of those short stories including all of the SPX/Expo Anthology shorts, the "Box Office Poison Kolor Karnival" (seen here in glorious black and white), and some extra goodies.

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Meeting Old Friends.......2004-01-05

Alex Robinson's massive graphic novel _Box Office Poison_ is one of my favorite graphic novels. The characters within its black and white pags breathe realism. In this day and age of spandex clad super heros and scantily clad heroines, _BOP_ offers the reader a breath of fresh air as he or she follows the lives of the disgruntled book store employee Sherman and the want to be comic book artist Ed and the vast assortment of their friends and enemies. This slim vol titled _BOP!: More Box Office Poison_ is a collection of stories that were not included in the 600+ page Top Shelf Collection and a few recent stories concerning the characters such as Mr. Robinson's 24 hour comic depicting Caprice and her boyfriend Kevin. For the most part this book fleshes out the first book the reader gets to meet Stephen's ex-girlfriend Darlene, the only significant girlfriend he had before beginning his long term relationship with Jane, gets to see Caprice and Jane's high school years, and get to see Sherman not only fight to remain outside the corporate world, but to see how his geeky min wishes that his relationship with Dorothy could be a little different. My favorite story within the collection is "My Old Flame, or Ex-Man" which depicts a future meeting between an older Sherman and his ex Sally. It is interesting to see how their recollections of the meeting differ. An excellent little book, read it please.

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