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The middle of somewhere
Rare Books
"In 2010 the Cleveland Clinic commissioned me to make a body of work to be permanently installed in the corridor of the hospital. I installed 22 photographs of Lake Erie as it moved through the seasons. The photographs in this book also traverse the seasons of Northern Ohio but rely more on mapping the personal and political through a visual narrative. From fall to summer there were six trips to Sandusky. The images in this book are my poetic gestures that connect to that nostalgic realm and its ever-present potency"--From colophon.
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Salts
Rare Books
"Like Joseph Beuys, the multifaceted artist and amateur scientist for whom Johann Wolfgang von Goethe time and again served as a significant source of inspiration, Nora Schattauer refers in her most recent body of work with salts and sulphates to the ideas and theories of the great German author, philosopher and scientist. And like Beuys and Goethe before her, Schattauer is active within a complex realm located somewhere between the systematic objectivity of science and the intuitive subjectivity of the visual arts ... Indeed, Nora Schattauer's most recent works are so magical that they seem to paint themselves! Tiny drops of clear water-based solutions of alkaline salt, copper sulphate, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate and other salts onto chemically prepared filter paper take on a life of their own as they slowly bloom into vibrant abstract compositions reminiscent of cellular constructs and biochemical samples from a scientific laboratory"--From introduction.
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John B. Williams letter to Ogden Hoffman
Manuscripts
Williams relates that "we are all in a state of excitement here, as everything depends on Grant's success." He also writes of a recent bill that is to rearrange the judicial districts of California, and of the effort to repeal the Act of 1860, which would transfer survey cases to the Land offices.
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Map of the Kern River oil district, Kern County, California
Rare Books
Alt title from cover. Verso explains recent history of oil and gas discovery here. "Compliments of the Bank of Bakersfield." See also 301401 for a 1901 version of this map. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Sections. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 293385.
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The world below the window : poems, 1937-1997
Rare Books
"Smith melds an array of influences - from the French Symbolists to W. H. Auden and Wallace Stevens - into his own unmistakable voice, moving powerfully from the compressed, dark lyrics of his pre-World War II poetry ("Quail in Antumn") to experiments with a long, free-verse line in the 1960's ("The Tin Can"). Here are memorable lyrics that capture the horror of World War II ("Dark Valentine: War Poems") and hilarious light verse ("The Tall Poets") that exhibits the wit that has enlivened even Smith's darkest works. Previously uncollected recent poems reveal the poet's tremendous range, as he moves from discussing the ironies of age in "The Shipwreck" to forging the dramatic and moving intensity of "The Cherokee Lottery," which deals with the forced removal of American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi."--Book jacket.
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Scientists and scoundrels ; a book of hoaxes
Rare Books
Exposes the hoaxes which scientists have devised to deceive their peers and explains the scientific background against which these hoaxes appeared and the detective work leading to their discovery
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