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Articles: Amazon and Sales Tax in Colorado

10 March 2010, 10:31 am

Wanted to add a few links to articles that discuss the move by Amazon.com to cut ties Monday with Colorado online businesses that help it sell products. Amazon made this move because of a new state law aimed at getting out-of-state, online retailers to collect sales tax. What I didn’t realize is that Amazon previously cut off affiliates in two other states that passed online sales tax laws, Rhode Island and North Carolina. These articles do not mention the California and New York cases that deal with online sales tax as well.

An article from the Denver Post is here.


An NPR article and audio story is here.

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Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962

10 March 2010, 12:08 am

There was an article in today’s New York Times, the Science section, that immediately caught my eye. It looks at Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962 by Megan Prelinger, a book that shows the hopes, dreams and fears related to the space age/race in the form of magazine ads.

The article is here. The New York Times also offers a slide show of some of of selected aviation industry advertisements that revisit this time when outer space reigned here. Definitely check it out!

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Featured Inventory Added Today

9 March 2010, 10:21 pm
Air Guitar Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy

    Clean, tight book. Hickey’s twenty-three “love songs” are essays on art and democracy. French flaps. 215pp.

    $12

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Chuck Forman Arrested Rivers

    Signed by Artist. Paintings by Chuck Forman. Essays and Poems by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Roger C. Echo-Hawk, Gary Holthaus and Charles Wilkinson. Chuck Forman is a widely exhibited landscape painter and has been adressing environmental issues since the late 1970s.
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (1988 / Vol 10 / No. 2)

    Includes “Connaissances de Galien sur l’anatomo-physiologie de l’appareil genital feminin” by Christine Bonnet-Cadilhac, “La notion de memoire organique dans loeuvre de T. Ribot” by J. Gasset, “The Modern Synthesis and Lewontin’s Critique of Sociobiology” by Harmon R. Holcomb III, “Spanish Agriculture and Malaria in the 18th Century” by Wlfgang U. Eckart. Book reviews. pp. 267-412. Unmarked text. Stamped with previous owner’s name on the edge.
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Recommended Title: Rethinking Curating

9 March 2010, 8:54 pm
Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and performance art. The authors, both of whom have extensive experience as curators, offer numerous examples of artworks and exhibitions to illustrate how the roles of curators and audiences can be redefined in light of new media art’s characteristics. They discuss modes of curating, from the familiar default mode of the museum, through parallels with publishing, broadcasting, festivals, and labs, to more recent hybrid ways of working online and off, including collaboration and social networking. Rethinking Curating offers curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current artists’ practice.
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Synesthesia Books Added

9 March 2010, 8:01 pm

Diatrope Books has added recommended books on synesthesia to our new books pages, here.

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March Leonardo Reviews Now Online

8 March 2010, 10:44 pm

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
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Recently Added To Our Inventory

6 March 2010, 11:41 pm
Before and After Socrates

    A commentary on the Greek mind and its attitude to life. Unmarked text. Corner crease on cover. 124pp.

    $10.00

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Master Drawings (Volume XXXV / No 3 / Fall 1997)

    Illustrated. Advertisements. Contributors include Noel Annesley, William M. Griswold, Martin Eidelberg, Ivo Verheyen, Jean Goldman, Roberta J. M. Olsen and others. Topics include Lore Heinemann, Tiepolo drawings in the Morgan Library, Jakob Smits, Rubens, Luigi Sabetelli, and Pietro Faccini. pp 227-336. Unmarked.
Religious Art: From the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century

    Forty-eight plates. Emile Male was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of eastern European iconography thereon. 208pp. Index. Unmarked. No dust jacket.
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Recently Listed Items

5 March 2010, 8:30 pm
Essays in Memory of Jacob Bean (1924-1992) ( Master Drawings, Vol 31 / No. 4 /1993)

    Unmarked. Jacob Bean, a connoisseur of Italian and French drawings, was the curator of drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 31 years. This publication celebrated his 70th birthday and coincided with an exhibition on 16th century Italian drawings in New York collections at the Met. Contributors include Christopher White, J. A. Gere, Diane De Grazia, Keith Christiansen, Suzanne Boorsch, Arnold Nesselrath, David Ekserdjian, Roger Ward, Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Veronkika Birke, Miles Chappell, Peter Dreyer, Jennifer Montagu, and others. Bibliography complied by Helen Mules. Illustrated. pp 335-512. Advertisements.

    $30.00
The Austrian Empire, Abortive Federation? (Problems in European Civilization)

    Unmarked. Illustrated. Contributors include Richard Charmatz, Viktor Bibl, Hugo Hantsch, Joseph Redlich, Edvard Benes, Eric Voegelin and others. Topics include The Monarch, the Constitution, Socialism and WWI and the Empire in Retrospect. 159pp.
Master Drawings (Volume XXXVI / No. 4 / Winter 1998)

    Unmarked. Articles include “Cavaliere Giovanni Baglione: ‘Il Modo Eccellente di Disegnare’” by Maryvelma Smith O’Neil, “New Drawings by Giovanni Baglione” by andrea Czere, “Louis de Caulery as a Draftsman” by Dieter Beaujean, “Correggio’s Study of Christ the Redeemer for S. Giovanni Evangelista” by Marianne Joannides and “A Drawings by Pietro da Cortona for an Overdoor in St. Peter’s” by Louise Rice. Reviews. Advertisements. Illustrated. pp. 355-468.
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Recommended: Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution (Gessert)

5 March 2010, 1:54 pm

Green Light:
Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert
http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/gessert.html
Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are bred for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen’s hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists work with a variety of living things, including plants, animals, bacteria, slime molds, and fungi. Many commentators have addressed the social and political concerns raised by making art out of living material. In Green Light, however, George Gessert examines the role that aesthetic perception has played in bio art and other interventions in evolution.

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New Listings

4 March 2010, 6:27 pm
Gordon Onslow Ford: Voyagers in Space

    Voyagers in Space. San Francisco: Weinstein Gallery, 2004. Exhibition catalogue of paintings from the 1970s and 1980s. Extensively illustrated with paintings, photographs of Onslow Ford sketching and painting, and studio shots. 48pp. British-born artist was part of Breton’s surrealist circle in the 1930s. Paperback. Very Good. (11559)

    $40.00

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Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images

    ISBN: 0226770516. Clean text. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket. Slight wear inside front cover. As in her earlier work, Stafford argues vigorously for a new understanding of images. Her focus in this book is that we should regard them not simply as products of mental operations but as constitutive of such operations and cognitive processes. 296pp. Lavishly illustrated. Index. Notes. Hardcover. Very Good.
Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting to Paper Black and White

    Painting to Paper Black and White. New York: Knoedler & Company, 2000. ISBN: 0970425708. Exhibition catalogue for a retrospective of Pousette-Dart’s works on paper. Essay by Carter Ratcliff. unpaginated. Paperback. Like New.
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