... Marcel Duchamp readymade signature identity humor ...

..., seemingly intuitively, the three basic identity supports that are the proper name, the portrait, and the imprint. The portrait is drawn with a pencil, the cheek is a molded imprint of the artist’s, and the work is signed Tongue in Cheek , Marcel Duchamp, 1959. Marcel Duchamp readymade signature...

... Horace's music swung hard; his music breathed; it always had life. The time signature didn't matter. If his music changed time signature or meter, it didn't matter. If it sped up, slowed down, or stopped and started, it didn't matter. If it was slow, medium or fast, it didn't matter. It always...

....” The idea of contingency, it is suggested, is especially fruitful to think with because it brings into view the idea of “intervention” as Hall’s signature style of intellectual action, and therefore also the role of the “essay” (as opposed to the monograph) as his signature writing form. The essay...

... to ethnographic photographs, abolitionist iconography, and negrophilia in twentieth-century modernism, with attention to the subtle ways Julien’s signature stylistic choices enact a queering of the trope’s boundary-crossing connotations of transgression. From J. M. W. Turner to Audre Lorde and Nicolas Roeg...

... This monographic essay highlights Kerry James Marshall’s signature interest in archival imagery from the 1960s civil rights era, evoking a quest for social justice that haunts contemporary life because it remains unfulfilled. With attention to painterly devices that interrupt the picture plane...

... This chapter introduces the philosophical work of Catherine Malabou and her signature concept of plasticity—the giving, receiving and exploding of form—as a new and restless ontology, one that characterizes for her the possibilities of philosophy, the metamorphic truths of our bodies and our...

... colonies agricoles (institutions for delinquent and abandoned youth in Europe) that Foucault identified as the signature sites of “the art of punishing that is still more or less our own,“ it looks to these colonies as part of the imperial history of the “managed mobilities” that manifested in recruitment...

... What might it mean to articulate environmental transformations as outcomes of a Plantationocene? While the Anthropocene is readily taken up as a signature of novel natures and as a diagnosis for contemporary ecological crises, it often fails to center-stage questions of capitalism, colonialism...

... The first of two chapters that examine the social life of Héctor LaVoe’s signature song “El Cantante,” chapter 5 illustrates how the narrative of “El Cantante”—both the song and its musical persona—overdetermined his public persona and a collective memory of LaVoe as a synecdoche for both...