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Mysterious Mozart
Author: Philippe Sollers
Editor/Other: Translated and with an Introduction by Armine Kotin Mortimer
Both a beguiling portrait of the artist and an idiosyncratic self-portrait of the author, Mysterious Mozart is Philippe Sollers's alternately oblique and searingly direct interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's oeuvre and lasting mystique, audaciously reformulated for the postmodern age. . . .
Fighting Theory
Author: Avital Ronell, in conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle
Editor/Other: Translated by Catherine Porter
International interest in the work of Avital Ronell has expressed itself in reviews, articles, essays, and dissertations. For Fighting Theory, psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle conducted twelve interviews with Ronell, each focused on a key topic in one of Ronell's books or on a set of issues that run throughout her work. . . .
Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art
Author: José Gamaliel González
Editor/Other: Edited and with an Introduction by Marc Zimmerman
The autobiography of José Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home. . . .
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