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While Beals was covering a 1903 trial in which no photography was allowed in the courtroom, she climbed on a table and took her photos balanced against a bookshelf, Litwack said...
Upon this premise, Appel cantilevers the argument that "Yes" versus "No" is the primary aesthetic division of the 20th century. He outlines a hypothetical, prescriptive bookshelf spanning the range of 20th century art. The "No" shelf includes Kafka, T.S. Eliot, George Grosz and the pantheon of Pop art, which emphasize chaos and mass hysteria in the modern age and the mob of mankind. This is the "No" that is countered by the affirmative "Yes" of Matisse, Lachaise, Brancusi and Delaunay, Joyce, Nabokov and Chagall, along with "Yes" shelfmates W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Richard Wilbur...
When the Harvard Cooperative Society began in 1882, it occupied only a five-foot tall bookshelf in a tobacco store...
...last, proof that a product can be thoroughly '90s -- simple, ingenious and cost- and space-saving -- yet have nothing to do with biodegradability. Marco Pasanella has designed a handsome, amusing line of furniture in which each piece does double duty: an ottoman also serves as a bookshelf, a bench has built-in reading lamps, and on the seven-drawer bureau, the middle drawer pulls out to become a desktop...
...last, proof that a product can be thoroughly '90s -- simple, ingenious and cost- and space-saving -- yet have nothing to do with biodegradability. Marco Pasanella has designed a handsome, amusing line of furniture in which each piece does double duty: an ottoman also serves as a bookshelf, a bench has built-in reading lamps, and on the seven-drawer bureau, the middle drawer pulls out to become a desktop...