Böcker av Natalie Bell

The epic of girl is for the ones who have loved, lost, and found that they already had everything they needed. The epic of girl chronicles the start of a relationship, its demise, anxiety, depression, love, and loss. All told through journal entries, poems, and text messages.

Love Letters to Home, a collection of poetry and prose about the people and places I love.Dear reader, I was going to write a typical book description, but this work is too personal for me to write about it in third person. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I consider home, which became the basis for this collection of poetry and prose. There are blackout poetry pages and some black and white photographs scattered throughout as well to go along with some of the pieces. Months of love and words for the people that matter most. So here it is: Love Letters to Home. Dedicated to the people and places that make me feel like I'm right where I belong.Enjoy.Love, Natalie

The first monograph on artist and filmmaker Leslie Thornton: essential, foundational scholarship on her influential work in film and video. Produced on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Leslie Thornton at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, as well as a recent solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nurnberg, this richly illustrated volume will be the first monograph on this important artist and filmmaker, and offers essential, foundational scholarship on Thornton's influential work in film and video. Thornton's early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinéma vérité traditions fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Her work consistently interrogates modes of representation and the violence of looking, pushing beyond critiques of the gaze to consider biases in perception, or the way voice and sound can undermine an otherwise dominant visual narrative. Copublished with MIT List Visual Arts Center and Kunstverein Nürnberg

The first monograph on an important young American artist, generously illustrated with color images of his work.In his sculptures and installations, Matthew Angelo Harrison (b. 1989) engages with the legacies of racism and colonialism, parsing their contemporary connections to labor in the United States through an evolving visual language. With works that merge manufacturing technologies with the formal concerns of modernism and minimalism, the artist questions ideas of authorship and reproduction. Harrison''s sculptures often include found objects--including traditional African figurines and auto industry ephemera--encased in resin blocks. Frozen and entombed, these sculptures appear as strangely haunted minimalist objects, both ancient and futuristic. This generously illustrated volume, published in conjunction with two major solo exhibitions, is the first monograph on an important young American artist. Another specter haunting Harrison''s work is that of Detroit''s defunct auto industry. A native of Detroit who once worked making prototypes in an auto manufacturing plant, Harrison sometimes employs precision machine-tooling techniques that are derived from those used by auto makers. In other works, Harrison replicates rare African masks and sculptures using hand-built, low-resolution 3D printing machines, rendering large-scale forms in wet clay--fragile, imperfect, and subject to glitches. In addition to color photos of Harrison’s work and images that illustrate the artist’s relationship to Detroit, the book features essays by curators and art historians Jessica Bell Brown and Elena Filipovic, as well as a conversation between Harrison and musician and theorist DeForrest Brown, Jr., led by curator Taylor Renee Aldridge.  ContributorsNatalie Bell, Elena Filipovic, Jessica Bell Brown, Taylor Renee Aldridge, DeForrest Brown Jr., Matthew Angelo Harrison 

She was on one last family trip with her two daughters and soon-to-be-ex. He was a married father of two on a business trip. They met at a hotel bar. After a few drinks, an electrified kiss and an email address left hidden near his room later, they were off. To a lifestyle he'd left behind a dozen years ago—and a world that was brand spanking new to her. Along the way, she made discoveries far beyond the pains and pleasures of the flesh. She found herself.