Learn what not to do in the kitchen from this hilarious collection of real advice by real people. Sometimes the best way to learn is to make mistakes. That’s the premise of this book—a sort of anti-cookbook. Fed up with our prevailing food culture of patronizing celebrity chefs with their rigid and often impossible instructions, Aleksandra Mir started a website to invite real people to send in their kitchen disaster stories, so that the rest of us could benefit from their experience. The result was a viral Internet phenomenon. Home cooks from around the world streamed in with advice. One thousand of their tips were then collected in this humorous and ultimately heartening and cathartic book. The packaging is as funny as the content too; it tricks you into thinking you’ve come across a vintage workhorse cookbook that’s seen its share of abuse. Don’t look here for recipes to be followed slavishly. Instead, this is a book to dip in and out of, choosing from among the wide variety of little gems that are always idiosyncratic, often opinionated, and never boring. Many will spark debate. Some may not be so practical but are wickedly funny. But the best part of the book is its reassurance that it’s okay to be human, to make mistakes.
Aleksandra Mir Książki
"Tourism, the largest industry in the world, is a significant force in contemporary society, with far-reaching economic, cultural, and geopolitical importance. Rather than seeking to represent tourism or travel itself, Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye considers art, history, and the social construction of places, spaces, and identities from the heightened perception of the tourist. Functioning as a guide book, a reader, and a souvenir, this lavish catalogue of the exhibition presents over 275 illustrations of thought-provoking artworks as icons and as tourist sites for exploration. A wide-ranging anthology of texts presents divergent routes and avenues through which to explore the symbols and cultural conventions created, deciphered, and disseminated by an increasingly mobile, international group of artists."--Jacket
Was verbindet Presse und Bildende Kunst? Wie beeinflusst die Zeitung unsere Gesellschaft? Wie gehen Künstler mit diesem Medium um? Und welche gegenseitige Einflussname existiert zwischen Kunst und Zeitung? Auf diese spannenden Fragen gibt der opulente Band „Art and Press“ ausführliche Antworten. Bildreich und detailgenau beleuchtet der Katalog die faszinierenden Positionen von namhaften Gegenwartskünstlern wie Christian Boltanski, Andreas Gursky, Eberhard Havekost, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kruger, Rirkrit Tiranvanija, Daniel Richter, Gerhard Richter, Franz West und vielen anderen. Ein historischer Überblick bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert – zu sehen sind Werke von Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann und anderen – rundet das bis heute aktuelle Thema gelungen ab.