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6 best books like Realism (Linda Nochlin): The Raven, The Incendiaries, The Black Cat, The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, Leaving the Atocha Station, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

The Raven
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0486290727
In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak...
The Incendiaries
AuthorR.O. Kwon
ISBN0735213895
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous...
The Black Cat
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1594561753
The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843. The narrator tells us that from an early age he has loved animals. He and his wife have many pets, including a large, beautiful black cat (as described by the...
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
AuthorDonald Preziosi
ISBN0192842420
The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists...
Leaving the Atocha Station
AuthorBen Lerner
ISBN1566892740
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1594561788
This is one of the eeriest and most morbid stories I ever read from Poe. The narrator describes a mesmeric experiment on a dying man named Valdemar. The person acts in a peculiar way when in a mesmeric trance induced in the moment of death. What does the hypnotist do and how long can the mesmeric condition...
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