One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York, Paperback - Marc J. Straus

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This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. P...

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The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1...

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