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The Carlos Museum Bookshop: Great Books for Adults The Carlos Museum Bookshop: Great books for adults We’re sharing some of our favorite books NEW THIS WEEK beautiful and useful and gifts that are available for mail order How to Be an Artist book will help artists while the Carlos Museum is closed to the of all kinds—painters, public. photographers, writers, performers—realize Please email your order with your address their dreams. $22.00, and phone number to Bookshop Manager hardcover. Mark Burell at [email protected], and you will receive a call to process your or- NEW THIS WEEK der. The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded Most orders for books in stock will be and Newly Translated shipped within five business days. If a by David Hinton book is temporarily sold out, it may take longer to fulfill orders due to current ship- ping delays, but orders will be processed as quickly as possible. Art has the power to Click HERE for great books for kids change our lives. For many, becoming an art- Click HERE for great books for coping ist is a lifelong dream. with quarantine But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, art critic Remember, all purchases support the Jerry Saltz of New York Carlos Museum, so stock up today! magazine, one of the art world’s most cele- brated and passionate Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) voices, offers an indis- has for a millennium Support the museum with the pensable handbook been widely consid- purchase of a Bookshop gift card for creative people of ered the greatest all kinds. Saltz offers poet in the Chinese Let your friends know you’re thinking invaluable insight into tradition. Most of Tu of them with a gift card to one of Atlanta’s what really matters Fu’s best poems were most inventively curated bookstores, to emerging artists: written in the last de- originality, persistence, cade of his life, as an or purchase one for yourself in support a balance between impoverished refugee of the Carlos Museum and in anticipa- knowledge and intu- fleeing the devastation ition, and that most of civil war. In the midst tion of leisurely browsing. precious of qualities, of these challenges, his self-belief. Teeming always personal poems Available in denominations of $25 with full-color artwork manage to combine a and $50. from visionaries an- remarkable range of cient and modern, this possibilities: elegant simplicity and great ualistic than the East? in their polar opposite. scenes portray how complexity, everyday What makes secularism Illuminating unreason contemporaries must life and grand historical a less powerful force at a moment when the have experienced and drama, private phil- in the Islamic world world appears to have thought about mo- osophical depth and than in Europe? And gone mad again, Irra- mentous events and social engagement how has China resisted tionality is fascinating, how they tried to make in a world consumed pressures for great- provocative, and time- sense of it all. $18.00, by war. Gary Snyder er political freedom? ly. $29.99, hardcover. paperback. wrote: “Tu Fu said ‘A $12.99, paperback. poet’s ideas are noble NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK and simple.’ But Tu Fu The Black Death: A So Much Longing in does not seem so sim- NEW THIS WEEK Personal History So Little Space: The ple to us. One of the Irrationality: A History Art of Edvard Munch world’s finest poets is of the Dark Side of made available here.” Reason $18.95, paperback. NEW THIS WEEK How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Bestselling memoir- Hatcher, a world-re- ist/novelist Karl Ove From sex and music to nowned scholar of Knausgaard combines religion and war, irra- the Middle Ages, piercing artistic insight tionality makes up the recreates everyday life with freewheeling greater part of human in a mid-fourteenth historical, biographical, life and history. Chal- century rural English and autobiographical lenging conventional village. By focusing digressions, bringing to Julian Baggini sets out thinking about logic, on the experiences life Munch’s emotional- to expand our hori- natural reason, dreams, of ordinary villagers ly and psychologically zons, exploring the art and science, pseu- as they lived—and intense work with ex- philosophies of Japan, doscience, the Enlight- died—during the Black traordinary and fitting India, China, and the enment, the internet, Death (1345–50 AD), feeling and urgency. A Muslim world as well as jokes, lies, and death, Hatcher vividly plac- singular and exception- the lesser-known oral Irrationality shows how es the reader directly ally stylish work of art traditions of Africa and history reveals that any into those tumultuous criticism, and a perfect Australia’s first peoples. triumph of reason is years and describes in match of subject and Interviewing thinkers temporary and revers- fascinating detail the author, this book with from around the globe, ible, and that rational day-to-day existence its reproductions of Baggini asks questions schemes, notably in- of people struggling a number of Munch’s such as: why is the cluding many from Sili- with the tragic effects most significant paint- West is more individ- con Valley, often result of the plague. 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