New Releases by Roger Duvoisin

Petunia finds a treasure chest and thinks she is rich and important. Her barnyard friends are eager to share her fortune.

In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class; they challenged viewers to accept personal responsibility for xenophobia and discrimination and the conditions that allowed them to persist. Piper''s work confronts viewers and forces them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment is an in-depth analysis of this pioneering artist''s work, illustrated with more than ninety images, including twenty-one in color. Over the course of a decade, John P. Bowles and Piper conversed about her art and its meaning, reception, and relation to her scholarship on Kant''s philosophy. Drawing on those conversations, Bowles locates Piper''s work at the nexus of Conceptual and feminist art of the late 1960s and 1970s. Piper was the only African American woman associated with the Conceptual artists of the 1960s and one of only a few African Americans to participate in exhibitions of the nascent feminist art movement in the early 1970s. Bowles contends that Piper''s work is ultimately about our responsibility for the world in which we live.

When Jasmine the cow begins wearing a hat, the other barnyard animals criticize her for trying to be different.

When Jasmine the cow begins wearing a hat, the other barnyard animals criticize her for trying to be different.

A crocodile befriended by the barnyard animals tries to prove to the farmer''s wife that he can be her friend too.

A crocodile befriended by the barnyard animals tries to prove to the farmer''s wife that he can be her friend too.

The friendship that develops between a kitten and a hippopotamus causes great commotion on two neighboring farms.

Both animals and people bathe, eat, greet visitors, play, and sleep, but they may have very different ways of doing each.

The milkman was tired of talking about the weather. Every day he followed the same route and talked to the same ladies about the same thing - the weather. But one day he loaded up his van, Amelia, and called his dog, Sylvia, and drove out into the peace and quiet of the countryside. He flipped a coin and said, "eeny-meeny-miny-mo" and drove wherever he pleased. Soon he came to a very special place beside a very special lake and had a very special holiday.

A raccoon tricks Petunia into walking in the forest with him, in hopes of a goose dinner, but his plans are foiled and they end up as true friends.

A poodle named Day and an owl named Night become friends when they chance to meet one twilight, and their continuing friendship disturbs the sleep of the poodle''s owners.

Describes the steady growth of man''s knowledge of the extent of his world through the discoveries of merchants, warriors, and explorers.

Relates how Veronica the hippopotamus was brought to America, locked up in a partially constructed building, and was at last taken to live in the country.