JD: ABCs
ABCs: Art, Books, Commentaries is my platform for publishing reviews of art, books, and posting thought pieces on a range of topics.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Jul 19, 2026
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My World Timer (opens the original)
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Book the Trip: A Tour of Folk Lettering Worldwide (opens the original)
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Every image in this book resounds with compelling interest beginning with the frontispiece detail of a wall with a relief of a pharaoh in Kom Ombo Egypt into which Phoenician tourists had scratched their own graffiti inscription. How could such a photograph–and the puzzles it poses–fail to grab attention? A close up detail it offers a subtle visual contrast between the venerable Egyptian image and the marks left behind by the Phoenicians some seven centuries before the Common Era, and the intrig
My Oyster Shell (opens the original)
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From Forms to Forces: The open possibilities of Dynaton (opens the original)
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