Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs coffee table books the transformation of desert into

the transformation of desert into cities with waterfronts on each doorstep

Cranberry Farm

the automobile replaced the horse

Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McKeekin

These are other ironies and contradictions are visible in the Headquarters Building on the East River of Manhattan: a building that enshrined the most optimistic elements of modernism in design and symbolized them in function but which was also

Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs coffee table books the transformation of desert intoMuse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs folio. pp. 151. photo illustrations. quarter cloth. [New York]: Aperture, [2015]. New. ISBN 13: 9781597113144 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Mickalene Thomas, known for her large scale, multi textured and rhinestone encrusted paintings of domestic interiors and portraits, identifies the photographic image as a defining touchstone for her practice. Thomas