Contributors

James Walvin

University of York

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James Walvin is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York in England and an authority on the slave trade. His recent books include The Trader, the Owner, the Slave; A Short History of Slavery; and The Slave Trade.

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Waneella

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Waneella, also known as Valeriya Sanchilo, is a prolific pixel artist who began her creative journey in multimedia animation at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Russia. Since 2012, she has become an established artist and built a dedicated fanbase of more than 250,000 followers across Tumblr, X, Instagram, and YouTube. Waneella's captivating urban scenes, with their meticulous detail and 16-bit videogame charm, ambient YouTube animations with music by E.Sanchillo, and covetable prints have carved out a unique space for her in the universe of pixel art.

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Ossian Ward

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Ossian Ward is head of content at the Lisson Gallery. He was previously chief art critic at Time Out London, and is also the author of Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art.

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Ben Ware

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Ben Ware is a research fellow in philosophy at King’s College London. He is the author of Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism and Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination: Living Wrong Life Rightly.

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Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol remains one of the best-loved artists of all time. A leader in the genre of Pop Art, his work was strongly influenced by celebrity culture and advertising, where his career began.

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Marina Warner

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Dame Marina Warner is a celebrated writer and critic. In 2017 she was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature in the United Kingdom, and was Chair of the judges of the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 2012, as well as the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013.

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Marina Warner

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 Marina Warner is a British novelist, short story writer, and historian.

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Pierre Wat

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Pierre Wat is professor of art history at the University of Paris.

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Courtney Watson McCarthy

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Courtney Watson McCarthy is a paper engineer and graphic designer. With a degree in theatrical scenic design, she worked as a model builder and designer in a variety of elds before discovering the magic of movable books. From the time she dissected her rst pop-up book, determined to solve the riddle of how it worked, she was hooked. After experimenting with cards and other small projects, she went on to design and engineer Eye Magic, M.C. Escher Pop-Ups, New York Times—acclaimed Gaudi´ Pop-Ups, Pop-Up Numbers, Dali´ Pop-Ups, and Hokusai Pop-Ups. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and two daughters.

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Molly Watson

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Molly Watson is a San Francisco-based food writer and content director for multiple companies seeking to make healthy eating easier. The author of Greens and Grains and Bowls!.

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Lieve Watteeuw

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Lieve Watteeuw is head of the Book Heritage Lab at the University of Leuven.

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Ed Webb-Ingall

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Ed Webb-Ingall is a film producer who holds a research position at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.

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Michael Webb

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Michael Webb is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored thirty books on architecture and design, most recently Architects' Houses, and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture, while contributing essays to many more. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Growing up in London, he was an editor at The Times and Country Life, before moving to the United States. He lives in the Richard Neutra apartment that was once home to Charles and Ray Eames.

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Gregor J M Weber

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The authors all work at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Gregor J. M. Weber is head of the department of fine arts.

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Jane Webster

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Jane Webster runs The French Table from her house in Normandy. She spends six months in France each year where she organizes cultural tours and cooking classes throughout the region.

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Mok Wei Wei

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Mok Wei Wei is managing director of W Architects and a recipient of the President’s Design Award, Singapore’s highest honor for design. He has served on the Venice Art Biennale Advisory Panel at the Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Arts.

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