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Collection of the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio/Bequest of Marion Koogler McNay 'Breton Eve' by Paul Gauguin 1889 "He's among the first of the self-constructed bad boys of art in the clothes he wore from a big cape to a large-brim hat à la Buffalo Bill, the art he made and the controversy he courted, which wasn't the way that French artists back then made their careers," says Mary Morton, curator of the exhibit.

A Dark Rebel in a Tahitian Paradise Stan Sesser 2011

Travel allows us to escape those self-constructed constraints of Who We Are and What Our Lives Are, and allows us to live more freely in the moment.

Lauren Quinn: On Not Having a Romantic Rendezvous in Rome Lauren Quinn 2010

Travel allows us to escape those self-constructed constraints of Who We Are and What Our Lives Are, and allows us to live more freely in the moment.

Lauren Quinn: On Not Having a Romantic Rendezvous in Rome Lauren Quinn 2010

Of course, you get the normal self-serving guest spots by politicians attempting to show how they were more ethical and rational about a particular issue but, in general, the calls to explain — or change — domestic or foreign policy are usually doled out by people in, as Wallerstein put it, “a self-constructed cocoon”.

2010 February — Fusion Despatches 2010

Second, Beijing must inevitably recognize that the "stability" it prizes in the Kim regime is a self-constructed mirage.

Falling Out of Love With North Korea Chung Min Lee 2011

It is more constructive, I think, while recognizing the persistent fallacy of an atomized human "individual," self-constructed, essentialized, pre-social, that we allow for the possibility of positive social change.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

Some have invented work for themselves and are actually producing water-purification systems, compost, bio-fuel from coffee seeds and paperboard... all developed with self-constructed machines.

Peter Jansen: AWESOME: Nairobi Slum Kids Rap About Recycling, 'Trash Is Cash' (VIDEO) Peter Jansen 2011

Some have invented work for themselves and are actually producing water-purification systems, compost, bio-fuel from coffee seeds and paperboard... all developed with self-constructed machines.

Peter Jansen: AWESOME: Nairobi Slum Kids Rap About Recycling, 'Trash Is Cash' (VIDEO) Peter Jansen 2011

Some have invented work for themselves and are actually producing water-purification systems, compost, bio-fuel from coffee seeds and paperboard... all developed with self-constructed machines.

Peter Jansen: AWESOME: Nairobi Slum Kids Rap About Recycling, 'Trash Is Cash' (VIDEO) Peter Jansen 2011

Of course, you get the normal self-serving guest spots by politicians attempting to show how they were more ethical and rational about a particular issue but, in general, the calls to explain — or change — domestic or foreign policy are usually doled out by people in, as Wallerstein put it, “a self-constructed cocoon”.

Pundits and why you can’t believe them — Fusion Despatches 2010