Creator: Christopher Makos
Publication date: 2001-01
List Price: $150.00
Price: $775.00
Review Warhol Makos in Context / powerHouse Books:A behind-the-scenes, in-depth record of Christopher Makos’ photographic life from 1976 to 1987, Warhol | Makos In Context, his newest book, documents the years he spent at Andy Warhol’s side. The book includes over 100 original Makos contact sheets, reproduced in full with the photographer’s editing marks and comments, which have never before been seen. Warhol | Makos In Context features the unedited, raw material of his work during the years he saw Warhol almost daily—including the experiences and friends he shared with Warhol, the trips the two and others made together, and scenes of work life at Warhol’s 860 Broadway Factory and Makos’ West 15th Street studio. An insider’s account of the high jinks and high times at the Factory and beyond, Warhol | Makos In Context is an unexpurgated visual record of New York’s most intriguing circle and a primary source document that puts Warhol in context in Makos’ life. The coterie of legendary art world icons featured here includes Liza Minnelli, Madonna, David Geffen, John Lennon, Mick and Bianca Jagger, Keith Richards, Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, David Byrne, Jimmy Buffett, Sonny Bono, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, Steve Rubell, Buzz Aldrin, Tom Seaver, Reggie Jackson, Halston, Calvin Klein, Diana Vreeland, Tom Ford, Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Taylor, Jodie Foster, Matt Dillon, Marianne Faithfull, Olivia Newton-John, Robert Duvall, Christopher Reeve, Ron Wood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote, and includes remarks by Tom Ford, Ultra Violet, Debbie Harry, Vincent Fremont, and Glenn O’Brien. Warhol | Makos In Context is a biling.
Publication date: 1998-06-30
Dewey code: 809
Price: $9.99
Review Tom / Random House Value Publishing:The bedrock, authoritative account of the little-known early life of Tennessee Williams. "Plainly a work of distinction. It will be great service to Williams's reputation and among other things may bring more of the young to an appreciation of his achievement. "-Arthur Miller. Black-and-white photographs.
Authors
- Charles Bragg
- Alan Bisbort
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 709.2
Price: $250.00
Review Charles Bragg: The Works! A Retrospective / Pomegranate Communications:His work is in private and public collections worldwide, he has hosted radio and television discussions on everything from painting to politics, he is a cultural icon, a Los Angeles bon vivant, a brilliant and an extraordinarily funny man. The fact that can get lost in this colorful shuffle is that Charles Bragg is among the most gifted American artists of the twentieth century. The Works represents the range of Bragg's oeuvre from cartoonish caricature to stunningly beautiful portrait. Featuring 130 color plates and 50 black-and-white reproductions, it offers a biographical overview, reveals Bragg's approaches to and techniques of painting, discusses his inspirations and motivations, his social and political views, and gives the reader a sense of his inexhaustible cunning and wit.
Publication date: 1997-10-23
Dewey code: 782.10268
List Price: $14.95
Price: $956.79
Review Die Walküre / Phaidon Press:Richard Wagner's vast "Der Ring des Nibelungen" cycle comprises four full-length operas ("Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", "Siegfried" and "Gotterdammerung") and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to produce the music in text. This text provides a line-by-line translation of the second of the opera librettos - "Die Walkure" - a running commentary on the action and signals as to when each leitmotif appears. Each leitmotif is a musical theme or motif which denotes a character, emotion, object or event, and these musical themes were used by Wagner as a unifying force within his dramas. The listener following the opera with the libretto is able to pinpoint the various themes (in the Ring cycle there are 81 leitmotifs) and so increase understanding of the drama. Sabor's translation seeks to preserve the original metre and elucidate the complexities of Wagner's intricate libretto. The volume is supplemented with scene-by-scene synopses, short discussions of each leitmotif, a discography, videography and bibliography. Translations of the other three operas and a companion volume are available, both separately and in a boxed set. The companion volume offers essays on the meaning of the Ring, on Wagner's turbulent and fascinating life, his varied literary sources from the world of myth, the genesis of the cycle and its performance history over the last 120 years. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second of the four operas in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle, and the first of the early curtain, late-bedtime-length operas that inspired the term "Wagnerian" as a synonym for "extremely long. [+]" In it we meet a large quantity of the known offspring of the philandering head god, Wotan, including the nine Valkyries-warlike maidens who haul dead heroes to feast forever with the gods at Valhalla-and Wotan's twin children by a mortal woman, Siegmund and Sieglinde. The opera opens with Siegmund, defeated in battle, rushing into the first shelter he finds. It turns out to be the unhappy home of Hunding and Sieglinde. Sieglinde is Siegmund's twin sister, but that doesn't stop them from declaring their love and running off together, right after Siegmund pulls out the sword that their father left stuck in the tree that grows in the middle of the great hall. Brunnhilde, the chief Valkyrie, is first ordered by their father to help Siegmund, but he has to change his mind when Fricka, the goddess of marriage, points out the irregularity of the relationship. Brunnhilde admires Siegmund and tries to save him, but has to settle for saving the pregnant Sieglinde; as a reward for Sieglinde's audacity, Wotan puts her to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire that only a man who has never known fear can penetrate. Rudolph Sabor's version of the libretto does a wonderful job of capturing Wagner's rhythms and idiom and bringing the whole into accessible English. This translation-which also includes suggestions for further study and comments on the action-would be a useful companion to listening to a recording of the Ring, because it points out when the leitmotifs occur.
Publication date: 2001-12-01
Price: $35.00
Review Kenneth Howard/Von Dutch / St. John Design Studio:The standard edition is hand bound in cloth. There are some very limited editions of this hand crafted book on Von Dutch. Some are covered in leather and cloth with "cord embossing" and a slip case. Others are in full leather. Available from the publisher on special order.
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 822.50809287
List Price: $875.00
Price: $957.75
Review Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists in succession to Aphra Benn. Containing a representative selection of newly edited and annotated texts by leading woman dramatists of the period from 1696 to 1800, the anthology reflects the changes in Britain's global realignment in class models and perception of other peoples. If women's drama quickly ceases to express the raw rage at the oppression of female sexuality that is evident in Behn and Manley, it continues to show women controlling their lives through manipulation of an increasingly complex and intellectually diverse society. In the 1690s, dramatists were meditating on the 1688 revolution (and its implications for the man's authority within marriage) and Britain's international horizons were defined by its war with France and by its transatlantic colonial possessions. At the end of the period Britain was the dominant world power, ruling India, apprehensively contemplating the aftermath of another revolution, in France. From 1670 until her death in 1689, Aphra Benn had established herself as one of the leading dramatists of her time, having far more new plays performed during these years than any competitor, and paving the way for the surge in women's playwriting towards the end of the century: between 1695 and 1700, six new women dramatists had plays premiered, and from then on women consistently made an important and diverse contribution to the stage. Those included in this collection include Catherine Trotter (1679-1749), Mary Pix (1666-c. 1720), Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1736), Susanna Centlivre (c. 1670-1723), Elizabeth Griffith (c. [+]1720-93), Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Hannah Cowley (1743-1809). Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix and Delarivier Manley formed an important trio of women dramatists at the end of the 17th centuiry. Catherine Trotter was the first woman to adapt a work of Behn's for stage (the novel "Agnes de Castro"). Manley, who like Trotter has never appeared in a complete scholarly edition, was probably the most talented of the trio and also an important writer of fiction. Her best play, "The Royal Mischief", portrays the patriarchal suppression of female desire with a frankness unique in the 1690s. Eliza Haywood - a disciple of Manley in the writing of scandalous prose fiction - wrote two original plays, of which "A Wife to be Lett" (1723) is particularly notable for its harsh portrayal of the commodification and near-prostitution of women. Writing about Susanna Centlivre, in his "Lectures on the English Comic Writers", William Hazlitt remarked: "Her plays have a provoking spirit and volatile salt in them which still preserves them from decay". Elizabeth Inchbald and Hannah Cowley were perhaps the most successful female dramatists of the late 18th century. Both were admired by Sheridan for their original work and adaptations.
Creator: Stephen Bending
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 792.028092242
List Price: $750.00
Price: $746.00
Review WOMEN'S THEATRICAL MEMOIRS (Chawton House Library Series) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. The texts brought together in this ten-volume facsimile collection present the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. As well as offering fascinating accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, these memoirs also provide revealing insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame. The features include: all texts are republished in full; selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from Chawton House's unparalleled collection; and, most of the texts included have never before been republished. Each set in the series includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in their final volume. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-10
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $1,370.00
Price: $850.00
Review Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand (The History of Feminism) / Routledge:Eminently successful in the female magazine and fiction markets of the 1890s, Sarah Grand's work, with its mingling of the sensational and the conventional, enabled the general public to experiment with advanced ideas while providing her New Woman contemporaries with a popular vehicle for the articulation of their demands. In addition to reprinting Grand's hard-to-find journalistic and lesser-known fictional writings, this important new collection also features valuable biographical material and previously unpublished manuscript sources.
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 2000-06-21
Dewey code: 782.42164092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $950.00
Review Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (Bayou) / Cassell:This classic work is the definitive study of Bob Dylan's 40-year body of songs and recordings. This latest edition offers copious fresh material, including major studies of Dylan's remarkable use of the blues, nursery rhyme, films and the Bible. Unique in its scope and its integration of literature and music, criticism and biography, this highly entertaining and authoritative book has earned exceptional reviews.
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: $74.95
Review Angela Carter: The Rational Glass / Manchester Univ Pr:This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order and notes that her themes are fairly consistent throughout but not repetitious. Broader in its appeal than previous work written on Carter, Aidan Day's clarity and thoroughness are refreshing in their recognition of Angela Carter's work.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-07-24
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $850.00
Price: $846.00
Review The Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D.: First issue of first edition bound with the Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition / Edition Synapse:'The most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature. ' by (W. J. Bate) This is a reprint of the rare first edition (first issue) of the Boswell's biography which has never been reprinted in facsimile format before. The original writing by Boswell in this edition is very different from later editions which are thoroughly edited and rewritten. This is an indispensable source for the study of 18th century English society and literature and will be reprinted together with an even rarer booklet of Corrections and Additions to the First Edition which Boswell prepared himself and distributed only to the subscribers to the first edition.
Publication date: 2008-09-02
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $14.95
Price: $47.86
Review Rock On! - An Anthology of Concert Memories / TRIAD Publishing Group:Do you remember the first concert you ever saw? Was it the Beatles? The Boss? Maybe even Debbie Gibson? Whoever it was. and wherever it was, the memories are usually still sweet and fresh in your mind many years later. Welcome to Rock On! an anthology of concert recollections that will take you back in time to the music and the shows of the past, and sometimes present. After reading this collection it is guaranteed that you will turn on the stereo and put on your favorite disc ready to. Rock On!.
Edition: Export Edn.
Publication date: 2005
Review Laurence Olivier: The Authorised Biography / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Authors
- Kathy Halbreich
- Neal Benezra
- Paul Schimmel
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 700.92
List Price: $110.00
Price: $1,948.41
Review Bruce Nauman: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonne / Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap):Bruce Nauman's art has ranged across a variety of media that includes drawings, sculpture, performance, photography, neon, film, video, holograms, texts, and large-scale mixed media installations. This book features a comprehensive catalogue raisonne with illustrated entries for more than five hundred works, including films, videos, performances, and photographic pieces.
Publication date: 1993-04-30
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $89.95
Review Franz Schreker, 1878-1934: A Cultural Biography (Music in the Twentieth Century) / Cambridge University Press:Schreker was the most performed composer of his generation, but, forced into retirement by Hitler's racial decrees in 1933, his music banned, he died a broken man. Thereafter Schreker was forgotten, but this first major biography coincides with a revival and rediscovery of his work.
Publication date: 1990-08
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $100.00
Price: $1,895.53
Review Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell : The Death and Funeral of Marilyn Monroe / Seventy Four Ten, Incorporated:
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 809
Price: $9.95
Review Gorbals Boy at Oxford / House of Stratus:This is an autobiographical account of life in wartime Oxford, focusing on Ralph Glasser who grew up in the slums of Glasgow, and moved to Oxford to take up a scholarship just before the outbreak of the Second World War. He describes here the diametrically different worlds of the characters he met from snooty north Oxford hostesses to "boss class" progressive thinkers such as R. H. S. Crossman, Harold Laski, G. D. H. Cole and Victor Gollancz, and the shady world of Communist Party recruiters - including Philip Toynbee - in search of appropriate "soul mates". This book is the successor to "Growing up in the Gorbals", published by Chatto in 1986.
Edition: 9
Publication date: 2009-09-30
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $864.00
Price: $864.00
Review Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Vol. 2 / Schirmer Books:
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $950.00
Price: $950.00
Review John Houston / Lund Humphries Pub Ltd:A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, John Houston remained closely associated with the college through his role as a teacher: he lectured at Edinburgh from 1955 to 1989. Though dedicated to teaching, Houston remained committed to his own work throughout his time at Edinburgh and successfully forged a distinct artistic identity simultaneously. In this study of the artist's varied career, William Packer charts the development of Houston's life as a painter across five decades. Renowned for its intense use of colour, his work developed an underlying consistency from an early stage. Expressionistic, with romantic overtones and gestural brushstrokes, Houston is a master of encapsulating the atmospheric mood of any setting. This is borne out in the 70 colour images reproduced here for both loyal and new-found followers to admire.
Publication date: 1990-09-30
Dewey code: 818.5209
Price: $22.35
Review Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas / Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media:Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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