Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1995-01
Dewey code: 730.92
List Price: $125.00
Price: $153.05
Review Masayuki Nagare: The Life of a Samurai Artist / Art Media Resources:This is a collectiion of the works of contemporary sculptor Masayuki Nagare. Born into a former samurai household in 1923, Nagare was a rebellious young man who later became a fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Though he had long been interested in art, it was only after the war that his career as a painter, designer, and sculptor began in earnest. Nagare has achieved recognition both in Japan and abroad, and his works can be found, for example, in the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. A tribute by Lincoln Kirstein and an essay by Kazuyo Yamashita are also included.
Publication date: 1998-01
Price: $12.85
Review Musician's Injuries: A Guide to Their Understanding and Prevention / Parapress:
Creator: Stewart Spencer
Publication date: 1991-11-28
Dewey code: 782.1092
List Price: $250.00
Price: $176.18
Review Richard Wagner: Theory and Theatre / Oxford University Press, USA:Richard Wagner has come to be seen as the quintessential artist of the nineteenth century. Borchmeyer here provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of Wagner's aesthetic theory, examining his hitherto neglected prose writings and his ideas on music drama from the various standpoints of literature, the linking of ideas, and the sociology of art. The preeminent importance for Wagner of classical Greek art and mythology emerges with particular clarity, while his links with the great figures and forms of world theatre- Shakespeare, the commedia dell'arte, the popular theatre, and the puppet theatre-are traced in detail. The influence on Wagner of the historical and social novel is also discussed. The author provides the first comprehensive analysis of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, and throws unexpected sidelights on Wagner's relationship with Nietzsche, in particular his important contribution to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.
Publication date: 2008-11-27
Price: $151.62
Review Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence v. 1 / Faber Finds:This initial selection from the extraordinary lifetime of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky, annotated by his friend and associate Robert Craft, includes correspondence with W. H. Auden, Jean Cocteau, Lincoln Kirstein and other friends, as well as Stravinsky's letters to Nadia Boulanger, Ernest Ansermet, and Craft himself. The book presents a wealth of previously unpublished information about Stravinsky's relationships with other musicians, and about his methods of composition. The opening section, based on letters to Stravinsky from his first wife Catherine, is among the most important material yet made available for an understanding of the composer's personal and family life. If the exchanges with Auden (The Rake's Progress) and Cocteau (Oedipus Rex) take first place for general interest, the letters to Ansermet - who conducted more performances of Stravinsky's music than anyone but the composer himself - give a remarkable view of the musical and ballet worlds, especially of the Diaghilev period, and of the great impresario himself. This book, accompanied by two further volumes, is a major contribution to the Stravinsky canon and to the cultural history of the twentieth century.
Authors
- Peter E. Palmquist
- Thomas R. Kailbourn
Publication date: 2005-10-17
Dewey code: 770.92279
List Price: $155.00
Price: $154.97
Review Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865 / Stanford University Press:This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, "Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865," comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Publication date: 2000-03-23
Dewey code: 808.06692
List Price: $160.00
Price: $166.14
Review Reflections on Biography / Oxford University Press, USA:This original book, by an award-winning biographer, examines biography from many angles, and studies the decisions its writers make and some of the implications of these choices. Its aim is to increase the pleasure of reading biographies by adding new, enjoyable dimensions and to give insights into the art of writing them.
Authors
- Alma Schindler Mahler Werfel
Dewey code: 780
Price: $79.00
Review Gustav Mahler: Memories & Letters (Music Book Index Series) / Reprint Services Corp:
Creator: Kathy Staff
Publication date: 1999-06
Review My Story / Story Sound:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-04-12
Dewey code: 781.4309
List Price: $155.00
Price: $153.53
Review Performance Practice: A Dictionary-Guide for Musicians / Routledge:Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musicians/performers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.
Creator: Glenn Palen Pierce
Publication date: 2008-04-04
Dewey code: 850.900503
List Price: $254.00
Price: $152.40
Review Seventeenth-Century Italian Poets and Dramatists (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Authors
- Darrin Daniel
- Allen Ginsberg
- Rani Singh
- Steve Creson
- Harry Smith
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 700.92
List Price: $16.95
Price: $150.94
Review Think of the Self Speaking: Harry Smith, Selected Interviews / Cityful Press:Cultural Studies. This collection of interviews spans Harry Smith's long and influential life in American arts and letters. They cover a quarter-century, touching on the full range of Smith's activity as a groundbreaking experimental filmmaker, obsessive collector, folk music anthologist, visionary painter, student of Native American lore, anthropologist, cosmographer, alchemist, hermetic scholar, occultist, autodidact, classic American eccentric, and all-around explorer of the possibilities of human consciousness and creativity. Jordan Belson writes, "THINK OF THE SELF SPEAKING is the next best thing to being with Harry himself-perhaps better, certainly safer. The interviews are remarkably similar to his collage films. A brilliant mind unhinged. " Includes an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Perhaps it's better to read about talking with Harry Smith than it was to actually talk with him; given the choice, most of us might prefer our Smith-viewing from a safe distance. Famous for assembling the brilliant, idiosyncratic Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith was an avant-garde filmmaker and painter, occultist, anthropologist, alchemist, compulsive collector of music, books, textiles, paper airplanes, and string figures-in short, the original interdisciplinary scholar, all without benefit of formal training or degree. He was also a notoriously difficult person. [+]Brilliant, irascible, perpetually drunk or high, he hit up every acquaintance for money, borrowed movie cameras then pawned them, bragged about spending grant money on heroin. According to his own account, he first tried peyote just outside the trailer court of legendary hillbilly singer Sara Carter, then proceeded to make the understandably perplexed Carter identify which of her quilt designs resembled which of her songs. Smith wasn't an easy interview. He browbeat his interviewers, eluded their questions, then announced he was on speed and therefore not to be trusted. ("Smith: Would you like me to read your fortune? Gary Kenton: Later. HS: It's bad. GK: Now, talk to me a little bit about. HS: It's bad. ") But his was a mind of the most unusual sort, capable of forging connections between the most esoteric and far-flung subjects. Ukrainian Easter eggs, Kiowa chants, Oz, Aboriginal bark paintings, the Kaballah, Levi-Strauss, Thelonious Monk, surrealism-seemingly no field was outside his range of expertise. Over the years, Smith destroyed many of his creations and, in the end, denigrated the others, including the hugely influential Anthology. Perhaps it was his life itself that became his greatest work. As preserved in these interviews, it's the final and most enduring tall tale from the greatest intellectual trickster of his time. -Mary Park.
Creator: Christopher C. De Santis
Publication date: 2005-05-31
Dewey code: 818.5209
List Price: $254.00
Price: $167.64
Review Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-09-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $120.00
Price: $154.24
Review AFRICAN AMER THEATER (1876 and Peculiar Sam; Or, the Underground Railroad) / Garland Science:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-04-12
Dewey code: 781.4309
List Price: $155.00
Price: $153.53
Review Performance Practice: A Dictionary-Guide for Musicians / Routledge:Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musicians/performers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.
Authors
- Martin Sterling
- Gary Morecambe
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-08
Review Morecambe and Wise / Soundings:In Bring Me Sunshine, Eric's son Gary Morecambe and co-author Martin Sterling have written the first full-scale biography of Eric and Ernie, analysing the relationship between them whilst also looking at the background and people so relevant in making them able to sustain over four decades of laughter making.
Publication date: 1996-02
Dewey code: 823.8
Price: $75.00
Review Thomas Hardy and the Church / St. Martin's Press:Thomas Hardy and the Church traces the development of Hardy's attitude towards Christianity. Through an analysis, firmly rooted in documentary evidence, of his use of the motifs of church architecture, religious ritual, and the characters of clergymen, Jan Jedrzejewski argues that the tension between Hardy's emotional attachment to the Christian tradition and his inability to accept its ontological essence generated a response to Christianity that was complex, often ambiguous, and by no means uniformly critical.
Creator: Len Fulton
Edition: 29th
Publication date: 1998-09
Price: $23.95
Review Directory of Small Press/Magazine Editors & Publishers 1998-1999 (Directory of Small Press and Magazine Editors and Publishers, 29th ed) / DustBooks:
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $40.00
Price: $151.14
Review Notes from the Shed: A Journal / Macmillan Art Publishing:Hanna Kay describes her journal, begun in summer 2003, as a dialogue between one and oneself. She says: Keeping a journal is like meeting this person inside me head-on. And that person is an artist whose journal helps the reader understand something of the way an artist thinks. Both her journal and the paintings produced in her studio measure the passing of the seasons and the artists emotional empathy with the Australian landscape the and living things about her as she responds to the seasonal changes wrought by Nature. She says: The locals [in rural NSW] refer to my Studio as the shed. For me the 200 square metres framed by iron-bark posts and corrugated iron, is a sanctuary in which I dare to experiment, question, or be idle. The solid structure and the five acres that surround it protect me from the worlds follies. Her observations of the environment are recorded poetically, her own musing interspersed with references to world literature. The book is dedicated: To Nature, while shes still around.
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 355
Price: $165.00
Review My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue / Texas State Historical Association:Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier's adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color. Chamberlain's remarkable story is pure melodrama; but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true.
Edition: 4Rev Ed
Publication date: 1995
Review The Callas Legacy : The Complete Guide to Her Recordings on Compact Disc / Timber Press, Incorporated:
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