Creator: Robert Violette
Publication date: 1998-09-02
Dewey code: 792
List Price: $59.95
Price: $650.98
Review Leigh Bowery / Violette Editions:This is the first monograph by controversial performance artist and model for Lucien Freud, Leigh Bowery. His work and personality cross the lines between the art world, the fashion world and the underground club scene - as seen by the contributors.
Creator: Chris Hart
Publication date: 1996-04
Dewey code: 821.709
List Price: $495.00
Price: $406.37
Review Lives of the Great Romantics: By Their Contemporaries : Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:In recent years, under pressure from New Historicism and developments in the formal study of biography, scholars have become increasingly conscious of how deliberately fashioned were the images of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth. In Byron's case, this was often with his consent or collusion; in Shelley's case, it was the active efforts of his widow and friends who struggled to construct a particular picture of both man and poet. With Wordsworth the picture is less clear, since the kind of scrutiny that his two counterparts have recently received has rarely extended to him. The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains the original memoirs in facsimile together with introductions and headnotes. The headnotes set the relevant context for each document, cross-referencing controversial passages.
Creator: Ralph Pite
Publication date: 2008-07-30
Dewey code: 820.9008
List Price: $440.82
Price: $440.82
Review Lives of Victorian Literary Figures VI (Lives of Victorian Literary Figures) / Pickering & Chatto Ltd:The sixth set in Pickering & Chatto's innovative and successful "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to three celebrated Victorian authors. In their own time, Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson), Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Carroll and Stevenson invented some of the most iconic and enduring characters in Victorian children's literature, from the White Rabbit to Long John Silver. Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads" (1866) established his reputation as Tennyson's poetic heir. Diary extracts, letters, memoirs and other ephemeral material allows scholars to see these figures through the eyes of their contemporaries. These early accounts shed a different light on their personalities and reputations than more recent portrayals.
Authors
- Winton Dean
- John Merrill Knapp
Price: $65.00
Review Handel's Operas 1704-1726 / Oxford University Press, USA:After two centures of near-total neglect, Handel's operas are now increasingly popular in the theatre, but modern productions are hampered by dependence on obsolete and inaccurate editions, and by ignorance of the musical and theatrical practice of Handel's age. Although Handel's autographs and performing scores have long been available, they have never before been fully studied, still less the very early manuscript copies. The manuscripts have yielded a great deal of unknown music, besides throwing fresh light on Handel's methods of composition and performance practice. This book covers Handel's first seventeen surviving operas, including his greatest and most successful. Each opera has a chapter, with a full synopsis of the libretto (including all original stage directions) and a comparison with its literary and dramatic sources. Each chapter covers the history of the opera in performance and the different versions in the manuscripts. Every known surviving manuscript has been examined. Eight appendices cover all performances in Handel's time, borrowings, modern revivals, new information on his singers, and a complete index of Italian first lines in all Handel's works. About the Authors: Wynton Dean is the author of Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques. John Merrill Knapp is Emeritus Professor of Music at Princeton University.
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 709
Price: $100.00
Review Jiang: Father of the Yunnan School / Fingerhut Group Pub:
Authors
- Caroline Tisdall
- Joseph Beuys
- Veit Loers
Publication date: 1993-09-02
Price: $50.00
Review Joseph Beuys: Documenta Work / Cantz:By Caroline Tisdall. Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Rainer Rappmann. Text by Veit Loers.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 966.903
Price: $24.95
Review Omuluabi: Ulli Beier, Yoruba Society and Culture / Africa World Press:
Publication date: 1995-06
Dewey code: 780
Price: $100.00
Review Haydn at Eszterhaza 1766-1790: Chronicle and Works : Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) / Thames & Hudson:
Publication date: 1993-06
Dewey code: 790
Price: $9.95
Review Good As I Been to You / Music Sales Corporation:
Publication date: 1995-06
Price: $100.00
Review Haydn: The Early Years 1732-1765 (Haydn Chronicle and Works) / Thames & Hudson:
Authors
- Anne Aull Bowbeer
- Donald Ray Schwartz
Dewey code: 792.028092
Price: $110.95
Review Lillian Russell: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts) / Greenwood Press:Lillian Russell was the Victorian era's symbol of talent, charm, and beauty. She was introduced by impresario Tony Pastor in 1880, and was considered an emblem of feminine beauty until the turn of the century. Although her voice still set a standard of excellence, by that time America's vision of loveliness had changed, and her middle-aged body could not meet the new challenge on the musical stage. Russell responded with extraordinary resilience. She adapted with the times and became the grande dame of the American theatre in non-musical plays, burlesque, variety, and the lecture circuit. She wrote widely-read newspaper columns in which she pioneered an optimistic philosophy of self-help, and she used her numerous connections to champion the causes that she held dear. Carefully researched, this reference book is a comprehensive and thoroughly documented guide to Lillian Russell's life and career. A biography places her in the social and cultural context of her time and adds previously ignored information about her parents, birth, coming-of-age in the Midwest, early career, daughter, and death. A chronology then gives a detailed listing of events in her life and career. The chapters that follow are devoted to her many performances. [+]Entries in each section provide cast and credit information, plot synopses, review excerpts, and critical commentary. Several appendices offer additional information about her work, and an extensive annotated bibliography lists sources of additional information.
Edition: Large Print Ed
Publication date: 2002-05
Review High Hopes / Isis Publishing Ltd:
Creator: John Mullan
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 820.9008
List Price: $495.00
Price: $410.82
Review Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Lives of Victorian Literary Figures) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in. The volume editors also discuss how each text has contributed to the development of the public image of the writer it concerns.
Publication date: 1992-06
Dewey code: 700.92
Price: $14.95
Review Matthew Barney: New Work / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-04-01
Dewey code: 780.92396
Price: $500.00
Review International Dictionary of Black Composers / Routledge:To a field under-represented in existing general reference works and about which only a fraction is known by most scholars, the International Dictionary of Black Composers brings extensive information about historical and contemporary composers of African heritage from around the world. Unlike other biographical reference works dealing with composers or musicians, the dictionary includes not only biographies, works, primary and secondary bibliographies, and discographies for each of its 250 entrants, but also signed critical essays about the composers themselves and their most important pieces. A team of 100 leading experts in the field provide not only the facts but also interpretive perspectives. The dictionary is a forum for the notice, study and validation of all genres of black music, encompassing composers of concert hall music as well as popular and vernacular musical forms and styles.
Authors
- Netherlands) Schonberg-Kandinsky Symposium (1993 Hague
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-03-01
Dewey code: 700.922
Price: $48.95
Review Schonberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter (Contemporary Music Studies) / Routledge:The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Schonberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art, Dada and Futurism, had just manifested themselves. Independently of those sometimes spectacular activities, both Schonberg and Kandinsky had already concluded that the material and the compositional methods they had relied on in the past were exhausted and did not satisfy the development of their artistic ideas. Both artists had already submitted their modes of production to a critical analysis which resulted in Schonberg's Theory of Harmony and Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art, both of 1911 - indeed the two artists had already been putting their self-criticism into practice for some time. In Schonberg's case this led to breaking with tonality; Kandinsky effected the transition to abstract painting. This book is a collection of the papers presented at the conference on Schonberg and Kandin.
Edition: 24th
Publication date: 2008-04-18
Dewey code: 781.680922
List Price: $430.00
Price: $426.00
Review International Who's Who in Classical Music 2008 (International Who's Who in Classical Music) / Europa Publications:The "International Who's Who in Classical Music 2008" is an unparalleled source of biographical information on singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors and managers. The directory section lists orchestras, opera companies and other institutions connected with the classical music world. Each biographical entry comprises personal information, principal career details, repertoire, recordings and compositions, and full contact details where available. Appendices provide contact details for national orchestras, opera companies, music festivals, music organizations and major competitions and awards. Entries include individuals involved in all aspects of the world of classical music: composers, instrumentalists, singers, arrangers, writers, musicologists, conductors, directors and managers. Among those listed in this new edition are Philip Glass, Lang Lang, George Crumb, Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma and Inga Nielsen. It features over 8,000 detailed biographical entries. It covers the classical and light classical fields. It includes both up-and-coming musicians and well-established names. This book will prove invaluable for anyone in need of reliable, up-to-date information on the individuals and organizations involved in classical music.
Publication date: 1990-12-20
Dewey code: 709.2
Price: $100.00
Review James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space / University of California Press:The Art of Light and Space is the first major overview of one of the most independent and accomplished artists of our time. For the benefit of art historians, artists, and the general reader, Craig Adcock examines, with the support of many illustrations, the full range of James Turrell's life and art. He gives special attention to the artist's fashioning of light and space to create works of great contemplative beauty, intellectual depth, and technical sophistication. Adcock explains how Turrell's work has developed to address the very nature of visual perception-its wonders and its limitations. Presented in the context of developments in contemporary art since the 1960s, Turrell's non-object pieces, his light projections and large-scale installations, and his monumental work-in-progress-the Roden Crater project-take on a significance and integrity that have not previously been fully revealed. Turrell's work has been collected and exhibited widely, and he has received a number of important grants including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Prize.
Authors
- Martha J. Ronish
- Donald Burrows
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $437.00
Review A Catalogue of Handel's Musical Autographs / Oxford University Press, USA:This catalogue presents a complete survey of the surviving autographs of Handel's music-more than 7,500 leaves in the composer's hand written over a perod of nearly fifty years. Works and movements for which autographs survive are identified, and essential information about the physical characteristics are recoded, including the watermark type for each leaf of paper, the types of rastra employed, and the presence of pencil annotations. All watermark types are illustrated with full-size diagrams.
Creator: Alison Castle
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 791.430233092
List Price: $200.00
Price: $567.81
Review The Stanley Kubrick Archives / Taschen:Stanley Kubrick The first book to explore Stanley Kubrick’s archives is also the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date Part 1: The films In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: "It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience…. I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. " The philosophy behind Part I borrows from this line of thinking: from the opening sequence of Killer’s Kiss to the final frames of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick’s complete films will be presented chronologically and wordlessly via frame enlargements. A completely nonverbal experience. Part 2: The Creative Process Divided into chapters chronologically by film, Part 2 brings to life the creative process of Kubrick’s filmmaking by presenting a remarkable collection of material from his archives, including photographs, props, posters, artwork, set designs, sketches, correspondence, documents, screenplays, drafts, notes, and shooting schedules. Accompanying the visual material are essays by noted Kubrick scholars, articles written by and about Kubrick, and a selection of Kubrick’s best interviews.
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