Publication date: 1993-05
Dewey code: 791.43028092273
Price: $38.50
Review Broken Silence: Conversations With 23 Silent Film Stars / McFarland & Company:
Publication date: 2004-05-01
Dewey code: 760.092
Review Private Journals of Edvard Munch, The: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth / James Bennett Pty Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-09
Price: $285.10
Review American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia / Greenwood Press:This state-by-state collection of folksongs describes the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states. Unlike all other state folksong collections, this one does not focus on songs collected in the particular states, but rather on songs concerning the life and times of the people of that state. The topics range from the major historical events, such as the Boston Tea Party, the attack on Fort Sumter, and the California Gold Rush, to regionally important events such as disasters and murders, labor problems, occupational songs, ethnic conflicts. Some of the songs will be widely recognized, such as "Casey Jones," "Marching Through Georgia," or "Sweet Betsy from Pike. " Others, less familiar, have not been reprinted since their original publication, but deserve to be studied because of what they tell about the people of these United States, their loves, labors, and losses, and their responses to events. The collection is organized by regions, starting with New England and ending with the states bordering the Pacific Ocean, and by states within each region. For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context. References to available recordings and other versions are given. Folksongs, such as those discussed here, are an important tool for historians and cultural historians because they sample experiences of the past at a different level from that of contemporary newspaper accounts and academic histories. [+]These songs, in a sense, are history writ small. Includes: Away Down East, The Old Granite State, Connecticut, The Virginian Maid's Lament,Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, I'm Going Back to North Carolina, Shut up in Cold Creek Mine, Ain't God Good to Iowa?, Dakota Land, Dear Prairie Home, Cheyenne Boys, I'm off for California, and others.
Publication date: 1993-08
Dewey code: 809
Price: $14.95
Review George Washington Never Slept Here: The History of Street Names in Washington, D.C. / Bonus Books:
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 782.421640922
Price: $85.00
Review Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll (Underground/Overground: Explorations in Popular Culture) / Continuum International Publishing Group:Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questioning the personal, social and political norms of their times. They emerge at a time when the music industry was moulding and packaging the revolutionary sound of black music into something bland, homogenous and fit for mass consumption, when populist politics had come to the fore with a serious division emerging between the values of young and old. For many disorientated and disillusioned members of this generation, Dylan and Cohen were able to articulate what they were feeling and could not express: Dylan the anti-establishment anger, Cohen the angst and despondency. Dylan and Cohen is a fascinating political, psychological and artistic profile of two iconic writers and performers. With reference to both biographical details and lyrics, David Boucher explores their similarities and differences, tracing the development of religious, political and social themes in their work and the ways in which those ideas engaged a new audience. He also looks at their poetic influences, using aesthetic ideas from Lorca, Collingwood and others to delve more deeply than previous commentators into the phases of their writing and to reveal their enduring influence on poetry and song, and the relationship between the two. A must-read for all serious fans of either Dylan or Cohen, this book will also engage anyone interested in 1960s America or more generally in the relationship between music, identity and politics.
Creator: Annette Kuhn
Publication date: 1995-07-01
Review Queen of the B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera (Cinema Voices) / Flicks Books:
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 868.6409
Price: $19.95
Review Conversations With Ilan Stavans / University of Arizona Press:For almost twenty years, Ilan Stavans—described by the Washington Post as "Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast"—has interviewed path-breaking intellectuals and artists in a wide range of media. As host of the critically acclaimed PBS series La Plaza, he interviews guests on pressing issues that affect the Western Hemisphere today, asking hard-hitting questions on immigration, religion, bilingualism, race, and democracy. This book collects for the first time in one volume Stavans’s most provocative and enlightening interviews with Hispanics from both sides of the Rio Grande. Spontaneous and surprising, these conversations reflect Latino life in the United States in all its facets. Among the more than two dozen selections, Edward James Olmos talks about Hispanics in Hollywood; John Leguizamo describes how he shapes a stage show; author Richard Rodriguez reflects on his gang background; Esmeralda Santiago takes on the Puerto Rican stereotype; and Piri Thomas shares thoughts on the writing of Down These Mean Streets. "A conversation is a tango," writes Stavans, "for it takes two to dance it. " Conversations with Ilan Stavans invites readers to catch the rhythm and enjoy these unique meetings of minds.
Creator: Kynaston McShine
Publication date: 2006-06-30
Dewey code: 709
Price: $286.25
Review Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul / Museum of Modern Art:
Authors
- Bob Boyer
- Carol Podedworny
- Daphne Odjig
Publication date: 2001-06-15
Dewey code: 759.11
Price: $29.95
Review Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 / Key Porter Books:Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 is a graceful blend of biography, essay, and critique which illuminates the importance of this gifted artist to the Canadian artistic community and provides art lovers with a rare glimpse into the extraordinary heart of this painter. Odjig confronts the themes of the aboriginal experience, her family dynamic, and her spiritual beliefs in her paintings, which are extremely personal. Collectors of her works are awed by her innovative use of traditional aboriginal symbols, which transcend the specific culture from which they come. In the early 1960s, her development of a recognizable "Odjig style" garnered her enough attention to make possible her first solo show in 1967. Odjig's reputation as an artist was growing internationally and her commissioned painting Earth Mother was displayed at EXPO '70 in Japan. Odjig's importance as a Canadian artist is immeasurable. Bob Boyer, a renowned Metis artist and lecturer, absorbingly explores in his preface the place of Native art in the broader spectrum of Canadian culture, in order to provide a more in-depth perspective on Odjig's significance. Pamela Krueger, an award-winning appreciator of Canadian art, discusses in the introduction the course of Odjig's life and career and places her art into its cultural context.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1984-01-01
Dewey code: 785.110924
Price: $60.95
Review Mahler, Consciousness and Temporality / Gordon and Breach Science Publishers:
Creator: Arthur Osley
Publication date: 1972-07-30
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $345.00
Price: $345.00
Review Luminario: An Introduction to the Italian Writing-books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Hes & De Graff Pub B V:The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th-and 17th century Italian writing-books. "This is a brilliant and fascinating book" (Reynolds Stone in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts March 1974). "A. S. Osley has written an admirably level-headed introduction to the study of these masters of writing" (Times Literary Supplement). "Here is a handsome book for the student of calligraphy, but it is also an enduring document for the history of writing" (Lawrence S. Thompson in 'The American Book Collector' 23,4, 1973). With 116 full-size facsimiles, and 13 vignettes, portraits and motifs.
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $40.00
Price: $279.77
Review Everyday Life in Holland's Golden Age (Studies in Dutch Graphic Art III) / Primavera Pers:
Publication date: 2006-02-28
Dewey code: 700.92
List Price: $40.00
Price: $285.81
Review William Wegman: Video Works / Addison Gallery of American Art:This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegman’s art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world. A pioneer video-maker, conceptualist, performer, photographer, painter, draftsman, and writer, Wegman moves fluidly among various media: from conceptual works to commissioned magazine shots; from videos shown in museums to television segments made for Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live; from artist’s books parodying nineteenth-century naturalist studies to children’s books revealing tongue-in-cheek portraits of town and country life; from photographic “landscapes” employing his canine muses to his most recent cycle of landscapes combining found scenic souvenir postcards with drawing, collage, and painting. Underlying all his creations is the light humor of “funny” mediating the darker human comedy of “strange. ” Speaking to the absurdities of daily life, Wegman’s work is universally appealing. William Wegman: Funney—Strange is illustrated with some 250 images. It is the first retrospective volume to consider the artist’s entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and is an essential book for any fan of Wegman’s work. (20061009).
Publication date: 2000
Dewey code: 920
Price: $15.00
Review Aldus Manutius: Printer and Publisher of Renaissance Venice (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 214) / Mrts:Aldus Manutius (1449-1515) was a member of the Manuzio family, founders of the Aldine Press. Under his direction, the press undertook a vast program of making the written remains of Greek antiquity widely and systematically available to the scholarly public of Renaissance Europe. In addition, Aldus printed many Latin and Italian texts in cheaper formats in the famous Aldine italic typeface. In commemoration of the quincentenary of Aldus's first publication, this study, copublished with the British Library, introduces the "prince of printers" in his various guises-as scholar, businessman, editor, and typographer. The beautifully reproduced illustrations are drawn largely from Aldines in the unrivaled collection of the British Library.
Creator: Christoph Wolff
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $35.00
Price: $280.25
Review The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents / W W Norton & Co Inc:Reveals the life and career of Johann Sebastian Bach through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records relating to his personal and professional life.
Creator: Dennis Kennedy
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 792.03
List Price: $368.00
Price: $299.36
Review The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance: Two volumes / Oxford University Press, USA:From ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in stage design, from the trance-dances of Sumatra to an extensive biography of the legendary actor-manager Eleonore Duse, the Encyclopedia provides unrivaled information across the broad sweep of theatrical activity. The Encyclopedia's inclusive approach encompasses opera and film, dance and radio, and para-theatrical, non-dramatic performances including circuses and carnivals, and parades and public executions-providing truly extensive coverage from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. The Encyclopedia pays special attention to non-Western styles through articles on theatre and performance throughout the many countries and traditions of Asia and Africa. Numerous biographical entries cover the lives and work of major figures: actors, playwrights, directors, designer, company managers, and critics. A unique feature of the Encyclopedia is the series of articles on concepts, theories, and critical approaches, ranging from short definitions of terms like catharsis and monologue to more lengthy considerations of farce and tragedy. Race and theatre, the nature of acting, censorship, safety, special effects, and media and performance are all debated. In all, the 4,300 entries by renowned contributors remain accessible in language and approach and take advantage of the theoretical and historiographical developments in the field. The combination of rich detail and accessible language and style make The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance the resource of choice for readers interested in theatre and performance, from occasional playgoers to newspaper critics, students, and scholars.
Publication date: 1997-11-13
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: $80.00
Review D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge Biography) / Cambridge University Press:The final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Vence in 1930. Based on much new or unfamiliar material, it describes his travels in Ceylon, Australia, the USA and Mexico in an increasingly desperate search for an ideal community. With his return to Europe in 1925, there is a detailed account of his rediscovery of painting, his battle against censorship, and the vitality with which he resisted the debilitating effects of tuberculosis. Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley's Lover are usually seen as the literary landmarks of these years; but Lawrence also wrote remarkable novellas, essays, criticism, short stories and poems. Lawrence is revealed here not as the impotent and self-obsessed figure of popular legend, but as a man more complex, more humorous, and more exemplary in his resolute grappling with the central problems of life and death.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-07-01
Dewey code: 786.2092
List Price: $39.95
Price: $286.25
Review Interpreting Mozart / Routledge:At age 78, Paul Badura-Skoda is considered to be one of the great pianists of his generation, as well as an important scholar who has created definitive editions of many of the works of the Viennese masters, most notably Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. With his wife, the noted musicologist Eva Badura-Skoda, he wrote the highly influential Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard , first published in German in 1957, then in English and Japanese in 1962 and 1963, respectively. Long out of print, this important work has never been updated to reflect the last half-century of scholarship on Mozart's music. Now, the husband-and-wife team have tackled this project, producing an entirely new text that will serve students and scholars of keyboard literature and of the great composer. The book begins by addressing the problems associated with performing Mozart's piano music on "modern" instruments. It then moves through each element of performance-from dynamics to tempo and rhythm, articulation, ornamentation, embellishments, and cadenzas. Badura-Skoda is particularly well-known for his personal approach to performing these works, and his notes on how he both tries to rigorously recreate the composer's intentions while still inserting his own personality into each performance will be of great interest to students of the piano repertory. The book then addresses problems of "text" (scholarship on Mozart's scores), technical questions related to the piano itself, and how to play "continuo" (accompaniments that are indicated only by skeletal notation in the original scores). Finally, in an entirely new section, the pianist discusses four key works by Mozart, showing how the analysis of the book can be applied to practical examples. Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard takes a classic work and brings it freshly up to date. [+]It will stand as the definitive statement from a master pianist.
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 780
Price: $28.00
Review Death of a Bebop Wife / Cadence Jazz Books:
Creator: Robert Violette
Publication date: 1997-10-02
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $400.00
Price: $400.00
Review Words Of Gilbert & George, The / Violette Editions:The notoriously controversial statements, writings, manifesto art works and interviews of British duo Gilbert & George are collected here for the first time. Spanning nearly three decades, this unique anthology includes previously unpublished texts, passages from the rare editions Side by Side (1971) and Dark Shadow (1974), as well as conversations with Gordon Burn, Shere Hite, Wolf Jahn, Dave Stewart, and many others. More than 25 years of portraits of the artists by notable photographers such as Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, and Wolfgang Tillmans accompany the texts. This is a delightful compendium, revealing these artists' prodigious talent for creating paradoxes which, surprisingly, bring hope and passion to our century's neon rush. Signed and numbered, this slipcased limited edition includes a black-and-white self-portrait by Gilbert & George, which the artists hand-printed in their London studio. Signed and Numbered edition of 300 copies. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Robert Violette. Slipcased, 6. 5 x 9 in. /176 pgs / 170 color.
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