This book is a study of the figures and landscapes thatSargent painted from 1900 (after he was well established as one ofthe foremost portraitists of the age) through 1914 (and the arrivalof the Second World War).
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Greil Marcus's popular appreciation of his, and Bob Dylan's,favorite song--a book that Rolling Stone called "essentialinsight into the living history of rock roll." Greil Marcus has written the definitive biography of thegreatest pop single ever made. Recorded in Columbia's Studio A inNew York on 16 June 1965, "Like A Rolling Stone" was instantly ofits time-and so strong it has escaped time altogether. Themusicians gathered in the studio never managed a second successfulrecording: they caught it once and only once. Then it was gone,arguably never to be bettered in Bob Dylan's countless liveperformances of the song. Dylan's career as a folk singer--and the career imposed uponhim, his unwanted role as "voice of a generation"--had hit a wall.Marcus recreates the brilliantly competitive pop world of 1965, andthe energy, the anger, the thrill and the horror that Bob Dylanturned into a revolutionary six-minute single. Forty years later itremains the signal accomplishment of modern music. It