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Book De*ion "Nineteen forty-six was agood time — perhaps the best time — in the twentieth century. Thewar was over and there was a terrific sense of coming back, ofrepossessing life. Rents were cheap, restaurants were cheap, and itseemed to me that happiness itself might be cheaply had." Broyard made his first bid for happiness by moving in with a youngpainter, the difficult and challenging Sheri Donatti — a protegeeof Anais Nin — who never wore underpants and who "embodied the newtrends in art, sex, and psychosis." Broyard tells their story; byturns comic and poignant, while describing along the way hismeetings with Caitlan and Dylan Thomas, Delmore Schwartz, DwightMacDonald, Maya Deren, William Gaddis, and other writers andartists just beginning their careers. He opens a bookstore onCornelia Street ("If it hadn't been for books we would have beenentirely at the mercy of sex. Books steadied us, they gave usgravity."). He goes to the New School and listens to Eric Fromm,Karen Horney and Meyer Shap

Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles is one of the pioneers in Britishphotography. Compiled by his grandson from previously unpublishedglass negatives, this collection is a beautiful portrayal ofEdwardian life in England in the early 1900s.

Following independence in 1947, Indias artists faced aparticular challenge: how to express the new nations distinctivecharacter while entering a global discourse focused on modernismsuniversal premises of experimentation and shared human values. Inthe absence of a dominant aesthetic, painters could turn where theywished and blend as they liked from Abstract Expressionism toTantric spiritualism; from Rajasthani painting to changes in Indiascomplex politics, religions, castes and daily life. This richlyillustrated, in-depth study, published to accompany the exhibitionorganized by the Peabody Essex Museum in the USA, surveys the threegenerations of artists responsible for these critical shifts in thedevelopment of Indias modernist art. It shows how theirachievements and the countrys unprecedented boom ushered Indiasmodern and contemporary art into a new era of globalism, a soaringinternational market, and an explosion in the media andtechnologies of art.

Up-to-the-minute information on Billboard's hottest hits Back ina fully revised and updated fourth edition with eighty extraall-new pages, "Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits" is the veneratedand reliablesource of information on the most popular songs of ourtimes. Immensely entertaining, endlessly informative, and filledwith fascinating facts and figures on the biggest hits right up to2007, this is the ultimate music trivia book. Separate chapters aredevoted to artists, songwriters, producers, labels, years, andsubjects. Within each chapter, readers will find fun-to-read,fun-to-share lists in 300 categories, including The Top 100 LoveSongs, The Top 50 Songs Written by Carole King, The Top 100 Songson Atlantic, The Top 100 Songs of 1999, and many more. A revisedand updated list of The Top 5,000 Songs of the Rock Era, plus achart and text section devoted to "American Idol" finalists, makethis book so hot it's cool.

The heart of Painters Wild Workshop is the presentation oftwelve gifted artists who take an unusual approach to their art.Readers are invited to workshop demonstrations, lecture sessions,and private lessons that encourage creative experimentation.Whether you are an accomplished artist, an aspiring artist, or anundiscovered artist, you will profit from the wealth of diverseexperiences, materials, and inspirations offered through thesewonderfully wild and creative methods. This is a book for painters,artists, and creative people of all types; its goal is to helpworking painters open up creativity, eliminate self-consciousness,and encourage true artistryeither in their current, chosen medium,or a completely new art medium.

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christianscholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science,and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s TheBasic Works of Aristotle –constituted out of the definitiveOxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover forsixty years–has long been considered the best available one-volumeAristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this editionincludes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The ShortPhysical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, OnGeneration and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, NicomacheanEthics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety.

W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet leastunderstood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboardsonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Scarlatti occupies a position ofsolitary splendour in musical history. The sources of his style areoften obscure and his immediate influence is difficult to discern.Further, the lack of hard documentary evidence has hinderedmusicological activity. Dr Sutcliffe offers not just a thoroughreconsideration of the historical factors that have contributed toScarlatti's position, but also sustained engagement with the music,offering both individual readings and broader commentary of anunprecedented kind. A principal task of this book is to remove thecomposer from his critical ghetto (however honourable) and redefinehis image. In so doing it will reflect on the historiographicaldifficulties involved in understanding eighteenth-century musicalstyle.

The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing isrepresentative of too many young black men in this country....If wehad lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relativelyunknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at25, we would have lost a hustler nicknamed Detroit Red. And if Ihad left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpetplayer and aspiring composer--just a sliver of my eventual lifepotential. From the Foreword by Quincy Jones The real story of Tupac's murder may not ever emerge. This maybe the only lasting testament to the many faces of Tupac Shakur--ofa life lived fast and hard, of a man cloaked in contradictions. Ayoung man who was just starting to come into his own. "I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. Soeverything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But inmy heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'mgoing to heaven." Tupac Shakur, June 1996

The development of Soviet realist painting over fifty years through a selection of works from Russias leading museums. Socialist Realism was and remains an exceptional phenomenon in twentieth century art. It bore the challenge of promoting realist figuration on a scale without parallel in the rest of the world, employing the talents of thousands of artists over decades and spreading over an immense and varied empire. By glorifying the social role of art, affirming the primary value of content as opposed to form and restoring the central role of traditional practices, socialist Realism was the declared opponent of the modern movement, and in fact represented the only completely alternative artistic system. Created by the great Russian artists (Deineka, Malevic, Adlivankin, Laktionov, Plastov, Brodskij, Korzhev) the works present a multiplicity of questions, themes and formal approaches to art spanning from the last phases of the civil war to the beginnings of the Brezhnev era, stopping at the early 1970

These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grewout of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange betweentwo of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: DanielBarenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, andEdward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentatoron the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said aPalestinian-American; they are also close friends. As they range across music, literature, and society, they openup many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place;music as a defiance of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozartand Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno; Wagner’s anti-Semitism; andthe need for “artistic solutions” to the predicament of the MiddleEast—something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab andIsraeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful andspontaneous, Parallels and Paradoxes is a virtuosiccollaboration.

本书首次向中国的读者展示中国观众对“土地‘的各种感受和反应，其中包括有留言、图片、文章等形式。 “从某种意义来说，《土地》是一项全球性项目，她是由地球上某一特定地区年龄各异的当地人民制造出来的。她由土制成、以火生成，其情感来自触摸，其思想来自观赏。”安东尼·葛姆雷的“土地”被认为是现代雕塑的经典作品。安东尼·葛姆雷是一位国际瞩目的艺术大师，自1989年，葛姆雷一直从事着一项与世界各国不同社区接触的长期项目———《土地》。为制造不同版本的《土地》雕塑，他游历了从巴西雨林到北欧等不同国家。 2003年1月，他与300多位不同年龄层次，来自广州东北部花都地区的市民一起，用了5天的时间，制造了近20万个小泥人，组成了大型雕塑巡展“土地”．

There are beautiful doodles, and there are fabulous doodles.This doodle book brings them into fashion! An ever-popular topicamong young girls, fashion continues to form our culture at large.Whether we design ourselves to fit in or stand out, this bookoffers over 100 pages full of creative prompts for innovativedesigns. Aspiring fashionistas—and anyone with a fascination forfabulous clothing and accessories—will be inspired to find theirown style and express it.

本书的照片都是从国家地理学会超凡的馆藏摄影档案中精心挑选出来的，时间跨越了一个多世纪，反映的题材遍及地球上的每一个角落，也涉及了摄影艺术的每一个层面。这些照片既反映了一些*摄影大师观察生活的独特视角，也代表了我们人类某些共同的情感追求和人性的张扬。 The Collectors Seriesedition of "In Focus" is simply the existing book at a smaller trimsize. This magnificent collection of 280 photographs by many of theworld's greatest photographers tells the tale of portraitphotography over time in page after page of arresting images. Eachphotograph stands proudly on its own, yet taken together, they tella much more complex and subtle story of the ever-evolving art formin constant creative response to new ideas, new eras, and newtechnologies.

Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, sevenGrammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His careerhas spanned more than half a century, his lyrics have becomesynonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and in Finishing the Hat —titled after perhaps his mostautobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park withGeorge —Sondheim has not only collected his lyrics for the firsttime, he is giving readers a rare personal look into his life aswell as his remarkable productions. Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to1981—including West Side Story, Company, Follies, A Little NightMusic and Sweeney Todd —Sondheim treats us tonever-before-published songs from each show, songs that were cut ordiscarded before seeing the light of day. He discusses hisrelationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and hiscollaborations with extraordinary talents such as LeonardBernstein, Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, AngelaLansbury, Harold Prince an

Nikolai Roerich was born on October 9th, 1874 inSaint-Petersburg. After studying law and attending the Academy ofArt, Roerich developed a passionate interest in archaeology, hiscontribution to which was acknowledged when he became a lecturer atthe Russian Archaeological Society in 1900. His extensive travelsin Europe, Russia, Asia, and especially India were a source ofinspiration wholly original and unique. The prolific creator ofover 7000 paintings, Roerich belonged to the great creative artmovement which took place in Russia before the Bolshevikrevolution. Besides his enormous artistic talent, Roerich was theauthor of the Pact which bears his name and which was designed toprotect the cultural heritage in time of war. After living a veryfull life, he died in the Kulu valley in India in 1947. Recognizedin 1923, there is a museum in New York devoted to him. He wrotenumerous books and collections of poetry, and contributed toartistic and archaeological journals. Roerich, with his huge andversatile talent