Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) is best-known for his "ready-mades"- such as the urinal, entitled "Fountain" and "signed" R. Mutt.This study tackles the enigma of this major 20th-century artist. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title.
The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site stillknown as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sortflourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. Buttheir discreet trade is upset when two employees of the SplendourRefuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer SilvioLuparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceasedin flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death fromnatural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But InspectorSalvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing tofools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is notready to close the case - even though he's being pressured byVigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through alabyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendettafirepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can berelied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of thematter.
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings. Many contemporaries found his expressive nudes and self-portraits, with their strange movements and morbid colours, to be ugly and even morally objectionable - criticism which culminated in criminalizing the painter as "obscene" and resulted in 1912 in an indictment and short jail sentence. However, not even his harshest critics could dispute however the artist's extraordinary drawing talent.
Coulmissioned via an anonymous letter delivered by anunknown messenger,Mozart's Requiem has haunted audiences and fueled myths for centuries. Legendsrecount the composer's premonitions of his untimely death amid his feverish attempts to complete the Requiem. A work of emotional power and dark fury, it evokes the pathos and injustice of dying young. The sublime beauty of its form, an elevated and exalted style of sacred music, provides the ultimate voice to the composer's genius. This affordable piano-vocal version of the Requiem is ideal for rehearsals and perform-ances as well as following along with recordings. It is reproduced from an authoritative edition.
"The Terracotta Dog" opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with aMafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist,and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano gives to asecret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fiftyyears ago and still embracing are watched over by a life-sizeterracotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takeshim, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island'spast and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World WarII.Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garneredmillions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take onSicilian small-town life and his genius for deciphering the mostenigmatic of crimes. 'The novels of Andrea Camilleri breath out thesense of place, the sense of humour, and the sense of despair thatfill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to thatglorious, tortured island' - Donna Leon. 'Both farcical andendearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo and Chandler'sPhilip
The rigid, straight line is fundamentally alien to humanity,life and the whole of creation". Hundertwasser applied thisphilosophy not only to the famous Viennese buildings for which hewas renowned, but all the media and art-forms he has experimentedwith during his wild career. Whether it be painting, sculpture,performance art or designing a kindergarten, Hundertwasser's worksare multi-coloured, organic, and shot through with a sense of themagical or fantastic. However, Hundertwasser's art has alwayscontained a political shade. He has consistently rebelled againstrationalist or determinist ideas, promoted ecological awareness,and mantained a passionate belief in the anarchy of theimagination. In this retrospective, Pierre Restany covers all thebases of Hundertwasser's eclectic development as an artist, fromthe tenant revolt and nude lecture of the early 70s, through thehousing projects in Vienna, right up to his designs for analternative society.
随着移动通信技术的不断发展和普及，人们对移动对象管理的需求越来越迫切。移动对象管理成为数据库研究领域的一个热门方向，它在许多领域都展现了广阔的应用前景。《移动对象管理:模型、技术与应用》比较系统地介绍了移动对象管理的相关内容，即移动对象管理模型（包括移动对象建模、移动对象更新、移动对象索引等），移动对象管理技术（包括移动对象查询、移动对象预测、移动数据不确定性研究等），移动对象管理应用（包括动态交通导航、动态交通网络、移动对象聚类分析、位置隐私保护等）。 《移动对象管理:模型、技术与应用》总结了国内外有关移动数据管理的研究工作和具有代表性的关键技术，并较详细地介绍了作者近年来的一些研究成果，具有较大的参考价值。 《移动对象管理:模型、技术与应用》的读者对象为高等院校计算机专业
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Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico(1888-1978)was hugely influential in the early years of the Surrealist movement.His paintings during the teens in Paris,where he moved in 1911,caused such a stir that such important figures as Picasso and Paul Eluard immediately praised them.This phase of his work,which he later termed pittura metafisica(metaphysical painting)was marked by dramatic compositions involving sharp perspective,striking shadows,geometrical planes,voids of space,and a general feeling of anxiety and loneliness;the sense of absurdity evoked by the mannequin-like figures in almost nightmarish landscapes seemed to suggest a Freudian expression of the unconscious.After 1930,De Chirico turned to a more classical style of painting and continued in the same vein for the rest of his career;his later work was widely criticized,especially by the Surrealists who had so admired his early paintings.
"As a chronicler of natural history today, Frans Lanting is a singular extraordinary talent. He has the mind of a scientist, the heart of a hunter, and the eyes of a poet." National Geographic, Washington "This book is a personal interpretation of the penguins I met, rather than a natural history of all penguins," Frans Lanting writes. "I wanted to create an impression of who these penguins are and what they go through. I hope my work will be seen as an homage to the individual within them all." More bang for your buck! "...a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review"
"I maintain," stated Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), "that painting is clearly a concrete art whose existence lies only in the representation of real and existing objects...." Courbet, who influenced and advised the fledgling Impressionists, was an outstanding representative of a naturalistic realism that highlights the contradictions and inequities in society. Revolutionary were Courbet’s style, with dark hues and heavy brushstrokes, and choice of subject—depictions the life of plain people treated in an unsentimental, down to earth manner. His influence was enormous during his lifetime; he was offered the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1872 but he refused it. A man always at odds with authority, be it artistic or political, Courbet became a member of the Paris Commune and was briefly imprisoned and forced to flee to Switzerland for the final years of his life.
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According to legend, this monument of keyboard literature was written for 1 of Bach's students, who played it to soothe and entertain his insomniac master. Starting the theme with a stately Aria, the "Goldbergs" travel through 30 variations, exploring thematic possibilities while showcasing the composer's brilliant sense of motivic possibilities.
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universallyacclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flockto his retrospectives. His work shows art at its mostlight-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anythingugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictureswhich make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape,"he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it's a woman."Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women.Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their poutinglips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminity.
This illustratedsurvey of the work of Modigliani shows how he was regarded bycontemporaries as the very definition of a Parisian bohemian.Modigliani's style is seen as having roots in antiquity or Africa,and the text also brings to life the Parisian art scene of theearly 20th century.
