《不朽的小提琴家》再现了历史上不朽小提琴家的魅力，简要而有趣地叙述其生活、个性与事业。作者就他们对作曲者、公众品味的影响以及演奏技巧的贡献等各个方面，讲述了这些小提琴家的特殊成就。 作者玛格丽特·坎贝尔参阅了大量的书信和私人文件，并且访问许多著名音乐家，很多人为《不朽的小提琴家》提供了从未发表过的回忆录和珍贵照片。 《不朽的小提琴家》是一本献给音乐会听众、唱片收藏者（有“唱片目录”）、弦乐演奏者和学生等所有爱好小提琴演奏艺术者的书。

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《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》内容简介：沉香以其浓郁的香味、独特的药用价值历来为人们所钟爱，沉香工艺品的收藏古已有之。《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》由沉香研究专家任刚先生主编，对沉香的分类、沉香的功用、沉香的收藏史，以及沉香摆件的制作工艺进行了深入浅出的叙述，对初涉沉香的收藏爱好者大有裨益。

Tradition has it that the young American republic had anatural affinity with the 17th-century Dutch oligarchy--they sharedconcepts of democracy, religious freedom, the rise of the middleclass, and a protestant work ethic. Bostonians from the 18thcentury to the present have turned this affinity into a passion forcollecting Dutch painting. Landscapes that capture the subtletiesof southern light, cityscapes and church interiors, seascapes,portraits, genre scenes, and still lifes are among the humble,precious, everyday subjects that have appealed to them. This booktraces the history of Boston's remarkable collection of Dutchpainting, including little-known works by Rembrandt, Balthasar vander Ast, Jan van der Heyden, and Jacob van Ruisdael, bringingtogether works from private collections usually seen only in theirowner's homes. Essay by Ronni Baer. Artists include: Balthasar van der Ast,Franz Hals, Jan van der Heyden, Rembrandt, Jacob Ruisdael.

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

With unparalleled access to FIFA's collection of televisedfootage, artist Robert Davies has scrutinized every World Cuptournament since 1932 to uncover the key moments, or 'epiphanies',from the world's most popular sporting event. These sublime momentshave been carefully captured in more than 100 highly originalphotographs that provoke memories of each match that are far moreevocative than the final score or the names of the winninggoal-scorers.

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.

Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up withzealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . andheap aspersions and ridicule upon people who dare to place theirallegiances above our own. In Rock and Roll Cage Match, today’sleading cultural critics, humorists, music journalists, andmusicians themselves take sides in thirty of the all-time juiciest“who’s better” musical disputes. Marc Spitz on the Smiths vs. the Cure: “If the Smiths are its JamesDean, the Cure are the Marlon Brando of modern rock.” Gideon Yago on Nirvana vs. Metallica: “Here is why Nirvana willalways be a better band than Metallica. It’s not because they hitharder (they do). It’s not because they are tighter (they’redefinitely not). . . . It’s because Metallica is fundamentallyabout respecting rules—of metal, of production, of technicality—andNirvana is about breaking those rules down in the pursuit ofinnovation. Metallica was metal. Nirvana was something else.” Touré on Michael Ja

Stanley Spencer was the most intensely local of all greatartists, and his native village of Cookham was a central source ofinspiration. Yet he was far from parochial, and woven into DuncanRobinson's account of the artist's career is a just appreciation ofhis greatness and of his place in the wider context of Europeanart. This book celebrates both the range and the powerfulindividual quality of Spencer's achievements as a religiousvisionary, war artist, portrait painter and landscapist.

Everybody loves chocolate and this delicious book contains eighty heavenly recipes including cakes,puddings, ice cream, sauces, sweets, cookies, and drinks.There are favorites such as Rich Chocolate Ice Cream,Chocolate Pecan Pie, and Feather Light Tiramsu, as well as sophisticated delights such as Chocolate Brandy Creams, Chocolate and Lemon Bread Pudding, and Honey Chocolate Fondue. Each recipe has step-by-step instructions, illustrated by full-color photography, making it easy to prepare sweet chocolate treats to impress your friends and family, all year round!

The National Design Museum in New York is one of thelargest repositories of design in the world, with a collection ofnearly a quarter of a million objects such as typewriters, teapots, architectural renderings, lace, wallpaper sample books andposters. This celebration of the Museum's 100th anniversary, drawson its experience of a century of collecting, documenting andstudying design. It also displays thousands of the Museum's mostprized exhibits. The collection is divided into four curatorialareas: applied arts and industrial design, textiles, wall coveringsand drawings and prints, each overseen by a curatorial teamresponsible for its care, documentation and interpretation. Eachsection is accompanied by explanatory notes from the Museum'scuratorial team. --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.

The intimate story of one of the great American bands of ourtime, creators of the controversial masterpiece "Yankee HotelFoxtrot" When alt-country heroes-turned-rock-iconoclasts Wilcohanded in their fourth album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," to the band'slabel, Reprise, a division of Warner Brothers, fans looked forwardto the release of another challenging, genre-bending departure fromtheir previous work. The band aimed to build on previous sales andcritical acclaim with its boldest and most ambitious album yet, butwas instead urged by skittish Reprise execs to make the record more"radio friendly." When Wilco wouldn't give, they found themselveswithout a label. Instead, they used the Internet to introduce thealbum to their fans, and eventually sold the record to Nonesuch,another division of Warner. Wilco was vindicated when the albumdebuted at No. 13 on the "Billboard" charts and posted the band'sstrongest sales to date. "Wilco: Learning How to Die" traces theband's story to its deepest origins in Southern Illino

Inside this book, readers will find 200 imaginativesuggestions from 56 artists, along with intriguing paintings--inwatercolor, oil pastel, acrylic, and other popular media--that willjump-start their imaginations and lead them to fresh new subjectsand a thrilling sense of creative adventure.

Public monuments to significant individuals or to politicalconcepts are all too familiar. But the notions underlying them arenot so obvious. Sergiusz Michalski traces the history of the publicmonument from the 1870s, when erecting them became an artistic,political and social pre-occupation, to today when the distinctionbetween public monuments and public sculpture is increasinglyblurred. The author shows how, in its golden age – up until 1914 –the public monument served the purpose of both education andlegitimization. The French Third Republic, for example, envisagedthe monument as a symbol of bourgeois meritocracy. In more recentdecades, the public monument has been charged with the task ofcommemorating and symbolizing one of humankind's most terriblecatastrophes - the Holocaust. Today, although the artistic failureof countless European war memorials has signaled the beginning ofthe demise of the public monument in the West, it continues toflourish elsewhere, commemorating despotic leaders from Ki

"The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell"unveils the secrets to climbing the charts and reaching success intoday's ultracompetitive music industry. Eric Beall supplies hisfirsthand knowledge of today's record business, as well asinterviews with successful writers, producers, and executives fromthe worlds of pop, hip-hop, country, adult contemporary, and RandB.The result: a proven approach to constructing songs that opendoors, create careers, and communicate to listeners around theworld. Key areas explored include: -How does a song become ahit?-What makes a song a single?-Is there a formula for creating ahit? Fun and practical exercises provide opportunities to honeskills and expose specific talents, helping songwriters combinetheir unique voices to the demands of the commercial marketplace.Filled with fresh ideas that will spark beginners and veteransalike, this book will lead the way toward the industry's ultimatechallenge: the creation of that chart-topping hit song.

It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behindthe most-enduring works of literature in the English language,perhaps in any language. Who was the man behind Hamlet? Whatpassion inspired the sonnets, whose words were so powerful that“not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlivethis powerful rhyme"? In Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom, criticallyacclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk pulls off an astounding feat,humanizing the Bard who for centuries has remained beyond ourgrasp. Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching theauthorship question, and if the plays were discovered today, heargues, we would see them for what they are--shocking politicalworks written by a court insider, someone with the monarch'sindulgence, shielded from repression in an unstable time of armadaand reformation. But the author's identity was quickly swept underthe rug after his death. The official history--of an uneducatedmerchant writing in near obscurity, and of a virginal queen ma

The beloved poet-statesman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play whichoffers something for every reader. Based on the story of Job, thisdrama in verse tells the story of a twentieth-century Americanbanker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his familyand wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God. J. B. won thePulitzer Prize for drama in 1959 and the Tony Award for best play.More important, the play sparked a national conversation about thenature of God, the meaning of hope, and the role of the artist insociety.

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