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| Author | : Joan Acocella |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2008-02-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0307275760 |
Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband’s suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading on the making of art—and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.
| Author | : Joan Ross Acocella |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780819567314 |
Mark Morris emerged in the 1980s as America's most exciting young choreographer. Two decades later, his position remains unchallenged. Morris was born in Seattle in 1956. His Mark Morris Dance Group began performing in New York in 1980. By the mid-eighties, PBS had aired an hour-long special on him, and his work was being presented by America's foremost ballet companies. Morris's dances are a mix of traditionalism and radicalism. They unabashedly address the great themes--love, grief, loneliness, religion, community--yet they are also lighthearted, irreverent, and scabrous. Joan Acocella's probing portrait is the first book on this brilliant and controversial artist. Written with Morris's cooperation, it describes how he has lived and how he turns life--and music and narrative--into dance. Including 78 photographs, Mark Morris provides an ideal introduction to the life and work of one of America's leading artists.
| Author | : Joan Ross Acocella |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780803210462 |
Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition rather than a firm political agenda.
| Author | : Alex Ross |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 706 |
| Release | : 2007-10-16 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
| Author | : Isadora Duncan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Unquestionably brave, creative, and erudite, the free spirit Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) captivated the American, European, and Soviet cultural scenes with her innovative modern dance and un-self-conscious lifestyle.
| Author | : Wendy Perron |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0819574090 |
Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts in the dance world since the 1960s. She surveys a wide range of styles and genres, from downtown experimental performance to ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House. In opinion pieces, interviews, reviews, brief memoirs, blog posts, and contemplations on the choreographic process, she gives readers an up-close, personalized look at dancing as an art form. Dancers, choreographers, teachers, college dance students—and anyone interested in the intersection between dance and journalism—will find Perron's probing and insightful writings inspiring. Through the Eyes of a Dancer is a nuanced microcosm of dance's recent globalization and modernization that also provides an opportunity for new dancers to look back on the traditions and styles that preceded their own.
| Author | : Charles A. Riley (II.) |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780874517422 |
A multidisciplinary look at the role of color in contemporary aesthetics.
| Author | : Paul A. Scolieri |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0199331065 |
In January 1969, just months before the Stonewall Riots, Ted Shawn (1891-1972) wanted to tell a story about how his life, writings, and dances contributed to the rapidly evolving gay liberation movement around him. Shawn died before he was able to put forth a candid account about how he, the "Father of American Dance," was homosexual, but he scrupulously archived his correspondence, diaries, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the full significance of his choreography would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances tells that story.
| Author | : Patrick Bringley |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2024-10-29 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1982163313 |
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
| Author | : Eliot Weinberger |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780811218344 |
Presented at the PEN World Voices Festival as a "post-national" writer, Eliot Weinberger is "a sparkling essayist" (Confrontation), and his writings "a boundary-crossing, shape-shifting cabinet of curiosities" (The Bloomsbury Review).
