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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring three banks of striking photographs and a completely up-to-date bibliographic essay, this compact, enjoyable work will be highly appreciated by all students of U.S. business history and the art of administration."
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Anticipating how kids react to paintings by artists as diverse as Botticelli, Vermeer, Degas, Chagall, and Pollack, this resource for adults who want children to love and understand art prepares them for the types of questions kids ask. Providing parents and teachers with valuable tips for making any visit to a museum with children a success, this guide offers a great primer or refresher course on art history, allowing adults to...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"This course will take you around the world to look at and examine in depth some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient art. We will explore spectacular artworks from diverse places and times, starting with cave paintings that were made at the dawn of human creativity in the Paleolithic age to the contents of tombs and buildings, remarkable stone sculptures, and wrought gold and textiles that were made as recently as 600 years ago. Each of the...
7) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. Art is what we possess in the face of evil and the darker side of human nature. With the same mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Kundera revisits the artists who remain important to him and whose works help us better understand the world we live in and what it means to be human. An astute reader of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his 16 quartets for two violins, viola, and cello, Beethoven created a Mount Everest for string players and some of the most sublime, unforgettable music ever written. In this musically rich 24-lecture series, Professor Greenberg guides you in a deep encounter with these majestic works of art, offering you the rare opportunity to grasp the musical riches and spiritual greatness of the quartets in a clear and accessible way. You'll uncover the
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents, and ranging from residences to opera houses, influential buildings of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed consideration of their key characteristics - site and surroundings, space...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"More and more people are starting to discuss mental health in today's workplace and how finances affect our mental wellbeing. The lingering affects of the pandemic has lead to continuous and robust discussion on meaning and purpose leading to the Great Resignation. The news on the economy and job market are all in the minds of people who are thinking about money and its affect in their life"--
Transform your relationship with money into one that...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Masterclass (title will change) collects Harvey's Mackay's decades of business leadership in all-new pieces of common sense, wisdom, advice, humor, and candid, invaluable advice for employees, bosses, and entrepreneurs. The book is broken up into hundreds of shorter easily digestible entries. Sections include The ABCs of Selling; Adversity can be your best friend; Humility, success make good business partners; What they didn't teach you in business...
Author
Publisher
Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Veteran dance writer Robert Greskovic's comprehensive handbook on how to watch and appreciate the ballet is now available in this new edition. It includes a complete analysis of sixteen important and popular ballets, from Swan Lake to Twyla Tharp's Push Comes To Shove. As Mikhail Baryshnikov states in the book's foreword: "All the things that ballet fans talk about at intermission, while newcomers stand there wondering what they...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
"A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s Fontainebleau from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank. For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the chateau itself: a sprawling palace once the residence...
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