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In 1947 Edwin Land introduced the first instant photographic process. As the founder of Polaroid Corporation, he hired numerous artists, including Ansel Adams, Minor White, and William Clift, to test and analyze the cameras and films that engineers created in the laboratory. Thus began a historic a historic collaboration between the worlds of science and art, encouraging both technological inquiry and creative innovation. Emerging and established photographers received Polaroid products, and in exchange the corporation acquired exhibition-quality photographs. In the late 1960s, the Polaroid Collection was officially founded. The works in Innovation/Imagination are all selected from the Polaroid Collection. Included here are more than 80 colorplates of Polaroids by such diverse artists as Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Nancy Burson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chuck Close, Lucas Samaras, and William Wegman. Their photographs display the artistic inventiveness and technical achievement made possible by Polaroid film and present an overview of the past 50 years in photography.
"Borges, the great Argentinian writer, was born 100 years ago this year, and to mark the occasion, Viking is publishing a three-volume English-language edition of his works. Collected Fictions (1998) and Selected Poems appeared previously and is now followed by a compilation of nonfiction. The introduction notes that Borges was 'sworn to the virtue of concision,' and the essays, prologues, book and film reviews, lectures, and other occasional pieces gathered here demonstrate that characteristic perfectly. The entire span of Borges' writing career is represented. That he was at home in erudition is well known, but that he also was well versed in popular culture will amaze many readers. (His history of the tango brings up interesting points.) Some of the best writing in the book are the 'Capsule Biographies,' each a page in length and beautifully highlighting such writers as Isaac Babel and T. S. Eliot. A trenchant assessor even of politics, Borges in one essay refers to Hitler as 'this atrocious offspring of Versailles.' Unforgettable eloquence."--Booklist
"Laurence Leamer has the virtue of a lucid, compelling narrative style, a feeling for history, and a wonderful eye for the telling detail. In this companion to his vivid portrait of the lives of the Kennedy women, he sees the whole tapestry of the Kennedy men with their magnificent obsessions, and at the start of a new century he reproduces the Kennedy family saga with a mix of compassion, accuracy, intelligence, and great human insight; unputdownable!" Nigel Hamilton, author of JFK: Reckless Youth "Laurence Leamer is a great writer and storyteller, but he is also a careful, balanced, and evenhanded historian. He spent a significant amount of time at the Kennedy Library researching primary sources. For example, in his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he actually listened to the ExComm tapes rather than depend on published transcripts. This is an honest account of a remarkable, perhaps unique, American political family whose influence will undoubtedly continue well into the twenty-first century." Dr. Sheldon M. Stern, historian
Capturing the essence of a ferociously gifted woman, "Frida" is a daring and brilliantly inventive novel about one of the most celebrated female artists of the 20th century. The story will soon be immortalized in the upcoming film starring Salma Hayek.
Ignatius of Loyola; knight and saint, mystic and ascetic, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits); was one of the most influential and most complex figures in Western Christianity. This book, written by a psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, is the first work to investigate the inner life of Ignatius and the psychological motivations for the particular forms his spirituality and mysticism took.
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975 In Reporting Vietnam the work of over 50 remarkable writers captures firsthand the bravery, cruelty, suffering, and sorrow of a tragic conflict. Following events from the first American fatalities in 1959, through the 1968 Tet Offensive, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, and gathering writers as disparate as David Halberstam and Hunter S. Thompson, Malcolm W. Browne and Michael Herr, Tom Wolfe and Gloria Emerson, this unique collection records the shifting course of the war, its impact on a fractured America, and the changing texture of American journalism. |
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From David to Ingres: Early 19th-Century French Artists The early 19th century was among the most exciting and dramatic of political and artistic eras in French history. During the French Revolution and its aftermath, as painters and sculptors were employed as weapons of propaganda, Paris became the artistic capital of Europe. In this unique treatment of this extraordinary period, more than 300 in-depth biographies examine the lives and works of those who brought Neo-classicism to its height, and those who rebelled against this academic ideal with the birth of Romanticism, from David to Ingres to Delacroix and Gericault. With further articles on Realist and Barbizon painters whose works anticipated those of the Impressionists, this is a fascinating guide to a revolutionary period of artistic activity.
In 1951, Jacques Barzun, W. H. Auden, and Lionel Trilling joined together to form the editorial board of the Readers' Subscription Book Club. Thus began a venture unique in the annals of American culture. Never before or since have three such eminent intellectuals collaborated to bring books to the attention of the general public. Now, a half century later, A Company of Readers tells the story of this extraordinary partnership and presents for the first time a selection of essays from the publications of the Readers' Subscription Book Club and its successor, the Mid-Century Book Society. As they composed their comments to club members, these distinguished editors freely shared with each other their notes and drafts. The result is criticism of the highest order: smart, humane, learned -- in short, stuff that makes for damn good reading. And because these pieces were written for the general public by men who knew that books still mattered, perhaps no other collection of essays gives so natural and vivid a picture of the cultural landscape at midcentury. Together, Auden, Barzun, and Trilling would plunge into a pile of books and pick out what they liked, what they thought would instruct and delight. What they chose may surprise you. Here is Auden on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, Barzun on Virginia Woolf's Writer's Diary, and Trilling on Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Each book, whether weighty or light, summoned from the editors a spirited appraisal, in language that welcomed any kind of reader. The Mid-Century club disbanded in 1963, but its legacy lives on in these pages. A Company of Readers is essential to admirers of this illustrious trio, and it offers a window on an America in which books took center stage.
One Sunday morning, Nick Blud, a successful Boston physician, is home in bed when he receives a phone call from Ada Kruk, the mother of a boyhood friend. Ada summons Nick back to his old Ukranian-American New Jersey neighborhood, where something unspeakable has just happened--exactly what, no one is willing to say. To find out, Nick sets off on a journey through the past, his own as well as that of Ada's son, Alex, who long has struggled to escape his family's legacy of violence. A harrowing tale about friendship and love, America and the immigrant's dream, Ambassador of the Dead introduces Ada Kruk, a mother like no other, at once Mary and Medea, Sarah and Medusa. A study of ambitions gone awry and appetites too easily gratified, this novel is also an unflinching meditation on exile and assimilation and the price of love. |
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Innovation Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography
Selected Non-Fictions
The Kennedy Men
Frida
Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint
A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and ...
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