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Experience The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, the author explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. "Experience" deconstructs the changing literary scene, too, including Amis's portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves.
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins The classic big bang theory is great at describing what happened after the bang. Yet until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the big bang theory couldn't answer, including: What made the big bang BANG in the first place? If matter can be neither created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Why can we only see a minute part of the mega-universe? Guth's startling theory states that in the billion-trillion-trillionth of a second before the big bang, there was a period of hyper-rapid "inflation" that got the big bang started. Inflation modifies our picture of only the first small fraction of a second in the history of the universe, and then it joins onto the standard big bang theory, preserving all of the successes of the older theory.
Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star Gazer "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last". An epic-scale, brilliant and compelling saga, inspired by a brief passage in "Moby Dick", chronicles the life of Captain Ahab's wife. Selected by "Time" as one of the five best novels of 1999. Illustrations throughout.
Theo Van Gogh 1857-1891 It is striking that almost everything we know about Vincent van Gogh is derived from the correspondence between Vincent and his brother Theo. This fact alone justifies an exhibition on Theo van Gogh, an exhibition that also gains importance from the leading role he played in the European art world in the last quarter of the previous century. A more worthy opening of the new wing of the Van Gogh Museum is hardly conceivable. The Theo van Gogh exhibition and the Van Gogh Museum with its new wing stand for allure and innovation, for daring and quality. Theo van Gogh is chiefly known as the self-effacing yet amiable younger brother of Vincent. But Theo was more than simply the brother who provided Vincent with the means to develop as an artist: he supported other painters, collected art and tirelessly devoted himself to promoting other artists in his capacity as an art dealer. While working for the Parisian art dealers Goupil & Cie., Theo found himself at the heart of the French art world in the 1880s. He dealt on a daily basis in best-selling art, by artists such as members of the Barbizon School, and works by innovative painters such as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Although Theo was not an artist himself, his legacy is highly visible. Without Theo's efforts as an art dealer and collector the Van Gogh Museum would not exist; other collections; both public and private; would also be considerably leaner. Using works in various media by a range of artists, and documentation never previously displayed, this record of the Theo van Gogh exhibition will provide a unique survey of Theo's life, and a lively portrait of European painting in the second half of the 19th century.
From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography Nancy Newhall was one of those rare people, a gifted writer willing to devote her great talents to photography and to its most inspired practitioners. Aristotle may have been the first to link light, vision, and soul. Nancy was one of the historic few who successfully articulated how this can be done through photography, through genius. The work she was engaged in was both a challenge and an adventure just after the end of World War II. Most of this century's greatest American photographers were alive and working; Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Brett Weston, Minor White, and Ansel Adams. Nancy and her brilliant husband, Beaumont Newhall, were all too aware that these artists had few avenues to the public, either through exhibitions or publication. They knew that a foundation of excellent criticism was essential for the appreciation of the artists' work, and indeed for an understanding of the potential of the medium itself. Beaumont, of course, went on to become photography's foremost historian while Nancy devoted her energies and skills to critical and biographical studies. To read this volume of her selected writings is to encounter a sensitive witness to the unfolding of a great art form. Through her lucid prose she extends the possibilities of seeing and of inner illumination. At all times, she is a superb prose stylist and a delight to read.
Innovation Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography 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. |
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Selected Non-Fictions "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 |
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