The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde

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Amaze Your Friends With Your Knowledge of Modern Art!.......2006-11-24

Tomkins' five essays are a great place to start if you've ever wondered about the purpose behind the "avant-garde" in art and want a general overview of its origins. The chapter on Jean Tinguely is especially fine: it is hard to resist the story of a man who builds robots designed to continuously paint abstracts, start fires or simply destroy themselves. The book is well written, easy to read and contains a subtle sense of humor. Reading this book will make you more intelligent.

excellent art criticism for the neophyte.......1998-04-18

this book is a surprisingly accessible work on the lives of five important artists (duchamp, cage, tinguely, rauschenberg, and cunningham) of the avant-garde, each working from a different discipline. tomkins has gathered exhaustive biographical data on each artist and the reader gets the impression that he is good friends with each of them. his critical stance on the artwork discussed is respectful, and he refrains from using a lot of artworld jargon. a very entertaining read.

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Bachelor Style
Sally Griffiths
Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
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ASIN: 0312303998

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Bachelor Style showcases some of the most fabulous bachelor pads imaginablewhether a boat shed, a country shack, a high-tech apartment with state-of-the-art media and exercise equipment, a low-tech loft with boxing gym, a proper country house, or an exotic hideaway on a palm-fringed beach.Drawing on basic archetypal male characters from literature and filmthink Bogart, Wilde, and BondGriffiths explores the gamut of masculine style. From the lairs of clubbing playboys to the book-lined walls of Wall Street bankers, Bachelor Style reveals the truly glorious lives of todays single men.

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Corpus Crapus
Fairly unconvinced

Bachelors (October Books)
Rosalind Krauss
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 0262611651

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Since the 1970s Rosalind Krauss has been exploring the art of painters, sculptors, and photographers, examining the intersection of these artists' concerns with the major currents of postwar visual culture. These essays on nine women artists are framed by the question, born of feminism, "What evaluative criteria can be applied to women's art?" In the case of surrealism, in particular, some have claimed that surrealist women artists must either redraw the lines of their practice or participate in the movement's misogyny. Krauss resists that claim, for these "bachelors" are artists whose expressive strategies challenge the very ideals of unity and mastery identified with masculinist aesthetics. Some of this work (such as that of Louise Bourgeois or Cindy Sherman) could be said to find its power in strategies associated with such concepts as écriture feminine. Bachelors attempts to do justice to these and other artists (Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Louise Lawler, Francesca Woodman) in the terms their works demand.

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Corpus Crapus.......2005-05-08

Rosalind Krauss' theories have some merits, and if you are looking at a book that will drive you up the wall the entire time shouting at it-- read this. I would never allow my grad students to read this dribble.

Fairly unconvinced.......2001-04-13

I haven't read all of the essays in this book. I might not want to. I think I've read five of the eight and parts of two others. Overall, I have not been particularly impressed. My introduction to Krauss came in an essay she authored on James Coleman, which I read for a class in college. It was particularly sophisticated: employing ideas from Barthes and Benjamin, she touched on ideas about obsolesence and signifiers that fail to signify, and in doing so brought a fresh perspective to an artist I never understood. In short, Krauss took difficult art and made sense of it. Unfortunately, in this book, Krauss takes on the foundation of the feminist canon but refuses to do feminist readings of their work. In fact, she attempts to perform an overhaul not just of critical appreciation of Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Claude Cahun, etc., but attempts to dismantle feminist theory altogether. In the very weak essay on Cindy Sherman, Krauss overlooks obvious feminist elements of Sherman's imagery (how they mimic the form of the pornographic centerfold, for example) with some talk about the "fetishization of the vertical" and the "sublimation of the subject into the horizontal." Worse, she tries to undo Laura Mulvey's seminal essay on film theory by pointing out a few assumption's Mulvey makes. Krauss never fesses up to her own assumptions. It's not persuasive art criticism.

Basically, Krauss's method is always to locate in the art some formal element which can then be tied to a critical theoretical term. Thus, the horizontal is a rejection of "the fetishization of the vertical"; Sherrie Levine putting single objects in glass cases is an enactment of Deleuze's "machine". Krauss reveals how artists thematize critical theory rather than perform critical readings of the work. Thus, important artists for her are those who anticipate theoretical developments. Frankly, I think Krauss is attributing meaning to formal elements which do not inhere to the element itself. And how many times can an art critic point to multiplicity and a destabilizing of identity as "avante-garde" and subversive?

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Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren & the Lewes House Brotherhood
David Sox
Manufacturer: Fourth Estate
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1872180116

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Amazing book

A must read for all guys!

great, witty, useful for guys in their 20s and 30s

P.O.V. Living Large: The Guy's Guide to Getting Ahead, Getting It Right, and Getting by with Style
Randall Lane
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0062735217

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With P.O.V. Living Large in hand you can

Score a first-class airline ticket

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Select the quintessential jazz collection with Wynton Marsalis

Convert your medicine cabinet into an arsenal

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You've heard of it. Your strive for it. But how to achieve it? Full of tips, shortcuts, need-to-know information, consider P.O.V. Living Large your compass and sexton to this exalted state of guydom. Living large is about taking control, being in the know, side-stepping trail-and-error and cutting to the chase.

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Amazing book.......2000-03-28

This book is by far the best of the men's guides out there. Organized well, concise, yet complete, it offers advice on everything from preparing a bar to how to make money in the stock market to how to handle the awkward situation when your girlfriend asks you if she's overweight. A must-have.

A must read for all guys!.......1999-10-02

I thought this book was very insightful and gave me some information that I will find helpful some day. It also was orgznized by subject which made it flow more consistently.

great, witty, useful for guys in their 20s and 30s.......1998-11-11

Similar to POV magazine, this is a helpful, well-written guide to just about anything a guy might not think of but could use in the way of getting the most out of life. Really great...

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The abundant variety of flowers is a never-ending source of inspiration for all artists. Whether it's the graceful shape of a tulip or the cheerful colors of a daffodil, each flower has its own unique beauty. The Flower Painter's Essential Handbook teaches readers how to find that beauty, and features:

-50 of today's most popular flowers, from azaleas to water lilies

-Step-by-step instructions that show artists how to capture the exact qualities of each flower

-Helpful suggestions for customizing projects to the artist's individual style

-A "getting started" section that covers basic materials, techniques and colors for beginning artists

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The Watercolour Flower Painter's Handbook
Julia Rowntree
Manufacturer: Search Press Ltd
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ASIN: 1844480437

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In this innovative study of the rise of the conservation ethic in northern New England, Richard Judd shows that the movement that eventually took hold throughout America had its roots among the communitarian ethic of countrypeople rather than among urban intellectuals or politicians. Drawing on agricultural journals and archival sources such as legislative petitions, Judd demonstrates that debates over access to and use of forests and water, though couched in utilitarian terms, drew their strength and conviction from deeply held popular notions of properly ordered landscapes and common rights to nature.

Unlike earlier attempts to describe the conservation movement in its historical context, which have often assumed a crude dualism in attitudes toward nature--democracy versus monopoly, amateur versus professional, utilitarian versus aesthete--this study reveals a complex set of motives and inspirations behind the mid-nineteenth-century drive to conserve natural resources. Judd suggests that a more complex set of contending and complementary social forces was at work, including traditional folk values, an emerging science of resource management, and constantly shifting class interests.

Common Lands, Common People tells us that ordinary people, struggling to define and redefine the morality of land and resource use, contributed immensely to America's conservation legacy.

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This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely. Its unified framework illuminates many famous economic examples and models.

This work also emphasizes the connection between optimal control theory and the classical themes of capital theory. It offers a fresh approach to fundamental questions such as: What is income? How should it be measured? What is its relation to wealth?

The book will be valuable to students who want to formulate and solve dynamic allocation problems. It will also be of interest to any economist who wants to understand results of the latest research on the relationship between comprehensive income accounting and wealth or welfare.

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Stands the test of time

Read this in a quiet place

The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective
Stanley Stein , and Barbara H. Stein
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195012925

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Stands the test of time.......2003-07-10

This book is perhaps the finest, most concise single volume in English on the subject of colonial Latin America. It is probably a tough read for undergraduates, but it is a great source for professors!

Read this in a quiet place.......2002-10-21

I had to read this book for a history course. I would suggest to everyone who reads this book to do so in a quiet place with no distractions. Keep a dictionary handy. There is so much information that you should read this one section at a time. For those of you doing a research project it is a good book to have. Lots of interesting statistics but not fun to read.

The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective

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The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective
Stanley J. & Barbara H. Stein
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA5SH6

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The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective

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ASIN: 0195001168

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The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective
Stanley J. and Stein, Barbara H. Stein
Manufacturer: Oxford U. Press
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