Trojan Goat: A Self-sufficient House (Urgent Matters)

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This detailed and fascinating text explores the twentieth century ceramic arts of R. Guy Cowan. Amply illustrated with over 1120 images in color and black and white, the book includes glaze and shape guides which assist the reader in identifying Cowan's pottery. Invaluable details are provided about Cowan's pottery and ceramic sculptural art, his professional history as a potter and a teacher, the various artists who worked closely with him and their pottery, the history of Cowan's potting firm, and his influence on the ceramic arts and upon Cleveland's artistic heritage. Additional information includes a study of Cowan's pottery marks and their dating, a 1929 price list of Cowan's pottery, museum holdings of interest to Cowan collectors, and a general price guide to Cowan pottery. An extensive bibliography and an index of proper names make the book invaluable for collectors and historians alike.

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The Best.......2003-10-01

This is the best book concerning a single pottery company that I have ever read. The scholarship, research and photography set this book apart from all other similar books. Not only is there an exhaustive history of Cowan and his company, but the material concerning the Cowan artists (many of whom have had outstanding careers apart form their work at Cowan) makes this an outstanding contribution to the history of the arts and crafts and early art deco movements.

COWAN POTTERY AND THE CLEVELAND SCHOOL WITH VALUES

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Manufacturer: Schiffer Books Atglen, PA
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I9S4S8

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Acting, direction, stagecraft, theater architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature--here is an all-embracing and richly illustrated history, worldwide in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the theater in the choral hymns sung around the altar of Dionysus to the fascinating variety of forms that it has taken in our own age. For this revised edition, Enoch Brater has written a new chapter, taking into account contemporary movements in theater. He includes recent developments such as performance art, improvisation, and the so-called avant-garde that audiences associate with Robert Wilson, Mabou Mines, and the Wooster Group. There is also a look back at Chaikin and the Living Theatre, and the work of European directors such as Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, and Peter Stein.

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A Lot of Info in A Small Space.......1998-03-28

Perhaps this is a biased view of this book, having used it as a textbook in a College-Level Theatre course, but I fount that his book tries too hard to cram every little bit of information into the smallest amount of space possible, which makes it difficult to understand and/or retain what you have read. However, this book is definitely a good source of information for Theatre History and makes very good usage of the available graphics, which accompany the text nicely.

Experiencing the Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)

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Experiencing the Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)
William Missouri Downs , Wright , and Erik Ramsey
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This invigorating new introductory text makes timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of Hollywood television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to, predates, and influences the screen entertainment they are used to watching. From theatre's ritual origins to modern musicals, from the controversies surrounding the NEA to the applicability of acting lessons in everyday life, this book is an important first step toward a deeper awareness of theatre's continuing and contemporary significance. Featuring strong coverage of current events in theatre, the reviewer-praised anecdotal narrative makes this book fun to read and one that students will want to keep long after the course is over. THE ART OF THEATRE is organized into three distinct sections, giving you the flexibility to organize your course your way. Adding to this flexibility is the book's availability in two versions. THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW contains 16 chapters with extensive coverage of the history of theatre. EXPERIENCING THE ART OF THEATRE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION features 13 chapters and a briefer treatment of theatre history.

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Highlighting especially those shows that have entertained "most of the people most of the time, in most places where musical theater is played," Kurt Ganzl surveys the mainstream productions of the four principal areas that have been the most effective purveyors of hit musicals to the world's stages throughout the years -- France, Britain, America, and Austria/Hungary/Germany. In a lively and witty narrative that sweeps away some favorite preconceptions and historical distortions, Ganzl brings together the multiple strands of languages, genres, and styles in various eras and areas to provide an entertaining and instructive overview of musical theater history in all its glorious diversity.

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Why have comic strips endured? Since their inception at the end of the 19th century, they have been an institution worldwide. Here, freelance cartoonist and a well-known critic of comic art Robert C. Harvey explores the history of the art and literature of comics.

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A good book.......2007-07-27

In his seminal 1979 essay "The Aesthetics of the Comic Strips" ( in the Journal of Popular Culture) Robert Harvey argued that serious critical discussion of comics required an articulated theory of comic aesthetics. This volume, which opens with a reworked version of that essay, offers a history of comic strip art that flows from Harvey's two main premises:

1. Comics are unique in the way they "weave word and picture together to achieve narrative purpose" (p. 9).

2. The criteria for evaluating comic strips can be found in the history of the form because artists gave different ingredients of the form their finest expression in the "great" strips (pp. 11-12).

Although The Art of the Funnies covers many of the same artists as Richard Marschall's America's Great Comic-Strip Artists (Abbeville Press)- the usual suspects McCay, Herriman, Segar, Raymond, Caniff, and the rest - Harvey explains why and how individual strips were great. For instance, Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates stands out as much for Caniff's witty counterpoising of images and text as it does for his use of chiaroscuro techniques. One of the strengths of Harvey's account is that he draws his explanation out of the comic strips he reproduces in the volume rather than expecting his audience to acknowledge intrinsically that his favorite artists are great.

Harvey's careful argumentation sets him apart from other comic strip commentators. Whereas other writers seem to engage in conjecture and flights of fancy Harvey footnotes the sources for his opinions and explains his logic. I also find it refreshing to read a work on comics in which, as far as I can tell from my own research, every date is correct. Another of Harvey's accomplishments is to extend the social context in which comics developed beyond the usual accounts about the growth of newspaper chains and features syndicates. He cites the importance of copyright laws and the maturation of consumerism in the 1920s as crucial factors that shaped comic strips. Harvey's attention to these sorts of details make his book a convincing read.

The aesthetic sensibilities Harvey brings to his readings of comic strips made me wish he had tackled the issue of caricature and racial stereotypes in comic art. He briefly touches on this subject when discussing Mort Walker's introduction of a black character to Beetle Bailey, but a fuller examination seems in order. Martin Barker, in his Comics: Ideology, Power, & The Critics (Manchester University Press), dismissed comic art stereotypes as a non issue in a field where all representation is caricature, but a fuller discussion of this issue seems warranted. To return to Caniff what can we make of the Chinese sidekick Connie's language and visual representation compared to the mysterious sexuality of the other major Chinese character, the Dragon Lady. Harvey's suggestion that the strip's reader wanted sexy oriental women, and by extension Yellow Kid like Chinese cooks, and that presenting these characters gave the strip greater verisimilitude deserves further exploration.

I have two minor quibbles with Harvey. First I think a work of history should be written in the past tense and he slips into present tense for dramatic effect on too many occasions. Second, he suggests that the comic strip in America achieved a form and importance it did not attain elsewhere. While comics may have achieved such a status in America before they did in other countries, the French, British, Japanese, and Australians would have trouble with this statement.

Peddlers and Poets Abound.......2000-05-27

Once again R.C. Harvey has laid bare the skeletal structure of what makes comics a truly great medium of personal expression and artistic accomplishment. His insightful and often poignant anecdotes help bring the casual comics reader to a level of deeper appreciation and reverence for what many people regard as "kids stuff".

Most touching is his examination of George Herriman in Chapter 10. His ability so see beyond the surface "gags" and expose the boundless themes of love and pain truly make Herriman the metaphysical poet that Harvey titles him. Harvey's own observations are particualrly powerful and coalesque into not just an observation on the art of the funnies or the medium of comics in general, but serve as a reminder that all art is a personel expression and that these "comics" can be a bridge to a deeper understanding of human nature and American society.

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Confronting American Labor traces the development of the American Left, from the depression era through the Cold War, by examining representative intellectuals who grappled with the difficult question of labor's role in society. Coker examines the ways in which leftist intellectuals confronted the labor question after 1945 through the lives and works of four individuals who represent a cross section of postwar radicalism: Seymour Martin Lipset, C. Wright Mills, Sidney Lens, and Herbert Gutman.

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Interesting Book.......2004-08-17

I read this book because I'm interested in labor history. It was not what I expected--I think the title is a little deceiving. The book really is a work of political, or really intellectual, history. Coker's treatment of these intellectuals--Lens, Lipset, Mills, and Gutman--each read as stand-alone pieces. Each is an easy read and makes different points about the left. His criticism of Herbert Gutman is, I think, a little unfair, but also is the most interesting. The main point is that the intellectuals never really knew how to deal with the labor movement--I agree. If you are interested in political history or labor, this is worth a look.

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