Arteffects (Practical Art Books)

Arteffects (Practical Art Books)
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The best you can have for experiment!

Arteffects a welcomed addition to any artist library.

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Arteffects

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Arteffects (Practical Art Books)
Jean Green
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The best you can have for experiment!.......2007-07-19

This is a wonderful book, if you are an artist, you can find different samples for many techniques, if you are an amateur, you can find a lot of fun.
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Arteffects a welcomed addition to any artist library........2007-07-04

This book is exactly as described. A "visual sampler" of step-by step, demonstrations, to achieve hundreds of different effects in your paintings. Wonderful, colorful illustrations, easy to understand instructions and desriptions as well. Also the layout of the book is very user friendly. There is 208 pages so you get your money's worth in this book. This book is full of ideas to get your creative hands moving. I am very happy to own this book.

like a kid in a candy store.......2007-03-31

I must disagree with the reviewer who said this book is not for the true artist. I am an artist and although I know some of the techniques or variations thereof, there are plenty more that I can't wait to try. I feel like a kid in a candy store, not knowing what to do first.

Sure, this is not a book that teaches you how to draw or paint, or how to make good compositions. Its focus is on techniques to achieve certain effects. That's all it says it is and it does that admirably.

Arteffects.......2007-03-31

Great book. The effects that the author writes about are do-able with simple products found in your kitchen. My goal is to try every effect listed in the book. The photos are wonderful. Instructions are quite clear. The book is a great addition for anyone who collects art books and who enjoys doing art.

arteffects.......2007-01-05

A brilliant reference manual for the new, experienced and experimenting artist. The author gives an almost limitless variety of ways to use familiar and unfamiliar mediums, textures, techniques and combinations.

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Natural connections: Photographs
Paula Chamlee
Manufacturer: Lodima Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0960564675

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Few women have attempted to photograph the American landscape in the classic, large-format tradition pioneered by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, and none so successfully as Paula Chamlee. She extends that tradition in photographs that are both sensuous and lyrical, yet subtle and complex. Chamlee's beautiful and arresting prints transcend their recognizable subject matter while remaining deeply rooted in her profound connection to the natural world.

Chamlee's journal entries--accounts of her experiences and insights while traveling and photographing--are carefully interwoven throughout the book, adding another dimension to our understanding of the artist and her work. The introductory essay by art historian and critic Estelle Jussim offers further insights and explores the development and creative life of the woman behind these extraordinary photographs.

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A delightful collection of humorous tales by Roger Pond. These are some stories from the author's syndicated column, The Back Forty. Pond's explanation of the book, "It happens to everyone sooner or later. You look in the mirror and realize you are too old for the Jaycees, too young to retire, and too tired to go jogging. You still like to have fun, but often can't remember if you did. Most folks pass through this stage quickly and go on with normal, productive lives. But for others, something snaps: We quit our jobs, grow a beard, or start watching Martha Stewart on television. That's what happened to me. At the tender age of 39 I knew a beard is hard to keep clean - and flower arranging is out of the question: so I quit my job and started writing a newspaper column."

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From the critically acclaimed, best-selling author of Holler if You Hear Me, a fresh reassessment of the remarkable life, art, struggles, and death of an American icon.

Twenty years after his murder at the hands of his own father, Marvin Gaye continues to define the hopes and shattered dreams of the Motown generation. A performer whose career spanned the history of rhythm and blues, from doo-wop to the sultriest of soul music, Gaye's artistry magnified the contradictions that defined America's coming of age in the tumultuous 1970s. In his most searching and ambitious work to date, acclaimed critic Michael Eric Dyson illuminates both Marvin Gaye's stellar achievements and stunning personal decline--and offers an unparalleled assessment of the cultural and political legacy of R&B on American culture.

Through interviews with those close to Gaye--from his musical beginnings in a black church in Washington, D.C., to his days as a "ladies' man" in Motown's stable of young singers, from the artistic heights of the landmark album What's Going On? to his struggles with addiction and domestic violence--Dyson draws an indelible portrait of the tensions that shaped contemporary urban America: economic adversity, the drug industry, racism, and the long legacy of hardship.

Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Gaye's death in 1984, and infused with the soulful prose that has become Michael Eric Dyson's trademark, Mercy, Mercy Me is at once a celebration of an American icon whose work continues to inspire, and a revelatory and incisive look at how a lost generation's moods, music, and moral vision continue to resonate today.

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Worse than a root canal.......2005-05-16

I thought the Publishers Weekly review was pretty accurate. This book read like a textbook. Maybe that is because Dyson is a college humanities professor. I could only get half way through before as Popeye said That's all I can stands, I can stands no more. Now I understand why I was able to purchase this book for 84 cents.

Congrats to Prof. Michael Dyson.......2005-01-25

Michael Dyson is such a great author and activist. He really knows the ups and downs of Marvin Gaye's life. Oh that's such a blessing I think every Marvin Gaye fan should get this just b/c they wanna learn more 'bout this man. 2 me he's one of my idols I grew up 'cuz he's such an inspiration. This book tells it all from his days of sex, drugs, violence, threats between his dad, how he got involved in the resurrection of life and death and the coming side of R. Kelly's admirer of Gaye. You see Marvin never say "Give up on what u got". No he saids "Take it lightly and slowly when u dead and gone". That's why we need to check ourselves everyday to the fullest until we live this normal or martyred life. I haven't bought the book yet but I'll may go it ASAP once it's still here. This is such an interesting story from the man who did the lifetimes of Tupac Shakur, black women, black people, the culture of our nation and black music and now. Definitely recommend along w/ Mase's memoir and Miles' memoir.

For the musicologist or sociologist, but not the rest of us.......2005-01-21

Dyson has written a fascinating analysis of the life and career of the late Marvin Gaye, a book that will appeal even to readers who don't know Gaye's music all that well. That having been said, this is a weighty tome, which touches on the religious, cultural and social influences of the black community and how they shaped the singer.

For example, in examining the effect of childhood abuse on Gaye, Dyson traces the problem of domestic violence in the black family to slavery. While this is an interesting discussion, it sways quite a bit from the book's star. Some readers will find these diversions tedious.

Because Gaye's relationship with Motown founder Berry Gordy is discussed at length, anyone who has studied the studio and its music will find something of interest here. References to the black church and family will ensure this book's place in programs of African-American study. Finally, the last chapter is in large part about present-day soul star R. Kelly. Dyson's discussion of how both men merged concepts of spirituality and sexuality within their music is interesting. In short, this book is a real find for a musicologist or sociologist, but it's not a biography "for the rest of us."

Disappointment.......2004-10-22

The reason I didn't care for this book may partially be my fault--I did not realize it was an essay instead of a biography. But the rest of the reason is on this author--this book was pretty much fact-based, reasons for songs were thrown out sporadically, Tammy Terrell's name was all over the place but the beatings were danced around (and one speaker even plugged her own book--why is that even in there?) and the author went on a history lesson through Motown with other artists. The organization was terrible, there was no set subject pattern, and it was a dry read. I ended up just skimming the book after page 20.
And as big a fan as I am of R. Kelly, I did NOT want to read about HIM in a book with Marvin Gaye on the cover. It's like the author forgot who he was writing about through half the book; he starts talking about the Supremes, Gordy, R. Kelly, James Brown; stick to the man on the cover!

The Man and His Music: A Critical Analysis.......2004-08-09

Michael Eric Dyson is known for his critical analysis of such public African American figures as Martin Luther King and Tupac Shakur. He has also delighted his fans with an ode to black women in Why I Love Black Women. In this body of work, Mercy Mercy Me, he explores the arts loves and demons of Marvin Gaye, one of the greatest singers of all time. This however, is not a biography in the traditional sense of how biographies are usually constructed. While accounts of Gaye's life from birth to death are chronicled, this writing is more of an analysis of the life of a man who essentially plotted his own death. When Gaye's father pulled the trigger in April 1984, twenty years ago, ironically the gun was the one he gave his father for protection.

Marvin Gaye was a genius, born to a fanatically religious father who ruled his home and family as a dictator. He was cruel, issuing beatings for the smallest infraction to both his wife and children. While the others buckled under the heat, Marvin, the most talented, rebelled and received the lion's share of punishment. He both loved and reviled his father, who was sexually deviated, yet proclaimed to be holier than thou. Marvin was a victim of his total upbringing, a loving, beaten down-trodden mother who coddled him and a sadistic father, who withheld his love. We learn of the psychological and emotional background of his Pentecostal father, Rev. Marvin P. Gaye and of what really went on behind the scenes.

Marvin loved women; he married Berry Gordy's sister, Anna, but it was a troubled marriage complicated by their age differences and her inability to have children. Yet, a son was produced--- that was Marvin's child-- sanctioned by the Gordys who had their own code of conduct for living that did not adhere to society's acceptable rules. In Gaye, we see a tortured soul as we learn how religion, sex and race intersected and became as one in his music and his life. There were women and more women. There was Tammy Terrell and depending on whom you talk to they were lovers or they were brother and sister. Also, there was a second wife, Janice.

The album that brought Marvin Gaye into mainstream American, What's Going On, was at first rejected by Berry Gordy as too radical but it was not to be denied. With the war in Viet Nam, the civil rights and free love movements, this album spoke volumes about the world in which we lived and that Marvin embraced. His music was his life and his life was music. Through careful text, Dyson takes us through a journey of how each album came to be. Here My Dear, Trouble Man, Let's Get it On were works of labor from a genius who was in a constant state of emotional turmoil

If you are looking for a straight biography of Gaye and his life from birth to death, this is not the text. There are several biographies on the market and Dyson highly recommends a few. At times the writing was dense with scholarly criticism and clinical terminology. However, it is offset by revealing commentaries such as an excellent chapter on the comparison and contrast of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelley which this reviewer found fascinating. The similarities are surprising and alarming and quite revealing when looking into the black family and community. Additionally, critical review of African Americans' attitudes on slavery and how black women are viewed in the black community is forthright, stunning and at times shameful. This manuscript will be long remembered and studied as a tool for looking into the life of a man who was an enigma even to himself. As always, Dyson delivers in his own style.

Dera Williams
APOOO BookClub
Marcus Book Club (Oakland)

Michael Eric Dyson. Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye.(Book review): An article from: African American Review

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Michael Eric Dyson. Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye.(Book review): An article from: African American Review
Ama Mazama
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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Title: Michael Eric Dyson. Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye.(Book review)
Author: Ama Mazama
Publication: African American Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Page: 378(2)

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Two icons of musical genius: Mary Lou Williams sought the sacred; Marvin Gaye probed the world, the flesh and the Devil.(Soul on Soul: The Life and Music ... An article from: Black Issues Book Review

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Two icons of musical genius: Mary Lou Williams sought the sacred; Marvin Gaye probed the world, the flesh and the Devil.(Soul on Soul: The Life and Music ... An article from: Black Issues Book Review
Joy Duckett Cain , and Daphne Muse
Manufacturer: Cox, Matthews & Associates
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Black Issues Book Review, published by Cox, Matthews & Associates on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 798 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Two icons of musical genius: Mary Lou Williams sought the sacred; Marvin Gaye probed the world, the flesh and the Devil.(Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams)(Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves & Demons of Marvin Gaye)(Book Review)
Author: Joy Duckett Cain
Publication: Black Issues Book Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Cox, Matthews & Associates
Volume: 6 Issue: 4 Page: 35(1)

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Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation of bullfighting, Adrian Shubert maintains that this view is both the product of myth and a complete misunderstanding of the real roots of the contemporary bullfight. While references to a form of bullfighting date back to the Poem of the Cid (1040), the modern bullfight did not emerge until the early 18th century. And when it did emerge, it was far from being an archaic remnant of the past--it was a precursor of the 20th-century mass leisure industry. Indeed, before today's multimillion-dollar athletes with wide-spread commercial appeal, there was Francisco Romero, born in 1700, whose unique form of bullfighting netted him unprecedented fame and wealth, and Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, hailed as Spain's greatest matador by the New York Times after a fatal goring in 1947. The bullfight was replete with promoters, agents, journalists, and, of course, hugely-paid bullfighters who were exploited to promote wine, cigarettes, and other products. Shubert analyzes the business of the sport, and explores the bullfighters' world: their social and geographic origins, careers, and social status. Here also are surprising revelations about the sport, such as the presence of women bullfighters--and the larger gender issues that this provoked. From the political use of bullfighting in royal and imperial pageants to the nationalistic "great patriotic bullfights" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this is both a fascinating portrait of bullfighting and a vivid recreation of two centuries of Spanish history. Based on extensive research and engagingly written, Death and Money in the Afternoon vividly examines the evolution of Spanish culture and society through the prism of one of the West's first--and perhaps its most spectacular--spectator sports.

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A Great Historical Guide to Bullfighting.......2002-03-12

I am doing my thesis on bullfighting and find Schubert's investigation interesting and helpful. It may not be the most interesting topic in the world to people who aren't crazy about bullfighting but I feel that this would open doors to allow people to see the other side of bullfighting, instead of seeing it for the death that everyone thinks that it's about.

hmm.......2001-01-12

This book does a good job of ripping off a nice Hemingway title.

Thoroughly Factual and Incredibly Dry.......2000-06-08

In a clearly acedemic work the authors imparts a wealth of information about business of bullfighting in the 18th and 19th century. The different factions within the business of bullfighting, matadors, their assistants, promotors, bull breeders, the press, and the crowds are all examined in fine detail. Unfortunately, this interesting information is delivered as simply one fact after another with little consideration for creating an engaging narrative. By the end of the book you'll know a great deal about the history of the business of bullfighting but it'll be up to you to put the facts together the get more complete picture.

Impartiality at Last!.......2000-04-01

Adrian Shubert presents a historical view of the bullfights that is neither pro or con, which is very rare today. The origins, although unclear to everyone, are presented in an unbiased form. Having attended over fifty bullfights in my 34 years of life, I found it very refreshing to learn the importance of the bullfight, not only in the romantic and cultural sense, but from historical and buisiness facts. This was definately worth the money.

Much ado about nothing.......2000-03-12

Shubert has found that the "sport" of bullfighting has attracted (and attracts) a lot of people and that it has involved (and involves still) a great deal of money. That's quite true, but not really novel; of course this has been a popular "mass sport" for a long time, and of course it has involved considerable amounts of money. But historians, God bless them, must always claim novelty for their writing, and this author is no different in this respect. What Shubert writes is informative, and he does write competently. But none of that "disproves" that bullfighting is indeed a relic of Spain's barbarism and a vehicle for sadism, acted out on the animals and engendered in the rabble. Even the grand pronouncements of no less than three other hsitorians on the the back cover cannot mask this simple fact.

Death & Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight

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Death & Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight
Adrian Shubert
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0756790204

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Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many in Spain have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. The modern bullfight did not emerge until the early 18th century & was far from being an archaic remnant of the past -- it was a precursor of the 20th century mass leisure industry. Shubert analyzes the business of the sport -- replete with promoters, agents, journalists, & well-paid bullfighters who were exploited to endorse products -- & explores the bullfighter's world: their social & geographic origins, careers, & social status. Illustrated.

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Death & Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight
Adrian Shubert
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKSORC

Death and Money in The Afternoon : A History of the Spanish Bullfight

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Death and Money in The Afternoon : A History of the Spanish Bullfight
Adrian Shubert
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MU2VCI

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