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How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this engaging new book on American art. By focusing on broad, defining themes, embodied in the work of such pivotal artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, the authors look at how art provided a means for re-imagining America, visualizing what it had become, and where it might go in a century of turbulent change.
Richly illustrated with 400 color images, Imagining America is organized around three main themes: nature and the ways diverse artists responded to the transformation of the landscape from pastoral to industrial; how artists as different as Thomas Eakins and Jackson Pollock demonstrated the perpetual inclination to reinvent both personal and national identity; and the ways that key artists like Stuart Davis, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat taught us to understand the media and popular culture on a deeper level. The authors also provide a context of social history and parallel developments in American music and film.
With an innovative design, a fabulous selection of iconic images, and an engaging juxtaposition of visual themes, Imagining America presents American art and artists in a completely new light.
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Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 13Th-15th Century
Laurence B. Kanter
Manufacturer: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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ASIN: 0878464204 |
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The MFA's collection of Italian paintings is one of the richest in any American public institution, both in quantity and in quality. This volume explores the provenance, condition, and iconography of some 73 works, including Botticelli's Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Fra Angelico's Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, and George, Four Angels, and a Donor, and Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine. A major contribution to scholarship in Italian art, this catalogue should be in the library of any art historian or museum.
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Belichtete Welt: Eine Wahrnehmungsgeschichte der Fotografie
Bernd Busch
Manufacturer: C. Hanser
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ASIN: 3446150897 |
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Mick Morris and the Myth Solver gang are on another exciting adventure! This time it's scarier than before as they head to Northern California and encounter the real Bigfoot! Remember there are 'Five Ways to Finish' this spine-tingling book, an exciting normal ending, a very scary ending, a wild western, a fun talk show or a cool comic book ending! It's up to you to decide!
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Bigfoot, Big Trouble (Strange Matter)
Marty M. Engle
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ASIN: 1567140629 |
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In the Pacific Northwest lives a famous being that almost no one has seen. A monster so legendary that it is know the world over. The Indians called it Sasquatch. Asians call it Yeti. Americans call it the Bigfoot. THE BIG BIGFOOT BOOK enlightens this mystery with eight different stories from eight different authors and eight different artists.
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Big Bigfoot Debate Pupil Book
Edwin Johns
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Boris Bigfoot's Big Feat (Monsterkids, No 4)
Gertrude Gruesome
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ASIN: 0061063096 |
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This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 2113 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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Volume: 11
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Ice Q'S And A'S
Dan Diamond , and
Eric Zweig
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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ASIN: 0740719025 |
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Ice Qs (and As) is a must-have for every hockey aficionado. This unrivaled trivia tome includes all the fascinating facts and insightful history of the fastest team sport on earth. The players, the leagues, and the style of play are all packed in this easy-to-read format. A great reference and an exciting resource for fans of all interest levels, Ice Qs (and As) contains hockey's most exciting lore.
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A221593. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The purpose of this research is to characterize the number and type of problems satellite operators encounter during the course of routine daily activities. In the context of this paper, a discrepancy is defined as the perception by an operator that some portion of the space system has failed to operate as designed. Discrepancies can therefore include ground system malfunctions, procedural errors, and even misdiagnosis that a problem exists, in addition to actual spacecraft anomalies. The study is designed to test the following hypotheses using a verifiable, quantitative analysis: (1) the majority of problems encountered by an operator do not involve the spacecraft at all, but are attributed to other elements of the space system; and (2) correlations exist between aspects of a space system design and the nature of problems experienced by the operations staff over the long term. To perform an applied, rather than theoretical, analysis, several representative aerospace organizations provided historical discrepancy reports for satellites currently being flown. Government civilian and military organizations participated in the study, which encompassed spacecraft from several mission areas, including remote sensing, research & development, communications, and observatories. Raw discrepancy data was collected from each organization in the form of electronic databases or hand- written logs.
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The Climatic Record in Polar Ice Sheets
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521250870 |
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This multi-author work reviews our current knowledge of the isotopic and temperature profiles of polar ice sheets. The polar ice sheets contain a wonderfully detailed record of the atmospheric history of the Earth that extends back for hundreds of thousands of years. This book is the result of a workshop held at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. The review includes the glacial geology and glaciology of ice sheets; measurement and significance of glaciological parameters; temperature, isotopic and gas content profiles; and the climatic record from ice cores. The results presented in this volume will be of particular interest to glaciologists and climatologists.
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Ice Cheese
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Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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ASIN: 1414025351 |
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Over the course of nearly two decades, the rave scene has evolved into much more than simply an electronic dance music party. For thousands of people around the world, it has become an important source of spirituality and the closest thing they have to a religion. Trance Formation is the first book to comprehensively explore the spiritual and religious dimensions of global rave culture.
Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.
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Emerging in London in 1988 and subsequently exported around the world, vast numbers of western youth have attached primary significance to raving and post-rave experiences. This collection of essays explores the socio-cultural and religious dimensions of the rave, "raving" and rave-derived phenomena. Scholars of contemporary religion, dance ethnologists, sociologists and other cultural observers unravel this core cultural practice among contemporary youth.
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This book looks at a sector of black and Asian British film and television as it presented itself in the 1990s and early 2000s. For this period, a 'mainstreaming' of black and Asian British film has been observed in criticism and theory and articulated by an increasing number of practitioners themselves, referring to changing modes of production, distribution and reception and implying a more popular and commercial orientation of certain media products. This idea is a leitmotif for the authors' readings of recent films and examples of television drama, including such diverse products as Young Soul Rebels and Babymother, East Is East and Bend It Like Beckham, The Buddha of Suburbia and White Teeth. These analyses are supplemented with a look at earlier landmark productions (like Pressure) as well as relevant social, institutional and aesthetic frameworks. The book closes with a selection of statements by black and Asian media practitioners who operate from within!
Britain's cultural industries: Mike Phillips, Horace Ové, Julian Henriques, Parminder Vir and Gurinder Chadha.
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