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As the center of the art world in the late nineteenth century, Paris was a magnet for American art students and artists. They flocked to the studios of French artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme, William Bouguereau, and others, dreamed of showing their work at the annual Paris Salon, and watched intently as new styles such as Impressionism began to take hold. Hardly an American painter was unaffected by developments in Paris, and even those who chose not to study there wanted their work to be affirmed by French audiences and taste makers.
This beautifully illustrated book traces the role of American artists in Paris from the Salon des Refusés, in 1863, to the emergence of a uniquely American style of painting at the turn of the century. It includes iconic images by John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, and Winslow Homer, and by many other artists whose names and work were more widely known then than now.
Engaging essays written by notable scholars explore why artists were drawn to Paris, how they responded to what they found there, and what they retained of their experience. In addition, the significance of the Expositions Universelles, the French view of American artists in Paris, and the role these artists played in shaping the great American collections of modern French painting are discussed. Featuring more than 100 paintings, the essays are followed by artists’ biographies, an illustrated, annotated list of works, and a complete bibliography.
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Too short.......2007-09-11
The subject and it's information is fine, but I found the DVD to be too short. It's about 30 minutes and I would have liked it to have included more information on the paintings and the artists. This was my first time buying a DVD on art, rather than a book. Not totally satisfied but it's a good short DVD on Impressiontists in Paris for those who prefer to watch rather than read a book on it.
art guy misses the point.......2007-07-18
I think Art Guy misses the point of this exhibit and catalogue. This is intended as an entry point for a general audience not as a serious contribution to new scholarship. The show was easily the best thing I saw in London last year, and the book does a fine job of providing an overview to the lives and interests of young American artists looking to pursue a fresh direction for their painting.The discussion of the 'refinements" and synthesis of their academic experiences with their response to the Impressionist palatte is of particular note. For the most part these are artists who are given short shrift by the academic establishment because they are "followers" rather than innovators. For our current generation of new realists these artists are a valuble harbinger of a new direction. I suspect that for painters like Jeremy Lipking and his ilk, the artists in this catalogue are the very models of their own endeavors.
This is a beautiful book, even if you only look at the pictures.
americans in paris.......2007-01-09
very informative regarding the american artists who gravitated to France.
It follows the show at the metropolitan museum with wonderful photographs and text.
There was a Time..........2006-11-25
There was a time when serious American artists felt the need to travel to Europe's art centers to study in order to become validated as 'well-schooled' craftsmen. During the nineteenth century this was especially true, not only for painters, but also for composers, singers, writers and those in all branches of the arts. This superb catalogue celebrates the painters from America who studied in Paris from 1860 to 1900 and in examining their work the book also shows the influence of the remarkable teachers of the time - Jean-Léon Gérôme and William Bouguereau among them - and carries us through copious reproductions of paintings through the transformation of the 'Parisian school' into the unmistakably American look.
Writers Kathleen Adler, Erica E. Hirshler, H. Barbara Weinberg, David Park Curry, Rodolphe Rapetti, and Christopher Riopelle offer insights as well as succinct historical documentation of the forty-year periods that saw the emergence of Impressionism and Modernism. They ably remind us of the important Salon des Refusés and its part in the beginning of a movement that would result in a distinctly American style.
The book is rich in sharing the works of John Singer Sargent, James Abbott, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, and Winslow Homer, Jefferson David Chalfant, John White Alexander, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux as well as others who were either directly or tangentially influenced by the French school. Though this book is not the first to address this period and influence it is certainly one of the better designed and catalogued of those available on the market today. For sheer pleasure of enjoying this fascinating group of painters this fine book is one of the best. Grady Harp, November 06
Excellent catalog.......2006-07-16
The quality of exhibition catalogs ranges from poor to excellent. In this case, we have a catalog that fulfills all most important requirements.
For one, although some snobs describe it as "pretty pictures', the reproductions are accurate, and their size is good. Especially when it comes to paintings that belong to private collections, the only hope to be reminded of the emotions one felt in the presence of the real painting, is to enjoy a decent reproduction. So I consider it a very important quality for a catalog to present well sized, good quality reproductions of all the works of art being exhibited.
Although this catalog is not a treatise about the subject of the exhibit (and I don't believe it should be), the texts are very accurate, while at the same time they are short and concise. This is what a catalog should provide, as opposed to being the space to host infinite, boring, and cryptic prolusions by some solipsistic scholar.
Last but not least, the structure of the catalog is very good, with the last few pages providing small reproductions of all the artwork organized by author, with short explanation blurbs that perfectly serve their purpose.
Overall, a very good catalog for a fantastic exhibition that brought together, in some cases for the very first time, some of the most wonderful masterpieces ever created.
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The American Civil War and the Paris Commune of 1871, Philip Katz argues, were part of the broader sweep of transatlantic development in the mid-nineteenth century--an age of democratic civil wars. Katz shows how American political culture in the period that followed the Paris Commune was shaped by that event.
The telegraph, the new Atlantic cable, and the news-gathering experience gained in the Civil War transformed the Paris Commune into an American national event. News from Europe arrived in fragments, however, and was rarely cohesive and often contradictory. Americans were forced to assimilate the foreign events into familiar domestic patterns, most notably the Civil War. Two ways of Americanizing the Commune emerged: descriptive (recasting events in American terms in order to better understand them) and predictive (preoccupation with whether Parisian unrest might reproduce itself in the United States).
By 1877, the Commune became a symbol for the domestic labor unrest that culminated in the Great Railroad Strike of that year. As more powerful local models of social unrest emerged, however, the Commune slowly disappeared as an active force in American culture.
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Americans in Paris 1860-1900
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Letter from P.L.F. (One Picture Books)
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This digital document is a journal article from Cognitive Development, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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This study examined the effect of incorporating a visuo-haptic and haptic (tactual-kinaesthetic) exploration of letters in a training designed to develop phonemic awareness, knowledge of letters and letter/sound correspondences, on 5-year-old children's understanding and use of the alphabetic principle. Three interventions, which differed in the work on letters identity, were assessed. The letters were explored visually and haptically in ''HVAM'' training (haptic-visual-auditory-metaphonological), only visually in ''VAM'' training (visual-auditory-metaphonological) and visually but in a sequential way in ''VAM-sequential'' training. The three interventions made use of the same phonological exercises. The results revealed that the improvement in the pseudo-word decoding task was higher after HVAM training than after both VAM training and VAM-sequential training (which did not differ). The sequential exploration of the letters (independently of perceptual modalities involved) was not to be sufficient alone for explaining these results. Moreover, similar improvements in the letter recognition test and in the phonological awareness tests were observed after the three interventions. Taken together, the results show that incorporating the visuo-haptic and haptic exploration of letters makes the connections between the orthographic representation of letters and the phonological representation of the corresponding sounds easier, thus improving the decoding skills of young children.
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Paul Almasy: Zaungast der Zeitgeschichte
Paul Almasy
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Checker releases its fourth volume of this classic Caniff strip! Steve Canyon 1950 collects strips from January 29 to October 7, 1950 and includes the stories "Missionary," "Mechanical Brain," "Rallying Point" and "Serge Blu." Join Steve and his crew as they dodge corrupt government agents, are captured by music-loving Russian bandits and otherwise narrowly escape all sorts of trouble!
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You do, ducky!.......2007-02-22
This volume, covering 1950 (the year the Korean War began), is the fourth in the Canyon series, which begins in 1947. I have reviewed each of the three earlier instalments.
Much has been said about the cinematic technique in comics but, as Horn's "World Encyclopedia of Comics" (WEC) points out, the comics were there first. Cutting, framing and panning were practiced as early as in the time of Opper, McCay* and Feininger, and dialogue of course, existed in the comics while the movies were still silent. When one reads of a comic's cinematic technique, it is in fact the result of years of cross fertilization between the two arts. The Sunday page selected by the WEC to illustrate Steve Canyon is a magnificent example. It is from this volume (note that the Sunday pages in these volumes are reproduced in black and white, but the results are fine), date: March 26, 1950. The spoiler that follows does not give away the story but describes a major action sequence up to said Sunday page.
Spoiler
Canyon lags behind a plane taking off that he must catch to evade pursuers, but manages to grab onto cables hanging from the craft. Unable to deposit Canyon anywhere without endangering his life, the pilots see a train with flatcars and drop him there. Canyon is immediately in the middle of another adventure and the action continues unabated.
The "camera" follows the action from various sides of the plane and above it, where we see Canyon dangling and the landscapes below and the cloudscapes above. When it comes to the train, the plane can be seen first a few feet above the train, and later superimposed above it as the train is crossing a trestle above a river. Shots from the river, inside the cars, from the perspective of a flatcar, and from a bird's eye view over the last panel of the Sunday page, would collectively require logistics that would severely tax very expensive productions today and were not feasible in the cinema of 1950.
End of spoiler
The above superlative sequence is an example of what, in my opinion, sets Canyon head and shoulders above much of what I have read in the comic books (1960s-70s Superman, Batman, etc.), putting it in a class approaching some European series such as Tintin.** Our part of the deal between author and reader is to allow moderate suspension of disbelief while the author delivers superb adventures. The author oversteps his allowance with the last story, The Mysterious Monsieur Gros, but the tale is quite imaginative. A problem with collecting daily strips into a full year's volume is the redundancy where some panels repeat what went on before as a courtesy to readers who missed a day or so. That is the case here a good deal more than in the earlier volumes.
While the Korean War results in Canyon's enlistment, there is intrigue in "Indochina" with one mention of Vietnam, and the French presence there is part of the adventure. We can imagine Canyon readers of the time were privy to what would become a huge story a dozen years later. The cast of characters continues to expand, mostly in the villain department. Other characters receive considerable development. The stories are all good; and the sequence given above is particularly strong.
My recommendation is that you get the 1947 volume if you haven't already, and work your way up. As I say in my other reviews, the paper, binding and reproduction are of excellent quality, the size a little small, but the resolution is such that details are not lost, though you'll need good or enhanced eyes.
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*Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" is a masterpiece and I recommend it highly.
**Hergé's "Tintin," also highly recommended (see my reviews). The three-adventure volume containing The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks and Tintin in Tibet is probably the pinnacle.
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Finally a script format guide that is accurate, complete, authoritative and easy to use, written by Hollywood's foremost authority on industry standard script formats.
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Must Have for a screenwriter.......2007-08-17
Excellent. Comprehensive. Full of examples. Will it be the same standard fifteen years from now? Who knows.
What Other Books Don't Have..........2007-08-12
There are hundreds of screenwriting books on the shelves (some of them good), but even the best are 90% recycled material; endless prattling about character and plot points, as if the last 40 books never mentioned it. For all those hundreds of pages about narrative, there's very little technical information about how to convert that material into a rigid and admittedly unreadable format that is the screenplay. The advent of screenwriting software solves all those problems except the ones the books never talked about: proper formatting, which, Riley states quite reasonably, can put a good story in bad shape.
He makes an important note before the book even begins: THE SOFTWARE ONLY DOES MARGINS. Neither it nor these books tell you how to type out elaborate, uncommon transitions and dialogue arrangements on the page: overlapping voices, phone-conversations, foreign langages, flashbacks and scenes-within-scenes (etc.)...but Hollywood Standard DOES. And unlike other writers of how-to books, he doesn't lacquer the page with self-important droning. He stays professional and direct, explaining the difficult in simple, concise, this-is-how-and-this-is-why fashion. You can read this book in an hour and STILL find yourself revisiting it again and again to double-check your work.
Half of the book are examples of what can go wrong and how to fix it: everything from where to put hyphens in slug-lines to what words to underline and when to captialize and more. Your head is likey to start swimming from the overload of detail you receive about how to tweak things exactly the way they should, and from the realization of how much you didn't know: like how to omit scenes without changing the page count on a locked script, or how many lines should precede a page break, or when to alter you parentheticals.
Granted, it was correctly mentioned that not EVERY SINGLE LITTLE DETAIL IN THE HISTORY OF SCREENWRITING FORMAT is addressed in this book, and there's no guarantee that refraining from underlining periods will get your script sold, but the information revealed in STANDARD will ensure that if your script DOES get rejected, it won't be for amateur mistakes.
I can't recommend this highly enough.
Best Screenwriting Format Guide.......2007-07-11
This is most definitely the best book on screenplay format. If you're looking into writing professionally for film, this is an absolute must-have. If you want your script to make it through Hollywood, don't delay any longer before getting your copy.
SAVED ME FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE.......2007-03-10
just kidding. i just finished this book and i will now buy the software that was mentioned. i have a few stories to tell and direct! i will still hire a great writer, but will know the script writing process etc. clearly now! thanks amazon.......now i don't have to kill myself..
Excellent resource.......2007-01-13
This book is straight forward, easy to read. Chris Riley has a humorous style that doesn't bog the reader down. Gives confidence to write a script that looks professional. Great examples of how a scripted page should look.
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Teachers, future teachers, day care providers and other professionals responsible for educating young children will be amazed at the wealth of valuable, well-organized, theme-based teaching material in Sing Me a Story! Tell Me a Song! It uses developmentally appropriate themes to integrate the curriculum of children from infancy to age eight. Thematic learning activities such as finger plays, poems, music and movement, and creative food experiences enable children to achieve curriculum goals, skills, and concepts. Activities for each of the 30 themes presented are designated as appropriate for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners, or primary-grade students using an icon to suggest appropriateness. Goals for each theme are written in a developmentally sequenced listing to aid planning for children's ongoing development as they grow and learn.
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Historia de los Fanzines de Historieta en Argentina
Roberto Barreiro
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La historia del fanzine de historieta argentina es una historia descarnada. Una historia que todos los involucrados en el mundo de la historieta deben conocer. Barreiro la cuenta. Y lo hace muy bien.
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The NPR Interviews 1994
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin (T)
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A useful quick read.......1998-07-11
Interesting conversations. Is it not odd, though, that among the politicians,social activists, statesmen, writers and other artists, there are no leading lights of economic thought or business leadership? NPR's blindspot has always been its boozhie leftist cant and it's nowhere more apparent than in this compendium.
On the bright side, NPR has discovered a way to tap the free market that its journalists so revile. With this newfound nose for profit, we can only hope that the taxpayer subsidy to the Corp. for Public Broadcasting will be severed soon.
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The NPR Interviews: 1994
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