Italian Glass: Century 20 (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

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Bible of Italian Glass

Italina Glass: Century 20

Best book for General Murano Glass in the US

Italian Glass: Century 20 (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Leslie Pina
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764319299

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Bible of Italian Glass.......2006-08-15

This book is awesome! I have just started collecting Murano glass and wanted a book to compare for the real thing or fake. This book was recommended by an avid collector and has become my bible. Well set out and the pictures and descriptions are extremely usefull.

Italina Glass: Century 20.......2006-08-02

As usual Lesli Pina has put together a wonderful reference for mid century glass collectors. The only comment I would make to improve this book, is that there are not price estimates with every photo. However, this is the exception as over 90% of the photos contain pricing.

Best book for General Murano Glass in the US.......2006-03-30

I strongly recommend Leslie Pina's book to collectors of Murano glass in the US. While other books have pictures of the more elite museum pieces, Leslie Pina's book has hundreds of pictures of glassware that we see most often. It is a valuable reference in learning to identify and appraise the work of the quality artisans -- Fratelli Toso, Dino Martens, Salviati, Venini, Seguso, Campanella, Cenedese, and others. It is the most useful book on Murano glass that I own.

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Each book in the Art School series explains all the materials, techniques , methods and contains inspirational and practical projects, expert ideas and approaches, clear instructions and examples and at-a-glance, step-by-step images that every artist will value. This book is divided into two practical sections, and starts with a full catalogue of materials and equipment, and includes a comprehensive techniques section which covers such areas as mixing pastels, using charcoal, layering a textured ground, sgraffito and much more. It shows clearly how to do all the basic setting up and preparation, and takes the reader through all the primary techniques, with step-by-step practical projects. Throughout, lively and inspirational works by contemporary artists illustrate the skills in action, and provide a constant source of inspiration. The book contains 175 color images including an inspirational gallery, and the book is filled with practical guidance on how to treat classical subjects such as Landscapes, Flowers, Faces and Figures.

Pastels: Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)

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Pastels: Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)
Hazel Harrison
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
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Pastels: Art School : Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)

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Pastels: Art School : Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)
HAZEL HARRISON
Manufacturer: HERMES HOUSE
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• Hundreds and hundreds of practical tips and useful shortcuts
• Comprehensive guide to hardware and software
• Great for family historians or budding filmmakers

For anyone who's ever wondered what that little button does, 500 Digital Video Hints, Tips, and Techniques provides short, jargon-free, ultra-accessible answers. It's the complete guide to getting professional-quality results from a digital movie camera, whether the budding videographer is capturing a family reunion or his or her first digital feature. This colorful blend of step-by-step tutorials, quick fixes, and bullet-point lists is the perfect antidote to boring, useless technical manuals—and it's packed with buying guides, dos and don'ts, professional tips, troubleshooting advice, even how to share work with family and friends. Got a digital video camera? Get 500 Digital Video Hints, Tips, and Techniques and learn what it can do.

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Inside Amateur Photography (Batsford Cultural Studies)
Dave Kenyon
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Publishing
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Its a technique that first helped bring Mickey Mouse to life, and todays greatest movie makers, from Martin Scorcese to Tim Burton, couldnt make a film without it. The storyboard started as a series of sketches, fastened to a cork board with pushpins, that helped a director conceptualize a films narrative and visual flow.

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One of our TOP TEN Books on the Walt Disney Studios.......2003-03-13

Words simply don't do justice to this book. It must be held in one's own hands to fully appreciate the investment that went into producing this masterpiece celebration of animation history.

John Canemaker has succeeded once again in bringing the creative process to a place where both a novice hobbyist and experienced researcher can find full appreciation in a single work.

Paper Dreams is filled to overflowing with original story sketches from the Disney Archives and Animation Research Library. The story sketch is the most primitive form in the process of animation, and yet is crucial to the development of both story and character personality. This process was invented at the Disney Studios in the early 1930's, and is widely used throughout Hollywood to this day, both in animation and in live-action production.

In particular, researchers of original animation art will appreciate this work as creating a permanent record of known storyboards and sketches from the Walt Disney Studio.

While most will never have an opportunity to visit the Disney Archives, Canemaker effectively opens the vaults for all to enjoy and appreciate.

A wonderful insight into the creative process.......2000-04-17

Too often in animation titles, the storyboard element is relegated to a minor footnote. This book presents a wonderful insight to the creative process of animation film making. Many animators and students collect resource material from feature films, and storyboard examples are rare and treasured items. As a storyboarder myself, I was in awe of the beauty and clarity of these works, many I was seeing for the first time. However, anybody with an interest in art or animation will enjoy this book. It is an amazing and definitive collection.

Outstanding!.......2000-01-30

I have most of the 'Art of' books and, though this is a little more pricey than the others, it is worth every cent. It is refreshingly reassuring to finally have a Disney art book NOT written by a Disney staffer, but by a film academic. It was great to read about the men who worked alongside Walt and knew him for all his faults as well rather than the godhead he has become to the company. This book, while showing page after page of behind-the-scenes miniature masterpieces that went into making the classic early features, also describes the not-so-happy endings that such chemistry produced among Disney and his storymen sometimes. It also covers the latter-day storyboard masters like Chris Sanders and the Brizzi twins. I have ambitions of being a Disney storyboard artist someday and this book is perfect inspiration. More than worth it.

its not cute little animals that made them there pictures!.......1999-11-18

If the Disney American Animated Film has one stigma, is the belief that it is made for childern. Mr.Canemaker's book disproves that notion by recounting stories by those lucky few that got to meet Walt,work with him and put his "Dreams" on "Paper" before they were made a reality on film. We are privy in the world of Walt Disney and the people who put his ideas on paper only to have Walt think that they could be better than that.The book is filled with instances of Walt cursing-four letter words and all,when his Soryman ideas did not cut the mustard. Why should they since Walt "was his own best storyman." We get to meet the men that were up to par with Walt-T.Hee and Bill Peet. But these man could be considered Lucifer to Walt's Christian God-those who wish to be better than him or take his place would end in Hell, which in a sense they did. Finally, lets not forget the geniuses Walt himself dealt with-Salvador Dali and Orson Welles. If there was anyone that could top Disney himself ,it was Orson,as described by Walt Himself.

Historic Disney Animation at it's FINEST!.......1999-10-21

This is a book we're proud to own. John Canemaker is to be congratulated on bringing together the art and history of original Disney animation in all its glory. Beautifully printed on quality paper. So much artwork has never before been published, it's almost overwhelming. To turn the page is to uncover a treasure! Someday Hyperion will learn something about the art of quality bookbinding. A book like this deserves the use of binding and boards of higher quality. But even with that one criticism, this book is a MUST HAVE.

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The story of Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke is one that will give pause even to the gods of irony. The descendent of German and Jewish inhabitants of what was once the German Volga S.S.R. in the Soviet Union, he received his first musical training as a young boy in Soviet-occupied Vienna. Baptized as a Roman Catholic at age 48 (although he had strong Russian Orthodox tendencies), this son of dedicated Communists employed a musical idiom almost as varied as his background. One of the most interesting aspects of Alexander Ivashkin's lucid account of the composer's life is his long struggle in the face of the hostility shown by the apparatchiks that ran the Soviet composer's union, a hostility that made it impossible for Schnittke to attend many performances of his works when they required a travel permit outside Soviet territory. Fortunately, as the regime approached collapse, the difficulties experienced by Schnittke and his fellow Soviet artists during the decades of Soviet rule abated. This entry in Phaidon's 20th-Century Composers series offers a well-written account of the essential aspects of Schnittke's life and work.

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some problems with this book.......2006-06-09

This book is a good, quick read, and, as it is apparently the only biography of Schnittke (at least in English), it will have to do. But it has more than a few printing errors; words are missing not only between pages 141 and 142, as another reviewer noted, but between 123 and 124; in addition, some lines are repeated on successive pages and there are other typos. Substantively, I did not feel after finishing the book that I knew what Schnittke was like as a person, other than that, later in life, he became a Christian of a mystical, if not crazy, bent, although the author would never put it negatively like that; he writes not a negative word about Schnittke or his music (though he does call him "a great human being"). Another problem with the book is that some of the author's descriptions of the music are almost meaningless (though I acknowledge that it is difficult to describe music). Examples include, "At the end of the symphony Shostakovich appears to draw aside real space, transporting us from gloomy everyday occurrences into the infinity of astral space." Or, "At times a particular interval becomes the principal character of a work. ... All these symbols ... ultimately enable one to widen the frame of the music as though into outer space." Finally, the author repeatedly refers to Schnittke's popularity and the throngs who attend performances of his music. I am only lately acquiring a taste for Schnittke's music, but it is an acquired taste, and I remain sceptical of the author's claims as to his popularity.

A very lightweight and loosely edited biography with little analysis of the music.......2005-10-02

This entry in Phaidon Press' biographies of 20th century composers describes the life and work of Alfred Schnittke, the great Russian postmodernist, and is written by noted Russian cellist and friend of the composer Alexander Ivashkin. The work was published in 1996, two years before Schnittke's death. However, because Schnittke's last years were fraught with ill health, there is a general supposition that his career had ended. How surprised Ivashkin must have been to see a final bust of activity from the composer's pen shortly after the book's appearance.

As with all of Phaidon Press' biographies, the focus here is on the life and surroundings of the composer. Ivashkin describes in detail the composer's youth in Engels and Vienna, his tribulations in the Moscow Conservatory, and his marriage and family life. His pieces are often mention in connection to the events that inspired them, such as the death of his mother that led to his Piano Quintet. Unfortunately, there is very little in the way of analysis of his works. What few scores are shown in the book are given only to spice up the text with illustrations, they are not used by Ivashkin to point out the important innovations of Schnittke's music.

Beyond this lightweight nature, the book is fraught with other problems. There is a lot of repetition, many events are presented out of chronological order (for example, a chapter on the 1970s going back to the 1960s), and much tighter editing was necessary. There is even an error with typesetting where a sentence somehow disappears between pages 141 and 142. Becuase the work was rather obnoxious in these regards, I wouldn't recommend it except to hardcore fans of Schnittke who want to read as much as possible about him, or to people who just want to know the general outline of his life without knowing how his pieces work.

A good survey for the lay reader, but too hagiographical.......2003-11-27

Ivashkin's biography of Schnittke is one of a number of titles now issued in Phaidon's consistently interesting series of books on contemporary composers. Ivashkin's book is very readable, and combines a potted biography of the composer with an introductory explanation of his major works. The book will certainly add some valuable knowledge to those who have heard--and been impressed by--Schnittke's music, and does not assume more than a surface knowledge of 20th century idioms.

The author makes little attempt at detailed technical descriptions of Schnittke's compositions, which may prove a demerit for the more serious student of music. I do not regard this as a flaw in the book--it is aimed at the lay reader, as are all in the series--but there are two more major issues I have with this book:

Firstly, it was written too early to cover the composer's last years, and the surprising return to composition--despite Schnittke's almost total paralysis--that yielded several as yet unrecorded works in the composer's last 18 months. Secondly, and more seriously, Ivashkin's closeness to the composer prevents him being entirely objective. Schnittke was far from being the most consistent composer of the post-war period, but Ivashkin seems very loath to make critical remarks about Schnittke's compositions--even when such criticism seems (at least to me) to be entirely merited. In one or two cases Ivashkin also avoids criticising Schnittke the man, even as he hints at grounds for doing so.

I hope a better biography will come along soon, but this will do for now. It's rather less of a book than this important composer deserves, but anyone reading it will know more about Schnittke the man and Schnittke the composer than they did before they picked it up.

excellent Schnittke book.......2002-03-29

This book is an excellent biography and overview of the music of Alfred Schnittke. The casual listener probably wouldn't be interested, but for those that love Schnittke's music this is a goldmine. It provides plenty of insight in the personal life of Schnittke and the events that helped shape his music. It details many of his personal political struggles (which would truly make comparisons to Shostakovich even clearer.)

There is also, of course, discussions on the music. No in depth analysis or anything, just good commentary on them. I don't have a musical education and the book was still quite enjoyable to me.

Another wonderful inclusion is the discography and the catalogue of works.

This will probably be the definative account of Schnittke's life (in English anyway.) One can only hope though that it will be updated as the book was written two years before Scnittke's death. I highly recommend this excellent book.

The book on Alfred Schnittke that you must have!.......1999-05-26

This book is the perfect introduction to the life of the late composer. I learned many details about his upbringing and his influences. The author let sometimes his own grief about the soviet system and some of its members set on fire his style. But he made me miss even more the opportunity to meet with Schnittke as he was in Banff in Canada few years ago. Thanks to the author a biography exists. Sadly it will have to be updated.I wished articles by Schnittke would be available in english as well as a more exhaustive interpretive catalog of his work and recordings. Thanks to Phaidon for a superb volume!

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A deeper insight into Schnittke's world

A Schnittke Reader:
Alfred Schnittke , and Alexander Ivashkin
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0253338182

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A treasury of the composer's writings--many never before published, even in Russian. Here Schnittke speaks of his life, his works, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century composition, performance, and other arts.

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A deeper insight into Schnittke's world.......2003-09-16

The original book written in Russian was then translated into German. The German edition had many photographs, the only aspect I missed in this English abridged version. Otherwise Ivashkin conversations with Schnittke are very revealing of his world, and of his vision on the state of classical music.

The simple views that empty virtuosity is not enough, the view that the orchestra is like the universe, thus boundless and not an elitist frozen past are refreshing at a time where so many formations are in dire financial situation, principally because of the lack of imagination of their music directors. Check how many orchestras have programmed Schnittke's orchestra music this season and you'll understand...
The intricacy of good and evil, so present in his works are revealed to the reader.

Follows a series of more technical dissertations on XX Century works by other composers. I felt I was lacking the technical basis for fully benefiting from the discussion.
Portraits by friends were revealing about Schnittke but also about the friends own personalities: Rostropovitch preface in that regard is more about himself than anything else...

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Schnittke's six-movement "Concerto Grosso" was premiered in Leningrad on March 21, 1977. The work is inspired by Baroque forms and style. Alfred Schnittke, born in 1934, is one of the most often performed of contemporary Russian composers.

Alfred Schnittke zum 60. Geburtstag: Eine Festschrift

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Alfred Schnittke zum 60. Geburtstag: Eine Festschrift

Manufacturer: H. Sikorski
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Binding: Perfect Paperback

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Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 4 and Symphony No. 5

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Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 4 and Symphony No. 5

Manufacturer: Sikorski
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ASIN: 1423402006

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Two of Schnittke's most popular orchestral works are included in this edition.

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Alfred Schnittke: Polka: String Quartet

Manufacturer: Sikorski
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ASIN: 1423401964

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Arranged for String Quartet. Contains score and parts.

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Besedy s Alfredom Shnitke
Alfred Schnittke
Manufacturer: RIK "Kultura"
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Besedy s Alfredom Shnitke (Conversations with Alfred Schnittke).

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Besedy s Alfredom Shnitke (Conversations with Alfred Schnittke).
Ivashkin A.
Manufacturer: Klassika-XXI (M.)
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Binding: Hardcover
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Exempla Nova 189 Pieces for Violencello Solo (Edition Sikorski 1889) [Sheetmusic book] - Schnittke, Knaifel, Voostin, Mansuryan and Vasks

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Exempla Nova 189 Pieces for Violencello Solo (Edition Sikorski 1889) [Sheetmusic book] - Schnittke, Knaifel, Voostin, Mansuryan and Vasks
Alfred Schnittke
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Binding: Paperback
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Praeludium in Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich: Score and Parts

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Praeludium in Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich: Score and Parts

Manufacturer: Associated
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For 2 violins or violin and tape.

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A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

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Henry Ford & the grass-roots America

Manufacturer: University Michigan Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H5FWHO

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Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America

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Henry Ford and Grass-roots America
Wik Reynold M.
Manufacturer: Eaton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
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Justice and human struggle around the globe have been the recurring themes throughout John Pilger's 30 years of making television documentaries. This work examines the journalist and his long career on the small screen, one unparalleled by others outside regular current affairs programs.

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