Hans Haacke: Viewing Matters

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Artwork by Hans Haacke.

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Hans Haacke: For Real
Hans Haacke , Benjamin Buchloh , Rosalyn Deutsche , and Walter Grasskamp
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ASIN: 3937572597
Release Date: 2007-03-01

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When Hans Haacke was awarded the Peter Weiss Prize in 2004, he called Weiss' writings "courageous interventions, driven by moral outrage." Since the early 1960s Haacke himself has been a socially engaged artist. Living in New York since 1965 (born Cologne, 1936), he has participated in the public debate through his sculptures, installations, paintings and photographs, as well as by his writings and teaching. In 1971, several works for a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum were deemed "inappropriate" by the Museum's director and he cancelled the show (one was an expose of the real estate empire of a New York slumlord. At the 1993 Venice Biennial, the artist broke up the marble floor the Nazis had installed in the German pavilion and he displayed the replica of a 1-DM coin minted in the year of German reunification above the entrance. His 2000 installation DER BEVOLKERUNG (To the population), a work in progress in the German Parliament building in Berlin, also makes reference to the Nazi past but, in addition, addresses contemporary issues of citizenship and the integration of foreign-born residents. Recently, several works have paid critical attention to the Iraq war. This publication was produced for a 2006 retrospective exhibition at the Hamburg Deichtorhallen and the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin. It offers a survey of Haacke's works from 1959 to the present. It includes a selection of his writings and essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Rosalyn Deutsche and Walter Grasskamp.

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Sociology & Art critique the market's cooptation of culture.

Free Exchange
Pierre Bourdieu , and Hans Haacke
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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Sociology & Art critique the market's cooptation of culture........1998-07-23

An excellent discussion on the impact of the conservative shift on artistic commerce and production. Incisive dialouge between two of this generations most erudite (and honest) intellectuals. A breathe of clear air in an increasingly polluted cultural climate. Highly recommended

Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)

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Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)

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ASIN: 0262730790

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For the past fifteen years, Hans Haacke's work has been concerned with issues that are at the core of postmodern investigations - the nature of art as institution, the authorship of the artist, the social behavior of the art world, the network of cultural policies such as the role and function of the museum, the critic, and the public, and many other sociological problems.

This book is based on a major retrospective exhibition of Haacke's work, the first in an American museum. The works selected show the different ways in which he has addressed the social and political concerns affecting art production. By laying bare the explicit functioning and interconnectedness of systems of finance, social organization, and representations, Haacke demonstrates how these employ art and other forms of presentation and representation as formalized means of power and coercion. In this important respect, his work has set a precedent for that of many younger, social concerned artists.

A group of significant essays by Leo Steinberg, Fredric Jameson, Rosalyn Deutsche, and an introduction and overview by Brian Wallis place Haacke's work in a larger social and aesthetic context.

Hans Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936 and, since 1967, has taught at the Cooper Union in New York. Earlier retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, the Tate Gallery, London, and museums in Berlin and Bern. His work has also been included in many major international group exhibitions, including the Tokyo Biennal, the Venice Biennale, and Documenta. Brian Wallis is Adjunct Curator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and editor of Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation and of the magazine Wedge. Hans Haacke is copublished with The New Museum of Contemporary Art and distributed by The MIT Press.

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Monuments For The Usa
Thomas Hirschhorn , Aleksandra Mir , Chris Johanson , Frances Stark , and Hans Haacke
Manufacturer: CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art
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ASIN: 097250804X
Release Date: 2005-07-15

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Featuring works created by over 60 international artists who were invited by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts to devise plans for a monument for the United States of America. Freed from contextual, budgetary, or practical constraints, the proposals reflect each artist's ideas about the type of monument the people of the United States currently need--or deserve. The submitted drawings, diagrams, maquettes, photo collages, written descriptions, or works in other media are all reproduced, along with texts by the artists, in this fully illustrated catalogue. Among the featured artists are Paul Chan, Sam Durant, Hans Haacke, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Barbara Kruger, Aleksandra Mir, Paul Noble, Jennifer Pastor, Santiago Sierra, Gary Simmons, Do-Ho Suh, Olav Westphalen, and others.

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Behind The Facts
Friedrich Wolfram Heubach , Birgit Pelzer , Gloria Moure , Vito Acconci , John Baldessari , Robert Smithson , and Hans Haacke
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ASIN: 8434310171
Release Date: 2004-05-02

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Description: Interfunktionen, an art journal which published 12 issues between 1968 and 1975 in Cologne, was founded in 1968 as a form of protest by artists who had no affinity with the critical lines that were redrawn at Documenta that year. The review was of considerable importance as a vehicle for propagating pro-European ideas and as a union between artists in Europe and the United States, irrespective of the predominating movements of the time. It contained both theoretical and practical contributions, with the intervention of creators who defined and illustrated their artistic strategies. Directly linked to the most prominent figures in the Dsseldorf Kunstacademie, such as Joseph Beuys, Jorg Immendorf, and Sigmar Polke, it also boasted the involvement of the most spirited and reflexive artists of the times, from Vito Acconci and Marcel Broodthaers to Bruce Nauman and Dieter Roth. Interfunktionen, as its name indicates, was an inter-disciplinary publication, open to all artistic genres and with no restrictions as to media. This book is produced in collaboration with Fritz Heubach, the review's first editor, and depicts the experience of those years by means of original documents--some of them hitherto unpublished--artworks, and artists' writings.

Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works 1970-75

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Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works 1970-75
Hans Haacke
Manufacturer: New York University Press
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Hans Haacke, Bodenlos: Biennale Venedig 1993, Deutscher Pavillon

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Hans Haacke, Bodenlos: Biennale Venedig 1993, Deutscher Pavillon
Hans Haacke
Manufacturer: Edition Cantz
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Hans Haacke: Bodenlos/Bottomless
Walter Grasskamp , Klaus Bu mann , Grace Glueck , and Hans Haacke
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ASIN: 3893225579
Release Date: 1993-09-02

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A survey of Haacke's recent work covering his controversial sculptures, collages, and temporary installations.

Hans Haacke: Mia San Mia (We Are Who We Are)

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Hans Haacke: Mia San Mia (We Are Who We Are)
Christian Kravagna , Heidemarie Uhl , Dietrich Karner , and Hans Haacke
Manufacturer: Generali Foundation, Vienna
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ASIN: 3901107347
Release Date: 2001-12-02

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Long known for bringing trenchant analyses of sociopolitical structures into the museum, Hans Haacke has in the past exposed corporations who use art sponsorship to booster their image and slum landlords who hide behind diversified corporations. In his first exhibition in Vienna, the title of which gives its name to this book, Haacke tackles Austria's emotionally laden understanding of its own history and national identity. A larger discourse on "the culture of memory" weaves its way through selected historical works of Haacke's, including his 1999 project for the Reichstag, as well as through the artist's own writings, available here for the first time.

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Art Director's Index to Photographers No. 15 (Art Diretor's Index of Photography)
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This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level.

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From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children -- misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings -- hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly anyway).

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very weir look inside Tim Burton's mind.......2007-08-16

I bought this as a gift for my wife, who is a big Tim Burton fan. It went over great! The book is nicely printed hardcover, making a good gift presentation. The illustrations and poetry are sometimes disturbing, but that was to be expected.

A book of NOT SO CURIOUS curiosities.......2007-06-28

Frankly, I didn't find this book to be very creative or interesting. Many of the vignettes are much too short to evoke any humor or feelings. The author seems to have glanced at his surroundings and made a boy or girl character out of things ranging from stains to matches and then proceeded to make up obvious stories about them. (Surprise, surprise, the match girl was "hot" and burned up her stick lover.) The three stars is for the illustrations and the melancholy concept.

Darkly entertaining.......2007-03-18

Melancholy is the right word for the mood of this little book! The drawings and the rhymes are so simple, yet they evoke such emotion - I was horrified in a gleeful sort of way - 'uh oh, I can't believe where this is heading' - it's so grim and sad, yet I found myself laughing out loud. Definitely for those with a certain sense of humour.

My 1st time.......2007-03-09

This book is my first time with Tim Burton's poetry.
I must say that is strange but very good!

The Melancholy Death of Oster Bay : and Other Stories.......2007-03-08

Tim Burton is a master at what he does. This is a cute book of short stories and poems, which are slightly creepy and incredibly clever. I loved it.

THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY & OTHER STORIES. Stick Boy's Festive Season

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THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY & OTHER STORIES. Stick Boy's Festive Season
Tim Burton
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THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY AND OTHER STORIES

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THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY AND OTHER STORIES
TIM BURTON
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Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Tim Burton
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ASIN: B000OES46E

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Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), an immortal of the silver screen, was perhaps the greatest comic genius the world has known. To this day his beloved creation the Tramp remains the most universal representation of humanity in the history of film. Noted film historian and silent-comedy authority Jeffrey Vance has drawn on exhaustive research and interviews with those who knew Chaplin to produce this definitive illustrated account. Composed with full access to the Chaplin family archives, the book chronicles his entire complex life story and his creative process in 500 photographs, many of them rare and recently discovered, newly printed from the original negatives especially for this volume.

Describing the appeal of the Tramp, Chaplin wrote: "This fellow is many-sided-a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure." The description also befits the artist himself, who endured a deprived childhood in late-Victorian London, numerous romances and four marriages, and political persecution during the anticommunist witch hunts, while leaving a legacy of 75 remarkable years of creative accomplishment. This third Abrams book by Jeffrey Vance on silent-film comedians coincides with the major international video/DVD release of newly restored Chaplin films.

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Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema.......2007-02-17

I thought the photographs of Charlie Chaplin captured his hilarious personality. I learned many things I had not known about him in this very detailed book. Things about his several marriages, the money he made, the house he designed. His innerself being serious instead of his funny personality he potrayed. I actually got this book for a great friend of mine who dabbles in acting. It was very hard for me to part with it. I was happy he had a true love in his life and she felt the same way. I highly recommend it!

Amazing life of Chaplin.......2005-09-24

Charlie Chaplin apparently had one of the most intersting lives I've ever heard of. This book does a great job describing the good and the bad about Chaplin and his entire life and career in the cinematic spotlight. There are tons and tons of pictures. A must read for any Chaplin or silent film fan.

Magnificent.......2005-06-25

This is a gorgeous volume that's so much more than just a mere coffeetable book. There are 500 photos, many of them never seen before, from both Chaplin's private life and stills from his many movies, both famous pictures and lesser-known ones. It goes to show that black and white photography can be just as stunning, if not more so, than color pictures. And though it's mainly a study of the shorts and features he made over his incredibly long career, offering insights into filming techniques, storylines, cast and crew, and dates, it also has a fair amount of biographical information as well, with chapters on events such as his exile, his politics, his four marriages, and his final years. One might personally disagree with a negative or positive assessment of a certain film or short (I for example don't find 'A Woman of Paris' to be the groundbreaking fantastic masterpiece many film critics hold it up as), but there's no denying Mr. Vance really did his homework. And I too find it confusing as to why some people find it a bad thing that Mr. Vance wrote this book and other books on comedic legends from the era through collaborating with the subject's family and friends and why it's supposed to be a bad thing that this is an authorised biography. Wouldn't you rather get a more objective picture that was created with help from people who actually knew the person instead of the shoddy negative untruthful hackjob that a lot of unauthorised biographies are?

Charlie Chaplin.......2005-06-01

Charlie Chaplin's Full Filled Life

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in April 16, 1889 in London, England to talented parents who both did well in creative arts. Charlie got his parents ability to sing and act, but he later extended his list of talents to writing, dance, production, and even sports. At age ten, his father died and was forced to take care of his ill mother.
At early age he already joined the show business and joined a group called "The Eight Lancashire Lads". As he became more and more known, he sang a motion picture and became famous and as a celebrity. At the end of his career he ended up writing four books, learned how to play several instruments, and even composed and wrote several songs. Charlie lived a long, full life, and died on Christmas Day of 1977 to being eighty-eight years old.
I have a very high recommendation on this book and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to be inspired and can learned by his mistakes. If you want to be interested from the beginning to the end then I recommend this book.

Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema - a feast for the eyes.......2004-08-05

Having received this book as a gift for Xmas, I immediately packed it up into a box without so much as cracking the shrinkwrap (I moved on January 1 2004). I just unpacked the box in which this book has lain for the last 7 months! I can only state, a real pity I did not get to this box sooner! This book is an absolute feast for the eyes. Of the books Vance has done this is now my favorite. The text is crisp and the accompanying photos are incredible, culled from many sources. This is a fantastic reference for anyone with an interest in Chaplin. I must now offer big KUDOS to Manoah Bowman who worked on the photo end on this book (as well as the others). His work is superb, the images are crisp, clear and reproduced beautifully. I love the photography of this era, and his photos just make me weep, they are wonderful! I am not a Chaplin expert, but I think you can match this book with David Robinson's excellent biography and you will be pretty well covered! The days of the decadent coffee table books seems to be running dry, and I would suggest you snap this up, it's a stunner! As for the negative comments of other reviewers, I fail to understand their complaint, the is nothing wrong with a family sanctioned tome or going to the source (if one can be found) for material. I'm glad I have this book and all the others, they are rich a gorgeous and a wonderful reference for one of my favorite periods of film. My only regret will be if there are no more to come!

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This complete encyclopedia encompasses music of all kinds from ancient times to the present day. Written by a team of 90 expert contributors, these 6,600 articles cover composers, and individual works; musical instruments; opera; music of different countries; Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque,
Classical, Romantic, Jazz, and popular music; definitions of musical terms; rudiments and theory of music; and standard forms and genres.

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The Most Desirable Edition of This Book.......2005-01-17

I've been comparing The New Oxford Companion to Music, ed. Denis Arnold (1983; 2 volumes, 2,017 pages) with the latest edition: The Oxford Companion to Music, ed. Alison Latham (2002; 1,434 pages). In the estimable series of Oxford Companions you can usually expect the new edition to supersede and replace the old one. In this case, however, it's not that simple. A glance at the above reveals that the new edition, in one volume, is some 583 pages shorter than the preceding edition, in two volumes. Losing almost 600 pages of 2,000 represents a very substantial loss of material.

Moreover, when we examine the two editions, we discover that the 1983 edition is lavishly, indeed beautifully, illustrated ("1,100 halftone illustrations and line drawings, 405 music examples"). None of the illustrations are in color, but there is an abundance of well-chosen, functional, illuminating photos, portraits, paintings, manuscripts, figures, line drawings, plates, tables, musical examples. The new edition of 2002, alas, has virtually eschewed illustration: almost all of the illustrations of the 1983 edition have been scrapped. We get a comparative handful of musical examples and figures, but just about everything else has been eliminated; even the greatest composers aren't represented by a single likeness, whereas in the 1983 edition even lesser composers get a photo or portrait. If for example you want to understand what an accordion is, there is no substitute for a picture of one. The 1983 edition has a 4-page entry on "accordion," with photos of four different types (including a musician playing one), plus 2 explanatory diagrams. The 2002 edition has a page-length entry with no illustrative material at all. I find this a significant loss, a significant cheapening of the book, and a significant diminution in the pleasure of using it. It's revealing that Alison Latham, the 2002 editor, refers to the "wealth of illustrative material" as one of the assets of Denis Arnold's 1983 edition, but makes no mention of the fact that she has thrown out almost all of it.

But that's not all. If for example we look up "organ" in the 1983 edition, we find a truly comprehensive 20-page entry, with 20 illustrations (plates, figures, tables, drawings, photos). In the 2002 edition we find a 6-page entry with 8 figures; this represents a radical abridgment of the earlier article.

Could "organ" be an unhappy fluke? No, unfortunately it's not. I looked up "trumpet," "violin," and "piano," and found the same result in each case: a truly drastic loss of material, both text and illustration, in the new edition.

If you look up any of the hundred standard repertory operas in the 1983 edition, you find the basic facts about composer, librettist, and premiere, plus a synopsis of the action, and often an apt illustration and "Further Reading" suggestions. If you look up any of the same operas in the 2002 edition, you find a very short entry (Carmen, for example, gets three lines; Tristan und Isolde gets two lines) giving the basic facts about composer, librettist, premiere--no synopsis, no illustration, no reading list.

So you can see why the 2002 edition of this book was received with reservation, indeed with downright disappointment, by those who were familiar with the 1983 edition. Why would Oxford UP have made such Draconian changes? Well, the governing perception seems to have been that the 1983 edition, lavishly illustrated and in two volumes, had outgrown its purpose and over-reached its market. Evidently many found the two-volume format cumbersome and too expensive. The 2002 edition, by eliminating almost all of the illustrations and reducing the size to a single volume, has cheapened and abridged the book, rendered it much less attractive, and in many areas reduced its usefulness, but has made it handier and more affordable.

Does the 2002 edition have no redeeming qualities, then, but cheapness and one-volume convenience? Indeed it does have its virtues. For one, it's up-to-date. A blurb on its dustcover breathlessly claims, "Now, thirty years after the last edition, this invaluable companion is back in a completely new edition"--a barefaced falsehood: the period between the two editions was 19 years, not 30. But the new edition benefits from the scholarship of the last two decades; many new and updated articles ("over 1,000 new entries") reflect the perspective of 2002. Many articles conclude with mini-bibliographies (in both editions), and these are inevitably more current and useful in the 2002 edition.

Perhaps the most valuable feature of the new edition is the inclusion for the first time of entries not just for composers but for distinguished performing musicians. In the 1983 (and earlier) edition, there were no entries for conductors, singers, instrumentalists. In the 2002 edition you'll find entries for Toscanini, Walter, Furtwangler, Caruso, Melba, Ponselle, Melchior, Flagstad, Callas, Heifetz, Casals, Artur Rubinstein, Horowitz, Segovia, Dennis Brain, and many others. This change was overdue and certainly enhances the usefulness of the book. Many of the "over 1,000 new entries" in the 2002 edition are in this category. "Space limitations have restricted these [entries] to artists who are no longer alive and who had significant influence on composition or performance." These entries are also limited to classical musicians.

In some cases the perspective of 2002 has warranted an expanded version of a composer entry in the 1983 edition. For example, Orff, Moussorgsky, and Scriabin all get expanded treatments (but lose their portraits) in the new edition.

So, what to do; which Companion to choose? My solution is obvious but perhaps not very helpful: if you love music and like good reference books, get both. I believe the Alison Latham 2002 edition should be viewed as an updated supplement to the more substantial and lavish 1983 edition, not as a replacement. Denis Arnold's 1983 two-volume edition was the first complete revision since the original 1938 Oxford Companion to Music, edited (and largely written) by Percy Scholes; it is not perfect, but I think it represents the high-water mark of the three editions. If you have only the spartan 2002 edition, be aware that you are missing much of value and beauty in the 1983 edition. (Unfortunately I'm not the only one who has noticed that the 2002 edition is no replacement for the 1983 edition: if you check prices for used copies of the 1983 edition in the USA, you'll find that they are high.) If you own both editions, you can enjoy the best of both worlds. If I could own only one, I'd keep the 1983.

A must for musicians and lovers of music out there!.......2001-02-28

This set of two books has everything. From Beethoven's Sonatas, to who was Beethoven, to what's a Sonata and many many others. Pumped up with 2000 pages of music knowlledge, this Encyclopedia of Music, is a must for every musician as well as anyone who is a lover of music. It's great and it certainly helped me for the preparations of my studies in the area of Music. I give it 5 stars, how could I do otherwise ?

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Fans that wager on college basketball can become consistent winners and still gain the full entertainment value of both watching the games and wagering. By applying a little extra effort to handicap games and place wagers intelligently, the losses of the average fan can be turned into significant winnings. If you are a fan are ready to spend some time handicapping - maybe 20 minutes - you can win consistently. By using a systematic handicapping and wagering process that makes the best use of your time, you can gain an advantage. Examples of the most powerful techniques for gaining a consistent wagering advantage are: · Specializing in point-spread wagers rather than totals, futures, interactive, and exotic propositions. · Projecting a team's play based on past performance against teams comparable to the next opponent, not all teams. · Analyzing a team's performance trend by focusing on the last 10 games. · Systematically varying the amounts wagered to reflect your perceived advantage - the difference between the outcome that you forecast for the game and the point spread. · Doing business with sports books with offer you a tangible advantage in terms of how early they accept wagers as well as the propositions they handle and transaction fees (vigorish) they charge. · For each desired wager, "shop" among sports books for the most favorable terms - both the point spread and the moneyline.

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Easily Worth the Cover Price.......2007-05-28

Due to the fact that great sports betting books are a diamond in the rough, i would have to say this stacks up as one of the bettor books I've read because it gives practical information that can be used to garner an edge in handicapping.
The money management section is not a central part of the book although it is conceptually the weakest element. I am not aware of Seidel's own betting experiences but 60% is really only attainable possibly in college hoops (over a small sample) but I wouldn't personally expect to hit at that rate (target of 55% is much more realistic). Hence the advice about putting down 10 unit wagers is probably not wise.

Excellent NCAAB handicapping treatise.......2006-03-08

This text gives you a streamlined process for handicapping college basketball spreads. There are virtually no other legitimate authors on this topic, as most professional bettors do not give away their methods. Seidel's methodologies for handicapping are legitimate, which makes him a rare diamond in the trough. If you master this book's material and understand money management, you will make money betting on NCAAB.

While his understanding of college basketball is extraordinary, his understanding of the sports betting industry is poor. Likewise, his ideas on money management are also deficient. Although this is not the focus of the book, his lack of understanding in these areas are why this book received only 4 stars.

Seidel wrote another book "Investing in College Basketball". Of the two, this was far superior. It was shorter and better organized, making it easier to quickly adopt his methodologies.

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College Basketball: Wagering To Win
Larry R. Seidel
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
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ASIN: B000N6CS74

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