Julien Levy: Memoir Of An Art Gallery (Artworks)

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Julien Levy opened his New York gallery in 1931, and the following year assembled the first Surrealist show ever held in that city. Over the next two decades he exhibited works by Dal', Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Calder, Eugene Berman, Tchelitchew, Giacometti, Arshile Gorky and many other luminaries of 20th-century art, giving a number of them their first shows. But Levy was more than a gifted dealer: he also had a gift for friendship, and in this charming, anecdotal memoir he recounts his intimate dealings with some of the most innovative figures of his generation. He crossed the Atlantic with Duchamp and introduced Tanguy to New York. He conceived the idea for Dal''s Birth of Venus pavilion at the World's Fair, shared a summer house with Ernst and fished with Andra Breton (yielding a memorable description of the Surrealist leader's run-in with a blowfish). And he was with Gorky in the final, tragic days before the painter's suicide. Memoir of an Art Gallery is the story of prescient vision and lifelong devotion. By turns humorous and moving, and back in print after many years, it is also one of the most enjoyable works ever written about the pivotal time when Manhattan became the art capital of the world. This edition features a new introduction by Ingrid Schaffner, senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

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Memoir of an Art Gallery
Julien Levy
Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Memoir of an Art Gallery Personal Recollections of Ernest Man Ray, Steiglitz De Chirco, Dali, Duchamp, Cornell, Gorky

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Memoir of an Art Gallery Personal Recollections of Ernest Man Ray, Steiglitz De Chirco, Dali, Duchamp, Cornell, Gorky
Julien Levy
Manufacturer: Putnam
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JJTBO8

MEMOIR OF AN ART GALLERY, PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF ERNST, MAN RAY, STIEGLITZ, DE CHIRICO, DALI, DUCHAMP, CORNELL, GORKY

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MEMOIR OF AN ART GALLERY, PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF ERNST, MAN RAY, STIEGLITZ, DE CHIRICO, DALI, DUCHAMP, CORNELL, GORKY
Julien Levy
Manufacturer: Putnam
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VGF5S0

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From Ophelia DeVore in the 1940's and today's Tyra Banks, Grace Jones, and Naomi Campbell, Black and Beautiful highlights more than sixty years of the Black fashion model's triumphs and struggles. Barbara Summers, a Ford Model for seventeen years, interviewed dozens of models and selected more than 250 photos for this landmark publication. Celebrating the strength and style of these fascinating women and their groundbreaking careers, this book is a gorgeous tribute to the beauty of Black women everywhere.

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What a wonderful retrospect of the hard work black women have made in the entertainment industry.......2007-02-18

I found this book so interesting and needed to reflect the wonderful work black women have made as objects of beauty. I was suprised to know that women like Daphne Maxwell-Reid was a cover model. This book is a definate reference manual for black history.

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Kids flock to manga—they watch the television shows, they go to the movies, they carry the licensed products everywhere. And the most popular manga of all is manga shoujo (pronounces MAHN-gah SHOW-jo), a clean-lined style with stories about friends, romance, school, and magic. Girls love it, boys love it, and parents love it, too, because it's bright, cheerful, and appealing. Kids Draw Manga Shoujo starts with basic heads, faces, bodies, and costumes, then goes on to show dozens of high-energy characters in Christopher Hart's easy-to-follow step-by-step drawings and clear, engaging text. Teens, school kids, magical girls and boys, fairies, elves, demigods, and goddesses are all part of the world of manga shoujo—and now kids everywhere can be part of that world with Kids Draw Manga Shoujo.

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This is not manga........2006-08-16

Being a manga artist myself, I must declare- Hart is not a manga artist. His work is just mere cartoon with a little touch of manga. Before buying this book, I advise you to look inside. If you are going to buy this book for your child as most people do, then buy one of the HTDM (How To Draw Manga). If you present this as a first manga book for your child whatsoever, then it will just ruin his or her art style.

As of what I have seen, this book will attempt to make you or your children copy his mere artwork. All of his steps are exactly like many other manga books, only the art is much much worse.

My final line is, I DEFINITELY do NOT reccommend this book. If I could, I would have rated this 0 stars. If I was him, I wouldn't go selling books before I learn more about Manga.

To western!.......2005-12-24

I am a huge shoujo fan and this is deppressing. The art in this book doesn't even LOOK like manga. Even a begginer can figure that out. I mean I showed this book to my friend who doesn't even like manga and she could even figure out that Hart is terrible at manga. Beggieners or advance stay away! Instead of wasteing your money on this dinky little 60 paged book try the how to draw manga series. You might accually LEARN how to draw real manga!

Do something smart, buy this book.......2005-12-22

I like Manga, as do my children. We have bought other Manga Shoujo books but we prefer this one, by far. We enjoyed the drawings, the step by step instruction and how Christopher Hart captures the Manga Shoujo attitude. Our family really enjoyed this book.

how NOT to draw manga shoujo!.......2005-12-04

Well the only words that describe this book is.Cheap,Pethetic,Crappy,Not helpful and american.Be smart. Don't buy this book.

~*~Purin~*~

THIS IS NOT MANGA!!!!!.......2005-11-28

THIS IS NOT MANGA! THIS IS A RIP OFF! IF YOU WANT MANGA, READ RANMA 1/2 OR FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST! AND DON'T WATCH THE ANIME! READ THE MANGA! THIS IS AMERICANIZED GARBAGE

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Great book for the 1920-1950 era........2006-11-06

I appreciate the writing style of this book published by The University
of Kentucky Press. It can be used in classrooms, I would think, and it
is also an enjoyable read for the casual reader who is interested in
Appalchian hill life in the first half of the 1900s. Van Willigen's
great narrative is well-complimented by some equally great black and
white photos. The author avoids using unnecessary, scholarly wording
and gets down to telling very interesting stories. Much use is made
of real wording from people he has interviewed.

For me, a Mid-westerner, this book is a must-have. I have an interest
in Appalachia and the Ozarks during the time period covered by this
book. It is a real "find" for me It will always have a place in my library.
Do yourself a favor and treat yourself to a new hardcover copy with a very nice dust jacket...you'll want to keep this book, too.

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This is the first book on New York's subway musicians--modern troubadours who perform on platforms, mezzanines, and even trains pounding through the city. Illustrating her account with captivating photos, Susie J. Tanenbaum draws on interviews with musicians and their audiences to explore both the vibrant culture and the intricate politics of subway music.

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Finally-Wonderful Intellectual Inquiry By A Non-Academic.......1999-06-12

Tanenbaum's "Underground Harmonies" is simply a beautiful and intelligent study of subway street musicians. Not only does she have the ability to write a colorful and vivid ethnography, she also displays the sociological and legal know-how to analyze their social significance and debate the institutional absorbtion of street musicians by the city.

Underground Harmonies: Music and Politics in the Subways of New York. (book reviews): An article from: The Oral History Review

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Underground Harmonies: Music and Politics in the Subways of New York. (book reviews): An article from: The Oral History Review
Ruth Glasser
Manufacturer: Oral History Association
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097PB8U
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 1268 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: Underground Harmonies: Music and Politics in the Subways of New York. (book reviews)
Author: Ruth Glasser
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: v24 Issue: n1 Page: p123(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Bridge Conventions in Depth
Matthew Granovetter , and Pamela Granovetter
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Ignore the man behind the curtain...and the contents of this book.

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Begin the journey...

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Journey to the Emerald City
Roger Connors , and Tom Smith
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Great book for any leader!!.......2006-03-14

I am a bank manager for a large corporation. We have a great culture established so I purchased this book not to learn how to change our corporate culture but that of my banking center. I am only about half way through the book at this point but I had to get on here and say that this is one of the most impressive books I have purchased in a long time!

I would say if you are looking at ways to impact your team and develop a culture of accountability this book is exactly what you need. It does cover some things that just make sense but other things are able to be implemented immediately for improvement. My team has noticed the difference in my leadership style as a result. We have to hold them accountable but how do we do it in a way that is effective and not offensive? This is covered.

One of the first things that were an "AHA" for me was regarding how we get results out of people. I have always thought we just need to impact behaviors to get the results we were searching for. The authors suggest a more in depth model. They suggest that it has four levels - First, Experience (create experiences that will enforce the desired behaviors); Second, Beliefs (once they have an experience it creates beliefs); Third, Actions (if they believe something then they will put it into action); Finally, Results (when the actions are what is desired the desired results will follow). Too many times we increase goals to get certain results BUT we forget to move the experiences, beliefs and actions in the same direction. There is so much more!

Ignore the man behind the curtain...and the contents of this book........2005-10-09

Oh brother, another corporate winner. Accountability? That is a not a new idea. HR people love this stuff because it allows them to try and be fun while trying to fool you into accepting bad policies, programs and processes. Yes, I get the parable, but as long as corporate America pretends to trust the employees, the employees will pretend to be accountable. Save your money for an oil change for your car instead.

A Beguiling Title..........2004-03-13

For me, the authors wrote a solid "how to" book on developing a culture within an organization that gets results. Practical and easily understood approaches to fashioning cultural change for achieving results are presented point by point within the pages of this work. For example, several issues addressed are:
-exposing the fallacy of activities for the sake of activities with no appreciable results
-recognizing that every organization has a culture and how to transition that culture into one of effective accomplishment and results-oriented accountability at every level and with every member of the organization
-conveying an agenda on how to make that transition and sustain the new results-oriented culture

It is all here in understandable and ready-to-apply form. While the authors don't pretend that this work to change culture is simple or can be accomplished overnight, they do provide a very focused and forthright view of what is important to work on and maintain as progress is made.

If your organization could be achieving better results or needs to meet promised goals, this is an easy read that contains critical ideas, notions and concepts on how to get there fast.

Begin the journey..........2004-03-13

Due to the recent successes and significant accomplishments of Orbital Transportation Management Systems (TMS), I want to provide you with an update on the cultural transition of TMS. In June 2001, TMS began the Journey to the Emerald City. What a process! The material and practical exercises led each of us to evaluate ourselves individually as well as how we related to each other. We ended with a renewed vigor and commitment to make TMS a world-class organization. And most importantly, as the organizations leaders, we were aligned around a new culture.

Well, here we are seven months later. Today we are a different organization. The organizational boundaries that prohibited our progress are gone. The indifference to one another's problems have been replaced with cross-functional ownership. The disparate views of how TMS works have been replaced with a set of TMS specific beliefs that guide our actions. And most importantly, we are aligned to hit our results.

2001 was the best year in the history of TMS since its inception. I can confidently say that without our cultural transition we would not have been as successful in hitting our financial goals for 2001.

David Mathisen
Vice President, General Manager
Orbital Transportation Management Systems

Accelerate the transition.......2004-03-13

We were faced with the task of bringing two companies together and creating a common culture focused on results. We've been able to build a single orgranization--one team in terms of the way we think and act--in a very short period of time. Frankly, I didn't think it was possible to accomplish this transition in the timeframe in which we've been able to do it.

People are on board. They are excited, and they are focused on creating a culture of accountability. The process you offered is clearly laid out in your book, Journey to the Emerald City, and has had a profound and lasting impact on our organization.

I can highly recommend the Partners In Leadership process to any organization focused on accelerating the creation of a common culture where people are accountable to both think and act in the manner necessary to achieve results.

Joe Lima
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Guidant Corporation
Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Group

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Taking inspiration from The Wizard of Oz, international management consultants Roger Connors and Tom Smith have adapted the underlying framework of one of the world's most famous morality plays to propose a better way of doing business. In their first book, The Oz Principle, they described the potential benefits of a related structure of corporate unification and discussed its long-range ramifications for organizational improvement. In their new effort, Journey to the Emerald City: Achieve a Competitive Edge by Creating a Culture of Accountability, they articulate a step-by-step plan for accelerating its development. The obstacle-strewn path negotiated by the story's legendary characters helped create an "understanding of what was needed in order to achieve the goals of each person on the team," write Connors and Smith. "Yet, the journey not only led to personal insight about what needed to change, but also a collective insight about how the team needed to think and act as a whole in order to get where they were going." Accordingly, the authors present a Yellow Brick Road-map here for altering behavioral patterns of employees and managers to get them working together more effectively to achieve superior results. --Howard Rothman

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innovations. Connors and Smith fill this gap by…outlining

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theory but also in practice. This volume provides hands-on,

concrete tools for helping organizations fulfill their

potential." — Chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company

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Long Term Success Must Read.......2004-03-14

One of the most challenging things for people to do is open their minds and accept new ideas and/or new thoughts about old ideas. Journey To the Emerald City affords readers the rare opportunity to overcome this challenge.

Following the metaphor developed in their best-selling book, The Oz Principle, Connors and Smith dive into the core issue surrounding the achievement of results in organizations...the company's culture. Simply put, the culture of the organization actually determines the results the company will achieve. Connors and Smith clearly let us know that the company culture is how the company both thinks and acts.

As readers of The Oz Principle found, the answers to the problems that plague most of us are most often found within ourselves. Journey To The Emerald City picks up where Oz left off. This is a step-by-step guide to first understanding your current culture and then defining what it needs to become in order to attain and even exceed your expected levels of achievement.

As a former TEC Chair, I had the privilege of working intimately with CEO's and Presidents of companies ranging in revenue from just under $2M to over $60M. One of the hardest steps any of these successful leaders had to take was creating a Culture of Accountability within their organizations. The reason for the challenge was painfully clear, most leaders do not know how to create a culture of accountability, let alone really understand what such a culture looks and acts like. More and more senior leadership teams are searching for the "magic program" to make people "more accountable." Happily, Journey provides just that program, but it isn't magic. It's practical and simple to understand. It's implementable, right now. It doesn't require any special training to understand, and in the face of potential return on investment of time, it stands head and shoulders above all other ideas on the subject.

In Journey, you will find a model called "The Results Pyramid." To borrow a phrase, this model is profoundly simple and simply profound. Readers will find their thoughts leading to circumstances and situations that exemplify and validate the model without effort. The beauty of the model is that it helps leaders define their business case for change, as well as defining the path along which the organization must be aligned in order to achieve success.

Readers are introduced (or reintroduced for readers of Oz) to the best practices that actually define "The Steps to Accountability," See It, Own It, Solve It and Do It. It is these best practices that, when applied and practiced within an organization, will lead to success. Connors and Smith clearly define the path and the processes necessary to change an organizational culture.

The final section of the book deals with accelerating the culture change within the organization. It's no secret that certain activities will impede and others will accelerate any change. Connors and Smith promote the use of what they call, "Focused Feedback" to accelerate and achieve the desired changes. Leadership is the key and the entire organization needs to be enrolled.
In making my decision to delve into this book, several things are worthy of note. First, as I mentioned, I have dealt with senior leadership for several years and believe they know they don't have all the answers. I wanted to have another tool to give them. Second, I read a review by someone who was frustrated with the book because he felt it was merely a promotional piece for the authors to sell their consulting services. This intrigued me because I have yet to meet an author of business and leadership books (myself included) who didn't want to be contacted by their readers and hopefully create some business relationship between these readers and themselves.

Lastly, I read The Oz Principle when it was first published in 1994. I have yet to find another business book that created as deep a feeling about "the right thing to do" as Oz did for me. Journey To The Emerald City runs a very close second. Having been exposed to authors writing about accountability from T.J. Rodgers to Jack Welsh and back to Andrew Grove and the Marines and our service academies, I understand the subject quite well (both as a service academy graduate and as a consultant). This book is a must in today's business environment. The stories support and motivate. The process is direct and clearly defined.

If you have the least concern for how to evolve, grow and define your company's future success, Journey To The Emerald City is required reading.

Gain a competitive Edge.......2004-03-13

In Journey to the Emerald City, Connors and Smith present the principles that make organizational culture THE competitive edge for the 21st Century. They describe in useful, applicable, and concrete ways how to blast away boundaries, create ownership, and drive performance by creating a culture of accountability. Applying the process found in Journey will give any organization a competitive edge!

David Mathisen
Sr. Vice President & General Manager
Orbital Transportation Management Systems

Good Content, Don't Need Toto.......2003-03-16

In 1998, the authors wrote The Oz Principle around the concept that "an organization will perform at its highest potential if, and only if, each of its members assumes personal accountability for achieving its results." Thus, Conners and Smith emphasize a corporate culture that is based on personal accountability, with leaders, goals, tasks, teams, and every aspect of organizational life connected to that theme.

I will admit to being put off by the title and the cover. Wizard of Oz? Dorothy and her red shoes? The Cowardly Lion? Do I have time for fables and games? There are some mentions of Frank Baum's classic, some quotes, and some relationships like explaining that managers don't have magic. Overall, however, this book is a solid management book on changing organizational culture. And that's a vital issue for a lot of companies today.

The book is organized into three sections whose titles give good insight into the value and flow of the text: Understanding Company Culture, Shifting to a New Culture, and Accelerating Culture Change. The ten chapters explain the concepts and a process for moving forward in an organized, results-oriented fashion. The book is filled with practical approaches that can open a company to achievements that have been trapped inside by a dysfunctional culture. The key is accountability that starts at the top of the organization with an open and complete style of leadership. No games: communication.

The authors show us how to change the way people think and act. They show how to get people involved in a positive way so transformation can occur. Culture change is a journey, a journey that can be taken at an agonizingly slow pace, a normal flow (whatever that is), or moved to a higher level of velocity and enthusiasm. Graphics and an index enhance the book's value, which is far beyond the connection to the Oz story.

You'll learn from consultants who have "been there" and achieved results. The knowledge you gain will enable you to achieve some change in your organization based on what these men have learned and share in this book.

It's to Laugh.......2001-01-30

Many business books are a form of utopian literature and should be treated as such. Given this premise, one would think that a book with a title like "Journey to the Emerald City" would be a top-notch business book as it suggests the authors might have a certain awareness of this genre.

Unfortunately, this in not the case here. Instead, this is yet another entry in the "book as selling tool" sweepstakes. In this sub-genre of the business book, the book is the foot-in-the-door for selling consulting services. Little more than a powerpoint presentation fleshed out with the usual miscellaneous facts and figures, these books are short on everything but jargon. They offer middle managers cozy, self-evident insights and simplistic advice that most company employees find insulting or at least insipid. (Around our office, the charts in the first chapter that show "non-aligned" and "aligned" processes and goals are considered a fine example of this facile and fallacious sub-genre as they keenly demonstrate the obvious in the most obvious fashion possible.)

Business books are not known for their sense of humor, certainly, because as we all know, business is extraordinarily serious. Yet, lack of wit and self-awareness are not virtures either. Nor is the plodding purposefulness with which the authors describe their "innovative" approach, although again, they are clearly in good company in this genre.

A shame really, especially since clearly the publishers felt strongly enough about the book to spend some extra bucks on shiny green foil on the jacket. Then again, perhaps the title is more apt than I take it to be. Like in the Wizard of Oz, we find there is no wizard behind the flashy curtain and special effects, but rather the usual seller of snake oil.

An Excellent Book!.......2000-04-07

An Excellent Book.. A must for all the mangers in any organisation.

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AWESOME!.......2007-08-18

I have had the pleasure of working with Tom and Roger a few times. The methods for establishing ownership and accountability are outstanding. This stuff really works folks. I am a witness to the power of what is presented in these books. Whether you are a small company of large corporation - this is worth listening to. Good luck and never stop asking yourself "What Else Can I Do?".

Good use of driving time........2006-02-19

These tapes are excellent for listening while driving. The book is well done and worth read (or listening). I went back and highlighted the parts in the book that sounded the best. It really worked for me.

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