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Since 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artist's studio. The New York Studio Events program has visited some 200 distinguished artists throughout its history, including Janine Antoni, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Petah Coyne, Leon Golub, David Levinthal, Mary Lucier, Laurie Simmons, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Vik Muniz and Andrea Zittel. Inside the Studio shares for the first time the invaluable archive of audio recordings made during these events, excerpting from approximately 75 of the most fascinating to provide an exceptional oral record of these artists' thinking about their working processes, conceptual issues, the current scene and artists whose work they themselves admire. Founded in 1975, ICI's mission is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through traveling exhibitions and other activities that reach a diverse national and international audience. Collaborating with a wide range of eminent curators over the years, ICI has created some 100 exhibitions that collectively have included the work of more than 2,500 artists, presented at over 450 art spaces located throughout the United States, and 20 other countries.
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Contents:.......2006-03-12
Winning interviews and auditions, understanding the advertising and fashion industries, getting an agent, photographing successfully, understanding the unions, getting work for children, and much much more.
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Attention adults. Announcing a new book--a very personal book, in fact a decidedly quirky book--from Sara Midda, renowned artist of singular talent and author of In and Out of the Garden, Sara Midda's South of France, Sara Midda's Baby Book, and Growing Up and Other Vices.
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Beguiling and whimsical and enigmatic, A IS FOR ADULTERY is an alphabetical entertainment for grown-ups. Each spread considers a letter, weaving words through dazzling miniatures and vignettes. Some words are obvious; some hidden. (Some naughty.) It is a great pleasure to look, even more so to seek.
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C is for crayon, crotch, claustrophobia. M for melon, masochist, melancholy, and man. Filled with charming little figures and painted with Midda's exquisite watercolor wash, here is a rare and wonderful marriage of humor and beauty--a treasure of fine things that is both a gift and a game.
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A is For Adultery..........2007-06-27
Do you love words? Do you love clever? Want to break the ice @ next soirée. Don't miss this. Added bonus: the wonderful drawings suggestive of not what you expected.
A Is For Adultery, Angst, and Adults Only.......2006-11-10
I thought this was conceptually quite clever. The chosen word choices, with attendant watercolor illustrations, were also very unique. There is no doubt this is a true artist at work.
Pleasantly shocked.......2006-07-29
Having been an instant fan of Sara Midda's previous works, I was pleasantly shocked at not only the illustrations but the content of this one. Adorably naughty!
Excellent Product!.......2003-07-01
In line with the quality & delicate illustrations of her previous books, Sara Midda delivers yet another gem which showcases her signature style.
The book is produced on quality paper & printing. The illustrations are lush and colourful.
Highly recommended to all followings of Sara Midda's work.
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Whoever said Christians shouldn't enjoy a good laugh now and then? Here's a fantastic new collection of nearly five hundred jokes that turn the mirror back on ourselves--with hilarious results. The World's Greatest Collection of Church Jokes contains scores of funnies involving pastors, deacons, Sunday school teachers, pew sitters, and kids--all of them clean, funny, good-natured, and often times true to life. Organized into categories, The World's Greatest Collection of Church Jokes is perfect for personal reading or preparing sermons and speeches.
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Cute book.......2007-01-06
Working with middle school age kids requires humor! This little book has helped. I use jokes to add to the newsletter or postcards a lot.
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Barbarella vs. Mrs. Robinson! James Bond vs. Jean-Luc Godard!
Don't miss these and more exciting encounters in Movies of the 60s!
116 A-Z film entries include:
• Synopsis
• Film stills and production photos
• Cast/crew listings
• Box office figures
• Trivia
• Useful information on technical stuff
• Actor and director bios
Plus: a complete Academy Awards list for the decade
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Moveis of the 60s.......2007-07-03
Another lush picture book that fits with the others in the series. It's just as one would expect, extremely impressive visually. Odd omissions, here and there (but that's true of the entire series.) Generally, an excellent volume.
Great Book. Where's the Other Great Movies?.......2006-04-08
Bought this book here on Amazon a while ago. I love it a lot. I still get chills when I see the image of Vanessa Redgrave holding her bare chest in "Blow-Up" (aka "The Vanessa De Milo"). But I have a problem with this book: Why is it that Muller left out some of the other great movies? Because of this, this only gets four stars. I mean, where's "Judgement at Nuremberg"? "Splendor in the Grass"? "Days Of Wine And Roses"? "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"? "Seven Days in May?" "Cat Ballou?" (in which Jane Fonda plays the title character and it paved the way for "Barbarella" and when you think about it, Fonda is playing the same character, but different genre) The Michael Caine films as Harry Palmer? "The Chase"? (Also with Fonda) "Georgy Girl"? "Harper"? "Morgan"? "Tony Rome"? "Wait Until Dark"? "Isadora"? "Petulia"? "Medium Cool"? Well, you get the idea.
Also, how is it that Muller can feature "The Pink Panther" and not "A Shot in the Dark"? Some say the latter is a thousand times more funnier than the first. And how can he have "Hell in the Pacific" with Lee Marvin in the book and not give a review of the film he did before which was "Point Blank"? Plus, he has "The Odd Couple." What about the other Neil Simon comedy before that-"Barefoot in the Park"? (With Robert Redford and again with Jane Fonda). Lastly, how can he have all these foreign films and not mention "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"? That film features Sophia Loren in the most famous strip scene ever put on film. Fonda's floating strip scene in "Barbarella" is no match for Loren's. In conclusion, this is an A- book and I still like it.
Movies of the '60s.......2005-08-18
This is a great book. It contains (wonderful) pictures and writing on great films of the '60s - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Zorba the Greek, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, Lawrence of Arabia, A Hard Day's Night, 2001: The Space Odyssey, Barbarella, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and many others.
As a film enthusiast, I can spend hours reading and looking through this book. Anyone interested in film or the 1960s should give it a try.
And, the book itself is beautifully made.
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A brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s.
In what the New York Times's A.O. Scott called a "suave, scholarly tour de force," J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one. This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black and Sexual Revolutions, the Vietnam War and Watergate—as well as the tele-saturation of the American market and the advent of Pop art. In "elegant, epigrammatic prose," as Scott put it, Hoberman moves from the political histories of movies to the theater of wars, national political campaigns, and pop culture events.
With entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies (such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and Shampoo), and meditations on personages from Che Guevara, John Wayne, and Patty Hearst to Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, and Dirty Harry, Hoberman reconstructs the hidden political history of 1960s cinema and the formation of America's mass-mediated politics.
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The Movies and America in "The REAL Greatest Generation".......2006-11-04
I saw this book at the university library and I like it. I'll use it as one of my sources because I plan on writing the defining book of the movies in the 1960's someday. The cover of Clint Eastwood for "Dirty Harry" is a classic. One weakness to this book is that there are no photos to keep it entertaining and Hoberman left out some other important movies from the decade. But it was ironic that choose "Blow-Up" as the movie that defied the decade considering it started three things: It was the first movie to ever delt with life after JFK's murder, it was the movie that started the porn film (in the few short years after this movie, there were sexually charged films like "Belle De Jour" and "I Am Curious (Yellow)," right up to "Deep Throat") and it started the feminist movement. We all know that Tom Brokaw wrote a book in which he believes the World War II era was the greatest generation. But I think the Baby Boomers (which includes my divorced parents) made it that title and I think the years 1963 to 1974 (from Kennedy butchered in Dallas to Nixon embarrassed over Watergate) was the REAL greatest generation and look at some of the movies that came out in that time like "Tom Jones" up to "The Godfather Part II." This does make for a good reference book.
A fine history evolves which uses the film world as a reflection of cultural change.......2005-10-05
Here's a new cultural history of the Sixties - through the eye of the camera as it considers the social and political impact of movies and theater of the times. Using key Hollywood productions from Shampoo to Bonnie and Clyde, senior film critic at the Village Voice Hoberman provides a lively reconstruction of the politics behind the films, examining with actors and subjects with a critic's eye for detail. A fine history evolves which uses the film world as a reflection of cultural change.
Excellent book about 50s-70s movies and culture.......2004-01-26
This is a great book. It touches on an almost dizzying number of milestones, from the fifties TV show ''The Next Voice You Hear'' to Brian De Palma's movie ''Blow Out.''
The point of the book, if there is one that can be easily summarized, is that political and cultural events (especially films) first became genuinely inseparable during the 1960s (not dissimilar to the points that Marshall McLuhan made in ''Understanding Media'' and Daniel Boorstin made in ''The Image: or What Happened to the American Dream'' while history was happening; but, as Hoberman points out, that history could not have been fully understood by those prophets in the midst of it).
This is a masterfully rendered cultural history. Hoberman's style can get breathless at times, and there are a lot of films and events to keep up with, but the narrative (and the analysis) are involving, cogent, and thoughtful. Think ''The Dirty Dozen,'' ''Easy Rider,'' ''Bonnie & Clyde,'' ''Blow Up,'' ''The Wild Bunch,'' ''Shampoo'' (and songs like ''The Ballad of the Green Berets''): they're all here, along with the cultural context that they fed into and the ''dream life'' that they helped construct.
Magical Mystery Tour of the Sixties.......2003-11-24
This is a wonderful book (I devoured it over a weekend). It examines the relationship between American social and political life and the movies during the turbulent decade of the Sixties, although the book actually covers films well into the Seventies. The book argues that this relationship was a two-way street, with the movies being influenced by what was happening in society, but also that the movies influenced politics and society. For example, Hoberman asserts that Kennedy's fascination with James Bond and secret agents and Nixon's obsession with the movie Patton to some extent influenced the style and substance of their presidencies. Another overarching theme of the book is how the Western, that most American of movie genres, evolved almost beyond recognition through the course of the Sixties and early Seventies (from The Alamo to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid).
Among the films prominently covered in the book are Blowup, Spartacus, The Manchurian Candidate, Bonnie & Clyde, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch, and Dirty Harry, but the book also discusses more obscure films such as Tell Them Willie Boy is Here and Wild in the Streets. That most quintessential of all Sixties films, Woodstock, is oddly absent from the book.
A couple of quibbles: Hoberman quotes Norman Mailer far too often and it would have been nice to have a true bibliography rather than having to rummage through the source notes. That aside, I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in either the social history or films of the Sixties--you will not be disappointed!
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- pretty good- but definitely five
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Cult Movies in Sixty Seconds
Soren McCarthy
Manufacturer: Vision
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ASIN: 1904132162 |
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Presenting the information movie fans need about those films that the insiders seem to know and love, this handy guide to cult flicks offers perceptive and entertaining entries containing an outline of the plot, characters, and themes; insight into why the film is considered a classic; and essential little-known facts. Featuring such favorites as Barbarella, Betty Blue, Harold and Maude, Roger and Me, The Wickerman, and Withnail and I, this book highlights the best films from more than 50 years of movie making. Also explored are the qualities that make a film a cult movie and whether a film can be both cult and a box office hit.
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pretty good- but definitely five.......2004-05-12
For those who love cult movies or people just looking for the tip of the iceberg on good cult movies, i highly recommend this book. Though, the book has over fifty movies given with small "60" seconds synposizes and information reguarding directors, plot, actors or people's reactions, such as critiques, of the movies. Since around fifty movies are picked, obviously many movies are left out, especially good ones such as (in my opinion)Hedwig and the Angry Inch or Velvet Goldmine. THe author has said that he will maybe make a second volume if he recieves enough emails about the readers favorite cult films (his emial is in the book.) THe book features movies such as Fight Club, AKira, Reservoir Dogs, Dr. Strangeglove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Withdrawl and I, SKidoo, Carnival of Souls, Freaks, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill,Harold and Maude- ect and this book also addresses whether a cult film can be a blockbuster as well. good book n_n
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Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties
Ali Catterall , and
Simon Wells
Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0007145543 |
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Blow Up, Get Carter, Performance, A Clockwork Orange, Quadrophenia, Naked, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels—in recent years, an industry has grown up around certain British cult movies, spawning soundtracks, videos, internet sites, and cinematic re–releases. The makers of these films have become icons of cool, revered throughout the worlds of film, music, and fashion. How has this come about? And what turns these films into lifestyles? Drawing on exclusive interviews with studio bosses, actors, filmmakers, and fans, and touring dozens of film locations, Your Face Here reveals all.
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How I Broke Into The Movies Signed Autobiographies in FACSIMILE, The Personal Accounts of Movie Stars & Their "big breaks" , , Includes Renee Adoree, Wallace Beery, Monte Blue, Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford,
Edited Compiled By Hal C. Herman, ( SIXTY ) with Full Page b/w Photos of Stars, Foreword By D. W. ( David Wark 0 Griffith, Inner Hinge TAPE REINFORECEMENT, ( SCREEN STARS ) By 60 Famous ScreenStars
Manufacturer: Publ. IN Hollywood, Printed By Everett L. Sanders
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ASIN: B000JD68P4 |
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Movies of the 60s
Manufacturer: easton press
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000COF6OY |
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LEATHER BOUND book set accented in 22kt gold!
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You Can’t Steal a Gift is about the impact of American racism on America’s greatest gift to the world of music—jazz. In a work that combines memoir, oral history, and commentary, Gene Lees has crafted minibiographies of four great black musicians whom he knew well—Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat “King” Cole. Lees writes of them, “All are men who had every reason to embrace bitterness . . . and didn’t.”
When Lees left Montreal to become the music and drama critic of the Louisville Times in 1955, he was shocked by the racism and segregation he found in the United States. In jazz he found a community of like-minded souls who freely shared their gifts with all lovers of music, regardless of race and condition.
Customer Reviews:
You Can't Steal a Central Idea.......2004-05-08
Two caveats with this book: (1) It was reviewed in The Economist as being for the general reader, but it really is meant for the jazz aficionado. There is a lot of name-dropping, and lists of albums and songs that might as well have been Sumerian kings. (2) The jacket misleads when it says "the underlying theme in his book is the impact racism had on the four musicians' lives and careers and their determination to overcome it." I agree with the other reviewer who complains that Lees sometimes thinks it's still 1955 (with regard to race)-maybe an effect of his Canadian upbringing-but there's not too much of this. The real problem is that there IS no underlying theme. This book goes all over the place, and I DO mean even within each separate chapter/biography.
But the vignettes of these four great artists' lives in mid-century are often quite memorable anyway. Oral history, biography, music criticism, history of the Prohibition period, anecdotes of racism; cameo appearances by Jackie Gleason, Cab Calloway, and Louis Armstrong; there's a lot of interesting stuff here. Think of it as a magazine with most of the articles running together.
An accurate history of great musicians.......2001-12-14
First- and second-person history as practised by Gene Lees and Nat Hentoff is accurate, human, informative, entertaining and deeply satisfying. It is also a refreshing palliative to the third- and fourth-hand histories that often pass for fact nowadays. To refer to Lees' writings on race as "ranting," as one reviwer has it, with that word's connotation of violence, polarizes the matter and misrepresents the thought and care that have gone into this book's discussion of race. To "skip all that," would be to remain ignorant and in denial of what it took for the four subjects of the book to achieve their status in the pantheon of American artists. Don't skip all that: read the whole thing to learn, from the artists themselves and the people close to them, more about Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton and Nat King Cole and to understand the social environment they lived and worked in.
Flawed but nice.......2001-10-25
This is a fun read, essays on four jazz greats based largely on personal recollections. But there is just too much of the author, a failing in all of Lees' books. We must endure his rantings on race (the man still thinks it's 1955) and politics. Indeed, race is the focus for the book, even at times overshadowing the musicians and jazz. Skip all of that, and there is much to learn and to be enjoyed.
Customer Reviews:
Grimoire.......2007-01-11
This is basically GURPS Magic, book 2. It provides great additional material in the way of new spells for the current colleges of magic such as the Elementals or Necromancy. In addition, the new schools of magic (Gate and Tech magic) are interesting new additions. This gives your characters the advantage of not only having the right spell for the right occasion, but also having a selection of tricks up their sleeves.
A must for any serious user of GURPS Magic........2002-11-21
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: This book is a companion volume to GURPS Magic. In order to fully appreciate (and make the best use of) this book, you need GURPS Magic as well. Now that that is out of the way, on to the praises. This is where you will find the odder and more esoteric spells (as well as some of the more powerful ones) that Magic just didn't have room for, or that handn't been thought of yet. Some of these spells are exceptionally powerful, others are just plain sneaky, but all are useful. As I said before, the odder corners and more advanced levels of magic are more fully represented in this book, along with optional rules. Here you will find things like techno-magic, radiation spells, acid spells, spells to literally rain fire down upon your foes, a spells to create an imprisoning circle around your foes, spells to fascinate and control your enemy, shapeshifting spells, elaborate illusions, divination spells, and even a spell to plunge a target into a morass of incapacitating pleasure.
That little list only scratches the surface, my friends. A few new schools of magic are added, and almost every one of the schools of magic presented in GURPS Magic has additions in this book, and all of them are worth looking at. If you want to be the best magic-user that you can be, this book will help you on your way.
The author is not wrong - it's a good book........1998-04-01
Used with GURPS Magic and the GURPS Basic Set it provides a complete, varied and well integrated set of spells for roleplaying. Without being tied to specific genres it still manages to offer a wide range of dramatic possibilies from which many a plot could be spawned.
Customer Reviews:
Great resource!.......2006-08-24
This has been a really great book and has been a huge help in getting started in event planning. I've planned six events now, and this book is helping me understand some of the processes better and help me better hone my skills. Definitely recommended!
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