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Few artists have explored genres and techniques with such curiosity and pleasure as Henri Matisse, whose fascination with the relationship between interior and exterior forms occupied him throughout his career. In the early 1950s, he chose to dedicate his last years to the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and the nursery school in his hometown of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, both in the South of France. These sites represent a culmination of all Matisse's earlier visual and spatial explorations.
This book sheds new light on the development of Matisse's oeuvre, which spans some 60 years. Lavishly illustrated with almost 400 images, this deluxe volume includes beautiful reproductions of the artist's most famous paintings paired with lesser-known documents and photographs culled from the archives of his estate. The authors also gathered first-hand accounts related by numerous participants in the Vence and Le Cateau projects. The result is a fascinating, almost day-to-day look at Matisse's process as he created these works, and an intimate portrait of both the artist and the man. AUTHOR BIO: The late René Percheron was head of the museum of national antique art in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, and a lecturer on the history of art and photography. Christian Brouder is a researcher at CNRS, the national organization for scientific research in Paris.
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Offering an intimate portrait of the artist in work and life.......2005-01-04
Primarily known for his luminous color paintings, the French artist Henri Matisse was also involved in designing stunningly beautiful stained glass windows and even ventured into the realm of architecture as well. Matisse: From Color To Architecture is a seminal work by Rene Percheron and Christian Brouder and the first to focus on these lesser known endeavors by one of France's most renowned painters. Offering an intimate portrait of the artist in work and life with a focus upon Matisse's work in his final years on the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and the nursery school in his hometown of Le Cateayu-Cambresis (both of these buildings are located in the south of France), this 384 page compendium is enhanced with 396 illustrations (247 of which are in full color) and includes beautiful reproductions of Matisse's most famous paintings drawn from the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, the Hermitage Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and the National Gallery of Art. These works are paired with documents and photographs culled from the archives of the Matisse estate. Included are first-hand accounts from the participants in the Vence and Le Cateau projects. Matisse: From Color To Architecture is an original and recommended contribution to personal, professional, academic, and community library Art History and Architectural Studies collections.
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Now Audre Vysniauskas, digital artist extraordinaire and past Editor-in-Chief of Renderosity Magazine joins Hugo- World Fantasy- and Chesley- Award winning writer John Grant to present Digital Art of the 21st Century, a selection of Renderosity contributors#146; finest works showcased in this lavish volume. In the 21 generously illustrated portfolios here -- 200 images in full color -- you will see a stunning variety of the very best of modern digital art. Brief technical notes accompany each image, and artists provide insightful comments as well.
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Stunning images demonstrate the dramatic changes in art due to digital technology.......2006-12-20
What is now being done in the creation of digital art is nothing short of amazing. This book contains some of the best examples of what has been created to date. It contains works by the digital artists:
*) MarcelBarthel
*) Adam Benton
*) Bernard Dumaine
*) Matt Hansel
*) David Ho
*) Michael Komarck
*) Vod Land
*) James Lee
*) Elizabeth Leggett
*) Duncan Long
*) Ron Miller
*) Socar Myles
*) Tina Oloyede
*) John Picacio
*) Kees Robol
*) Chuck Siebuhr
*) Andy Simmons
*) Audre Vysniauskas
*) Thomas Weiss
*) Christina Yoder
*) Marcin Zemczak
The images are absolutely stunning; I was particularly impressed with some of those with a fantasy/science fiction theme. There have been a few dramatic changes in art since the first cave paintings, but in my mind the greatest of all has been the advent of digital technology. By allowing the artist to truly let their imagination run wild and make an image of what is in their mind, digital technology allows them to create works that simply were not possible only a few years ago.
Almost, but not quite..........2006-04-19
Behind the provocative title is the affirmative premise that the computer is the medium of the modern age and that digital art deserves recognition alongside traditional art. While I certainly couldn't agree more, this book unfortunately does not carry enough weight to set an example.
The quality of the art within varies greatly, from amazing renders to painting-like portraits to amateur landscapes with figures that look like they were cut and pasted in. My personal favourite is the work of David Ho. The dark and gloomy scenes he portrays in pieces such as "Nature Versus Nurture" and "Man Created God" are among the most striking, well-made and memorable works in the entire book.
Overall not bad, but not enough to get the point across. There are many other sites all over the internet which do a much better job at showcasing the phenomenon of digital art, and for free too.
Digital Art - The New Media.......2004-09-03
Digital art - the new media is often considered the bustard son of serious art. This book contains some of the most amazing art created in this genre, and establishes digital art as one of the most expressive and thought provoking forms of art. The artists where carefully chosen from the Renderosity.com site, and represent a wide range of styles and forms. Every artist has a unique style that stands apart from other artists of this genre. This book is a must have for people interested in digital art, or in any other artform.
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Flawed....But What Are Your Options?.......2000-10-16
Maria Reidelbach's COMPLETELY MAD is gorgeous to look at, an oversized visual panoply of color & b/w selections from all eras of the magazine's history. The first 300 covers are reproduced in sequential thumbnails, and there's a generous amount of space devoted not only to the early Kurtzman period, but to the entire EC line of comics from which MAD emerged in '52. Okay, so much for the praise. Where the book falters is in that portion of the text devoted to the Feldstein-and-beyond era (56-91). It's a little understandable; when the entire project is beholden to the cooperation of the magazine for access and permission to reproduce images, you'd expect the thing to read somewhat like a valentine/press release - in fact, give Reidelbach credit for managing to shoehorn in an occasionally neutral or even mildly discouraging word here and there. But what I've always found a bit strange is that EC, who pioneered the practice of bestowing credit and laurels to the individual contributing writers and artists during its comic-book era, abandoned it during MAD's mega-successful run as a magazine. When you consider how indelibly imprinted on the American psyche the work of 'the usual gang of idiots' is, we learn next to nothing about them beyond the skimpiest of bios. In fact, you'd learn more about the day-to-day workings of the magazine and its staff from other sources (the Russ Cochran hardcover reprints, Frank Jacobs' MAD WORLD OF WILLIAM M GAINES, and various interviews in publications like THE COMICS JOURNAL). You'd figure that a publication whose cultural importance often outshone its increasingly-stale satire would warrant a slightly more serious look as well, but reading COMPLETELY MAD one never registers how superior the first fifteen years of MAD was to the subsequent thirty or so. Even the often-admitted increasing distance Gaines felt to the newsstand product (he never quite recaptured his hands-on enthusiasm for the editorial side of publishing after the comic-book witch hunts, and MAD's rocketing popularity throughout the 60s and 70s only further alienated him) is completely side-stepped. While this book is lovely to look at and worth having, these types of minuses finally outweigh its eye-candy appeal. Further compounding the flaws is the fact that many of its important contributors, now in their 60s and 70s, have now passed on or are in declining health...it is hoped that someone out there will finally publish a book that focuses on Clarke, Woodbridge, Aragones, Drucker, Martin, Jaffee and the equally-unsung writers (Siegel, DeBartolo, Kogen, Reit, etc) in as many of their own words as possible, and devoid of the soft-shoulders p.r. that hobbles this effort. Jeez, even Al Feldstein is short-shrifted here!
For those who hated history textbooks -- This is like that........2000-02-07
This is a fairly good (though pandering) account of the history of Mad Magazine. At least the part that I read was. I didn't finish the book -- didn't even come close to finishing it -- because of one big problem: It reads like a textbook. It manages to make the subject of Mad Magazine boring. The account is written in such a dry manner that I just gave up on it and went back to reading my old MAD magazines. Forget all of the back-room dealings, squabbles, personnel changes, and business decisions. The only history I find I care about is the history of the art itself.
Boy! This SHOULD have been better!.......1999-12-09
COMPLETELY MAD is a fairly thorough, albeit superficial, treatment of the MAD phenomenon. A biased perspective leaves much unsaid. Too much a valentine to Gaines and company. I would have enjoyed more material from the MAD comic book. Much of the information about the "usual gang of idiots" is extremely sketchy, bland and/or uninteresting, meaning that Ms. Reidelbach did not go very far beyond MAD's offices for information; i.e., a superficial and pretty lousy job of research. There was so much opportunity here!
it's an aok book.......1999-03-12
it's not the best mad book you can buy, but worth going to the library for it
Jungian Neuman?.......1999-01-08
Some of Reidelbach's conclusions are a little bizarre (check out that strange correlation between Neuman and Renaissance Theater), and the book is biased toward Gaines and the crew. Otherwise, this is a fine history, laid out in an appropriately anarchic style. It's kind of ironic: when articles from the 50s are juxtaposed with those from more recent years, you realize with sadness that Mad's really lost a lot of its quality.
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"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous." --Robert Benchley
Such wildly inaccurate self-deprecation is typical of Robert Benchley. In his lifetime he was known as a critic, a humorist, an actor, and an auteur, while the weekly luncheons he shared at the famous Algonquin Hotel Round Table with other luminaries such as Dorothy Parker and Alexander Wollcott became the stuff of legend. Famous, he was, indeed--but also a very fine writer, a fact readers can judge for themselves in The Best of Robert Benchley, a compendium of 72 of his funniest stories. There is, for example, his meditation on the future of the species, Future Man: Tree or Mammal, in which he posits that the humans of the future will be both brightly dressed and legless (you'll have to read the essay to find out why); or The Real Public Enemies, in which he laments the hostility of inanimate objects: "Take for example, when you are trying to read a newspaper on top of a bus. Suppose you want to open it to page four. The thing to do is not to hold it up and try to turn it as you would an ordinary newspaper. If you do, it will turn into a full-rigged brigantine, each sheet forming a sail and will crash head-on into your face, blinding you and sometimes carrying you right off the bus." His solution? Deceit: "Say, as if talking to yourself, 'Well, I guess I'll turn to page seven.' Or better yet, let the paper overhear you say, 'Oh, well, I guess I won't read any more.'"
Benchley's ruminations are almost always on small matters: playing cards, attending banquet dinners, home repairs; yet they are universal experiences. Who has not, at some point in his or her life, stood in an impossibly long line at the post office, only to discover, upon finally arriving at the counter, that some essential element of the letter or package has been done incorrectly or left undone entirely? No subject is too small or too trivial to escape Benchley's notice, yet he invests each with the trappings of epic conflict--underdog Benchley against the newspaper, or hay fever, or noise--struggles which all too often leave him bloodied but unbowed.
Benchley was kinder than Dorothy Parker, less manic than S.J. Perlman, not quite so curmudgeonly as James Thurber--and arguably the funniest of them all. This collection serves as a living memorial to one of the century's great comic geniuses. --Alix Wilber
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What a joy!.......2003-06-25
The world can be divided into two groups of people, those who have read Benchley and those who have not. By far, the happiest people are those who fall into the former category.
Robert Benchely was one of the most talented humorists ever to grace the pages of American magazines. His personna was that of a befuddled upper middle class pater familias. He did not take on the great events of the day, this would have been a waste of time given his world view. What he did do was to satirize brilliantly the little inconsistencies of daily life.
This collection of Benchley's essays is a welcomed one including some 72 examples of his wit and whimsy. It is literally impossible to select a favorite from so many good pieces One can select any one of them at random and discover some gem of Benchely's imagination. Although this edition is out of print I urge anyone seeking to experience the wit of Benchley to seek out a copy.
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Benchley's Best: Unabridged
Robert Benchley
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Robert Benchley (1889-1945), father of noted children's author Nathaniel Benchley and grandfather of Peter Benchley (author of Jaws), was a drama critic, an actor, and one of the greatest wits of his time. His dry humor influenced many of his contemporaries, including E.B. White, James Thurber, and S.J. Perlman, and secured him a place in the line of great American humorists that began with Mark Twain. Benchley's Best consists of several of his most popular sketches, originally written for such publications as The New Yorker, Life, and Vanity Fair. 1 cassette.
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Humor for Healing.......1998-08-05
Humor helps healing, and this casette is perfect for the bed-ridden invalid. You simply can't keep from laughing!
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The Best of Benchley
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2 complete books and 4 book excerpts from The Official Warren Commission Report; Forever Old, Forever New, Reapers of the Dust and How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying
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Superstars: Gay Adult Video Guide
Jamoo
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Very Excellent reference.......2000-01-29
This is a great guide to all those stars. Find out excatly who they are so that you can buy all their movies.
Book Description.......1999-12-21
Superstars does not attempt to be comprehensive in scope. The porno stars profiled are, by the author's own admission, his favorites--"the prettiest, the nicest, the newest and the ones who have treated me with respect." The author, incidentally, is also a gay porn actor in addition to being a writer about the industry. Most of the pretty faces are from videos of the mid-90's, and there isn't any coverage of stars that have retired or passed on. The profiles are interesting but brief. About 100 of the newest and most popular porno stars are included in the book, including Lucas Ridgeston, Kevin Dean, and Ken Ryker. The book includes profiles of porn stars, videographies, a video buyer's guide, and dozens of nude photos.
This book is a waste of time........1998-10-22
This book only reviews people "who have been nice" to Jamoo...poor boy, he couldn't have the balls to write about anyone else in the business. Most of the stuff in here is totally inaccurate, and the photos have been around and around and around and around.
This book is a waste of time........1998-10-22
Talk about embarrassingly simple, this is simply an interview book of one of the greatest greatest directorsin porn and the lame questions given by jamoo, who thinks he used to be a pornstar, are insulting and ridiculous.
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Superstars #2: Gay Adult Star Guide
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A guide to 100 of today's top gay pornstars.
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senseless - sinnlos: Defying the Mechanisms of Disablement / Wider die Methoden der Behinderung
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sinnlos ist ein einzigartiges Kunstprojekt, das mit den Mitteln der Kunst die Methoden der Be- und Verhinderung im alltäglichen Leben, in der Gesellschaft sowie in der Kunst thematisiert. Es ist kein „Behindertenprojekt“, sondern versteht sich vielmehr als Postulat für „neu denken und handeln“. sinnlos – ein work in progress – ermöglicht einen ersten Schritt in Richtung einer egalitären Gesellschaft, die Differenz als Qualität und nicht als Stigma sieht. Die Kunst ist dabei zu einem der letzten Zufluchtsorte für gesellschaftspolitische Experimente und Strategien der Veränderung geworden. In Beiträgen und Abbildungen beleuchtet die Publikation den weitläufigen Themenkomplex und dokumentiert bereits realisierte Teilbereiche des Gesamtprojekts.
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Incomplete.......2006-11-04
When I say this book isn't complete, I don't mean that it doesn't cover all the variations. Although that's true, I'm talking about something different.
It is difficult to determine who the book is written for. It certainly wasn't written for a beginner, as it assumes a lot of knowledge and tactical ability. I certainly wasn't written for Expert/Master level, because it only brushes the surface of current Sicilian opening theory.
That leaves only the amateur level player, like myself. However, I am finding that the chapters, which each cover a particular variation, are acting as mere introductions to the openings, requiring more study from other books and opening digests to be able to comfortably play them. In my case, it is not that the book is too simple, but that it assumes to much of my opponents. In every opening, the book covers the main lines for up to 10-20 moves. At the amateur level, your opponents will rarely know the main line, which sometimes means you have to deviate from it yourself. I am therefore finding myself in a game, trying to play the Schevenigen when my opponent plays a non-book move on move 3 and continues to make non book moves after that. Although that usually means that he/she has made a strategic mistake, I have no idea how to proceed. The book makes no effort to cover these alternate lines.
Good content despite omissions.......2003-07-06
This book covers certain important aspects of the Sicilian well, namely the Dragon, Kan, and Scheveningen. It also includes a "one size fits all" system against the Closed Sicilian. However, certain aspects of the book are left wanting:
1) It does not provide a great deal of content on the Najdorf, which is one of the most important variations in the Sicilian. It just includes a few games and says "don't attempt without preparation."
2) While it provides a lot of information on the Scheveningen, it does not cover enough on the Keres Attack, which is a very deadly White weapon in this particular variation (in fact, because of it, many transpose into the Schev via the Najdorf by playing ...a6 first).
3) While its one-for-all system against the Closed Sicilian (which the author defines as anything other than 2. Nf3 and 3. d4) is adequate, it does not mention 2. ...d5 3. exd5 Nf6! against the Grand Prix attack, which is a very viable option for Black.
4) It repeats itself a lot in the "mastery" boxes.
5) It does not even mention the Accelerated Dragon.
Despite these pitfalls, the book is well worth reading, especially for those wanting to play the Dragon.
Mastering the Sicilian.......2003-02-14
If you want a book the shows the major plans and themes in various c5 opens, then this is the book for you. If you already know the plans & themes you wont be pleased as this imformation. It is gearded toward the player who can play but aspires to have an intimate knowledge of the system being used. Plans for white and blk are given, the bias is toward black repectively. I fell in the "wanting to know more" category. This was a winner for me.
Attack - play the sicilian.......2002-10-30
A masterly work on the best system vs 1.e4 - the sicilian. Learn this opening not through variations and weird sicilians like the Sveshnikov but thematically using "bread and butter systems" These systems would be: the classical, the Dragon sttructure, Najadorf, Schevenigen and Kan. I like attacking chess but have always been intrigued by the more positional sicilians like the schevenigen. Here Kopec reveals how to play this system without knowing every detail of theory successfully. Maybe after reading this book I too may play the schevenigen, by trasposing via the najadorf!! Anyway, this is a great book which teaches you esstenial sicilian themes and where to place your pieces and use your pawns. May this take care of all your sicilian needs.
Pure Sicilian strategy and great games........2001-10-28
As a Sicilian player this book was very helpfull. It will not cover a lot of lines but it will explain the strategy concepts of the different variations like the Scheveningen, the Najdorf, the Dragon, the Paulsen, the Closed Sistems, the Grand Prix attack etc. If you are alreday an experiencied sicilian player this book will help you very much to improve and understand the posotions arising during the games. On the other hand the games are vey good: Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Fischer, Kopec, Taimanov, etc. All of them are real struggles and you will have a lot of fun. Enjoy.
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A powerful model for career reinvention that reverses conventional wisdom.
Includes fascinating case studies of personal and professional reinventions—from literature professor to stockbroker, from psychiatrist to Buddhist monk, and from investment banker to fiction writer, among others.
Gives readers a new way to understand change in their lives. Career change is not a step-by-step linear process—it’s crooked and takes much longer than we think. Nor is change the result of one big event. Rather, many small steps add up to a successful change.
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Two point five stars.......2007-08-29
There are a lot of good ideas and theories in this book, but I regret buying it. I've lost my job due to industry changes and belt tightening and money is in short supply. I don't find that this book has helped me figure out how to retool to stay employed. I'm not using the book and I can't afford to buy things that I don't absolutely need. Not recommended if you are not of the wealthy class and need to keep the wolf from the door. Annoying to hear how the upper class has time and energy to dabble. Lots of "I made so much money as a corporate lawyer/park avenue doctor that now I can afford to teach haiku at the local zen monastary."
I agree.......2007-08-08
I agree with everyone else who's written a review of this book. I find it very useful and encouraging. The premise is simple. Make a list either mentally or on paper of the things you may be interested in and somehow try them out. Try them out somewhat in some sort of way. Do research where you experience the results and gauge your feelings. Then find some way to move into that field, either completely or connected to what you already do. Also one of the most important pieces of advice is to give yourself time to try out the different things on your list. Don't just jump, but actually give them a try. Write the business plan to see if it'll work. Speak to people who are in the industry you want to get into.
The fatal flaw of the book is that she seems to only address professors or top level managers. Suppose you are not in that category. Do you not deserve a great career? Do you not deserve to know strategies in order to move towards the life that's perfect for you? Of course you do. There are some strategies for people who can't simply take a leave of absence for a few months to try out something else. Volunteering. Side jobs. Part time work. Evening gigs. Etc. These were mostly left out.
Besides the above this was a good book and with a little common sense the advice can be applied to anyone's situation.
Appropriate for Exec-Level Career Changers (or Contemplators...).......2007-03-01
Most books on career reinvention are geared towards mid-level, mid-life managers. The assumption is that executives are already successful and don't need to reflect on what makes them shine. But for continued success in life, we all need to discover what truly drives us. Working Identity is ideal for the exec who wants to stretch beyond their current career, credentials and contact network.
Useful message.......2006-09-12
I always thought that by the time I turned 40 I would have all the answers about my life and career only to be proven wrong. And the awareness that my questions are common to so many individuals is comforting indeed. This book (I am about halfway through it as I write) brings home the message that it is ok, almost natural, to question the path taken and to ask whether there is more to life than what we are doing and that there is no easy way to find an answer. I have always had doubts about a lot of the testing done to figure people out starting with SATs and down to the psychological ones we all go through at some point. And having someone like the author highlight how these are often pointless and the answers are within us is important.
The narrative is quick and I especially like the weaving of the stories with the author's comments.
A must have book for anyone.......2005-10-18
When I first picked up this book, I was a bit disenchanted with the accounts of the doctor turned monk or business professional turned non-profit. The examples didn't seem realistic and, in my mind, I was suspicious of some kind of artificial support strucuture or negative personal outcome that wasn't being told in the story.
As I continued to read I found that this book explains the MOST REALISTIC approach to life changes: including career. If you're looking for principles that will guide you through a career change (or a life change) in a way that works "in the real world" - then this is your book.
I can't recommend this book enough.
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