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An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music

An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music

Autor: Rodney Winther

Número de Páginas: 452

Wind chamber music has become an important part of the contemporary wind band program during the past half century, and now a most complete reference text has been written to provide any and all necessary information concerning repertoire. Winther lists over 500 works by instrumentation and provides guidance on timings, difficulty level, publisher sources, available recordings and his own insight into rehearsing and programming each individual work. This book will soon be required reading for every wind conductor and performer!

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Ronald Searle. Cabinet de Estampes, Bibliothèque nationale, janvier-mars 1973

Autor: Bibliothèque Nationale (france). Cabinet Des Estampes , Ronald Searle

Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

Autor: Mark Bryant , Simon Heneage

Número de Páginas: 390

Originally published in 1994, this dictionary provides a unique 'who’s who' of the major figures in the world of British cartoons and caricatures. It was the first book to encompass the entire field from c.1730 when Hogarth published the first of his 'modern moral pictures' to 1980. In addition to describing the careers and achievements of the artists and the characteristics of their styles, more than 500 entries give details of their publications, their illustrations to books and periodicals, exhibitions of their work, public collections in which their work is represented and literature on or referring to them. More than 150 illustrations are included. This is a comprehensive reference work and will be of interest to social and political historians as well as cartoon and caricature enthusiasts.

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

Autor: Dilys Evans

Número de Páginas: 156

Looking at the wide variety of artistic genius in children's books, Show and Tell teaches the reader how to look for the perfect marriage of art and text, and is an invaluable guide for anyone interested in children's books and the art of illustration.

Les séquences cultes des classiques Disney

Les séquences cultes des classiques Disney

Autor: Christian Renaut

Número de Páginas: 387

Le livre s'inscrit dans la continuité de deux ouvrages parus. Ce volume 3 couvre la période du Studio Disney de 1953 à 1967. Les films sont : Peter Pan, La Belle et le Clochard, La Belle au bois dormant, Les 101 Dalmatiens, Merlin l'enchanteur, Mary Poppins et Le livre de la jungle. Le livre est sans iconographie et contient 386 pages, préfacé par le journaliste de la BBC historien de l'animation Brian Sibley. Chacun des 10 chapitres étudie la conception de 10 séquences iconiques des longs métrages de dessin animé de Walt Disney scène par scène (contexte historique, évolution du studio, péripéties, innovations techniques, musique et chansons, décryptage, comparaison entre l'histoire originale et la version Disney, le rôle de Walt Disney, une analyse artistique de l'animation, des personnages, décors, mise en scène, portraits de certains artistes, impact et réception de l'oeuvre. Chaque partie à l'intérieur du chapitre est titrée de façon à ce que le lecteur puisse éventuellement suivre sur le visionnage de l'extrait en vidéo simultanément, le timing de la séquence étant indiqué. Le texte est agrémenté de nombreux extraits d'entretiens exclusifs avec ...

Prisoners of the Japanese

Prisoners of the Japanese

Autor: Roger Bourke

Número de Páginas: 234

Between December 1941 and May 1942, the Japanese army took more than 130,000 allied prisoners of war, more than a quarter did not survive their imprisonment. Here, Bourke analyses the major novels and films of the prisoners-of-war experience under the Japanese and uncovers the extent to which these fictions have influenced our beliefs.

The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Autor: Cecil Day Lewis

Número de Páginas: 772

C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) was one of the leading young poets of the 1930's who - along with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender - broke away from the staid poetic establishment to dominate British poetry in the middle third of the century. Here, for the first time, are all the poems Day Lewis wrote, including occasional verse which has never appeared in book form and a number of poems previously published only in limited editions. The Complete Poems has been edited, with an introduction and textual notes, by Jill Balcon, the poet's widow.

All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)

All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)

Autor: Jerelle Kraus

Número de Páginas: 281

From the New York Times’s former Op-Ed art director, the true story of the world’s first Op-Ed page, a public platform that prefigured the blogosphere. Jerelle Kraus, whose thirteen-year tenure as Op-Ed art director far exceeds that of any other art director or editor, unveils a riveting account of working at the Times. Her insider anecdotes include the reasons why artist Saul Steinberg hated the Times, why editor Howell Raines stopped the presses to kill a feature by Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau, and why reporter Syd Schanburg—whose story was told in the movie The Killing Fields—stated that he would travel anywhere to see Kissinger hanged, as well as Kraus’s tale of surviving two and a half hours alone with the dethroned outlaw, Richard Nixon. All the Art features a satiric portrayal of John McCain, a classic cartoon of Barack Obama by Jules Feiffer, and a drawing of Hillary Clinton and Obama by Barry Blitt. But when Frank Rich wrote a column discussing Hillary Clinton exclusively, the Times refused to allow Blitt to portray her. Nearly any notion is palatable in prose, yet editors perceive pictures as a far greater threat. Confucius underestimated the number of words...

Shakespeare and Costume

Shakespeare and Costume

Autor: Patricia Lennox , Bella Mirabella

Número de Páginas: 311

Inspired by new approaches in performance studies, theatre history, research in material culture and dress history, a rich discussion of the many aspects of costume in Shakespearean performance has begun. Shakespeare and Costume furthers this research, bringing together varied and stimulating essays by leading scholars that consider costume from literary, dramatic, design, performative and theatrical perspectives, as well as interviews with renowned theatre practitioners Jane Greenwood and Robert Morgan. The volume amply demonstrates how an analysis of the meaning of costume enriches our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. Beginning with an overview of the stage history of Shakespeare and costume, the volume looks at the historical context of clothing in the plays, considering topics such as royal self-fashioning, festive livery practices, and conceptions of race and gender exhibited in clothing choice, as well as costume in performance. Drawing on documentary evidence in designers' renderings, illustrations in periodicals, paintings, photographs, newspaper reviews and actors' memoirs, the volume also explores costume designs in specific Shakespeare productions from the...

Graphic Girlhoods

Graphic Girlhoods

Autor: Elizabeth Marshall

Número de Páginas: 237

Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of girlhood? What knowledge about girlhood and violence are under erasure within mainstream images and scripts about the schoolgirl? In what ways has the schoolgirl been pictured in graphic narratives to communicate feminist knowledge, represent trauma, and/or testify about social violence? Graphic Girlhoods focuses on these questions to make visible and ultimately question how sexism, racism and other forms of structural violence inform education and girlhood. From picture books about mean girls like The Recess Queen or graphic novels like Jane, The Fox and Me to Ronald Searle’s ghastly pupils in the St. Trinian’s cartoons to graphic memoirs about schooling by adult women, such as Ruby Bridges’s Through My Eyes and Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons texts for and about the schoolgirl stake a claim in ongoing debates about gender and education.

The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings

The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings

Autor: Ronald Searle

Número de Páginas: 324

Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian's. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian's is synonymous with the sort of outrageous behaviour that would make a convict blench. This book also contains a selection of Ronald Searle's work from the non-school books, including The Rake's Progress, Souls in Torment and Merry England, etc. and their publication in one volumes stakes Searle's claim to be the greatest and most influential English satirist since the war.

So Much To Tell

So Much To Tell

Autor: Valerie Grove

Número de Páginas: 334

Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children's books in 1961 and changed the face of children's publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and shrewd business mind led her to become Puffin's most successful editor and the genius behind the Puffin Club, which opened up the exciting world of authors and books to children across Britain. But whilst Kaye's professional life had worked out beautifully, her private life had been the reverse. Kaye had two husbands before her marriage to the artist Ronald Searle, and the torment of his sudden and shocking departure never left her. Yet to the outside world Kaye Webb remained passionate and unstoppable. This is the unknown story of the woman who brought the joy of books to children everywhere whilst battling the emotional pain that plagued her private life.

Ronald Searle in Le Monde

Ronald Searle in Le Monde

Autor: Ronald Searle

Número de Páginas: 160

Ronald Searle, a master of modern caricature, has tremendously influenced the work of other artists. His biting, darkly satirical wit and unique graphic style have also earned him admirers from far and wide; Groucho Marx called him a genius, and John Lennon named him as one of two people (along with Lewis Carroll) who most affected his life. Since 1995, Searle has plied his sardonic trade on the coveted op-ed pages of the French daily newspaper Le Monde. This book presents more than a hundred of the best of these cartoons, ranging across politics, the new Europe, the nature of the contemporary economy, social games, and various "angels," both benign and mischievous. Whether skewering the greed of the rich with images of men in suits padding each other's pockets with cash or conducting business under the table, or making a poignant comment about how much harder peace has to work than war to stay in the same place, Searle displays the same pungent, incisive, yet infinitely humane wit. The deceptive simplicity of his lines and shadings combine with meticulously observed details of dress, background, and facial expression to produce arresting images that convey his messages powerfully ...

Illustrators' Sketchbooks

Illustrators' Sketchbooks

Autor: Martin Sailsbury

Número de Páginas: 306

Intimate and often unseen, the sketchbook means something different to each illustrator. It might be a beautiful object, a work of art in its own right, where every line is painstakingly considered. It might be a pictorial playground, where mistakes can make art. The boundaries between sketchbooks, notebooks and visual journals are often blurred, lending to the creativity that fills their pages. It is likely that you will recognize many of the illustrators featured, including classic childhood favourites Beatrix Potter, Jean de Brunhoff, Edward Ardizzone and Tove Jansson, and established names such as Beatrice Alemagna, Oliver Jeffers and Shaun Tan. Others are up-and-coming, for example Charlotte Ager and Leah Yang. Martin Salisbury draws on decades of experience as an illustrator and educator to shed light on the lives and work of each artist. He even reveals pages from his own sketchbooks, exposing the rawness of his ideas and the narratives that surround them. As the reader will discover, sketchbooks are often a fascinating and surprising window into the mind of the illustrator.

Amitiés d'enfance

Amitiés d'enfance

Autor: Delphine Letort , Sylvie Servoise

Número de Páginas: 235

Qu'est-ce que l'amitié ? Cette question en soulève mille autres, comme en témoignent la longue tradition de la "philia" grecque ou de l' "amitia" latine et le regain d'intérêt qu'elle suscite depuis une vingtaine d'années dans le champ des sciences humaines et sociales. Participant de cet intérêt renouvelé pour le thème de l'amitié, le présent ouvrage invite plus précisément à porter attention à un certain type d'amitié, les amitiés d'enfance et de jeunesse, telles que les représentent, configurent et reconfigurent, la littérature et le cinéma. De "Harry Potter" de J. K. Rowling à "L'Amie prodigieuse" d'Elena Ferrante, les amitiés nouées à l'âge dit "tendre" sont en effet au coeur de nombreuses oeuvres, à destination des jeunes et des moins jeunes, et soulèvent plusieurs questions : que font l'enfance et l'adolescence à l'amitié? Y a-t-il, dans ces relations, de groupe ou à deux, souvent fusionnelles, parfois éprouvantes et toujours déterminantes pour la construction de soi, des éléments singuliers de nature à en faire un type de relation interpersonnelle à part entière ?

L'art, arme des âmes : essais sur la beauté

L'art, arme des âmes : essais sur la beauté

Autor: Pierre Dehaye

Número de Páginas: 331

« Se cultiver, nous dit l’auteur de Naître est une longue patience et d’Un même mystère, c’est liquider progressivement le maximum de préjugés que l’esprit a hérités sans les éprouver par soi-même. La culture c’est l’autonomie de l’esprit. » « En présence de l’œuvre, au contact direct de la Beauté, c’est dans un langage sans mots que l’amateur noue un dialogue secret, une communion. L’émotion artistique a des traits communs avec la prière. Elle court-circuite tout commentaire, comme une oraison sincère n’a que faire des théologiens les plus sagaces. »

Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways

Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways

Autor: Sean Magee

Número de Páginas: 546

‘For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat – to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same.’ Kirsty Young BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs celebrates its seventieth birthday in 2012. Since the programme’s deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all walks of life have been stranded on the mythical island, accompanied by only eight records, one book and a luxury. Here the story of one of BBC Radio 4’s favourite programmes is chronicled through a special selection of castaways. Roy Plomley, inventor of the programme as well as its presenter for over forty years, quizzes the young Cliff Richard about ‘these rather frenzied movements’ the 1960s pop sensation makes on the stage. Robert Maxwell tells Plomley’s successor Michael Parkinson that ‘I will have left the world a slightly better place...

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1140
A Wealth of Numbers

A Wealth of Numbers

Autor: Benjamin Wardhaugh

Número de Páginas: 389

An entertaining and informative anthology of popular math writing from the Renaissance to cyberspace Despite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlightening antholog—the first of its kind—gathers nearly one hundred fascinating selections from the past 500 years of popular math writing, bringing to life a little-known side of math history. Ranging from the late fifteenth to the late twentieth century, and drawing from books, newspapers, magazines, and websites, A Wealth of Numbers includes recreational, classroom, and work mathematics; mathematical histories and biographies; accounts of higher mathematics; explanations of mathematical instruments; discussions of how math should be taught and learned; reflections on the place of math in the world; and math in fiction and humor. Featuring many tricks, games, problems, and puzzles, as well as much history and trivia, the selections include a sixteenth-century guide to making a horizontal sundial; "Newton for the Ladies" (1739); Leonhard Euler on the idea of velocity (1760);...

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004

Autor: Europa Publications

Número de Páginas: 644

Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

The Will to Survive

The Will to Survive

Autor: Arthur Godman

Número de Páginas: 262

The compelling story of the life and conditions of prisoners of war working on the Burma-Siam railway during World War II.

Pictured Worlds

Pictured Worlds

Autor: Leonard S. Marcus

Número de Páginas: 915

Pictured Worlds is a lavishly illustrated, large-format reference book highlighting the work of 101 top children’s illustrators. In Pictured Worlds, renowned historian Leonard S. Marcus shares his incomparable knowledge of illustrated children’s books, which came of age in the 18th century when John Newbery set a model for tailoring books to the interests and capabilities of young readers and went on to become a global cultural phenomenon. The author of more than 25 award-winning books, Marcus here highlights an international roster of 101 artists of the past 200 years whose touchstone achievements collectively chart the major trends and turning points in the history of children’s book illustration. While some illustrators explored in this lively volume (John Tenniel, Maurice Sendak) have become household names, Marcus’s wide-ranging survey also shines a light on several lesser-known figures whose unique contributions merit a closer look. The result is a sweeping chronicle of a vibrant art form and cultural driver that has touched the lives of literate peoples everywhere. More than 500 illustrations showcase landmark books from Great Britain, the United States, France,...

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