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Book 2018 Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Download or read book 2018 Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters written by American Academy of Arts and Letters and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters - 2018

Book Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters written by American Academy of Arts and Letters and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences written by American Academy of Arts and Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.

Book Calder  The Conquest of Space

Download or read book Calder The Conquest of Space written by Jed Perl and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Calder made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Jed Perl makes clear how Calder's radical sculptural imagination shaped the minimalist and kinetic art movements that emerged in the 1960s. And we see, as well, that through everything--their ever-expanding friendships with artists and writers of all stripes; working to end the war in Vietnam; hosting riotous dance parties at their Connecticut home; seeing the "mobile," Calder's essential artistic invention, find its way into Webster's dictionary--Calder and Louisa remained the risk-taking, singularly bohemian couple they had been since first meeting at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The biography ends with Calder's death in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight--only weeks after an encyclopedic retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum in New York--but leaves us with a new, clearer understanding of his legacy, both as an artist and a man.

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by Tōkyō Sūgaku Butsuri Gakkai and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Music of Elliott Carter

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Schiff
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-18
  • ISBN : 1501718363
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Music of Elliott Carter written by David Schiff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most important American composer of the century, Elliott Carter often has been more highly regarded in Europe than in his native land. Interest in his work has grown rapidly in recent years, however, and the celebration of his ninetieth birthday in December, 1998, accompanied by numerous performances and new recordings, undoubtedly will increase the attention of his fellow citizens to this remarkable figure.Authoritative and gracefully written, The Music of Elliott Carter engages composers, performers, and critics, and speaks to concert-goers, whether attuned to or alarmed by the formidable difficulty of Carter's music. David Schiff views the music from the perspective of the composer's development and relates his compositional techniques to those nonmusical arts—contemporary American poetry in particular—with which Carter has been deeply involved. The volume benefits from Schiff's extensive discussions of Carter's works with their most noted performers, including Heinz Holliger, Oliver Knussen, and Ursula Oppens, and from the generous cooperation of the composer himself.This new edition, a thoroughly reorganized, revised, and updated version of the book published in 1983, accounts for the many new works written by Carter since 1980 and accommodates the burgeoning critical literature on his music. Its features include many musical examples and a selected discography. In addition to the new foreword, the composer has provided his listing of three-to-six note chords and a note on "Voyage."

Book A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico

Download or read book A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico written by Ida Kaplan Langman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is a guide to the literature on Mexican flowering plants, beginning with the days of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Groan in the Throat Vol  1

Download or read book Groan in the Throat Vol 1 written by Tony Baugh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocatively explaining the political and social phenomenon of white supremacy as a religion and providing a theology of redemption for disparaged communities affected by it, this book is a collection of personal and academic essays that challenge popular notions of American exceptionalism. A little bit of everything, a mixtape in the tradition of DJ Clue, episodic and rhapsodic, lifting a panoply of voices in an unexpected way, it wrestles with theology and philosophy alike, blending poetry with narrative nonfiction and memoir. It is a creation of a new and expressive literary experience that is as tragic and triumphant as the Black experience is in America—a groaning that cannot be uttered.

Book A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost

Download or read book A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost written by Virginia Smith and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost represents the first systematic attempt to catalogue and explain all of the references to science and natural history in Frost’s published poetry.

Book Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent

Download or read book Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent written by Maura Jane Farrelly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1378 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Why Should I Write a Poem Now

Download or read book Why Should I Write a Poem Now written by Srinivas Rayaprol and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their intense epistolary relationship between Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters.

Book Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University

Download or read book Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University written by Michael T. Benson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a biography of Daniel Coit Gilman, who developed the idea of the American research university at Johns Hopkins University"--

Book Chaucer  s Squire  s Tale  Franklin  s Tale  and Physician  s Tale

Download or read book Chaucer s Squire s Tale Franklin s Tale and Physician s Tale written by Kenneth Bleeth and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in the Chaucer Bibliographies series, meticulously assembled by Kenneth Bleeth, is the most comprehensive record of scholarship on Chaucer's Squire's Tale, Franklin's Tale, and Physician's Tale.

Book Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics

Download or read book Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics written by Yingwei Fei and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of recent advances and new directions in high pressure mineral research using static and dynamic compression methods.

Book The Sound of a Superpower

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Abrams Ansari
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 0190649712
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Sound of a Superpower written by Emily Abrams Ansari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical composers seeking to create an American sound enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1930s and 1940s. Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Howard Hanson and others brought national and international attention to American composers for the first time in history. In the years after World War II, however, something changed. The prestige of musical Americanism waned rapidly as anti-Communists made accusations against leading Americanist composers. Meanwhile a method of harmonic organization that some considered more Cold War-appropriate--serialism--began to rise in status. For many composers and historians, the Cold War had effectively "killed off" musical Americanism. In The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War, Emily Abrams Ansari offers a fuller, more nuanced picture of the effect of the Cold War on Americanist composers. The ideological conflict brought both challenges and opportunities. Some Americanist composers struggled greatly in this new artistic and political environment. Those with leftist politics sensed a growing gap between the United States that their music imagined and the aggressive global superpower that their nation seemed to be becoming. But these same composers would find unique opportunities to ensure the survival of musical Americanism thanks to the federal government, which wanted to use American music as a Cold War propaganda tool. By serving as advisors to cultural diplomacy programs and touring as artistic ambassadors, the Americanists could bring their now government-backed music to new global audiences. Some with more right-wing politics, meanwhile, would actually flourish in the new ideological environment, by aligning their music with Cold War conceptions of American identity. The Americanists' efforts to safeguard the reputation of their style would have significant consequences. Ultimately, Ansari shows, they effected a rebranding of musical Americanism, with consequences that remain with us today.