Frisson


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Seattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were frequent visitors to New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s when they collaboratively built their collection, filling their home with singular works of art. Their shared legacy and passion for engaging thoughtfully, deeply, and personally with art--and the frisson of excitement that arises with such a connection--are celebrated and echoed in this special exhibition catalogue. Spanning 1945 through 1976, the paintings, drawings, and sculptures in Frisson serve as significant examples of mature works and pivotal moments of artistic development from some of the most influential American and European artists of the postwar period, including Francis Bacon, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, David Smith, and others. Together they represent an inimitable archive of innovation and a cross-pollination of leading artistic positions in the postwar years. With twenty new scholarly essays written by leading experts, Frisson provides the first opportunity for in-depth research into and new insights about nineteen noteworthy artworks recently acquired by the Seattle Art Museum.




Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping


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Scaredy Squirrel takes a trip through the campground and finds out the wilderness is meant to be enjoyed up close.




I Spy Spooky Night


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This "I Spy" book takes children through a spooky old house at night where they search for spooky items. Children look for bats, lizards, frogs, owls and tombstones. From its rickety gate to its cobwebbed attic, this haunted house contains 13 spooky environments. Readers will marvel at Walter Wick's beautifully executed photographs as they travel through each enchanting scene and solve the rhyming riddles, reading the story along the way. Over two million "I Spy" books have been sold to date.




Frissons of Heart


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When life frames itself as being too short, Allana refuses to waste another moment. Winging it, she embarks on a journey to feel and experience it all. So stumbling upon the flirtatious stranger from the night that started everything or crashing into his mystic friend didn't seem jarring... until it did. “It's too dark even in our eyes, Through it, we see the bright light It’s Cryptic Fire It’s Earnest Desire It’s Harmony Elite It's Your Heartbeat It's Your Heartbeat” She had lost her pieces long back. Then how is she feeling whole with two strangers? What is it that connects them? Will her recurring dreams and their ominous dialect ever be absolved ? Is it serendipity or a sketched map? Join Allana on her journey of escapades and mysteries with zings of friendship, love and a bond that is more fathomable than profound!




Percheron Stud Book of America


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Percheron Stud Book of America


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Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use


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Combining insights from two of the most influential approaches in linguistics, Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, this book furthers our understanding of how meaning comes about. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.




Deformed and Destructive Beings


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Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Previous answers to that question have included everything from a need to experience fear to a hunger for psychotherapy. This critical text proposes that the horror film's primary purpose is to present monsters, best understood as deformed and destructive beings. These monsters satisfy the audience's desire to know these beings, in particular those beings too fantastic and dangerous to know in real life. The text illuminates many aspects of the horror film genre, including epistemology, ethics, evaluation, history, monster taxonomy, and filmmaking techniques.