Book Description
The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts.
Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802141576
The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts.
Author : Deborah Wye
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870701252
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.
Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307366995
In one of the most striking opening scenes ever written, a bizarre ballooning accident and a chance meeting give birth to an obsession so powerful that an ordinary man is driven to the brink of madness and murder by another's delusions. Ian McEwan brings us an unforgettable story—dark, gripping, and brilliantly crafted—of how life can change in an instant.
Author : William Pene du Bois
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1986-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140320970
A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book
Author : Lee Hendrix
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606064827
Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed, innovation became the rule, as artists developed their own unique—and often experimental—processes. The exploration of black media in drawing is inextricably bound up with the exploration of black in prints, and this volume presents an integrated study that rises above specialization in one over the other. Noir brings together such diverse artists as Francisco de Goya, Maxime Lalanne, Gustave Courbet, Odilon Redon, and Georges Seurat and explores their inventive works on paper. Sidelining labels like “conservative” or “avant-garde,” the essays in this book employ all the tools that art history and modern conservation have given us, inviting the reader to look more broadly at the artists’ methods and materials. This volume accompanies an eponymous exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 9 to May 15, 2016.
Author : Dario Gamboni
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226280551
French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840–1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as “the painter-writer,” he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarmé for his subject matter. And yet he concluded that visual art has nothing to do with literature. Examining this apparent contradiction, The Brush and the Pen transforms the way we understand Redon’s career and brings to life the interaction between writers and artists in fin-de-siècle Paris. Dario Gamboni tracks Redon’s evolution from collaboration with the writers of symbolism and decadence to a defense of the autonomy of the visual arts. He argues that Redon’s conversion was the symptom of a mounting crisis in the relationship between artists and writers, provoked at the turn of the century by the growing power of art criticism that foreshadowed the modernist separation of the arts into intractable fields. In addition to being a distinguished study of this provocative artist, The Brush and the Pen offers a critical reappraisal of the interaction of art, writing, criticism, and government institutions in late nineteenth-century France.
Author : Nadya Aisenberg
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780879721428
Nadya Aisenberg discusses the potentialities of the crime novel, its implications, principles, and scope, and its analogy of myth and the fairy tale. She proposes that the detective story and the thriller have made an unacknowledged contribution to "serious" literature. Her discussion of Dickens, Conrad, and Green indicate that each borrowed many important ingredients from the formulaic novel.
Author : Kim Howard Johnson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1569764360
Nichols and May. John Belushi. Bill Murray. Chris Farley. Tina Fey. Mike Myers. Stephen Colbert. For nearly a half century, Del Close—cocreator of the Harold, director for the Second City, San Francisco's the Committee, and the ImprovOlympic, and “house metaphysician” for Saturday Night Live—influenced improvisational theater's greatest comedic talents. His students went on to found the Groundlings in Los Angeles, the Upright Citizens Brigade in both New York and Los Angeles, and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. But this Pied Piper of improv has gone largely unrecognized outside the close-knit comedy community. Del was never one to let the truth of his life stand in the way of a good story—and yet the truth is even more fascinating than the fiction. In his early years, he traveled the country with Dr. Dracula's Den of Living Nightmares, knew L. Ron Hubbard before Scientology, and appeared in The Blob. Del cavorted with the Merry Pranksters, used aversion therapy to recover from alcoholism, and kicked a cocaine habit with the help of a coven of witches. And when he was dying, Del bequeathed his postmortem skull to the Goodman Theatre for use in its productions of Hamlet—a final legend that lives on, long beyond the death of the father of long-form improvisation.
Author : Douglas W. Druick
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1997-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780810937697
Author : Jodi Hauptman
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 0870706012