D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

• 

  Sundaland and Doggerland: The...

  Editors Charles River

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  By the time the Pleistocene Epoch ended around 12,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had become one of the most significant species on the planet. 	It was also near the end of that period of time that modern humans began to gradually populate what would become Europe, Asia, and the Americas, eventually becoming the inheritors of the Paleolithic era and the only human species to make it into the Neolithic era. 	The cold Pleistocene temperatures lowered water levels across the planet, exposing land that was not there before or after the period. At the same time, significant regions of the planet were very different during the Pleistocene, including Southeast Asia, particularly the modern islands of Bali, Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula, roughly equivalent to parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. This region, which modern scholars refer to as Sunda or Sundaland, was unique because all of it was connected by land, meaning today’s islands were once part of a contiguous subcontinent, and in terms of the people, flora, and fauna, it was very different than it is today.  
  Among the most significant water displacement phenomena in the Western world was Doggerland on the northern European continent. The notable inundation occurred in both a steady and eruptive fashion covering a vast stretch of former tundra, a land bridge between today’s British Isles and the European continent. The event brought about the modern English Channel and an expanded North Sea, and unlike the early supercontinents, the inundation of Doggerland took place after the appearance of people. Incrementally submerged since roughly 18,000 years ago as the climate warmed, the patch of sea between Britain and Europe is the subject of much recent scientific scrutiny. 

  Voir livre

• 

  The Poetry of Art - Creative and...

  Thomas Chatterton

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Art comes in many shapes and sizes and many different forms.  And one person’s art is often someone else’s object of derision. 
   
  But what we can all agree on is that Art exists, that it’s something perhaps unique to humankind but very definitely evokes a deep reaction whether of ‘wow!’ or ‘what?’   
   
  In this volume we take Art as our subject and have it reviewed and explored by other Artists, by Classic Poets. 
   
  True Art ignites an individual response or a collective awareness.  Our DNA seems to cultivate that.  When we engage with Art the results are at times as surprising as they are interesting. 
   
  In the words of Keats, Shakespeare, Wharton, Chatterton and very many others Art is seen and understood both as that individual reaction and a collective experience.  Art is where it’s at. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Art - An Introduction 
  02 - The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens 
  03 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton 
  04 - Before a Painting by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare 
  06 - Sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Steeled by William Shakespeare 
  07 - Sonnet 83 - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need by William Shakespeare 
  08 - Art and Heart  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  09 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  10 - I Have Colours in My Head by Daniel Sheehan 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - To the Painter, To Draw Him a Picture by Robert Herrick 
  13 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton 
  14 - On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  15 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound 
  16 - To a Beautiful Female Portrait by Henry Alford 
  17 - The Portrait by Ford Madox Ford 
  18 - Her Portrait Immortal by Richard Le Gallienne 
  19 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 
  20 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  21 - On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell 
  22 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily 
  23 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats 
  24 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  25 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  26 - An Inscription for Zheng Shujin's Painting by Qiu Jin 
  27 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  28 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  29 - How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things by Michael Drayton 
  30 - To the Painter of an Ill Drawn Picture of Cleone by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  31 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce 
  32 - A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Voir livre

• 

  Schumann in Words and Music

  Davinia Caddy

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The unresolved and ambiguous details of Robert Schumann’s psychological decline and death have tended to dominate his biography. Yet in his time Schumann was lauded as a protean Romantic literary genius whose writings, as a music critic, poet, novelist and dramatist, eclipsed his musical creativity. How did Schumann reconcile these elements? Does his music suggest he suffered from bipolar disorder? How did his pianist wife, Clara, influence his compositions? The narration is illustrated with some of Schumann’s finest works including excerpts from the symphonies, his song cycle Dichterliebe, the piano works Papillons and Carnaval, and the Piano Concerto, among others.

  Voir livre

• 

  The Crucible

  Arthur Miller

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach star in this full-cast performance of Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama.  
   
  In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s. A Tony Award Winner for Best Play. 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance starring (in alphabetical order): 
  Richard Dreyfuss as Reverend John Hale 
  Stacy Keach as John Proctor 
  Ed Begley Jr. as Thomas Putnam 
  Michael York as Reverend Parris 
  Hector Elizondo as Giles Corey 
  Irene Aranga as Mercy Lewis 
  Rene Auberjonois as Deputy Governor Danforth 
  Georgia Brown as Rebecca Nurse 
  Jack Coleman as Marshal Herrick 
  Bud Cort as Ezekiel Cheever 
  Judyann Elder as Tituba 
  Fionnula Flanagan as Reverend John Hale 
  Ann Hearne as Susanna Walcott 
  Carol Kane as Mary Warren 
  Anna Sophie Loewenberg as Betty Parris 
  Marian Mercer as Mrs. Ann Putnam 
  Franklyn Seales as Judge Hathorne 
  Madolyn Smith as Abigail Williams 
  Joe Spano as Francis Nurse

  Voir livre

• 

  The Designer Within - A...

  John McLain

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Designer Within pulls back the curtain to reveal the process of interior design from interior designer John McClain. McClain’s candid look into the entire design process will allow anyone to find the designer within. This isn’t a book about how to create a look for less, but rather a book with a breakdown of professionally designed rooms. 

  Voir livre

• 

  A Rare Recording of Artist Andy...

  Andy Warhol

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987), born Andrew Warhola Jr., was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. The following recordings are from interviews in 1966 and 1981.

  Voir livre