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  American Realism

  Gerry Souter

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  Urban realism, snow-covered streets of New York, boxing matches, children on the banks of a river, the painters of the Ash Can School preferred realistic images. Their paintings are a true hymn to noise and sensations. This unconventional movement enabled the birth of a true national artistic identity which broke free from the establishment. The Ash Can School resolutely promoted the affirmation of the modernist current of American art. Edward Hopper, who was a student of Robert Henri, embraced the principles of this movement and brought them to another level.

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  Perry Mason and the Case of the...

  Erle Stanley Gardner, M. J. Elliott

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  Thanks to a bungled robbery at a fancy hotel, the already-married Eva Griffin has been caught in the company of a prominent congressman. To protect the politico, Eva's ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid his hush money. But Perry Mason has other plans. He tracks down the phantom fat cat who secretly runs the blackmailing tabloid-only to discover a shocking scoop. By the time Mason's comely client finally comes clean, her husband has taken a bullet in the heart. Now Perry Mason has two choices: represent the cunning widow in her wrangle for the dead man's money-or take the rap for murder.

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  The Rivals

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  Romantic havoc ensues in the town of Bath when Sir Anthony arrives to arrange the marriage of his son Captain Jack Absolute to the wealthy Lydia Languish. Jack and Lydia are already in love, but because of Lydia’s obsession with romantic novels, Jack has disguised himself as a poor officer named Ensign Beverly – and he is only one of Lydia’s many suitors. The Rivals was Sheridan’s first play, and this charming comedy of manners continues to be widely performed today.Includes an interview with Linda Kelly, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. MalapropKenneth Danziger as ThomasLucy Davis as Lydia LanguishNeil Dickson as DavidSarah Drew as JuliaJulian Holloway as Sir Lucius O’TriggerChris Neame as Sir Anthony AbsoluteLloyd Owen as Captain Jack AbsoluteMoira Quirk as LucyMatthew Wolf as FaulklandDirected by Martin Jarvis. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in 2010.

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  The Lutheran Church in Geneva

  Catherine Courtiau

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  This magnificent “mansion” built in 1762–66 by and for the Lutheran Church of Geneva on the foundations of the Château d’Allinges-Coudrée stands elegantly at the bottom of the Place du Bourg-de-Four. Worthy of attention, its history is of great interest in terms of culture, philosophy and politics, but also for the details of its construction, structure and development. As early as 1921 the building was classified as a historical monument by Geneva’s Council of State (Conseil d’État).

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  Astronomy II - Stars Galaxies...

  James Kaler

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  As huge and prominent as it appears to us, our planet  and solar system are but small parts of our galaxy, a  massive assembly that spatters the sky with billions of  stars and that extends away from us for tens of thousands  of light years. And this galaxy of ours is in turn  but a small portion of the universe of trillions of other  galaxies that reaches outward for billions of light years,  back to the dawn of time.  This course places our local solar system into the  greater context to show where it all came from and  what its fate may be. We will study our sun and its  interior, learn about stellar red giants, white dwarfs,  neutron stars, and black holes, and encounter the  mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. We explore  the natures of the stars, what different kinds there are,  what makes them shine, how they are born, and how  they die, some with a whimper, others with explosions  that rock the cosmos. We then look to our galaxy of  stars, and then to the great variety of other galaxies, to  their clusters, and to their fiery interactions and collisions.  Finally, we encounter the universe as a whole,  the collection of all there is, which is still expanding  from its Big Bang origin of nearly 14 billion years ago.

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  Louis Comfort Tiffany and artworks

  Charles De Kay

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  A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, Tiffany succeeded in elevating the decorative to the rank of fine art. Glass was the field of expertise of Tiffany’s workshops. There they developed groundbreaking techniques of treatment which produced beautiful effects on glass. Following the examples of Gallé or Daum, Tiffany made the most of this material: playing with colors, opaqueness and transparency… However, his most famous success is his lamps in mosaic of glass, similar to the cathedral’s stained glass window. Diving into this prism of colors, the author makes us dream again of the birth of this enduring company.

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