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  Herbarium

  Klaus Carl

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  Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. His drawings are of great scientific as well as artistic value, and offer vivid insights into Europe’s eclectic flora.

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  Miró

  Jp. A. Calosse

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  Joan Miró was born in a room with stars painted on the ceiling. He grew up in the city of Barcelona, where rugged independence and creativity go hand in hand. In 1907, he enrolled in art classes at La Escuela de la Lonja, an academic and professionally oriented school of applied arts where a young man named Picasso had impressed the teachers ten years earlier. Then he entered Galí’s private classes. Unlike the Lonja School, it offered a setting where Miró’s distinctive ways of seeing were rewarded. At Gali’s academy, Miró met some of the men who would become not only fellow artists but intimate friends. He and Enric Cristòfol Ricart soon rented a studio together near the Barcelona Cathedral. Later identified as a Surrealist, Miró never really espoused any school or established style of art. “It was clear in his mind,” as one critic has put it, “that he had to go beyond all categories and invent an idiom that would express his origins and be authentically his own”. Over the course of his career, he even worked hard not to follow his own traditions. Clearly Miró had studied Cubism’s broken forms and had learned to admire the strident colours of the Fauves. But he had an eye of his own, and his paintings combined twisted perspectives, heavy brushwork, and surprises in colour. He was finding ways to merge the stylish two-dimensionality of the times with inspirations taken from Catalan folk art and Romanesque church frescos. Joan Miró began to recognise that, like Picasso, if he was going to become an artist in earnest, he needed to move to Paris. For a while he rented a studio at 45 rue Blomet, next door to the painter André Masson. Masson was just the first link in an entire community of artists with which Miró found a home, just as they were beginning to coalesce in the movement of art and sensibility they called “Surrealism”. It was a movement of thought that at once extolled the individual and the imagination and at the same time flaunted tradition, rationality, and even common sense. Influenced by the practitioners of surrealism, Miró never really joined their ranks. The joyful freedom espoused by the Dadaists was more to his liking than the manifestos and dogma of the Surrealists. His naïve originality drew the attention and admiration of them all, however, and he was soon the favoured illustrator for the magazine La Révolution Surréaliste. In his last years, Joan Miró spoke to his grandson of his lifelong love of Catalonian folk art - the natural forms, the independent spirit, the naiveté that is both beautiful and surprising. “Folk art never fails to move me,” he said. “It is free of deception and artifice. It goes straight to the heart of things”. In speaking of the art from the countryside that had nourished him, Joan Miró found the best words to describe himself. With his honesty, spontaneity, and childlike enthusiasm for shape, texture, and colour, he created a universe of artworks sure to delight, puzzle, and reward.

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  Story of Dr Kildare The - Volume...

  Les Crutchfield, Gene Holloway

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  Dr Kildare was a staple of film, TV and radio for decades.  It offered a glimpse into a world that had the power and ambition to keep each one of us safe.  Kildare worked at New York’s Blair General Hospital — where life begins, where life ends, and, in between where life went on in very many ways. 
   
  The cast was led by two genuine heavyweights; Lew Ayres as the young and idealistic Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as the hardened experienced diagnostician, Dr Leonard Gillespie. 
   
  Around them were a never-ending stream of patients each with a health problem that needed their immediate or on-going attention.  Together with their colleagues and administrators, who ran a system designed to help but would sometimes hinder or bring obstacles to their path, Dr Kildare and Co had to find the right answers.  Let’s see where the next case takes us.

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  The Definitive Biography of PDQ...

  Peter Schickele

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  Professor Peter Schickele's account of the life of little-known composer P.D.Q. Bach. 
  Printed books are all well and good, but, let's face it, it's a whole lot easier to let somebody else do the reading. P.D.Q. Bach was probably the most passive composer who ever allegedly lived, so the less effort you put into learning about him, the more you carry on his ideals.

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  Richard Diamond Private...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  Created by Blake Edwards (of Pink Panther fame), Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC radio in 1949 starring film actor and crooner Dick Powell. Powell had recently played Philip Marlowe in the popular RKO film Murder My Sweet and jumped at the chance to play a suave detective on radio. Richard Diamond was a light-hearted New York-based private eye who enjoyed ribbing the cops and singing songs to his millionairess girlfriend, Helen Asher (played by Virginia Gregg). Its theme “Leave it to Love” was whistled by Powell at the beginning of each episode. Powell’s company (Four Star Television) produced a TV version of Richard Diamond, Private Detective for CBS in 1957. David Janssen, who would later gain fame as Dr. Richard Kimble on The Fugitive was cast as TV’s Richard Diamond. Sam, Diamond’s beautiful secretary in the TV series, was only shown from the waist down. Those beautiful legs belonged to Mary Tyler Moore, as well as other actresses. 
  8/23/50 “The Farmer-Evans Murders Case”9/6/50 “The Misplaced Laundry Case”2/2/51 “The Caspary Case”2/16/51 “The Grey Man”2/23/51 “The Lady in Distress”12/28/51 “The Plaid Overcoat Case”1/25/52 “The Al Brenners Case”2/1/52 “The Garrabaldi Case”2/8/52 “The Eddie Burke Case”4/4/52 “The Enigma of Big Ed”6/7/53 “The Cover-Up Murders”6/28/53 “The Rifle Case”

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  Rant in E-Minor

  Bill Hicks

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  Perhaps his most explosive recorded work, Rant in E-Minor sees Hicks broaden the range of his comedy and further hone his satirical wit.

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