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  Mexican Painting

  Jean Charlot

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  Mexican painting did not come to be internationally recognised until the early 20th century. It was the muralist movement, starting in the 1920s and strongly connected to the Mexican Revolution of the previous decade, from which such great artists as José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), and Diego Rivera (1886-1957) emerged. Rarely has art been more political. Thus, what Mexican muralists of the time put up on the walls of the most diverse buildings also tells the story of this ever so restless nation.

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  HiBrow: Richard Strange's "A...

  Richard Strange, Gavin Turk

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  Richard Strange's 'A Mighty Big If' event at The Crypt, St Martin in the Fields, London. Writer and adventurer Richard regularly staged entertaining and illuminating conversations with major cultural figures. Award-winning British artist Gavin Turk talks exclusively to Richard Strange about his life and work, his controversial departure from London's Royal College of Art and his emergence as a celebrated YBA.

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  Portraits in Jazz

  Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

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  A collection of articles on and interviews with jazz greats Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, and others. 
   
  Howard Reich has reported on jazz for the Chicago Tribune for almost four decades, and in this time, he has met musicians both celebrated and obscure. From his exclusive interviews with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald, to profiles of the early masters like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday, this book illustrates Reich’s deep understanding of the performances, recordings, and cultural legacies of these jazz masters. 
   
  This book, comprising Reich’s award-winning Chicago Tribune articles, shows readers his unmatched critical insight and unrivaled access to the diverse range of jazz musicians the world over, including the little-known artists who, while never in the national spotlight, were nonetheless instrumental to the evolution of jazz. Divided thematically, Portraits in Jazz is a journey from the time of jazz music’s originators, great singers, and early masters through to its courageous standouts, game changers, and regional influencers from Chicago to Cuba and across the globe. 
   
  Reich, himself a piano performance major at Northwestern University, says in the introduction that studying theory and history are essential to understanding jazz’s inner-workings. But these portraits weren’t created as academic theses or history-book lessons. They are on-the-spot, in the heat of the moment questions of its greatest practitioners, articles and essays in the here and now, taking readers one step closer to the meaning of sound.

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  How these Alabama architecture...

  PBS NewsHour

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  For decades, students and faculty from Auburn University’s Rural Studio have been working, studying and living in Hale County, Alabama, and using architecture to serve the greater good. There, more than two dozen different homes that cost only $20,000 have been designed, constructed and given to residents. John Yang reports as part of our ongoing series, Chasing the Dream.

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  Old Time Radio: Classic...

  Various Various

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  2 detective classics in 1 amazing bundle! Experience some of the best radio of the twentieth century in this Classic Detective bundle that features Dangerous Assignment and Escape. Dangerous Assignment: Mayala Rubber Dangerous Assignment: New York Nazi Buzz Bomb Plans Dangerous Assignment: London Secret Code Broken Dangerous Assignment: Macau Smuggle Agent Out of Country Dangerous Assignment: Rotterdam War Criminals Dangerous Assignment: Middle East A Tray Full of Dirty Dishes Dangerous Assignment: French Riveria Gocheck Dangerous Assignment: Balkans Outlaw Radio Station Dangerous Assignment: Balkans File Dangerous Assignment: Java Solve Your Own Murder Escape: The Man Who Would Be King Escape: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Escape: The Fourth Man Escape: Leiningen Versus the Ants Escape: The Country of the Blind Escape: S.S. San Pedro Escape: The Man Who Could Work Miracles Escape: Evening Primrose Escape: Orient Express Escape: The Lost Special

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  Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd - Dark...

  Julian Palacios

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  Syd Barrett was an English composer and purveyor of some of the most intriguing music ever written. Famous before his twentieth birthday, Barrett led the charge of psychedelia onstage at London's famed UFO club. With a Fender Telecaster and a primitive Binson echo unit, Barrett liberated the guitar from being, in critic Simon Reynolds' words, 'a riff machine, and turned it into a texture and timbre generator.'
  
  His inspired celestial flights of improvisation, and his more structured and whimsical short songs indicated a mind of unusual inventiveness. Chief in Barrett's mind was a Zen-like insistence on spontaneity; each performance had to be unique, and Barrett strived to push his music farther and farther out into the zone of complete abstraction.
  
  This in-depth analysis of Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett's life and work is the product of years of extensive research. Lost in the Woods traces Syd's swift evolution from precocious young art student to acid-fuelled psychedelic rock star, and examines the myriad musical and literary influences that he utilised in composing his hypnotic, groundbreaking songs. A never-forgotten casualty of the excesses, innovations, and idealism of the 1960s, Syd Barrett is one of the most heavily mythologized men in rock, and Lost in the Woods offers a rare portrayal of a unique spirit in freefall.

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