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The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982
Giovanni Anselmo ,
Stefan Gronnert ,
Pamela Lee ,
Geoffrey Batchen ,
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Sarah Charlesworth ,
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John Baldessari ,
Joseph Beuys ,
Christian Boltanski ,
Marcel Broodthaers ,
Dan Graham ,
Barbara Kruger ,
Sol Lewitt ,
Douglas Fogle , and
Kathy Halbreich
Manufacturer: Walker Art Center
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ASIN: 0935640762
Release Date: 2003-11-02 |
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"Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the work of artists such as Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman, to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the artists of the late 70s and early 80s including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. Intended as a major genealogy of the rise of a still-powerful and evolving photographic practice by artists, the checklist will include a wide array of works examining a range of issues: performativity and photographic practice; portraiture and cultural identity; the formal and social architectonics of the built environment; societal and individual interventions in the landscape; photography's relationship to sculpture and painting; the visual mediation of meaning in popular culture; and the poetic and conceptual investigation of visual non-sequiturs, disjunctions and humorous absurdities. Bringing together a newly commissioned body of scholarship with reprints of important historical texts, The Last Picture Show seeks to define the legacy that has produced a rich body of photographic practice in the art world today."
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Bushit is the book that Jack Huberman hoped he would never have to write. The author of the hugely successful Bush-Hater's Handbook became an American citizen in order to vote against the loathed administration of Dubya and his cronies. This time, Bush managed what he had failed to achieve in 2000, and did win the election. Huberman reacted to this calamitous news by writing a new, indispensable guide for concerned citizens everywhere.
Moving from A through Z, Bushit explores with vitriol and humor the lows of Bush 2004. From the cynical manipulation by the Christian right of the Terry Schiavo tragedy to the alarming rise of the moral values mantra, from the corruption of DeLay to the mean-spiritedness of the bankruptcy bill, from corporate malfeasance to Martha Stewart, Deficit Attention Disorder to Creationism, Bushit catalogues the outrages and scandals of an administration that appears unwilling or unable to learn from the mistakes and deceits of its first term.
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Lost In a Really Bad Woody Allen Movie!.......2007-07-22
I purchased this book as a recomendation from Amazon from another book I purchased. I must have read a worse book I just can't remember when! Thank God I bought it used so I didn't waste alot of money on it! Jack Huberman doesn't even have a good imagination! It reminded me of 'Being Lost In A Really Bad Woody Alen Movie'... Don't waste your time!
lay reader.......2006-06-09
Bushit, is a great fiction book. It provides a lot of opinions, and allows people to disregard reality, while allowing speculation and Hippie mentality to dominate the book and influence the opinions of the average person.
In reality, the book has very few factual references, and refers most of the time to Opinion Editorial pages from questionable sources. The only references in the book are opinion based. No real facts are cited.
If one wants a fictional account of Bush's evils, then by all means buy the book. If one wants reality, bypass this one!
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He is not P. J. O'Rourke.......2005-12-30
I bought P.J. O'Rourke's "Eat the rich" Amazon refered this book to me. If you want a comple reversal then this is the book. Otherwise nothing in common. I had to rate it so I gave it a neutral 3 stars. Yes I am biased and would not want my political opinion to influence the rating
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With a special full-color photo insert, the official companion to the new Columbia Pictures film by director Tim Burton, starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, and Jessica Lange. In the heartwarming film Big Fish, director Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow) brings his inimitable imagination on a journey that delves deep into a fabled relationship between a father and his son. Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) has always been a teller of tall tales about his oversized life as a young man (Ewan McGregor), when his wanderlust led him on an unlikely journey from a small town in Alabama, around the world, and back again. His mythic exploits dart from the delightful to the delirious as he weaves epic tales about giants, blizzards, a witch and conjoined-twin lounge singers.
With his larger-than-life stories, Bloom charms almost everyone he encounters except for his estranged son Will (Billy Crudup). When his mother Sandra (Jessica Lange) tries to reunite them, Will must learn how to separate fact from fiction as he comes to terms with his father's great feats and great failings.
This Newmarket Shooting Script book includes the complete screenplay, introduction and notes by the filmmakers, a special color photo insert capturing the film's vivid visuals, and complete cast and crew credits. 20 color illustrations.
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I like the way the father lived.......2006-11-03
The screenplay helped me a lot track down the parts I liked.
I love the way the father lived, making his plain life very fascinating. I am almost his age and feels the same way. I compare this movie with About Schmidt, which I don't like very much. Life cannot be worthwhile living without our imagination and desire to make it more meaningful.
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Until the 1960s American jazz, for all its improvisational and rhythmic brilliance, remained rooted in formal Western conventions originating in ancient Greece and early Christian plainchant. At the same time European jazz continued to follow the American model. When the creators of so-called free jazz—Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, and others—liberated American jazz from its Western ties, European musicians found their own distinctive voices and created a vital, innovative, and independent jazz culture.
Northern Sun, Southern Moon examines this pan-Eurasian musical revolution. Author and musician Mike Heffley charts its development in Scandinavia, Holland, England, France, Italy, and especially (former East and West) Germany. He then follows its spread to former Eastern-bloc countries. Heffley brings to life an evolving musical phenomenon, situating European jazz in its historical, social, political, and cultural contexts and adding valuable material to the still-scant scholarship on improvisation. He reveals a Eurasian genealogy worthy of jazz’s well-established African and American pedigrees and proposes startling new implications for the histories of both Western music and jazz.
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- OUTDATED by 15 YEARS, 3 REVISIONS, and THOUSANDS of WORDS
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For SCRABBLE® and other word-game players, the winner's handbook is here! Become a master of the game with this essential guide for top-scoring play. You'll discover:
- The 94 all-important two-letter words -- in one handy list
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OUTDATED by 15 YEARS, 3 REVISIONS, and THOUSANDS of WORDS.......2007-01-24
This book was missing words and had typos 15 years ago. Since then there have been 3 major revisions to the dictionary. The last update alone had over 3200 words removed or added. By including words that have been removed such as DA and not including words that have now come to be accepted such as FE this book leads you astray and far behind. Two letter "hook" words like these make a huge difference when looking for good plays. This book is too outdated to be of use to anyone looking to improve their game. Take the advice of the champion player who wrote the first review listed 5 years ago and get your info somewhere else.
Wore out the first one.......2006-11-10
This is my second copy of this book, too many pages were falling out of the first one! I have also used others, but this one has the advantage of showing letters that you can put in front of words. I wish someone would do a new edition however.
scrabble lovers bible.......2006-11-03
An excellent book, gives lots of 2 and 3 letter words...great book
EFL Teachers - a good resource.......2006-07-09
I teach English as a foreign language, and this dictionary is great for helping children play more effectively and to understand root words and how they evolve into other words.
pulp it.......2006-06-25
this book is outdated by a factor of 2 (two) dictionary revisions. As many as 8000 words are not included, and to complete the pie, there's (ewwww!) TYPOS! Yep, errata, misprints, however you wanna call it. This book is essentially garbage.
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Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn
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A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material
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Not for the Easily Offended.......2007-10-16
If you like Tony's show on the Travel Channel, you will love this book. If you don't know who Bourdain is, get offended easily, don't like curse words, and like to believe that restaurant work is glamorous, you probably will not like this book at all.
As for me, I thought it was awesome.
sex and drugs in the kitchen.......2007-10-06
I thought I was going to read some "kitchen secrets" rather than "secrets" that occurred in the kitchen.If I wanted to read about how a drug addict became famous, there are a lot more autobiographies I'd rather read about. Bourdain's arrogant behaviour and kitchen antics didn't impress me. The message I got was in order to be a successful chef, you have to use obscene language, have loose morals and do drugs. I'm a chef instructor in a culinary arts school in Europe.....is this what I'm supposed to be like to inspire my students????
FUNNY.......2007-10-02
I would have never thought to pick up this book... I actually would have never thought he took writing serious enough to write a book! On TV, I love his style... his crass personality... and how his humility shines through when you least expect it! This book is the exact same way! My co worker let me read it and I have not been able to put it down. Classically written ... personal and professional about the business without being all over the place... 5 STARS!
Did I Need to Know?.......2007-10-01
Now that Bourdain is featured on TV, this book will probably get a new life. A mind-blowing look at life in the restaurant kitchen - crazier than we could have ever imagined. Lots of really good insight. Anybody thinking of following the culinary profession must read it.
Kitchen Confidential audio book.......2007-09-27
Loved this raunchy rip of a tour through the world of (upscale) restaurant meal creation. And what a view it is of the unique characters who wield chef's knives! Bourdain is a great writer as well as obviously a superior/successful chef, and to top it off, his baritone voice is perfect for the audio format....great inflection, drama, humor.
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Allies in War offers a complete diplomatic and military history of the Second World War, as it was fought by the United States and Britain. Award-winning historian Mark Stoler examines the war these two powers fought in the European and Far Eastern theatres against Germany, Italy and Japan and
the nature of the Churchill-Roosevelt "special relationship."
Stoler emphasizes the unprecedented co-operation between Britain and the USA but also undermines the standard Churchillian view of the essential smoothness of this process. There were many, often substantial, disagreements between the two allies, and occasionally formal agreement masked continuing
dispute in practice.
This is a fully rounded history of the British-American effort and makes compelling reading for those who want to understand the intricacies and complexities of this unique relationship. A close examination of the British and American experience of WW2.
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This digital document is an article from Parameters, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1088 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued — and baffled — America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s — when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings — the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.
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good stuff.......2007-08-01
It may not be politically correct or very American, but this book really drives home some of the major problems in American society, well presented and not willing to pull punches, it may be to close to the truth for most americans
Former federal employee concurs.......2007-07-26
Mark Ames must have had some hardened life. He gets it right on the money when he describes the institutional torment that leads to destructive behavior. In the end, when the institution takes everything including truth, compassion and dignity, the rational response is rage, murder and rebellion.
This is a well-researched book, put out by someone who spent a lot of time researching and documenting the pattern. Ames' unlikely connection between slavery and the working man is made convincingly, with slavery occasionally being the more humane of the two.
I left government service recently, after watching three supervisors fall prey to love-hate dependency-based work relationships. All of them eventually succumbed to rage. I spent time speaking with other office employees, both former and current, who lost their emotional balance and faded into oblivion, whether fired or effectively incapacitated. I had to read this book to understand the dynamics behind this less-than-rare phenomenon. Ames' validation is a double-edged sword. What is frightening is the notion that this oppression occurs frequently, but is never documented until someone commits mass murder. Ames notes in his book that rebellion occurs with great infrequency, as the unknown is always more frightening than the known, however unpleasant.
"Going Postal" is a must-read book, although it is less gory than it is reflective. Ames is an excellent historian and consolidator of relationship dynamics. His ability to interview his subjects and pick up on the details -- sometimes even humorous in a macabre way -- makes this a facinating documentary.
Duck!.......2007-07-18
This book gives a frightening insight into the harsh policies of corporate America and the so-called "wackos" who rebel.
A Society without God.......2006-07-07
Contrasting the opinion of a reviewer before me, in his work, Mark Ames very clearly shows the motivations, the reasons of conduct of slaves in the past and pupils and workers today. He impressively shows how everyone, starting at nursery school, is everyone's enemy and how this leads to anger which sometimes is disposed of in the form of a workplace/school shooting, more oftentimes however in imitaging the bahaviour of foremen/teachers/bosses once on is in their position. Blame in America is always cast on the weak, the poor, the helpless. And in the end, the slaves worship their master because he, their tormentor, is what they desire to be. From page 242 of the book: "Why do we need to celebrate, with a kind of malicious pride, our worsening condition? What the hell is wrong with us? Have we lost all of our dignity?"
A mindset, such as the American, which measures everything in terms of material success, popularity and immediate gratification cannot support notions such as solidarity, sympathy or justice. This book is an upright tome on the degeneration of American society in it's last days. Sadly, the book does not portait ways out of the vicious circle of hate, which is the only lack the work has. Buy it, read it and change your life!
Amazing!.......2006-05-05
Going Postal is the most important book of the 21st century. Out of everything I have read about workplace and school shootings, I think Mark Ames finally gets it right. Unfortunately, no mainstream press dared to pick this up, but I think the book will change the minds of anyone who happens to read it. I definately will recommend this book to everyone.
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Ghost of the Forest: The Great Gray Owl
Michael S. Quinton
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An excellent book.......2005-03-02
The great gray owl is a bird that most birders yearn to add to their life-list as it is somewhat elusive due to its northern range and habits. But every so often, the species has to contend with a sharp decline in its favoured pray and is forced to expand its range southward. The winter of 2004-2005 is one of those rare occurences, and for the first time in several decades great grays are being regularly spotted by local birders.
For people such as myself who are not that familiar with the species, Ghost of the Forest is an excellent book from which to learn more about this fascinating species. The author and photographer, Michael S. Quinton, spent several years in Yellowstone National Park and Island Park photographing the great gray in all aspects of its lifecycle. In the end, his persistance (which, he admits, sometimes caused him to foresake what "little common sense" he had left [p. 81]) was rewarded with a number of striking photographs that capture the unique character of North America's largest species of owl. One cannot help but have a greater appreciation for the great gray after reading this book.
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conservation assessment on three species of forest owls that occur on national forest lands in the U.S.: Flammulated Owls, Boreal Owls, & Great Gray Owls. Contents: methods & terminology used with studies of habitat associations; current management situation of the 3 species: review of technical knowledge of the 3 species; dynamics of Ponderosa & Jeffrey Pine forests; conservation status of the 3 species of Owls in the U.S.; information needs of the 3 species of Owls; dynamics of Subalpine Forests. Extensive references. Photos, charts & tables
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Great Gray Owl
Robert Nero
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