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A critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees (1914–55) performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists—the middle generation of twentieth-century American letters, which included Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, and a select number of others. His disappearance at the age of forty-one, which still places a question mark on his suicide, along with his movie-star good looks, role in the culture of his day, and shifting relationships with key figures have made him one of the more intriguing and elusive artists of the 1940s and pre-Beat ’50s. Going beyond the cult status that has grown up around Kees over the years, James Reidel presents the first full account of Kees’s troubled yet remarkably accomplished life.
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Que Viva James Reidel.......2006-06-13
Last night at the Cinematheque here in San Francisco, we watched a slew of Weldon Kees films. Guest curator Jenni Olson last year turned an elegaic tribute to a dead friend, Mark Finch, into a feature documentary called THE JOY OF LIFE, which spoke in a spare and moving way about people drawn to the Golden Gate Bridge, like Finch, to take their own lives. She told us that in the course of her research she came across the life, work and of course the disappearance of Weldon Kees, whose car was found on the north end of the bridge on July 18, 1955, and that she found herself drawn to his work as both poet and filmmakers in the early San Francisco film avant-garde. (Not much mention made of his painting.) Only Olson, with her myriad connections to a hundred archives, could have pulled together such a program, which was billed as the first retrospective of Kees' fugitive film work.
Since he completed only one film, the program was supplemented by other shorts on which he had contributed his many talents. James Broughton's classic ADVENTURES OF JIMMY began the show, a nice print with Kees' barrelhouse piano score. Broughton was in full Buster Keaton-Chaplin mode with this short, in which he leaves a rundown cabin in the wilderness and goes to San Francisco to find a wife, or possibly a boyfriend, or one of each perhaps. It's sort of coy, and Broughton's not a great silent film actor, but it's cute and the audience lapped it up. Olson followed this up with two of Weldon Kees' "data" films, both from 1952, HAND MOUTH COORDINATION and APPROACHES AND LEAVETAKINGS, also silent, in grainy black and white. Frankly, these left me a little mystified. Why on earth were they made? In HMC, we see a harried blonde mother go through an entire day taking care of an adorable boy who looks to be about 15 months old---feeding him, bathing him, putting on his diapers, while four older kids look on from the background and attempt to steal scenes from the baby. Kees and Gregory Bateson are sometimes shown in the corners of the apartment, cameras held up to their faces. But why? It seems so pointless and "Mass Observation." The second "anthropological film" was lensed by Kees with a camera hidden in his valise, and documented ordinary Oakland and Berkeley citizens saying hello and goodbye. Kees (presumably) supplies some winsome captions for each brief scenelet, some of them lasting only a few seconds. In one of the scenes, laid in front of UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall, an imposing professor walks across some steps with a brace of burly grad students, and a sharp-eyed member of our audience identified the faculty guy as George M. Stewart, the novelist (STORM) and author of the classic work on California's Loyalty Oath THE YEAR OF THE OATH (1950).
HOTEL APEX screened next, the only completed film Kees signed, a fascinating and beautiful poetic impression of a rundown boarding house badly in need of demolition. The camera glides and rises through the ruined space, stopping to dolly in here and there at odd-shaped remnants, a Dinah Washington poster, a scattering of beer caps, a soaked paperback copy of Phoebe Atwood Taylor's 1931 THE CAPE COD MYSTERY. We wonder about the people who once lived in these broken spaces, how they came to run out on their old possessions; the HOTEL APEX has some of the mystery of the Marie Celeste. Time heals everything, people say, but the displacement of the hotel remains, still, eerily vigorous, nearly a shriek.
Then we saw a color film, William Heick's THE BRIDGE, on which Kees acted as a cameraman. Bizarrely it's a series of impressive Wow! shots of the Golden Gate Bridge, swamped in fog, glittering in the sun, viewed from a bird's eye view above, sometimes from the great steel pilings at its base, while a "movie voice" from the period recites, really skips through, a lot of Hart Crane's poem THE BRIDGE. We see Kees scurrying down a steep slope balancing a tripod; it's spooky, the way he seems to risk tumbling into the rough white surf. I thought Hart Crane's verse really beautiful, but you could tell some people were having a hard time following it, especially the way it was enunciated, in these "You Are There" rapidfire sub-Gielgudisms. Finally the lights came halfway up and we listened to a KPFA broadcast of Weldon Kees' own radio show, which he co-hosted with a friend Michael Grieg. This episode was recorded shortly after Kees' disappearance, and Grieg puzzles it out over the air, playing a song ("Daybreak Blues") that Kees wrote, and reading one of Kees' longer, most interesting poems, "The Journey." Grieg's got a great voice, like Vincent Price crossed with sandpaper, and he made "The Journey" sound like a million bucks (funny thing, though, he pronounces "Formica" with a strange accent on the first syllable, as though along the lines of "fornicate.") And the grief and bewilderment of Kees' suicide you could eat with a spoon. It was very touching. Jenni Olson announced that she could never have begun compiling this program without the help of James Reidel's incredibly detailed 2003 biography, VANISHED ACT. I read VANISHED ACT shortly after its publication and to this day it remains, to my mind, the very model of a proper artistic biography. He makes huge claims for his man, but he's got the resources and the skills to back them up. You come away from his book thinking that, despite Dana Gioia, despite Donald Justice, whatever, Weldon Kees deserves all the scrutiny and commentary he's been getting. Maybe he wasn't the world's greatest filmmaker, but we have only these bits and pieces to ponder, like reading fortunes from tea leaves. Anything might have happened, and Reidel makes you feel that; he---Reidel---is a poet of endings and beginnings. Once you start reading it, be prepared to have it haunt you the rest of your born days.
Neglected Genius.......2003-08-21
This is an entertaining and beautifully and lovingly written biography of a neglected but indelible American poet. Read the poems, and read this book, do yourself a favor.
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Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried
From his early career as an art critic during the sixties to his art historical writings of recent decades, Michael Fried has remained one of the most controversial and fascinating art writers of the late twentieth century. Refracting Vision brings together for the first time a range of scholarly responses to Fried's art criticism, art history, and poetry, illuminating his distinguished contributions and taking his work in exciting new directions.
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overdue evaluation of Fried.......2001-06-14
Who are the seminal figures in twentieth-century art history that have changed the way we think about the relationship between art and history? Most lists would surely include social historians of art such as T. J. Clark and Griselda Pollock, but how many would include the American art historian Michael Fried? The exclusion of Fried would be a grave mistake, if an understandable one. It is understandable because there is still a tendency in art history to divide the discipline into two camps: those who connect art to its historical circumstances as symptom, expression, or reflection of the times (Arnold Hauser et al. ) and those who see art as an autonomous realm (Heinrich Wölfflin, Clement Greenberg, etc.). Fried is usually aligned with the latter group, characterised as formalists in opposition to the historians.
No doubt this misalignment accounts for the fact that there has been no major study of his work or its contribution to the discipline of art history. Art historians routinely read Fried's work through his seminal essay on minimalism of 1967 "Art and Objecthood" as if this essay holds the key to his particular brand of Greenbergian formalism. When this essay is used to disparage Fried's project, the argument goes something like this: the anti-theatrical tendency in art he praises there (the denial of the spectator, as against art that stages or theatricalises spectatorship) is simply a formal connivance, akin to Greenberg's will to flatness, which he imposes on earlier art in order to justify his taste in modern art. His historical trilogy, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, Courbet's Realism, and Manet's Modernism, or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s, is then read against the grain as unhistorical speculation rather than a careful tracing of the fate of the anti-theatrical project in French painting. The historical grounding of his interrogation of spectatorship is thereby missed.
But academic times have changed; with the so called `visual turn' in the humanities, and the concomitant interest in theories and histories of vision, Fried's project is ripe for reevaluation. This challenge is taken up by Refracting Vision, the first in depth analysis of his work by three Australian scholars: Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts and Toni Ross.
This anthology of essays complicates the polarisation of the art historical field into two camps. For that reason alone, it is essential reading for all art historians who are interested in the theoretical and methodological basis of their discipline. And shouldn't that mean everyone in any case? The collection also does much more than this: it contextualises Fried's practice, draws out some of his more recondite terms and themes, and takes his work into areas that he could never have anticipated. Very highly recommended!
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Intresting facts.......2007-07-03
the book contained interesting facts. The book contained notes that were written between the two writters there were ment to be funny, which was rather stupid... but the facts were interesting. If you like strange facts, you will probably enjoy this book.
Great Book.......2007-01-12
I thought this book was funny and insightful. If you are looking for a quick read about stuff that you never knew you wanted to know ~ this book is for you =)
A Wonderful Read.......2006-04-19
This book has been a wonderful read. Not only does it contain humor, but you will learn some neat facts. Trust me if you read it you will always have something unique to add to almost any conversation. I whole-heartily recommend this book to anyone.
Scientifically true and hilarious!!.......2006-02-27
This book answers some of these questions that you really wanted to know the answer to, but were afraid to ask somebody. 'Can A Guy Get Pregnant?' answers oddball question on the Body, Love, Death and Animals through scientific reasearch with a good dose of humor. Questions range from 'Do Dogs watch TV?' to "Could A Black Hole Kill Us All?'. You'll have to read the book to find out. I smell a sequel, folks!
A Fun Read....not to mention informative!.......2006-02-17
What's not to like about this book? It's the ultimate "pick up and put down" book (perfect for my busy lifestyle), packed with answers to some of those questions that come to you out of the blue and you think, I wish I knew the answer to this! Well-written and well-researched, I'm waiting for the sequel!
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Disney: The First 100 Years details the genesis of Mickey, Donald, and the rest of the gang; the development of the first animated features; the onset of television; the creation of Walt Disney World; and the companys recent standing as one of the most technically innovative and synergistic corporations in the world.
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Great for Disney fans!.......2005-09-20
Catch up on your knowledge, or review what you know. Fun series of all that's Disney.
Great Disney Book Loaded With Photos and Info !!.......2004-07-14
This 213 page book is just full of an endless supply of full color photos of everything Disney for the past 100 years. You'll learn all about Walt's early life and how his ideas created worldwide Disney worlds. Each chapter covers a decade from 1901 to 2001 !! Many of these pictures are archival and never made available before. The book provides many memories for "children" of all ages. It's a keeper. Enjoy !
No details.......2002-04-17
This is a great book about Disney Company. It goes chronologically from 1901 to 1999 and beyond. Every event in the company's history is put in the book, but without much detail.
Since he maintains Disney Archives, Dave Smith could have done a litle better, like he did with Disney's Encyclopedia.
Excellent.......2002-01-31
This book was excellent! It had terrific pictures and it told from 1901 when Walt was born until 2001. It is a great keepsake. I purchased mine at Walt Disney World during the 100 Years of Magic celebration.
An excellent overview of Waltýs life and of the Disney Co.......2000-08-01
I really enjoyed this book. It is packed with lots of great photographs and artwork from Walt Disney and the Disney Company. It also has a really nice overview of the life of Walt Disney and the work of the Disney Company in text.
I appreciated the organization of the book. The book is arranged chronologically, which helped me to understand the flow of events better. This book has a very upbeat, positive tone and paints a very bright and exciting future for the Disney Company.
This book does not contain nearly as much information about Walt Disney as some of the biographies that I have read, but I don't think that was the goal of this book. This book does a very nice job of chronicling the art and the work of this great American icon and then continues the chronology with the work of the Disney Company in the post Walt era.
This book starts with very early Disney and takes the reader all the way through to Fantasia 2000. This is an excellent coffee table book. I highly recommended it to anyone that loves Walt, his work and the continuing work of the Disney Company.
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The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (Cambridge Companions to Music)
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The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many angles, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays offers informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, taking the reader through a series of five basic subject areas--locating jazz historically and geographically; defining jazz as musical and cultural practice; jazz in performance; the uses of jazz for audiences, markets, education and for other art forms; and the study of jazz.
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Lotto How to Wheel a Fortune (3rd ed.)contains the world's most successful wheeling systems including all the wheels used by Gail Howard's biggest lotto jackpot winners. Gail's track record in helping players become big winners is unprecedented in the history of lottery. Seventy (74!) documented first prize jackpots totaling $97 million have been won with Gail Howard's systems.
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You can play all your favorite numbers (even 40 of them)in one system. There is no faster, easier way to give your money leverage and dramatically improve your odds in lotto. And Balanced Wheels are as easy to use as A-B-C!!
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Gail Howard Lotto: How to Wheel a Fortune.......2004-04-18
Gail Howard's Book entitled: `Lotto: How to Wheel a Fortune' (397 pages) will be one book every lotto player should have in their possession to help win the lottery! Not only going after the Jackpot, but winning many smaller prizes as well that are available. This book will make you sit up and take notice that there really are ways to actually drop the high lottery odds to help you win playing the pick 6 lottery. This is explained very well in this book along with many wheels that will help you win multiple prizes. (Gail first introduced lotto wheeling systems to the American public in 1983).
Just like the `boxing' methods some use of a 3-4 digit game, you can do the same with Lotto! Except with lottery games, there are many more numbers than just 3 or 4 to deal with. But no matter if your game is a 6/25,--6/49 or higher, this highly informative book with show you the way to reduce the high odds of these games.
`Lotto: How to Wheel a Fortune' has already helped many win thousands of lottery prizes, including myself! At least 74 Documented Jackpot winners have used Gail's systems to win the lottery. All wheels are guaranteed as to have no holes and are Balanced Wheels! This means you can use them with confidence, and also they will show you maximum and minimum win guarantees that you can expect to win.
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A "must have" addition for any lottery system.......2003-07-12
I purchased "Lottery Master Guide" and " Lotto How to Wheel a Fortune". They are both fantastic books. I was " blown away" with the vast amount of tracking techniques that Gail Howard managed to uncover. I've been working for years programming my own system: I could have save a lot of time and effort if I had first found Gail's books and computer programs. a plethora of "wheels" to choose from -- great for any betting budget.
Lotto How to Wheel a Fortune.......2000-08-14
This book is a must have for the serious lottery player.The simple yet straight forward suggestions and systems in this book will have you winning more often. Don't expect to win all the time but you will definetly win more often. This is one book that is worth it's money in winnings!
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In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.
An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the Presidency was not the exclusive province of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jackson’s rise from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and finally to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his controversial actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. This is a thrilling portrait, in full, of the president who defined American democracy.
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Superbly crafted biography of our 7th President.......2007-08-30
I am currently reading a biography of every President in order. Brands book on Andrew Jackson has my vote for best one volume Presidential biography I have read thus far.
Brands writing style is fluid and easy to read and the research is solid, all very important components to a biography, but these alone are not what makes this biography so great. Brands real strength lies in the way he balances and crafts his presentation. The narrative of the book is generally chronological but Brands adeptly overlaps chronology where it is helpful to the quality of the narrative and the understanding of the reader. Brands also weaves in background information masterfully, always providing enough as is required to adequately inform the reader's understanding of the main subject but never drifting too far off topic to lose the reader's interest or focus. Brands has also provided just the right balance in terms of the details and themes of Jackson's life he chooses to focus upon, providing a full portrait of Jackson and his life without losing the reader's interest on unimportant details.
In my opinion, Brands biography manages to strike the perfect balance between the reading enjoyment of narrative biography and the more in depth study of a scholarly work. I only wish every President had such a wonderful biography.
A Warring Patriot .......2007-08-06
Brands does an excellent job of bringing Andrew Jackson to life. History records that Jackson was one of the best presidents, yet our educational system says so little of him. He viciously warred with the Indians, yet sought harmonious relations with them. One gets the impression that Jackson could work with you, but if you crossed the line, he would not be your friend. A strong president at a time we needed it. A virtual George Washington. This book is quick reading, detailed and worth keeping for another read later.
Will It Ever End?.......2007-07-08
After reading biographies by such stalwarts as David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin, this one was a big disappointment. It plods along for 560 pages. Far too much detail; the book could have been much shorter. Tiny type size makes the book seem even longer.
Fun and Educational Read.......2007-06-09
Every other man to serve in the White House must be seen as only "half a man" by comparison. Anyone who could fight so many hand-to-hand combats and duels, so successfully lead men into battle, suffer such wounds, British imprisonment, risk everything for the love of a woman, singlehandedly turn the tide of of the War of 1812, hold the nation together and bring, for the first time, true democracy to Washington, deserves the admiration of every American. Jackson's life could so easily be brought to the big screen to remind all of us why this great Republic represents mankind's last great chance on this planet.
his own man..........2007-04-26
Seventh president, hero of the War of 1812, military leader in the Indian wars. When he took an American Army to New Orleans in anticipation of the English landing there, he was surrounded by citizens who had not sworn their loyalty to America. He stood before them and challenged "either stand with us or against us". Old Hickory was as tough as they come and this wonderful book will fill in so many details that you didn't know about Mr. Jackson. He was the first American president who had been a prisoner of war. He stood on principle and eschewed weakness. One of our finest.
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Updated reprint in Brooklands fine tradition. Traces the evolution of the WWII Willys MB and Ford GPW jeeps, including driving impressions, service data, history, and a report on the Seep amphibian.
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Military and Civilian Amphibians.......2005-07-19
Really interesting book if you like amphibian vehicles. It has some great pictures and histories of different types of vehicles.
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Deadly Arsenals provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment available on global proliferation dangers, with a critical assessment of international enforcement efforts. An invaluable resource for academics, policymakers, students, and the media, this atlas includes strategic and historical analysis; maps, charts, and graphs of the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems; descriptions of the weapons and regimes—and policies to control them; and data on countries that have, want, or have given up weapons of mass destruction. The new edition addresses the recent, dramatic developments in Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and the nuclear black market, analyzing strategic and policy implications. A Choice outstanding academic title from one of the premier nonproliferation research teams.
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Great Book for Political Science Research.......2006-08-30
This book has great facts about weapons of mass destruction throughout the world's countries. Great for research.
Cold war's Past, Today's Problem.......2006-08-21
This is a comprehensive book in which the authors describe proliferation issues and nonproliferations issues. This is a great reference book to have on nuclear issues as well as biological and chemical threats.
The book is detailed to the extent that one would think that some of the material should be classified, because there is a chapter on Russian nuclear facilities which handle nuclear materials, waste mamnagement sites, Russian stategic submarine fleet sites and nuclear test sites are featured. Also China's aresnals are thorougly presented and many others. Iran N. Korea to name a few.
The authors describe many of the international network of treaties and agreements construted over the past 50 years. Also there's a chapter on nuclear, biological and chemical materials and weapon systems to deliver them.
Overall I enjoyed reading this book, it's a good refernece to have if you want to know about proliferation and non proliferation issues that affect the fragile world we live in.
Excellent Proliferation Resource.......2005-07-12
The latest in the line of Carnegie proliferation surveys, Deadly Arsenals is an essential resource for all concerned with WMD proliferation issues. Students of nonproliferation will appreciate the up-to-date analysis of the regime and its hard cases, including timely information on North Korea, Iran, and the most recent "success" story, Libya. This is one of the few books I keep on my desk--my dog-eared 2002 edition is ready to be shelved.
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ASIN: 9061917166 |
Book Description
This atlas is an explanatory overview of Kenya's 1065 species, useful both to the birdwatcher as a means of finding birds and interpreting the significance of field observations, and to the ornithologist as a standard reference work.
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