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This volume, an exploration of theater on both sides of the Atlantic, is published in conjunction with a BBC-TV series of the same name. Insider perspectivres on Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Mark Ravenhill, Noel Coward, and many others is included.
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 | Clit Notes by Holly Hughes
A collection of pieces by the performance artist Holly Hughes. AUTHOR: Holly Hughes
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Architecture as Metaphor by Kojin Karatani, Michael Speaks, Sabu Kohso
In Architecture as Metaphor, Karatani detects a recurrent will to architecture that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruction, thereby pointing to an alternative model of secular criticism , but in the domain of philosophy rather than literary or cultural criticism. As Karatani claims in his introduction, because the will to architecture is practically nonexistent in Japan, he must first assume a dual role: one that affirms the architectonic (by scrutinizing the suppressed function of form) and one that pushes formalism to its collapse (by invoking Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem). His subsequent discussions trace a path through the work of Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Finally, amidst the drive that motivates all formalization, he confronts an unbridgeable gap, an uncontrollable event encountered in the exchange with the other; thus his speculation turns toward global capital movement. While in the present volume he mainly analyzes familiar Western texts, it is precisely for this reason that his voice discloses a distance that will add a new dimension to our English-language discourse. AUTHOR: Kojin Karatani, Michael Speaks, Sabu Kohso
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Shakespeare into Film by John C. Tibbetts, Richard Vela
Description not available.Discusses each of Shakespeare's major works and their film adaptations, along with essays on various filmmakers who have adapted the plays into films. AUTHOR: John C. Tibbetts, Richard Vela
PUBLISHER: Facts on File Inc.
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Candor & Perversion by Roger Shattuck
Art and literature critic Shattuck here collects essays on artists and writers as diverse as Man Ray and V. S. Naipaul, arguing throughout for a traditional critical appreciation of the arts. He eschews recent theoretical and ideological claims and embraces a humanist and liberal attitude toward books and visual art. AUTHOR: Roger Shattuck
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Drawing Basics by Michael Woods
Drawing mediums and techniques are demonstrated through clear exercises in pencil, charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, and colored pencils. Landscape subjects are specially chosen to show the artist how to handle line, tone, and light. Illustrations. AUTHOR: Michael Woods
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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