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Designing with Roses by Tony Lord
Tips on growing roses, including many good ideas for companion planting and advice on what roses are subject to diseases.

AUTHOR: Tony Lord
PUBLISHER: Trafalgar Square
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Transcendental Style in Film by Paul Schrader
'Schrader believes that directors from varied cultural backgrounds have, by their approach to specific films, created a common style of three great director's individual choice of subject and philosophical assumptions and can be recognized through detailed criticism.' -Library Journal

AUTHOR: Paul Schrader
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Kant after Duchamp by Thierry De Duve
Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of the avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's ready mades broke with all previously known styles, Thierry de Duve observes that he made the logic of modernist art practice the subject matter of his work, a shift in aesthetic judgment that replaced the classical this is beautiful with this is art . De Duve employs this shift in a re-reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment that reveals the hidden links between the radical experiments of Duchamp and the Dadaists and mainstream pictorial modernism.

AUTHOR: Thierry De Duve
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

A Midsummer Night's Dream by A. L. Rowse, Alan Durband, Alfred Alexander Evans, Barbara A. Mowat, David Bevington
Confusions of the heart reign in Athens, where everyone is pining away for the wrong person except Theseus, the Duke and his fiancee, Hippolyta, whose wedding day is fast approaching. Hermia, the Duke's daughter, is intent on marrying Lysander, although her father disapproves and threatens to make her a nun if she refuses to marry his choice for her, Demetrius. However, Helena loves Demetrius, who courted her once, and Lysander and Hermia plan to elope despite the Duke's orders. Hoping that Demetrius will fall for her instead, Helena plans to alert Demetrius that Hermia will shortly be spoken for. Meanwhile, in a subplot, the artisans Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling, and Bottom, are rehearsing the play PYRAMUS AND THISBE to be performed at the Duke's wedding. As Hermia and Lysander head into woods to elope, with Helena and Demetrius following, the amateur acting troupe likewise takes cover in the woods to rehearse in privacy. This leads all the players into the realm of fairy magic, where fairies Oberon and Titania are arguing over a changeling. When Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania with the aid of a magic flower that causes people to fall in love with the first person (or beast) they set eyes on, the real trouble starts. The flower is used liberally on both the humans and the fairies by the trouble-making sprite Puck, inspiring many amorous entanglements. There is no known source for Shakespeare's fantastic plot, though the structure is classical, as the events begin in the court, relocate to an uncivilized environment, and return to the court with renewed order, and aspects of the imagery are drawn from classic works, such as Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS and Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. Evidence in the play, like Titania's remark about three unusually unpleasant summers in a row--documented elsewhere in England's records--suggest a composition date of 1595 or 1596. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM was listed in a 1598 catalogue of Shakespeare's works, and was publi

AUTHOR: A. L. Rowse, Alan Durband, Alfred Alexander Evans, Barbara A. Mowat, David Bevington
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem's introduction supplements this special edition of this controversial and beloved play, which has been performed by Glenn Close, Susan Sontag and many others. A feminist meditation, this Obie Award-winning piece considers the attitudes of women of various ages toward their vaginas.

AUTHOR: Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Music.Dot.Com
Description not available.Identifies several of the more prominent design innovations for music web sites, considering their construction, navigation, and technical qualities while presenting a printed collection of notable industry-specific web graphics.
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture