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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The MoMA in New York is the first choice for aficionados of modern and contemporary art. Art collectors Abby Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss and Mary Sullivan laid the foundations for the museum, which opened its doors under the directorship of Alfred Barr on Nov. 7, 1929. Presented here is the MoMA's astonishing range of modern art, including key works such as Jasper John's 'Flag'. Features the work of Boccioni, Miró, Johns, Lindner and Wyeth.
2) Magritte
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128 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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189 pages ; 22 cm
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"A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving...
9) Andy Warhol
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xix, 162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and...
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For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable...
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xii, 288 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko was raised in a culture with a strong oral tradition. She also grew up in a household where books were cherished and reading at the dinner table was not deemed rude, but instead was encouraged. In his examination of Silko's award-winning literature, Brewster E. Fitz explores the complex dynamic between the spoken story and the written word, revealing how it carries over from Silko's upbringing and plays out...
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ix, 165 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
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John Keats: A poet and His Manuscripts traces the life and career of the poet through the surviving manuscripts of many of his finest poems and letters. Mostly shown in their entirety, many at actual size, Keats's original manuscripts provide a unique visual record of his creative processes and rapid literary progress. Nearly 200 years after they were first written, they have lost none of their immediacy. Charged with a restless intensity, the poet's...
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"In the summer of 1977, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. This was twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to make a record of the history of Beat Literature....
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xix, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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"The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence -- and the end of faith. Yet for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of that conflict to ignite their Christian imagination....
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xiii, 540 pages ; 22 cm
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Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's faith in their institutions and thrown the nation's struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak...
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vi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Glamorous, talented, audacious -- Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of 29 she had written the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of America's first rank of dramatists, a position she maintained for more than twenty-five years. Apart from her literary accomplishments, she lived a rich life filled with notable friendships, controversial political activity, travel, and love...
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xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Without any formal training in music composition, Irving Berlin took a knack for music and turned it into the most successful songwriting career in American history. Berlin was the first Tin Pan Alley songwriter to go uptown to Broadway with a complete musical score (Watch Your Step in 1914); he is the only songwriter to build a theater exclusively for his own work (The Music Box); and his name appears above the title of his Broadway shows and Hollywood...
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xvii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Demonstrating how the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible represents the first, and one of the most elaborate, projects of peoplehood, Wright tells the dramatic story of the Bible's origins in relation to 1, a longstanding political division between North and South (Israel and Judah) and 2 the traumatic experience of defeat" --
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12 audio discs (approximately 780 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (vi, 158 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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This 24 lecture course provides a historical context to foster a fuller understanding of contemporary events and people in the New Testament. Discusses distinguishing characteristics between the Greco-Roman cults and Judaism and Christianity, Jesus as a historical figure, and each of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament.
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12 audio discs (30 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"These lectures demonstrate how to read fiction carefully for full enjoyment. The lectures begin with basic concepts from simpler stories before progressing into books famous for their complexity. The lectures explain literary devices such as irony and foreshadowing and show how skilled authors have used such devices to great effect in classic works of literature."--P. [4] of guidebook cover.
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