How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries-from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others- 'How to See' explores not only the multilayered...

Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper--all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago, more enigmatic than the Mona Lisa--this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? The authors talked in art galleries, churches and museums around the world, and their book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis or the Palazzo Pitti, they...

As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by exploring twenty works of art in terms of seven "keys". History, biography, aesthetics, experience, theory, criticism and the market represent conventional ̀modes of existence' for every artwork discussed, but in a fascinating variety of ways. Simon Morley shows how...

"There are 83 copies of the First Folio in a vault beneath Capitol Hill, the world's largest collection. Well over 150 Indian movies are based on Shakespeare's plays-more than in any other nation. If current trends continue, there will soon be more high-school students reading The Merchant of Venice in Mandarin Chinese than in early-modern English. Why did this happen, and how? Ranging ambitiously across four continents and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere...

A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California. Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...

"User's guide to opera -- Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"--

Las dos partes de este libro tienen características singulares. En una está la novedad. En la otra, la insistencia. La sociología de la música, como disciplina formal, tiene apenas un siglo de vida. La educación musical ha venido a menos en México y en otros países, y por eso lo dicho hace varias décadas está ganando en trascendencia. El sociólogo Max Weber encabeza al sobresaliente grupo académico cuyas enseñanzas son glosadas en estas...

The Easiest-Best-Fastest Way To Read Music, In One Day For All Musical Instruments In Bass Clef Imagine yourself unable to read English. Think of how tiny your world would be. Reading has opened up the entire universe to you. The same can be, said for reading music. Learning to read music will open a whole, new world for you with all its magic, beauty and wonder. Many of us have always wanted to be able to read music, but either, we had too little...