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Too Marvelous for Words
Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in pyrotechnical passages...are miracles of performance." Whitney Balliett wrote "no pianist has ever hit notes more beautifully. Each one--no matter how fast the tempo--was light and complete and resonant, like the letters on a finely printed page." His famous runs have been compared to the arc left against the night sky by a Fourth-of-July sparkler. And to have heard him play, one musician said, "was as awe-inspiring as to have seen the Grand Canyon or Halley's Comet." Now, in Too Marvelous For W...
Travel, Tourism and Art
Art, in its many forms, has long played an important role in people’s imagination, experience and remembrance of places, cultures and travels as well as in their motivation to travel. Travel and tourism, on the other hand, have also inspired numerous artists and featured in many artworks. The fascinating relationships between travel, tourism and art encompass a wide range of phenomena from historical ’Grand Tours’ during which a number of travellers experienced or produced artwork, to present-day travel inspired by art, artworks produced by contemporary travellers or artworks produced by locals for tourist consumption. Focusing on the representations of ’touristic’ places, locals, ...
Legends of the Hunt
Legends of the Hunt: Campfire Tales, the much-anticipated sequel to John Seerey-Lester's 2009 Legends of the Hunt, features more than 130 paintings by the artist and some sixty exciting stories covering the remarkable true-life adventures of many of the world's greatest hunters, explorers, and conservationists. You will read stories about such legends as Theodore Roosevelt and African professional hunter J. A. Hunter; the true story of Grizzly Adams; harrowing encounters involving William Hornaday and Ernest Thompson Seton; and a gut-wrenching story about Carl Akeley. There are many other legends in this spellbinding book, which brings to life all the tales that were told around campfires over the past 150 years. As you gaze at Seerey-Lester's authentic, wonderfully absorbing images, you will smell the smoke from the campfire, feel the freezing rain against your skin, and taste the dust from the African plains. Most certainly you will find yourself drifting back in time to join those honored men and women as they relate their adventures around the campfire.
The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World
This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the first time all 43 embroideries believed to have been made in the British Isles and Ireland in the early medieval period. New research carried out on those embroideries that are accessible today, involving the collection of technical data, stitch analysis, observations of condition and wear-marks and microscopic photography supplements a survey of existing published and archival sources. The research has been used to write, for the first time, the ‘s...
Fantastic Science-fiction Art, 1926-1954
"No form of art ever gave freer reign to the imagination than that found on the covers of the early science-fiction magazines. But it was imagination based firmly on possible realities. Long before there were spaceships, flying saucers, robots and lasers, science-fiction art was depicting them magnificently."--back cover.
Hidden in a Pillow
The year is around the 1890s. Several business men had gone to the small southern Virginia town of Salt Town to purchase some land to build a large chemical company in the town. Salt Wells were dug and the producing and the distribution of Salt began. Around the year of 1901 a young childhood romance developed between Arthur Art Thomas and Laura Bell Gillespie. The author takes her readers through both Arthurs and Laura Bells young and adult lives. Arthur and his childhood friend, Jimmy Jim Johnson, grow up together.They get drafted into the Army together, they get married around the same time together, they both become Preachers and have their own church. After Arthur comes home from the Army, he gets entangled with a young Gypsy Woman who is a Fortune Teller. She tells Arts fortune and she places a curse a Witchcraft Spell upon him and she tells him he will Die if the curse he has been placed under is not lifted from him. Arthurs and Laura Bells young daughter Brenda grows up and becomes an Author. Brenda has many visions and dreams for her family and for Salt Town.
There was a Whole Collection Made
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Gutman, ' curated by Laura Letinksy and Jessica Moss, organized by the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, and presented September 22-December 30, 2016"--Copyright page.
Painting Wildlife with John Seerey-Lester
The top wildlife artist shares his award-winning techniques for capturing the look and feel of wild animals.
