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Richard Scarry: A Biography
Richard Scarry was a prolific children's book author and illustrator who is best known for writing stories about animals who take on human characteristics. In addition to featuring animals in his stories, Scarry's writing often features minimal description, focusing exclusively on the characters' action of the moment. This helps catch children's attention and makes the books more popular with children than similar children's books. Despite its simplicity, Scarry's work was not devoid of controversy. He illustrated his stories using animals who wore clothes suited to what they were doing. However, until the late 1970s, all of his female characters wore dresses and all his male characters wore pants. In addition, female characters dressed exactly like male ones if they were engaging in activities that were traditionally male-oriented. While Scarry maintained that there were no gender-based undertones to his work and that he believed anyone who was doing certain activities, such as driving a truck, would wear similar clothes, his attitudes did not sit well with some feminists.
Dorothy Day: A Biography
Dorothy Day was an author and activist who fought tirelessly for women's equality and socialist causes during the early part of the 20th century as well as other social causes during the latter half of the 1900s. She also was one of the leaders of the Catholic Workers' Movement, which was the first organization to involve the Roman Catholic Church in social activism. Without Day's contributions to American history, modern America might be a very different country than most people know it to be, as she was instrumental in achieving freedom and equality for many groups of Americans. Impressively, Day lived to be almost 100 years old and fought for social equality throughout her life. By studyi...
Twentieth Century Actor Training
THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS TITLE, ENTITLED ACTOR TRAINING, IS NOW AVAILABLE. Actor training is arguably the central phenomenon of twentieth century theatre making. Here for the first time, the theories, training exercises and productions of fourteen directors are analysed in a single volume, each one written by a leading expert. The practitioners included are: * Stella Adler * Bertolt Brecht * Joseph Chaikin * Jacques Copeau * Joan Littlewood * Vsevelod Meyerhold * Konstantin Stanislavsky * Eugenio Barba * Peter Brook * Michael Chekhov * Jerzy Grotowski * Sanford Meisner * Wlodimierz Staniewski * Lee Strasbourg Each chapter provides a unique account of specific training exercises and an analysis of their relationship to the practitioners theoretical and aesthetic concerns. The collection examines the relationship between actor training and production and considers how directly the actor training relates to performance. With detailed accounts of the principles, exercises and their application to many of the landmark productions of the past hundred years, this book will be invaluable to students, teachers, practitioners, and academics alike.
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Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This publication presents a comprehensive catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising 34 paintings, 59 drawings, 12 sculptures and ceramics, and more than 400 prints, the collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long career.
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Bio-bibliographischer Index A-Z
"The Artists of the World is a unique register of artists of all kinds, from all periods of history and all regions of the world. More than 500,000 artists are included in this 10-volume reference work. Occupation descriptions are in English but the dictionary also contains a five-language thesaurus.
