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(P/B) RENOIR
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing his concern with light and colour, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figure painting. A natural heir to the delicacy of Boucher, Watteau and Fragonard. Delighting in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly frequently in his later years, Renoir was also a master at capturing the spirit of Parisian life. His art is fi...
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JAZZWISE T.132 - JULY 2009
News The Way It Is Jazz on film Taking off Turning point CD reviews Books and DVDs The player Instrumental reviews Gig guide Letters...
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(P/B) THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) is the most perennially popular of British artists, admired for the grandeur of his society portraits and his sumptuous pastoral landscapes. In his life and his art he wished to project an image of effortless accomplishment, demonstrated by a dazzling painting technique and an immense personal charm. Among the most innovative and enigmatic artists of his age, he was also competitive, opinionated and possessed of a finely tuned business brain. The true nature of his achievement is at once greatly appreciated ...
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(H/B) THE HISTORY OF MEN'S MAGAZINES (VOLUME 3)
For men's magazines this meant the old purveyors, France and Germany, stumbled as the US surged ahead. American publishers had the means to make quality magazines in unlimited quantity, and the fascination with all things American created an eager international market. Around 1960 Hugh Hefner began exporting Playboy. It was an immediate success overseas and by mid-decade most of Europe had adopted the Playboy blueprint for its own men's magazines. From France came Lui, from Italy Playmen. England made King, Germany Eden. The only serious c...
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(H/B) THE HISTORY OF MEN'S MAGAZINES (VOLUME 4)
The definitive annotated and illustrated history of girlie periodicals (1958-1967). Volume IV concentrates on the emergence of California's specialty magazine industry and how it spawned the state's multi-billion dollar sex industry of today, but also includes fetish master Irving Klaw, the specialty magazines of England, and concludes with Sweden and Denmark's emergence as the new powers in European publishing. Together with Volume III, Volume IV gives a complete picture of this fascinating decade of rapid social change, but also stands o...
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AMNESIA
She has an interview with Ike Reuben, a film-maker and novelist whose work has been a constant source of inspiration for her since college. This opportunity triggers Chloe's past in a series of Flashbacks containing memories that may actually threaten to impede her interview. But Ike has a past of his own to address, manifesting itself in the form of dreams, which are the result of some kind of narcolepsy, or uncontrollable "sleep attacks". He is somehow able to slip in between the cracks, laying unconscious in one reality, while living an...
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AD JUJOL
Josep Maria Jujol was born in 1879 in the city of Tarragona, although his parents came from the country. His father was a schoolteacher, who for career reasons moved with the family to Gracia when Jujol was nine years old. Gracia was at that time still a village, and not yet incorporated into Greater Barcelona. The family later moved again, permanently, into the centre of Barcelona proper. Jujol nevertheless felt bound all his life to his parents' native countryside, and his - strongly emotional - relationship with their home region was to...
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(H/B) THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BILL WARD, KING OF THE GLAMOUR GIRLS
Born in Brooklyn in 1919. Died in New Jersey in 1998. Most of the time between those years Bill Ward spent drawing women. Women with exaggerated bosoms, small-waisted, long-legged, with a healthy round ass. A fantasy woman, unless you are the actress Anita Ekberg, Veronica Lake, or the adult model Candy Samples. They were dressed, or sometimes partially dressed, to please his imagination. His imagination matched the imagination of the American male for 50 years. Bill himself conceded he probably drew more "babes" than any other illustrator...
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(P/B) MICHELANGELO
What kind of man can he have been, to be included as the only living artist in Giorgio Vasari's celebrated Vitce (first published in 1550)? By the time he died in 1564, in his ninetieth year, he had produced "work in almost every artistic discipline - sculpture, painting, architecture and even poetry - of a quality that outshone that of his contemporaries. These works of art, whose originality would signal the end of the High Renaissance, attracted and continue to this day to attract throngs of artists worldwide to Florence and Rome with t...
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JAZZWISE T.131 - JUNE 2009
News The Way It Is Jazz on film Taking off Turning point CD reviews Books and DVDs The player Instrumental reviews Gig guide Letters...
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JAZZWISE T.133 - AUGUST 2009
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(P/B) TURNER
There is no more extraordinary instance of a great artist's evolution than that of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). Brought up within the confines of the neat topographical tradition of English watercolour, he left its limits far behind to soar into the realms of visual poetry and abstraction. By a kind of metamorphosis the young author of tinted architectural drawings in the style of the late eighteenth century turned into the colourist whose magic conjured up visions of sumptuous iridescence; the creator of tremendous images of...
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WIRE, ISSUE 360, FEBRUARY 2014
Jandek In a world exclusive, the fabled representative of Corwood Industries talks face to face for the first time. By David Keenan Stefan Jaworzyn A lifelong love of cinema's dark side informs the extreme sonics of the former Skullflower guitarist, now making brutalist beats. By Edwin Pouncey Invisible Jukebox Russell Haswell The UK noise maker and computer composer wonders how much more black The Wire's mystery record selection can get. Tested by Jennifer Lucy Allan Visionist The London producer creating melancholy beats. By Louis...
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(P/B) THE ALTE PINAKOTHEK, MUNICH (MUSEUM GUIDES)
History of the Collection Early Netherlandish Painting Early German Painting Italian Painting from the 14th to the 16th Century Painting between Renaissance and Baroque 17th-Century Flemish Painting 17th-Century Dutch Painting 17th and 18th-Century Italian Painting 17th and 18th-Century French Painting 16th and 17th-Century Spanish Painting Index of Artists...
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(H/B) LAST SUPPER
When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve; and while they were eating, he said, 'truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.' And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, 'surely not I, lord?' he answered, 'the one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. The son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.' Judas, who betrayed him, said, 'surely not I rabbi?' he r...
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(H/B) TASCHEN COLLECTION - COLECCION TASCHEN - SAMMLUNG TASCHEN
The Taschen Collection is characterised by the intuition and audacity of its owner in recognising and capturing in contemporary artistic creations certain common threads with his unique editorial perspective. This project has taken shape from a lofty vision of the relationship existing between art and mass culture, which has entailed a true revolution in the publishing world. Benedikt Taschen made a great leap from the comic underground of his youthful beginnings to the prestigious publishing company he now oversees, popularising art and a...
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(P/B) A HOUSE FOR THE ARTS
Anyone visiting the LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM in Vienna is in for a treat. The building is one of the best-surviving Baroque palaces in Vienna, the last remnant of the bold Utopia of a prince's country seat with the associated formal garden, church and housing for the tenant farmers which Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein had constructed around 1700. The grand Liechtenstein Garden Palace and attached palace church (nowadays Liechtental parish church) are still notionally linked with one another on the old Baroque axis. However, in ...
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(H/B) LINT
Jordan Wellington Lint, 51, is Chief Executive Officer of Lint Financial Products, a company he began serving in 1985 as assistant and advisor before working his way up its corporate ladder to record-setting innovation in the fields of finance and high-yield investment. In his seven years as the head of Lint, Jordan has grown the company from a business lender and real estate speculator to a leading provider of network financial infrastructure services, all the while positioning Lint as a model of corporate integrity and high-yield, low-ri...
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(P/B) TRANSMETROPOLITAN (VOLUME 3)
In this new edition of volume three, now featuring issues #13-18 of the hit series, Spider Jerusalem begins to crumble under the pressure of fame and escapes into a world of bitterness and pills. Armed with only his demented mind, Spider embarks on an adventure of political cynicism, horrific sex and unwelcome celebrity with disastrous results. Colorist: Jae Lee, Dave Gibbons Inker: Rodney Ramos Penciller: Darick Robertson...
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WIRE, ISSUE 361, MARCH 2014
Masthead Letters Bitstream News and more from under the radar Trip Or Squeek Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil Unofficial Channels Multi-track blogs Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists Out There Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs Invisible Jukebox Ellen Fullman The long string composer gets tangled up in The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Geeta Dyal Jandek Redux Following last month's epic interview with the Corwood Industries enigma, David Keenan continues his searc...
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