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The Breakers, the Waldorf, the Biltmore, the Sherry, the Pierre—these landmark hotels are synonymous with grand luxury and style. When they were built, in the 1920s, their refined elegance and grandeur set the bar for hotels and resorts the world over. Responsible for creating these and countless other hotels throughout the United States, were the partners of a single architectural firm: Schultze & Weaver. Together, this duo—an architect and an engineer—virtually invented the glamorous lifestyle made famous in films like Grand Hotel. Catering to the social elite of which they were themselves a part, Schultze & Weaver synthesized the Old World style of Renaissance Italy, Moorish Spain, and Georgian England with all of the modern amenities that made hotel living luxurious.
This book presents portfolios of fifteen of the firm’s most spectacular hotels, culminating in the Art Moderne masterpiece of the Waldorf-Astoria. Over two hundred period photographs and hand-colored architectural renderings chart the ascent of the American hotel in all its glory and glamour, before the Great Depression forever changed the lifestyles of America's rich and famous. Essays address the cultural and technological developments that underpin the creation of resort and residential hotels, including the elemental role played by Schultze & Weaver.
This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami, held in celebration of their tenth anniversary.
Customer Reviews:
Jazzed.......2006-01-21
This book is a wonderful tribute to the gradeur of an amazing time in American History. These hotels are just spectacular, they really just don't have the masons or the desire quite frankly, to build buildings like this anymore. The black and white images in this book are simply breath taking, they are so crisp and elegant. The reader really gets a feel for what the hotels looked like at their inseption, at the time they where inspired. The Jazz Age was an era of unbelieveble wealth for a lucky few and they enjoyed spending it and expected only the best, there was a real sence of America starting her accendency to greatness and the affluent wanted to show that the best of America could rival anything in Europe, this was the catalist for these sumptuous hotels. The Jazz Age is of course long gone, but we have examples, like these grand hotels, to remind of an era of opulent wealth..and no income tax.
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A Great Place to Learn Watercolor Fundamentals.......2005-08-11
This book is still a classic from one of the century's most respected watercolorists. Tom Hill is widely recognized as one of the great painting teachers and has influenced many of todays artists, including me. What I like about this book are Tom's examples of fresh color combinations, and use of color in shadow areas.
Timeless Tomb on Watercolor & Use of Color.......2004-06-07
An excellent volume and companion to use in conjunction with Jeanne Dobie's book Making Colors Sing. While Dobie's book is outdated with all the advances in watercolor pigments and newer more permanent lightfast color, Hill's book not only picks up with the use of newer pigments, but his suggestions are excellent. This book is a wonderful addition to any library. I kept it nearby as I do Dobie's book. A must have book with excellent demonstrations and illustrations. Also the artist's style and work is wonderful too. A must have for anyone serious about watercolor, beginner or advanced.
Watercolor enthusiast's paradise ..........1999-12-03
This book gives an excellent idea and keeps an idol in front of the reader as how a watercolor painting should be. Nice simple language and examples chosen are truly magnificent. Tom's style of painting is simply out of the world.
You can't understand the color in watercolor without this........1996-08-07
Hill's painting style is loose, and ideal for the usually
spontaneous nature of watercolor. This is a fine and needed
book on color. The technique of painting receives a
concise two chapters, yielding space to the problem of
making watercolor paints behave. Hill's study of color
is based in physics and reality, not taste. I much prefer
it this way. Full and detailed descriptions of "all the
paints you will probably ever use" tell how they perform,
how to test your paints, and what to expect when you mix
them. If blue and yellow do not make green for you,
but brown or gray, this book gives insight into why this
happens. To show what effect color selections have in a
painting, one scene is painted with seven palettes, from
minimal (monochromatic) to full colors. Chapter Seven,
"Color in light & shadow", shows photographically how light
and shadow effect color and how to duplicate the effects.
I have not seen this covered in other books. Through ten
demonstrations you will learn how to render colors in
shadows, in colorful subjects, and in not-so-colorful
subjects by making colorful grays. You will learn to use
color to paint "white" subjects, the greens in nature,
clouds and skies, and even colors that are not in a scene,
but should be. This is a valuable an informative book.
I have given away some twenty or so books to my artist club
library, but not this one. It is worth the price, to me,
for Chapter 7 alone. I would have rated it a 10, if it
were on color only, minus the first two chapters, but these
are helpful to beginners.
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Understand why images visually work.......2007-02-23
I've been searching for this book for a long ever since seeing it at the library when I was 10. The book explains easier topics such as contrast, but it delves into far more complex topics such as balance, lighting, perspective, and color. This book is meant to be studied and reread multiple times. The examples are exquisite.
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The following information is from the inside cover:.......2005-06-07
Image is the second volume in a unique new series that approaches photography in the critical, exploratory manner of a teaching course. Many books on photography intend to provide practical information, but instead concentrate on the mechanics of the subject in question. In contrast, the unique value of this series of books is that the sound practical instruction is based on the readers' development of such skills as visual awareness, design, and the control of image quality - in short, the taking of good photographs.
Design is the single most important reason for the success of most photographs and the fundamental skill needed to produce effective pictures. Without using camera technology as a prop, the greatest possible improvement that any course of instruction can stimulate is in the ability to see potential pictures and to be aware of the choices available in organizing the image within the frame.
Equipment is kept at a subsidiary level in Image, although the graphic effects of lens design are treated fully. This volume teaches the dynamics of the picture frame or viewfinder, the basics of design, and the many means of directing the attention of someone looking at the photograph, of making the picture be seen in the way that you want. Problem subjects can also be tackled by applying a well-trained eye rather than extra equipment or tricks, and practical instruction is given in this. Finally, the distinction is made between the major stylistic treatments, such as the formal proportions and minimal and abstract designs. Throughout the book is a carefully worked out series of practical exercises with specially prepared examples which are discussed in detail. The reader is encouraged to criticize the work shown here, and his or her own, and to develop powers of judgement, interpretation and selection.
Conceived for those photographers who have a basic knowledge of the subject and are keen to improve their craft, each volume of the series is devoted to a different topic. This is the second volume in the series; the others are Cameras and Lenses, Light and Film. The Photography Workshop Series will benefit both keen amateurs and professionals alike, and provide an invaluable guide for anyone wishing to discover the techniques for taking excellent photographs.
Michael Freeman, an established photographer for nearly twenty years, has emerged as one of the most important authors of books on photography in recent years. He specializes in studio, reportage and wildlife photography. His work has appeared on posters and record sleeves and in numerous books and magazines. Michael Freeman's other publications include The Photographers Studio Manual, The 35mm Handbook, Collins Concise Guide to Photography and Wildlife and Nature Photography.
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The focus of this account is how myth and formal argument in the dialogue Phaedrus complement and reinforce each other in Plato's philosophy. Not only is the dialogue in its formal structure a joining of myth and argument, but the philosophic life that it praises is also shaped by the limitations of argument and the importance of mythical and poetic understanding. The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required.
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Platonic Pharmacology.......2000-10-16
For twenty-five hundred years we assumed Phaedrus was a badly put together dialogue, an early work, a botched job. Only recently have we decided to take a different tack and think about it as though it were a Masterwork. This is probably the result of literary criticism which places Phaedrus, on the basis of it's literary similarity to other works of that period, not at the beginning of Plato's career, but at the end of the middle period when he was at the height of his powers. It seems ironic that a book that claims that one of the deficiencies of writing is a book's inability to defend itself against misinterpretation should suffer such a fate.
When we assume that the Phaedrus is well written and the author is cogent, then we get commentaries on it like this one that takes the imagery, myth and eroticism of the Phaedrus seriously and explicate it brilliantly. Ferrari covers all the various aspects of the Phaedrus, showing that the parts do make a consistent whole, even a beautiful and profound one. Plato's aim is to show how rhetoric and philosophy differ from each other, as do their practitioners. This he does by having the two interlocutors present three speeches and then speak about the speeches. The speeches are about love, authentic and inauthentic.
What Plato does in Phaedrus cannot be called psychology, it must be called psychomythology. The problem is to comment without demythologizing (Socrates denounces demythologizing as activity for the wise man with nothing better to do). Rather, Ferrari respectfully explicates the myth as myth (unlike Pirsig in Zen and Motorcycle Maintenance), achieving a clarity and fertility of interpretation that is very persuasive. It has to be persuasive because in the end he takes on Jacques Derrida and his famous interpretation of Phaedrus "Plato's Pharmacy" (In his book "Dissemination").
Because of the profoundity of its subject matter, this book is no easy read. But Ferrari helps us out by avoiding academese and writing in a clear, even elegant style. One seldom reads a book so completely satisfying as this one
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When the Woods Hum
Joanne Ryder
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
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When the Woods Hum.......2003-03-17
When Jenny was little, and her father first told her about the woods humming she didn't really understand, but after he explaned, and gave her the cicada that he had kept for 17 years, she understood a little more. I think this is a very good book, and it shows how families follow a tradition.
I also liked this book, because it taught me something that I never knew before, and I think that it is a really cool thing. I would recommend this book for children ages 3-8. This was a wondeful book, and I hope that many people can enjoy it.
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Cicada Sing-Song (Nature Close-Ups)
Densey Clyne
Manufacturer: Gareth Stevens Publishing
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Cecily Cicada
ASIN: 0836820576 |
Customer Reviews:
Cicadas by Ann O. Squire.......2007-06-09
I loved the book. It was just what I needed. I had ordered the book for a child and the pictures were good, too Thank you. The author did a great job.
Joan Farrell
Customer Reviews:
Who knew a bug could be so ADORABLE?.......2004-06-18
I love this book and so do my two nieces (ages 5 and 6 & 3/4.) The adorable illustrations and the heartwarming story of Cecilia have transformed cicadas from a scary menace into an animal that you'd want to pal around with. It's sophisticated enough to be educational, but simple and clever enough to share with a child of any age. The fundamental lessons of the importance of patience and love really shine through. If you live in a place with cicadas, this book is a must, and if you don't, reading it may make you consider a move. I highly recommend this book for any child with a curiosity about the world.
Making Cicada's Fun.......2004-06-15
This engaging and clever story tells of a lovable little Cicada with a fun personality. The story teaches about the cicada's long life cycle in an engaging way. The illustrations are terrific, transforming a scary ugly bug into something cute and unthreatening. My nephews in the Philly area loved it!
I'm in love with a bug!.......2004-06-14
This is a wonderful, heartwarming story about a cicada. It's funny, touching, and has wonderful illustrations. Even if the cicada invasion is over in your area, be sure to get a copy or two. You'll enjoy it now and you'll be glad you have it in 2021 when the cicadas begin their next serenade.
You'll fall in love with Cecily.A delightful,whimsical book........2004-06-14
A wonderful story of patience and hope, beautifully illustrated. It tells of Cecily's time underground, her joyous emergence aboveground, and her meeting with "Mr. Right". My favorite line is: "When you see a cicada please give her a smile, 'cause you may not see one again for a while".
Refreshing story with great pics for children of all ages!.......2004-06-14
I absolutely love this book! I bought Cecily Cicada for my nephew Ben who is 1 1/2 and starting to discover the joys of bugs and everything of the like. He is mesmorized by the colorful illustrations and I really enjoy reading the story! The actual story is refreshingly unique, detailed and uses some great vocabulary, so for now Ben gets a kick out of the pictures and the name - he loves to try and say Cecily) and I'm sure he will grow into the depth of the story. I highly recommend this book for children of all ages!
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Cicadas (Insects)
Helen Frost
Manufacturer: Capstone Press
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From ants and beetles, to wasps and water bugs, amazing up-close photographs explore the fascinating world of insects. Readers learn about the body parts and daily activities of common insects.
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Cicada (Wesleyan Poetry Program; V. 86)
John Haines
Manufacturer: Wesleyan University Press
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- Mockery, drudgery and self-indulgence--for me or Cicada?
- A New Synthesis
- Driving Along Lake Michigan
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Cicada
Mark Nickels
Manufacturer: Rattapallax Press
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Book Description
In most ways Cicada is an astounding book, nearly a new species of poetry. This book should be widely read because it announces the arrival of a poet who has a good shot at being major. Jim Harrison, Author of Legends of the Fall and The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems
Customer Reviews:
Mockery, drudgery and self-indulgence--for me or Cicada?.......2006-04-06
Abilities are like entities inside a agnostic. Reading Cicada compulsively is like ingesting uncooked micronutrients or shifting a je ne sais quoi from one hand to the other. If actions are live motions, then beliefs are beings with a life cycle. Cicada is alive, even though cicadas are soon steamrollered, routed, like the sunbeams, to a gelid ictus. Mockery, drudgery and self-indulgence, for me or Cicada? It was summer a quarter-hour ago; now it's autumn. Cicada makes me sleepy and will have nothing to do with me.
A New Synthesis.......2002-03-05
In a poem entitled "Shells," Mark Nickels says, "I've been praying without knowing it." In this we catch an intimation of his poetry's incantatory power and synthesizing force. However, what we cannot guess from this quote is the massive grandeur that comes through even his shortest of poems. With a sweep like a Mahler symphony, it is hard to quote his work in brief, although, at times, his poems have beautifully quotable lines, such as, "The oranges are a refinement of everything the dirt knows."
The mystical undercurrent of his work comes to us under the peculiar banner of the confessional. Unlike other poets whose mystical explorations are distanced by scholarship or stylization, or are simply a cultural impulse, Nickels' interest is from natural affinity, which means from the most personal point of view. It is this fusion of a confessional voice with a natural mystical affinity that I find unique to his poetry. It is as if self-examination discovered the universal at its center. For instance, he opens the poem "Ludlow Café," with the line, "A voluptuary of unknowing, I huddle/in a vast wool coat." I can think of no other poet who conjures such an image, it's as if the anonymously written mystical text "The Cloud of Unknowing" had actually been authored by Oscar Wilde. A witty tack to take, but also quite profound.
Consequently, the speakers of Nickels' enchanting poems shift and change, as in his poem "Cicada" where the speaker, in one section, is in the present, and in another section, is in the year 1669 untying a woman's bodice. Or, time itself shifts as in "Astor Place Opera House Riot" or "Spiral Maneuver" where the poet tells us,
. . . last Tuesday
rhymes with the same day
in 1124, because the moment
is adjacent, contiguous to the other
on a clear, winding helix of days.
Here we find another theme peculiar to Nickels-at least, peculiar for a modern poet-for in spite of his obvious fascination for the multiplicity of things, he does not share the modern faith in the fragmentary.
In "Waterfall Effect," he tells us, "A poem is a record of the way the world rhymes with itself."
Certainly in a world which the poet George Oppen called, "The shipwreck of the singular" we need to hear the message that, in fact, the world rhymes with itself, and we have a record of that rhyming in Nickels' poetry: musical, mystical and integral.
Driving Along Lake Michigan.......2001-10-31
A resident of NYC, Nickels spent his early life in Grand Rapids Michigan where he wrote poetry and fiction, winning a local festival prize for his poem, "The Lorca Orchestra". This new work includes a CD with the author reading about ten of his poems. I recommend this title. See also the publisher's website where audio samples, cover and author pictures, and other information is available.
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