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Chicago In and Around the Loop : Walking Tours of Architecture and History
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
ASIN: 0071422366 |
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Twelve well-mapped walking tours help you discover a city with a long history of being on the forefront of architectural innovation. These tours highlight the works of architectural giants including Frank Lloyd Wright, Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, and others who helped revamp the American skyline.
* Updated to reflect new buildings, owners, functions, and landmark designations; the expansion of McCormick Place, and new information on the Prairie Avenue Historic District
* MORE historical facts, background information, anecdotes, architectural details, and additional historic photos of major buildings
* Renovated historic hotels
* Significant skyscrapers
* Major cultural centers
* 275 vintage and contemporary photos
THE WALKING TOURS INCLUDE:
Old Chicago and the Financial District
Grant Park to the Museum Complex
The Downtown Underground Walkway System
The Prairie Avenue Historic District to the Centennial Fountain
The North Branch to the Illinois Center
The Sears Tower to the Merchandise Market
The Michigan Avenue "Cliff"
The Gold Coast
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This is Chicago.......2006-09-11
For those of us who grew up around Chicago and know downtown, this is a great book not just a vague coffee table book. Lots of good photos and history.
I loaned this from the library and am planning on buying it on Amazon.
Highly recommended!
A Great Book for a Great City.......2006-07-10
Gerard Wolfe has produced an inclusive and engaging book concentrating on the area in and around the Loop in Chicago. In a series of walking tours, he weaves history and architecture into a "must see" for tourists, native Chicagoans and armchair travelers, alike.
Great book for the traveler or those new to Chicago.......2000-04-10
I currently live in Chicago and have had a great time exploring and learning about new (to me) places with the help of this book. There is a good amount of info. to give the reader a decent background on many of the buildings in the Loop. It omits lengthy and unnecessary history topics to focus on the highlights of each walking tour, leaving the lengthy history for other books to explore. I've learned alot about my own city by reading this book and highly recommend it.
The best guide to downtown Chicago architecture and history!.......1998-01-07
An excellent set of tours of all neighborhoods of downtown Chicago, profusely illustrated with contemporary and archival photos, with a lively and user-friendly text. Especially helpful for the first-time visitor, although I understand it has been adopted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation as a guide to train its docents who give walking tours. I have not come across any better guide to the Loop and its surroundings, with a crisp style and useful historical facts. Dr. Gareth Shellman (shellman@csd.uwm.edu) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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EXCELLENT!.......2007-07-17
What a wonderful, wonderful book! This books has everything! It covers things for the very beginner and yet offers things for the most advanced. I was very impressed that the author also included the private thoughts and doubts all artist experience and yet confidently asserts that one WILL learn and be among the very best. As a book-a-holic, I own hundreds, if not thousands of books. This is one I would save in case of a fire. BRAVA Bridget Woods, BRAVA!
Bridget Woods' book should be required reading for any life drawing group........2006-09-17
As a figurative sculptor. I have a studio full of anatomy and life drawing books, but Bridget Woods' 'Life Drawing, A Journey To Self-Expression' does indeed stand out.
Artists that write 'how to' books, generally have their own style and the drawing you see on the cover is often pretty much what you get throughout. Turning the pages of Ms. Woods' book however shows that this artist is comfortable in a huge variety of styles, from realism, to lovely interpretations and beyond (pages 66, 62 and 134 are personal favorites).
Traditional subjects, such as anatomy and perspective, are cleverly covered, but what makes this book different is the huge range of practical advice for so many different styles, presented with such enthusiasm, in an unusual but easily understood format.
Any artist, at any level, will find inspiration and ideas in this book. It should be required reading for any life drawing group and should be on the shelves of Barnes and Noble, Borders etc., as it is superior to most of the 'how to' life drawing books found there.
Though relatively unknown in The US, Ms. Woods is I understand, a popular teacher at a variety of colleges in her native England. It is easy to see why.
I would confidently recommend this book to anyone interested in drawing the figure.
Ed Hamilton
the ultimate figure drawing book.......2004-04-29
I have many, many figure drawing books and this is by far the best. It is jam packed with information and inspiration and in an amazingly short time I am thrilled with the results I am obtaining. There are loads of exercises that are interesting and fun. The nine chapters it contains are:
1 Getting Started ( Sample Exercises: observing how we see, rhythm and curve, Circling, measuring, angle finding,five star, the elastic band, negative shapes, zig-zagging)
2 Perspective and counterbalance
3 Contour, the specific outline
4 Exploring tone
5 Anatomy, the inside story
6 Marks, methods and hues
7 Movement: The body in Action
8 Altered Images
9 Personal response and self expression
As an example here is a piece from the book explaining the advantages of the 'rhythm and curve' exercise for the artist:
- He/she stops worrying that 'this drawing must be perfect because it is a long pose'.
- there is no time to worry about what their drawing looks like to others.
- the technique loosens up hand/arm/body movement, and opens up eye/brain/hand channels, and because the artist must work at speed, this stops the brain 'correcting' the drawing.
- Short poses can be more dynamic, and therefore visually stimulating.
etc. (and this is just the first exercise of many! :-D ).
I have applied the techniques and theories to subjects other than the figure and an thrilled with the lovely arty results. This is an all round super star book that is worth its weight in gold.
The book is written in a warm and very encouraging way.
This book is my life drawing 'bible'. I reccomend it to everyone, beginners to advanced, as well as to teachers who will get great mileage from its many lessons and ideas.
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Displays of Power: Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation!
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Back in print after years of unavailability, this is the companion to a controversial documentary exhibit that appeared at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969. Harlem on My Mind (the title comes from the novel by writer Claude McKay) includes hundreds of photographs (many by the celebrated James VanDerZee) of the famous, like Duke Ellington or Malcolm X, as well as of anonymous Harlemites in bars, restaurants, rooming houses and on the street. This edition includes a new foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as well as a new introduction by Allon Shoener explaining the genesis of the exhibit.
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On January 18, 1969, one of the first exhibits to showcase, through photographs, audio, and text, the Black American experience, opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now, a generation later, Harlem on My Mind still influences the way museums around the world present African American culture to the public. Harlem on My Mind commemorates the work of some of Harlem's most treasured photographers, including James VanDerZee and Gordon Parks. The images, many of which were first published in this remarkable book, now form an integral part of our visual heritage.
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An Intimate Look........2000-04-05
This book illustrates the daily life of Harlem in the 1920's and 1930's. It gives the reader an examined persective of what it was like to be part of a community struggling to be heard. The photos of the funeral processions were especially heart grabbing! When this exhibit first showed at the Metropoliton Musuem it caused a great controversy. Many of the leaders of civil rights movement thought the photos were displaying black people as subjects not art. There were massive demostrations outside the museum to have it close. Many of the photos are still part of the museum's collection although they are not on display. this book offers great insight into the life of Harlem Renaissance. I also recommend, The Sleeper Wakes Edited by Marcy Knopf and A Renaissance in Harlem by Lionel C Bascom.These books offer additional information on what life was like during the New Negro Movement. A valuable art history lesson for us all.
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Hard-cover edition of the catalogue prepared for the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit "Harlem on My Mind."
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Should be required reading for every Black high school grad.......1997-11-28
Read the book in 1977 and shared pictures and reading with my then 7 year old son- today he asked for a copy for his library. Seeing what people from his culture were able to accomplish at a time when many from all cultures were struggeling gave him a real sense of value that he never forgot. The book was borrowed from a Florida state supreme court judge who used the book as a point of reference in establishing worth of people from the Black culture when making judgments concerning Blacks. The book identifies Blacks who were instrumental in creating a well defined standard of living for Blacks.
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- Funny Money!
- Some best cartoons I have ever seen
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Compiled by the editors of Barron's, this book features a collection of 100 cartoons from artists who regularly contribute to Barron's.
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Funny Money!.......2001-12-28
Did you lose money on tech stocks in the last two years? Do you still hold dot com stocks? Are you worried about your 401k? Barron's Book of Cartoons will cheer you up!
"A lot of what we see on Wall Street is nothing short of comical, and it's our job [at Barron's] to point that out."
If you don't know Barron's, you should. The editors love to poke sharp points at inflated egos (and accounting), and the articles from over the weekend often move the market on Monday. Much like The New Yorker, also Barron's abounds in money cartoons. This volume contains 100 of the best from recent years.
The opening essay by Barron's editor and president, Edwin Finn, Jr., describes a little about the background of Frank Cotham, Mike Shapiro, and Leo Cullum whose cartoons often grace the Barron's pages and are well represented in this volume.
I thought that all but a few of the cartoons were above average, and many were terrific. Here are a few examples to give you a flavor:
Executive behind desk talking on telephone -- "Sorry, Frank, I didn't mean that . . . it was the money talking." (Mick Stevens);
Hot dog vendor to executive -- "I believe Dijon is available at our Madison Avenue location." (Leo Cullum);
Man watching newscast on television -- "The stock market went down today, on fears that it would go down." (Leo Cullum);
Woman to man as they leave restaurant -- "I'm not jealous, I just didn't like the way you talked about aggressive-growth bond funds with her." (P.C. Vey);
Executive talks to subordinate around a board table with graphs pointing down on the wall -- "What happened, Carswell? You were in charge of feng shui." (Leo Cullum);
Man grabs another man at bar -- "Careful pal, you're talking about the stocks I love." (Bernard Schoenbaum);
Man with knife in back speaks to physician -- "It happened either over the weekend or when I left the office today for lunch." (Leo Cullum).
Like all good humor, I found myself remembering situations that I had found myself in where similar comments were made.
Remember, you can't take it with you. So you might as well get a laugh or two now!
Some best cartoons I have ever seen.......2000-07-02
This books contains 100 cartoons, many of which are the best I have ever seen. They are related to businesses, job, interviewing, stock investments, and would make a good cartoon book for house guests or company clients to read, on the coffee table or in the waiting room.
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A novel that explores the darkest depths and brightest hopes in the souls of men, Moby-Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called "the greatest of American novels."
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Some "classics" aren't. This one is........2007-09-21
A few years back I made a conscious decision to read (and in some cases re-read) a number of books that fall into the category of "classics." The books that stand the test of time the best have an uncanny ability to feel modern and relevant no matter how long ago they were written. It's almost as if there is a certain current that runs down through the years that flows with a permanence that most don't. If a writer can tap into this current, their writing can be timeless; a classic.
Herman Melville tapped into that current in spades in this story. Despite this book being over 150 years old, the themes Melville selected from many obviously available to him are themes that are just as relevant an engaging today as they were in 1851. Further, Melville somehow had a handle on using language that would not seem outdated even after a century and a half.
What you get is a great story about a revenge-obsessed man, characters to whom you can easily relate and colorful descriptions of the life of a whaleman. It all comes together beautifully.
Any drawbacks? Sure, Melville's story slows in the middle of the book as he goes into a deep examination of the physical characteristics of various whales, but it's still interesting and it's just not enough to take away from the rest of this novel.
Highly recommended.
Slog Through It -- It's Worth It.......2007-09-18
This great American novel of the 19th Century, like some of the great novels of the 20th Century, is at times unreadable. Long riffs about whale biology and whale trivia made me put down this book when I tried to read it many years ago. I got through it this time, with the help of Frank Muller's classic reading on audiotape. Don't bother with anyone else's reading -- go to the library and check out Muller's version. He is one of the top readers and does justice to the poetry and great language of this novel.
The book is not told in the way we would find conventional today -- a fast paced narration of the adventures of men at sea. Melville clearly wants to tell the tale in the epic style. He writes in very short chapters that resemble Biblical passages, both in the poetic use of language and in addressing the most elemental themes of good vs. evil, man vs. nature, and the human condition. In the end, even the whale trivia serves the epic purpose in driving home the extraordinary courage and heroism of these whalers.
I don't buy the idea that Moby Dick, malevolent as he is, somehow represents evil. The sometimes destructive and overwhelming force of nature is more likely the right allegorical symbol. Evil for me is Ahab, given the truly heartless choices he makes in his obsession for the White Whale -- and given what happens to a man after 40 years at sea.
The most attractive characters are Ishmael and Queequeg, Ishmael's cannibal friend. Each demonstrates the best quailities of human nature --companionship, courage, acceptance of their lot in life. Given the racial turmoil of the 1850s, Melville may have been making a political point by portraying the nobility of the dark-skinned. I don't buy the idea that the allegory was any more elaborate than that, though it's clear to me that the novel is a gold mine for all sorts of Ph.D. thesis topics.
In the end, I do think that the great themes explored by Melville are more effectively explored less allegorically and more through character development and moral choices. For that reason, I'd say that Huckleberry Finn is the true Great American Novel of the 19th century and that the great Russian contemploraries of Melville wrote better books. But this certainly is a classic work worth the effort.
Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
This whale hunting job really drives me crazy.
or, longer version:
Take on really stupendously big arse white wale. Add a crazed, obsessive monomaniacal Captain. Add in a couple of narrators and quite a few other unfortunates who get stuck in the middle of his quest for the white whale.
Add in an author waxing lyrical, often at length, and you are left with a pretty decent and often interesting novel.
Strange but..........2007-08-29
The strangeness is what makes Moby-Dick so exceptional and an indisputable classic. It was quite a difficult and long read, but upon completion, it was, without a doubt, completely and utterly worthwhile. The characters were some of the most unique in all of fiction and each of them is leaves their mark.
Key Work of Literature.......2007-08-27
Moby-Dick is a sprawling, unwieldy yet very great novel about the obsessive pursuit of happiness and fulfillment. "Call me Ishmael..." the famous opening lines establishes the omniscient narrator for this whale of an epic. The novel is filled with remarkable characters; their composite comradery is a true achievement of writing. Melville's insistence on explicating precise technical minutia on the craft of whaling and oceanography turned off most readers when the book was initially published (these sections still turn off most who dare penetrate this tome), yet it is really these sections that allow the reader to become immersed in the world of Ahab, the deranged symbol of evil amidst the beauty and sublime grace of the sea. Melville was an undisputed master of literary style, and this masterpiece is difficult to place for the simple reason that its' incomprehensible scale defies categorization. This is a reader's book; it is a divine allegory, a conventional adventure, and a bewitching construction all at once. Not for the weak minded.
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