Mariano Fortuny, His Life and Work

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Well worth the time it takes to read it.......1999-07-06

I'm primarily a developer, but I also do a little bit of DBA stuff. This book has lots of info for developers, and apparently lots for DBAs too -- it's the book our primary DBA recommended to me. If you need to know something about Informix, chances are it's explained in this book.

Informix unleashed never should have be released.......1999-02-23

If you have had experience with other relational databases. i.e. SQL Server, Sybase. You may be farmiliar with Unleashed books. This one is nothing like them. The enire books gives a general overview of Informix and 90% of the book covers the Informix-4GL There is little to no examples for SQL and was not worth the $40.00 I spent on it.

lots of technical tips from experts !.......1998-11-05

This book is a great resource. It's not one to read cover to cover, but rather one to turn to when you have a question. It's helped me at work in critical situations.

Excellent.......1998-07-24

For someone who is new to Informix but has experience with other RDBMS's, this book is just what is needed.

It overviews the Informix product line and gives detailed instructions for various tasks such as using ontape to perform a backup, understanding the onconfig parameters and much more.

This book lives up to the UNLEASHED! family name.

Thanks!

OK, but not to the usual standard of the "Unleashed" series.......1998-07-06

The book is organised into many topic-specific chapters, written by quite a number of different authors. The quality of the content and prose is therefore rather variable, and some subjects are covered to different depths by different authors, giving a rather disjointed feel. However most people, even Informix professionals, will find some things of value in this book.

The book comes with a CD-ROM containing a example scripts/SQL etc: these vary from the trivial to the very useful.

Some sections, noticeably that on Tech Support, are next to useless to non-US readers, containing as they do information only applicable to that country. It leaves the impression the editors were either too ignorant or, more likely, too lazy to consider the fact that this is supposed to be an international publication.

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a lovely book full of luscious fabrics

Fortuny Life & Work
Guillermo De Osma
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ASIN: 0847817954
Release Date: 1994-03-15

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a lovely book full of luscious fabrics.......1999-12-23

Fortuny was a modern renaissance man. His lasting legacy was however his fashion. He created the most wonderful silk gowns and this book just makes you wish you could stil buy them.

Immagini E Materiali Del Laboratorio Fortuny

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Immagini E Materiali Del Laboratorio Fortuny

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Fortuny
A Luscious Book!

Fortuny
Anne-Marie Deschodt
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Double-cut velvets, gilded silks, hand-beaded chiffons-with a couturier's craftsmanship, Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949) married sensual fabrics to precise designs and created opulent clothes and costumes for luminaries such as Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, and Orson Welles. From his legendary plissé Delphos dresses to his tasseled arabesque lamps, Fortuny's work epitomized luxury at the turn of the 20th century and endures to this day. Modern replicas and adaptations of his designs appear in 2001 collections by Oscar de la Renta and Randolph Duke, in the New York Times Magazine, even on Friends.

Also featuring his stage designs and paintings, Fortuny surveys the broad scope of the Spanish-Venetian artist's career. With over 300 luscious colorplates, this is a lavish treat for textile enthusiasts and fashionistas alike.

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Fortuny.......2007-07-08

What a beautiful book. The photos are gorgeous. I had no idea that Fortuny invented indirect lighting for the theatre, the dimmer switch, and a movable dome that could have images projected on it for the backdrop. He was truly a multitalented man. I bought the book mostly to learn more about the Delphos pleated dress. While there are many lovely photos, old and new, I wished there had been some schematics of the various versions of the dress. I wished there had been more information on how it was made, but then again, I guess that was supposed to be his big secret that died with him. As a weaver and textile artist, I still find the book inspiring, and it was worth the high price.

A Luscious Book!.......2003-07-30

If you admire the work of Fortuny or if you just love beautiful textiles, this is the book for you. The photographs of his textiles are simply gorgeous and the text is well researched.

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Fortuny
Elbert Hubbard , and Fra Elbert Hubbard
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THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Eminent Painters, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766104060.

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Fortuny
Delphine Desveaux
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Fortuny nella Belle Epoque

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Guillermo De Osma
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Advances in Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables Processing (Food Preservation Technology)

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Advances in Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables Processing (Food Preservation Technology)
Olga Martin-Belloso , and Robert Soliva Fortuny
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Sketching with Raymond Spurrier (Sketching with Artists)
Raymond Spurrier
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When photographer Jerome Liebling arrived in Minnesota from his native New York City in 1949, he was a young man of twenty-five launching what would be nationally recognized as a distinguished career in fine art photography.

Here, in 118 photographs, is portrayed Liebling's Minnesota. During two decades marked by social, political, and cultural change, Liebling traveled the state and found his largest subject-the depiction and interpretation of commonplace human experience. The images range from the grain elevators and skid row of Minneapolis to the slaughterhouses of South St. Paul, and the poor, working-class streets of St. Paul's West Side; from the Iron Range and the Red Lake Indian reservation in the north to the farming towns in the south.

The vision of Minnesota that emerges from these extraordinary photographs is uniquely that of the artist, yet it leads viewers effortlessly to an enhanced understanding of the place, the times, and, always, the people.

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A very important book filled with iconographic photographs........1997-08-19

This is a must have book for anyone intereted in photography. Jerry Liebling is one of the truly important photographers in this country. His work is in every major museum collection. Yet, he is almost unknown outside photographic and academic circles. "The Minnesota Photographs" offer a glimpse at an era that Liebling captures in his own very personal, insightful way. These are powerful pictures from the 1950's and 60's. Familiar, new, fresh, inspiring. George Wallace on the campaign trail surrounded by disinterested cronies. Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey at a baseball game. A commodities trade, his head buried in a handfull of soy beans, a home for retarded people, a slaughter house, boys hanging out on the street. It's great to see a body of his work from a particular era, not just a few pictures representing different subjects. Roger Sherman New York City

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Funny . . . On my visits to the Dickinson homestead
"Called Back" from Harvard

The Dickinsons of Amherst

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ASIN: 1584650680

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Jerome Liebling, one of our foremost documentary photographers, has created a remarkable photographic record of the domestic environment of Emily Dickinson. As a fellow resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, Liebling was naturally drawn to the Homestead, the house in which Dickinson lived and worked. But more remarkably, Liebling had the opportunity to document the opening of the Homestead's dark sister, the Evergreens -- an Italianate villa built for Emily's brother, Austin, which until recently was still inhabited but which had been preserved almost as a time capsule of the era of Emily and Austin.

Though Dickinson lived as a recluse in the Homestead, she did not live in the utter isolation that has been popularly imagined. Her life was intimately bound up with the affairs of her friends and family, and the domestic situation at the Evergreens inevitably contributed to the environment in which she wrote her poems. Austin Dickinson's troubled marriage and his affair with Mabel Loomis Todd eventually gave rise to the bitter disputes over the disposition of property and the guardianship of Emily's poetic legacy that erupted after his death. In Liebling's evocative photographs, the stark austerity of the Homestead and the decaying opulence of the Evergreens offer new insights into the home life that shaped a poet.

Three of the foremost scholars of Dickinson's life and work have contributed essays that explore the history and legacy of these two dwellings. Polly Longsworth, who wrote the definitive account of Austin's affair with Mabel Loomis Todd and who is at work on a major new biography of the poet, reveals some of the information her researches have brought to light -- including a new recognition that Dickinson's anxiety problems were a real and integral condition of her existence, an understanding that demystifies some of the more enigmatic aspects of her life, including her refusal to publish. Barton Levi St. Armand, meanwhile, shares the remarkable and previously untold inside story of Mary Hampson, the last resident of the Evergreens, and of the lives connected with the house over the last century; it was through the efforts of Hampson -- the heir of Austin's daughter -- that the Evergreens was saved from destruction and is now (like the Homestead) open to the public. Finally, Christopher Benfey offers an insightful appreciation of Liebling's photographs and the light they shed on Dickinson and her work; he teases out surprising but convincing affinities between the poems and the art of photography.

The heart of this book is the one hundred plus photographs through which Jerome Liebling expands our understanding of Emily Dickinson's world and life. "You might say that the three essays are extended captions," says Benfey in his introduction, "taking their prompting and provocation from the images."

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Dis-spiriting.......2005-11-13

This book is so frustrating, I almost don't want to review it, but here's my 60 second review: anyone who loves Emily Dickinson's mind-her temperament, her cognitive style, her insights, her ironical sensibility-will likely find this book wrongheaded-or extraneous. For brevity and to illustrate the objectionable spirit of the book, I'll confine my critique to Barton Levi St. Armand's essay, which is really its heart.

St. Armand begins wooing (his own metaphor) the aged Mary Hampson, latter-day Miss Havisham and final inhabitant of The Evergreens, Austin Dickinson's home. Hampson is not related to the Dickinsons and came into ownership of the home under bizarre and slightly dubious circumstances; clearly she's suffering from paranoid delusions, and her passion for Martha Dickinson Bianchi and against Mabel Todd reflects perhaps a combination of psychosexual obsession, egotism, need for a cause. (I find it ironic that essayist Polly Longsworth goes to the effort of diagnosing Emily Dickinson with avoidant personality disorder and various anxiety disorders, something I'd dispute or at least find in poor taste; but then this obvious nut, Mary Hampson, is portrayed as a grand dame, an artiste.)

In any event, you can imagine the details: she invites and repels various academics; if they please her, they get to plunder her literary treasures. St. Armand wins the courtship, gets the keys to the house, serves as head trustee for the newly formed Martha Dickinson Bianchi trust, and in the process loses any sense of objective vision or irony; he's won the courtship and won't admit the bride is ugly. (This in itself is ironic, since the essay discusses opthamological imagery: strabismus, exophoria, exotropia relative to E.D.) St. Armand is lost! He digs up swamp magnolias to transplant to his garden, seems to think it's charming when Mary Hampson habitually kicks Richard Sewall's (to my thinking subtle, excellent) volumes of biography.

And who is Mary Hampson? "I recall my mother joining me once, and Mary saying to her, `You don't care a damn about Emily Dickinson, do you!' This was a mark of approval rather than of disdain..." he writes. On another occasion, Hampson says, "For me Martha is the greater poet-because I knew her." Then, "...it has suddenly occurred to me that there could be another reason why Sue did not finish the work she had started on Emily. All these pseudoscholars never seem to realize that Susan and Martha had lives of their own' and so could not waste all their time `just sitting around here-a couple of Emily shadows.'" (Ahem-irony there.) I just want to clarify that the final occupant of The Evergreens actually seems contemptuous of Emily Dickinson. She's for the "Dickinsons of the Evergreens."

Why does this matter to the spirit of the book? Because St. Armand finally makes the (absurd) point of comparing, even equating, Mary Hampson's work in preserving the tattered, mildewing remnants of The Evergreens to Emily Dickinson's work as a poet. That the doors of The Evergreens were opened to Jerome Liebling to photograph, before the house finally decomposed or underwent renovation, seems an excellent idea, and many of the luminous photos--tattered Morris wallpaper in lurid tones--are lovely. But I object, finally, to the disingenuous manipulation of imagery in the book, the juxtaposition of tight, bright, white "Emily" photos and the tatters and shreds of the neighboring home. Even the captions are condescending and misleading: "A tear in the William Morris pattern: Susan Dickinson's damaged household"-as if we're beholding the paper she tore with her hands during a domestic argument. No bias here, nope. Finally, the family story of the Dickinsons is only interesting and relevant to the degree that it illuminates and expands meaning in ED's poems, and I think it takes a subtler hand, a slower accretion of detail to accomplish that.

Funny . . . On my visits to the Dickinson homestead.......2005-04-12

. . . I never once got the impression I was seeing mere replicas of Miss Emily's possessions. On the contrary, the room at the head of the stairs was "full" of her--one could sense her presence!--and we were told by the tour guide that the items of memorabilia were actually things used by her: the narrow bed, the small desk, and, most certainly, that ghostly white dress (her "white election") on the dressmaker's dummy in the corner. I don't know what the reviewer is referring to when he/she complains of Dickinson's artifacts being at Harvard and that the things featured in this marvelous book are merely copies. I have absolutely no doubt that the things I saw in Miss Dickinson's upstairs room, as well as all other things pointed out in the remainder of the house, bore evidence of her. And the the grounds made one feel as if she'd just lately left them... This book features all these beautifully and hauntingly. I have no reason to so much as suspect that I did not see the artifacts of Miss Dickinson's life, and I have no doubt but that those are indeed the very things photographed so lovingly in this gorgeous and haunting book. Perusing it is like visiting the Squire Dickinson house in Amherst all over again, even though I'm miles away from it and cannot now go back again. That makes the book all the more worthy of cherishing. Both photographs and essays come together in a lovely evocation of Miss Emily's life.

"Called Back" from Harvard.......2003-09-04

I've not yet read the essays, but the sleek pictures already lack something by way of authenticity, since most of Emily's things are reposited at Harvard and represented, if at all, by facsimiles in her room at the Homestead. I'm not sure why it should make a difference, but I think it does, and we are that much further from Emily's world when her treasured and accustomed artifacts have proxies in their place. So the pictures are nice, but what, really, are they pictures of?

Shakers: Hands To Work, Hearts To God, The (An Aperture Book)

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Shakers: Hands To Work, Hearts To God, The (An Aperture Book)
Amy Stechler Burns , and Eldress Bertha Lindsay
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ASIN: 0893818607
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God includes exquisite photography by Ken Burns, Langdon Clay, and Jerome Liebling, along with archival photographs from the Shakers' own collections, and a historical text by Amy Stechler Burns, to give clear, personal, and profound understanding of the architecture, craft accomplishments, and lives of the Shakers.

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Jerome Liebling Photographs
Jerome Liebling
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The People, Yes

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Jerome Liebling Photographs 1947-1977
Estelle Jussim
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Metroscapes: The Minneapolis Gateway Photographs of Jerome Liebling and Robert Wilcox : Suburban Landscapes of the Twin Cities and Beyond

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Metroscapes: The Minneapolis Gateway Photographs of Jerome Liebling and Robert Wilcox : Suburban Landscapes of the Twin Cities and Beyond
Robert Silberman , and Colleen Sheehy
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Jerome Liebling
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Jerome Liebling
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Untitled 15: Jerome Liebling, Photographs 1947-1977

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Jerome Liebling
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JEROME LIEBLING PHOTOGRAPHS
Anne and Alan Trachtenberg Halley
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Designed to help women ages 18-35 catch a life, not a husband, with chapters such as Nevermind a Penis, Well Take a Paycheck. Like The Rules, its based on wisdom the author received from her grandmotherexcept her grandmother was a feisty, gin-drinking feminist. The book covers the gamut of a womans worldrelationships, money, self-esteem, sexual harassment in the workplace, and the guilt of ordering french fries. Gilmans is a sage, insightful, and witty voice in a confusing time that will make women laugh while teaching them to feel entitled, confident, and empowered.

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Kiss My Tiara challenges The Rules and backlash books like In Defense of Modesty. Designed to help women 18-35 catch a life, not a husband, it's funny and politically irreverent, with chapters such as "Nevermind a Penis, We'll Take a Paycheck" and "How to Deal with Lunatics, Perverts and Right-wing Republicans." Like The Rules, it's based on wisdom the author received from her grandmother--except her grandmother was a feisty, gin-drinking feminist. Gilman is indignant at the mindlessness of aerobics classes, refuses to subscribe to the belief that thin thighs are more important than brains and chutzpah, and believes that if you have trouble asking for dessert you'll never be able to ask for a raise. Sprinkled with her grandmother's affirmative aphorisms ("If God didn't want us to play with ourselves, she would have made our arms shorter"), the book covers the gamut of a woman's world--relationships, money, self-esteem, sexual harassment in the workplace, and the guilt of ordering french fries. Gilman's is a sage, insightful, and witty voice in a confusing time that will make women laugh while teaching them to feel entitled, confident, and empowered.

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Feminist lit with better shoes.......2007-09-21

Honestly, I feel that if you dislike this book, then you're anti-woman. It's a fantastic, hysterical foray into life as a woman. Every girl should read this book. That's all that needs to be said.

How to stay single and lonely : a guide for the unenlightened.......2007-09-11

Every word this woman writes is just another clarification of her prejudices, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Her understanding of men is nil, to be expected from someone who seems to have learnt everything she knows about them from books. Truly, few men I know fit into her neat categories. Anyone whose intellect is low enough to gain something from this drivel deserves to be misled away on the path to unhappiness. The tragedy is that many young women fall for this garbage, only to reject it too late when they're a single thirty-something, flocking desperately around men at discos in the hope of getting what they tried to reject for so long. Once they've given this up, they'll spend the rest of their lives whining about how there are no good men anymore. A wake-up call for you, Gilman. Spiritual growth is no respecter of the hypocrisy of your brand of feminism, and all who take this bilge seriously are merely stunting their own spiritual evolution, as well as guaranteeing their future unhappiness.

Much love for The SmartMouthed Goddess from The ArtSlut.......2007-07-29

Hot stuff, Mama! Tell it like it is & live it like you mean it. Say it loud & proud! The ArtSlut loves the SmartMouth.

Every woman should read this book.......2007-07-23

Sensible and insightful....totally cuts through the silliness and stupidity attendant upon being a woman in the USA today.

This will book change the way you think forever.......2007-06-15

This book was not what I expected. Im 20 years old and I loved it. I recommend it to any girl/woman that wants to see things from a really different prospective. It will make you laugh and educate you at the same time. Trust me this book is good from beggining to end. I loved it. Talks about everything us girls go through. From work, to dating, to dealing with relatives, to beauty and health, and all about standing up for yourself.

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