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(Music Sales America). The Twenty Etudes for Piano were composed during the years from 1991 to 2012. Their final configuration into Book 1 and Book 2 was determined by the music itself in the course of its composition. Taken together, they suggest a real trajectory that includes a broad range of...
Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Lines such as ‘Never such innocence again’ and ‘Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three’ made him one of the most popular poets of the last century. Larkin’s reputation as a man, however, has been more...
This work offers a selection of Philip Glass’s most successful and best-loved pieces for solo Piano, brought together in one collection. These pieces include selections from the BAFTA-winning and 2003 Academy Award[registered] nominated film “The Hours”. Also included is the “Trilogy Sonata for...
With his elegant suits and trademark round black glasses, Philip Johnson a witty, wealthy, and well-connected architect was for many years the most powerful figure in the society and politics of his profession. This impressively illustrated book traces his seven decades of larger-than-life...
An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the life and work of the visionary and influential painter Philip Guston.Driven and consumed by art, Philip Guston painted and drew compulsively. This book takes the reader from his early social realist murals and easel paintings of the 1930s and 1940s,...
’I don’t want you to rehabilitate me,’ Philip Roth said to his only authorised biographer, Blake Bailey. ‘Just make me interesting.’ Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and...
Written by Musa Mayer – Philip Guston’s daughter and President of The Guston Foundation – this book brings Guston’s life and his hugely rich and diverse output together into one succinct volume. Split into three sections covering Guston’s early career, his mid-century Abstract Expressionist work,...
As the longest serving royal consort in British history, it is now time to celebrate Prince Philip’s remarkable contribution to the monarchy. A strong character full of vigour and verve, he found himself married to the most famous woman in the world, becoming the longest-serving royal consort in...
An illustrated examination of Philip Guston’s comic and complex painting The Studio. Throughout his career, Philip Guston’s work metamorphosed from figural to abstract and back to figural. In the 1950s, Guston (1913-1980) produced a body of shimmering abstract paintings that made him-along with...
When, in his twenties, Philip Barter (b. 1939) discovered Marsden Hartley, he felt a calling: to further the vision of the great American modernist. This was an ambitious undertaking for a brash, self taught artist from Boothbay, Maine, but Barter’s passion for Maine and its fiercely independent...
Daniel Kany, the art critic for the Portland Press Herald, writes that “Frey’s art occupies the nexus between contemporary painting and brushy traditionalism. If there is a focus to this new direction in Maine painting, his art is it.” Author of a number of books on Maine art and artists, Carl...
In order to understand Spanish America, one must begin with Philip II, who at one time controlled a quarter of the world’s population. This new edition is brought up to date with new material including photos, map and charts, and an essay in which the author evaluates new works about this “obsessed...
Philip Treacy is one of the world’s most famous and influential milliners. Hat maker to top fashion houses, celebrities and international royalty, his unique creations are hand-made feats of craftsmanship. Milliner of choice for designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino and...
This deeply moving story explores the attractions—and the tensions—that defined the most extraordinary royal marriage of the past seventy-five years. She was peaches-and-cream innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain’s...
The renowned biographer’s definitive portrait of a literary titan’Superlative… definitive and genuinely gripping’ SUNDAY TIMES’Utterly engrossing’ EVENING STANDARD’Compulsively readable… Beautifully written… Definitive’ OBSERVERAppointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence,...
This series provides analyses of complex issues and problems in important A level Modern History topics. Using supporting documents the books aim to provide a clear account of historical facts and the differing interpretations of central themes. Aiming to bridge the gap between the standardized...
In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century. The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from...
The luminous and compelling photographs in New York in the 1970s capture the essence of a city in a way best described as “place portraiture.” Trager’s images present the architecture of Manhattan with time-defiant clarity and beauty. Although Trager selected his subjects for aesthetic and visual...
Science fiction meets painting in the avant-garde and surreal work of Philip Gr
These twelve essays by international scholars investigate Melanchthons theological activities as teacher, confessor of the faith, and defender of his doctrine and ecclesiastical policies as they developed within the context of his service of society and church. In the past quarter century...