Summerhouse, Later: Stories

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Magnificent , descriptive and yet remote

Summerhouse, Later: Stories
Judith Hermann
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060006870
Release Date: 2003-04-01

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In nine luminous stories of love and loss, loneliness and hope, Judith Hermann's stunning debut collection paints a vivid and poignant picture of a generation ready and anxious to turn their back on the past, to risk uncertainty in search of a fresh, if fragile, equilibrium. An international bestseller and translated into twelve languages, Summerhouse, Later heralds the arrival of one of Germanys most arresting new literary talents.

A restless man hopes to find permanence in the purchase of a summerhouse outside Berlin. A young girl, trapped in a paralyzing web of family stories and secrets, finally manages to break free. A granddaughter struggles to lay her grandmother's ghosts to rest. A successful and simplistic artist becomes inexplicably obsessed with an elusive and strangely sinister young girl.

Against the backdrop of contemporary Berlin, possibly Europe's most vibrant and exhilarating city, Hermann's characters are as kaleidoscopic and extraordinary as their metropolis, united mostly in a furious and dogged pursuit of the elusive specter of "living in the moment." They're people who, in one way or another, constantly challenge the madness of the modern world and whose dreams of transcending the ordinary for that "narrow strip of sky over the rooftops" are deeply felt and perfectly rendered.

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Magnificent , descriptive and yet remote.......2005-01-03

This book is set of short stories translated from German. I am not sure whether it is the authors gift or this gift in combination with the translation which give these stories their sense of remoteness and in some cases alienation. In most fiction, the author strives to involve the reader as closely as possible with the character and the narrative, however in these stories, the reader is held at a remove, the characters seem to carry on almost in suspended animation and at times the stories do not work towards an understandable conclusion. However for all that, they are magnificent, memorable and thought provoking. I won't say more, read them

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A key trilogy in the Dragonlance line, collected in an annotated paperback.

This annotated version of Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins contains extensive notes by The New York Times best-selling authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. The three titles deal with all of the Heroes of the Lance, but primarily with the most popular character in all of Dragonlance, Raistlin Majere.

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Annotations detract from the story........2007-02-17

The Legends Trilogy definitely deserves a 5-star rating. I rate this edition as 3-star strictly because of the annotations.

Legends follows up the great Chronicles trilogy, with Raistlin, Caramon, and Tas embarking on a time-traveling adventure with enormous consequences for the entire world of Krynn. The story takes on a much more personal feeling in Legends, with the focus being narrowed to a few key characters and the plot seemingly less epic than the previous trilogy (even though the events have a larger potential impact on the world). This trilogy also has a darker and more serious feel, with much more emotional clarity and desperate circumstances. The characters are forced to make difficult sacrifices and each seems to fight their own form of depression.

The main premise focuses on Raistlin's efforts to become the most powerful mage of all time and challenge the gods themselves. Caramon and Crysiana fight their own personal battles to discover themselves and achieve peace with the world. Tas basically tags along in innocent curiosity and a desire to help his friends.

The annotations of this version add nothing to the story. I was hoping for interesting insights from the authors telling about their views of what the various characters are thinking or what really happened in alluded to events. Instead you get a whole bunch of repetitive and obvious commentary along with self-important glorifications of the authors' talent and foresight. This was my fourth journey through the Legends trilogy and it was by far the least enjoyable due to the distracting influence of pointless annotations. You would think that you'd be able to just ignore the commentary, but its impossible as you keep telling yourself that there must be at least a little useful information only to be disappointed time and again.

While the Legends trilogy is awesome, pick a different version than this one to enjoy.

Keeps getting better don't it?!.......2007-01-10

Following up on the previous trilogy we now get to explore a character the reader is most interested in, Raistlin. I think by the end of this second trilogy you really come to love or hate this mage. He is a very complicated individual sweating evil darkness with a scent of goodness.
Well if you enjoy dark wizardy and wizard battles this is one for you, though you should read the first trilogy, of course.

Once again, in this particular edition of The Legends, we get to have the authors riding along with us giving us droplets of backstory and history behind the stories, much like a commentary on a DVD movie. Excellent!

I purchased this after already having bought the paperbacks a number of years prior. Well worth the money. A hardback of this edition is also available as the paperbacks don't hold up that well being so large.

*This review is being brought over from an old account.

Legends.......2006-02-24

I must say, the added MW and TH comments and their views was a good addition to this book. If you haven't read the originals, you should pick those up first before reading this one. It may ruin the end for you.

Great Fantasy Novel.......2005-11-27

First off, the notations are for the most part pretty useless. If it is your first time reading the Legends, I suggest not reading the notations at all, they give away too much foreshadowing.

The Legends series is the best Dragonlance series in my opinion. The charactors have good depth, and just enough is kept out so that the next plot twists are not over exposed. Raistlin is especially great, one of my more favorite literary characters. Tas is overly silly, and Cameron to transparent. The plot line is a little out there, and not very intuitive, but it is decent. It really is the characters and well described landscapes that keep this together. Any D&D fan will find this well worth the time.

Excellent and engrossing story, poor commentary.......2005-07-12

Let's face it: The Dragonlance books will never be classic literature. Weiss and Hickman might make a decent writing team (Weiss can apparantly hold Hickman in check while Hickman can moderate Weiss' tendancy towards over emotive writing), but they're certainly not the best.

This story, though, the three books that make up the Legends Trilogy, are an excellent sequal series to the truly excellent Chronicles. Though they do tend to fall into the trap of "last time . . ." repetitiveness and tell vs. show, for the most part, the books are engrossing and extremely interesting. Character development is the name of this game rather than the overarching, "zoomed-out" approach of the original Chronicles. Characters that we barely got to know the last time begin to really grow and evolve into something other than their archetypes.

Caramon, the big burly "meat-shield" (if I may borrow an RPG term) warrior type was originally nothing more than a head clunking, thick headed, but exceedingly loyal puppy with a sword character: albeit an entertaining one. When we are reintroduced to him in the opening chapters of Legends, we find not the brash young warrior that he used to be, but a slovenly, drunk shell of a man, mourning the loss of a brother that we know is willing and able to tear his twin brother to shreds. We see Caramon hit absolute bottom (we konw this because the authors so kindly tell us so) early on and then begin the slow, arduous crawl out of his pit and into an even darker time of his life where he must confront the twin he used to protect lovingly and confront himself as well.

Raistlin, the twin brother of Caramon, whom we all know was at least a bit megalomanaical, is pushed so far into his archetype (but never stereotype) by the authors that the reader is utterly astonished when the full details of his plans come to light. Delighting in cruelty and complete control, Raistlin leads those who serve him straight into hell (literally) while they follow along gleefully, caught up in his strange charisma like moths drawn to a flame. The change in Raistlin, if one can even identify such a change, happens suddenly and tragicly.

Tasslehoff is again along for the ride as comic relief, but we are given the chance to look deeper into the sticky-fingered little thief than before, revealing a great wealth of character and fortitude that could only be guessed at before. Sure, he has more than his fair share of one-liners, but Tasslehoff manages to grow beyond his comic relief role into a wonderful and lovable character.

The plot itself is complicated, extensive, and well planned out if fumbled only occasionaly. I've found that afer three run-throughs, I've managed to wrap my head around everything that's going on in this book and, though as I said it's not "literature" in the strictest sense of the word, it's certainly interesting. Time travel, always a sticky subject for fantasy and science-fiction writers, is the main plot element, but it almost never becomes the main theme. That the characters have traveled back in time centuries into the past is nearly besides the point. The thematic elements are always centered around dysfunctional relationships, love, hate, lust, and adventure. The backdrop of pre-Cataclysmic Istar (which is a vaguely obvious metaphor for organized and traditional church structures in the modern world) merely reflects and parallels the emotional and social troubles of the heroes.

There is a major drawback to this edition of the novels, however. The notations -- which in the Annotated Chronicles were interesting, logical, and relavent -- are intrusive and stupid at times. Tracy Hickman seems absolutely determined to claim credit for the entirety of the Dragonlance saga and link it inextricably to his own Mormon faith (though the connections are tenuous at best). Weiss, on the other hand, comes through again with her usual style and intelligence providing usefull and enlightening commentary along with Michael Williams (the poet of the Dragonlance Saga).

Four stars for the story itself, but only two for this particular edition.

Hasidic Tales: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Illuminations)

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Hasidic Tales: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Illuminations)
Rami M. Shapiro
Manufacturer: Skylight Paths Publishing
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ASIN: 1893361861

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Martin Buber was the first to bring the Hasidic tales to life for modern readers in the middle of the twentieth century. His groundbreaking work was the first time that most readers had ever encountered the lives and teachings of these profound and enigmatic spiritual masters from Eastern Europe.

In Hasidic Tales: Annotated & Explained, Rabbi Rami Shapiro breathes new life into these classic stories of people who so marvelously combined the mystical and the ordinary. Each demonstrates the spiritual power of unabashed joy, offers lessons for leading a holy life, and reminds you that the Divine can be found in the everyday.

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The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction--Frank Herbert

Manufacturer: Berkley
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I83J3O

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The Wonder of Presence--every page peppered with question marks--makes it immediately clear that Toni Packer is not going to spoon-feed us answers. A sort of Zen Krishnamurti, Packer entertains the burning questions of "spiritual practice" (a term she avoids) and of life itself, all the while turning us back to ourselves. She calls it the way of meditative inquiry, a method in which meditation has no other purpose than to derail habitual modes of thinking and feeling, thereby opening oneself up to everything that is happening--just as it is. In chapters on anger, fear, and peace, Packer, formerly a Zen teacher in the lineage of Philip Kapleau, shows that "when a powerfully driven emotion gives way to simple awareness, it is like a miracle." The book is based on Packer's retreat talks and entertains the questions of retreatants on wide-ranging topics from relationships to suffering and from freedom to judgment. For all of these, she dives into the problem, asking about origins and peeling back the layers of the self. The Wonder of Presence answers questions by showing us how to look. --Brian Bruya

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In this compelling collection of talks, interviews, and letters, Toni Packer provides a comprehensive overview of the path of meditative inquiry—a nondenominational approach to spiritual growth that emphasizes the direct experience of the present moment. "The immense challenge for each one of us," Packer writes, "is can we live our lives, at least for moments at a time, in the wonder of presence that is the creative source of everything?" She shows how we can transform fear, anger, guilt, and attachment to our self-image through simple, direct awareness. Having recently lost her husband of fifty years, Packer also speaks with candor and tenderness about the convulsions of a grieving heart and the peace that undivided awareness can bring. Toni Packer began studying Zen in 1967 with Roshi Philip Kapleau (author of The Three Pillars of Zen ) at the Rochester Zen Center and was eventually named his successor. Seeing the potentially destructive effects of relying too much on tradition, however, she did not accept the position. Packer is strongly influenced by the teachings of Krishnamurti and has turned away from the traditional forms and hierarchies that are prevalent in many Buddhist schools. Her approach is appealing to many Westerners who find institutionalized practices such as chanting, bowing, and burning incense to be alien and unnecessary.

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Zen & Krishnamurti made clear.......2005-02-13

Toni Packer's writings are emblematic of a new era of Buddhist teachings in the West: women Dharma teachers. Along with Charlotte Joko Beck, Toni Packer provides a no-nonsense, yet compassionate approach to inner transformation. A friend of mine once described these approaches as "not for the faint-hearted", and maybe that's true. Toni Packer invites relentless inquiry into the workings of the human mind and emotions, to lay bare the conditioning that forms the basis of much of human suffering. There is no sugar coating in Packer's teachings. Her description of the bereaved mind, her own, is searing. Yet one senses that in her approach lies freedom. Her understanding of human conditioning, and release from this conditioning, is simply profound. For example, she writes, in a talk on meditative questioning: "Watch how the incident translates itself into a story spun out by the brain, and how this story keeps triggering the chemicals that maintain the angry emotions long after the original stimulus has passed." To watch without being trapped in these processes is to know freedom.
If you have read Krishnamurti and wondered what he was saying, Packer lays it bare. Combining Zen with Krishnamurti's teachings, this brave and compassionate teacher has written a manual of human liberation. Written with great courage and stunning intellectual honesty, Toni Packer embodies the words of the 8th Century Chinese Zen poet, Hanshan: Writing about the road to Cold Mountain, the enlightened terrain on which he lived, he says "My heart's not the same as yours. If your heart was like mine, you'd get and be right here." Toni Packer spells out what it means to have the heart, to 'get it', and to be right here in the present moment, free.

A compilation of serious thoughts about the nature of Zen.......2002-07-12

The Wonder Of Presence And The Way Of Meditative Inquiry by Zen practitioner Toni Packer is a compilation of serious thoughts about the nature of Zen, meditation, death, life, and truth. Written in simple, direct terms and drawing upon both Eastern philosophy and personal experience, The Wonder Of Presence is a careful, inquisitive and highly recommended introduction to opening one's mind to new thoughts, ideas, and all the Universe contains.

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This book was originally conceived as a collection of the best recipes from the Savannah News-Press, a publication dating back to 1850 and including author Joel Chandler Harris of "Uncle Remus" fame among its former editors. Like the Dixie moppet Topsy, Savannah Sampler Cookbook "just growed" to include contributions from acquaintances and relatives. Emma Rylander Law, the friend who has generously consented to act as food consultant in the project, made available her own remarkable collection spanning a distinguished career as home economist, dietician, and Madison Avenue food consultant, as well as family recipes from Burke County. Historic perspective has been provided by the inclusion of vintage recipes from fragile Southern cookbooks long out of date, including two from Savannah. Private collections hereto unpublished have been generously made available, such as those of Mrs. Sopie Meldrim Shonnard and the late Helen Kehoe Crolly.

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The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers’ Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. This illustrated memoir features historical photographs and is richly anecdotal, and as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as a book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. A story cast with colorful characters: like the book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer, the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendarily shrewish wife, Jenny, Book Row remembers names and places that all lovers, readers, buyers, sellers, and collectors of books should never forget. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television are many of the reasons for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens of the people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.

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A dead history of names and dates.......2006-01-09

This book was a dull disappointment because the authors (one of whom is a book buyer for the landmark Strand Bookstore) are very poor historians. I had hopes of Book Row providing a glimpse into the past of the Manhattan neighborhood in which I live and a window into long-gone independently owned bookstores. It was instead a flood of trivial names and dates that provided very little context or description, and consequently very little to fuel understanding or the imagination.

The book is mostly an endless series of abstract, biographical sketches of the booksellers--mainly names and dates with a light peppering of anecdotes that are at most mildly amusing. The authors show no insight or analysis of what made these individuals become proprietors of bookstores and personal bookbuyers for wealthy collectors (who are also inadequately described). It is possible that evidence of only these factual bare bones have survived, but it is then the task of the historian to flesh these out with a picture of the time and place to which these facts belong. Book Row fails to do this because the authors are too content with name-dropping: a particular noted actor shopped at a certain store, a wealthy collector (of whom nothing further is said) praised a bookbuyer as the best. Lists of names are frequently given when they provide absolutely no informational or narrative value.

This is a book about independent Manhattan bookstore owners in the early 20th century that fails to reveal anything concrete about what it meant to own a store at that time, or what the character of the neighborhood or its residents were. The reader gets the exact price of how much a particular rare volume procured at auction, but not a picture of where these auctions took place or how they proceeded, or a perspective on how important individual books or book collections were to these auctions. Similarly, the authors often provide street addresses of stores, yet fail to describe the buildings themselves. Missing are such basic facts such as whether a bookstore at a given time was likely to have had modern electric lighting or gas light, or even who owned the building or what the rent was likely to have been. All of these flaws, of style as well as research, made reading Book Row rarely more educational or entertaining than browsing the "Bookstores-Used" section of an old yellow pages.

A definitive and enthusiastically recommended history.......2004-05-19

In the last couple of decades of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century, New York City was home to a series of legendary booksellers who did business on and around Fourth Street south of Fourteenth Street. It came to be called "Book Row" by dedicated bibliophiles and had its own very distinctive culture, aromas, and for the true book lover, an excitement that could not be duplicated in the same quantity, quality, or diversity in any other American city of the time. In Book Row: An Anecdotal And Pictorial History Of The Antiquarian Book Trade, authors Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador have collaborated to provide a definitive and enthusiastically recommended history of the times and personalities that made Book Row the Mecca for book collectors in search of antiquarian treasures, as well as budget bookaholics looking for something interesting to read.

Bibliophiles.......2004-03-14

It is refreshing to read books written by bibliophiles who express a true appreciation for fine books. They are true literary aesthetes. I've never known scholars or even poets to express such a love of books. Reading "Book Row" has inspired me to acquire more of the classics in fine editions. I think the authors were a little too dismissive of the Internet which has been a tremendous help to me in finding rare books. I no longer have to settle for what I find on the shelves in bookstores with bad taste in books. I can always find exactly what I want to read. The Internet is the greatest bookman there ever was!

A loving chronicle of a more literate era.......2004-03-01

Reading Mondlin and Meador's descriptions of the long-gone used-book emporia that once graced Fourth Avenue in New York City both depressed and exhilarated me. Depressed, because I'll never have a chance to browse their musty aisles crowded with books. Exhilarated, because this volume successfully captures the thrill of browsing that I've experienced at the Strand bookstore (the sole Book Row survivor) and a few other stores. It's too bad the mindset of our culture has shifted to one in which an intelligent pleasure like browsing for good, cheap used books--in person, in a physical store--has been marginalized. Yes, Web bookbuying has its advantages, but still...I feel something precious has been lost.

Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
Marvin Mondlin; And Roy Meador
Manufacturer: CARROLL & GRAF
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Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador. Book Row: an Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade.(Book Review): An article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

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Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador. Book Row: an Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade.(Book Review): An article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Merrill Distad
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Title: Marvin Mondlin and Roy Meador. Book Row: an Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade.(Book Review)
Author: Merrill Distad
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
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Book Row. An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of The Antiquarian Book Trade
MARVIN AND MEADOR,ROY MONDLIN
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
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The Complete Book of Paint: A Comprehensive Guide to Paint Techniques for Walls, Floors, Furniture, Fabrics, and Metalwork
David Carter
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The Complete Book of Paint: A Comprehensive Guide to Paint Techniques for Walls, Floors, Furniture, Fabrics, and Metalwork
David Carter , and Charles Hemming
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“A welcome companion...The first two chapters—on space and color and on inspiration—set the stage perfectly as motivational tools....Most appealing are the brilliant, illustrative color photgraphs. Twenty projects demonstrate the range of Carter’s artisty....Enjoy this for ideas and inspiration.”—Booklist.

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At a glance, Luisa Lambri's photographs of architectural interiors might appear to be yet another example of the austere, depopulated spaces found in so much of today's photo-based work. They are, however, eminently different in both conception and execution, at once deeply personal and ethereal rather than wholly impartial and concrete, suffused with a delicacy and intimacy that is diametrically opposed to the stark realism found in the works of, say, Thomas Ruff or Candida H fer. Since Lambri initiated what has become a sustained engagement with architecture and photography in 1997, she has endeavored to strike a subtle balance between objectivity and subjectivity, creating interpretations of spaces rather than documents of them, eliciting something minimal, abstract, and nonspecific that is imprinted by memory and desire in the process. For her project at The Menil Collection, Lambri has been commissioned to photograph Menil House, the home designed by Philip Johnson for John and Dominique de Menil in 1951, as well as The Menil Collection designed by Renzo Piano in 1987. These will be presented along with a selection of her previously unpublished projects.

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Luisa Lambri
Univ Wisconsin Institute of Visual Arts
Manufacturer: Institute of Visual Arts, Univ Wisconsin
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ASIN: B000PKOYB6

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Exhibition catalog. Two booklets in protective cover. One with photos of exhibit, another with text, including interview of Luisa Lambri by Peter Doroshenko (Director Institute of Visual Arts University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee).

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Untitled (Experience Of Place)
Michael Ashkin , Jonathan Hill , Inventory , Kirsti Reskalenko , Liisa Roberts , Claudia Wegener , Anita Witek , Johannes Wohnseifer , Tacita Dean , and Matthew Buckingham
Manufacturer: Walther Konig
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ASIN: 3883757926
Release Date: 2004-05-02

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This collection of projects, texts, and visual essays by contemporary artists and authors questions how the individual's experience creates a new and changing understanding of place. Participants include Matthew Buckingham, Luisa Lambri, Tacita Dean, and Liisa Roberts, with a new work about the Aalto-designed Vyborg library.

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Vanishing Point
Hal Foster , Fabian Birgfeld , Jonah Freeman , Sabine Hornig , Amy Wheeler , Carla Klein , and Amelie Von Wulffen
Manufacturer: Wexner Center for the Arts
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ASIN: 1881390373
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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Over the past few decades, discussions of contemporary architecture have tended to concentrate on a select few innovative building projects that promise to single-handedly change their urban landscapes. Vanishing Point conversely focuses on aspects of the built environment that are far less singular yet arguably more influential: spaces that anthropologist Marc Auga terms "non-places"--hotels, shopping malls, freeways, corporate high-rises, airport terminals, gambling casinos, themed restaurants, and other visually intoxicating yet banal environments that people pass through, often on their way to somewhere else. Reflecting this, the artsists in Vanishing Point make an effort to "place" these characterless locations. They interpret rather than document architectural spaces in order to convey the range of emotions and physical sensations that they evoke. Includes the resulting paintings, photographs, videos, and installations by emerging and established artists such as Fabian Birgfeld, Dike Blair, Marco Brambilla, Jonah Freeman, Carla Klein, Sabine Hornig, Luisa Lambri, Won Ju Lim, Sarah Morris, Deborah Stratman, Amelie Von Wulffen, and Amy Wheeler.

Luisa Lambri: Luhring Augustine Gallery.: An article from: Artforum International

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Luisa Lambri: Luhring Augustine Gallery.: An article from: Artforum International
Brian Sholis
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Release Date: 2007-06-23

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This digital document is an article from Artforum International, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 620 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Luisa Lambri: Luhring Augustine Gallery.
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The Graphic Idea Resource series is a collection of graphic design works selected by designers for designers. Each book in the series is dedicated to a specific area of graphic design, creating an affordable library of design inspiration.

Every designer has worked with an enthusiastic client whose plans exceed the reality of a limited budget. However, a small budget does not mean that the finished product must look cheap in the public eye. The work in this volume was collected to inspire both designers and clients with fresh (low-cost) ideas, daring production techniques, and solutions that are as exciting as they are economical.

Features: --Elegant, cost-cutting concepts --How to get the most out of common printing processes --Innovative ideas for using recycled materials, one-and-two-color printing, special papers, and more

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Excellent resource for beginners in the field..........2001-03-14

I recently purchased this book and being a beginner in the graphic design field (I'm still a student) I found this book to be an excellent resource. It has so many different view points from the graphic design spectrum. It has your traditional grandma/elegent stuff to your totally out-there/funky-doodle stuff. I highly recommend this book along with many of the others in the graphic idea resourse set!

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A riveting memoir of an award-winning woman pioneer in television.

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Joanna Lee - A TV Pioneer.......2004-08-15

Joanna Lee's book was a pleasure to read. A real trooper in the ups and downs of her interesting life - the book is also an inspiration to the women "underdogs" of the world. She never gave up on her dreams of writing, producing, and directing. A straightforward, amusing, and touching book. She is listed on another website as one of "Ed Wood's Bimbos." She was anything but. A clever and intelligent woman. She had courage, grace, and plenty of nerve. Her book takes you back to a time when America was very different and the nostalgia (both good and bad) is part of American History. Joanna Lee's book is a keeper and worth passing on to future generations.

a really compelling account.......2002-01-05

picked up this book on a whim and ended up really enjoying it. a fun and enriching exploration of one woman's struggle in hollywood. not your typical memoir.

My Aunt.......2000-03-15

I have only met my aunt Joanna one short brief time in Ventura, Calif. She radiated intensity of who she was and was to become. I know from family history she was a very hard working person.She worked very hard and long hours obtaining her education. She has experienced both good and bad times, but now the world and her fans get to read of the long road to her achievements. God Bless you Aunt Joanna

Nabokov told her, "You have very nice legs, my dear.".......1999-04-24

I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir by one of the female pioneers in film and television. Joanna Lee (writer/director/producer/actress) has struggled against a male-dominated Hollywood for years and has never lost her sass, her style, or her stubborn determination to follow her passions. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the inner workings of the film/TV business, and particularly to any female aspiring to a career in Hollywood.

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