The Lively Arts

Author : Michael G. Kammen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195098684
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lively Arts written by Michael G. Kammen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian offers a brilliant biographical study of George Seldes, one of America's leading champions of American popular culture in the 1920s and 1930s, and traces the amazing growth of popular culture, from silent films and talkies to radio and jazz to the coming of television.

Author : Gilbert Seldes
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Lively Arts written by Gilbert Seldes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the American Arts scene in the early 1920s. Seldes devotes a chapter to each of the arts. These are motion pictures; music; US. theater; dance; journalism; circus and American Wit and Humour. Several prominent practitioners of the time are discussed.

Author : Lucile Vaughan Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lively Art of Writing written by Lucile Vaughan Payne and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilbert Seldes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Lively Arts written by Gilbert Seldes and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilbert Seldes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The 7 Lively Arts written by Gilbert Seldes and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aldus Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780490001732
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lively Arts written by Aldus Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Carey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199735972
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Good Are the Arts? written by John Carey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and stimulating invitation to debate the value of art offers a provocative study that will pique the interest of and inspire any reader who loves painting, music, or literature.

Author : Robert Wechsler
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774389
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Without a Stage written by Robert Wechsler and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Without a Stage is a lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of foreign fiction and poetry who wonder what it takes to translate, how the art of literary translation has changed over the centuries, what problems translators face in bringing foreign works into English and how they go about solving these problems. This book will also be of interest to translators, writers, editors, critics, and literature students, dealing as it does, often controversially, with such matters as the translator's fidelity to the author, the publishing and reviewing of translations, the nearly nonexistent public image of the stageless translator, and the value for writers and scholars of studying and practicing translation.

Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356861
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lively Arts written by Michael Kammen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-21 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald--and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he had played a leading role in the "liquidation of genteel culture in America." Yet today many students of American culture would not recognize his name. He was Gilbert Seldes, and in this brilliant biographical study, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen recreates a singularly American life of letters. Equally important, Kammen uses Seldes's life as a lens through which to bring into sharp focus the dramatic shifts in American culture that occurred in the half-century after World War I. Born in 1893, Seldes saw in his lifetime an astonishing series of innovations in popular and mass culture: silent films and talkies, the phonograph and the radio, the coming of television, and the proliferation of journalism aimed at mainstream America in such venues as Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire. (His monthly column in Esquire was called "The Lively Arts.") Seldes was more than a witness to these changes, however; he was the leading champion of popular culture in his time, and a skilled practitioner as well. Kammen, the first scholar to enjoy access to Seldes's unpublished papers, illuminates his immense influence as the earliest cultural critic to insist that the lively arts--vaudeville, musical revues, film, jazz, and the comics--should be taken just as seriously as grand opera, the legitimate theatre, and other manifestations of high culture. As he traces Seldes's remarkable evolution from an acknowledged aesthete and highbrow to a cultural democrat with a passion for the popular arts, Kammen recaptures the critic's prescience, wit, and generosity for a newly expanded audience. We witness Seldes's triumphs and travails as managing editor of The Dial, the most influential literary magazine of its time, and read of New York's endlessly feuding publications and literary rivalries. Kammen offers wonderfully detailed accounts of The Dial's introduction of "The Wasteland" in its November 1922 issue; Seldes's review of Ulysses for The Nation, one of the first (if not the very first) to appear in the U.S.; and the complete story of the writing, publication, and critical reception of The Seven Lively Arts, Seldes's most influential book. And Kammen also covers Seldes's astonishingly versatile later career as a freelance writer (on every conceivable subject), historian, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, radio scriptwriter, the first program director for CBS Television, and the founding dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. One of popular culture's earliest and most eloquent champions, Seldes was nonetheless publicly worried as early as 1937 that the popularity of radio, film, and television would mean the demise of the "private art of reading." By 1957 he was warning that "with the shift of all entertainment into the area of big business, we are being engulfed into a mass-produced mediocrity." At a time when many thoughtful Americans despair of popular culture, The Lively Arts revisits the opening salvos in the ongoing debate over "democratization" versus "dumbing down" of the arts. It offers a penetrating and timely analysis of Gilbert Seldes's pioneering conviction that the popular and the great arts must not only co-exist but enrich one another if we are to realize the innovation and intensity of American culture at its best.

Author : Steve Aimone
Publisher : Lark Books
ISBN 13 : 1579903495
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design! written by Steve Aimone and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective design inspiration for everyone, from crafters and artists to Sunday museum-goers. Professional artists, photographers, gardeners, and even chefs and hosts trying to set a pretty table will welcome this user-friendly, handsome exploration of design principles and processes. Through hundreds of photographs, plus an accessible text, even the most abstract design concepts, such as rhythm and balance, become easy to visualize and understand. Find out how to manipulate visual elements, work within the design space, create attractive symmetrical arrangements, establish a focal point, and much more. The sheer number and variety of images that illustrate each concept make it possible for even the most design-challenged beginner to visualize the principles and put them into practice. Examples of good design range from ceramics, jewelry, architecture, and painting to clothing design, hair styling, gardening, sushi, and vintage movie posters. Plenty of easy yet imaginative guided exercises allow you to experiment with each new principle on the spot. Every page offers delight, inspiration, and instruction.