After Magritte

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573620024

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After Magritte by Tom Stoppard Pdf

Harris, his mother and his wife are a kooky trio. Enter the forceful inspector from Scotland Yard with his constable - which is strange, notes the wife, for she had ordered an ambulance. The officers proceed to place the three under arrest. It is not clear why; something about a parked car, a bunch of .22 caliber shells in the waste basket, and a robbery of the box office of a minstrel show. But Harris has an explanation: he had parked near an art gallery to let his mother see some paintings by Magritte in which her obsessional instrument, the tuba, figured grandly. But then it develops that there was no minstrel show at all, and the plot goes haywire. Performed in New York with The Real Inspector Hound.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1884964206

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472065610

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Tom Stoppard in Conversation by Tom Stoppard Pdf

British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words

Author : Anthony Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989-04-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521379741

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The Theatre of Tom Stoppard by Anthony Jenkins Pdf

Despite their box-office success, Tom Stoppard's plays have sometimes aroused academic hostility, his critics accusing Stoppard of cold intellectualism or frivolous showmanship. The purpose of this study is to examine the special problem of Stoppard's use of humor and games in conveying serious ideas. As an actor and director, Anthony Jenkins is concerned not just with the literary merit of Stoppard's plays, but also with the way they are written and shaped by the formal conventions particular to the media of stage, radio, and television. This book studies the stage space of each play as well as the actor's pauses and inner emotions. As a lecturer on drama, Jenkins follows Stoppard's career chronologically so that the radio and television plays are woven in with, and support various claims concerning, the major stage works. Unlike similar critical analyses of Stoppard's theater, this volume discusses all the latest plays, including The Real Thing, The Dog It Was That Died, and Squaring the Circle.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349227624

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British and Irish Drama since 1960 by James Acheson Pdf

The fifteen essays in this collection, published here for the first time, survey the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work since then has continued to develop interestingly. Most of the dramatists considered here, however, are those who have begun writing more recently, and who illustrate some of the distinctive characteristics of British and Irish drama of our time.

Author : Alex Danchev
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307908193

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Magritte by Alex Danchev Pdf

The first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé—by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat. Danchev explores the path of this highly unconventional artist from his middle-class Belgian beginnings to the years during which he led a small, brilliant band of surrealists (and famously clashed with André Breton) to his first major retrospective, which traveled to the United States in 1965 and gave rise to his international reputation. Using 50 color images and more than 160 black-and-white illustrations, Danchev delves deeply into Magritte’s artistic development and the profound questions he raised in his work about the very nature of authenticity. This is a vital biography for our time that plumbs the mystery of an iconoclast whose influence can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.

Author : Ned Snell
Publisher : Que Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 078972961X

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Easy Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 by Ned Snell Pdf

Easy Microsoft FrontPage 2003 takes the work out of learning Microsoft FrontPage 2003 by using short, easy-to-follow lessons that show you how to accomplish basic tasks quickly and efficiently! It is the perfect book for beginners who want to learn to use FrontPage 2003 through a visual, full-color approach. More than 100 hands-on lessons are designed to teach the easiest, fastest, or most direct way to accomplish common tasks. The book is suited for new FrontPage users, as well as those upgrading from an earlier version.

Author : Kathryn Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351546430

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The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe by Kathryn Brown Pdf

Investigating the complex history of visual art?s engagement with literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays in the collection develop new critical approaches to the analysis of twentieth-century bookworks and explore ways in which European writers and painters challenged the boundary between visual and linguistic expression in the content, production, and physical form of books. The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe offers a detailed examination of word-image relations in forms ranging from the livre d?artiste to personal diaries and almanacs. It analyzes innovative attempts to challenge familiar hierarchies between texts and images, to fuse different expressive media, and to reconceptualize traditional notions of ekphrasis. Giving consideration to the material qualities of books, the works discussed in this collection also test and celebrate the act of reading, while locating it in the context of other sensory experiences. Essays examine works by Dufy, Matisse, Beckett, Kandinsky, Braque, and Ponge, among other European artists and writers active during the twentieth century.

Author : Patricia Allmer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789141801

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René Magritte by Patricia Allmer Pdf

The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, he inspired generations of later artists from Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns with his witty and provocative work. In this illuminating new biography, Patricia Allmer radically repositions Magritte’s work in relation to its historical and cultural circumstances. Allmer explores the significant influence of events and experiences in Magritte’s early childhood and youth that are recorded in his letters and essays, including his memories of visiting fairs and circuses, of magical shows and performances, of the cinema, and, in particular, of his first encounter with his future partner, Georgette, on a carousel. Allmer’s analyses of these events and their influence on both well-known and less familiar images give new insights into Magritte’s art. The book will appeal to those who wish to know more about Magritte’s life and work, as well as to the wide audience for surrealism.

Author : Nigel Purse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004319653

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Tom Stoppard’s Plays by Nigel Purse Pdf

In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse offers a unique appraisal, on a thematic basis, of all Stoppard’s plays by identifying key patterns and uncovering at the heart of Stoppard’s theatrical plenitude the principle of parsimony.

Author : Daniel Keith Jernigan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786493098

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Tom Stoppard by Daniel Keith Jernigan Pdf

Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan argues that while much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there--becoming "late modernist" in the 1970s (Travesties) and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s (The Real Thing and Arcadia). This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism with The Coast of Utopia (2002) and Rock 'n' Roll (2006), at which point the playwright seems to embrace the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473869522

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After Magritte by Tom Stoppard Pdf

Author : Christopher Bedford,Penelope Curtis,John Dixon Hunt,J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Outdoor sculpture
ISBN : 0892369043

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The Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th-century Sculpture at the J. Paul Getty Museum by Christopher Bedford,Penelope Curtis,John Dixon Hunt,J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

This catalogue celebrates the recently installed collection of twentieth-century sculpture donated to the J. Paul Getty Trust by the Fran and Ray Stark Trust in 2005. The book takes the reader on a visual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum's new sculpture gardens and installations, which features twenty-eight works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Ferdinand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, and Isamu Noguchi. The book offers essays on the curatorial decisions involved in establishing harmonious groupings; a history of European and American sculpture within built outdoor environments and gardens; and catalogue entries that discuss individual pieces within their broader art-historical contexts."

Author : Lisa Lipinski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351626439

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René Magritte and the Art of Thinking by Lisa Lipinski Pdf

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of our perception—what we see and cannot see, the nature of representation—as a philosophical system for presenting ideas, and explored perspective as a method of visual argumentation. This book makes the claim that Magritte’s painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself, and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things.

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451493224

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Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee Pdf

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."