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Author
Publisher
Fayetteville Mafia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one of the two or three best voices in the world of singing songs," adding "It's not just her voice but her intensity, her passion and control." Harold Arlen, another of her favorite composers, commented,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable. No writer has aroused...
58) Anselm Kiefer
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Across six main chapters, the author delves into the central themes of Kiefer's art and their evolution. Nordic and Germanic mythologies; Jewish mysticism; the cosmos; the legends of the ancient world; links beteen heaven and earth, gods and men; transmutation; and the role of the human body. Interspersed with the main discussion are five sub-chapters that shed new light on the fabric of Kiefer's work by examining his favorite motifs and the ways...
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