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Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB75
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1956]
Edition
3d ed.
Physical Desc
374 pages 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Language
English
Description
"Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also exploits the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, the book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working...
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
2nd rev. ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 199 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy—even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers will learn that many different three-dimensional forms are part of our world and are used in numerous ways by artists. They will also learn how artists can make objects look three-dimensional in a two-dimensional artwork.
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 464 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas. In this important new book, the prominent German writer and Islamic scholar Navid Kermani considers the manner in which the Quran has been perceived, apprehended and experienced by its recipients from the time of the Prophet to the present day. Drawing on a wide range of Muslim sources, from historians, theologians...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 236
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why do cultures depend so much on mythical illusions to the past? Could the bicycle chained to the gate next door be a work of art? How do human beings really think, when they are not speaking? How do high and low culture relate to one another? Why do we need the ̀progressive' and the ǹew'?" "In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butter looks at the many innovations created by Modernist thinkers and artists, showing how powerful ideas and...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Finding the Raga is more than a book that tries to make sense of the raga, of Indian classical music, and of how Indian music challenges Western notions of what music might be. It is a work of self-inquiry, as might be expected from Amit Chaudhuri, a musician who is also a novelist; a novelist who is also a critic and essayist; a trained and recorded performer in the Indian classical vocal tradition who was also, once, a guitarist and songwriter...
Series
Categories volume 1
Publisher
Vernacular Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
16) The bluest eye
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tells the story of black, eleven-year old Pecola Breedlove. She prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blonde, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life changes in painful, devastating ways.
17) The tree
Author
Language
English
Description
The Tree, one of John Fowles' few works of nonfiction. First published a generation ago, it is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and a powerful argument against taming the wild. In it, Fowles recounts his own childhood in England and describes how he rebelled against his Edwardian father{u0092}s obsession with the {u0093}quantifiable yield{u0094} of well-pruned fruit trees and came to prize...
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