Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Monday, January 04, 2010
Are you Fashionable in the New Decade? DolceFugo’s take on today’s fashion and designer shopping
Are you Fashionable in the New Decade? DolceFugo’s take on today’s fashion and designer shopping:
"We are entering a new decade, which means fashion is entering a new definitive era. Trivial to some but hardly a slight matter to the style-conscious, this transition period provides an admirable opportunity to reinvent their look."
What will the Arts bring us in 2010 : Looking Ahead - New and Eternal Arts Choices for a New Decade - NYTimes.com
What will the arts bring us in 2010?
Looking Ahead - New and Eternal Arts Choices for a New Decade - NYTimes.com, by Randy Kennedy, writes:
Looking Ahead - New and Eternal Arts Choices for a New Decade - NYTimes.com, by Randy Kennedy, writes:
"A NEW month bequeaths a new year bequeaths a new decade and — dare anyone hope — maybe a new lease on life for the economy, which took its toll on the arts in 2009 as it did on everything else."The article covers theater, dance, screens (film, television), video games, and music (pop, opera singers, classical music, and cabaret).
Art Market 2009 Still Suffered from Recession - WSJ.com
Art Market Still Suffers Recession-Induced Blue Period - WSJ.com. Kelly Crow ins her January 4, 2010 article writes inter alia:
"The recession battered the art market for much of 2009, as prices for some of the world's top artists fell by a third and auction houses struggled to win over wary collectors."Read the full article here.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Gapingvoid | "Hugh MacLeod" Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
Hugh MacLeod draws some brilliant cartoons.
Gapingvoid | "Hugh MacLeod" Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
Gapingvoid | "Hugh MacLeod" Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
Monday, January 26, 2009
Robert Frank's classic book of photography The Americans newly published in English German and Chinese
The Americans
in German, "Die Amerikaner"
and in Chinese "美国人".
I got this book for my birthday this past December.
If you are down about the American economy and the prospects for 2009 and beyond, don't be. Take a look at this book - and at this first link about that book - to see how greatly much of America has changed in the 50+ years since the mid-1950's. Obama's America in 2009 is a vastly different place than shown in the photographs in "The Americans".
As written by Philip Gefter at the New York Times (Art & Design section online):
"“The Americans,” [is] an intimate visual chronicle of common people in ordinary situations drawn from several trips he made through his adopted country in the mid-1950s."
The Americans, by Robert Frank, a classic photographic study of the United States in the 1950's, was first published May 15, 1958, by Robert Delpire in Paris, followed by an English edition in 1959 via Grove Press in New York, in which the original French language by Alain Bosquet about American history was replaced by an introduction and captions in English by Jack Kerouac.
As written at aloHAA:
"The end result [of Frank's photographic journey through the USA in the 1950's] was the 83 images in the book that no American publisher would touch. It took a Frenchman, Robert Delpire, to publish “Les Americains” in 1958. Progressive publisher Barney Rosset produced the first American edition under his Grove Press the following year. Frank revealed a harsh, sometimes divided America that was a lot different from the rah-rah ’50s dream of “Father Knows Best.” His out-of-the-box compositions paved the way for William Eggleston’s profound color images of America that have garnered unanimous applause in the Whitney’s “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera.” “No one has had a greater influence on photography in the last half-century than the Swiss-born Mr. Frank, though his reputation rests almost entirely on a single book published five decades ago,” writes Philip Gefter in the New York Times. "
The German publisher Steidl in Göttingen,
together with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
in 2008 published a new version of the book in three languages:
English,
German (translation by Hans Wolf)
and Chinese (see e.g. 罗伯特·弗兰克的《美国人》 “The Americans” by Robert Frank).
Frank, 83 years old at the date of publication - a number which corresponds to the 83 tritone plates in the book, chosen out of 20,000 photographs - worked intensively himself on this new version of his now classic book, including for example using some negatives varying from previous editions.
The 13-character ISBN for the English version of the book is: 978-3-86521-584-0.
The 13-character ISBN for the German version of the book is: 978-3-86521-658-8.
The 13-character ISBN for the Chinese version of the book is: 978-3-86521-657-1.
This book is a "must have" for any library that includes materials on America.
For those of my friends in Nebraska, where I grew up, two of the plates in the book are from Nebraska, one of highway 30 between Ogallala and North Platte, and the other of Hested's department store in Lincoln. I've seen both, and, yes, that's exactly the way it looked.
in German, "Die Amerikaner"
and in Chinese "美国人".
I got this book for my birthday this past December.
If you are down about the American economy and the prospects for 2009 and beyond, don't be. Take a look at this book - and at this first link about that book - to see how greatly much of America has changed in the 50+ years since the mid-1950's. Obama's America in 2009 is a vastly different place than shown in the photographs in "The Americans".
As written by Philip Gefter at the New York Times (Art & Design section online):
"“The Americans,” [is] an intimate visual chronicle of common people in ordinary situations drawn from several trips he made through his adopted country in the mid-1950s."
The Americans, by Robert Frank, a classic photographic study of the United States in the 1950's, was first published May 15, 1958, by Robert Delpire in Paris, followed by an English edition in 1959 via Grove Press in New York, in which the original French language by Alain Bosquet about American history was replaced by an introduction and captions in English by Jack Kerouac.
As written at aloHAA:
"The end result [of Frank's photographic journey through the USA in the 1950's] was the 83 images in the book that no American publisher would touch. It took a Frenchman, Robert Delpire, to publish “Les Americains” in 1958. Progressive publisher Barney Rosset produced the first American edition under his Grove Press the following year. Frank revealed a harsh, sometimes divided America that was a lot different from the rah-rah ’50s dream of “Father Knows Best.” His out-of-the-box compositions paved the way for William Eggleston’s profound color images of America that have garnered unanimous applause in the Whitney’s “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera.” “No one has had a greater influence on photography in the last half-century than the Swiss-born Mr. Frank, though his reputation rests almost entirely on a single book published five decades ago,” writes Philip Gefter in the New York Times. "
The German publisher Steidl in Göttingen,
together with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
in 2008 published a new version of the book in three languages:
English,
German (translation by Hans Wolf)
and Chinese (see e.g. 罗伯特·弗兰克的《美国人》 “The Americans” by Robert Frank).
Frank, 83 years old at the date of publication - a number which corresponds to the 83 tritone plates in the book, chosen out of 20,000 photographs - worked intensively himself on this new version of his now classic book, including for example using some negatives varying from previous editions.
The 13-character ISBN for the English version of the book is: 978-3-86521-584-0.
The 13-character ISBN for the German version of the book is: 978-3-86521-658-8.
The 13-character ISBN for the Chinese version of the book is: 978-3-86521-657-1.
This book is a "must have" for any library that includes materials on America.
For those of my friends in Nebraska, where I grew up, two of the plates in the book are from Nebraska, one of highway 30 between Ogallala and North Platte, and the other of Hested's department store in Lincoln. I've seen both, and, yes, that's exactly the way it looked.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Arts and Innovation
Art and Literature
have something to do with innovation.
Are innovators "seekers"? or "finders" ?
and does it make a difference ?
We refer here to the website Arts of Innovation
and its sister Arts of Innovation blog
which are described as follows:
"The author
Colin Stewart, innovation columnist for the Orange County Register, runs this Web site and the associated Arts of Innovation blog. He can be reached by e-mail at cestewart (at) cox.net.
The researcher
ArtsOfInnovation.com and the Arts of Innovation blog elaborate on research into the careers of experimental and conceptual innovators by University of Chicago economist David Galenson."
[links added]
Galenson is the author of
Old Masters and Young Geniuses:
Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
which has been reviewed by Malcolm Gladwell as follows in Age Before Beauty:
"There’s a really wonderful book that’s come out by a guy named David Galenson, who’s an economist at the University of Chicago... There’s something very interesting and important to be learned about the way our minds work by entertaining the notion that there are two very different styles of creativity, the Picasso and the Cézanne."
Definitely worth a read and we have blogrolled them at Literary Pundit and LawPundit.
See also Inside Innovation
have something to do with innovation.
Are innovators "seekers"? or "finders" ?
and does it make a difference ?
We refer here to the website Arts of Innovation
and its sister Arts of Innovation blog
which are described as follows:
"The author
Colin Stewart, innovation columnist for the Orange County Register, runs this Web site and the associated Arts of Innovation blog. He can be reached by e-mail at cestewart (at) cox.net.
The researcher
ArtsOfInnovation.com and the Arts of Innovation blog elaborate on research into the careers of experimental and conceptual innovators by University of Chicago economist David Galenson."
[links added]
Galenson is the author of
Old Masters and Young Geniuses:
Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
which has been reviewed by Malcolm Gladwell as follows in Age Before Beauty:
"There’s a really wonderful book that’s come out by a guy named David Galenson, who’s an economist at the University of Chicago... There’s something very interesting and important to be learned about the way our minds work by entertaining the notion that there are two very different styles of creativity, the Picasso and the Cézanne."
Definitely worth a read and we have blogrolled them at Literary Pundit and LawPundit.
See also Inside Innovation
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