Testament of Experience

Brittain, Vera

Berry, Paul

Virago Press, Limited

Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among the tangled threads of counterpoint and circumstance that bound Brahms to his acquaintances was the technique of allusive musical borrowing, whereby a brief passage from a familiar work was drawn into the fabric of a new composition. For the specific listeners whose habits of mind and musicianship he knew best, allusive borrowings could become rhetorically charged gestures, persuasively revising the meanings his music conveyed and the interpretive strategies it invited. Primary documents, original manuscripts, music-analytic comparison, and kinesthetic parameters experienced in the act of performance all work in tandem to support ten case studies in the interplay between Brahms's small-scale works and the women and men who encountered them before publication. Central characters include violinist Joseph Joachim, singers Amalie Joachim, Julius Stockhausen, and Agathe von Siebold, composers Heinrich and Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, and pianists Emma Engelmann and Clara Schumann. For these musicians and for the composer himself, Brahms's allusive music served a broad variety of emotional needs and interpersonal ends. Yet across diverse repertoire and interdisciplinary correlates ranging from ethnography to psychoanalysis, each case study furthers a single, underlying aim: to reconstruct the mutually dependent perspectives of historically situated agents and restore forgotten features of their communicative landscapes as bases for both musical and historical scrutiny.

Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion (AMS Studies in Music)

Arts & Photography

Music

Oxford University Press

Written with the cooperation of her daughter, Shirley Williams, and based on a wealth of unpublished material and personal reminiscences, this is the first comprehensive biography of the controversial writer, pacifist and feminist.

Vera Brittain: A Life

Bostridge, Mark

Biographies & Memoirs

Chatto&Windus

By Royal Appointment: A Biography of Mary Ann Clarke, Mistress of the Duke of York

Community & Culture

Femina

Published in conjunction with the exhibition beginning in August 1999 at the Seattle Art Museum, this volume presents about 80 examples of Kyoto nihonga hanging scrolls, screens, and an album dating from the 1860s to the 1940s. Following an introduction and essays by Morioka and Berry (scholars specializing in Japanese art), the text and color plates feature two exceptionally original artists, Tsuji Kato and his pupil Tomita Keisen, as well as works by their predecessors, their contemporaries, and their successors. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Oversize: 9.25x12

Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions, Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Morioka, Michiyo

Seattle Asian Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum

History & Criticism

Literati painting, or bunjinga, flourished in Japan after its early 18th-century introduction from China. This book magnificently illustrates and examines an important collection of literati and shin nanga artworks, including outstanding examples of paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics.

Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan

Honolulu Academy Arts

All Men Are Brothers: The Life & Times of Francis Williams Damon

Cyril Press

First appearing on our screens over fifty years ago, Doctor Who has not only been a television phenomenon but has also spawned more merchandise than any other British television programme in history. Literally thousands of products have been produced since the series launch in 1963, with many of these items now being collectible and highly sought after by fans of the programme. Doctor Who has featured on virtually every conceivable product, from books and records to toys and games, breakfast cereal promotions to full-size prop replicas. The series merchandising has enjoyed many peaks and troughs, from the heady days of Dalekmania in the 1960s to a drought in the early 1970s, the rise of the collectable in the 1980s to the nostalgia-driven days of the 1990s and then a huge resurgence following the Doctor’s return to television in the twenty-first century. Whether you're looking for a full-size Cyberman or a pair of Dalek slippers, a Tom Baker scarf or a Doctor Who pinball machine, Doctor Who has produced something for every type of collector. Sit back and revel in nostalgia as we take a look at some of the more notable and unusual items that have been produced over the last half century.

Doctor Who Memorabilia: An Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who Collectables

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Amberley Publishing

Star Wars first debuted on movie screens in 1977 and over the past forty years has grown into a merchandising phenomenon unequalled both in breadth and range. It has generated more collectables than any other movie series in history. From inexpensive pocket money toys to big ticket full-size replicas, it has spanned every area of licensed product. From inauspicious beginnings, Paul Berry charts the development of the Star Wars collectable from the Original Trilogy era of the 1970s and 1980s, the prequels of the 1990s and 2000s and the modern era of films. This book looks at the massive success of the Kenner, and later Hasbro, action figure range, which has spawned well over 1,000 figures; the story of the books and comics that have greatly expanded the Star Wars universe; the records and the videos; the bubblegum cards; and the modern collectors items. Whether you joined the Star Wars saga in 1977, 1999 or 2015, Star Wars is a hobby that continues to attract new generations of collectors and will likely endure for many decades to come.

Star Wars Memorabilia: An Unofficial Guide to Star Wars Collectables

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Controversial writer, pacifist, and feminist, Vera Brittain (1893-1970) is best known as the author of Testament of Youth, the eloquent memoir of her World War I experiences that gave voice to a generation forever shattered and haunted by the Great War. 
This authoritative biography provides a full and candid account of Brittain's life that alters in important respects the self-portrait she presented in Testament of Youth and her later autobiographical work, Testament of Experience. Drawing on a treasure trove of private family papers and memorabilia, Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge chronicle her conservative and provincial upbringing, university education, and the devastating losses of her fiancé, younger brother, and two friends in the first World War. They examine her struggles to become a successful writer, her close relationship with writer Winifred Holtby, her unconventional marriage to political scientist George Catlin, and her courageous stance against Britain's saturation bombing of Germany in World War II.

Arts & Literature

Northeastern University Press

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