A basic text which describes the history of oceanography, the uses of modern marine technology, and the applications of chemistry, biology, physics, and geology in the study of the marine environment

Introduction to oceanography

Science & Math

David A. Ross

Nature & Ecology

PRENTICE/HALL

Between Spring and Summer looks at the multigenerational Soviet conceptual art movement during an age of unprecedented change. Eleven American and Soviet scholars build upon the work of a senior generation of Soviet artists - Ilya Kabakof, Andrei Monastyrsky and Komar and Melamid - to examine a new generation of artists whose work draws sustenance from its critical engagement with everyday Soviet life. Loosely related to the work of American and European neoconceptual artists of the 1980s, Soviet conceptualism gains its distinctive character both from its imaginative response to the poverty of material conditions (the absence of disposable commodities and everyday products) and its dialectic with Western ideals of production and promotion. In looking at the work of 27 artists, architects, and artists' collectives, the essayists writing in Between Spring and Summer provoke questions about the nature of collaborative artistic action and ideological formation in an environment of cultural isolation and changing artistic values in the age of glasnost and perestroika. The Essays: Provisional Reading: Notes for an Exhibition, David A. Ross. No. 6/1 Sretensky Boulevard, Richard Lourie. U-Turn of the U-Topian, Margarita Tupitsyn. On Emptiness, Ilya Kabakov. The Third Zone: Soviet Postmodern, Elisabeth Sussman. On Conceptual Art in Russia, Joseph Bakshtein. East-West Exchange: Ecstasy of (Mis)Communication, Victor Tupitsyn. Scenes from the Future: Komar &amp; Melamid, Peter Wollen. Concepts and Reality, Alexander Rappaport. Metamorphoses of Speech Vision, Mikhail Ryklin. The Image of Reagan in Soviet Literature, Dmitri Prigov.

Between Spring And Summer, Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

The definitive account of the life and work of Richard Avedon, to accompany a major retrospective of the photographic work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Evidence 1944-1994

Jane Livingston

Individual Artists

Random House]

A fully illustrated retrospective look at the long and influential career of a challenging avant-garde artist reviews forty years of Ono's work, including films, music, and Conceptual art, and includes thought-provoking essays from respected scholars and a music CD.

Y E S Yoko Ono

Jann S. Wenner

Alexandra Munroe

Yoko Ono

Jon Hendricks

Bruce Altshuler

Kevin C. Concannon

Reiko Tomii

Murray Sayle

Edward M. Gomez

Harry N. Abrams

The Irish poet William Butler Yeats is often considered the premier English-language poet of the 20th century, but he was also an important playwright, folklorist, critic, and politician. This volume covers all of Yeats' important poems, his plays and other non-fiction writing.

Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (Critical Companion (Hardcover))

Literature & Fiction

FACTS ON FILE+

Book by David A. Ross, Lewis Hyde, Bill Viola, Kira Perov

Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes (Paperback)

Lewis Hyde

Bill Viola

Kira Perov

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art with Flammarion

Between Spring & Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Tacoma Art Museum

"They had never felt the fall, never sensed their descent. They heard only a deafening rumble, and then there was darkness—only darkness and crushing weight…”So begins a profound and disturbing collection of eight short stories, four poems and one vignette by award-winning author David A. Ross.A lonely and deranged sorcerer; a noon-time Bozo, a local television-star; observant and bewildered tourists; angry, drunken cock-fighters; obedient anarchists; a guilt-ridden engineer: each one experiences the curious juxtaposition of the two overriding ideas contained within the collection’s title, Sacrifice and the Sweet Life.In 'NL Centrum', a drug-ruined anarchist proclaims, "The world theater maintains drama and tension through the perpetuation of greed and injustice and so forth…" In 'La Sorcière de Seillans', a driven sculptor is obsessed to "explore the space within the stones", and in 'In Search of the Perfect Former-Communist Beach Town', a malcontented traveler observes, "Some of the locals are a bit surly, Sean, so let's try to overlook ungracious behavior. Just enjoy the shore, the rich red wine and the paprika." One thing is certain as Giuvanni, the lust-ridden Florentine hotel clerk, laments, "In our world, sacrifice is unavoidable."

Sacrifice and the Sweet Life

Escape Media

STRATA: Suzanne Anker and Frank Gillette

Suzanne Anker

DJ Hellerman

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Therese Lichtenstein

Everson Museum of Art

Bill Viola (b. 1951) is widely acknowledged as the leading video artist on the international scene. His video installations--total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound--employ sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. Viola's single-channel videotapes have been distributed and broadcast around the world, while his writings have been published and anthologized for international readers.Since the early 1970s, Viola has used video to explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. Clearly at odds with the cynicism of his age, his works focus on universal human experiences--birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness--and have roots in Eastern and Western art as well as Sufism, Christian mysticism, and Zen Buddhism. Viola's achievement is that of an artist who began in a new field, unbounded by tradition and dogma, and who arrived, twenty-five years later, deeply enmeshed in a series of intersecting spiritual traditions, both ancient and contemporary.This catalogue has been published in conjunction with "Bill Viola," the first major survey of the artist's work and the largest exhibition ever devoted to an individual video artist, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and curated by David A. Ross and Peter Sellars.The book features a dynamic and visually rich selection of works from 1972 to 1996, in a presentation compiled by Kira Perov and Bill Viola, with written descriptions by the artist, and a conversation between Viola and poet/scholar Lewis Hyde on the spiritual roots and cultural traditions underlying Viola's art. There is also an overview of the artist's achievement by David A. Ross, Whitney Museum director, who has been involved with Viola's work since its beginning and, as the first museum curator of video art, has played a major role in the history and development of the field.An extensive catalogue of works, exhibition history, bibliography, and chronology is also included. 272 illustrations, 198 in full-color.

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