The Dreadful Day: The Battle of Manzikert, 1071

History

Friendly, Alfred

Africa

Univ of Virginia Pr

Best known as an experimental composer and performer, John Cage (1912–1992) was also an active visual artist who created an extensive body of prints, drawings, and watercolors over the last twenty years of his life. The Sight of Silence: John Cage’s Complete Watercolors provides the first opportunity to see all 125 signed watercolors that Cage created during four week-long sessions at the Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia, between 1983 and 1990.
In all of his work, regardless of medium, Cage consistently dismissed conventional aesthetics by limiting or eliminating the artist’s choice in the creative process. In composing his watercolors, he relied on his signature method of "chance operations," guided by a system of random numbers derived from the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching.
This book’s critical essay and accompanying workshop diaries relate the methods at play in Cage’s visual art to those of his musical compositions and theater pieces. The accompanying DVD offers a "live" view of John Cage at work, featuring a public reading with audience discussion, as well as an interview with him about his watercolor paintings. As visual evidence of the methods of chance that Cage employed for decades, the watercolors in this book and the video footage on the accompanying DVD offer an entrée into Cage’s music and writings and present a greatly enhanced understanding of one of the twentieth century’s most mystifying artists and most creative thinkers.

The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete Watercolors

Arts & Photography

Kass, Ray

History & Criticism

Road from Runnymeade: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America

Howard, A. Dick

The story of the Dominy family, clock and furniture makers in the 18th Century and 19th Century, and of their tools, workshops, account books, and other surviving memorabilia. 255 objects are described and illustrated, many with multiple photographs. 38 illustrations accompany the text. Includes two appendixes: "Genealogy of Members of the Dominy Family" and "Categories of Production and Income for the Dominy Craftsmen."

With Hammer in Hand: The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York

Science & Math

Hummel, Charles F.

Technology

How Justice Grew Virginia Counties: An Abstract of Their Formation

Hiden, Martha

Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint

Milnor, John Willard

Mathematics

Pepys' Diary and the New Science

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope

Foreign Policy of Iran Fifteen Hundred to Nineteen Forty One: A Developing Nation in World Affairs

Politics & Social Sciences

Ramazani, Rouhollah K.

Politics & Government

Klaus Wust's comprehensive study of German settlement and integration in Virginia from 1608 until World War I proves to be a significant and colorful chapter in the state's history.

The Virginia Germans

Wust, Klaus

A near fine copy, spine ends lightly rubbed. No dust jacket as issued. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. xx, 222 pp. 2280 citations pertaining to the scholarship of "Beowulf" and "The Fight at Finnsburh."

Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburh: A Bibliography

Literature & Fiction

Don Fry

Poetry

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