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Found in 3308 Collections and/or Records:

Music in Art: Marguerite Gachet at the Piano / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31211-32679
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Van Gogh and Cezanne, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art: Nymphs and Satyr / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31210-32678
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Van Poelenburgh, Fillippino Lippi, and Dioskourides of Samos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28783-30093
Scope and Contents

Music in Art through the Ages was originally published as fifty essays in BBC Music Magazine. Tom Phillips contributes an introduction in which he describes musical themes, instruments, portraits of musicians, music lessons, musical scores, and abstract compositions. Analyzing specific works of art and relating them to musical history, Phillips presents a lively and informative insight into the two important aspects of his own creative life. He writes, Art is in love with music. I trust it has everywhere been apparent that I am in love with them both." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art: Portrait of Berg / Phillips, Tom., 1994

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Identifier: CC-36175-37957
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the painting is by Arnold Schoenberg -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Music in Art: The Ambassadors / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31208-32676
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Hans Holbein and Harmen Steenwyck. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art: The Attributes of Music / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-36173-37955
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Georges Braque. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art: The Ring / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-36174-37956
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Gil Kane and Albert Pinkham Ryder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art: The Sense of Hearing / Phillips, Tom., 1994

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Identifier: CC-36178-37961
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Philippe Mercier and Johann Zoffany. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Musings on the Vernacular / Johnston, Alastair ; Marinetti FT ; Apollinaire G ; Schwitters K ; Villegle J ; Hains R., 1988

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Identifier: CC-08231-8393
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book is photographic reproductions of textural and pictographic images of shop signs and billboards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Muster Moglicher Welten, Anthology fur Max Bense / Walther, Elisabeth, editor ; Harig, Ludwig, editor ; Becker J ; Burkhardt K ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Dohl R ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Gomringer E ; Grogerova B ; Hirsal J ; Grunewald JL ; Heissenbuttel H ; Jandl E ; Mayrocker F ; Mon F ; Nake F ; Ponge F ; Queneau R ; Roth D ; Schauffelen KB ; Schmidt A ; Ulrichs T ; Bense M ; Mayer HJ ; Mukai S ; Pazarkaya Y., 1970

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Identifier: CC-28030-29184
Scope and Contents

This anthology was published to celebrate Max Bense's 60th birthday; the layout was designed by Hansjorg Mayer. In addition to including several concrete poetic works and conventional poems, the book contains several essays on asthetics and information theory, topics of great interest to Bense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

My Way: Speeches and Poems / Bernstein, Charles ; Beckett T ; MacLow J ; Rothenberg J ; Pound E ; Ginsberg A ; Wittgenstein L ; Oppen G ; Bee S ; Zukofsky L ; Stein G ; Howe S ; Eigner L ; Silliman R., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33601-35254
Scope and Contents

This is an uncorrected proof copy of the book that consists of a collection of previous published essays and interviews with Bernstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Mysteries of the Alphabet / Ouaknin, Marc-Alain ; Josephine Bacon, translator ; Lalou F ; Massoudy H., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32538-34117
Scope and Contents The subtitle of the book is "The Origins of writing." Part one consists of "Origin & Development;" part two "The Alphabet;" in which each letter is separately traced from the Proto-Sinaitic down to the modern alphabets; part three"the Archeographic Revolution." The book is dedicated to the Proto-Sinaitic or Proto-Semitic alphabet discovered during excavations in the Sinai desert, that was used for writing a Semitic language by the Hebrew slaves in Egypt. Proto-Sinaitic consisted of pictograms. It is the alphabet from which the Canaanite, Phoenician, Aramaic, paleo-Hebrew, Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic scripts were derived, continuing down to the modern European alphabets, via Etruscan and Latin. Reproductions of stylized Hebrew calligraphy by Frank Lalou (pages 73-75, 245, 259, 269, 331) and a shaped poem in Arabic (page 59) by Massoudy are included in the book. Oukaknin describes the birth of a letter and the alphabet. The first stage is pictographic, i.e., images or drawings that...
Dates: 1999

Mystical Composer in a Magical Forest: Canadian Idyll is the Stage for R. Murrray Schafer's Magical Forrest / Eatock, Colin; Schafer RM., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44078-46194
Scope and Contents

This article describes R. Murray Schafer's 12 music-theater works performed in a forest in Canada. The piece is called Patria and a signed copy of the score is held in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Mythologies, from Altimara to Manet an emotional analysis of art history / Romberg, Osvaldo ; Hunter S., 1981

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Identifier: CC-44767-46934
Scope and Contents

Romberg's paintings in this period consist of collaged photoreproductions of cave paintings and old masters up to Manet along with a written analysis and color swatches used by that painter as deduced from Romberg's observations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Nature over again after Poussin / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S ; Paterson W., 1981

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Identifier: CC-12533-12761
Scope and Contents

Wilma Paterson contributed a music score on "julie.' Finlay contributed two pages on "Unconnected Sentences on Gardening" including "A Garden is not an object but a process, Modern Sculpture is "Wilfuly" ignorant, Technology - Epic Convenience, A liberal's compost heap is his castle, and Weather is the chief content of a garden, Camouflage is the last form of classical landscape painting - It represents not 'this' tree but fields and trees, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981