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Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce by Alfred Appel, How does the jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, scrap arts music and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of the modern arts between 1920 scrap arts music and 1950? In Jazz Modernism, one of our finest cultural historians provides the answer. Alfred Appel, author of The Annotated Lolita ("superb . . . full of vigor, gems, scrap arts music and stratagems"--Vladimir Nabokov), compares the layering of sex, vitality, scrap arts music and the vernacular in jazz with the paper collages of Picasso, scrap arts music and the vital mix of high scrap arts music and low culture found in Joyce. He shows how the musical construct of jazz was pared down by the masters as sculpture was in Calder's hands or prose in Hemingway's. He makes clear how Armstrong scrap arts music and Waller tore apart scrap arts music and rebuilt Tin Pan Alley material in the way that modernists in the visual arts arrived at wood assemblage scrap arts music and scrap-metal sculpture. He enables us to see that Ellington's "jungle" style was as un-primitive as Brancusi's self-conscious Africanesque sculpture. And along the way, he "recalls" live jazz perform-ances during the 1950s by Armstrong scrap arts music and John Coltrane, among others, scrap arts music and the night Charlie Parker played to a visibly thrilled Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Making connections as illuminating as they are unexpected, Alfred Appel gives us a brilliant new way of understanding jazz.
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Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne: Paintings and Sculpture, 1961-1963 by Georg Frei, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most iconic figure in twentieth century art, an enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of art itself but also in his wake left a vast scrap arts music and staggeringly complex record of his activities. Warhol's archive consists not only of his artworks but also 1,500 cardboard boxes, flat files, scrap arts music and trunks filled with source material, memorabilia, correspondence, scrap arts music and junk mail. When the catalogue raisonne is complete, it will constitute an indisputable record of the artist's paintings, drawings, scrap arts music and sculptures -- some 15,000 works produced by the artist between 1948 scrap arts music and 1987, the year of his death. Volume I documents the artist's early paintings scrap arts music and sculpture made between 1961 scrap arts music and 1963 scrap arts music and incorporates newly discovered works as well as some previously thought to be lost. Included are not only projected paintings influenced by popular advertisements, comics scrap arts music and other printed ephemeral but also classic scrap arts music and much-prized Warhols such as the Campbell Soup paintings, serial works representing cultural icons Marilyn, Liz, Elvis, photobooth portraits of Warhol's friends scrap arts music and idols as well as early self-portraits. Accompanying the works scrap arts music and detailed catalogue entries is an amazing array of source material -- from newspaper scraps scrap arts music and movie star publicity stills to photographs of Warhol scrap arts music and his consorts in his studio scrap arts music and at exhibitions. In consultation with a team of experts, Georg Frei scrap arts music and Neil Printz analyze Warhol's unique techniques scrap arts music and subject matter as well as establish a strict chronology for his stylistic evolution. Their text provides both a compelling overview scrap arts music and unparalleled detail of an endlessly fascinating life scrap arts music and career. The projectis co-sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York scrap arts music and Thomas Ammann Fine Art in Zurich.
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