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Suzuki Piano 2 Rev. [Bok / Häftad]

<b>Published to accompany the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, this is the first major study on Vermeer's life and work for many years. </b><br/><br/>Vermeer's intensely quiet and enigmatic paintings invite the viewer into a private world, often prompting more questions than answers. Who is being portrayed? Are his subjects real or imagined? And how did he create such an unrivalled sense of intimacy?<br/><br/>Bringing together diverse strands of the Dutch master's professional and private worlds, this is the first major authoritative study of Vermeer's life and work for many years, throwing light on all thirty-seven of his paintings. <br/><br/>With a wide selection of contextual illustrations, commentaries and up-to-date research by distinguished international Vermeer scholars, here is the definitive volume on the most admired of all seventeenth-century Dutch masters, one of the world's greatest artists.<br/><br/>With contributions by<br/>Bart Cornelis, National Gallery, London<br/>Bente Frissen, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<br/>Sabine Penot, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna<br/>Pieter Roelofs, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<br/>Friederike Schuett, Staedel Museum, Frankfurt am Main<br/>Christian Tico Seifert, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh<br/>Ariane van Suchtelen, Mauritshuis, The Hague<br/>Gregor J.M. Weber, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<br/>Marjorie E. Wieseman, National Gallery of Art, Washington

The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (The White Album) is at number one in the charts and the foursome gather in London for a new project. Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras and tape recorders documenting every day's work and conversations, the band rehearse a huge number of songs, culminating in their final concert, which famously takes place on the rooftop of their own office building, bringing central London to a halt.<br/><br/>The Beatles: Get Back tells the story of those sessions through transcripts of the band's candid conversations. Drawing on over 120 hours of sound recordings, leading music writer John Harris edits the richly captivating text to give us a fly-on-the-wall experience of being there in the studios. These sessions come vividly to life through hundreds of unpublished, extraordinary images by two photographers who had special access to their sessions-Ethan A.<br/><br/>Russell and Linda Eastman (who married Paul McCartney two months later). Also included are many unseen high-resolution film-frames, selected from the 55 hours of restored footage from which Peter Jackson's documentary is also drawn. Legend has it that these sessions were a grim time for a band falling apart.

Fall: Telling Stories. the Photographs of the Fall. Kevin Cummins [Bok / Inbunden]

A stunning photographic guide to Taylor Swift's fashion highlights from the author of Harry Styles and the Clothes He Wears.

Resisting interpretation or classification, <strong>Mark Rothko (1903-1970)</strong> was a prominent advocate for the artist's consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the<strong> Abstract Expressionist</strong> movement, first formed in New York City, Rothko rejected the label and insisted instead on <strong>"a consummated experience between picture and onlooker."</strong><br/><br/> Following a repertoire of figurative works, Rothko developed his now iconic canvases of <strong>bold color blocks</strong> in red, yellow, ochre, maroon, black, or green. With these shimmering, pulsating color masses, Rothko stressed that he had not removed the human figure but rather put symbols or shapes in its place. These intense color forms contained <strong>all the tragedy of the human condition</strong>. At the same time, Rothko explicitly empowered the viewer in the expressive potential of his work. He believed <strong>"A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer."</strong><br/><br/> From his early development through to his most famous color fields, this book introduces the intellect and influence of Rothko's dramatic, intimate, and revolutionary work.

<em><strong>The Book of Symbols</strong></em><strong> combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history.</strong> The compelling texts and <strong>over 800 beautiful full-color images</strong> come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of meaning. Each of the ca. 350 essays examines a given symbol's psychic background, and how it evokes psychic processes and dynamics. Etymological roots, the play of opposites, paradox and shadow, the ways in which diverse cultures have engaged a symbolic image-all these factors are taken into consideration.<br/><br/> Authored by writers from the fields of psychology, religion, art, literature, and comparative myth, the essays flow into each other in ways that mirror the psyche's unexpected convergences. There are no pat definitions of the kind that tend to collapse a symbol; a still vital symbol remains partially unknown, compels our attention and unfolds in new meanings and manifestations over time. Rather than merely categorize, <em><strong>The Book of Symbols</strong></em><strong> illuminates how to move from the visual experience of a symbolic image in art, religion, life, or dreams to directly experiencing its personal and psychological resonance</strong>.<br/><br/><em><strong>The </strong></em><strong><em>Book of Symbols</em> sets new standards for thoughtful exploration of symbols and their meanings</strong>, and will appeal to a wide range of readers: artists, designers, dreamers and dream interpreters, psychotherapists, self-helpers, gamers, comic book readers, religious and spiritual searchers, writers, students, and anyone curious about the power of archetypal images.