McCullough, David:The Wright Brothers
- signiertes Exemplar 2023, ISBN: 9781476728742
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Darling publ. 2022. Hardcover, 35x33cm, 107 pages ( 200gr silky paper) with full color illustrations. NL/ENG text ISBN 9783945525814. The sensation of turning the beautiful printed page… Mehr…
Darling publ. 2022. Hardcover, 35x33cm, 107 pages ( 200gr silky paper) with full color illustrations. NL/ENG text ISBN 9783945525814. The sensation of turning the beautiful printed pages, sensing the smooth resistance of the 200gr silky paper as well as experiencing the today rarely seen art of bookbinding manufacture in your hands, should be understood by those genuinely interested in exquisite built violins and cellos from spruce and maple, made by talented luthier hands and played with sensitive and reactive pernambuco bows. And the ears to be touched by vibrations of beauty, created with competence and some luck of a matching player, instrument and bow. For that experience even ordering this really nice book will even not be adequate. Best suggestion is to try to get an instrument by Anton in your hands and play it! --- Anton Somers. Born in 1986, Borgerhout, Belgium. Ever since childhood he was very passionate about woodworking. At the age of 15 he made his first instrument, the next year he started studying at the violin making school of Antwerp. Directly after his studies in 2006 he worked in a local workshop in Brussels till 2011. Anton then decided to take the leap and started his own business opening his workshop in his hometown Melsele where he grew up and is strongly connected to the cultural life. From 2013 till 2015 Anton Somers and his former employer tried to work together again, but now as chef d'atelier, in the workshop premises of Anton in Melsele. where he worked meanwhile on his own account. One can see finally an output of high quality instruments under his own name, with his own models and with his own varnish, which lead to a boost in his career. In September 2016 Anton also took on the challenge to work as a teacher in the violin making school of Antwerp ILSA. Sharing his knowledge for 5 years, he stopped teaching at the end of 2021 to be able to fully focus on his career. In December 2016 Anton received a Coup du Coeur in the violin making competition ?Violoncellenseine? in Paris which was dedicated to the cello. The cello was specially awarded for his tonality qualities by renowned cellist Damian Martinez Marco. In 2020 Anton was selected by Andy Lim personally to serve as one of the five supervisors for the 3-year string sextet project, where 24 last year student/ recently graduated violinmakers will make 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos. Anton has the honour and the challenge to supervice the making of 2 cellos. In 2021 Anton made a string quartet containing completely CITES certified whalebone purflings. This quartet is shown in the book published by Darling Publications "Anton Somers Vioolbouwer te Antwerpen ~ 22 instruments of the violin family 2012-2021 which was launched in Brussels, June 2021. Anton?s instruments are appreciated by the most demanding musicians as also by investors who keep them in their private collection., Darling publ. 2022, 0, New York: Basic Books, 2017. First Edition [stated]. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xx, 395, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Pam and Barry, grateful for the Wash U connection! R. Marie Griffith. Ruth Marie Griffith (born 1967) is the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She served for 12 years (2011-2023) as the director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and the editor of the Center's journal, Religion & Politics. Her research focuses on American Christianity, including the changing profile of American evangelicals and ongoing conflicts over gender, sexuality, and marriage. Professor Griffith obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia in Political and Social Thought and her Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University. Before moving to Washington University in 2011, she served as professor of religion and director of the women and gender studies program at Princeton University, where she was awarded the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching; and later as the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard. In 2015 she was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. In addition to her books, Professor Griffith has published numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays. Griffith is a frequent media commentator and public speaker on current issues pertaining to religion and politics. From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars. Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid Christian consensus regarding gender roles and sexual morality began to crumble, as liberal Protestants sparred with fundamentalists and Catholics over questions of obscenity, sex education, and abortion. Both those who advocated for greater openness in sexual matters and those who resisted new sexual norms turned to politics to pursue their moral visions for the nation. Moral Combat is a history of how the Christian consensus on sex unraveled, and how this unraveling has made our political battles over sex so ferocious and so intractable., Basic Books, 2017, 3, 2015. Softcover, IV+228 pages ., 75 b/w ill., 4 b/w tables, 210 x 297 mm. Languages: English. ISBN 9782503554860. This interdisciplinary volume is a unique combination of the history of early modern emotions and art history, bringing together case studies which provide us with new insights on early modern artists and their emotional lives, often based on archival and literary sources. The history of emotions has gained more and more scholarly attention, evidenced by an ?affective turn? or ?emotional turn? in historical research. Many publications have appeared, and internationally oriented research centres and conferences have been set up and organized. This volume brings the importance of a clear understanding of historical feelings into the research area of art historians. Even though the depiction of emotions is an important discipline in its own right, in this volume the concept of the artist and his or her own personal feelings, often in connection with the creation of a work of art, is prioritised. Although it is argued that a painter had to be able to feel emotions in order to depict them correctly, the articles brought together in this volume focus primarily on the traces of artist?s emotions (?feelings?) that can be derived from archival documents, secondary sources, and paintings (?facts?). Each author has tried in his or her own way to elucidate both the written and visual expressions of an artist?s (personal) emotions. Hannelore Magnus is a full-time PhD. fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) at the same Research Unit of KU Leuven. She prepares a doctoral dissertation on fashion, dance and courting in the oeuvre of the Antwerp genre painter Hieronymus Janssens (1624-1693). Katlijne Van der Stighelen is full professor Early Modern Art History at KU Leuven. Her main research and publication topics are 17th-century Flemish art in general and portraiture in particular as well as woman artists. She is currently investigating aspects of technological imaging in collaboration with the University of Antwerp (Department of Chemistry) and is preparing a monograph on Michaelina Woutiers, an artist from Mons who lived in Brussels in the second half of the 17th century. Review ?This volume provides a rich and thought-provoking inquiry into how the established practice of the case study can continue to maintain its value in the age of ?big data.? (Stephanie S. Dickey, in College Art Association Reviews, 44, 2017), 2015, 0, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-11-08. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-11-08, 6, Zürich, Persterer, 2019. 4°, 96 S., unzählige Abb., Kart., Buchblock min. verzogen, sonst tadell. Mit Widmung des Künstlerfälschers a. Vors.- The conversations that set the exhibition in motion began around the turn of the year 20152016. Initial talk was of a combined photography-and-painting exhibition, a commercial idea by Munich entrepreneur Christian Zott which eventually gave rise to this exhibition series. Our knowledge of European art and culture and my experience as a painter allowed us to go beyond Mauro Fioreses original photo series "Treasure Rooms", which was limited to Italian museums only, and expand our horizon to encompass the great museums of Europe. I would connect the dots between my unpainted paintings and various artists exhibited in these museums. This in turn would reveal the links between my paintings and Mauros photographs.What matters to me most about our project is the human side. Who were these people the paintings tell us about? What was their significance? How were the events taking place around them significant? What influence did these people or certain developments during their lifetimes have, and how do we feel their influence in society today? The spiritual and artistic development of our continent has fused us, across national borders, into a multiethnic unit, and the present moment is calling on us to show our unity. 010, Zürich, Persterer, 2019, 0, St. Petersburg: Historical Illustration, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Eta kniga na russkom yazyke, a ne na angliyskom. Tema etoy knig - 1941 Smolenskaya strategicheskaya oboronitelnaya operatsiya. Text in Russian only, not in English. Published in 2015 in St. Petersburg. Presumed printed and bound in Russia. 12 x 9 inches. Illustrated B&W hardboards, with crisp lettering. Unbumped spine head and tail, and moderately bumped corners. Text block firmly bound in. Illustrated pastedowns. 435 numbered pages, including approx. 30 text pages. Illustrations include maps and hundreds of B&W documentary photos. Photo subjects include soldiers, prisoners, civilians, street scenes, damaged and destroyed buildings. Also with numerous aerial views. Several of the photo plates are full-page. Exceptionally clean, inside and out. Either unread or very gently read. There is no dust jacket. A Very Good Plus to Near Fine copy. Somewhat scarce in any condition. 5 lbs. 4 oz. weight. The books states the ISBN as 9785895661482. This book about as aspect of WWII history serves to document the German military attack against Smolensk, the Russian resistance and the Nazi occupation during 1941. [Approx. 10 July - 10 September 1941.] The Battle of Smolensk was another severe defeat for the Red Army in the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa. For the first time, the Soviets tried to implement a coordinated counter-attack against a large part of the front; although this counter-attack turned into a military disaster, the stiffening resistance showed that the Soviets were not yet defeated and that the Blitzkrieg towards Moscow was not going to be an easy undertaking. From the library of Marshall Winokur [1942-2022]. He was a recognized collector of books and postcards on Russia and the Soviet Union. His research on Russian culture and the fate of Russian Orthodox churches, convents and monasteries under the Soviet regime led to numerous publications, fellowships, and talks, and found expression in his collection of over 25,000 postcards depicting life in the Russian Empire, a collection now available at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (the Winokur-Munblit collection of the Russian Empire postcards)., Historical Illustration, 2015, 4, Hardback. New. After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements that both opposed austerity policies and created animosity towards the politicians who implemented them. Combining qualitative and quantitative comparative analyses from anti-austerity movements in 14 Eurozone states from 2007 to 2015, Joanna Rak develops an original typology of patterns of a culture of political violence to explain why some anti-austerity movements turned to violence and others did not, despite having shared goals and political values. She uncovers the very nature of the differences and similarities between cultures of political violence, identifies their sources, and determines their differing results. Simultaneously, she opens a discussion on the exploratory and explanatory utility of the category of a culture of political violence in the Social Sciences. Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity casts new light on the scholarly debate on cultures of political violence and anti-austerity violent behavior, making it a compelling read for scholars of political sociology, political behavior, comparative politics, European politics, and sociology., 6, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed Edition/Signature page specially bound by the publisher. Also First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. William B. McCullough (Author photograph). [16], 320, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Source Notes. Bibliography. Index. David Gaub McCullough (/m k l /; July 7, 1933 - August 7, 2022) was an American historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968), and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers. McCullough also narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit, and he hosted the PBS television documentary series American Experience for twelve years. Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did? Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed. In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Mechanical invention is close to a religious calling in this reverent biography of the pioneers of heavier-than-air flight. Pulitzer-winning historian McCullough sees something exalted in the two bicycle mechanics and lifelong bachelors who lived with their sister and clergyman father in Dayton, Ohio. He finds them, especially Wilbur, the elder brother, to be cultured men with a steady drive and quiet charisma, not mere eccentrics. McCullough follows their monkish devotion to the goal of human flight, recounting their painstaking experiments in a homemade wind tunnel, their countless wrong turns and wrecked models, and their long stints roughing it on the desolate, buggy shore at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Thanks largely to their own caginess, the brothers endured years of doubt and ridicule while they improved their flyer. McCullough also describes the fame and adulation that the brothers received after public demonstrations in France and Washington, D.C., in 1908 cemented their claims. McCullough's usual warm, evocative prose makes for an absorbing narrative; he conveys both the drama of the birth of flight and the homespun genius of America's golden age of innovation., Simon & Schuster, 2015, 3<