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ordered by best selling| The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America | |||
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Author(s) : Roger Kimball | ||
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| Brief In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture tran...Read More |
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| Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity | |||
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Author(s) : Roger Kimball | ||
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| Brief Most of the really invigorating action in the art world today is a quiet affair, Mr. Kimball observes. It usually involves not the latest thing but permaneZnt things—they can be new or old, but their relevance is measured not by the buzz they create but by the silences they inspire. With reviews a...Read More |
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| Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution | |||
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Author(s) : David Stove | ||
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| Brief Whatever your opinion of Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ selfish genes’ and memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting. A discussion of spiders who mimic bird d...Read More |
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| The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art | |||
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Author(s) : Roger Kimball | ||
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| Brief Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be to...Read More |
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| Art in Crisis: The Lost Center (Library of Conservative Thought) | |||
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Author(s) : Hans Sedlmayr | ||
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| Brief The history of art from the early nineteenth century onward is commonly viewed as a succession of confl icts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art in Crisis, fi rst published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the ...Read More |
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| Diversions and Animadversions: Essays from The New Criterion | |||
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Author(s) : Alexander Coleman | ||
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| Brief Divided into three parts, Diversions and Animadversions contains Alexander Colemans classic literary essays including a lengthy piece on Ea de Quieros, the great master of Portuguese realism. Colemans greatest passion, however, was for music, and part two of the volume contains essays, concert and b...Read More |
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| Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse | |||
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Author(s) : Roger Kimball | ||
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| Brief Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius—and pseudo-genius—at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.G. Wodehouse, Elias Canetti and Anthony Trol...Read More |
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| Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century | |||
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| Brief "As a critical periodical The New Criterion is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English."—Julian Symons, Times Literary Supplement. Since its founding in 1982, The New Criterion has emerged as the foremost voice of critical dissent in the cul...Read More |
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| Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts | |||
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| Brief Drawn from twenty-five years of the magazine, this abundant collection contains a generous sampling of the very best writing from The New Criterion, featuring the judgments of our generation's most astute and entertaining observers....Read More |
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| A craving for reality: T.S. Eliot today.(American 20th-century poet): An article from: New Criterion | |||
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Author(s) : Roger Kimball | ||
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| Brief This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 5784 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.co...Read More |
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