![]() ![]() Hilary Spurling won the Whitbread Award for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in 2006. Blow me, Matisse just invents a new art form!” He could no longer do what he’d done all his life. “Many people would have packed it in and called it a day,” Spurling told the documentary’s presenter, Alastair Sooke. As a result, he began to use a wheelchair. Matisse’s cut-outs (gouaches découpés) phase began during World War Two, and shortly after a dangerous operation. ![]() The documentary precedes the opening of the largest ever exhibition of Matisse’s cut-outs, executed in the later years of his career, which will be held at Tate Modern in London. Henri Matisse: A Cut Above The Rest was broadcast on BBC2 on Monday 3 March, and will be available to watch on iPlayer for the next few days. Hilary Spurling, Somerville alumna, Honorary Fellow of the College and award-winning biographer of Henri Matisse, has been featured in a documentary about the French artist’s later works. ![]()
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![]() 'Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike' is a memoir by Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike, that provides a detailed account of the early years of the company and its journey to becoming a global brand. ![]() The book has been widely praised for its honesty, authenticity, and inspirational message, making it a must-read for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, business, or the history of Nike. "Shoe Dog" is a compelling read that offers valuable insights into the business world and the journey of an entrepreneur. He also discusses the importance of giving back to the community, which has been a core value of Nike since its founding. ![]() Throughout the book, Knight emphasizes the importance of perseverance, creativity, and risk-taking in building a successful business. It also highlights the key relationships and partnerships that were instrumental in Nike's success, including his partnership with legendary track and field coach Bill Bowerman. ![]() The memoir provides a first-hand account of the challenges and obstacles Knight faced in building Nike, including financial struggles, legal battles, and fierce competition. The book chronicles Knight's journey from his early days as an athlete and business student to the founding of Nike and its eventual success as a global sportswear brand. "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike" is a memoir written by Phil Knight, the co-founder and former CEO of Nike, Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The British philosopher, John Gray, has built a significant reputation by systematically debunking the notion of progress. The extent to which very intelligent people differ on this matter is astonishing. It’s call the Gray–Pinker scale, and it ranges from one end, in which believing in any form of progress is seen as a sign of mental illness, to the other, in which not believing in progress is seen as a sign of mental illness. Somewhere in the depths of a psychology journal there is a scientifically–calibrated scale that charts people’s attitude to progress. ![]() And check out our Supporter Programme to find out how you can help our work. Join our monthly e–newsletter to keep up to date with our latest research and events. Interested by this? Share it on social media. Nick Spencer reviews Steven Pinker’s latest book and challenges his ideas of progress and Enlightenment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned her Ph.D. He has also written books on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong film. His books include Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging (University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He has also held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers. ![]() Shes always felt there was something more out there. But when Ami grows ill, Oli knows the cure is on Earth-where he meets and helps Nina with her own problems. A Snake Falls to Earth Little Badger, Darcie, 1987- 'Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. Oli, a cottonmouth snake of the Reflecting World, has recently left his mother’s home and made friends in wolf sisters Rise and Reign as well as sweet, silent frog Ami. Their paths cross in a meaningful way, but their encounter is not the end-all and be-all of either of their narratives. Little Badger expertly intertwines the stories of her two protagonists, but I loved how neither Nina’s nor Oli’s story was really about the other person. With a basis in Apache stories, this sharply told speculative novel details Nina’s lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rosita, who has just passed away her grandmother, who’s inherited some of her Reflecting World ancestors’ healing powers and her bookstore-owning father, who distributes books to Reflecting World visitors in human form. A Snake Falls to Earth is captivating from beginning to end. The second novel by Lipan Apache author Little Badger ( Elatsoe) is a smartly intertwined, shifting-perspective story about two characters in worlds that diverged thousands of years ago: Earth-living Nina, who is nine, and Reflecting World–living Oli, 15. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walker-in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting and conversation. And she highlights the leading role of white and black women-Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. She shows how women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. ![]() How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. ![]() ![]() Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We also make time to talk about what might lie ahead for young Lucilla and Ninian, how much sympathy we can dredge up for Maria Farlow, and how Amabel Wychwood is a wise and cunning woman, not to be underestimated. ![]() ![]() For the readers that means we can enjoy watching two honest and articulate people unpick what it takes to give up their comfortable ways of life and walk into the unknown - throwing in their lot with another person.īut where’s the risk really? Annis is beautiful and charming, and Oliver is empathetic and direct (or possibly rude), so we predict a happy future for them travelling the world and only spending time with those sensible enough for Oliver to tolerate (not Miss Farlow then). This is a guide to Heyers world: her heroines, her villains and dashing heroes, the shops, clubs and towns they frequented, the parties and seasons they. Excerpt: Lady of Quality is the last Regency romance novel written by Georgette Heyer. Annis Wychwood and Oliver Carleton are two of our more mature Heyer characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It requires continuous support and consent from the majority, that the one percent obtain by creating an illusion of choice. But the fact that we still have these problems with not even an excuse of a solution is enough to prove that the current democratic systems are anything but majority run.Ĭontrary to the populist propaganda, capitalism is not a self-sustaining system. You’d think that since democratic systems are in place in most of the world, the most important decisions that will have long term effects on our species as a whole (how do we deal with climate change? How do we effectively end world hunger and poverty when for the first time in human history we have more than enough resources to ensure it?) would involve majority consensus. Never mind that this capitalistic humanity is an exclusive club full of egomaniacs who pledge their loyalty to development in more exclusive ceremonies designed to only inflate their egos through mutual jerking off. Most of us are happy to go along with the willy-nilly whims of the ironically named, invisible ‘free market’ that we have been convinced has the progress of humanity at heart. Because as Danny Katch points out, capitalism can be called many nasty names, but boring is not one of them. ![]() You Can't Have Billionaires And DemocracyĬapitalism today has acquired a religion-like status, and unsurprisingly enjoys the benefit of worship from an unsuspecting, unaware and brainwashed population. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a network mini series, this is very well done given these leads & a very large cast of supporting players. Ali Mcgraw is attractive, but has difficulty bringing off the acting in her role. Robert Mitchum is a fine actor but is too old for the role of Pug Henry. ![]() The cast, while good is somewhat our of place. While the battle sequences are limited by what the budget could produce, they are effective. The total series is done from a world perspective on how things looked in the time leading up to Americas entry into World War 2. It has the look & feel of a major film in spite of it's small screen origins. Dan Curtis did a very credible job within the constrictions of this. ![]() It represented a very major project for the network & it drew big ratings. ABC made a very large splash with this production in 1983. ![]() |