Author: Patrick O'Brian File Type: epub The best biography of Picasso.Kenneth ClarkPatrick OBrians outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and the only biography fully to appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picassos character and art. Everything about Picasso, except his physical stature, was on an enormous scale. No painter of the first rank has been so awe-inspiringly productive. No painter of any rank has made so much money. A few painters have rivaled his life span of ninety years, but none has attracted so avid, so insatiable, a public interest. Patrick OBrian knew Picasso sufficiently well to have a strong sense of his personality. The man that emerges from this scholarly, passionate, and brilliantly written biography is one of many contradictions hard and tender, mean and generous, affectionate and cold, private despite the relish of his fame. In his later years he professed communism, yet in OBrians view retained to the end of his life a residual Catholic outlook. Not that such matters were allowed to interfere with his vigorous sensuality. Sex and money, eating and drinking, friends and quarrels, comedies and tragedies, suicides and wars tumble one another in the vast chaos of his experience. he was a man almost as lonely as the sun, but one who glowed with much the same fierce, burning life. It is with that impression of its subject that this book leaves its readers. **From Library JournalOBrian, author of the popular sea adventure yarns, turned his pen to nonfiction in 1976 to produce this portrait of the artist. OBrian drew from his friendship with Picasso as well as his knowledge of the area in Spain where the artist was raised. For art collections needing more on Picasso. 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review `Patrick OBrian has written much the best biography of Picasso. It is full of information, the judgements both of Picasso as a man and as an artist seem to me remarkably convincing, and it is extremely well-written. In particular, the relationship between Picasso and the Catalan painters is given its true importance, both in his formative years and, as friends, throughout his life.Kenneth Clarke

Author: Joseph B. Atkins File Type: pdf Covering for the Bosses Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the past to the present day. Written by a veteran journalist and first-hand observer of the labor movement and its treatment in the regions newspapers and other media, the text focuses on the modern South that has evolved since World War II. In gathering materials for this book, Joseph B. Atkins crisscrossed the region, interviewing workers, managers, labor organizers, immigrants, activists, and journalists, and canvassing labor archives. Using individual events to reveal the broad picture, Covering for the Bosses is a personal journey by a textile workers son who grew up in North Carolina, worked on tobacco farms and in textile plants as a young man, and went on to cover as a reporter many of the developments described in this book. Atkins details the fall of the once-dominant textile industry and the regions emergence as the Sunbelt South. He explores the advent of Detroit South with the arrival of foreign automakers from Japan, Germany, and South Korea. And finally he relates the effects of the influx of millions of workers from Mexico and elsewhere. Covering for the Bosses shows how, with few exceptions, the press has been a key partner in the powerful alliance of business and political interests that keep the South the nations least-unionized region. Joseph B. Atkins is a widely published journalist, professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi, and editor of The Mission Journalism, Ethics, and the World. Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology and cultural studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author, most recently, of Left Turn Forging a New Political Future The Knowledge Factory and How Class Works.**

Author: Adam Sharr File Type: pdf Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and architectural theorists.The first introduction to Heideggers philosophy written specifically for architects and students of architecture introduces key themes in his thinking, which has proved highly influential among architects as well asarchitectural historians and theorists. This guide familiarizes readers with significant texts and helps to decodes terms as well as providing quick referencing for further reading. This concise introduction is ideal for students of architecture in design studio at all levels students of architecture pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in architectural theory academics and interested architectural practitioners. Heidegger for Architects is the second book in the new Thinkers for Architects series.About the AuthorAdam Sharr is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University and principal of Adam Sharr Architects. He is author of Heideggers Hut (MIT Press, 2006), joint editor of Primitive Original Matters in Architecture (Routledge, 2006) and Associate Editor of arq Architectural Research Quarterly published by Cambridge University Press.

Author: Lorena Oropeza File Type: pdf In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking locals. The small-scale raid surprisingly thrust Tijerina and his cause into the national spotlight, catalyzing an entire generation of activists. The actions of Tijerina and his group, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (the Federal Alliance of Land Grants), demanded that Americans attend to an overlooked part of the countrys history the United States was an aggressive empire that had conquered and colonized the Southwest and subsequently wrenched land away from border peopleMexicans and Native Americans alike. To many young Mexican American activists at the time, Tijerina and the Alianza offered a compelling and militant alternative to the nonviolence of Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. Tijerinas place at the table among the nations leading civil rights activists was short-lived, but his analysis of land dispossession and his prophetic zeal for the rights of his people was essential to the creation of the Chicano movement. This fascinating full biography of Tijerina (19262015) offers a fresh and unvarnished look at one of the most controversial, criticized, and misunderstood activists of the civil rights era. Basing her work on painstaking archival research and new interviews with key participants in Tijerinas life and career, Lorena Oropeza traces the origins of Tijerinas revelatory historical analysis to the years he spent as a Pentecostal preacher and his hidden past as a self-proclaimed prophet of God. Confronting allegations of anti-Semitism and accusations of sexual abuse, as well as evidence of extreme religiosity and possible mental illness, Oropezas narrative captures the life of a man--alternately mesmerizing and repellant--who changed our understanding of the American West and the place of Latinos in the fabric of American struggles for equality and self-determination.Review A deeply compelling biography of a consequential figure in modern U.S. history. Oropeza reveals Tijerina not only as a protest leader and organizer but also as a tragically flawed human being and an intellectual whose ideas about settler colonialism are today in wide circulation. Mandatory reading for anybody who wants to understand the history of race in America or the West after World War II.--Benjamin H. Johnson, author of Escaping the Dark, Gray City Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation While the Great Man theory of history was a nineteenth-century phenomenon, its remnants linger today. We still sanctify certain historic figures our sin is being unable to blend the saint and the sinner into their complete personhood. We, our children, and the discipline of history are the poorer for it. Lorena Oropeza mined an enormous amount of primary and secondary material to give context to Reies Lopez Tijerinas contributions to Chicano history and the price paid by those who traveled his path with him. When teaching the history of the Chicano movement, it is important to me that my students emerge with an empathetic relationship to the collective Tijerina the man, his family, his followers, and those who schooled him. The King of Adobe is a major step in that direction.--Maria Varela A long-overdue and much-needed biography. Oropeza captures the complexities of a man central to the Chicano movement and Chicano history.--Matt Garcia, author of From the Jaws of Victory The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement About the Author Lorena Oropeza is professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and author of Raza Si! Guerra No! Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Viet Nam War Era.