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The drawings of Al Taylor
\"Featuring nearly eighty drawings and pages from a dozen sketchbooks from Al Taylor's entire career, The Drawings of Al Taylor documents the artist's important achievements as a draftsman. This book investigates important and illuminating aspects of Al Taylor's drawings, which numbered over five thousand at the time of his death. It includes a chronological survey of Taylor's drawings from the mid-1980s, when he abandoned painting in favor of sculpture and drawing, and highlights the combination of technical refinement, humor, and sensuousness that characterizes his works on paper. Stunning reproductions of the works, which were inspired by such ordinary things as tin cans, pet stains, and rat guards, reveal the drawings' minute details, nuanced shading, and playfully agile pencil lines. Lively texts explore how Taylor's style resonates with that of late Renaissance and Baroque Old Masters in the rich and complex visual sensibility of his drawings. The book also examines Taylor's innovative approach to process and materials, such as photocopier toner, with its intense black, and the extreme white of correction fluid. Created with equal parts humor and technical virtuosity, and informed by scientific models as well as everyday minutiae, Al Taylor's magnificent drawings are meditations on form and structure that stand alone as testament to great draftsmanship\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Two Years below the Horn
In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation's first commander to resign, Taylor- a military engineer with extensive prewar surveying experience-became the first and only Canadian to lead an Antarctic expedition. As Commander of the operation, Taylor oversaw construction of the first permanent base on the Antarctic continent at Hope Bay. From there, he led four-man teams on two epic sledging journeys around James Ross Island, overcoming arduous conditions and correcting cartographic mistakes made by previous explorers. The editors' detailed afterword draws on Taylor's extensive personal papers to highlight Taylor's achievements and document his significant contributions to polar science.This book will appeal to readers interested in history of polar exploration, science and sovereignty. It also sheds light on the little-known contribution of a Canadian to a distant theatre of the Second World War. The wartime service of Major Taylor reveals important new details about a groundbreaking operation that laid the foundation for the British Antarctic Survey and marked a critical moment in the transition from the heroic to the modern scientific era in polar exploration.
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Transatlantic Transcendentalism
The first book devoted to Coleridge’s influence on Emerson and the development of American Transcendentalism. As Samantha Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in the years 1826-1836, giving him new ways to harmonize the Romantic triad of nature, spirit and humanity. Emerson did not think about Coleridge: he thought with Coleridge, resulting in a unique case of assimilative influence. In addition to examining his specific literary, philosophical, and theological influences on Emerson, this book reveals Coleridge’s centrality for Boston Transcendentalism and Vermont Transcendentalism, a movement which profoundly affected the development of modern higher education, the national press, and the emergence of Pragmatism.
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Why Swift’s ‘Life of a Showgirl’ feels different for fans
Taylor Swift fans spent hours lined up for Spotify’s immersive “Life of a Showgirl” exhibit in New York. The multi-room experience featured Eras Tour throwbacks and hidden lyrics from Swift’s new album, which released on Oct. 3.
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Taylor Swift superfans celebrate album release
Taylor Swift fans spent hours lined up for Spotify’s immersive “Life of a Showgirl” exhibit in New York. Here’s a look inside.
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Coleridge and the daemonic imagination
\"Fascinated by his own imagination, Coleridge secretly wrote that its characteristic blend of power and desire made him a \"Daemon\": a being superstitiously feared as \"a something transnatural.\" Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination examines this simultaneous experience of exaltation and transgression as a formative principle in Coleridge's poetry and the fabric of his philosophy. In a reading that spans the breadth of Coleridge's achievement, through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, this book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,\" \"Kubla Khan\" and \"Christabel.\" Gregory Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange, in a study that unfolds into an essay on poetry, spirituality, and the drama of human becoming\"-- Provided by publisher.
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