Past Present: Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso (UNA’s Lectures)

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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Customer Review: Fly High
San Francisco is a one of a kind city. I fell in love with the spirit of the city long before I ever visited and once there fell in love with it all over again. There are so many things about the city that people can associate with and although it is quite a bit of a tourist mecca there is much more to the life of the city than meets the eye. It was in this spirit that I approached thiis film, having been referred to it on my last visit where I took an alternative route up and down from Coit Tower involving many, many steps. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill has a certain charm and naievete much like the city where it was shot. Perhaps San Francisco is the only city in the world where wild birds could bring about a career from nothing from a self-confessed Dharma Bum. Beautifully shot with considerable care and obvious affection for each and every one of the subjects including the humans, this beautiful little movie is full of life and hope. If there was ever a spirit of the sixties it lives on in the tolerance the locals have for the birds and their admirers and perhaps there is a lesson for all environmentalists here in the faceof global warming. It is a beautiful and at once a sad tale and throughout we come to recognise the individual birds almost as people with whom we share some growing up time. If anything it is a film which celebrates the uniqueness of San Francisco and it’s many inhabitants which makes it quite unlike any other city on this earth.

Picasso: Magic Sex Death [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays Customer Review: a simple comedic masterpiece.
being a fan of steve martin’s bare faced, honest, goofy humour, i was happily surprised to read the gem that is ’shopgirl’, a sweet tale of ordinary people in ordinary lives finding each other out of the ordinary. if you’ve read that book, and if not, i highly recommend that you do, and noted martin’s knack for observing the mundane in a multicoloured and somewhat neurotic light, then this collection of plays of bizarre scenes will delight you. an unpretentious set of pieces that will come to life inside your head and truly make you laugh. hilarious characters in almost normal situations, somehow their outlandish attitudes and behaviours are so familiarly human.
subtly satirical and, quite simply, very very funny. a must for anyone who enjoys real comedy
Customer Review: a master of comedy. simple, delightful.
being a fan of steve martin’s bare faced, honest, goofy humour, i was happily surprised to read the gem that is ’shopgirl’, a sweet tale of ordinary people in ordinary lives finding each other out of the ordinary. if you’ve read that book, and if not, i highly recommend that you do, and noted martin’s knack for observing the mundane in a multicoloured and somewhat neurotic light, then this collection of plays of bizarre scenes will delight you. an unpretentious set of pieces that will come to life inside your head and truly make you laugh. hilarious characters in almost normal situations, somehow their outlandish attitudes and behaviours are so familiarly human.
subtly satirical and, quite simply, very very funny. a must for anyone who enjoys real comedy.

Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form (Art & Design S.)

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Customer Review: Brief history of the lost cities being re-discovered
This book tells of the ‘modern world’ discovering the lost cities of the Maya. It lists the sequence of modern travellers to the district, starting with the Spanish explorers, and the progressive compilation and understanding of the discoveries made at the sites through to the 20th century. It has some excellent early photographs of the cities prior to their recovery from the jungle and makes some interesting comparisons of the views each explorer made. While providing an account of who, how and when these discoveries were made it holds little information on the cities themselves. Thus this is not a book for those looking to get in depth information on the Mayans and understand what is believed to have happened in these cites. One other interesting factor of the book is that it contains the transcripts of early documents written by the explorers - including letters to the Spanish king - which give a good idea of how impressive these cities were to the earliest discoverers.
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Picasso’s War: The Extraordinary Story of an Artist, an Atrocity and a Painting That Shook the World Customer Review: Fascinating story of a masterpiece
As all the reviews have said, this is a fascinating story of a masterpiece. The Spanish Civil War and Picasso’s life are well explainedto put the story of the painting itself into both contexts.
I’ll justadd that the book is let down by a lack of illustrations (the only one isof the painting itself), and by the lack of an index.
Customer Review: Flawed masterpiece
As ‘Guernica’ was the painting that introduced me to the works of Picasso, I was really looking forward to this book.

And it’s a convincing tale well told - with such a work of art (still) inextricably linked to international politics and war (both world and civil) Russell Martin does a competent job of placing the work into the necessary socio-political context.

The illustrations don’t do the painting justice - but how can you adequately illustrate Guernica in a small book anyway? Even weighty art books about the painting stuggle with this.

It’s a history of ‘Guernica’ as symbolic art rather than an analysis of the painting per se, whereas some fans may want to know more about the creative processes behind the production of the painting.

More ‘art’ and a larger format may have made this a great book, but as it stands it’s certainly a good book about the trials and tribulations of a great painting.

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