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KURT JACKSON A new book about the British landscape painter Kurt
Jackson (b. 1961). One of Kurt Jackson's appealing concepts is that
the ocean is one of the last true wildernesses left on the planet.
Jackson's art can be seen as an art that is the border region
between humanity and nature, between culture and nature, as well as
literally tackling that area - the coast - which is neither land
nor sea. This new edition includes a text which has been completely
updated. There are also many new illustrations. including
photographs taken for this new edition. Fully illustrated, with a
revised text. Bibliography and notes.
RAINER MARIA RILKE: Dance the Orange: Selected Poems
Translated by Michael Hamburger and edited by Jeremy Mark
Robinson This edition has been revised and updated.
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This new collection includes poems taken from the time of the
great German poet's New Poems through the Duino Elegies to the last
pieces. These are some of Rainer Maria Rilke's best works; they are
intense, compact, lyrical and lucid, by turns erotic, heartfelt and
mystical. Hamburger's excellent translations have the German
original facing each poem.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest of all
lyrical poets. Rilke is part of that group of European poets and
writers which includes Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Rimbaud, Georg
Trakl, Marina Tsvetajeva, and friends such as Andre Gide, Lou
Andreas-Salome and Paul Valery.
Rilke was an incredibly inventive creator of poetry, who could
forge the myriad states and images of love, from the delicate,
detailed and subtle, to the passionate, illuminating and
ecstatic.
Rilke was adept at inflecting language with blissful tones:
while he could describe the many experiences of love, he found it
difficult to turn them into realities, to act on his words. For him
love could be a transitory, fragile state between two people. 'Why
do people who love each other separate before there is any need?
Because it is after all so very temporary a thing, to be together
and to love one another'. Rilke saw life as a 'continuous flow of
vicissitudes', change following change, so that parting was
inevitable, and people should become used to it ('at any moment be
ready to give each other up, let be and not hold each other
back'.
THE SACRED CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY
A major new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky
(1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror,
Andrei Roublyov, Solaris and The Sacrifice. ?This book explores
every aspect of Andrei Tarkovsky's output in the most detailed
fashion - including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing,
camera, sound, music, acting, themes, symbols, motifs, and
spirituality. Tarkovsky's films are analyzed in depth, with
scene-by-scene discussions.
This is an important addition to film studies, the most
painstaking study of Andrei Tarkovsky's work available.
Contains 150 illustrations, of Tarkovsky's films, Tarkovsky at
work, his contemporaries, and his favourite painters.
Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the most fascinating of filmmakers.
He is supremely romantic, an old-fashioned, traditional artist - at
home in the company Leonardo da Vinci, Pieter Brueghel, Aleksandr
Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoievsky and Byzantine icon painters. Tarkovsky
is a magician, no question, but argues for demystification (even
while films celebrate mystery). His films are full of magical
events, dreams, memory sequences, multiple viewpoints, multiple
time zones and bizarre occurrences.
As genre films, Andrei Tarkovsky's movies are some of the most
accomplished in cinema. As science fiction films, Stalker and
Solaris have no superiors, and very few peers. Only the greatest
sci-fi films can match them: Metropolis, King Kong, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarkovsky
happily and methodically rewrote the rules of the sci-fi genre:
Stalker and Solaris are definitely not routine genre outings. They
don't have the monsters, the aliens, the visual effects, the
battles, the laser guns, the stunts and action set-pieces of
regular science fiction movies.
No one could deny that Andrei Roublyov is one of the greatest
historical films to explore the Middle Ages, up there with The
Seventh Seal, El Cid, The Navigator and Pier Paolo Pasolini's
'Life' trilogy. If you judge Andrei Roublyov in terms of historical
accuracy, epic spectacle, serious themes, or cinematic poetry, it
comes out at the top. Finally, in the religious film genre, The
Sacrifice and Nostalghia are among the finest in cinema, the equals
of the best of Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson and
Carl-Theodor Dreyer.
This is the first major critical study of the art of Cornish
painter Kurt Jackson. Jackson's landscapes have been exhibited
widely, and are becoming more popular.
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