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This fully revised third edition of this classic Concise Encyclopedia brings it completely up to date. Featuring lively and engaging entries by some of the leading philosophers of our age, it is a readable reference work and engaging introduction

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Biographies. --- Hallett, Martin L. --- Local history.

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Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977-98.

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When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with his vast erudition, incredible eye, and uncanny skill at attributing paintings. They visited Berenson at his beautiful Villa I Tatti, in the hills outside Florence, and walked with him through the immense private library-which he would eventually bequeath to Harvard-without ever suspecting that he had grown up in a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family that had struggled to survive in Boston on the wages of the father's work as a tin peddler. Berenson's extraordinary self-transformation, financed by the explosion of the Gilded Age art market and his secret partnership with the great art dealer Joseph Duveen, came with painful costs: he hid his origins and felt that he had betrayed his gifts as an interpreter of paintings. Nevertheless his way of seeing, presented in his books, codified in his attributions, and institutionalized in the many important American collections he helped to build, goes on shaping the American understanding of art today. This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the way his family and companions-including his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, his lover Belle da Costa Greene, and his dear friend Edith Wharton-helped to form his ideas and his legacy. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson's inner world and exceptional visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces-new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars-that profoundly affected his life.

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Brian Ferneyhouh est l'une des personnalités les plus importantes et les plus fascinantes de la musique actuelle ; c'est aussi l'une des plus difficiles à cerner. Ses œuvres, qui furent révélées vers la fin des années soixante, ne renoncent ni à une expressivité que l'on pourrait presque qualifier de romantique, ni à la complexité d'une élaboration rigoureuse. Elles se situent au-delà des problématiques des années cinquante et soixante, que Ferneyhough a su parfaitement intégrer, tout en s'opposant radicalement aux tendances restauratrices des années soixante-dix. Dans ce volume, Brian Ferneyhough retrace sa propre évolution, commentant chacune de ses œuvres, et s'explique sur leur signification profonde, notamment sur leurs déterminations et leurs implications extra-musicales ; il parle de sa manière de travailler, de la fonction de sa notation, du rôle des interprètes... et il analyse deux de ses œuvres. Différents auteurs posent sur sa musique un regard critique, musicographique, philosophique, ou analytique. Brian Ferneyhough est né à Coventry en 1943. Il y a fait ses études de musique, puis a suivi les cours de composition de Lennox Berkeley à Londres (1964-1967), Ton de Leeuw à Amsterdam (1 968-1 969) et Klaus Huber à Baie (1969). Il a enseigné la composition à Freiburg-im-Breisgau de 1 973 à 1986, ainsi qu'à Darmstadt (cours d'été depuis 1976) et Milan (depuis 1984) ; il a fait de nombreuses lectures, notamment à Helsinki, Glasgow, Arezzo et Dartington. Il travaille aujourd'hui à San Diego en Californie. Parmi ses oeuvres les plus importantes, on compte trois Quatuors à cordes, Transit, le cycle des Carceri d'invenzione, la pièce d'orchestre La Terre est un Homme, et la série des Time and Motion Studies.

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