Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites

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The Heritage of World Civilization, Volume I: To 1650 (5th Edition)
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This is an outstanding book that provides an interdependent perspective of the processes that have shaped our world with a comprehensive coverage of the four great valley civilizations of Africa and Asia plus the two early civilizations of America. Technological advances are considered from a comparative global perspective. It provides an exceptional treatment of the different civilizations that have existed in World History.
Customer Review: An Excellent General Overview of Our World Heritage
This is an outstanding book that provides an interdependent perspective of the processes that have shaped our world with a comprehensive coverage of the four great valley civilizations of Africa and Asia plus the two early civilizations of America. Technological advances are considered from a comparative global perspective. It provides an exceptional treatment of the different civilizations that have existed in World History.

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100 Years of Olympic Glory
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This was a good recapp of famous scenes from the Olympics. The video highlights how a lot of the Olympic traditions began and how the modern Olympics were restarted. It takes you through three hours of the greatest Olympic moments. I was a little dissappointed that we didn’t hear the orginal commentary from the games, along with Bud Greenspan. It also didn’t show enough of some of the more famous Olympians - there was not much on Greg Louganis or Jesse Owins, or Nadia Comaneci. Overall I liked this video but I was a little dissappointed.
Customer Review: Great Documentary
I originally saw this documentary on PBS and thought it was a great recap of the last 100 years of the Olympic Games. I am glad to see that it is now on video.

Carousel
Like its immediate predecessor, Oklahoma!, this 1956 screen musical boasted then state-of-the-art widescreen cinematography, stereophonic sound, a starring romantic duo with onscreen chemistry, and the Rodgers & Hammerstein imprimatur. Adding to its promise was a source (the venerable Ferenc Molnar play Liliom) that had already been filmed three times. Yet unlike the original Broadway production, and despite evident craft, Carousel proved a box-office disappointment. Why? Hindsight argues that ’50s moviegoers may have been unprepared for its tragic narrative, the sometimes unsympathetic protagonist, and a spiritual subtext addressing life after death.

Whatever the obstacle, Carousel may well be a revelation to first-time viewers. The score is among the composers’ most affecting, from the glorious instrumental “Carousel Waltz” to a succession of exquisite love songs (”If I Loved You”), a heart-rending secular hymn (”You’ll Never Walk Alone”), and the expectant father’s poignant reverie, “Soliloquy.” Top-lined stars Shirley Jones (as factory worker Julie Jordan) and Gordon MacRae (as Billy Bigelow, the carnival barker who woos and weds her) achieve greater dramatic urgency here than in the more successful Oklahoma!, with MacRae in particular attaining a personal best as the conflicted Billy, whose anxiety and wounded pride after losing his job are crucial to the plot. It’s Billy’s impatience to support his new family that drives him to an ill-fated decision that transforms the fable into a ghost story.

Adding to the luster are the coastal Maine locations where 20th Century Fox filmed principal photography. Newly remastered by THX, Carousel looks and sounds better than ever, but VHS tape buyers take heed: as a movie conceived for the then-new widescreen platform (it was the first to be shot in the studio’s second-generation CinemaScope 55 format), this is one film that doesn’t benefit from pan-and-scan editing, which lops off half the screen’s image, virtually eliminating the sweep and spectacle of big production numbers. The widescreen version is vastly superior. –Sam Sutherland
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Customer Review: Carousel is still a work of art today
I had seen this movie in the late 50’s in Philadelphia at an expensive theatre with the lady who later became my wife. It had some really great scenes in it. I recently viewed it again on this DVD with my new lady, a widow. She saw so many similarities showing herself as the young and innocent Julie and her experiences with her deceased husband who clearly resembled Billy in many ways. It was a cathartic experience for her to see this film. As for me, it was a reminder of what I was also seeking back then, someone to love too. It is amazing how artfully Rogers and Hammerstein created a real life metaphysical story from such simple and touching moments. The costumes, scenery and music and words are just beautiful. I recommend the video to everyone who appreciates real love in life.
Customer Review: Carousel a winning ride
After the film Oklahoma, Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRea team up again to give another solid performance in this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. MacRea, who works on the carousel, falls in love with a small town girl, Jones, and together they sing the many memorable songs in the film.

Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites
Remembered mainly for his devotion to Turner, and later the Pre-Raphaelites, a fear of pubic hair, the libel case brought by Whistler, and the late spiral into manic depression, Ruskin was art critic, cultural critic, artist, writer, patron and social politician–as irreverent as he was earnest.

“For myself, I am never satisfied that I have handled a subject properly till I have contradicted myself at least three times”.

The centenary of his death has seen the release of the second and final volume of Tim Hilton’s already classic biography John Ruskin Vol 2: The Later Years, and John Batchelor’s John Ruskin: No Wealth But Life. This publication coincides with the exhibition at Tate Britain.

In order to “re-spin” Ruskin as the first advocate of contemporary art, Hewison draws parallels between recent developments in new media for artists and the mid-19th century art world of technological change. However, Ruskin was without doubt also a man of his time in his ideas, both social and artistic.

What allowed Ruskin to champion both Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites was their challenge to the status quo and a shared quest for Truth; he found moral resolution in the aesthetic synthesis of natural fact and symbolic truth.

Ruskin’s drawings and watercolours–”I could have done something if I had not books to write”–catch the eye on the page. Lover of Venice and the Gothic, as well as animals and rock formation, his scrupulous draughtsmanship speaks as eloquently of his vision as his words. Inevitably, the 39 volumes of his written output may gather dust on library shelves, but Hewison’s catalogue is a judicious and recommended introduction to this protean, magnificently flawed man and the art which flowed from or with him. –David Vincent