Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier
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Stuart Davis
 List Price: Price: $42.00 DescriptionAccompanying the only American showing of an exhibition devoted to the painter Stuart Davis (1892-1964) at Washington's National Museum of American Art during the summer of 1998, this publication offers a fresh look at the quintessential American painter of the early modern period. An aficionado of jazz who experimented with improvisational composition, Davis created, in the 1920s and 1930s, a spirited American variant of Picasso's and Braque's synthetic cubism and anticipated key elements of pop art. Essayists include leading American scholars of Davis's work and jazz critic Ben Sidran.The editor of this startling book claims that Stuart Davis made the "first truly original American avant-garde painting." Niggling arguments aside, it finally gives Davis his due, which has always been difficult. His most familiar paintings are so flatly poster-like that they prefigure many similarly cool movements, from conceptual to pop art, but without the intellectual or humorous trappings of the latter. The early works reproduced here show a sensitive side of Davis. In a 1912 self-portrait, for example, the artist looks troubled and tubercular, glancing over his shoulder at a distant female figure. The colors are wintry, the paint thickly applied. Later, when Davis discovers modernism, it is as if he embraces the logic of abstraction as an antidote to the deeper emotions of his youth. This comprehensive volume gives readers enough information to decide for themselves. --Margaret Moorman
Banji Blues
 List Price: $2.99 DescriptionThe desire for easy tax free cash motivated Stretch Wiggins and her daughter, Becky Trueheart to augment their flower nursery business by delivering small amounts of marijuana and hashish to a marina located on the eastern rim of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. A small endeavor to be sure, but the women found themselves caught between too rival Irish IRA groups, each raising money for their own independent fight against the British and the fearsome Miami Drug Lord who controlled all the Columbian and Mexican marijuana, heroin and cocaine entering the United States. Concerned they were not being paid the women enlisted the aid of Cormac Flynn, a former Air America pilot temporarily working at their nursery, to intercede with the first group of Irishmen. Flynn, not happy helping the women (he had experience with the drug cartels in Southeast Asia) felt that the woman were treating their drug runs as a hobby and were ripe for plucking by hard, dangerous men. The women soon discovered that moving drugs was assuredly more violent and deadly than potting flowers since death was the ultimate payoff.The desire for easy tax free cash motivated Stretch Wiggins and her daughter, Becky Trueheart to augment their flower nursery business by delivering small amounts of marijuana and hashish to a marina located on the eastern rim of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. A small endeavor to be sure, but the women found themselves caught between too rival Irish IRA groups, each raising money for their own independent fight against the British and the fearsome Miami Drug Lord who controlled all the Columbian and Mexican marijuana, heroin and cocaine entering the United States. Concerned they were not being paid the women enlisted the aid of Cormac Flynn, a former Air America pilot temporarily working at their nursery, to intercede with the first group of Irishmen. Flynn, not happy helping the women (he had experience with the drug cartels in Southeast Asia) felt that the woman were treating their drug runs as a hobby and were ripe for plucking by hard, dangerous men. The women soon discovered that moving drugs was assuredly more violent and deadly than potting flowers since death was the ultimate payoff.
Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne (Yale Art Gallery) (v. 1)
 List Price: Price: $203.87 You Save: $96.13 (32%) DescriptionStuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpart. Over the course of six decades, Davis produced artworks that drew inspiration from the European modernists but were deeply rooted in the popular culture of the United States. Jazz music and hipster talk, vaudeville stages, city streetscapes, New England fishing villages, gasoline stations, store fronts, and commercial packaging and advertising images were among the sources that infused his art with energy, bringing crisp edges, radiant colour, and syncopated rhythms to a vast body of paintings, watercolours, and drawings. Documenting the life's work of this prolific and highly influential artist, who affected almost every development in American art from second-generation Ashcan realism around 1912 to colour field and geometric painting in the 1960s, is a monumental achievement. In these three volumes, the editors have catalogued 1,749 artworks by the artist, including more than 600 works never previously illustrated, providing extensive documentation and information about each one. A detailed chronology of Davis' life, as well as an enlightening discussion of the compositional relationship between certain works spanning his oeuvre, rounds out this study. Exquisitely designed and produced, "Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne" will be the definitive reference on the artist's work for many years to come.
The Library: An Illustrated History
 List Price: Price: $12.52 You Save: $7.43 (37%) DescriptionA comprehensive and fascinating study discusses libraries from ancient Babylon to colonial America, the Renaissance to cyberspace. Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished—and the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day. The Library invites you to enter the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and modern-day America, and speaks to the book lover in all of us. Incorporating beautiful illustrations, insightful quotations, and many marvelous mysteries of libraries—their books, patrons, and keepers—this book is certain to provide you with a wealth of knowledge and enjoyment. 80 full-color and 20 black-and-white photographsDavis Stuart News
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Los Angeles TimesATLANTA (AP) - Kyle Maxie had a pinch-hit two-run homer, and Bo Davis added a solo shot to highlight a five-run ninth inning for Southern Miss. The teams combined for 11 homers, six by Southern Miss (36-23). Bennett Davis hit three solo shots for Elon, Hurricanes open NCAA play with 9-4 victory
National PostSoccer Notebook: Holden steps up, fills critical void“I think Stuart's finding his way,” coach Dominic Kinnear said. “He's really making some great late runs into the attack.” “It always takes a little bit of time. Somebody said to me Stuart looks comfortable (now); well, he's looked comfortable before. Dynamo welcome DeRo back to Houston Rising clubs clash as Dynamo face Reds De Rosario back with Toronto FC to face Dynamo