Book Description
In Spectacle, the architect David Rockwell, in collaborationwith designer Bruce Mau, explores the allure of larger-than-life eventsthat take place around the globe. From the running of the bulls in Pamplonato the Holi Festival in India to deafening - and dangerous - NASCAR races,Spectacle considers what it is about these "shared, live experiences" thattransforms not only the way we see the world, but also how we connect witheach other.Illustrated with over 200 color photographs, the dynamic visual essayhighlights the power of real-time, real-space events in today's highlymediated world. The book features a collection of photographs andinterviews with award-winning authors, producers, directors, andperformers. These contributors have documented, participated in, orproduced large events and bring a fascinating behind-the-scenes and infront-of-the footlights perspective on "spectacles" today. Interviewsinclude: Muhammad Ali, champion boxer; Kurt Anderson, novelist andessayist; Simon Doonan, author and creative director;Dave Hickey, artcritic; Quincy Jones, legendary music and event producer; Guy Lalibert+,founder of Cirque du Soleil; Julie Taymor, film and theater director;Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, architects; John Waters, filmmaker;and Steve Wynn, Las Vegas mega-developer, with a concluding essay by criticHerbert Muschamp.The book offers readers an unprecedented tour of over 60 far-flung andfleeting, beautiful and bizaare manmade events around the world.Anin-depth selection of "spectacles" are presented thematically in sixchapters that focus on various characteristics and unique culturalattributes that connect or distinguish each of the events.Spectacle offers statistics and sidebars on the history of featured events,providing layers of information that add depth and context.Further, areference section called "Getting There" contains a monthly calendarlisting more global spectacles throughout the year, maps and insider tipsyou should know before you go."An empty stadium, an open field or a busy urban thoroughfare, each--whentransformed by spectacle--undergoes an alchemic process," says DavidRockwell. "A group of strangers fuses into an instant community. As anarchitect I strive to make environments where people connect. This isrooted in vivid recollections of my childhood--from amateur theater on theJersey shore to the open air markets of Guadalajara Mexico--that have mademe deeply aware of the power of shared experience. By physically attendingan event, you declare yourself; you become something greater than you."From the glitzy appeal of Las Vegas to the historical reenactment of theCalcio Storico in Florence, Spectacle presents an extraodordinarycollection of images and text that convey the palpable buzz, sheer beautyand unusual fascination of public performance around the globe.If you arean armchair traveler or spontanieous jetsetter, David Rockwell and BruceMau offer a mesmerizing, thought-provoking journey into the world ofspectacle that is bound to encourage not only conversation but alsoparticipation.
Customer Reviews:
Spectacular insight from the Spectacle.......2007-02-01
An enlighting experiences into the most miraculous community or urban places bringing places and ideas together. And it is particularly overwhelming to review this issue from the lens of an architect. A must Buy!!!
This book is AMAZING........2006-10-31
I didn't know what to expect when I opened up this book - but it's fair to say the whole world exploded (in a good way) before my eyes as I literally flew through the pages. Spectacle takes a look at the reasons why people gather together - sometimes in the most unwelcoming circumstances - to celebrate, to mourn, to affect change, to create.
There's a beauty here that goes way beyond the amazing photographs - it's the study of the whys and hows behind the events and how the connective energies are the same regardless of ones attending a NASCAR race or the running of the bulls.
I was tremendously moved by SPECTACLE.
Book Description
Colossal spectacle preserved in 128 rare, vintage photographs with concise, fact-filled text: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.
Customer Reviews:
Great look at the "White City".......2006-07-25
A beautiful collection of images, showing the wonders of the 1893 fair. A great look back.
Fantasy City.......2005-08-15
One book leads to another. After reading The Devil in the White City, I wanted to see the Exposition described in the book. It definitely was an amazing sight to see and this book satisfied most of that curiosity. To go one better, I might look for a book that goes even further into that time in life. The city is every bit the accomplishment as described in the afore mentioned book. Where is the America of that artful integrity, that is, to do the best that can be accomplished? Gone to disposable products including much of architecture.
Book Description
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth cenlury. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.
Customer Reviews:
Bad translation? This isn't readable at all........2007-08-09
I'm not sure if the translation is confusing, or the ideas being presented are confusing, or both. But this philosophical book is a lot of words written without saying much. I'm writing this because I purchased the book after reading the 17 reviewers who rated this book five stars. I was looking forward to an excellent treatise.
But instead I found the ideas confusing and random. It was difficult to
determine exactly was being presented.
I did like the Euclidean/Tractatus numbering system for the propositions.
But the ideas in those propositions weren't clearly written or easily understood by me.
To give you some background on me, I'm no fan of Hegel.
Ernest Becker's works give me a lot of insight, as do Nietzsche's.
I think this book assumes the reader is well-versed in Hegelian thought.
Maybe the reader needs to complete the Phenomenology of Mind before this work is accessible.
One of the most important books of the 20th Century.......2007-02-09
Read it and find out why...
This should be required reading for first years........2006-04-12
I haven't read any of the other translations of this text, however, this one reads quite fluidly.
The scope of the book sets the tone for one's consideration of contemporary events and societal relations. As research for a project on collaboration amongst individuals, the book was helpful in demonstrating that many forces are at work and are behind everything that exists in the world. This relates to collaboration in that each of us in a collaboration brings different histories to the table. The book also helps to illuminate the notion of the impossibility of non-collaboration. Even if the individual is from birth completely independant of others (which of course is quite improbable) their very existance comes into being through the cooperation of at least two separate forces (eg. the parents).
Debord shows us that the (two or more) forces which have led us to this point in history have done so, whether willingly or otherwise, together.
One of the most important and most overlooked philosophical texts of the 20th century.......2006-02-01
My title says it all.
If you have any interest in understanding the modern system (correctly termed the "spectacle-commodity system" by Debord) read this.
Debord's "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle," written 20 years later, is also excellent and might even be a better starting point. It is less dense and more succinct.
essential.......2005-07-15
this book is essential to anyone trying to understand their alienation with consumer capitalism. This book, and the situationalist in general, started a revolt against dogmatic thought and ideolgy and because of them I have realized that we need to go beyong "left" or radical and re think all our ideas on liberation.
Book Description
Award-winning text can help every clinician -- beginning and experienced --have more satisfied patients. Through 150 case studies, the book helps you solve everyday problems in refraction. It explores and explains the multitude of variables that can lead to patient complaints, giving logical answers to many different kinds of situations. The result will be more wise decisions in diagnosis and prescribing. Best Medical Book of the Year award (American Medical Writers Assn.).
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The Bible.......2005-10-06
Unique in the subject of clinical optics, optometry and refraction. Any language, any time, any sub-speciality. The base of the pyramid in the art of refraction, for simple glasses, contact lenses, refractive surgery, ...
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I wish I had read this sooner.......2001-08-15
I read this during my second year of ophthalmology residency and found it to be incredibly useful. It is easy to read with real, hilarious cases to explain the optics. The authors have a great sense of humor. Believe it or not, optics can be funny. I checked it out from our library, but bought my own copy for home because it is so good.
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Fine introduction to the Roman world and oh yeah... gladiators too.......2006-07-29
It's worth it for the reader of my review to also read the review below mine from Michael. His review is fair and touches on some good points about the book. However, I give this book a little more credit (maybe a lot more since I give it 5 stars).
I, too, discovered this book in Barnes and Noble at a decent bargain bin price around $6. I knew nothing about gladiators (having seen Spartacus or Gladiator still doesn't mean you know anything ;)), but I did have some general understanding of the basic Roman history. Well, when I started reading it, I found the author's writing style and his succinct chapters very pleasing. The chapters are short and to the point: Origin of the Games, Spartacus, Training the Gladiators, Varieties of Killer, Naval Battles, Wild Animal Hunts, Executions, The Colosseum... etc etc; chapters that focus on one aspect of the Roman games and everything that correlates with it. There is no meandering or pedantic scholarly side-steps into boring history. The book is small, too, so its 236 pages are more like reading 100, but that doesn't negate its impact as an educating book; think of the book as quality over quantity.
Regarding the information on the gladiatorial games, I found this book immensely informative. I knew nothing about the gladiator styles, the murmillo and secutors, or the perversely creative ways of executing prisoners (you won't believe it; throwing Christians to the lions was just the beginning). Even more so, I had no idea just how many people AND animals were killed; thousands and thousands and thousands over years and years. When you read that actual animal species became extinct from all the imports of animals and slaughters in the arena, suddenly it seems not even the history of nature, with all the slain wildlife can even compete with Rome's insatiable lust for dead animals. PETA would go insane and kill themselves from the statistics. This is just one very enlightening highlight in this book and there's plenty more to be had.
However, this book does not focus entirely on gladiators; it's not really meant to be that thorough of a project. It's more of an introduction to Roman entertainment in general. It does detail the Roman Triumphs (equivalent of our military parades), the Bread Doles and even touches on some of the debauched parties held by Caligula and Nero. By the end of the book, the gladiators are in the background and no longer under the spotlight. Depending on how fast you read the book, this may leave you wanting more about the gladiators. However, if you read fast, you'll still retain what you know about gladiators and not miss them when the last half of the book focuses on other things.
But this is not a negative point to me. The book ends quite nicely with chapters touching on Cleopatra, the barbarians encroaching on Rome, and then the final fall. From the start of the book you feel like you're reading about an amazing race of people that we will never see again. And at the end, as Michael commented on below, you sadly read the fact that Rome becomes a joke, destroyed by its own corruption and ineptitude.
Bottom line: If you would like a relatively quick and pleasing read on the underrated portions of Rome's history (the War in Sicily, Gladiatorial games, and even sex parties held by Caligula) this is a good book to start with. If you're somewhat of an aficionado on Roman history, you might not be all that impressed; it's an introduction to Rome, gladiators, the horse races, and the "Savagery and Spectacle in Ancient Rome" as the subtitle of the book suggests.
Less than I expected.......2006-07-18
I was in a Barnes and Noble one day and I saw this book on the bargain table for about half the original price. I just discovered that Amazon has it for even a lower price than I paid.
Nevertheless, the book started off with what I thought it should; talking about Gladiators. From the origin, training, those who became Gladiators, to the different types of Gladiators, when they were used, how much the "games" meant to Roman society and how the Gladiators died, I found the information intriquing. A description of how they dressed during their arena battles was also included. All of this was great information. I gave this book three stars because only the first half talked about Gladiators.
After that, the rest of the book included general Roman society. It was interesting and nice to know information but I didn't have my mind set for that. The rest of the book talked about the "Circuses" including chariot races, Roman festivals and riots. There was a section about Roman Triumphs, which were spectacles put on for returning conquering generals. Then there was a section about the food supply in Rome. The author managed to fit Cleopatra in this section. It just isn't why I bought the book.
I found that there were some sections that repeated information, not in a "review" manner, but as if it was the first time introduced into the material.
Overall, I suppose all of this stuff does fit into the title of the book, "The Age of the Gladiators." All of this stuff occurred during the age they existed. There are interesting pictures that lead each section and the front cover is a great picture. I found myself looking at it during the author's description of what a Gladiator wore.
This was enough to whet my appetite for more Gladiator knowledge and Roman history, in general. It's sad the way Rome fell. So, if you want a book talking exclusively about Gladiators, there must be others out there. But if you don't mind reading tidbits of information about general Roman society, then this book isn't a bad one to start with.
Book Description
First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideas generated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attack on commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everyday life continues to btirn brightly in today's age of satellite television and the soundbite In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle published twenty years later, Debord returned to the themes of his previous analysis and demonstrated how they were all the more relevant in a period when the 'integrated spectacle' was dominant. Resolutely refusing to be reconciled to the system, Debord trenchantly slices through the doxa and mystification offered tip by journalists and pundits to show how aspects of reality as diverse as terrorism and the environment, the Mafia and the media, were catight tip in the logic of the spectacular society. Pointing the finger clearly at those who benefit from the logic of domination, Debord's Comments convey the revolutionary impulse at the heart of situationism.
Customer Reviews:
The society of the spectacle.......2007-01-03
It was exactly what I expected to see in a book on this subject.
Debord, as always, is brillant. .......2006-02-01
Should be read in conjunction with the Society of the Spectacle for full understanding, but can stand on its own.
Notice how accurately Debord predicts, in the 1980s, the current neverending and unwinnable "war on terrorism" that the spectacle system produced.
Quite Fascinating.......2003-01-22
When I was originally assigned this book in my Western Civ class, I was fully prepared for this to be another uninteresting book that the professor for some reason was going to make us read. My assumption was completely incorrect however. Not only was Debord's book easy to read, but also it was incredibly interesting. His point of view is especially interesting to any American I believe because of his French viewpoint. It is an excellent experience for any American to interact with other countries and their cultures, and though I am not much of a French fan, Debord does it right.
He begins by outlining three basic spectacles that are found and then dives completely into the integrated spectacle, a French/Italian model of ideology that differed from Russian/German and American models. Though not even one hundred pages in length, the pages pack an impressive punch that no reader can deny. In order to understand what I am speaking about, you should do yourself a favor and grab a copy of Debord's work. You do not have to agree with what he is saying to gain from the experience.
Sorry, No Backstage Passes.......2001-09-26
The book at first seems a slip down a few notches from S.O.T.S. because it is shorter and Debord seems a lot less interested in his topic, or getting us interested in his topic. Who can blame him?
But the brevity of the book makes sense when you realize this--RE: the spectacle, 1) see S.O.T.S. 2) take a look around you from your reading chair 3) ask, what are the few changes in 20 years? 4) write a brief and get back to lived experience.
Some highlights:
The integrated spectacle combines the diffuse, subtle domination of that system which goes by the label "liberal democracy" with tactics practiced by the concentrated, dictatorial mode of the spectacle in past communisms and facsisms. Which means: today, the rulers of the integrated spectacle dictate/script the appearance of an ever-unfolding narrative/fantasy of liberal democracy, complete with all the nitty-gritty details, plot twists and turns, shocking surprises, and pleasant mysteries at which to gawk and gasp and coo. Caravaggio would be jealous of such veristic, theatrical bravado! But what is really happening is something else altogether, hidden behind the misinformation and unverifiable information in the spectacle.
Terrorism is the invented enemy of the perfected, integrated, yet fragile spectacle, which needs an external enemy, seemingly worse than itself, in order to look good and survive by comparison.
Secrecy is everywhere and yet we accept it in passing (our state of alienation conditions us to know nothing about too much anyway, so secrecy seems natural, almost a relief from concern). Is anyone asking: Do we need to know anything more than what we are told by the spectacle? Is is even possible to know more?
".....Eddieeeee, anoootherrr drinkkkkk!!!...."
Experts do our thinking for us, or at least we are not given enough information in a condition of generalized secrecy to make up our own minds. Experts are intercessors, like priests of old, who stand between us and the spectacular governments with their ultimate knowledge of what's really up in the universe. And we must respond to their statements, which can be lies or truths (but we'll never know), with FAITH, since government usurps the position formerly held by God.
Finally, the integrated spectacle has made a whole new method of government possible. Debord wonders if the rulers of the spectacle have yet to realize what they can do with their new spectacular tools? Will the possiblilites become apparent in a flash of lightening?
How will we spectators know if and when this has occured?
Book Description
An astute observer once described the scene at a typical dog show as "organized confusion." While the action may seem more confusion than organization, the reverse is actually true. It just takes a little while to learn this. Dog Showing for Beginners is the ideal means for the budding exhibitor to grasp the essentials and understand what is unfolding before her or him in this unique recreation. Every chapter has something important to tell the reader. Opening with a candid overview of what to expect from being a part of the sport, Dog Showing for Beginners goes on to help find that first show dog and explain how to get started in showing and hands-on learning. Here are simple explanations of how dog shows are structured and how dogs become champions. Excellent guidance on getting the equipment needed and entering shows is included along with how to approach your first show. This book also helps the reader find a place in dog showing and how to deal with the up and the down sides of the game. From beginning to end, Dog Showing for Beginners is touched with an insider's sometimes irreverent whimsy; as the author points out, if you're going to do dog shows, a sense of humor is a definite plus!
A Howell Dog Book of Distinction
Customer Reviews:
Dog Showing for Beginners .......2006-07-15
Informative and helpful for first match. I would've liked it to be more in depth but I guess that's why this one if for beginners.
I'm smart & been brought up right :-).......2003-02-15
Anyone who reads the book will recognize that phrase, "You're smart and been brought up right". And if have I owe it all to Ms. Hall.
I learned things here that I've never understood about showing but have heard old showmen say & Ms. Hall takes us through our first dry run of a show, with that 'bright youngster' & finally tells us how long to bang our heads against the post before giving up because chances are, our first dog is probably a dud:-( and we'll have to try again.
I am planning to hit the Spring circuit & show in my first (keep it small) show then. Thanks to Ms. Hall I can honestly say I don't think I get points but at least now the whole thing isn't so mysterious. If you want to show dogs, BUY THIS BOOK.
Hope to see you at Westminister!
Not for a complete beginner.......2002-04-17
I found this book very interesting, but I have competed in several shows so most of the info wasn't "new" to me. I still think it's a great read and will help you understand the sport. It's the book you should probably purchase once you've seen what goes on at shows and have a basic idea of dog showing and will help you in your final decision of whether or not to show your dog. It also explains that you cannot go to your first show and expect an impressive win e.g. Best in Show.
Best book I've read in 30 years of showing dogs.......2002-02-14
I hesitated to look at a book that is entitled "Dog Showing For Beginners" as I have been showing dogs for 30 years. BUT, I absolutely loved this book because of the keen insight into every aspect of showing dogs. No, it isn't a training book, you DO need to go to handling classes to learn that, but I have never read a book so complete on the logistics of showing dogs. It is written from the perspective of someone who remembers what it was like to start showing dogs, and she walks you through every step and lets you know just how to be prepared and what to expect. If you are new to showing, you MUST have this book, it will answer EVERY question you have about how dog shows and the people who attend them "work". My favorite chapter and a most important point is about the politics - YES, you DO have to know what is going on behind the scenes! You will not be disappointed in this book, even if you are an old timer like myself.
"Not Really For Beginner's".......2000-08-02
When I bought this book I thought that it would help me understand everything I needed to know about dog showing. I thought that it would teach me about how to handle, train, and basically get started in dog showing. The book didn't help me in any of those topics, it said to just go get lessons or attend matches. If you are looking for a book that explains the system and politics of dog showing than this is the book for you. But as for beginners who don't know the first thing about showing this wasn't helpful.
Book Description
Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century.
Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle.
Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters--Manet, Seurat, and Cézanne--who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception--in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.
Customer Reviews:
Perceptive suspense.......2006-11-10
This book provides persuasively and exhaustively argued discussions on perception and artworks and instruments from the dawn of the modernist era that aid and, as Crary shows, change perception. The book can be very productively be read alongside "Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography" and other texts by Geoffrey Batchen, and "The Engine of Visualization: Thinking Through Photography" by Patrick Maynard. The camera, they reveal in various ways, is not merely a device, but a construct made with the expectation that it will result in images that are analogous with human vision. The anticipation still exists that the camera obscura, and by implication its modern manifestation in the photographic camera, will replicate and verify what we see. The camera obscura entails a projection of light from real surfaces in ratios of proportion and intensity, on to a flat plane. In the pre-modern reading, the projection, ratio and reduction are evidently mathematical, and commensurable with the reality they conduct. However this point of view is at odds with the modernist view that the apparent geometry of the camera image is coincidental. That is, it does more to bring us closer to the human subjective (where are we?), rather than the abstract objective (where is everything?), in relationships with, and experiences of, space. Jonathon Crary and Geoffrey Batchen debate in various writings the transition between these points of view. Batchen (Batchen, G. (1991) `Enslaved sovereign, observed spectator: on Jonathon Crary, techniques of the observer', Continuum:The
Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 2.) critically responds to Crary (Crary, J. (1989) October, 97-107., Crary, J. (1990) Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century, MIT Press, Cambridge., Crary, J. (1994) October, 21-44.) but both agree that around 1800 came a `vast systematic rupture' in the history of theories of vision in which certainties about the nature of vision with the camera obscura as its paradigm, are displaced by what becomes the problem of vision, represented by the steresoscope and, as Crary details, in the work of Paul Cezanne. Jonathon Crary takes the position that the stereoscope replaces the camera obscura as the instrument that encapsulates the spirit of its period, in contrast with (Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers) Descartes' and Diderot's use of the camera obscura as a model for the eye (in Crary, 1998). The stereoscope accepted that vision is a function as much of the mind as outside stimuli. Patrick Maynard refers to these devices as `engines of visualisation', industrialising vision and commodifying it (Maynard 1997). This is useful sociologically and philosophically, and prompts a re-evaluation of these instruments for their characteristics in aesthetic uses. However Batchen's emphasis is on the evidence of a desire for photography, from which follows the invention of photographic instruments, and their cultural acceptance, producing actual historical discontinuities in perception.
In the Eye of the Beholder.......2000-05-24
A remarkable book that takes the reader on a chronological excursion into the changing ideas of perception during a crucial period in history -- 1870 through the early 1900s. Using three paintings to organize this tour de force examination of prevailing modes of scientific, sociological and psychological thinking of the time -- a Manet, a Seurat, a Cezanne -- he makes convincing arguments as to the inspiration these various discourses may have had on these artists. The larger context he explores, the evolution of the modernist, high-industrial conception of attention and perception, as driven by new technologies and modes of social thinking, has particular relevance today in light of the Internet. Crary is clearly writing for an academic audience here -- his prose style can often be difficult, but there is much here for general reader with an interest in media, perception, history, and in learning how we got to where we are now.
Book Description
This work by a well-published scholar and award-winning teacher provides an introduction to the history of sport and spectacle in the ancient world from the Ancient Near East through Greek and Hellenistic times and into the Roman Empire.The book introduces readers to ancient sport history as a growing and exciting field in which scholarly advances and controversies abound. Drawing on archaeological and art historical evidence and on approaches from anthropology and social history, the author goes beyond the traditional focus on the Greek Olympics and the Roman Colosseum to examine the origins, nature and meaning of sport, the sporting activities and spectacles of earlier Mediterranean peoples, local sport and unusual contests, and much more.
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