Leonardo's horse / by Fritz, Jean

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And then came dance : the women who led Volynsky to ballet's magic kingdom / by Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Akim Volynsky's Female Portraits -- PART ONE: BODIES IN SITU -- Russian Women: A Retrospective (1923) -- 1) Amoureuses and Druidesses -- 2) A Belated Druidess (on Lyubov Gurevich) -- 3) The Sylph (on Zinaida Gippius) -- 4) Pandora's Box (on Ida Rubinstein) -- 5) A Bouquet (on Lou Andreas-Salome and others) -- Amor (co-authored with Lou Andreas-Salome, 1897) -- The Mona Lisa (from Volynsky's book: Leonardo da Vinci (1898) -- 1) Nastasya Filippovna (1900) -- 2) The Infernal Woman (Grushenka) (from Volynsky's writings on Dostoevsky 1901) -- Madonna (Introduction to the Russian edition of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character, 1909) -- BODIES IN MOTION -- The 'Russkaya' (Ekaterina Geltser) (1912) -- The Young Generation (1912) -- The Dancing of Isadora Duncan (1913) -- The Dancing of Anna Pavlova (1913) -- Three Ballerinas (Pavlova, Preobrazhenskaya, Kshesinskaya) (1913) -- A Legendary Talent (Agrippina Vaganova) (1913) -- The Russian Dancer (1913) -- The Pupil of Mariya Savina (Olga Spesivtsva) (1913) -- The Performances at Krasnoe Selo (1913) -- The Broken Harp (Olga Preobrazhenskaya) (1913) -- The Snowflake (Olga Spesivtseva) (1913) -- Anna Pavlova (1914) -- A Pre-eminent Talent (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1914) -- Vain Precautions (Tamara Karsavina) (1915) -- Kseniya Makletsova (1915) -- Moscow and Petrograd (Geltser, Makletsova, et al) (1915) -- Agrippina Vaganova's Farewell Benefit (1916) -- The Testing of a Ballerina (Elena Liukom) (1916) -- Yuliya Sedova's Farewell Benefit (1916) -- Tamara Karsavina (1916) -- Vera Karalli (1916) -- Liubov Egorova's Final Benefit Performance (1917) -- The Classical Dancer (1922) -- Elsa Vill (1922) -- Classical Fouette and Leonardo da Vinci's Contrapposto (1922) -- Giselle and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Elena Liukom) (1922) -- The Animated Flower (1923) -- Ballet's Lily (Elizaveta Gerdt) (1923) -- Kseniya Petrovna Makletsova (1923) -- Elena Liukom (1923) -- Our Moscow Guests (Viktorina Kriger) (1923) -- The Gemstones of Benvenuto Cellini (1923) -- On the Russian Ballet (1923) -- The Fairy of Deer Park (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1924).…”

Edgar Wind and modern art : in defence of marginal anarchy / by Thomas, Ben

Table of Contents: “…The Feast of the Gods Monstrous Phenomena Method and Microcosm in Leonardo da Vinci Tchelitchew and Leonardo -- 5. 'The Muses' sterner laws' ? …”
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Escape from reason : a penetrating analysis of trends in modern thought / by Schaeffer, Francis A.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Chapter one: Nature and grace ; Aquinas and the autonomous ; Painters and writers ; Nature versus grace ; Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael -- Chapter two: A unity of nature and grace ; The Reformation and man ; More about man ; Reformation, Renaissance and morals ; The whole man -- Chapter three: Early modern science ; Kant and Rousseau ; Modern modern science ; Modern modern mortality ; Hegel ; Kierkegaard and the line of despair -- Chapter four: The leap ; Secular existentialism ; Religious existentialism ; The new theology ; Upper storey experiences ; Linguistic analysis and the leap -- Chapter five: Art as the upper storey leap ; Poetry: the later Heidegger ; Art: Andre Malraux ; Picasso ; Bernstein ; Pornography ; The theatre of the absurd -- Chapter six: Madness ; The 'upstairs' in film and television ; Upper storey mysticism ; Jesus the unrefined banner -- Chapter seven: Rationality and faith ; The Bible can stand on its own ; Beginning from myself and yet ... ; The source of the knowledge we need ; The 'leap in the dark' mentality ; The unchanging in a changing world.…”

Visions and ecstasies : selected essays / by H. D. 1886-1961

Enemies in love;a german pow, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance. by ALEXIS CLARK

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Monuments man : the mission to save Vermeers, Rembrandts, Da Vincis, and more from the Nazis' grasp / by Rorimer, James J. 1905-1966, Rorimer, Louis, Rorimer, Anne

Writing against the family : gender in Lawrence and Joyce / by Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia

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Think, write, speak : uncollected essays, reviews, interviews, and letters to the editor / by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

Table of Contents: “…-- The Creative Writer (Essay, 1941) -- [On Democracy] (Essay, 1942) -- Lecture on Leonardo da Vinci (1942) -- Interview with Kathleen Lucas for Wellesley College News (1942) -- In Memory of IosifHessen (Obituary Essay, 1943) -- Interview for The Last Word (1943) -- Profile by Katherine Reese for We (1943) -- Cabbage Soup and Caviar (Review, 1944) -- On Learning Russian (Essay, 1945) -- Profile by Sylvia Crane for Wellesley College News (1945) -- The Place of Russian Studies in the Curriculum (Essay, 1948) -- Thomas Mann, "The Railway Accident" (Lecture, 1950) -- Interview with Harvey Breit for New York Times Book Review (1951) -- News Feature Interview with Malcolm D. …”