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Disparites & Deformations: Our Grotesque

Disparites & Deformations: Our Grotesque

Robert Storr

Essay by Robert Storr. Introduction by Charles Stainback.
Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural: One man's search for the ...

Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural: One man's search for the ...

Will Storr

When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric.
The Dynamics of Creation

The Dynamics of Creation

Anthony Storr

This is the fundamental question that British psychiatrist Anthony Storr sets out to answer in The Dynamics of Creation. Storr begins by debunking the popular notion that creative people are necessarily motivated by neurosis.
Human Aggression

Human Aggression

Anthony Storr

Anthony Storr writes both as a psychotherapist and as someone who is living in an age in which the destruction of the world is a distinct possibility.
Chuck Close

Chuck Close

Robert Storr

Provides an assessment of the American artist's work
The Romance Writer's Pink Pages: The Insider's Guide to ...

The Romance Writer's Pink Pages: The Insider's Guide to ...

Eve Paludan

... 83, 84, 85 Stinson Literary Agency, Inc., Denise, 73-74, 80, 81 Stoecker, Karin, 135 Stonehouse, Maureen, 139 Storr, Jason, 74, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 Storr, Royce and Associates, 66, 74 Stover, Deb, 149 Summers, Shauna, 104 Suspense, ...
Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray

Robert Storr

Accompanies an exhibition of the artist's work exploring its development from 1960s reliefs to her most recent modernist paintings.
Devil on the stairs: looking back on the eighties

Devil on the stairs: looking back on the eighties

Robert Storr

Katalog over 1980'ernes kunst, som giver en karakteristik af 50 amerikanske og europæiske kunstnere.
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Robert Storr

Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential painters working today.
Modern Art Despite Modernism

Modern Art Despite Modernism

Robert Storr

This book was published as the second in a series of three titles, in conjunction with the millennial exhibitions schedule of MoMA2000 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
September: A History Painting by Gerhard Richter

September: A History Painting by Gerhard Richter

Robert Storr

His painting 'September' is the response to the bombing of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. This book explores the painting and the event itself.
Alex Katz paints Ada

Alex Katz paints Ada

Robert Storr

In this volume, leading scholars explore the allure of Ada as a subject and the art-historical importance of Katz's portraits, asking fascinating questions about Katz's methods and intentions: What do these paintings reveal and conceal ...
As You Like It: Shakespeare at Stratford Series

As You Like It: Shakespeare at Stratford Series

Robert Leo Smallwood

... Bille Brown Susan Fleetwood Sinead Cusack Julia Tobin Corrina Seddon Matthew Beacham, Kevin Brannen, Christopher Cattle (not in 1981 revival), Melanie Leach, Nicholas Storr LORDS, LADIES AND FORESTERS ATTENDING ON THE ...
Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century

Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century

Robert Storr

Companion book to Art for the Twenty-First Century, the first broadcast series for national television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States today.
Jung

Jung

Anthony Storr

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

Will Storr

We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our culture’s image of the perfect self. We see this person everywhere: in advertising, in the press, all over social media.
Churchill’s Black Dog (Text Only)

Churchill’s Black Dog (Text Only)

Anthony Storr

‘Extremely engaging... A book full of good moments and humane insights.’ Alan Ryan, Observer
Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives

Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives

Mark Pendergrast

‘I doubt whether any book of greater importance will be published in 1997.’ Anthony Storr, The Times.
Music and the Mind

Music and the Mind

Anthony Storr

Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art.
The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone: The Secret ...

The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone: The Secret ...

Will Storr

But is he willing to pay the price? This is Killian’s confession—a strange tragedy about love, ambition andincredible food . . .
Feet Of Clay

Feet Of Clay

Anthony Storr

Examines why society becomes so enraptured with certain figures, and surveys a wide variety of leaders both past and present, attempting to explain how to distinguish between false authorities and true
The Art of Psychotherapy

The Art of Psychotherapy

Anthony Storr

The second edition includes a thoroughly revised account of the obsessional personality, and a new chapter that draws on the author's recent work on the importance of the processes of healing that take place within the isolated individual.
The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

Will Storr

Interweaves personal memoir and investigative journalism with the latest neuroscience and experimental psychology research to reveal how the stories individuals tell themselves about the world shape their beliefs, leading to self-deception, ...
Solitude: A Return to the Self

Solitude: A Return to the Self

Anthony Storr

A landmark study of the nature of solitude examines its crucial role in creativity, mourning, religious experience, and other aspects of human life; discussses enforced solitude; and argues that solitude can foster postive behavior.
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

Will Storr

'Very valuable, and a great read to boot, this is investigative journalism of the highest order' Independent, Book of the Week 'A humane and generous book . . . its insightful exploration of lives lived "beyond the facts" is to be ...
The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

Will Storr

32 one billion followers: Bhupesh Bhandari, 'Meet Baba Ramdev, the swami who owns a Scottish Island', MSN News, 4 June 2011. 32 two hundred and fifty million viewers: http://www.swamiramdevyoga.org/aboutus/swamiramdevji.html.

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