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Recreational Music Making is a new and exciting movement in piano pedagogy. The core concepts are that the piano is for everyone?not just professionally minded students?and that lessons should be fun and relaxing for both student and teacher. This handbook from industry veterans Brian Chung and Brenda Dillon is a step-by-step manual for teachers who are interested in implementing or exploring this concept in their own studios. Topics: Philosop...

Written as a series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity itself, Affinities completes a trilogy, with Essayism and Suppose a Sentence, about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Sup...

In einer Zeit der Kriege breitet sich die Wildnis immer mehr aus. Einstmals mächtige Königreiche liegen versunken im Meer. Nur die Magie und die Verheißung von Hoffnung hält das Licht am Leuchten, während furchteinflößende Wesen umherstreifen und die Schutzzauber der Priester von teuflischen Kreaturen zerschmettert werden. Die Vorzeichen künden von schlimmen Zeiten. Die Straßen ins Reich der Schatten sind wieder offen, und die Feen sind zurück...

Paperback edition of the story of the fire which started in a vast munitions works located in the marshes of Kent, in April 1916. The resulting explosion killed 108 people and injured many more.

Can a sculpture be a river? Can contemporary art unite conflicting systems of belief? Do other species appreciate culture? And can public art revive communities and ecosystems? Cristina Iglesias' horizontal fountains, submerged rooms and tropical mazes bring together language, architecture and botany to create immersive spaces of contemplation. In this publication an international roster of curators, art critics, philosophers, architects and s...

The photographs of Sarah Jones address established pictorial genres and our associated expectations by paring back space, subject and gesture. This book--the first major monograph on this young British artist--brings together work from an 18-year period, including many photographs never previously published, and looks at the themes and concerns that have remained constants in her work. The sequence of images chosen and arranged by the artist s...

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The emotional and cultural workings of memory are considered in this collection of essays, through the lens of the author's attempts to cope with the passing of both parents while on the cusp of adulthood following a breakdown several years later. Reissued for the first time since publication in 2005, this is an erudite, informed and deeply personal record of facing one's own sense of loss.

Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the essay. By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Vi...

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The prolific art critic and writer Brian Dillon is back with his fifth book in as many

An examination of the essay as a literary form, from the author of "The Great Explosion".

Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know...

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Brian Dillon is the UK editor of Cabinet and the author of In the Dark Room, Sanctuary, and The Hypochondriacs. He is an editorial board member of TATE Etc. and Art Review, and a regular contributor to numerous journals including Artforum and frieze. Since 2008 he has been AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Kent, Canterbury

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