Leon Botstein argues that the pessimism and belief in cultural decline that has dominated American discourse about education and the future of our children is both wrong and harmful. In this book, he offers both a critique of such relentless negativity and an alternative that reaffirms the civilizing mission of education for all our citizens.
From their debut in Berlin in the 1780s to their emergence in 1930s California, Jewish women's salons served as welcoming havens where all classes and creeds could openly debate art, music, literature and politics. This fascinating book is the first to explore the history of these salons where remarkable women of intellect resolved that neither ...
The 1997 centenary of Johannes Brahms' death has helped increase interest among concert-goers and music lovers in the composer's prodigious body of work. In a single volume that covers every work written by Brahms, scholars provide details of each work's composition and discuss its sylistic features. Interspered are essays that bring the composer ...
This book explores the influence of Jewish composers, performers, and patrons on the musical culture of Vienna and, more generally, their lasting contributions to the development of music. The essays collected here shed light on the Jewish-Austrian musical symbiosis which ended so brutally and tragically by the 1930s. Topics include the role of ...
The architect and interior designer Josef Frank (1885-1967) charted a version of modernism that expressed a unique view of the modern home, the single-family house, and its furnishings. This work tries to reveal the full scope of Frank's interpretation of the modern movement.
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