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The book features seven colour pairs to illustrate the full spectrum, revealing the astonishing range of shades found between familiar colours - and showing how colours connect to one another.   This, the debut children's book by New York's go-to florists Putnam \u0026amp; Putnam, the acclaimed floral design studio who are also the bestselling authors of the ground-breaking Flower Colour Guide and Flower Colour Theory, features their own acclaimed photography, taken specially for this book.   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His photographs of abandoned movie houses and forlorn marquees are an elegy to this disappearing cultural icon. In the early 1980s, Putnam began photographing closed theaters, theaters that had been converted to other uses (a church, a swimming pool), theaters on the verge of collapse, theaters being demolished, and even vacant lots where theaters once stood. The result is an archive of images, large in quantity and geographically diffuse. Here is what has become of the Odeons, Strands, and Arcadias that existed as velvet and marble outposts of Hollywood drama next to barbershops, hardware stores, and five-and-dimes. Introduced by Robert Sklar, the starkly beautiful photographs are accompanied by original reminiscences on moviegoing by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, and Chester H. Liebs as well as excerpts from the works of poet John Hollander and writers Larry McMurtry and John Updike. Sklar begins by mapping the rise and fall of the local movie house, tracing the demise of small-town theaters to their role as bit players in the grand spectacle of Hollywood film distribution. \"Under standard distribution practice,\" he writes, \"a new film took from six months to a year to wend its way from picture palace to Podunk (the prints getting more and more frayed and scratched along the route). Even though the small-town theaters and their urban neighborhood counterparts made up the majority of the nation's movie houses, their significance, in terms of revenue returned to the major motion-picture companies that produced and distributed films, was paltry.\"  In his essay, \"Old Dreams,\"  Last Picture Show director Peter Bogdanovich recalls the closing of New York City's great movie palaces-the mammoth Roxy, the old Paramount near Times Square, the Capitol, and the Mayfair-and the more innocent time in which they existed \"when a quarter often bought you two features, a newsreel, a comedy short, a travelogue, a cartoon, a serial, and coming attractions.\" While the images in Putnam's book can be read as a metaphor for the death of many downtowns in America,  Silent Screens goes beyond mere nostalgia to tell the important story of the disappearance of the single-screen theater, illuminating the layers of cultural and economic significance that still surround it.  \"These photographs and the loss of which they speak signal the passing of a way of being together.\" -Molly Haskell  List of Theaters by State  Alabama * The Lyric, Anniston * The Martin, Huntsville Arizona * The Duncan, Duncan Arkansas * The Avon, West Memphis California * The Town, Los Angeles * El Capitan, San Francisco * The State, Santa Barbara Connecticut * The Dixwell Playhouse, New Haven * The Princess, New Haven Florida * The Gateway, Lake City Georgia * The Judy, Hartwell Idaho * The Ace, Wendell Illinois * The Pekin, Pekin Indiana * The Rem, Remington * The Ritz, Rensselaer Kansas * The Cameo, Kansas City Kentucky * The Crescent, Louisville * The Ohio, Louisville Louisiana * The Madison, Madisonville * The Sabine, Many * The Jefferson, New Orleans Massachusetts * The Strand, Westfield Michigan * The Liberty, Benton Harbor Mississippi * The Magee, Magee * The Star, Mendenhall * The Mono, Monticello * The Park, Pelahatchie Missouri * The Star, Warrensburg Nebraska * The Grand, Grand Isle New Jersey * RKO Proctor's Palace, Newark New Mexico * The Lux, Grants * The State, San Jon New York * The Hollywood, Au Sable Forks * The Broadway, Buffalo * The Lovejoy, Buffalo * The Senate, Buffalo * The Jefferson, New York City * The Little Carnegie, New York City * The 72nd Street East, New York City North Carolina * The Colonial, Chesnee * The Alva, Morganton Oregon * The United Artists, Pendleton Pennsylvania * The Lawndale, Philadelphia * The Rex, Philadelphia * The Spruce, Philadelphia * The York, Philadelphia * The Capitol, Williamsport Tennessee * The Park, Memphis Texas * The Royal, Archer City * The Strand, Chillicothe * The Gem, Claude * The Mulkey, Clarendon * The Texas, Del Rio * The Bowie, Fort Worth * The Chatmas, Hearne * The Queen, Hearne * The Palace, Henderson * The Alabama, Houston * The Almeda, Houston * The Crim, Kilgore * The Gulf, Robstown * The Clinch, Tazwell * The Winnie, Winnie Virginia * The Earle, Big Stone Gap * The Home, Strasburg Washington * The Pasco, Pasco West Virginia * The Ritz, Ansted * The Alpine, Rainelle","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50269126230289,"sku":"CIN0801863295G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51612470149393,"sku":"CIN0801863295VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801863295.jpg?v=1751329121"},{"product_id":"poetic-world-of-statius-silvae-book-michael-putnam-9780192869272","title":"The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae","description":"In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a different social and cultural context, boldly turns Virgil to new and more positive purposes. He focuses particularly, though not exclusively, on those Silvae which deal with the architectural world of Statius' society, the private villas, the gardens, and the imperial palace. He also writes of the Roman equivalent of the 'Grand Tour,' a young man's educational journey through the monuments of Egypt, Greece, and Asia Minor. The essays offer valuable insight into the cultural and social identity of late first-century imperial Rome. Statius' reverential but also heuristic engagement with Virgil emerges more distinctly across the interrelated essays. 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Examining the savage rampage upon which Aeneas embarks in the tenth book of the poem, Putnam traces the sources and manifestations of the hero's emotions, and concludes with a detailed reading of the poem's closing lines. An epilogue surveys the relationship between Virgil's denouement and aspects of Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Each chapter is an exercise in close reading, which is to say, in scrutinizing the writer's art as it enhances the ideas its masterpiece projects. Through an examination of human values and of the ways they are shaped and delineated by a great imagination, the book aims to further the position of Virgil as one of the most original of poets in our humanist canon, himself emulating Homer but deeply influential on the literature of our world, from Dante to Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51422097801489,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51422098358545,"sku":"CIN9089643478VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52329877963025,"sku":"GOR014507219","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9089643478.jpg?v=1751128478"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-michael-putnam.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}