Richard Meyer is a poet whose work explores the intricacies of human experience, often with a reflective and emergent voice. Having dedicated decades to teaching, he later channeled his passion into poetry, focusing on themes that resonate with depth and observation. His poems, recognized for their quality and artistry, delve into the human condition with a mature perspective. Meyer's emergence as a significant poet late in his career offers a unique lens on life and art.
The narrative explores the remarkable journey of Morris Hirshfield, an immigrant who arrived in the US in the 1890s. Initially finding success as a tailor and shoe designer, he later emerged as a celebrated self-taught artist, gaining admiration from surrealists. The account highlights his unique contributions to art and the transformative experiences that shaped his creative vision.
Set in the vibrant atmosphere of the Deep South, this advanced string orchestra piece offers an exhilarating challenge for students and conductors alike. With its jazzy rondo style, "Swamp Thang" by Richard Meyer captivates through rich syncopations and unique instrumentation. It's designed to energize performances, making it an ideal choice for a concert finale or encore, ensuring an unforgettable musical experience.
Focusing on Corita Kent's artistic contributions, this exploration delves into her significance within the 1960s pop art movement, transcending her identity as a radical nun. It highlights her innovative use of color, typography, and social themes, illustrating how her work reflects the cultural landscape of the time. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of her art and its impact, positioning Kent as a key figure in the evolution of contemporary art.
Winning a Silver Medal at the 2016 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin book awards highlights the book's exceptional quality and appeal. It showcases a compelling narrative that resonates with readers, emphasizing themes of resilience and personal growth. The book's engaging storytelling and well-developed characters offer a unique perspective, making it a notable addition to contemporary literature. This recognition underscores its impact and the skillful craftsmanship behind its creation.
The narrative focuses on the pivotal events of the Korean War, particularly highlighting the arrival of the 1st Marine Division in August 1950. It delves into the intense and challenging experiences faced by the Marines during the Chosin Reservoir campaign, emphasizing their bravery and resilience in a harsh environment. The story captures the strategic importance of this conflict and the personal sacrifices made by the soldiers involved, offering a gripping account of courage amid adversity.
"Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture.
A revised, updated edition of the acclaimed historical overview of Queer art - available for the first time in paperback
Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, Naked City —with its lurid tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlife—changed prevailing journalistic practices almost overnight. In this volume, two art historians, Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer, bring markedly different outlooks on photography and modernism to their discussions of Weegee and his book. Meyer looks carefully at Weegee's pictures before and after they were collected and assesses how his practice of tabloid photography was inseparable from his own lowbrow appeal. Lee paints the vivid details of a leftist journalism world in 1930s and 1940s New York and shows how this world helped shape the photographer's vision. These essays restore the Naked City photographs to the mass circulation newspapers and magazines for which they were intended, and they trace the strange process by which the most famous of these pictures—suffused with blood, gore, and sensational crime—entered the museum.
Fluid dynamics, the behavior of liquids and gases, is a field of broad impact — in physics, engineering, oceanography, and meteorology for example — yet full understanding demands fluency in higher mathematics, the only language fluid dynamics speaks. Dr. Richard Meyer's work is indeed introductory, while written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. A knowledge of calculus and vector analysis is presupposed.The author develops basic concepts from a semi-axiomatic foundation, noting that "for mathematics students such a treatment helps to dispel the all too common impression that the whole subject is built on a quicksand of assorted intuitions." Contents include:Kinematics: Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions, Circulation and Vorticity.Momentum Principle and Ideal Fluid: Conservation examples, Euler equations, D'Alembert's and Kelvin's theorems.Newtonian Fluid: Constitutive and Kinetic theories, exact solutions.Fluids of Small Viscosity: Singular Perturbation, Boundary Layers.Some Aspects of Rotating Fluids: Rossby number, Ekman layer, Taylor-Proudman Blocking.Some Effects of Compressibility: Thermodynamics, Waves, Shock relations and structure, Navier-Stokes equations.Dr. Meyer writes, "This core of our knowledge concerns the relation between inviscid and viscous fluids, and the bulk of this book is devoted to a discussion of that relation."