Twins, Two by Two

by Laurence Anholt (Author), Catherine Anholt (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.40

  This is a picture book about a pair of twins and their bedtime game of Noah's Ark. After being told the story they pretend to be a pair of animals - in bed they are noisy as elephants, in bed they are a couple of monkeys, they jump about like kangaroos - but when their Dad comes upstairs, he puts them back to bed and the twins curl up together like two little mice and fall asleep. In this book there are full page pictures of the twins in action , complemented on the opposite page by vignettes of the animals they are imitating. Laurence and Catherine Anholt's previous books include Good Days, Bad Days , What I Like, Kids and Here Come the Babies .

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.98

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $23.10

  Painters and musicians have always found inspiration by sharing ideas from both disciplines. How this relationship developed from Philipp Otto Runge's compositions in painting to Jean Tinguely's and Niki de Saint Phalle's musical sculpture is the focus of this volume. Selected images and quotations from composers and artists are blended into this study. Runge and Richard Wagner recognised the interdependency of music and art in the creation of abstract, symbolic language. However, as in the work of Matisse, the figurative representation of musicians or instruments soon developed into a structural relationship between sound and color. By the 1960s the two arts, represented in particular by Jackson Pollock and John Cage converged in the Fluxus happenings where participants such as Joseph Beuys and Yves Klein sought to push back the boundaries of modern art . In the 1990s the sculpture of Pol Bury or Takis contunues the quest to make sound tangible and new digital technologies have introduced even further possibilities.