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Jill Johnston
Jill Johnston (1929-2010)

journalist, choreographer, historian, dance critic

  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Tufts University

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Jasper Johns
Paper daughter
Mother bound
Autobiography in search of a father
Lesbian nation
Gullibles travels
Neo-Dada
Marmalade me
Admission accomplished
England's Child
Secret lives in art
Amazon expedition; a Lesbian feminist anthology
Dance Quote Unquote
Disintegration of a Critic
John Cage
Essential Jill Johnston Reader
Consider
Explore
Yvonne Rainer : Remembering a Dance
Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940)

music critic

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Jean Sibelius
The Russian opera
The Russian opera
The Russian arts
Tchaikovsky
The Concert-Goer's Library of Descriptive Notes
Poetry and progress in Russia
The music of Czechoslovakia
The concert-goer's library of descriptive notes
Tchaikovsky
The Life & Letters of Pete Ilich Tchaikovsky
Songs to a singer
Henry J. Wood
The concert-goer's library of descriptive notes
Tchaikovsky
A quarter of a century of Promenade Concerts at Queen's Hall
The Bartered Bride: Comic Opera in Three Acts
Tchaikovsky; his life and works
L' opéra russe
The Music of Czechoslovakia
Primary Sources Historical Collections
Jean Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
The devout Russian
Henry J. Wood
Jean Sibelius
Songs to a singer, and other verses
Mary Wakefield, a memoir by Rosa Newmarch
Bantock's "Omar Khayyam"
Music Of Czechoslovakia, The
Tchaikovsky; His Life and Works, with Extracts from His Writings, and the Diary of His Tour Abroad in 1888
The music ofCzechoslovakia
César Franck
L'opéra russe
Horae amoris
Tchaikovsky; his life and works
Russain Arts
Johannes Brahms
Horae amoris
Mary Wakefield, a Memoir by Rosa Newmarch
Russian Arts
Russian Opera
The Music of Czechoslovakia
The Russian opera
Living Masters of Music
The Russian Opera
The Russian arts
The Concert-goer's library of descriptive notes. Vol.IV
Henry J. Wood (Living Masters of Music)
L'opera russe
Edogawa Ranpo
Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965)

literary critic

  • Waseda University

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Edogawa Ranpo zenshū
Edogawa Ranpo (Sakka no jiden)
The Early Cases of Akechi Korogō
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island
Japanese tales of mystery & imagination
Kumo otoko
Nihon tantei shosetsu jiten
The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows
Tantei shōsetsu no "nazo"
Imomushi
Strange tale of panorama island
The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Mirage
Hachūkan jiken
Huang Jin Jia Mian
Japanese tales of mystery and imagination
Edogawa Rampo shū
Griezelverhalen uit Japan
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
La Chambre rouge
Japanese tales of mystery & imagination
Le Lézard noir
Edogawa Rampo shirīzu
La bête aveugle
Japanese tales of mystery & imagination
Proie et l'ombre (la)
Strange Tale of Panorama Island
Kyūketsuki
Hakuhatsuki
Edogawa Ranpo zenshū
Oshie to tabisuru otoko
Liang fen tong bi
Yōkai hakase
Kaijin nijūmensō
Ye Guang Ren
Ta Shang Mo Shu Shi
Kaijin nijū mensō
E mo de wen zhang
Ren jian yi zi
L'île panorama
Ōgon Kamen
Kagami jigoku
Hai Di Mo Shu Shi
Kenin gengi
Mōjū
Edogawa Ranpo (Nihon genso bungaku shusei)
Edogawa Ranpo meisakushū
Zhi zhu nan
Kyūketsuki
The boy detectives club
Edogawa Ranpo senshū
Daikinkai
D ban sha ren shi jian
Huang Jin Guai Shou
Shinri shiken
Relatos Japoneses De Misterio E Imaginacion/ Japanese Tales of Mystery And Imagination (La Barca De Caronte)
Japanese tales of mystery and imagination
Jūjiro
L'ile panorama
Ryokui no oni
Gu dao zhi gui
Shōnen tanteidan
LE DEMON DE L'ILE SOLITAIRE
Seidō no majin
Kurotokage
Los crímenes del jorobado
Eduard Hanslick
Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904)

musicologist, music critic, professor, composer, aesthetician, critic, opinion journalist

  • Charles University, University of Vienna

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Aus meinem Leben
Eduard Hanslick zum Gedenken
Vom Musikalisch-Schönen
The beautiful in music
Geschichte des Concertwesens in Wien
Musikalisches und Litterarisches
On the musically beautiful
Geschichte des concertwesens in Wien
Aus dem Opernleben der Gegenwart
Aus neuer und neuester zeit
Fünf Jahre Musik, 1891-1895
Am Ende des Jahrhunderts, 1895-1899
Aus dem tagebuche eines musikers ..
Aus dem Opernleben der Gegenwart...: Neue Kritiken und Studien
Musikalisches Skizzenbuch: Neue Kritiken und Schilderungen
Vienna's golden years of music, 1850-1900
Die moderne Oper: Kritiken und Studien
The beautiful in music. A contribution to the revisal of musical aesthetics ..
Vom musikalisch-schönen: Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Aesthetik der Tonkunst
Concerte, Componisten und Virtuosen der letzten fünfzehn Jahre, 1870-1885
Die moderne Oper ..
Musikalische Stationen
Aus dem Concertsaal: Kritiken und Schilderungen aus den letzten 20 Jahren des Wiener Musiklebens ..
Moderne Oper: Teil 9
Moderne Oper: Teil 4
Moderne Oper: Teil 6
On the musically beautiful
Moderne Oper: Teil 2
Moderne Oper: Teil 7
Moderne Oper: Teil 3
Aus dem Konzertsaal
Moderne Oper
Hanslick's music criticisms
Sämtliche Schriften
Moderne Oper: Teil 8
Moderne Oper: Teil 5
Music criticisms, 1846-99
Musikalisches skizzenbuch
The collected musical criticism
Am Ende des Jahrhunderts
Vom Musikalisc.Schönen
Suite
Aus dem Concertsaal
Vom musikalisch Schönen. Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst
Aus Eduard Hanslicks Wagner-Kritiken
Aus meinem Leben
Concerte, Componisten und Virtuosen der letzten fu nfzehn Jahre, 1870-1885
The collected musical criticism
The beautiful in music
Aus neuer und neuester Zeit
Also sprach Beckmesser
Aus dem Tagebuch eines Rezensenten
Die moderne Oper
Vom Musikalisch-Schönen
Vom Musikalisch-Scho nen
Vienna's golden years of music, 1850-1900
Music criticisms 1846-99
The beautiful in music
Aus Neuer und neuster Zeit ..
Fünf Jahre Musik (1891-1895) ... Kritiken von Eduard Hanslick
Die moderne Oper, Kritiken und Studien
Vom Musikalisch-Schönen Aufsätze Musikkritiken
Am Ende des Jahrhunderts (1895-1899)
Musikkritiken
Music criticisms, 1846-99 /cEduard Hanslick ; translated and edited by Henry Pleasants
Die moderne Oper ...
Die moderne Oper ...
Aus dem Concert-Saal
Die moderne Oper ...
The beautiful in music
Hanslick's music criticism
Die moderne Oper ...
Vom Musikalisch-sch©œnen
Was denken Sie von Wagner?
Die moderne Oper ...
Musikalisches und litterarisches ...
Geschichte des Concertwesens in Wien
Die moderne Oper ...
Die moderne Oper ...
Musikalisches Skizzenbuch
Aus dem Tagebuch eines Rezensenten. Gesammelte Musikkritiken
Concerte, componisten und virtuosen der letzten fünfzehn jahre. 1870-1885
O hudebním krásnu
Die moderne Oper ...
Die moderne Oper ...
Du beau dans la musique
Du beau dans la musique
Vom Musikalisch-Schönen
Aus meinem Leben
Thomas Burnett Swann
Thomas Burnett Swann (1928-1976)

poet, literary critic

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The heroine or the horse
Faeries
Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels
A. A. Milne
Bakers Dozen
Ernest Dowson
Flying Saucers
Will-o-the-wisp
Day of the Minotaur
Wolfwinter
The minotaur trilogy
Green Phoenix (Daw UQ1027)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories #2 [DAW 205]
The Not-World
The Weirwoods
Ernest Dowson (Twayne's English Authors Series)
The classical world of H.D.
The Tournament of Thorns
Cry Silver Bells
The heroine or the horse
The Gods Abide
The forest of forever
Queens walk in the dusk
The ungirt runner
Driftwood
Wombats and moondust
How are the mighty fallen
Alas, in Lilliput
Wonder and whimsy
The Minikins of Yam
Moondust
Lady of the Bees
Green phoenix
Green Phoenix
The classical world of H.D.
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (1871-1951)

poet, literary critic, playwright, collector, editing staff, translator, postal worker, art critic

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Vzpomínky
Tryzna za básníkem Karlem Hlaváčkem
Král Rudolf
Renaissanční touhy v umění
Král Rudolf
Cesare Borgia: dramatická báseň
Gotická duše: román Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Gotická duše a jiné prózy
Chimaerické výpravy
Ideje zítřku
Renaissanční touhy v umění
Impressionistě a ironikové, dokumenty k psychologii literární generace let devadesátých
Anonymní dopisy čili affaira "pěti spisovatelův." Odpověď Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Impressionistě a ironikové, dokumenty k psychologii literární generace let devadesátých
Endymion
Zazděná okna
Král Rudolf
A gothic soul
Poslední vinobraní
Sen o říši krásy
Ostrov vyhnanců
Ocúny noci
Posvátné ohně
Básně z konce století
Sodoma
Ideje zítřku
Apollonius z Tyany
Kniha aristokratická
Mimo život
Boží převozník
Milý příteli--
Sodoma
Ztracený ráj
Legenda o ctih
Zlatý triptych
Cesare Borgia
Básnické spisy Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Legenda o Sodomovi
Endymion
Sexus necans
Genenda
Obrácení Raymunda Lulla
J.S. Machar
Romány tří mágů
Scarabaeus
Zastřený obraz
Romány tří magů
Písně tulákovy o životě a smrti
Hořící duše
Ideje zítřku; Henrik Ibsen - Walt Whitman, 1894-1898
J. S. Machar...
Básnické spisy
Polské umění XIX. a XX. století ze sbírky Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Chimérické výpravy
Chimaerické výpravy
Solitude, vanity, night
Hovory se smrtí
Impresionisté a ironikové--kritické studie
Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes (1938-2012)

art historian, art critic, television presenter, narrator

  • University of Sydney

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Nothing If Not Critical
Goya
Things I didn't know
Nothing if not critical
GOYA
The spectacle of skill
Goya
Things I didn't know
Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)
Goya
The Red Dean
The Shock of the new
The fatal shore
Culture of complaint
The fatal shore
Shock of the New
American visions
Amish, the art of the quilt
A Jerk on One End
On the Record
In perilous seas
The portable Magritte
The art of Australia
Frank Auerbach
Crossroads, U.S.A
American Visions
The Fatal Shore Part 1 of 2
Lucian Freud
The fatal shore
The Art of Australia
Lucian Freud paintings
A jerk on one end
Heaven and Hell in Western art
The Fatal Shore Part 2 Of 2
Barcelona
Barcelona the Great Enchantress
The portable Picasso
Astrology then and now
Heaven and hell in western art
The portable Dalí
The portable Van Gogh
The new generation
The portable Matisse
A toda critica : ensayos sobre arte y artistas. - 2.ed.
Amish
Heaven and Hell in Western art
Rome
Ethics Aesthetics And The Beyond Of Language
Barcelona
Roma
Barcelona : the great enchantress
Homes far from home
Donald Friend
Rome
Amish
Jaguar/Daimler
The complete paintings of Bruegel
School days
Ready Notes for use with Personal Finance
Morning Edition
Barcelone, la Ville des Merveilles
Nothing If Not Critical Tpb
Australia
Software project management
Barcelona
Student Resource Manual with Readings & Cases
Barcelona
Living and Working in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia
Personal Finance
Cultura de la Queja
Improving diabetes outcomes through structured information
Frank Auerbach
The Shock of the New: Art and the century of change
Practical software measurement
Culture of Complaint
Culture as nature
Lent
La guerre est finie
Ulrich Karger
Ulrich Karger (born 1957)

literary critic, school teacher

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Briefe von Kemal Kurt (1947-2002)
Vom Uhrsprung
Geisterstunde im Kindergarten
Homer
Herr Wolf kam nie nach Berchtesgaden
Verquer
Bücherwurm trifft Leseratte 2
Dicke Luft in HalbundHalb
Kindskopf
Mitlesebuch Nr. 26
Familie Habakuk und die Ordumok-Gesellschaft
Ran an'n Sarg und mitjeweent
Bücherwurm trifft Leseratte
KopfSteinPflasterEchos
Briefe von Kemal Kurt (1947-2002)
Büchernachlese
Mythos des Unsichtbaren
Das kleine Märchenbuch
Die kleine Märchenreise
Die kleine Märchengalerie
Der kleine Märchentraum
Einsamkeit berühren
Weihnachtsgeschichten am Kamin 12
Das große Zeichenbuch
Männer sind eben so!
Ples duhov v otroškem vrtcu
Das kleine Märchenschloß
Halloween à l'école
Die kleine Märcheninsel
Halloween all'asilo
KopfSteinPflasterEchos
Geisterstunde im Kindergarten
KopfSteinPflasterEchos
Zeitlese
Dicke Luft in Halb und Halb
Gemischte Gefühle
Spoken in de speelzaal
Alptraum
Vom Uhrsprung und anderen Merkwürdigkeiten