The Goldilocks economy was the longest economic expansion in post war history - not too hot... not too cold... just right! Then, seemingly without reason it came to a crashing halt. Two and a half million working Americans lost their jobs, seven and one-half trillion in savings was destroyed. Businesses closed, hospitals closed. Many people found themselves forced to work beyond retirement. Real incomes declined for years. The lives of Americans were changed forever... Now in its second printing, this compelling book names people and events, to show who shot Goldilocks, and it wasn't the Butler or Colonel Mustard!

Who Shot Goldilocks?: How Alan Greenspan Did in Our Jobs, Savings, and Retirement Plans

Business & Money

William Rutherford

Personal Finance

Crown Point Press

Why Draw a Live Model?

Brown, Kathan

Vision is a monographic journal of contemporary art, published in limited editions by Crown Point Press. It was edited and curated by Tom Marioni. Vision #2: Eastern Europe discusses twenty-two Eastern European artists, including their views on making art. Several of the artists included are: Marina Abramovic, Karel Miller, Roman Opalka and Mica Popovic.

VISION: Eastern Europe (No. 2, Jan. 1967)

Arts & Photography

A sixty-page catalog illustrating and describing each of the first seven series of etchings Cage had done at Crown Point Press, with an essay by Kathan Brown, an original text by John Cage, and a chronology of his life by Anne d'Harnoncourt.

John Cage: Etchings 1978-1982

Kathan Brown

Cultural Writing. Art. WHY DRAW A LANDSCAPE talks about the relationship of the self to the real world, and looks at different approaches to landscape by eleven painters and sculptors whose styles ranges from Realist to Conceptual. This book follows Kathan Brown's well-received WHY DRAW A LIVE MODEL? (also available from SPD) about which Artforum's Bookforum commented The next best thing to being there. And from Contemporary Impressions: Brown's style feels like a conversation with a friend. Includes 83 color plates.

Why Draw a Landscape?

Drawing

Cultural Writing. Art. Poetry. In the collection WRITINGS ON ART: TOM MARIONI 1969-1999, one of the early practitioners of conceptual art, Tom Marioni (1970 founder of MOCA, Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco), has compiled various essays, lectures, and poems about art that he both wrote and spoke about all over the country throughout a large portion of his career. In this collection, he documents his travels to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary where he met and exchanged ideas with other artists, developing his own ideas about conceptual art. "On my trip to Eastern Europe, it became clear to me that an artist who attempts to make art to reach 'the people' is making self-conscious art; he is like a politician trying to get votes"---from "Real Social Realism, 1976." In addition to expressing opinions and speaking specifically about the movement and the artists within the movement, Marioni draws connections between painting, music, writing, and sculpture

Writings on Art: Tom Marioni 1969 - 1999

Marioni, Tom

Art. Music. Cultural Writing. JOHN CAGE VISUAL ART is an exquisite book which includes 116 color images. It is presented in three parts. The first is a text wrtten from Kathan Brown's own experience. In it, she often uses Cage's words to describe particular works, and she reflects upon how the art can be used in the world. The second part is a detailed section that illustrates scores that Cage created for his printers, and explains his use of what he called chance operations in making his work. The third section is pictorial, including reproductions of Cage's prints, watercolors and drawings. John Cage told Brown that the purpose of art is to sober and quiet the mind, so that it is in accord with what happens.

John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind

Cultural writing. Art. Philosophy. "If you are stumped by contemporary art, have wondered why contemporary artists do the things they do, make the things they make, and think the way they think, this book is for you. Tom Marioni has created a book that is easy to read, fun, and engaging. In describing his own art and thinking process, Marioni - with his dry, quiet sense of humor - demystifies contemporary art without being academic or taken: the Picassoian road, which focuses on the painterly tradition, and the Duchampian road, which encompasses a more catholic view of what can be a fit subject for art inquiry. Marioni shows why the Duchampian road offers more riches for many artists, including himself. By incorporating the social and leisure aspects of real life into his art, and by rejecting the dominant cultural work ethic, Tom Marioni amalgamates art and life to create a sophisticated and unique philosophy"--Chris Burden.

Beer, Art and Philosophy

History & Criticism

Cultural Writing. Travel. THE NORTH POLE is a compelling account of a summer trip the author made to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker. Brown intersperses her narrative with excerpts from the journal of Fritdjof Nansen, who explored the area a hundred years ago, and with conversations with travelers, scientists, and a polar archivist about ideas concerning the Arctic that affect the world today, including the issue of global warming. In the chapter called "The Weather," Brown delivers a clear, accessible, scientifically accurate description of the complex phenomena that cause climate change. Lushly produced, with a foldout map and 120 full-color photographs.

The North Pole

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Cultural Writing. Art. Magical Secrets are sudden flashes of insight that help you make sense of something you care about. If you care about etching, engraving, and drypoint (a form of engraving), you will find revelations here. Author Catherine Brooks is a master printer at Crown Point Press, printers and publishers of etchings since 1962, and she draws on the venerable history of that institution to create an inspirational and highly usable how-to book. Crown Point Press founder, Kathan Brown, adds an appendix on hand-wiping and printing that teaches you to ink and print etchings with Crown Point's superlative quality. The practical information is artist-centered, with illustrations and discussions of line etchings and engravings enhanced by quotations from the artists who made them. The book includes a DVD on which Catherine Brooks and Kathan Brown demonstrate the processes and artists are shown using them.

Magical Secrets About Line Etching & Engraving: The Step-by-Step Art of Incised Lines

Brooks, Catherine

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