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A beautiful new book on Victorian artist
It is wonderful that Phaidon Press has decided to publish an art book on this lesser known Victorian artist. More a Neo-Classical Romantic artist than a Pre-Raphaelite, Albert Moore creates langerous scenes of lovelymaidens clad in classical garb (often white flowing togas).For theiraesthetic quality alone, the paintings by this artist are little jewels. Phaidon has produced an attractive book with scholarly text that befits theartist and his work. ... Read more

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Albert Moore (1841-93) was one of the most important late Victorian artists. In a single-minded quest for aesthetic perfection, he employed the female figure to embody abstract systems of ideal beauty, and created many of the iconic and defining images of the Aesthetic Movement. Yet he has remained a shadowy figure. Based on original research and unpublished family documents, Robyn Asleson's monograph presents a fresh view of the artist's allegedly reclusive personality, and firmly establishes him as a major figure and a significant precursor of Modernism. This beautiful book is now issued in a paperback format that will bring the artist to a wide and appreciative audience. ... Read more

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Worth it
I disagree with the other reviewer.This book has plenty of pictures, however having larger sized reproductions would be nice. Albert Moore's subject matter was a means to an end, he aimed at making beautiful pictures rather than historical or religious scenes.His brushwork is fantastic and his understanding of colour interactions superb. As this is the only book on him it is worth the buy.

Ho hum, hum ho . . .
Meh. That's the feeling I had after going through this book, especially having purchased it full of enthusiasm for any and all things Pre-Raphaelite.
I have learned my lesson. I am quickly discovering that there are two kinds of 'art books'. Those with more pictures than text and vice-versa. This is the text book kind.
The few works included here seem a bit repetitive and, frankly boring. Same near nude girl several different ways. I can count on one hand the pictures that depict something other than the same nude girl.
And to top that, the book is 70 percent text, which is useful if you plan on studying this for school or research, but very disappointing when you only want a nice art book. Be aware that this is not really an art book, just a overdone textbook. ... Read more

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Explains how to prepare a case for trial by identifying historical factual propositions that satisfy applicable legal elements; identifying evidence and inferences tending to prove or disprove the crucial factual propositions in a case; organizing evidence into persuasive arguments, whether the evidence is disputed or undisputed or suggests an implausibility in a witness' story; and understanding the influence of "silent arguments" and taking advantage of or countering such arguments. Illustrates interrelationship among evidence, argument, and technique. Sets forth and illustrates trial techniques so advocates can persuasively communicate their arguments to judges and jurors. ... Read more

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the black side of the Lost Cause
Initially published in 1924, Albert B. Moore's "Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy" deserved the excellent reprint performed by the University of South Carolina Press. After the war, the South had to distort the truth to ennoble its defeat because the North did not need to explain its victory. For more than 140 years, the "Sons of Confederate Veterans" have not ceased to glorify the honor of the Confederate soldiers while shoving in the background the necrosis of their cause. Of all the modern wars, the Confederate army counted the most deserters (40% in 1863, 51% in 1864 and 55.5% in 1865). It is on this subject that a book such as "Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy" is decisive because it does not seek to flatter the pride of a slave oligarchy that was severely thrashed. This work and that of Ella Lonn "Desertion during the Civil War" clearly points out the exhaustion - totally justified - of the Confederate soldier sacrificing himself for "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight". The work of Albert B. Moore destroys many myths, in particular that pertaining to the honor of the Southern soldier, and it depicts the war as it really was and not like the descendants of those who received a good bashing would like it to be.
Serge P. Noirsain, Belgian historian, author of "La flotte européenne de la Confédération sudiste" and "La Confédération sudiste, mythes et réalités".

A classic
Albert Burton Moore in his 45-year teaching career was the embodiment of a Southern scholar-gentleman. Born and raised in Alabama, he was a descendant of Confederate veterans, and he wrote and taught at a time when many of them were yet alive. His teaching career, except for four years in Iowa, was entirely in the South (as a footnote, he also served two terms as president of the NCAA).

"Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy" did not have to be an interesting book, but it is one because Moore's writing style is assured, easy, understated. He has a keen eye for the pithiest quotes from his sources. And he knows his Latin. His Southerners regarded their battlefield victories with sincere "gratulation," and Moore cannot bring himself to write "conscripted" when he knows Cicero would only have approved "conscribed."

Moore's book is still valued by historians for both parts of its title. The 1996 introduction to the University of South Carolina edition rightly praises the book as still the fundamental introduction to Confederate conscription, as well as a groundbreaking exploration of internal divisions in the CSA. That was a topic which had been given short shrift by the Lost Cause version of the Civil War which prevailed in America at that time.

Moore views Southern conscription as a flawed, but ultimately successful system that kept the Confederacy's will to fight for independence focused in an effective military effort for four hard years. He finds no inherent shame to the Confederate cause in the mere fact of conscription. "President Davis told the Mississippi legislature that there was no more reason to expect voluntary service in the army than voluntary labor upon the public roads or the voluntary payment of taxes," he writes.

Yet he appreciates the challenge of applying a system of compulsory service "among a proud and free people." He writes that the South's general public was "gradually reconciled" to the idea, though "strong opposition" remained.

His assumption that secession was principally about states' rights is no longer shared by most historians. But because Moore felt the South's cause was states' rights, the "conflict" in the book's title is largely that between Davis' central government and state authorities, notably the states'-rights governors Brown and Vance.

The book avoids statistics as much as possible, and the author always alerts his reader, if he delves into numbers, that all the figures are estimates at best, that they are often in dispute, and that surviving Confederate records are very incomplete.

Moore does not compare Southern conscription with the North'sparallel messy venture in it, and he makes no attempt to place the CSA's experience in the flow of military history. This is, to me, a serious oversight. ... Read more

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Citation Details
Title: A report from an advancing China. (economic development)
Author: Albert T. Moore
Publication: Tooling & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1995
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: v60Issue: n11Page: p98(1)

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