Still Life With Strings

Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy

Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
ISBN : 9048541131
Pages : 305 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (48 users)

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Download or read book Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy written by Ornat Lev-er and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations, these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers, aristocrats, politicians, and artists. Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries, intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time. In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social, aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs.

by L. H. Cosway

Publisher :
Release Date : 2014
ISBN : 9781311455826
Pages : 323 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (455 users)

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Download or read book Still Life with Strings written by L. H. Cosway and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shane Arthur wants Jade Lennon to teach him how to live. She is not sure how much a twenty-six year old recovering alcoholic who works in a bar and moonlights as a living statue can teach a world class concert violinist, but she sure is going to try. It is a story of music, art, sex, magical realism, and romance that you will never forget.

Living Still Life

by Ryan Alexander Fitzpatrick Kurr

Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2008-04
ISBN : 1598586181
Pages : 272 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (598 users)

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Download or read book Living Still Life written by Ryan Alexander Fitzpatrick Kurr and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introverted yet raw description of emotional development, Living Still Life follows the lives of a quartet in their late twenties living in San Francisco. The four struggle to find clarity, purpose and themselves. Camille's musing forces herself to live like a hermit rather than experience life, Mea, a quick-witted artist reads lips to escape reality, Jack, a romantic pushover whose ambivalence forces him to choose between two unexpected lovers, and Royce, deviously self-involved but soon figures out that his life is a destructive and self-constructed ruse. Each is presented with a unique disruption to his or her everyday life and they begin to unravel over a period of nine days.

My Not-So-Still Life

by Liz Gallagher

Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Release Date : 2011-05-10
ISBN : 037589974X
Pages : 192 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (375 users)

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Download or read book My Not-So-Still Life written by Liz Gallagher and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanessa is wise beyond her years. She's never really fit in at school, where all the kids act and dress the same. She's an artist who expresses her talent in the wacky colors she dyes her hair, her makeup and clothes. She's working on her biggest art project, and counting the days until she's grown up and can really start living. That adult world seems closer when Vanessa gets her dream job at the art supply store, Palette, where she worships the couple who runs it, Oscar and Maye. And she's drawn to a mysterious guy named James, who leads her into new, sometimes risky situations. Is she ready for this world, or not?

Still Life with Strings

by L. H. Cosway

Publisher : CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-03-21
ISBN : 9781496087294
Pages : 0 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (87 users)

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Download or read book Still Life with Strings written by L. H. Cosway and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shane Arthur wants Jade Lennon to teach him how to live. She is not sure how much a twenty-six year old recovering alcoholic who works in a bar and moonlights as a living statue can teach a world class concert violinist, but she sure is going to try. It is a story of music, art, sex, magical realism, and romance that you will never forget.

Modernism and Still Life

by Tobin Claudia Tobin

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-02
ISBN : 1474455158
Pages : 256 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (474 users)

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Download or read book Modernism and Still Life written by Tobin Claudia Tobin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the 'still life spirit' in modern painting, prose, dance, sculpture and poetryChallenges the conventional positioning of still life a 'minor' genre in art historyProposes a radical alternative to narratives of modernism that privilege speed and motion by revealing forms of stillness and still life at the heart of modern literature and visual cultureProvides the first study of still life to consider the genre across modern literature, visual cultures and danceUncovers connections and cultural exchange between networks of European and American artists including the Bloomsbury Group and Wallace StevensThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary. It ranges widely in its material, taking Czanne and literary responses to his still life painting as its point of departure. It investigates constellations of writers, visual artists and dancers including D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, David Jones, Winifred Nicholson, Wallace Stevens, and lesser-known figures including Charles Mauron and Margaret Morris. Claudia Tobin reveals that at the heart of modern art were forms of stillness that were intimately bound up with movement: the still life emerges charged with animation, vibration and rhythm; an unstable medium, unexpectedly vital and well suited to the expression of modern concerns.

Still Life

by Norbert Schneider

Publisher : Taschen
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 9783822820810
Pages : 232 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (82 users)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Norbert Schneider and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the objects in a still life reflect the customs, ideas and aspirations of the time? This is one of the questions which Schneider asks in this book. Still lifes chart the history of scientific discoveries and their acceptance as well as the gradual replacement of the mediaeval concept of the world.

A Life of Picasso Volume III

by John Richardson

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-30
ISBN : 1448112532
Pages : 608 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (448 users)

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Download or read book A Life of Picasso Volume III written by John Richardson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's life and work. His lively and incisive analysis of the work meshes seamlessly with the rich and detailed narrative of this complex and sensual life. The Triumphant Years reveals Picasso at the height of his powers, producing not only the costumes and sets for such Diaghilev Ballets Russes productions as Parade and Tricorne but some of his most important sculpture and paintings. These are tumultuous years, Picasso torn between marital respectability with Olga, the Russian ballerina who was his first wife, and the erotic passion of his mistress, Marie-Therese. This extraordinary biography ends with the completion of a dramatic series of drawings of the crucifixion. From then on the horrors of war would replace any private horrors, leading ultimately to Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica.

Still Life

by Tenley Hardin

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-08-10
ISBN : 0557306434
Pages : 410 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (557 users)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Tenley Hardin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an artist, writer, teacher, wife, and mother of two young girls, Claire struggles to maintain balance. Institutionalized for manic-depression as a result of her third suicide attempt, Claire is confined both in her hospital room and in her mind. However, she begins to find awareness and direction during her stay at a mental institution, mainly because she allows herself to enter her past in a way she has never before. Claire examines her childhood--how she and her siblings unrelentingly adored their mother, whose death marked the end of their innocence. But it is not until she returns to her hometown of Clare, MI to see her ailing father that she truly discovers just how deep the secrets of her childhood are. Along the way, the dark corners of her mother's past reveal the healing truth of love. In her journey to battle the idealized notions of motherhood and artistry, Claire finds purpose and inspiration in simple treasures: her children.

Still Life

by Elisabeth Luard

Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-29
ISBN : 1408831422
Pages : 466 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (48 users)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Elisabeth Luard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, uplifting and insightful, Still Life is memoir which explores new worlds through the kitchens, market places and traditions of the locals.

Food in Painting

by Kenneth Bendiner

Publisher : Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 9781861892133
Pages : 252 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (892 users)

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Download or read book Food in Painting written by Kenneth Bendiner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of images of markets, kitchens, pantries, picnics, and tables groaning under the weight of glorious feasts, Food in Painting serves up a delicious helping of luxuriously painted meals certain to win a spot on the shelves of art lovers and gast.

A Life of Picasso III: The Triumphant Years

by John Richardson

Publisher : Knopf
Release Date : 2008-12-24
ISBN : 030749649X
Pages : 608 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book A Life of Picasso III: The Triumphant Years written by John Richardson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso, a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in Paris, creating some of his most important sculpture and painting as part of a group that included Braque, Apollinaire, Miró, and Breton; spending summers in the South of France in the company of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. These are the years of his marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova—the mother of his only legitimate child, Paulo—and of his passionate affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was, as well, his model and muse.

The Women’s Music Movement

by Paul Ambrose Shaw III

Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2022-11-28
ISBN : 9004534989
Pages : 142 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book The Women’s Music Movement written by Paul Ambrose Shaw III and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women’s Music Movement: Music as Feminist Praxis, 1973–1980 explores second wave feminist movement through the lens of the women’s music movement. Featured are content analyses of five songs and an exploration of music as feminist activism.

A Still Life

by Josie George

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-18
ISBN : 1526612011
Pages : 400 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (526 users)

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Download or read book A Still Life written by Josie George and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 'A manifesto for recalibrating' DAILY MAIL 'I can't think of many books where the reader feels so passionately on the side of the narrator' GUARDIAN 'A profound redefinition of the very idea of vitality' FINANCIAL TIMES Josie George lives in a tiny terraced house in the urban West Midlands with her son. Since her early childhood, she has lived with the fluctuating and confusing challenge of disabling chronic illness. But Josie's world is surprising, intricate, dynamic. She has learned what to look for: the routines of her friends at the community centre; the neighbourhood birds in flight; the slow changes in the morning light, in her small garden, in her growing son, in herself. In January 2018, Josie sets out to tell the story of her still life, over the course of a year. As the seasons shift, and the tides of her body draw in and out, Josie begins to unfurl her history. And against a world which values progress and productivity above all else, Josie sets out a quietly radical alternative: to value and treasure life for life itself, with all its great and small miracles. 'Full of kindness, A Still Life will make you a better person' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'A Still Life is joy-lit: vivid, lovestruck, hopeful and wise' MELISSA HARRISON 'Josie George is the kind of writer I strive to be ... A tough, tender, beautiful book about existing in a body in the world' ELLA RISBRIDGER 'Could not be more timely ... An immensely talented writer' LINDA GRANT

Still Life With Crows

by Douglas Preston

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-12-18
ISBN : 1784970514
Pages : 576 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (784 users)

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Download or read book Still Life With Crows written by Douglas Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is a stretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate. From the fields to the local caves, Pendergast discovers the remnants of a Prohibition-era moonshine operation and the truth behind one of the town's greatest mysteries: who was behind the Medicine Creek Massacre of 1865. Now, Pendergast must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four-generation Kansas family – before someone else is murdered.

Still Life With Rice

by Helie Lee

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997-04-08
ISBN : 0684827115
Pages : 326 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (684 users)

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Download or read book Still Life With Rice written by Helie Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radiant memoir of her grandmother's life, Lee recreates a culture that is both seductively exotic and strangely familiar. Lee's desire to recover the family's history, as well as to understand the intricate weave of her own identity, results in the exploration of universal issues such as the complex nature of family relations and the rapidly changing lives of women in this century. of photos.

Still Life with Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

Publisher : Bantam
Release Date : 2003-06-17
ISBN : 0553897942
Pages : 288 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (553 users)

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Download or read book Still Life with Woodpecker written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Robbins’s comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius.”—People Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.