Shimmering Images
Shimmering Images

Author: Lisa Dale Norton

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1429953071

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Rich, funny, and moving personal narratives depend on a few key moments in time to anchor the story and give it impact. Shimmering Images teaches the aspiring memoirist how to locate key memories using Lisa's technique for finding, linking, and fleshing out those vibrant recollections of important moments and situations. Shimmering Images will address: *the difference between memoir and autobiography *how to claim your voice *the art of storytelling *honesty, truth, and compassion in writing *authentic dialogue and the need for specificity Readers will learn how to craft a short piece of narrative nonfiction grounded in their core memories and master a technique they can use over and over again for writing other narratives. A must-have book for anyone who has treasured Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott or Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg.

Shimmering Images
Shimmering Images

Author: Eliza Steinbock

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1478004509

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In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the “shimmer” and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage-like on film, an effect they label shimmering. Steinbock applies the concept of shimmering—which delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of transforming bodies, images, and affects—to analyses of films that span time and genre. These include examinations of the fantastic and phantasmagorical shimmerings of sex change in Georges Méliès's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in Man into Woman. Steinbock also explores more recent documentaries, science fiction, and pornographic and experimental films. Presenting a cinematic philosophy of transgender embodiment that demonstrates how shimmering images mediate transitioning, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual.

Jump at the Sun
Jump at the Sun

Author: Alicia D. Williams

Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1534419136

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From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature. Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, “to jump at de sun”, because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you’d get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora. Until Zora jumped.

The Shimmering State
The Shimmering State

Author: Meredith Westgate

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1982156724

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A “moving, astounding, and totally unsettling” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author) literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives. Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s using the new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he’s also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him. Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet Company. She still waitresses at the Chateau Marmont during her off hours, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxin—or Mem—among the Hollywood elite. When Lucien and Sophie meet at The Center, founded by an ambitious yet conflicted doctor to treat patients who’ve abused Mem, they have no memory of how they got there—or why they feel so inexplicably drawn to each other. Is it attraction, or something they cannot remember from “before”? “Contemplative and wonderfully evocative, finishing The Shimmering State is like waking from a dream, where you reenter the world with fresh eyes and wonder at the frailty of your own memories” (Jessica Chiarella, author of The Lost Girls).

Shimmering Splendor
Shimmering Splendor

Author: Roberta Gellis

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 1995-03-01

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 161084971X

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When Psyche, because of her beauty and so many suitors, declares she hates Love and Beauty, her father closes the Temple of Aphrodite. Aphrodite sends Eros to punish them, but Eros falls in love with Psyche. His loyalty to Aphrodite causes him to punish Psyche by marrying her to a monster (himself in disguise). Psyche admits her attraction to the monster, and needs to prove her love to Eros. 2nd of the Myth trilogy by Roberta Gellis; originally published by Pinnacle

Down from the Shimmering Sky
Down from the Shimmering Sky

Author: Peter L. Macnair

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Based on a major exhibition of masks from the Northwest coast, this book features photographs of over 150 masks from North America and Europe. The masks are manifestations of ancestral spirits as well as works of art. Issues of aesthetics, changes in form and subthemes are explored.

Trans Exploits
Trans Exploits

Author: Jian Neo Chen

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2019-11-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478000877

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In Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutiérrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.

Before Pictures
Before Pictures

Author: Douglas Crimp

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780226423456

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Front room/back room -- Spanish Harlem (East 98th Street), 1967-69 -- Way out on a nut -- Chelsea (West 23rd Street), 1969-71 -- Back to the turmoil -- West Village (West 10th Street), 1971-74 -- Art news parties -- Hotel des artistes -- Tribeca (Chambers Street), 1974-76 -- Action around the edges -- Disss-co (a fragment) -- Broadway-Nassau (Nassau Street), 1976 -- Agon -- Pictures, before and after

Patterns
Patterns

Author: Gerhard Richter

Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781935202981

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"Richter took an image of his work "Abstract Painting" (CR: 7244) and divided it vertically into strips: first 2, then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, up to 4,096 strips. This process, involving twelve stages of division, results in 8,190 strips, each of which is reproduced here at the height of the original image. With each stage of division, the strips become progressively thinner (a strip of the 12th division is just 0.08 millimeters; further divisions would only become visible by enlargement). Each strip is then mirrored and repeated, producing an incredibly detailed patterning. The number of repetitions increases with each stage of division in order to make patterns of consistent size. The resulting 221 patterns are reproduced here on landscape spreads"--Amazon.com

Bigfoot
Bigfoot

Author: Paul Glover

Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing

Published: 2023-06-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 180381487X

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The mystery of Bigfoot has endured for generations, folklore has touched on this through the centuries and yet we have not come any closer to recognising this phenomenon as a reality. How can this be when countless numbers of people have witnessed these incredible beings? Even in the United Kingdom there have been many reports, including modern day encounters. Are all these witnesses mad or is there some truth behind this myth? The Green Man adorns many Medieval Churches and Cathedrals dotted around the British countryside.... but what do they all mean? This whole mystery has stretched through hundreds of years, and across different continents, so isn't it about time that we can get some answers? A 10 year journey has culminated in some explosive revelations that will throw some light upon this enduring mystery. For example: what has William Shakespeare got to do with Bigfoot? And did Charles Dickens even carry on with this storyline? And one of the most iconic fictional characters celebrated around the world will come under the spotlight and their true origins will be revealed. But is this a fictional character or one based upon a folklore reality? And does that historical reality live on into the modern world? Thought provoking statements will be made that will get you thinking about the things that you accepted since childhood. Will Christmas ever feel the same again after reading this book? Is Bigfoot just a Fairy Tale or is there a magical world out there that we are only just starting to explore? Fairy Tale or a Tale that has links to historical references to Fairies? You be the judge, but as they say, seeing is believing and that is exactly what this book will offer some the chance of doing. Your own journey into the Bigfoot World starts right here....