Portraits and Ashes
Portraits and Ashes

Author: John Pistelli

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-06-24

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781548351717

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Julia is an aspiring painter without money or direction, haunted by a strange family history. Mark is a successful architect who suddenly finds himself unemployed with a baby on the way. Alice is a well-known artist and museum curator disgraced when her last exhibit proved fatal. Running from their failures, this trio is drawn toward a strange new cult that seeks to obliterate the individual-and which may be the creation of a mysterious and dangerous avant-garde artist. John Pistelli unforgettably portrays three people desperate to lead meaningful lives as they confront the bizarre new institutions of a fraying America. A suspenseful and poetic novel in the visionary tradition of Don DeLillo, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Jos� Saramago, PORTRAITS AND ASHES is a scorching picture of our troubled age.

Icons in Ash
Icons in Ash

Author: Heide Hatry

Publisher: Station Hill Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781581771619

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The art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object - the icon - often carried a charge as ritual or ceremonial artifact and, indeed, as a thing with a certain power. The artist Heide Hatry has extended this tradition by creating realistic portraits made out of the actual ashes of the departed person portrayed. Are the results reminiscent of ancient sacred and secular traditions and their complex, even mysterious function to, say, calm, enrich or transform our experience? Icons in Ash includes twenty of Hatry's portraits and twenty-seven contemporary writers who explore this phenomenon in original and engaging meditations on death, the dead body, art, relics, psychology, philosophy, religion, mourning, evolution, transformation, and immortality. Contributors include, among others, Hans Belting, Mark Dery, Eleanor Heartney, Siri Hustvedt, Jonas Mekas, Rick Moody, Mark Pachter, Steven Pinker, Wolf Singer, Luisa Valenzuela, and Peter Weibel. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE

Painting With Ashes: When Your Weakness Becomes Your Superpower
Painting With Ashes: When Your Weakness Becomes Your Superpower

Author: Michael Adam Beck

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781953495136

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This raw and powerful story is for anyone who has felt unworthy, who has hit rock bottom, who has been hurt by the church, or who has felt like an outcast. From drug dealer to pastor on a mission to bring church "to the wild," Michael Beck invites you into a journey of healing where all are met with compassion and where transformation happens as we make space for each other's wounds. Discover how God can bring forth beauty from ashes by getting down in the gray soot of our wounds to paint our lives beautiful again.

Dzhangal
Dzhangal

Author:

Publisher: Gost Books

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910401156

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Photographs of discarded items present an alternative portrait of residents of The Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France

Ashes of Fiery Weather
Ashes of Fiery Weather

Author: Kathleen Donohoe

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 0544526694

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This “stunning and intimate portrayal of four generations of New York City firefighters somehow manages to be part Alice McDermott, part Denis Leary” (Irish America). One of Book Riot’s 100 Must-Read New York City Novels Firefighters walk boldly into battle against the most capricious of elements. Their daughters, mothers, sisters, and wives walk through the world with another kind of strength and another kind of sorrow, and no one knows that better than the women of the Keegan-O’Reilly clan. Ashes of Fiery Weather takes us from famine-era Ireland to New York City a decade after 9/11, illuminating the passionate loves and tragic losses of generations of women in a firefighting family—with “characters that come so vividly to life one forgets one is reading a novel . . . Anyone Irish will face an uncanny recognition in these pages; everyone else will be enthralled meeting such captivating figures” (Matthew Thomas, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves).

Stepping Through the Ashes
Stepping Through the Ashes

Author: Janine Altongy

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931788014

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"Steppping Through the Ashes" is a photographic elegy to those who died on September 11, and a portrait of how people are coping in the wake of the terrorist attack on New York. Many photographers have recorded the devastation, but Eugene Richards transcends description to offer instead a way of coming to terms with this tragedy. Interviews with survivors and victims' relatives complement Richards' beautiful and poignant images. It may be the best photo book yet on those hard days. --"Albuquerque Journal" Richards is arguably the most empathetic photographer working when it comes to showing the hard parts of people's lives... Once again, Richards has wrought a personal elegy for those who are just learning to cope with what has happened to them. --"New Yorker"

Lightning and Ashes
Lightning and Ashes

Author: John Guzlowski

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780974326450

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a verse memoir about the author's parents' experiences in a Nazi slave labor camp in Germany

Garden, Ashes
Garden, Ashes

Author: Danilo Kiš

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781564783264

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Garden, Ashes is the remarkable account of Andi Scham's childhood during World War II, as his Jewish family traverses Eastern Europe to escape persecution. As the family moves from house to house, the novel focuses on Andi's relationship with his father; he recounts the endless hours his father poured into the creation of his all-inclusive third edition of the Bus, Ship, Rail, and Air Travel Guide, to the bizarre sermons he delivered to his befuddled family, to his eventual disappearance and assumed death at Auschwitz. Despite the apocalyptic events fueling this family's story, Kis's writing emphasizes the specific details of life during this period, constructing a personal account of a future artist growing up under the shadow of the Nazis and in a world capable of containing a person as unique as his father.

Portraits of Ruin
Portraits of Ruin

Author: Joseph S. Pulver

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781614980254

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A collection of stories, vignettes, sketches, and parables.

Dust to Dust Or Ashes to Ashes?
Dust to Dust Or Ashes to Ashes?

Author: Alvin J. Schmidt

Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press,Csi

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781928653219

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Dust to Dust, Ashes to Ashes reflects research drawn from numerous biblical and historical sources examining the practice of cremation. Provides helpful information especially for Christians.