Felt Passion
Author: Ellen Bakker
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789081847698
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Radicals
Author: David Horowitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-24
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1621570061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering. So argues David Horowitz, bestselling author in his newest book Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion. From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz shows how the idealistic impulse to make the world “a better place” gives birth to the twin cultural pathologies of cynicism and nihilism, and is the chief source of human suffering. A former liberal himself, Horowitz recounts his own brushes with radicalism and offers unparalleled insight into the disjointed ideology of liberal elites through case studies of well-known radial leftists, including Christopher Hitchens, feminist Bettina Aptheker , leftist academic Cornel West, and more. Exploring the origin and evolution of radical liberals and their progressive ideology, Radicals illustrates how liberalism is not only intellectually crippling for its adherents, but devastating to society.
A Passion for Orchids
Author: Jack Kramer
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783791326993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cultural history of the orchid includes 60 colour plates of antique orchid illustrations by such botanical illustrators as Martin J. Heade, Lucien Linden and Walter Hood Fitch. Each illustration is accompanied by a brief history of the artist.
A Passion for Performance
Author: Shelley Bennett
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1999-09-02
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0892365579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.
Sex
Author: John Williams
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9783822865187
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Author: Howard Schatz
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Passion & Line, Schatz interprets these hard-won creations through his art, combining exploration and adoration in equal measure, This is a mutual exaltation in which photographer, dancer, and observer collaborate. Adoration as its own reward.
Passion by Design
Author: Baroness Kizette De Lempicka-Foxhall
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780789205032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the Polish born Art Deco portraitist and her work.
Edward Weston
Author: Edward Weston
Publisher:
Published: 1995-10-30
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book surveys Edward Weston's work more comprehensively and exhaustively than any previous work. A combination of biography and critical analysis, it offers more than 320 meticulously reproduced duotone images, nearly a quarter of which have never been reproduced in books before. The selected photographs trace Weston's career from his early days, through formative years in Mexico, and on through the balance of his career, which ended because of the onset of Parkinson's disease ten years prior to his death in 1958. Treated chronologically and emphasizing Weston's creative preoccupations in each period, the book includes work that he created in 1938 and 1939 with funds from the first two Guggenheim Foundation grants ever awarded to a photographer. To illustrate the book vintage prints have been selected from the copious Weston Archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the highly important Lane Collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Nearly 10,000 photographs have been examined in order to select those reproduced in the book.
Self Portraits: Fictions
Author: Frederic Tuten
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0393079058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Author: Donna M. Lucey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-08-22
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0393634787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
