Download or read book Brian Calvin written by Brian Calvin and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Calvin's disarmingly low-key paintings explore a world populated with androgynous bohemians, skinnies in groups and trippy teenage characters coolly detached and aimlessly gazing out from a sundrenched, Southern Californian backdrop. Something of a celebration of slackerdom, they also reveal the artist's keen powers of observation, rigorous approach to his craft and attention to the formal dimensions of his medium. Calvin's highly stylized figures, flattened pallet and skewed cropping, have earned him comparison with Alex Katz and David Hockney, who he appears to be at once emulating and parodying, while simultaneously referencing music and pop-culture icons. Despite the presence of his cartoon-ish protagonists, the paintings utterly resonate with the principles of abstraction; figures stand as vessels for unplaceable narratives, ones which only unveil themselves through fragments and uncanny reflections. The first comprehensively illustrated monograph of the Californian painter's practice, Brian Calvin is a beautifully illustrated publication spanning over a decade of work and comprising interviews and specially commissioned text, placing the artist's work in a broad art and popular culture context. Calvin's work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in U.S. and European galleries, and has been included in group shows such as the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Beja to Vancouver, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2003); Painting Pictures, Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; ISHTAR curated by Bruce Hainley, Midway, St. Paul, MN; Giverny, Salon 94, New York, NY; Dear Painter, paint me..., Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. He also recently collaborated with his longtime friend, Raf Simons, lending the Californian ease of his works to the Belgian designer's Spring/Summer 13 collection.
Download or read book Days written by Brian Calvin and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DAYS presents the pencil drawings of Brian Calvin, selected from sketchbooks in which he made one a day over the course of a year. Presented chronologically, they include glimpses of family life, cubist portraits, drafts for sculptures, abstract compositions, and comic cartoons, with human figures reduced to their most expressive elements. These images give us an intimate sense of the thought and process of an artist who has been described as "quietly disconcerting and mischievously witty" (Artforum). Calvin's work has been widely shown, nationally and internationally; it is included in the permanent collections of the Orange County Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. Miscellaneous. Art.
Download or read book Brian Calvin written by Mario Codognato and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Dead President s Club written by Peter C. Jacobson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of God written by Walter Wangerin Jr. and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the Bible as a singular, powerful story and prepare to be swept away by Scripture as never before! Wangerin's "Bible storybook for adults" features brilliant settings, dramatized scenes, and added dialogue—all gleaned from extensive research. The Book of God reads like a novel, dramatizing the sweep of biblical events, bringing to life the men and women of this ancient book in vivid detail and dialogue. From Abraham wandering in the desert to Jesus teaching the multitudes on a Judean hillside, this award-winning bestseller follows the biblical story from start to finish. Priests and kings, apostles and prophets, common folk and charismatic leaders—individual stories offer glimpses into an unfolding revelation that reaches across the centuries to touch us today. The Book of God: Follows the biblical story in chronological order Filled with carefully researched cultural and historical background Includes biblical events viewed through the eyes of minor characters Master storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr. shares the story of the Bible from beginning to end as you've never read it before, retold with exciting detail and passionate energy. Experience the Bible in a beautiful new way!
Download or read book Calvin vs Wesley written by Don Thorsen and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congregations are made up of people with all sorts of theologies. Pastor Mike Slaughter even says that these can stand in the way of the church’s mission of social and personal holiness. But most people do not adopt a theology on purpose, mostly they merely breathe in the prevailing cultural air. The theology "de jour" seems to be Calvinist, with its emphasis on “the elect” and “other worldly salvation.” In fact, there is so much Calvinism saturating the culture, that some do not even know there is an alternative way of thinking about their faith. They don’t know where to go to find a viable option; they don’t even know the key words to search Google. So people are left thinking like Calvinists but living with a desire to change the world, offering grace and hope to hurting people in mission and ministry—loving the least, the last, and the lost. In other words, they are living like Wesleyans. This book shows what Calvinist and Wesleyans actually believe about human responsibility, salvation, the universality of God’s grace, holy living through service, and the benefits of small group accountability--and how that connects to how people can live. Calvinists and Wesleyans are different, and by knowing the difference, people will not only see the other benefits of Wesleyan theology but will be inspired to learn more. By knowing who they are as faithful people of God, they will be motivated to reach out in mission with renewed vigor. And they won’t be obstacles to grace and holiness, but they can be better disciples and advocates for Christ through service in this world.
Download or read book Proclaiming the Incomprehensible God written by Derek Thomas and published by Mentor. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Job stands in the centre of one of the most complicated problems of life, the interaction between divine sovereignty and human responsibility, one that has provoked much tortuous thought by both Calvinists and Arminians.
Download or read book Forever Green written by Mary Jaycee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when the man you love has no time for you and another handsome guy is in pursuit? Myra Brown loves Calvin Boone but can't make him realize that his wealth means little to her and that she craves his companionship more than anything. Brian Fields becomes a church pastor. He wants Myra by his side. Myra loves his gentle spirit and his ability to see the whole picture. He also makes himself available to her whenever she needs him. If she could only put Brian's personality into Calvin, she'd have the perfect man. As Calvin becomes more elusive, Myra finds herself falling for Brian. She chooses her mate, but pays a hefty price for that choice. The bond of family is tight. When a precious aunt dies under suspicious circumstances, Myra vows to bring her perpetrators to justice. She puts her life on the line as she treads into a world of gangs, drugs and violence. One suitor will rise to the challenge to pull Myra out and back into her own world-his world--the place where she belongs.
Download or read book Take a Closer Look written by Daniel Arasse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What paintings can teach us—if we can really learn to see them What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short narrative "fictions," each richly illustrated in color, Daniel Arasse, one of the most brilliant art historians of our time, cleverly and gracefully guides readers through a variety of adventures in seeing, from Velázquez to Titian, Bruegel to Tintoretto. By demonstrating that we don't really see what these paintings are trying to show us, Arasse makes it clear that we need to take a closer look. In chapters that each have a different form, including a letter, an interview, and an animated conversation with a colleague, the book explores how these pictures teach us about ways of seeing across the centuries. In the process, Arasse freshly lays bare the dazzling power of painting. Fast-paced and full of humor as well as insight, this is a book for anyone who cares about really looking at, seeing, and understanding paintings.
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Download or read book The Dead President s Club Tecumseh s Curse written by Peter C. Jacobson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The The Dead Presidents Club story continues with the ghosts of Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge trying to end a 160 year old curse before an assassin kills the president and his family by blowing up the White House. The ghosts have little time to discover the assassin and to stop him. Meanwhile their living friend Brian Stone, the presidents son, has problems of his own he must climb the dreaded rope to the ceiling of the school gymnasium or receive a failing grade.
Download or read book Revelation Redemption and Response written by Philip Walker Butin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh consideration of Calvin's Christian vision, however, Philip Butin demonstrates Calvin's consistent and pervasive appeal to the Trinity as the basis, pattern, and dynamic of God's relationship with humanity.
Download or read book Duet with Chorus written by Brian Calvin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Art. Music. With a foreword by Devin Johnston and studio photographs by Moira Tarmy. Through the drawings and paintings included in DUET (WITH CHORUS), Brian Calvin explores arrangements of figures at once boldly simplified and subtly expressive. In doing so, he works with a basic vocabulary of facial features, fingers, collar, hair, and perhaps a flower behind the ear--all stripped of excess detail. The work arose from a commission, to create an exhibit to accompany Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera. As Calvin explains his approach, "Rather than illustrating scenes from the plot of Così fan tutte, I lingered on the organizing principle of duets in Mozart's opera, exploring harmony and dissonance through repetition and difference."
Download or read book In Love written by Amy Bloom and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post) “A pleasure to read . . . Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life. . . . Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace. In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing—its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.
Download or read book The Brightest Mirror of God s Works written by Nico Vorster and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Calvin’s perspectives on the nature, calling, and destiny of the human being is scattered all over his extensive corpus of writings. This book attempts to provide an accurate account of the main theological motifs that governed Calvin’s doctrine on the human being, while keeping in mind variable factors such as the historical development of Calvin’s thought, the pastoral and often unsystematic orientation of his theology, and the formative impact doctrinal controversies had on his thoughts. The contribution focuses specifically on Calvin’s understanding of the created structure of the human being, her sinful nature, the human being’s union with Christ, the limits of human reason, the anthropological roots of human society and gender. The primary aim is to make the original Calvin speak. But the contribution also addresses some of the most recent debates on Calvin’s theology and identifies those impulses in his theological anthropology that bear potential for modern reflections on human existence. Like most of us, Calvin was a child of his time. However, his intellectual legacy endures and readers may well find his thoughts on the human being surprisingly refreshing and stimulating for modern anthropological and social discourses.
Download or read book Conversations with Neil s Brain written by William H. Calvin and published by William H. Calvin. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
