Download or read book Kill Day written by Andrew Raymond and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A covert operative embarks on a global hunt to capture a legendary assassin who will teach him his most important lesson: trust no one. When an MI6 operation ends in murder, it doesn't take long to identify the killer: MI6 veteran turned rogue, Henry Marlow. Sent to capture him is the man being groomed to be Marlow's successor: elite covert operative Duncan Grant. But as Grant digs into Marlow's past, he uncovers a plot that links an agency mole and some of the world's most powerful people - a plot that they will do anything to keep secret. Tearing up the espionage rule book, Marlow's renegade mission pulls Grant into a world where kills don't come easily, and the line between good and evil is not as clear as his superiors would have him believe. With his life on the line, and the very future of MI6 at stake in a terrifying endgame, Grant will learn his most important lesson: trust no one. The epic journey starts here. From the acclaimed author of Official Secrets - an Amazon bestseller for three straight months, with millions of Kindle Unlimited pages read - Kill Day is 'an explosive mix of I Am Pilgrim meets Jack Reacher'. If you like Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, David Baldacci's Will Robie, and Daniel Craig's Bond, this addictive espionage series will leave you telling yourself 'just one more page'. _____________________________ What readers say about Andrew Raymond: ★★★★★ '[Raymond] explodes onto the scene with one of the best action-thriller debuts since Vince Flynn and Brad Thor... Seriously impressive.' ★★★★★ 'Jack Reacher eat your heart out. Duncan Grant has it all!' ★★★★★ 'Truly spectacular. One of the best thrillers I have read in a long time.' ★★★★★ 'So many twists and turns, I seriously didn't figure it all out until the end.' ★★★★★ 'Scotland's finest spy export since Sean Connery.'

Download or read book Duncan Grant written by Frances Spalding and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s, from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George. This authoritive biography combines an engrossing narrative with an invaluable assessment of Grant's individual achievement and his place within Bloomsbury and in the wider development of British art. 'Spalding's skill is to sketch out the intricate emotional web against the bright bold untouchable figure of the artist. . . Her achievement is to let that sense of a man living with his craft shine through on every page: the result is an exceptionally honest and warm portrait. ' Financial Times

Download or read book What Artists Wear written by Charlie Porter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they reveal to us. From Yves Klein’s spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol’s denim to Martine Syms’s joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are tools of expression, storytelling, resistance, and creativity. In What Artists Wear, fashion critic and art curator Charlie Porter guides us through the wardrobes of modern artists: in the studio, in performance, at work or at play. For Porter, clothing is a way in: the wild paint-splatters on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s designer clothing, Joseph Beuys’s shamanistic felt hat, or the functional workwear that defined Agnes Martin’s life of spiritua labor. As Porter roams widely from Georgia O’Keeffe’s tailoring to David Hockney’s bold color blocking to Sondra Perry’s intentional casual wear, he weaves his own perceptive analyses with original interviews and contributions from artists and their families and friends. Part love letter, part guide to chic, with more than 300 images, What Artists Wear offers a new way of understanding art, combined with a dynamic approach to the clothes we all wear. The result is a radical, gleeful inspiration to see each outfit as a canvas on which to convey an identity or challenge the status quo.

Download or read book Bloomsbury Portraits written by Richard Shone and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of the work of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

Download or read book Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group written by Douglas Blair Turnbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie van de Britse kunstschilder en ontwerper Duncan Grant (1885-1978), de homoseksuele minnaar van Vanessa Bell (zus van Virginia Woolf).

Download or read book The Art of Duncan Grant written by Simon Watney and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his working life, Duncan Grant experimented with a variety of styles and techniques, from commercial interior decoration to ceramics, print-making and theatre work, as well as easel painting and murals. The overall achievement of Grant's career in all its diversity is presented here.

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Artists written by Tony Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume comes as an addition to the extensive scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group. For the first time all the woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and other prints created by Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant are catalogued with numerous colour and black and white reproductions." "Carefully catalogued, and with most of the entries illustrated in either colour or in black and white (a number to the original size), this book provides a treasure trove for the large and enthusiastic audience keenly interested in the art and literature of the Bloomsbury Group. In addition, the catalogue is a valuable reference work for university and art historical libraries."--Jacket.

Download or read book Charleston written by Philip Mould and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of Bloomsbury written by Richard Shone and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics, agnosticism, defining truth and goodness, and the ideas of Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead, and G. E. Moore. But the Bloomsbury Group also played a prominent role in the development of modernist painting in Britain. The work of artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and their colleagues was often audacious and experimental, and proved to be one of the key influences on twentieth-century British art and design. This catalogue, published to accompany a major international exhibition of the Bloomsbury painters originating at the Tate Gallery in London and traveling to the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Gallery, provides a new look at the visual side of a movement that is more generally known for its literary production. It traces the artists' development over several decades and assesses their contribution to modernism. Catalogue entries on two hundred works, all illustrated in color, bring out the chief characteristics of Bloomsbury painting--domestic, contemplative, sensuous, and essentially pacific. These are seen in landscapes, portraits, and still lifes set in London, Sussex, and the South of France, as well as in the abstract painting and applied art that placed these artists at the forefront of the avant-garde before the First World War. Portraits of family and friends--from Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes to Aldous Huxley and Edith Sitwell--highlight the cultural and social setting of the group. Essays by leading scholars provide further insights into the works and the changing critical reaction to them, exploring friendships and relationships both within and outside of Bloomsbury, as well as the movement's wider social, economic, and political background. With beautiful illustrations and a highly accessible text, this catalogue represents a unique look at this fascinating artistic enclave. In addition to the editor, the contributors are James Beechey and Richard Morphet. Exhibition Schedule: ? The Tate Gallery, London November 4, 1999-January 30, 2000 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens San Marino, California The Yale Center for British Art New Haven, Connecticut May 20-September 2, 2000

Download or read book Private written by Duncan Grant and published by Heretic Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing and very sexy collection of Bloomsbury painter Duncan Grant's personal erotica. Often executed on mere scraps of paper they leave us in absolutely no doubt about his sexual desire. These small drawings can be very beautiful in their depiction of gay sex and also incredibly humorous.

Download or read book Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell written by Vanessa Bell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains over 300 letters of painter & decorative designer Vanessa Bell, the central figure in the Bloomsbury group.

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Group written by and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture with their innovative approach to art, design and society. In this book Frances Spalding presents over twenty fascinating biographies, all of which are illustrated with paintings and intimate photographs created by members of the group.

Download or read book Becoming a Londoner written by David Plante and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of National Book Award finalist David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite in 1960s London. “Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it's known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don't apply. It is as if all the conventions of sex and clothes and art and music and drink and drugs don't apply here in London . . .” In the 1960s, strangers to their new city and from the different worlds of New York and Athens, David and Nikos embarked on a life together, a partnership that would endure for forty years. At a moment of “absolute respect for differences,” London offered a freedom in love unattainable in their previous homes. Friendships with Stephen and Natasha Spender, Francis Bacon, Sonia Orwell, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Steven Runciman, David Hockney, and R. B. Kitaj, meetings with such Bloomsbury luminaries as E. M. Forster and Duncan Grant, and a developing friendship with Philip Roth living in London with Claire Bloom, opened up worlds within worlds; connections appeared to crisscross, invisibly, through the air, interconnecting everyone. David Plante has kept a diary of his life for more than half a century. Both a deeply personal memoir and a fascinating and significant work of cultural history, this first volume spans his first twenty years in London, beginning in the mid-sixties, and pieces together fragments of diaries, notes, sketches, and drawings to reveal a beautiful, intimate portrait of a relationship and a luminous evocation of a world of writers, poets, artists, and thinkers.

Download or read book Race Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica written by Gemma Romain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wales; a Black queer man in 1930s London; an artist's model; a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and Prisoner of War during the Second World War. Through his return to Jamaica after the war and his re-migrations to London in the late 1940s and the early 1960s, he was also witness to post-war Jamaican struggles and the independence movement as well as the development of London's post-war multi-ethnic migrations. Drawing on a range of archival materials including letters sent to individuals such as Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant (his former boyfriend and life-long friend), as well as paintings and newspaper articles, Gemma Romain explores the intersections of these diverse aspects of Nelson's life and demonstrates how such marginalized histories shed light on our understanding of broader historical themes such as Black LGBTQ history, Black British history in relation to the London artworld, the history of the Second World War, and histories of racism, colonialism and empire.

Download or read book Duncan Grant 1885 1978 written by Duncan Grant and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Platte County written by Starley Talbott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Platte River that flows through a portion of Platte County, Wyoming, lent its name to the new county carved from Laramie County in 1911. Prior to the late 1800s, with the exception of Native Americans, trappers, and some ranchers, few people chose to remain in the territory. Travelers who crossed the windswept prairies followed trails headed for the lush farmlands of Oregon or the goldfields of California and the Black Hills. In 1883, the Wyoming Development Company began an irrigation project that brought an influx of farmers to the promising new acreages around Wheatland, the town that became the county seat. The arrival of the railroad in the late 1800s brought more farmers, ranchers, and miners to the area that would become Platte County. New residents established dozens of communities with schools, churches, and businesses. The remaining viable towns are Wheatland, Glendo, Hartville, Guernsey, and Chugwater. This book covers the history of these towns, and the vanished ones, along with the rural areas of Platte County.

Download or read book Old House Interiors written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National architectural magazine now in its fifteenth year, covering period-inspired design 1700–1950. Commissioned photographs show real homes, inspired by the past but livable. Historical and interpretive rooms are included; new construction, additions, and new kitchens and baths take their place along with restoration work. A feature on furniture appears in every issue. Product coverage is extensive. Experts offer advice for homeowners and designers on finishing, decorating, and furnishing period homes of every era. A garden feature, essays, archival material, events and exhibitions, and book reviews round out the editorial. Many readers claim the beautiful advertising—all of it design-related, no “lifestyle” ads—is as important to them as the articles.