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Book Frank Stella Unbound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mitra Abbaspour
  • Publisher : Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9780300236996
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Frank Stella Unbound written by Mitra Abbaspour and published by Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the vital role of literature in the development of the artistic practice of Frank Stella (b. 1936), this insightful book looks at four transformative series of prints made between 1984 and 1999. Each of these series is named after a literary work--the Had Gadya (a playful song traditionally sung at the end of the Passover Seder), Italian Folktales, compiled by Italo Calvino, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. This investigation offers a critical new perspective on Stella: an examination of his interdisciplinary process, literary approach, and interest in the lessons of art history as crucial factors for his artistic development as a printmaker. Mitra Abbaspour, Calvin Brown, and Erica Cooke examine how Stella's dynamic engagement with literature paralleled the artist's experimentation with unconventional printmaking techniques and engendered new ways of representing spatial depth to unleash the narrative potential of abstract forms.

Book Frank Stella

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  • Author : Sidney Guberman
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Frank Stella written by Sidney Guberman and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undaunted by Stella's infamous comment "Only what can be seen there is there," Guberman traces Stella's career, exploring sources as diverse as Jasper Johns, Jean Arp, and Henri Matisse, investigating the technical complexity of the work, and interweaving more personal insights into the events of his life, his passion for sport and speed, and the role of his family and colleagues in the art world.

Book Frank Stella

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  • Author : Michael Auping
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9780300215441
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Frank Stella written by Michael Auping and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Oct. 30, 2015-Mar. 7, 2016; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Apr. 17-Sept. 4, 2016; and the de Young, San Francisco, Nov. 5, 2016-Feb. 26, 2017.

Book Zuckerman Unbound

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  • Author : Philip Roth
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2013-07-02
  • ISBN : 1466846453
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Zuckerman Unbound written by Philip Roth and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Roth's fictional alter-ego returns in Zuckerman Unbound, "...masterful, sure in every touch." (The New York Times) The sensationalizing sixties are coming to an end, and even writing a novel can make you a star. The writer Nathan Zuckerman publishes his fourth book, an aggressive, abrasive, and comically erotic novel entitled Carnovsky, and all at once he is on the cover of Life, one of the decade's most notorious celebrities. This is the same Nathan Zuckerman who in Philip Roth's much praised The Ghost Writer was the dedicated young apprentice drawing sustenance from the great books and the integrity of their authors. Now in his mid-thirties, Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his fame, ventures out on the streets of Manhattan, and not only is he assumed to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), but he also finds himself the target of admirers, admonishers, advisers, and would-be literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Nathan Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech. Yet, streetcorner recognition and media notoriety are the least disturbing consequences of writing Carnovsky. Against his best interests, the newly renowned novelist retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother and his family. Even when finally he lives out the fantasies of his fans and enjoys an exhilarating night with the beautiful and worldly film star Caesara O'Shea (a rather more capable celebrity), he is dismayed the following morning by the caliber of the competition up in the erotic big leagues. In some of Zuckerman Unbound's funniest episodes Zuckerman endures the blandishments of another New Jersey boy who has briefly achieved his own moment of stardom. He is the broken and resentful fan Alvin Pepler, in the fifties a national celebrity on the TV quiz show "Smart Money." Thrust back into obscurity when headlined scandals forced the quiz show off the air, Pepler now attaches himself to Zuckerman and won't let go--an "Angel of Manic Delights" to the amused novelist (who momentarily sees him as his "pop self"), and yet also the likely source of a demonic threat. But the surprise that fate finally delivers is more devilish than any cooked up by Alvin Pepler, or even by Zuckerman's imagination. In the coronary-care unit of a Miami Hospital, Nathan's father bestows upon his older son not a blessing but what seems to be a curse. And, in an astonishingly bitter final turn, a confrontation with his brother opens the way for the novelist's deep and painful understanding of the deathblow that Carnovsky has dealt to his own past.

Book Nihil Unbound

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  • Author : R. Brassier
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2007-11-08
  • ISBN : 0230590829
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Nihil Unbound written by R. Brassier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism.

Book A Murder to Die For

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  • Author : Stevyn Colgan
  • Publisher : Unbound Publishing
  • Release : 2018-01-25
  • ISBN : 1783524391
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book A Murder to Die For written by Stevyn Colgan and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its most famous resident, murder mystery writer Agnes Crabbe, events take a dark turn as the festival opens with a shocking death. Each year the residents are outnumbered by crowds dressed as Crabbe's best-known character, the lady detective Millicent Cutter. The weekend is never a mild-mannered affair as fan club rivalries bubble below the surface, but tensions reach new heights when a second Crabbe devotee is found murdered. Though the police are quick to arrive on the scene, the facts are tricky to ascertain as the witnesses, suspects and victim are all dressed as Miss Cutter. And they all want to solve that crime too...

Book You Took the Last Bus Home

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  • Author : Brian Bilston
  • Publisher : Unbound Publishing
  • Release : 2016-10-06
  • ISBN : 1783523069
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book You Took the Last Bus Home written by Brian Bilston and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and surprisingly touching poems from Brian Bilston, the mysterious ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’. With endless wit, imaginative wordplay and underlying heartache, he offers profound insights into modern life, exploring themes as diverse as love, death, the inestimable value of a mobile phone charger, the unbearable torment of forgetting to put the rubbish out, and the improbable nuances of the English language. Constantly experimenting with literary form, Bilston’s words have been known to float off the page, take the shape of the subjects they explore, and reflect our contemporary world in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Venn diagrams and Scrabble tiles. This irresistibly charming collection of his best-loved poems will make you laugh out loud while making you question the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century.

Book Bound Unbound

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  • Author : Tianmiao Lin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9788881588534
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bound Unbound written by Tianmiao Lin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As only one of a handful of internationally recognized female artists in China, Lin Tianmiao is known for her use of thread and embroidery as both mediums and subject matter in her sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations--an unconventional approach unique to this artist in the Chinese art world. Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao surveys for the first time the past twenty years of the artist's work and includes an interview with the artist as well as essays by leading scholars on Chinese contemporary art."--Publisher's website.

Book Death Is Stupid

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  • Author : Anastasia Higginbotham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-06
  • ISBN : 9781948340397
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Death Is Stupid written by Anastasia Higginbotham and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable tool for kids to discuss death, explore grief, and honor the life of loved ones.

Book Art House

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Classics
  • Release : 2016-10-31
  • ISBN : 9781614285366
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Art House written by and published by Classics. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading art collector Chara Schreyer's forty-year collaboration with interior designer Gary Hutton has produced five residences designed to house 600 works of art, including masterpieces by Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Louise Nevelson, Diane Arbus, and Frank Stella. Art House takes readers on a breathtaking visual tour of these stunning spaces, which range from an architectural tour-de-force to a high-rise "gallery as home." An exploration of a life devoted to living with art and to designing homes that honor it, this title is an inspiration for art and design lovers alike.

Book Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta

Download or read book Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta written by J. David Spurlock and published by Vanguard. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta in the landmark collection, Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta. The New York Times said, "Frazetta helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels." Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potency, but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of major works of Fine Art. Despite his fantastic subject matter, the quality of Frazetta's work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth but, even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo and, major Frazetta works sell for millions of dollars. This innovator's work has inspired generations of artists, movies including the Conan films, John Carter of Mars, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Robert Rodriguez' films including From Dusk Till Dawn, Ralph Bakshi films, the epic, Game of Thrones series, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Disney's animated Tarzan films, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and George Lucas' Star Wars. Forbes magazine said, "Which artist helped make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians." J. David Spurlock started crafting this book by reviving the original million-selling 1970s mass market art book, Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta. But, he expanded and revised to include twice as many images and, presents them at a much larger coffee-table book size. The collection is brimming with classic and rare works including barbarians, beasts, and beauties. Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin said, "Frazetta's covers of the Conan paperback collections became the definitive picture of the character... still is." Schwarzenegger said, "When I looked at Frazetta's paintings, I tell you, it was intimidating." Game of Thrones, Conan and Aquaman film star Jason Momoa said, "I am a huge Frank Frazetta fan. That's what I wanted to bring to life." See the revolutionary art that helped inspire Schwarzenegger, Momoa, the Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones: FRAZETTA!

Book Frank Stella  Prints  1967 1982

Download or read book Frank Stella Prints 1967 1982 written by Frank Stella and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frank Stella

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  • Author : Robert Rosenblum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Frank Stella written by Robert Rosenblum and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unbound Hope

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  • Author : Joy Ohagwu
  • Publisher : Divine Breakthrough Infinity
  • Release : 2016-08-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Unbound Hope written by Joy Ohagwu and published by Divine Breakthrough Infinity. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CHRISTIAN ROMANTIC SUSPENSE SERIES A veteran air hostess scarred by her past. A US Marshal determined to nab an elusive fugitive. And a lunatic from the past who won't stay in the past. Will their collision destroy them or prove redemptive? Experienced flight attendant Erica Heart wanted nothing more to do with US Marshal Jim Denison. Her gratitude to him for his key role in rescuing her sister's fiancé, Michael, stopped at the gate of their final goodbye. But when she urgently required the services of a US Marshal aboard a flight to accompany her team of newly recruited flight attendants, she hesitantly turned to Jim for help. Will her heart heed her plea to not get involved and risk having it broken? US Marshal Jim Denison knew in his gut that something was wrong when their flight left the tarmac. He yearned for Erica Heart's support without rattling her, the same woman responsible for his sleepless nights since they parted ways after her sister's wedding one year ago. Her Christian values, charming attitude, and wit proved he had his work cut out for him--to rein in his wildly hoping heart But when things go wrong after take-off, her faith and calm during a crisis proved vital in defeating a cloaked enemy on the plane. UNBOUND HOPE is Book Two of the Pleasant Hearts & Elliot-Kings Christian suspense series. Christian fiction Christian Suspense Christian Romance Christian Romantic Suspense Young Adult Romance Books Contemporary Romance Clean & Wholesome Romance Teen Romance Novels Mystery Thrillers Suspense Romance Emotions & Feelings Social Issues Action Adventure Contemporary Fiction ebooks Social Issues Crime Violence kidnapped romance New clean suspense mystery thriller Series teen love story YA mystery suspense Christian mystery suspense romance series contemporary romance modern survival stories thriller thriller award-winning thriller series mystery suspense author

Book Melodrama Unbound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Gledhill
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-08
  • ISBN : 0231543190
  • Pages : 761 pages

Download or read book Melodrama Unbound written by Christine Gledhill and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women. Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama is a transgeneric mode that has long spoken to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Pointing to melodrama’s roots in the ancient Greek combination of melos and drama, and to medieval Christian iconography focused on the pathos of Christ as suffering human body, the volume highlights the importance to modernity of melodrama as a mode of emotional dramaturgy, the social and aesthetic conditions for which emerged long before the French Revolution. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. They examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in India, China, Japan, and South America, whether through colonial circuits or later, globalization; how melodrama mixes with other modes such as romance, comedy, and realism; and finally how melodrama has modernized the dramatic functions of gender, class, and race by orchestrating vital aesthetic and emotional experiences for diverse audiences.

Book Security Unbound

Download or read book Security Unbound written by Jef Huysmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy. Security is not in the first instance a right or value but a practice that challenges democratic institutions and actions. We are familiar with emergency policies in the name of national security challenging parliamentary processes, the space for political dissent, and fundamental rights. Yet, security practice and technology pervade society heavily in very mundane ways without raising national security crises, in particular through surveillance technology and the management of risks and uncertainties in many areas of life. These more diffuse security practices create societies in which suspicion becomes a default way of relating and governing relations, ranging from neighbourhood relations over financial transactions to cross border mobility. Security Unbound demonstrates that governing through suspicion poses serious challenges to democratic practice. Some of these challenges are familiar, such as the erosion of the right to privacy; others are less so, such as the post-human challenge to citizenship. Security unbound provokes us to see that the democratic political stake today is not our security but preventing insecurity from becoming the organising principle of political and social life.

Book The Art Architecture Complex

Download or read book The Art Architecture Complex written by Hal Foster and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the “art-architecture complex” provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis.