Download or read book Understanding Comics written by Scott McCloud and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

Download or read book The Poet The Painter written by Eziikiill Grey and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of Mind meeting Body, of Pleasure witnessing Pain, and of Theory discovering Action, for what seems to be the first time. This is a story of Body meeting Mind, of Pain witnessing Pleasure, and of Action discovering Theory, for what seems to be the first time. This is a realization of unity through self-discovery. This simply is, now, and always.

Download or read book Becoming the Butlers written by Penny Jackson and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-06-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rachel Harris's mother runs off to Spain with the super of their New York City apartment building, Rachel's life takes a bizarre turn. Her eccentric father becomes obsessed with George Vasquez, the man who stole his wife: He wears George's clothes, he shaves with his razor, and, to top it off, he moves George's family into their apartment. The poignant and often funny journey Rachel and her father take to Madrid to hunt down her mother further cements her desire to shake her more than unusual family situation and find a new identity. And who has a more perfect life than Olivio and Edwin Butler? So gorgeous and popular, they don't really have friends, just hangers-on. And though Rachel doesn't remember ever having spoken a word to them, her resolve becomes clear. She must find a way into the Butlers' home and into their family. In this marvelously compassionate first novel, Penny Jackson deftly depicts a young girl's search for family - and her discovery that family is a state of mind.

Download or read book An Artist Goes to War written by Victoria Ann Granacki and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many others who served in World War II, Leon Granacki was an ordinary guy from a working-class immigrant family drafted into the US Army and thrust into the horrors of war in the South Pacific. But through sheer luck and pluck, he leveraged his art talents to survive and thrive, catapulting himself from private infantryman to Master Sergeant and mapmaker for General MacArthur in the Americal Division’s Intelligence section. Inspired by the Southern Cross as his troop transport crossed the equator, he designed the Americal Division patch for the Army’s only named division, created in New Caledonia. Overseas for three-and-a-half years without any stateside furlough, he labored over maps of enemy positions in a primitive tent in the steamy, mosquito-infested jungles of Guadalcanal and Bougainville. In An Artist Goes to War, author Victoria Ann Granacki paints a portrait of her father, Leon, through his original maps, jungle watercolors, journal illustrations, scrapbook photos, and letters home to “Dear Gang”—his extended Polish American family crowded together in a Chicago “six-flat” apartment building. Despite only slyly alluding to awful conditions to evade the censors’ scissors, his indomitable optimism always comes through. The Polish-language letters directed to his beloved parents are filled with childlike tenderness as he tries to reassure them he’ll be safe. His plaintive longings for family, holidays home, fishing, and a woman to love are poignant reminders of the personal effects of war on reluctant soldiers.

Download or read book Dear Juliette written by Juliette Huxley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May Sarton's love for Juliette Huxley, ignited that first moment she saw her in 1936, transcended sixty years of friendship, passion, silence, and reconciliation. In the breadth and variation of these letters, we see Sarton in all her complexities and are privy to the nuances of her rich amitie amoureuse with Juliette, the preeminent muse and most enduring love of her life. The letters chart their meeting; May's affair with Juliette's husband, Julian (brother of Aldous Huxley), before the war; her intense involvement with Juliette after the war; and the ardent and life-enhancing friendship that endured between them until Juliette's death. While May's intimate relationship with Julian had not been a secret, her more powerful emotions for Juliette had. May's fiery passion was a seductive yet sometimes destructive force. Her feelings for and demands on Juliette were often overwhelming to them both. Indeed, Juliette refused all contact with May for nearly twenty-five years, the consequence of May's impulsive threat to tell Julian of their intimacy. The silence was devastating to May, but her love for Juliette never diminished. Their reconciliation after Julian's death was not so much a rekindling as it was a testament to the profound affinities between them.

Download or read book The Letters Portrait of an Artist Jim Houser written by Connie Houser and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters: Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser is a book about Connie and Jim Houser’s passion for art and each other as well as for living and family. It is a dialogue about their adventures in pursuing those loves and achieving recognition for their accomplishments. In 2008 the book garnered FIRST PLACE in the DIY California Book Fest and HONORABLE MENTIONS in A DOZEN BOOK FESTS including the New England Book Fest and the LONDON, ENGLAND book fest. It is a readable, visual delight. There is a profound degree of “suchness” or Zen quality in Jim Houser’s paintings as well as a lyricism not unlike the clear concise resonance of Robert Frost’s shorter verse. Those essentials are shown in the almost forty paintings photographed for The Letters: Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser. The imagined and inventive device and use of letters (or messages) in "The Letters: Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser swiftly conveys the actual events in Jim and Connie Houser’s lives. The creative partners are portrayed in a rapidly moving dialogue that involves the reader in artist’s competitions, art gallery shows, foreign and domestic travel, family life, and an understanding of the profession of producing a fine work of art in modern times. The Letters: Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser explains that a fine work of art is very different from the remainder of artistic endeavor. Fine art engages the viewer in a visual dialogue that distinguishes it and bonds the viewer in love or hate but never mediocrity. Not a run of the mill coffee table book, The Letters: Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser is a charming and accurate account of the modern day artist’s life while creating works of art and bringing them to the public’s attention. The story encompasses the tragedies and the successes in the Houser’s lives and their interaction with others. Written by the artist’s wife, Connie Houser, herself an awarded artist and writer, it spans the artists’ relationship thus far and offers insights into their creative work. The Letters: Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser follows the artists’ creative work accomplished during their hectic everyday existence. The same full lives of having a family, a home, and a job to pay bills, necessary today to most people. Although the letters themselves are an imaginative artistic device to enliven the book, the events are true. Not satisfied to just get by, they made career choices that would eventually make them both candidates for inclusion in the prestigious Marquis Who’s Who editions of art, literature, America and the World. Jim has been represented in those volumes for fifteen years and Connie joined the ranks in 2004. Photographs of his paintings will also appeared in the 2008-2009 "Who ́s Who in American Art" Artist ́s gallery. Their ability to continue to work under conditions that might discourage others is made clear in The Letters: Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser. Jim‘s profession is painting and Connie’s is writing and painting. The rest of their work, although they contributed much, enjoyed it, and performed with excellence, was done to pay the bills. Jim was a 30-year college professor and full-time family man. Connie organized family matters, taught part-time, while writing for various publications and magazines plus painting. The carousing hours were the working hours for their creative efforts because silence reigned. Their many travel adventures in the states and abroad guaranteed they played hard with the same energy and enthusiasms. When Jim began winning countless awards for his painting, he was invited to show at numerous exhibitions and in New York City galleries. They added these events plus art show openings to their already hectic schedule. Through it all they managed a fulfilling family life while taking creative care of their parents and allowing them their desired home life.

Download or read book How to be an Artist written by S. Natalie Abadzis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fun-filled art activity book that will encourage kids to express themselves while teaching them about key artistic styles and a selection of pioneering artists from history"--

Download or read book Young House Love written by Sherry Petersik and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book Three Women Artists written by Amy Von Lintel and published by American Wests, Sponsored by W. This book was released on 2022 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest--and particularly West Texas--on the New York art world of the 1950s, Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West aims to establish the significance of itinerant teaching and western travel as a strategic choice for women artists associated with traditional centers of artistic authority and population in the eastern United States. The book is focused on three artists: Elaine de Kooning, Jeanne Reynal, and Louise Nevelson. In their travels to and work in the High Plains, they were inspired to innovate their abstract styles and introduce new critical dialogues through their work. These women traveled west for the same reason artists often travel to new places: they found paid work, markets, patrons, and friends. This Middle American context offers us a "decentered" modernism--demanding that we look beyond our received truths about Abstract Expressionism. Authors Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos demonstrate that these women's New York avant-garde, abstract styles were attractive to Panhandle-area ranchers, bankers, and aspiring art students. Perhaps as importantly, they show that these artists' aesthetics evolved in light of their regional experiences. Offering their work as a supplement and corrective to the frameworks of patriarchal, East Coast ethnocentrism, Von Lintel and Roos make the case for Texas as influential in the national art scene of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book The Pain Artist written by E.E. "Doc" Murdock and published by H.O.T. Press Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pain Artist is a dark psychological novel about a young man who, after being abandoned and left homeless, is forced to move in with his invalid grandmother who lives in a gang-infested neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles. Crippled and in constant pain, he becomes a self-described Hikikomori (a Japanese term for young men who withdraw from society to live mostly on the internet). The novel explores the horrific challenges of today’s inner-city youth. From the chilling opening, to the existentially alarming conclusion, the reader is carried along with the protagonist on his journey of learning and self discovery.

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

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Download or read book Baa Baa Black Death written by Beverley Armstrong-Rodman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's summer in Niagara Falls. IT'S HOT, IT'S HUMID, IT'S DEADLY The Black Sheep walks among them, seemingly untouchable. He works, he parties, he kills. No woman is safe. They all know- HE'S CHARMING, HE'S INTELLIGENT. They just don't know- HE'S A KILLER. He has his sights on one more victim, then he'll quit, and disappear forever. She's beautiful, she's smart, she's vulnerable. CAN THE POLICE CATCH HIM BEFORE HE CATCHES HER?