Download or read book Images and Shadows written by Iris Origo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.
Download or read book Shadows and Images written by Meriol Trevor and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a Protestant young woman and her journey to the Roman Catholic Church. The fascinating novel is set in nineteenth-century England-a time when Catholicism was regarded with suspicion and prejudice against Catholics was commonplace. Leaving her sheltered life in the countryside, young Clem becomes acquainted with the fascinating ideas and people of Oxford-including a brilliant young clergyman, John Henry Newman. But when her relationship to a Roman Catholic man with a colorful reputation leads to an Italian elopement that is more innocent than it appears, the scandal drives a wedge between Clem and the upright Anglican circle of friends and family she left behind. Woven into the story of Clem and Augustine, their courtship and marriage, and Clem's conversion, is the vital, influential, and holy Newman, as seen through the eyes of friends. Meriol Trevor's engaging plot charts the ongoing friendship between Newman and the couple as it spans many years during which pivotal historical influences, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Oxford Movement, are shaping Victorian England. Many important events, personages, and ideas in the life of Newman appear in the story-his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, his differences with Cardinal Manning, his work in the Birmingham Oratory, and his being made a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. The author, a renowned biographer of Newman, used Newman's actual correspondence as the basis for his parts in the dialogue.
Download or read book The Embattled Confederacy written by William C. Davis and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1861-1865, vol. 3.
Download or read book I See a Shadow written by Laura Breen and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I See a Shadow is a charming picture book that delivers a bright new take on the concept of shadows and the delight of imagination, from debut author/illustrator Laura Breen. Shadows are fun. They can be funny, too. Mostly, shadows are all around us, and not always what they seem. Here is a delightful, graphic celebration of imagination.
Download or read book The Book of Shadows written by Jeffrey Fraenkel and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah the Sensible, that's what Sarah's year 12 jersey said. Sarah's studying law, living at Galston College on a scholarship, and happy to have found Wil, the ideal boyfriend. So why is Sarah dreaming about the boy she met in the laundry? Paige Miss Popular, Paige's jersey said. She and Tallulah have been best friends forever. And thanks to Tallulah, they're the only freshmen to have been invited to the hottest party on campus. So why is Paige now a patient in a psychiatric ward? What happened to Paige between then and now that she's pretending she can't remember? The truth will illuminate the darkness - but what if Sarah and Paige don't want to hear it?
Download or read book Grasping Shadows written by William Chapman Sharpe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from Rembrandt to Welles and Warhol, from Lord of the Rings to the latest video game, shadows act as central players in the drama of Western culture. Yet because they work silently, artistic shadows often slip unnoticed past audiences and critics. Conceived as an accessible introduction to this elusive phenomenon, Grasping Shadows is the first book that offers a general theory of how all shadows function in texts and visual media. Arguing that shadow images take shape within a common cultural field where visual and verbal meanings overlap, William Sharpe ranges widely among classic and modern works, revealing the key motifs that link apparently disparate works such as those by Fra Angelico and James Joyce, Clementina Hawarden and Kara Walker, Charles Dickens and Kumi Yamashita. Showing how real-world shadows have shaped the meanings of shadow imagery, Grasping Shadows guides the reader through the techniques used by writers and artists to represent shadows from the Renaissance onward. The last chapter traces how shadows impact the art of the modern city, from Renoir and Zola to film noir and projection systems that capture the shadows of passers-by on streets around the globe. Extending his analysis to contemporary street art, popular songs, billboards, and shadow-theatre, Sharpe demonstrates a practical way to grasp the "dark side" that looms all around us.
Download or read book Shadows written by Keanu Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is a shadow? Is it light tracing an object or the shape a body throws when it comes between a light source and a surface? Is it a metaphor for the intimate, darker side of a person's nature-as Carl Jung postulated-and the unconscious side of one's self, where daemons and secrets are kept hidden or repressed? Is it an allegorical place between darkness and light, death and living? Or is it a state of illusion, like Plato's cave? Is it a verb that means to follow or accompany, or even to spy on? Shadows, a new collaborative series by Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, explores the real and symbolic nature of the shadow as image and figure of speech. Grant's photographs capture Reeves's shadow at times as a silhouette and at others as traces of light as he and the camera move together. In transforming the images into color and reversing light for dark, Grant has made the shadows themselves the source of light. Reeves's texts, written in tandem with the creation of the images, give voice to the multiple manifestations of the shadow: as a projected figure, a place of concealed emotion and an invocation to shadow play.
Download or read book Shadows of a Fleeting World written by David Francis Martin and published by Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In association with University of Washington Libraries and the Henry Art Gallery."
Download or read book Shadows and Reflections written by Tana Hoban and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990-03-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This imaginative, wordless book of color photographs is a visual treat, offering witty and subtle sets of images for enriching the eyes of children and adults....[A] satisfying, intriguing book."--School Library Journal. Shadows and reflections are all around us -- under our feet, over our heads, directly in front of us. But only Tana Hoban can make us look at -- and see -- what is right before our eyes. She makes us look with our minds and hearts and imaginations -- and our surroundings are forever changed.
Download or read book Photography and Its Shadow written by Hagi Kenaan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By looking at photographic practices and photographs from the origins of photography to today's selfies, Snapchat, and Google Street View, this book offers a fresh philosophical understanding of how photography has become an intrinsic condition of the human"--
Download or read book The Black Rabbit written by Philippa Leathers and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbit has a problem: There's a large black rabbit chasing him, and no matter where he runs, the shadowy rabbit follows, but finally in the deep, dark wood, Rabbit loses his nemesis—only to encounter a real foe!
Download or read book Fun with Hand Shadows written by Frank Jacobs and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming book shows you how to have fun with a pastime that has delighted children and adults for generations: making shadow pictures on the wall with your hands and fingers. Selected from the pages of two clever 19th-century picture books, 28 hand-shadow illustrations demonstrate how to create marvelous images of a goose, deer (with antlers), birds, a bunny, a dog, an elephant, a tortoise, and a host of other familiar creatures. For extra enjoyment, the illustrations are accompanied by lively, often hilarious verses by Frank Jacobs, whose zany humor and wacky parodies have appeared in numerous publications. With this book and a bit of practice , you'll soon be delighting friends and relatives with an entertaining performance of shadow art.
Download or read book Images Or Shadows of Divine Things written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stanley Kubrick written by Stanley Kubrick and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revelatory early photographs of the famous and enigmatic film director.
Download or read book Shadows Images written by Bernie Zubrowski and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two types of phenomena are investigated: the different ways that shadows are created and how images are created with lenses.
Download or read book Shadows and Shading written by Marianne Walker and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how light and shadow contribute to make objects look real and come alive on your page.
Download or read book Up Up and Away written by Heather Zschock and published by Peter Pauper Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let little ones wing their way to sleep with this uplifting bedtime book! Shine the beam of a flashlight (not included) through 7 transparent page ''windows'' to cast silhouette pictures on the wall as you read lyrical rhymes about a kite's journey up, up, and away--past birds, planes, clouds, and more. Ages 3 to 9. 6-3/8'' wide x 9'' high. Covered wire-o-bound hardcover.
