Download or read book The Ecstasy of St Kara written by Kara Walker and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saviors don't arrive without martyrdom at their heels. This is what I've learned lately." - Kara Walker
Download or read book Jacob Lawrence written by Peter T. Nesbett and published by Francine Seders Gallery. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. This new edition of Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) includes 19 new prints produced by Lawrence since 1993, including 7 from the Toussaint LOOuverture series. The book includes an essay by Patricial Hills. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the lessons of history and to his own experience. From depictions of civil rights confrontations to scenes of daily life, these images present a vision of a common struggle toward unity and equality, a universal struggle seated in the depths of the human consciousness. Peter T. Nesbett is director of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation."
Download or read book Wade in the Water written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones Jangling handcuffs and keys, what else Are they so buffered against, if not love’s blade Sizing up the heart’s familiar meat? We watch and grieve. We sleep, stir, eat. Love: the heart sliced open, gutted, clean. Love: naked almost in the everlasting street, Skirt lifted by a different kind of breeze. —from “Unrest in Baton Rouge” In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith’s signature voice—inquisitive, lyrical, and wry—turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men, and violence. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors’ reports of recent immigrants and refugees. Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America’s essential poets.
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Download or read book From the Mouths of Sirens written by Abigail Hair and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark reimagining of The Little Mermaid, From the Mouths of Sirens is the first installment in a compelling new YA fantasy series. With a lush fantasy world, a high-stakes competition, and a thrilling love story, From the Mouths of Sirens is The Cruel Prince meets The Hunger Games. Since childhood, Saoirse has trained for the sole purpose of being chosen for the Tournament. The angel-like people of Aurandel have won the Tournament for a century and ruled the continent with an iron grip. If Saoirse survives the three infamous trials, she will win the Crown of Revelore and overthrow the nation responsible for her mother's death. But when Saoirse is denied entry into the Tournament by the Mer king, she makes a forbidden bargain with an imprisoned sea witch: in exchange for entry in the competition, Saoirse agrees to kill the Auran prince. But while fighting for her life in the arena, the last thing Saoirse expects to do is fall for her greatest enemy, the arrogant Prince Rook.
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Download or read book Don Sebastian or The house of the Braganza An historical romance vol 4 written by Anna Maria Porter and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-07-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Sebastian: Or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Vol. 4 by Anna Maria Porter is the fourth volume of a historical romance series set during the reign of the Portuguese King Sebastian. The novel explores themes of political intrigue, romance, and the dramatic events of the era. Anna Maria Porter’s narrative is known for its rich historical detail and complex characters. The story follows the fortunes of the Braganza family amidst the backdrop of political and social upheaval. As with the previous volumes, this installment continues to develop the characters’ stories and the historical context, offering readers an immersive experience of the period. Don Sebastian is a significant work for those interested in historical romances, providing a detailed and engaging portrayal of Portuguese history and the personal dramas intertwined with it.
Download or read book Kara Walker written by Kara Walker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kara Walker began this sketchbook in Munich in 1999, when she was 29 years old. Like most sketchbooks it served as a portal between the real world and the realm of her imagination. Although it was never intended to be shared, nevertheless quite a bit of ?work? came out of this particular book, including the installation ?Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)?, which is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. However, that is an exception to the rule. For the most part the pages in this sketchbook reflect uneasy, unrefined, unfinished thoughts and anxieties, written and drawn with no objectives, no ulterior motives, and no filters.
Download or read book Don Sebastian written by Anna Maria Porter and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art written by Cleveland Museum of Art and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring new, accessibly written scholarship by the curatorial staff, this book will be the definitive resource on this world-renowned collection.
Download or read book The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal
Download or read book Constructing a Nervous System written by Margo Jefferson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author’s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent’s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female body can be. The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life.
Download or read book Melancholic Modalities written by Denise Gill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise Gill analyzes how the melancholies intentionally cultivated by Turkish classical musicians, typically dismissed as the remnants of Ottoman nostalgia, emerge as reparative, pleasurable, and spiritually redeeming. Melancholic Modalities intervenes in debates about music and affect, and offers new, innovative methodologies of rhizomatic analysis and bi-aurality for researchers.
Download or read book Cold Wind written by C. J. Box and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A body hangs from a wind turbine, a bullet hole in his chest: Earl Alden, millionaire property developer. His wife, Missy, is the prime suspect. It wouldn't be a problem for Joe Pickett, if Missy weren't his mother-in-law. Missy claims she's innocent, and for his wife's sake, Joe would like to believe her... but all the early signs point to her being as guilty as sin. With his wife on one side and the law on the other, Joe needs to get to the truth before his family is ripped apart.
Download or read book Kara Walker written by Kara Elizabeth Walker and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First is a special printed project created by the celebrated American artist Kara Walker in collaboration with Ari Marcopoulos.The project, which comprises a twenty-four-page booklet with an accordion cover, was produced to accompany Walker's first exhibition at Victoria Miro, London, in autumn 2015.The project documents a trip by the artist and Marcopoulos to Stone Mountain in Georgia. The main tourist attraction there is a large stone mountain into which has been carved a monument to three Confederate generals.Consecrated in the 1970s, the monument, and hence the mountain itself, is thus a contentious symbol of white supremacy and the struggle for race equality in the South and beyond.Featuring a newly commissioned text from James Hannaham and a conversation between Walker and Marcopoulos, the project presents photographic documentation along with a selection of the powerful drawings and paintings produced by Walker during and following her trip.
Download or read book The Queer Art of Failure written by Jack Halberstam and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div
