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Book The Life and Times of John Sloan

Download or read book The Life and Times of John Sloan written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Times of John Sloan

Download or read book The Life and Times of John Sloan written by Helen Farr Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Times of John Sloan

Download or read book The Life and Times of John Sloan written by John Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Sloan

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  • Author : John Sloan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book John Sloan written by John Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yankee Doodle Dandy

Download or read book Yankee Doodle Dandy written by John Dizikes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rodeøhorses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous ?forward seat? remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan?s place in racing lore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan?s rise and fall in England. John Dizikes?s portrait of Sloan (1874?1933) shows a small-town, hard-luck, midwestern boy who became an overnight sensation and an international celebrity in a world of breeders, bookmakers, gamblers, hustlers, bluebloods, and princes. As the King of Jockeys in the sport of kings, Sloan lived in high style, until he was banned from British racing and forced to eke out a living on the margins of the sport for thirty years.

Book The Life and Times of John Sloan

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  • Author : Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (Wilmington, Del.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book The Life and Times of John Sloan written by Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (Wilmington, Del.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Sloan s Women

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  • Author : Janice Marie Coco
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0874138663
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book John Sloan s Women written by Janice Marie Coco and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Challenging the cornerstone assumption of Sloan as a neutral spectator, Coco suggests the ways that he used art to define himself as both man and artist, at a time when the ideals of masculinity and artistic identity were at issue. Examining his self-admitted fear of women, she demonstrates how Sloan's perception of them, as potentially threatening to his manhood and his career, manifests itself subtextually in the fetishized nature of his windowed compositions.".

Book John Sloan

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  • Author : John Loughery
  • Publisher : Owl Books
  • Release : 1997-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780805052213
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book John Sloan written by John Loughery and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting New York City's cultural coming-of-age, a historical biography of an American painter and propagandist reveals the social and political scene of the early 1900s, including Sloan's activist wife, Dolly.

Book John Sloan on Drawing and Painting

Download or read book John Sloan on Drawing and Painting written by John Sloan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated, practical record of talks and instructional advice by a member of the "Ashcan School" of American painting discusses line, tone, texture, light and shade, composition, design, space, perspective, related issues. Also: figure drawing, painting, landscape and mural painting, much more. Wealth of helpful suggestions and exercises.

Book The Anti Book

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  • Author : Raphael Simon
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 0525552413
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The Anti Book written by Raphael Simon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Name of This Book Is Secret comes a darkly funny story about a boy who wants the world to disappear. This fantastical quest for comfort and belonging was called “a surprisingly powerful, formula-breaking coming-of-age story” by the New York Times. Mickey is angry all the time: at his divorced parents, at his sister, and at his two new stepmoms, both named Charlie. And so he can't resist the ad inside his pack of gum: "Do you ever wish everyone would go away? Buy The Anti-Book! Satisfaction guaranteed." He orders the book, but when it arrives, it's blank—except for one line of instruction: To erase it, write it. He fills the pages with all the things and people he dislikes . . . Next thing he knows, he's wandering an anti-world, one in which everything and everyone familiar is gone. Or are they? His sister soon reappears--but she's only four inches tall. A tiny talking house with wings looks strangely familiar, as does the mysterious half-invisible boy who seems to think that he and Mickey are best buds. The boy persuades Mickey to go find the Bubble Gum King—the king, who resides at the top of a mountain, is the only one who might be able help Mickey fix the mess he's made. From Raphael Simon (a.k.a. beloved author Pseudonymous Bosch!) comes this Phantom Tollbooth for today's generation—a fantastical quest for comfort and belonging that will resonate with many, many readers.

Book A Bitter Pill

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  • Author : John Sloan
  • Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1553654552
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book A Bitter Pill written by John Sloan and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medical treatment of elderly people is not working. Worse, it is often harmful. Clear, hard-hitting, and authoritative, A Bitter Pill investigates why the medical system - from its one-size-fits-all prevention strategy to hospital stays that don't benefit anyone - is failing old people who are in fragile health and what we can do about it." --Book Jacket.

Book John Davidson  First of the Moderns

Download or read book John Davidson First of the Moderns written by John Sloan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long ago as 1917, Virginia Woolf expressed surprise that anyone as good as John Davidson should 'be so little famous'. Now, at last, criticism has established Davidson as a key figure in the emergence of literary modernism, as the best Scottish poet between Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid, and as an important influence on the younger poets of his day, most notably T. S. Eliot. In this, the first biography of Davidson for more than thirty years, John Sloan presents a wealth of new information about Davidson's life, including his time in London, and the ties which connect him to Sherard's circle, to Wilde, Yeats, and the Rhymers' Club. John Davidson, First of the Moderns explores Davidson's career in London as a penniless author, struggling to reconcile the freedom to experience demanded by the avant-garde artist in the age of the Decadence with the obligations of family, and to combine his ambition for a many-sided reputation as a poet, novelist, and playwright with his need to survive in the commercial rough and tumble of Fleet Street, the theatre, and Paternoster Row. The conditions of authorship, the literary scandals and rows of Fleet Street, and the revelations of the characters involved here provide the literary background to the life of John Davidson. The picture that emerges is not simply of a late Victorian rebel, but of a proto-Modernist who from his recovery from a breakdown in 1896 to his strange disappearance and death in 1909, pioneered a new idiom and subject matter for twentieth-century verse.

Book Draftee Division

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  • Author : John Sloan Brown
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-07-15
  • ISBN : 0813162262
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Draftee Division written by John Sloan Brown and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres. Much to his surprise and delight, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall found that the 88th Infantry Division, his first draftee division, "fought like wildcats" and readily outclassed its German adversaries while measuring up to the best Regular Army divisions. Draftee Division is at once a history of the 88th Division, an analysis of American unit mobilization during World War II, and an insight into the savage Italian Campaign. After an introduction placing the division in historical context, separate chapters address personnel, training, logistics, and overseas deployment. Another chapter focuses upon preliminary adjustments to the realities of combat, after which two chapters trace the 88th's climactic drive through the Gustav Line into Rome itself. A final chapter takes the veteran 88th to final victory. Of particular interest are observations concerning differences connected with mobilization between the 88th and less successful divisions and discussions of the contemporary relevance of the 88th's experiences. Draftee Division is especially rich in its sources. John Sloan Brown, with close ties to the division, has secured extensive and candid contributions from veterans. To these he has added a full array of archival and secondary sources. The result is a definitive study of American cadremen creating a division out of raw draftees and leading them on to creditable victories. Its findings will be important for military and social historians and for students of defense policy

Book Oscar Wilde

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  • Author : John Sloan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780192840646
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by John Sloan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the 'new' in every area of British life - 'New Women', 'New Hedonism', 'New Journalism', 'New Imperialism'. His plays, tales, and critical writings questioned traditional attitudes to religion, sexuality, women and the home, crime and punishment, and the freedom of the individual. This book examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society and his writings and shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde and his work on stage, in film and the media in the century that has followed his death.

Book John Sloan

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  • Author : Rowland Elzea
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book John Sloan written by Rowland Elzea and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flirting with Monasticism

Download or read book Flirting with Monasticism written by Karen E. Sloan and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Karen Sloan's breathlessly confusing and ultimately fulfilling year in the company of a Dominican novitiate. Flirting with Monasticism is a courtship of sorts: a young would-be pastor learning ancient prayers and practices from young would-be priests. As you enter into this story you'll gain a fresh appreciation for the many ways we pray, worship and serve, and a deeper understanding of our unfolding relationship with God and the people of God. This is a story of loving and letting go, of moving through novice dreams to a greater vision. Flirting with Monasticism gives us a new appreciation for how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. Market/Audience Emergent church Young adults Features and Benefits Narrative exploration of monasticism. Appreciation and critique of Dominican spirituality from a young, emergent, Protestant minister. A woman's take on monasticism.

Book Metropolitan Lives

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  • Author : Rebecca Zurier
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780393039016
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Metropolitan Lives written by Rebecca Zurier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 greatest works by Bellows, Sloan, and the other painters of the Ashcan School.