A Face To The World

Author : Laura Cumming
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007118441
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Face to the World written by Laura Cumming and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world's museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, rather like glimpsing your own reflection. For in picturing themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own physical looks: the truth about how they hope to be viewed by the world, and how they wish to see themselves. In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book, Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait, from Durer, Rembrandt and Velazquez to Munch, Picasso, Warhol and the present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they do and what they reveal about the artist's innermost sense of self - as well as the curious ways in which they may imitate our behaviour in real life. Drawing on art, literature, history, philosophy and biography to examine the creative process in an entirely fresh way, Cumming offers a riveting insight into the intimate truths and elaborate fictions of self-portraiture and the lives of those who practise it. A work of remarkable depth, scope and power, this is a book for anyone who has ever wondered about the strange dichotomy between the innermost self and the self we choose to present for posterity - our face to the world.

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598846183
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces around the World written by Margo DeMello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives. Our faces identify who we are—not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A–Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities and identities. In addition to covering the basics such as the anatomical structure and function of parts of the human face, the entries examine how the face is viewed around the world, allowing students to easily draw connections and differences between various cultures around the world. Readers will learn about a wide variety of topics, including identity in different cultures; religious beliefs; folklore; extreme beautification; the "evil eye;" scarification; facial piercing and facial tattooing masks; social views about beauty including cosmetic surgery and makeup; how gender, class and sexuality play a role in our understanding of the face; and skin, eye, mouth, nose, and ear diseases and disorders. This encyclopedia is ideal for high school and undergraduate students studying anthropology, anatomy, gender, religion, and world cultures.

Author : Alfred Hayes
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176677
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Face for the World to See written by Alfred Hayes and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hayes is one of the secret masters of the twentieth century novel, a journalist and scriptwriter and poet who possessed an immaculate ear and who wrote with razorsharp intelligence about passion and its payback. My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you’re only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young woman, who has, it seems, no illusions about love, especially with married men. She’s a survivor, even if her beauty is a little battered from years of not quite making it in the pictures. She’s just like him, he thinks, and as their casual relationship takes on an increasingly troubled and destructive intensity, it seems that might just be true, only not in the way he supposes.

Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504060113
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of Chaos written by Joe Haldeman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War looms over Sanctuary in the fifth Thieves’ World® anthology compiled by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Phule’s Company series. The invasion by the Beysibs, an amphibious humanoid race, brings unusual prosperity to the city of Sanctuary. But underneath the glittering façade lies a ticking time bomb, for the nefarious residents of Sanctuary don’t take kindly to an invasion—well-meaning or otherwise . . . Join Janet Morris, C. J. Cherryh, Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey, David Drake, and Diana L. Paxson as their stories unravel the fates of Sanctuary’s favorite liars, thieves, assassins, and warriors. “Abbey . . . understands Sanctuary and its characters. She also knows how to write a short story with a strong main character, a riveting plot that contains twists and turns, and a satisfying resolution. Best story in the book . . . Lalo is the most interesting of all of the characters in Thieves’ World and his stories are always interesting. Paxson . . . spins an interesting and well written yarn that closes the book nicely.” —brianbookreviews.blogspot.com

Author : Candy Darling
Publisher : Hardy Marks Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780945367215
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Face for the World to See written by Candy Darling and published by Hardy Marks Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780899198002
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face at the Edge of the World written by Eve Bunting and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by the suicide of a gifted young black writer who was his best friend, Jed pursues the reason for it.

Author : Russell Kirkpatrick
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730491358
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across The Face Of The World written by Russell Kirkpatrick and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a tiny snowbound village, five men and women begin a dangerous quest to challenge darkness, fulfill a prophecy and change the course of their world's history. For 2000 years, Kannwar, the Immortal Destroyer, Lord of Bhrudwo, has been planning revenge on the Most High. Mahnum has escaped the Destroyer's prison, but on his way home to Loulea, he and his wife are captured. His sons, Leith and Hal, set off in pursuit with a small group of villagers to free their parents and to warn their world of the coming war. But not all of the Company agree that so few can make a difference.or think that anyone will listen to them. Across the Face of the World is a remarkable feat of storytelling - a dazzling epic from a stunning new talent.

Author : Michael Pocock
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080102661X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of World Missions written by Michael Pocock and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic changes have taken place in global society and in the church that have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. This guide helps readers understand these trends.

Author : Anupam Sibal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9385890255
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Your Child Ready to Face the World? written by Anupam Sibal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a good parent is a skill that is acquired over time, one that requires constantly adapting to the rapidly changing times. In today’s world, where academics, extra-curricular activities and distractions in the shape of numerous gadgets make heavy demands on children’s time, it is tough to communicate with them. Dr Anupam Sibal, through his experience as father, paediatrician and Group Medical Director of Apollo Hospitals Group, outlines his approach to effectively getting through to children and mastering the art of parenthood. Focusing on the different values and qualities that make a good person, Dr Sibal has a hands-on approach to instil each of these in a child. Exploring the crux of parenting, this book asks and answers whether your child is ready to face the world.

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : British Film Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780851709840
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 2003-12-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to any talk of "the death of the cinema", this title pronounces the art form alive and well, and still developing in new and unforeseen directions. Using transnational discussions and debates, it shows why the idea of cinephilia is just as relevant today as it ever was.