Beautiful Garbage

Author : Jill Di Donato
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1938314077
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Garbage written by Jill Di Donato and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Holly Golightly lived in the ’80s, how far would she go to make a name for herself as Manhattan’s artist du jour? We know all about Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Haring, and their fictional counterparts, but what about the edgy women artists of this time? Jodi Plum: smart, talented, ambitious, troubled. Fresh out of her teens, she leaves suburbia for Manhattan’s glam and gritty art scene, and almost immediately falls into the clutches of Monika, a beautiful photographer. With the help of her new mentor, Jodi quickly becomes a rising star—but when a skeleton from her past surfaces, her dream life crashes to a halt, and she slips into a world of parties, drugs, and high-class prostitution. Set in the crime-plagued New York City of the 1980s, Beautiful Garbage parallels an artist’s journey with her sexual epiphanies, exploring the notorious milieu of the decade’s downtown art scene from the point of view of a young female artist—and offering a satirical and irreverent look at post-’70s sexual politics and the world of elite call girls.

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ISBN 13 : 0198238991
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sibley:approach to Aesthetics C written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Da Shu
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1647572797
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Beautiful Secretary written by Da Shu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secretary, Gu Yuwei, unexpectedly got to know the top figure of the Jiangyou Group, Zhao Muchen. Zhao Mu Chen was handsome and wise, which made Gu Yu Wei fall in love with him. He fell in love with her from then on. Amidst the entanglement and reality attacks of the secular world, she wanted to retreat time and time again, but each time she fell deeper into the abyss ... Could their love reach the end?

Author : Murielle Dela Rosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781795456708
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comic Life written by Murielle Dela Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book narrating the beautiful chaos that is our lives; beware that this collection not only illustrates wholesome content, and everyday relatable scenarios; it will also cut you deep into issues that a lot of people struggle with to this day. The Brutal Truth is not for the faint of heart.

Author : Don Marquis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers written by Don Marquis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reid B. Locklin
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814630037
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual But Not Religious? written by Reid B. Locklin and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can spirituality be separated from "the complications of religious institutions"? Convert and theologian Reid Blackmer Locklin thinks not. Combining personal experience with insights from Hindu and Christian traditions, Locklin offers "Spiritual But Not Religious?," a guide to institutional commitment in a world characterized by religious pluralism.

Author : Frank Sibley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780191519499
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approach to Aesthetics written by Frank Sibley and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approach to Aesthetics is the complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics. Their appearance within a single volume will be welcome to scholars and students of aesthetics. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of five substantial papers written in his later years and hitherto unpublished. Most of the published papers are concerned with a group of related topics: the nature of aesthetic qualities and their relation to non-aesthetic qualities, the relation of aesthetic description to aesthetic evaluation, the different levels of evaluation, the objectivity of aesthetic judgement. The later papers constitute both a continuation and a significant development of Sibley's individual approach to aesthetics. One group of papers discusses the distinction between attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, first elucidating the distinction, and then considering its application to 'beautiful' and 'ugly'. Another major paper is an extensive study of the aesthetic significance of tastes and smells, a topic Sibley considered to be much neglected, whose examination could throw interesting light on the boundaries of the concept of the aesthetic. This collection constitutes a wide ranging yet coherent account of aesthetics by one of the most acute philosophical minds of his generation, one which is and will continue to be a source of controversy and a model of analytical method.

Author : Jeremy Gluck
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847476139
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victim of Dreams written by Jeremy Gluck and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I've read your book and I am impressed - and obviously I relate. I hope it sells well because I am sure it will help many people." - By Katy-Sara Culling, The Bipolar Foundation Description Novelist, poet and musician Jeremy Gluck draws on his experiences of growing up in post-War Canada in a breath-takingly beautiful and poignant account of his battle with bipolar disorder (manic depression). He contrasts a depiction of his descent into depression and madness with the narrative innocence of his childhood. Victim of Dreams can help others to understand what it is like to develop, have and/or survive a severe and enduring mental health condition. More than anything else service users want empathy: Manuals and guides are essential, good medical support crucial, medication crucial of course, but those with serious MH conditions are so plagued by feeling misunderstood and isolated that empathy is the key. Exploring in anecdotal and lay terms the genetic and environmental genesis of the disorder in me, the book is written in a highly professional literary style, including vivid memoir and especially penetrating accounts of depression and manic delusion - drawn largely from journals kept at the time and therefore vivid in their evocation of mania and depression - and is a new kind of survivor book that eschews "misery" for memory and asks, again and again, searching questions about the nature of our lives, minds, memory and capacity to endure what is, after all, a part of ourselves seemingly set to destroy another, more benign part. The book is in three parts or ""lives."" The first part is my innocence, when the illness lies dormant but shadowing. In the second part, I wrestle with madness as the illness reveals itself. Coming from a more balanced and objective viewpoint, in the final part I review both having brought myself back. I can now show myself as someone different, neither the innocent nor the madman, and importantly not the person I have been accused of being. About the AuthorI am 49, an expatriate Canadian with a background in the arts, now working in the voluntary sector in Wales as a mental health information and research worker. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2002. My lifelong experience as a published writer/author has equipped me ideally to write an insightful literary account of my life leveraged to the impact upon it of the illness, my eventual diagnosis and coda heralding my recovery.

Author : Steven L. Hamelman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325873
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book But is it Garbage? written by Steven L. Hamelman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trash has been blowing across the rock'n'roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock's quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock's "trash trope." Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene -- think of Woodstock's littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful mode of rock composition and criticism. It is, for instance, both cause and effect when performers like the Ramones or Beck at once critique junk culture and revel in it. But Is It Garbage? spills over with challenging insights into how rock's creators, critics, and consumers transform, and are transformed by, trash as a fact and a concept. In the music's preoccupation with its own trashiness readers will perceive a wellspring of rock innovation and inspiration -- one largely overlooked and little understood until now.

Author : Stan Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317589726
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queerness in Pop Music written by Stan Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury, the Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this, illuminating aspects of parody, nostalgia, camp, naivety, masquerade, irony, and mimesis in pop music. One of the principal aims is to uncover the subversive strategies of pop artists through a wide range of audiovisual texts that situate the debates on gender and sexuality within an aesthetic context that is highly stylized and ritualized. Queerness in Pop Music also addresses the playfulness of much pop music, offering insights into how discourses of resistance are mediated through pleasure. Given that pop artists, songwriters, producers, directors, choreographers, and engineers all contribute to the final composite of the pop recording, it is argued that the staging of any pop act is a collective project. The implications of this are addressed through structures of gender, ethnicity, nationality, class, and sexuality. Ultimately, Hawkins contends that queerness is a performative force that connotes futurity and utopian promise.