The Masters Muse

Author : Varley O'Connor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451657757
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Master's Muse written by Varley O'Connor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional account of the marriage of ballet master George Balanchine and Tanaquil Le Clercq describes how polio ended Tanny's dancing career, the rehabilitation that deepened their relationship, and how Balanchine's return to ballet tested their marriage.

Author : Varley O'Connor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451657765
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Master's Muse written by Varley O'Connor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We set our sights on each other almost from the beginning.” So begins The Master’s Muse, an exquisite, deeply affecting novel about the true love affair between two artistic legends: George Balanchine, the Russian émigré to America who is widely considered the Shakespeare of dance, and his wife and muse, Tanaquil Le Clercq. Copenhagen, 1956: Tanaquil Le Clercq, known as Tanny, is a gorgeous, talented, and spirited young ballerina whose dreams are coming true. She is married to the love of her life, George Balanchine— the famous mercurial director of New York City Ballet. She dances the best roles in his newest creations, has been featured in fashion magazines and television dramas, socializes with the country’s most renowned artists and intellectuals, and has become a star around the world. But one fateful evening, only hours after performing, Tanny falls suddenly and gravely ill; she awakens from a feverous sleep to find that she can no longer move her legs. Tanny is diagnosed with polio and Balanchine quits the ballet to devote himself to caring for his wife. He crafts exercises to help her regain her strength, deepening their partnership and love for each other. But in the ensuing years, after Tanny discovers she will never walk again, their relationship is challenged as she endeavors to create a new identity for herself and George returns to the company, choreographing ballets inspired by the ever-younger, more beautiful and talented dancers. Their marriage is put to the ultimate test as Tanny battles to redefine her dreams and George throws himself into his art. The Master’s Muse is an evocative imagining of the deep yet complicated love between a smart, beautiful woman and her charismatic, ambitious husband; it is the story of an extraordinary collaboration in art and in life.

Author : William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131555
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of the Big House written by William Kauffman Scarborough and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.

Author : Andy McSmith
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620970791
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and the Muse Kept Watch written by Andy McSmith and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary and artistic achievement in modern history, journalist Andy McSmith evokes the lives of more than a dozen of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Taking us deep into Stalin’s Russia, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch asks the question: can great art be produced in a police state? For although Josif Stalin ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history, under him Russia also produced an outpouring of artistic works of immense and lasting power—from the poems of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam to the opera Peter and the Wolf, the film Alexander Nevsky, and the novels The Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago. For those artists visible enough for Stalin to take an interest in them, it was Stalin himself who decided whether they lived in luxury or were sent to the Lubyanka, the headquarters of the secret police, to be tortured and sometimes even executed. McSmith brings together the stories of these artists—including Isaac Babel, Boris Pasternak, Dmitri Shostakovich, and many others—revealing how they pursued their art under Stalin’s regime and often at great personal risk. It was a world in which the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose bright yellow tunic was considered a threat to public order under the tsars, struggled to make the communist authorities see the value of avant garde art; Babel publicly thanked the regime for allowing him the privilege of not writing; and Shostakovich’s career veered wildly between public disgrace and wealth and acclaim. In the tradition of Eileen Simpson’s Poets in Their Youth and Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch is an extraordinary work of historical recovery. It is also a bold exploration of the triumph of art during terrible times and a book that will stay with its readers for a long, long while.

Author : Patricia Mears
Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865653733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ballerina written by Patricia Mears and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated look at the profound influence that classical ballet and the ballerina have had on high fashion Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse is a revelatory, irresistible treat for dance aficionados and fashionistas alike. Couturiers such as Balmain, Balenciaga, Chanel, Schiaparelli, Charles James, Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent designed ballet-inspired dresses and gowns, many featuring the boned bodices and voluminous tulle skirts of classical tutus. And ready-to-wear designers such as Claire McCardell found inspiration in ballet leotards and other practice clothing, creating knitted separates, bathing suits, and wrap dresses. Written by fashion and ballet experts, the book is illustrated with archival photography by such masters as Richard Avedon, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Man Ray, and Cecil Beaton, along with newly commissioned photography of contemporary ballerinas wearing ballet-influenced couture.

Author : Lynn Newman
Publisher : Red Feather
ISBN 13 : 9780764357176
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muse in You written by Lynn Newman and published by Red Feather. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything we do is creative: the way we think, the way we problem solve, the way we make the most of our lives. But when we experience challenging times, difficult life transitions, or grief from a loss, it's easy for creativity to vanish and disquiet to settle in. In this guidebook to your emotional health, creativity expert Lynn Newman sends a powerful message: It is possible for you to remake your life into something extraordinary. Through personal stories, exercises, meditations, and inspired questions, learn to create a life on purpose by transcending conflict to find peace and happiness, unleashing the truest parts of yourself to experience more passion and ease, enjoying more fulfilling relationships, and following curiosity to jumpstart your creative journey. If you're ready to shine more brightly, these lessons are your loving reminders that you are a creative being ready to accomplish your dreams! There is a muse in you!

Author : Paul G Roberts
Publisher : Fashion Industry Broadcast
ISBN 13 : 1623148529
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Vol 51 The Muse written by Paul G Roberts and published by Fashion Industry Broadcast. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment artists decided to sketch a pretty female face rather than a buffalo on a cave wall, they needed muses. From ancient Greece—when the nine goddess daughters of Zeus motivated artistic achievement—to today, the muse’s face or fashion or innate grace or mystery has come to inhabit the minds of some of the greatest artists of all time, and whose inspiration has seen some of the greatest art created. In this edition of the Masters of Photography series Vol 51 we look at the Muses of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Vol 51 The Muse features: • Andy Warhol • Terry Richardson • Francis Bacon • Robert Mapplethorpe • Salvadore Dali • Guy Bourdain • Richard Avedon • Man Ray • Corrine Day • David Bailey • Mario Sorrenti • Pablo Picasso Fashion Industry Broadcast’s “MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY” is a series: MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 9 Living Legends MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 10 Living Legends MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 11 Immortals MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 12 Immortals MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 13 Australians MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 50 Living Legends MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 51 The Muse MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Vol 52 New Gen Fashion Industry Broadcast is the number one destination on the web for the latest in fashion, style, creative arts, creative media, models, celebrity biographies and much more. Our site is available globally in 13 languages and is updated daily. Not a minute goes by without our passionate team scouring the globe for the latest breaking news and insider gossip. Fashion Industry Broadcast publishes on a vast array of media platforms art books, eBooks, apps for mobiles and television documentaries. We cover all the key areas of popular culture, style and media arts. Our products are sold globally in over 100 countries through our partnerships with people like Amazon, Apple, Google and many more. You can purchase all of our products directly from the FIB site, please have a browse. www.fashionindustrybroadcast.com A very special video rich multimedia App version with hundreds of original videos, interviews, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple’s iTunes App store for just $4.99 per edition. Look for “MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY” on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]

Author : Ted LoCascio
Publisher : Que Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0789748428
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adobe Muse on Demand written by Ted LoCascio and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step instructions on using Adobe Muse, covering such topics as creating and managing a website page, customizing prebuilt slideshow and composition widgets, pinning graphics to the browser, and applying effects.

Author : Mychael Barrat
Publisher : Unicorn
ISBN 13 : 9781910065631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masters Muse written by Mychael Barrat and published by Unicorn. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty famous paintings are given the Mychael Barratt treatment - by imposing a canine or feline feel into the artwork. A clever, and sometimes ironic, take on the world's most iconic images.

Author : Poulheria Kyriakou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110615274
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theocritus and his native Muse written by Poulheria Kyriakou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenistic poets opted and were very likely expected to deal meaningfully, and perhaps competitively, with the tradition they inherited. They also needed to secure the goodwill of actual or potential patrons. Apollonius, the author of a novel heroic epic, eschews references to literary polemics and patronage. Callimachus often adopts a polemical stance against some colleagues in order to suggest his poetic excellence. Theocritus chooses a third way, which has not been investigated adequately. He avoids antagonism but ironizes the theme of poetic excellence and distances himself from the tradition of competitive success. He does not cast his narrators as superior to predecessors and contemporaries but stresses the advantages and merits of colleagues. This rejection of conceit is connected with a major strand in Theocritean poetry: the power of word, including song, to provide assistance to characters in distress is a major open issue. Language is versatile and potent but not all-powerful. Song gives pleasure but is not a panacea while instruction and advice are never helpful and may even prove harmful. Most genuine pieces are ambiguous and open-ended so that the aspirations of characters are not presented as doomed to failure.