The Still Life

Author : Sarah Winman
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0735249202
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Sarah Winman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK* *A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK* “[A] winsome, large-hearted novel ... [Still Life] pulses from the page.” —Entertainment Weekly Set between World War II and the 1980s, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted story of strangers brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Tin Man and When God Was a Rabbit. In the wine-cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allies advance and bombs fall around them, two people meet and share an extraordinary evening: Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier from London's East End; Evelyn Skinner is a worldly older art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to rescue paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses's mind that night, one that will shape the trajectory of his life—and the lives of those who love him—for the next four decades. Moving from war-ravaged Tuscany to the boozy confines of The Stoat and Parrot pub in London and the piazzas of post-war Florence, Still Life is both sweeping and intimate, mischievous and deeply felt. It is a novel about beauty, love and fate, about the things that make life worth living, and the things we're prepared to die for.

Author : Todd M. Casey
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580935486
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Still Life written by Todd M. Casey and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have reference book for today's artists and art students. Every artist needs to learn and master the still life. Written by a well-known artist and expert instructor, The Art of Still Life offers a comprehensive, contemporary approach to the subject that instructs artists on the foundation basics and advanced techniques they need for successful drawing and painting. In addition to Casey's stunning paintings, the work of over fifty past and present masters is included, so that the book will do double duty as a hardworking how-to manual and a visual treasure trove of some of the finest still life art throughout history and being created today.

Author : Ohara Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592702572
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Be Still, Life written by Ohara Hale and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A song, a riff, and a playful romp--this is a lively contemplation about being present to all of life!

Author : Carla Harris Carlton
Publisher : Clerisy Press
ISBN 13 : 1578605776
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Carla Harris Carlton and published by Clerisy Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of creating and consuming bourbon is exploding. Today you will find craft bourbon distilleries in all 50 states. As mixologists and distillers find the space, market and financial success to fully explore their trade, the world is taking notice. It’s in the middle of this expanding industry that author Carla Carlton takes the time to connect all the dots for you, the bourbon enthusiast. She concisely maps out the seeds of the newest trends and shows why certain classic bourbon brands and bottles have grown while others have been washed away. This special edition e-only book is a wonderful and informative read on its own and is also the perfect chaser to Carlton’s Barrel Strength Bourbon, now out in bookstores and online everywhere.

Author : Maria Hummel
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092013
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Lives written by Maria Hummel and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist . . . and one woman driven to find her—this Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection is a “stunning achievement” (Los Angeles Times). Kim Lord is an avant–garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self–portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others―and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up–and–coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her. Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Still Lives is a page–turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. “It’s a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and can’t trust . . . There’s a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good.” —Reese Witherspoon (A Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection)

Author : Josie George
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526612003
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Still Life written by Josie George and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernando Domínguez Rubio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022671411X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Fernando Domínguez Rubio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal—or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that conservators, curators, registrars, and exhibition designers dealing with contemporary art face on a daily basis. In Still Life, Fernando Domínguez Rubio delves into one of the most important museums of the world, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, to explore the day-to-day dilemmas that museum workers face when the immortal artworks that we see in the exhibition room reveal themselves to be slowly unfolding disasters. Still Life offers a fascinating and detailed ethnographic account of what it takes to prevent these disasters from happening. Going behind the scenes at MoMA, Domínguez Rubio provides a rare view of the vast technological apparatus—from climatic infrastructures and storage facilities, to conservation labs and machine rooms—and teams of workers—from conservators and engineers to guards and couriers—who fight to hold artworks still. As MoMA reopens after a massive expansion and rearranging of its space and collections, Still Life not only offers a much-needed account of the spaces, actors, and forms of labor traditionally left out of the main narratives of art, but it also offers a timely meditation on how far we, as a society, are willing to go to keep the things we value from disappearing into oblivion.

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759528098
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Crows written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse -- either way, no one is safe. A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.

Author : Sarah Winman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735218757
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tin Man written by Sarah Winman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My favorite book of the year was Tin Man. Sparsely written and achingly beautiful...The most powerful take on love, loss and vulnerability I've read in years."—A Cup of Jo From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms, and the little moments that make up the life of one man. This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question: What happened in the years between? With beautiful prose and characters that are so real they jump off the page, Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and living.

Author : Irving Penn
Publisher : Bulfinch
ISBN 13 : 9780821227022
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Irving Penn and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2001-09-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. His elegant and innovative photographs are the subject of this volume. It includes some 200 images.