The Unfinished Portrait

Author : Elizabeth Shoumatoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780822936596
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FDR'S Unfinished Portrait written by Elizabeth Shoumatoff and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of April 12, 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, vacationing at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, sat at a table signing papers. As lunchtime approached, he said, We have fifteen minutes more to work. In the words of Elizabeth Shoumatoff, an eyewitness to the scene, Suddenly he raised his right hand and passed it over his forehead several times in a strange jerky way, without emitting a sound, his head bending slightly forward. Moments later he was unconsious, and he died, of a cerebral hemorrhage, later that day.

Author : Mary Westmacott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Portrait written by Mary Westmacott and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : New York : Dell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Portrait written by Agatha Christie and published by New York : Dell. This book was released on 1969 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan Shih
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 156858556X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Panthers written by Bryan Shih and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack Obama." -- Kevin Powell, author of The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood "A brilliantly conceived volume. Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams demonstrate why the Panthers' story-its lessons and failures-even fifty years after its founding remains key to understanding national and international struggles for freedom and justice today." -- Cheryl Finley, professor and director of visual studies, Cornell University Even fifty years after it was founded, the Black Panther Party remains one of the most misunderstood political organizations of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and beyond charismatic leaders like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, were the ordinary men and women who made up the Panther rank and file. In The Black Panthers, photojournalist Bryan Shih and historian Yohuru Williams offer a reappraisal of the party's history and legacy. Through stunning portraits and interviews with surviving Panthers, as well as illuminating essays by leading scholars, The Black Panthers reveals party members' grit and battle scars-and the undying love for the people that kept them going.

Author : Nico Van Hout
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419707513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Painting written by Nico Van Hout and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling through the history of art from the 15th to the 20th century, this book is a survey of works of art by Old and Modern Masters including Van Eyck, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, David, Manet, Cézanne, Matisse and Mondrian that have remained deliberately or unintentionally unfinished, and that are usually marginalized in traditional art history. They remain incomplete for various reasons: illness or death of the artist; political turmoil forcing him to flee; disagreements with the commissioner or dissatisfaction with the artistic result. However, from the 16th century onwards, artists started to use the non finito as a tool of expression. Unfinished pictures therefore gained a certain reputation in the romantic era, when they were thought to offer the spectator a glimpse of artistic genius. In the 20th century, these paintings were discovered by cubists, expressionists and abstract painters who were fascinated by their rough and incoherent appearance, often unaware of their history.

Author : Kelly Baum
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395863
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfinished written by Kelly Baum and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book explores the evolving concept of unfinishedness as essential to understanding art movements from the Renaissance to the present day. Unfinished features more than 200 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. What unites these works, across centuries and media, is that each one displays some aspect of being unfinished. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory—which can be traced back to the first century—has had on modern and contemporary art. The book investigates the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : MB Cooltura
ISBN 13 : 9877448157
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasps' Nest written by Agatha Christie and published by MB Cooltura. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous Belgian detective visits an old friend in a remote area. John Harrison asks the reason for this surprise visit and Poirot confesses that he is investigating a murder that has not yet been committed. A series of clues will put Poirot on alert and he will do everything possible to prevent the planned crime from taking place.

Author : Ila Pal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Canvas written by Ila Pal and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life of M.F. Husain, b. 1915, famous Indian painter.

Author : John Creasey
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755155432
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Portrait written by John Creasey and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As John Mannering's wife paints a portrait of a celebrated beauty, Lady Deirdre Vandemeyer, she begins to doubt the authenticity of her subject. Then she is stabbed and Mannering (aka 'The Baron') goes undercover as a personal assistant to try and get to the bottom of the mystery. What he discovers sets the mind reeling and as always keeps the reader enthralled to the very last moment.

Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849836515
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man written by Joseph Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an author who has become a legend in his own lifetime - all because of the novel he wrote in the first flush of youth. Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the twentieth century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized and dissected - and found wanting? PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, AS AN OLD MAN follows Pota's efforts to settle on a subject for his final work. In his search, Heller - through Pota - pays homage to his favourite authors and discusses the problems that have plagued so many writers whose later works failed to live up to the successes of their first: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, to name but a few. It is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity, a search that comes at a point in life when impotence - both sexual and spiritual - has become a frustrating fact. Joseph Heller must have known that this would be his final novel; it stands as a fitting testament to the life and works of a leading light in modern literature.