Feint Of Art

Author : Hailey Lind,Juliet Blackwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101198445

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Feint of Art: by Hailey Lind,Juliet Blackwell Pdf

At ten, painting a perfect Mona Lisa made Annie Kincaid a prodigy. A similar copy at seventeen made her a crook. Lesson learned: genuine art is priceless, and forgery gets you arrested. Now Annie puts her artistic talents to honest use as a faux finisher in San Francisco. But her past may not be painted over as well as she thought… Annie’s got bad news for her ex-boyfriend, curator Ernst Pettigrew: the snooty Brock Museum’s new fifteen-million-dollar Caravaggio painting is as fake as a three-dollar bill. And the same night Annie makes her shattering appraisal, the janitor on duty is killed—and Ernst disappears. To top it all off, a well-known art dealer has absconded with multiple Old Master drawings, leaving yet more forgeries in their places. Finding the originals—and pocketing the reward money—will get Annie’s new landlord off her back. But it could also draw her into the underworld of fakes and forgers she swore she’d left behind, starting with a close encounter with a changeable but charming art thief…

Author : Hailey Lind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:531426065

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Feint of Art by Hailey Lind Pdf

Author : Hailey Lind,Juliet Blackwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440619182

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Brush With Death by Hailey Lind,Juliet Blackwell Pdf

Since she went straight, Annie Kincaid’s been applying her genius for fine art forgery to her own faux finishing business in San Francisco. She hasn’t seen the inside of a jail cell since she was seventeen, although sometimes it takes all of her arts—fine or otherwise—to keep it that way… Annie knows that art security can be inadequate, but it’s crazy to think that an Old Master painting could be hanging unguarded in the local columbarium where she’s doing restoration work. Still, when she gets a tip that the chapel’s copy of Raphael’s exquisite La Fornarina might be the real thing, Annie has to take a look. And when she runs into a certain sexy art thief on the premises, alarm bells go off in her head as well as her heart. Tired of being an art world pariah, Annie hopes that if she can help return the masterpiece to Italy, she’ll finally be redeemed. But when murder enters the picture, Annie realizes that it won’t be so easy to put things at the cemetery to rest… INCLUDES ART TIPS!

Author : Hailey Lind
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564747402

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Arsenic and Old Paint by Hailey Lind Pdf

Former art forger Annie Kincaid has reinvented her life and now operates a legitimate decorative painting business, but memories are long in the art world. Here, with the blessing of the FBI Art Squad, Annie uses her underworld connections to boost her new art investigation business, where she’s partnered with her ex-art thief/love interest Michael X. Johnson. At first it’s strictly business, but she stumbles across a body in an exclusive Nob Hill men’s club. Then an insurance adjuster asks her to find a stolen -- and forged -- erotic painting. Then her Uncle Anton is attacked and Annie’s on the trail of more than just art. Moving easily between high and low circles, she makes the rounds of Nob Hill and Chinatown, a sex club, and the artists’ studios to find justice.

Author : Adrian Feint
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1862548609

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Adrian Feint by Adrian Feint Pdf

Adrian Feint (1894-1971) was a painter, printmaker, bookplate designer, illustrator, commercial artist and gallery director, known as 'a man of unerring taste and colour sense'. Adrian Feint: Cornucopia showcases the range of works of this unjustly neglected artist, focusing especially on his stunning flower paintings and landscapes. Adrian Feint: Cornucopia coincides with an exhibition of the same name opening at Carrick Hill, Adelaide, this August, showing through until 1 November, before touring to Geelong in late November 2009.

Author : Hailey Lind,Juliet Blackwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101043622

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Shooting Gallery by Hailey Lind,Juliet Blackwell Pdf

San Francisco’s art world is exhibiting murderous tendencies… Geez, make a splash in the world of art forgery at the age of seventeen and people can’t stop bringing it up. Lesson learned: genuine art is priceless, and forgery gets you arrested. Now Annie puts her artistic talents to honest use as a faux finisher in San Francisco. But carving out a new reputation can be a creative challenge… Modernism isn’t Annie’s thing, but even she is surprised to discover that the “sculpture” in a prestigious gallery’s grisly new exhibition is an all-too-real corpse—the artist’s. Meanwhile, a Chagall painting is stolen from the Brock Museum, and Annie’s old friend Bryan is accused of being in on the fix. To track down the missing Chagall, she’ll need the dubious assistance of a certain sexy art thief. And if Michael—or whatever his real name may be—isn’t distraction enough, Annie’s mother shows up in town, acting strangely. Annie’s got to solve these mysteries, and fast—because art is long, but life can be very, very short.

Author : Ann Elias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443884570

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Useless Beauty by Ann Elias Pdf

The story of Australian art does not begin and end with landscape. This book puts flowers front and centre, because they have often been ignored in preference for more masculine themes. Departing from where studies of single flower artists leave off, Useless Beauty embraces the general topic of flowers in Australian art and shines new light on a slice of Australian art history that extends from 1880 to 1950. It is the first book of broad chronology to discuss Australian art through blossoms, which it does by addressing stories of major figures including Hans Heysen, Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan, as well as specific objects such as surreal flowers, Aboriginal flowers and war flowers. Whether modern or conservative, the artists in this study shared an intellectual and emotional passion for flora. This was true for men as well as women, despite blossoms being a more traditionally feminine subject. Through spectacular reproductions of historical and contemporary artworks drawn from collections in Australia, the United States, Britain and New Zealand, Useless Beauty explores how flowers influenced the psyche, governed rituals, defined identity and brought a psychological dimension to the everyday. The peak years for flower-centricity in Australian art were between 1920 and 1940 when flowers were known as the apotheosis of useless beauty.

Author : Vj Esguerra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976753872

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For the Feint of Art by Vj Esguerra Pdf

This book of personal poetry (and one e-mail exchange between brothers) puts forth the question: Was something written almost 20 years relevant now as it was then? Ultimately, it's up to readers to decide.

Author : R. Crumb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 0747538166

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The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book by R. Crumb Pdf

A collection of cartoonist Crumb's work, ranging from his earliest comics published in the mid sixties, to work completed in the nineties with his comentaries interspersed thoughout the book.

Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 071484487X

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The Art Book by Editors of Phaidon Press Pdf

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Bookhas been an outstanding success and has become a well-known landmark in the art book world. Now published in over 20 different languages and in mini, midi, and hardback formats, it has received rave reviews from numerous newspapers and magazines and has made many appearances on the bestseller lists. Complemented by The 20th Century Art Bookand The American Art Book, its unique approach brings art alive. An A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art-historical classifications by throwing together brilliant examples of all periods, schools, visions and techniques. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a definitive work, accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on the image and its creator. Glossaries of artistic movements and technical terms are included, making this a valuable work of reference as well as a feast for the eyes. By breaking with traditional classifications, The Art Bookrepresents a fresh and original approach to art: an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich and multi-faceted culture.

Author : Juliet Blackwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451490667

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The Vineyards of Champagne by Juliet Blackwell Pdf

Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Carousel of Provence.... Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest and most defiant women venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not the only secret preserved in the cool, dark cellars... In present day, Rosalyn Acosta travels to Champagne to select vintages for her Napa-based employer. Rosalyn doesn't much care for champagne--or France, for that matter. Since the untimely death of her young husband, Rosalyn finds it a challenge to enjoy anything at all. But as she reads through a precious cache of WWI letters and retraces the lives lived in the limestone tunnels, Rosalyn will unravel a mystery hidden for decades...and find a way to savor her own life again.

Author : Diana Newall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082757140

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Appreciating Art by Diana Newall Pdf

The arts: general issues.

Author : Peregrine Horden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557467

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Music as Medicine by Peregrine Horden Pdf

Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music therapy? What were their aims and techniques, and how much continuity is there between ancient, medieval and modern practice? These are the questions addressed by the essays in this volume. They focus on the place of music therapy in European intellectual, medical and musical traditions, from their classical roots to the development of the music therapy profession since the Second World War. Chapters covering the Judaic, Islamic, Indian and South-East Asian traditions add global, comparative perspectives. Music as Medicine is the first book to establish the whole shape of the history of music therapy in a systematic and scholarly way. It addresses the problem of defining what music therapy has meant in different cultures and periods, and sets the agenda for future research in the subject. It will appeal to a diverse readership of historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and practitioners.

Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063009347

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The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature by Abraham Rees Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990983870

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The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. By Abraham Rees, ... with the Assistance of Eminent Professional Gentlemen. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings, by the Most Disinguished Artists. In Thirthy-nine Volumes. Vol. 1 [- 39] by Anonim Pdf