Girl With Dead Bird

Author : Volkmar Mühleis
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789462701373

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Girl with Dead Bird by Volkmar Mühleis Pdf

Life and death in a sixteenth-century masterpiece The portrait we have come to call Little Girl with Dead Bird is an enigma. On the one hand, we hardly know anything about this sixteenth-century masterpiece. But even so, on the other hand, the picture fascinates viewers to this day. This painting's indeterminate yet compelling status provides Volkmar Mühleis grounds to look beyond its historical significance and to explore its anthropological scope as well, from an intercultural perspective and, moreover, against the backdrop of its complex of themes concerning life and death. To do so, Mühleis returns to the conceptual premises that frame the relationship between the history of art and the anthropology of images, along with those that juxtapose Western and Eastern philosophies.

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0786800658

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She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! by Kathryn Lasky Pdf

A fictionalized account of the activities of Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, founders of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a late nineteenth-century Audubon Society that would endure and have impact on the bird-protection movement.

Author : Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062560387

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The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown Pdf

This heartwarming classic picture book by beloved children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown is beautifully reillustrated for a contemporary audience by the critically acclaimed, award-winning illustrator Christian Robinson. One day, the children find a bird lying on its side with its eyes closed and no heartbeat. They are very sorry, so they decide to say good-bye. In the park, they dig a hole for the bird and cover it with warm sweet-ferns and flowers. Finally, they sing sweet songs to send the little bird on its way.

Author : Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226752879

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Moved by Love by Mary D. Sheriff Pdf

No happy endings, though, were imagined for such inspired women writers as Sappho and Heloise, who burned with an erotomania their art could not quench. Even so, Sheriff demonstrates that the perceived connections among sexuality, creativity, and disease also opened artistic opportunities for women - and creative women took full advantage of them."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Diane Seuss
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979966

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Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl by Diane Seuss Pdf

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Still life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned Dreamsicle Still life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinder Still life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead parakeet Still life with pork rinds pickled peppers and the Book of Revelation Still life with feeding tube oxygen half-eaten raspberry Zinger Still life with convenience store pecking order shotgun blast to the face —from “American Still Lives” Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandt’s painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer’s own troubled gaze. In Diane Seuss’s new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandt’s painting is presented across the book in pieces—details that hide more than they reveal until they’re assembled into a whole. With invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Instead, Seuss invites in the alienated, the washed-up, the ugly, and the freakish—the overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, O’Keeffe, and Rothko. Rendered with precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that “our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting.”

Author : Cliff Eisen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198163436

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Mozart Studies 2 by Cliff Eisen Pdf

Published to complement Mozart Studies (published in 1991), Mozart Studies 2 offers a forum for the most important trends in recent Mozart scholarship, including substantial contributions in gender and genre studies, close readings of individual works (among them the `Prague' symphony and Lenozze di Figaro), textual and contextual research and new directions in analysis, both for the operas and instrumental music. At the same time, it also aims to suggest directions for future research. In addition to Cliff Eisen, the contributors include leading Mozart scholars, among them MaryHunter, John Platoff, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, and Elaine Sisman.

Author : JonArno Lawson
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554988556

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Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson Pdf

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. “Written” by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Author : Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780876615416

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Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy by Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter Pdf

This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.

Author : Holly Jackson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593379851

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As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson Pdf

THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • The final book in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again... Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . . And don't miss Holly Jackson's next thriller, Five Surive!

Author : Jodi Lynn Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416906070

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May Bird and the Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson Pdf

Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters The Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogey Man.

Author : James A. Steintrager
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0253343674

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Cruel Delight by James A. Steintrager Pdf

Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and freedom

Author : Crystal Chan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442450905

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Bird by Crystal Chan Pdf

Entrenched secrets, mysterious spirits, and an astonishing friendship weave together in this extraordinary and haunting debut that School Library Journal calls “a powerful story about loss and moving on.” Nothing matters. Only Bird matters. And he flew away. Jewel never knew her brother Bird, but all her life she has lived in his shadow. Her parents blame Grandpa for the tragedy of their family’s past: they say that Grandpa attracted a malevolent spirit—a duppy—into their home. Grandpa hasn’t spoken a word since. Now Jewel is twelve, and she lives in a house full of secrets and impenetrable silence. Jewel is sure that no one will ever love her like they loved Bird, until the night that she meets a mysterious boy in a tree. Grandpa is convinced that the boy is a duppy, but Jewel knows that he is something more. And that maybe—just maybe—the time has come to break through the stagnant silence of the past.

Author : Susan Glaspell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : One-act plays
ISBN : UOM:39015008580576

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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Pdf

Author : Nikki Loftin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101612972

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Wish Girl by Nikki Loftin Pdf

A dying girl gives a boy the strength to live in this lyrical novel that will break your heart and lift your spirit Peter Stone’s parents and siblings are extroverts, musicians, and yellers—and the louder they get, the less Peter talks, or even moves, until he practically fits his last name. When his family moves to the Texas Hill Country, though, Peter finds a tranquil, natural valley where he can, at last, hear himself think. There, he meets a girl his age: Annie Blythe. Annie tells Peter she’s a “wish girl.” But Annie isn’t just any wish girl; she’s a “Make-A-Wish Girl.” And in two weeks she will begin a dangerous treatment to try and stop her cancer from spreading. Left alone, the disease will kill her. But the treatment may cause serious, lasting damage to her brain. Annie and Peter hatch a plan to escape into the valley, which they begin to think is magical. But the pair soon discovers that the valley—and life—may have other plans for them. And sometimes wishes come true in ways they would never expect.

Author : Elina Druker,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027249265

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Photography in Children's Literature by Elina Druker,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Pdf

Photography in Children’s Literature is the first study that examines the wide array of artistic techniques, topics, and genres used within photographic books for children. Covering a time period from the 1870s to the 1980s, the collection offers multifaceted insights into changing perceptions of children and childhood during an era when the world changed in unprecedented ways. More than sixty full-color illustrations demonstrate an impressive variety of genres, from ABC books, concept books, and country portraits to photo reportage and poetry. By discussing photographic books from ten countries and three continents, the collection offers an international scope, providing a glimpse into the production and reception of photography in children’s literature in a range of contexts and cultures. Photographic books for children thus open up new vistas for scholars interested in an interdisciplinary and transnational investigation of children’s literature, text and images, across the centuries.