Mark Bradford Through Darkest America By Truck And Tank

Author : Mark Bradford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : African American artists
ISBN : 1906072787

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Mark Bradford, Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank by Mark Bradford Pdf

Mark Bradford (born 1961) uses materials found in the urban environment such as billboard sheets, posters and newspapers to create expansive, multi-layered paintings comprised entirely of paper. Focused on Bradford's recent body of work inspired by the interstate road network, this new monograph takes its title from a chapter in the memoirs of President Dwight D. Eisenhower about his experience as a member of the Transcontinental Motor Convoy of 1919, which informed his support for a nationwide highway system in the US in the 1950s. Topographical points of reference shift in and out of focus in Bradford's abstract compositions, characterized by ruptures, fractures and incisions that echo the social disruption that followed when interstate highways ripped through communities like Bradford's own in south central Los Angeles. Designed in collaboration with the artist, this volume includes an interview with Susan May and a new essay by Christopher Bedford.

Author : Douglas S. Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781844862047

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Winston Churchill Soldier by Douglas S. Russell Pdf

As a young man Winston Churchill set out to become a hero, to make a name for himself in the public eye as a soldier and so make possible a life of politics and statesmanship. There were many chances to fail and many close calls in the face of sword, spear and bullet along the way. Yet Churchill survived and succeeded – an early measure of his courage and stubborn will that the world would come to know so well in the Second World War. This is the first full-length, fully-researched biography of Churchill's colourful military career. Using an unrivalled range of sources, and with previously unpublished photographs, and detailed maps by Sir Martin Gilbert, it brings to life Churchill's motives, abilities, experiences, successes and failures, and his unswerving sense of destiny as an officer in the British Army. The result is a story to echo the man himself – rich in action, courage, charismatic self-belief, patriotism and humour. Making extensive use of the contemporary accounts of Churchill and his fellow soldiers and archival documents from three continents, illustrated with many maps and previously unpublished photographs, Douglas S. Russell vividly brings to life the military career of the vigorous young officer of hussars who later became the greatest Briton of the twentieth century. From Sandhurst to the mountainous North-West Frontier of India, to the charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, from the South African veldt to the deadly trench warfare of the Great War, the author – whom Sir Martin Gilbert calls 'a keen portraitist' – tells the gripping story of Churchill's army life with careful attention to historical detail and all the drama that the real life adventures of his subject deserve.

Author : Daniel J. Goulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015014885274

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Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by Daniel J. Goulding Pdf

Author : Evelyn Carol Hankins,Stéphane Aquin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300230772

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Mark Bradford by Evelyn Carol Hankins,Stéphane Aquin Pdf

"This book celebrates Pickett's Charge, Mark Bradford's monumental commission for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, an epic site-specific work inspired by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux' nineteenth century cyclorama at Gettysburg National Military Park. ... Spanning the entire circumference of the inner-circle galleries on the Museum's third floor, the artist creates an immersive installation that fills the massive space. ... Working with a combination of colored paper and reproductions of the original cyclorama, Bradford collaged and transformed the historic Gettysburg imagery into a series of eight powerful works."--Page vi.

Author : Howard B. Schaffer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067411390X

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Chester Bowles by Howard B. Schaffer Pdf

This biography of Chester Bowles is also the story of America finding its place in a changing world--remarkably relevant to our own post-cold war era. Former ambassador Schaffer draws on a wealth of documents and interviews with some of the nation's top foreign policy makers in the post-WWII years. 22 halftones.

Author : Christopher Noey,Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714873541

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The Artist Project by Christopher Noey,Thomas P. Campbell Pdf

Artists have long been stimulated and motivated by the work of those who came before them—sometimes, centuries before them. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that spark their imagination shed new light on art-making, museums, and the creative process. Images of works from The Met collection appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.

Author : Pablo Picasso
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215524344

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Picasso by Pablo Picasso Pdf

This text presents an in-depth examination of Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, from the 1940s, when he defiantly remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation, throughout the subsequent Cold War period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Mw Editions
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1735762962

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Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series by Anonim Pdf

"In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate.... Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person's hands." -Hilary Moss, New York Times This publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships--with lovers, children, friends--and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude. As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts "the battle around the family ... monogamy ... and between the sexes.G6 Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist's words, "unrequited love."

Author : Sadie Coles HQ.
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063329968

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Richard Prince by Sadie Coles HQ. Pdf

Prince's upstate New York" Second House" makes a home, literally, for the increasingly physical work of an artist once best known for his studio photographs of magazines. "The Second House" documents his ranch-style gallery, the long grass around it, and the 1973 Plymouth Barracuda parked in the yard, and commemorates the Guggenheim's purchase of the site, which they pledge to open to the public for ten years.

Author : David Cross
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780446550888

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I Drink for a Reason by David Cross Pdf

The star and creative force behind Mr. Show and Arrested Development pens his "first and final book, chronicling his meteoric rise and abysmal fall in the literary world." After a decade spent in isolation in the Ugandan jungles thinking about stuff, David Cross has written his first book. Known for roles on the small screen such as "never-nude" Tobias Funke on Arrested Development and the role of "David" in Mr. Show With Bob And David, as well as a hugely successful stand-up routine full of sharp-tongued rants and rages, Cross has carved out his place in American comedy. Whether deflating the pomposity of religious figures, calling out the pathetic symbiosis of pseudo-celebrity and its leaching fandom, or merely pushing the buttons of the way-too-easily offended P.C. left or the caustic, double-standard of the callous (but funnier) right, Cross has something to say about everyone, including his own ridiculous self. Now, for the first time, Cross is weaving his media mockery, celebrity denunciation, religious commentary and sheer madness into book form, revealing the true story behind his almost existential distaste of Jim Belushi ("The Belush"), disclosing the up-to-now unpublished minutes to a meeting of Fox television network executives, and offering up a brutally grotesque run-in with Bill O'Reilly. And as if this wasn't enough for your laughing pleasure in these troubled times, some of the pieces splinter off with additional material being created online in exclusive video and animated web content created solely for the book-a historical first (presumably)! With a mix of personal essays, satirical fiction posing as truth, advice for rich people, information from America's least favorite Rabbi and a top-ten list of top-ten lists, I Drink for a Reason is as unique as the comedian himself, and cannot be missed.

Author : Allen Packwood
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473893917

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How Churchill Waged War by Allen Packwood Pdf

An analytical investigation into Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s decision-making process during every stage of World War II. When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. This, though, meant that he alone would be responsible for the success or failure of Britain’s war effort. It also meant that he would be faced with many monumental challenges and utterly crucial decisions upon which the fate of Britain and the free world rested. With the limited resources available to the UK, Churchill had to pinpoint where his country’s priorities lay. He had to respond to the collapse of France, decide if Britain should adopt a defensive or offensive strategy, choose if Egypt and the war in North Africa should take precedence over Singapore and the UK’s empire in the East, determine how much support to give the Soviet Union, and how much power to give the United States in controlling the direction of the war. In this insightful investigation into Churchill’s conduct during the Second World War, Allen Packwood, BA, MPhil (Cantab), FRHistS, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, enables the reader to share the agonies and uncertainties faced by Churchill at each crucial stage of the war. How Churchill responded to each challenge is analyzed in great detail and the conclusions Packwood draws are as uncompromising as those made by Britain’s wartime leader as he negotiated his country through its darkest days.

Author : Mark Bowden
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781555846060

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Doctor Dealer by Mark Bowden Pdf

From the # 1 New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: The “shocking” story of the country’s unlikeliest drug kingpin (The Baltimore Sun). By the early 1980s, Larry Lavin had everything going for him. He was a bright, charismatic young man who rose from working-class roots to become a dentist with an Ivy League education and a thriving practice, and a beloved father with a well-respected family in one of Philadelphia’s most exclusive suburbs. But behind the façade of his success was a dark secret: Lavin was also the mastermind behind a cocaine empire that spread from Miami to Boston to New Mexico, catering to lawyers, stockbrokers, and other professionals, and generating an annual income of $60 million for the good doctor. Now, Mark Bowden, a “master of narrative journalism” (The New York Times Book Review) tells the harrowing saga of Lavin’s rise and fall in “a shocking American tragedy . . . [that] shoots straight from the hip” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). “An engrossing crime story and a compelling morality tale.” —The Arizona Republic “Has all the elements of a chilling suspense thriller . . . A smoothly crafted, exciting, can’t-put-it-down book.” —The New Voice (Louisville)

Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787203662

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Brave Men [Illustrated Edition] by Ernie Pyle Pdf

Includes over 150 images recording the career of Ernie Pyle from childhood to Ie Shima. Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front. Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches, battlefields, field hospitals, and beleaguered cities of Europe. What he witnessed he described with a clarity, sympathy, and grit that gave the public back home an immediate sense of the foot soldier’s experience. There were really two wars, John Steinbeck wrote in Time magazine: one of maps and logistics, campaigns, ballistics, divisions, and regiments and the other a “war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage—and that is Ernie Pyle’s war.” This collection of Pyle’s columns detailing the fighting in Europe in 1943-44 brings that war—and the living, and dying, moments of history—home to us once again.-Print ed. “This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops. An essential piece of Americana for all collections.”—Library Journal “[A] classic of modern journalism.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Jennifer Wellington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107135079

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Exhibiting War by Jennifer Wellington Pdf

A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667602738

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In the Wet by Nevil Shute Pdf

In the Wet is a science fiction novel set in a future Australia where a charismatic pilot named David Anderson becomes a national hero after he flies a mission to save a group of people during a devastating flood. The story is told through the eyes of various characters who are connected to Anderson, including his wife, his brother, and a young girl who becomes his protégé. Along the way, the novel explores themes of love, loyalty, faith, and the importance of following one's own moral compass. Ultimately, "In the Wet" is a touching story of one man's journey to make a difference in the world, and the impact he has on the lives of those around him.