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Contemporary Botanical Artists

Author : Shirley Sherwood,Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0297822705

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Contemporary Botanical Artists by Shirley Sherwood,Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pdf

Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.

The Shirley Sherwood Collection

Author : Shirley Sherwood
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : ART
ISBN : 1842466933

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The Shirley Sherwood Collection by Shirley Sherwood Pdf

This book is a celebration of the Shirley Sherwood Collection of contemporary botanical art, made over a period of 30 years by Dr Shirley Sherwood and considered the most important private collection of its kind in the world. In 2018 the 1000th painting was added to the collection, a pocket handkerchief by Coral Guest.

Rory McEwen, 1932-1982

Author : Rory McEwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Botanical illustration
ISBN : 095042708X

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Rory McEwen

Author : Rory McEwen,Taranman Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Leaves in art
ISBN : 0906499062

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Rory McEwen by Rory McEwen,Taranman Limited Pdf

An Oak Spring Flora

Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300242560

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An Oak Spring Flora by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi Pdf

This is the latest volume in a major series that describes selections of the rare books, manuscripts, and other works of art held at Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The 111 items chosen for this volume on floral illustration since the later Middle Ages include Books of Hours, still-life and vanitas paintings, botanical prints, and books of instruction of every kind, from planting a garden to making flowers using colored papers or wax. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi groups the works into chapters on such topics as florilegia, women artists, tulipomania, Dutch and Flemish painting, and exotic flowers from distant lands, providing an introduction to each chapter that gives the contextual background necessary for a real understanding and appreciation of floral illustration past and present. The sheer beauty as well as extraordinary skills encountered, for example, in manuscript florilegia by Jacob Marrel and Maria Sibylla Merian, in hand-colored books by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and G.B. Ferrari, and in flower studies painted by John Constable, Margaret Mee, and others, are testament to the high status accorded floral illustration over the centuries. This handsome, richly illustrated volume will attract all those with an interest in rare books and the history of art as well as horticulturalists, botanists, and garden historians.

The Innocent

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809667

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The Innocent by Ian McEwan Pdf

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life—and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening—a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws

Author : Jimmy McDonough
Publisher : Crown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307338440

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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws by Jimmy McDonough Pdf

Russ Meyer, cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the Wall Street Journal called the King Leer of Hollywood, made movies that filled the big screen with “big bosoms and square jaws.” In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator’s life, Jimmy McDonough shows us how Russ Meyer used that formula to turn his own crazed fantasies into movies that made him a millionaire and changed the face of American film forever. This former WWII combat photographer immortalized his personal sexual obsession upon the silver screen, creating box-office gold with The Immoral Mr. Teas in 1959. The modest little film pushed all preexisting limits of on-screen nudity, and with its success, the floodgates of what was permitted to be shown on film were thrust open, never to be closed again. Russ Meyer ignited a true revolution in filmmaking, breaking all sex, nudity, and violence taboos. In a career that spanned more than forty years, Meyer created a body of work that has influenced a legion of filmmakers, fashionistas, comic book artists, rock bands, and even the occasional feminist. Bringing his anecdote- and action-packed biographical style to another renegade of popular culture, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey Jimmy McDonough offers a wild, warts-and-all portrait of Russ Meyer, the director, writer, producer, and commando moviemaking force behind the sexploitation classics Vixen, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and many others. Big Bosoms and Square Jaws blows the lid off the story of Russ Meyer, from the beginning to his recent tragic demise, creating in the process a vivid portrait of a past America.

A New Flowering

Author : Shirley Sherwood,Barrie Edward Juniper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1854442066

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A New Flowering by Shirley Sherwood,Barrie Edward Juniper Pdf

This major exhibition brings together the greatest treasures of botanical art including over 80 botanical illustrations, both ancient and modern, spanning 1000 years.

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019

Author : Susan Morris
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 7460 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781999767051

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Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 by Susan Morris Pdf

Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.

Say No to the Devil

Author : Ian Zack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226234243

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Say No to the Devil by Ian Zack Pdf

“Finally, the biography that Rev. Davis deserves. Ian Zack takes ‘Blind Gary’ out of the footnotes and into the footlights of the history of American music.” —Steve Katz, cofounder of Blood, Sweat & Tears Bob Dylan called Gary Davis “one of the wizards of modern music.” Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead—who took lessons with Davis—claimed his musical ability “transcended any common notion of a bluesman.” And the folklorist Alan Lomax called him “one of the really great geniuses of American instrumental music.” But you won’t find Davis alongside blues legends Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The first biography of Davis, Say No to the Devil restores “the Rev’s” remarkable story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with many of Davis’s former students, Ian Zack takes readers through Davis’s difficult beginning as the blind son of sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South to his decision to become an ordained Baptist minister and his move to New York in the early 1940s, where he scraped out a living singing and preaching on street corners and in storefront churches in Harlem. There, he gained entry into a circle of musicians that included, among many others, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Dave Van Ronk. But in spite of his tremendous musical achievements, Davis never gained broad recognition from an American public that wasn’t sure what to make of his trademark blend of gospel, ragtime, street preaching, and the blues. His personal life was also fraught, troubled by struggles with alcohol, women, and deteriorating health. Zack chronicles this remarkable figure in American music, helping us to understand how he taught and influenced a generation of musicians.

Rory McEwen

Author : Martyn Rix
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1842465910

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Rory McEwen by Martyn Rix Pdf

This is a revised edition of the bestselling book about the life and work of artist and musician Rory McEwen (1932-82). A legend in his lifetime and still admired thirty years after his death, his main legacy is the wonderfully luminous and detailed flower paintings he produced throughout his life, of anemones, auriculas, tulips, fritillaries, and of often battered, dying leaves or mouldering vegetables.

Music Hiding in the Air

Author : Christian McEwen
Publisher : Bauhan Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872331660

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Music Hiding in the Air by Christian McEwen Pdf

A portrait of the artist and musician Rory McEwen, by his niece, the writer Christian McEwen.

Botanical Illustration

Author : Leigh Ann Gale
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785004285

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Botanical Illustration by Leigh Ann Gale Pdf

Botanical Illustration - the complete guide explains the processes and methods behind this beautiful art genre. It highlights the importance of the requisite skills of close observation, accurate drawing and attention to detail. Leigh Ann Gale is a leading botanical artist and tutor, and she generously demonstrates her approach in this book. Her worked example of fuchsia magellanica clearly shows the varied stages of an illustration. Along with step-by-step instructions to a range of subjects, this book is beautifully illustrated with over 350 images, diagrams and paintings of her and her students' work. This book is a source of inspiration as well as a definitive guide, and the contents include: introduction to botany and a comprehensive botanical glossary; a case study demonstrating each stage of a worked example, including the selection and preparation of a subject, observational drawings, composition skills and painting processes; step-by-step instruction covering many subjects, from creating shine on leaves and berries, to painting white flowers and depicting hairs on leaves and stems; a guide to colour theory and how to mix colours accurately to match your specimens and make the most of your watercolour palette; and ideas on how to continue, and develop your own style of botanical illustration. This book will be of great interest to all botanical artists, natural history artists, watercolourists, gardeners and natural historians and is lavishly illustrated with 391 colour images.

Solar

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385533423

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Solar by Ian McEwan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception. Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and halfheartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. Meanwhile, Michael’s fifth marriage is floundering due to his incessant womanizing. When his professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Michael to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. But can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.

Jim Dine Flowers and Plants

Author : Marco Livingstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050812786

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Jim Dine Flowers and Plants by Marco Livingstone Pdf

Unusual techniques underlie the uniqueness of much of Dine's botanical work. On several ceramic jars created to his specifications, Dine has drawn towering foxgloves or a clump of crocuses or a strong old trunk with a tangled network of branches - giving these plants an unexpected context that provokes new thinking. His eagerness to get down his ideas leads Dine to press any blank surface into use: two handsome wooden panels, purchased to become doors, now provide the backgrounds for an imposing thicket of weeds and a glorious bunch of gladiolas.