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The Hum and the Shiver

Author : Alex Bledsoe
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429985024

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The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe is an enchanting tale of music and magic older than the hills, and the first book in the wondrous Tufa series. . . . "Imagine a book somewhere between American Gods and Faulkner. In brief: a good book. Absolutely worth your time."—Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author, on The Hum and the Shiver Private Bronwyn Hyatt had left her small town of Needsville for the army to escape the pressures of her mystical Tufa family legacy. She returns a lone survivor after a disastrous attack overseas, wounded in body and spirit. But cryptic omens warn of impending tragedy, and a restless haint lurks nearby, waiting to reveal Bronwyn's darkest secrets. Now Bronwyn finds the greatest battle lies right in her backyard, especially as young minister with too much curiosity arrives in town. If she makes the wrong choice, the consequences could be deadly for all the Tufa. . . . "A sheer delight."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Enter the captivating world of the fae in Alex Bledsoe's Tufa novels The Hum and the Shiver Wisp of a Thing Long Black Curl Chapel of Ease Gather Her Round At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Richard Dadd

Author : Nicholas Tromans
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1935202685

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The public appetite for Dadd's bewitching art has never been greater, and this long-overdue reassessment -- published in association with the Tate, London, and featuring 100 color plates -- provides a vivid account of one of the most fascinating artists of the Victorian era. Interpretations of Dadd's art have been coloured by Romantic notions of creativity and madness, by enthusiasm for Outsider Art, and by the ideas of Michel Foucault and the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In the first full account of Dadd's life and career, the author examines Dadd's artistic legacy and uses his case to investigate the encounter between art and the treatment of mental illness in the nineteenth century. In the enclosed world of the asylum, Dadd's doctors were both his custodians and his patrons, while the legends of modern medicine became part of the larger mythological systems that informed the artist's work. In the summer of 1842, Richard Dadd was the resident artist for an English expedition through Greece, Turkey and Egypt. Towards the trip's end, Dadd underwent a dramatic personality change, believing himself to be under the command of the god Osiris. Upon his return to England, he was diagnosed "of unsound mind" and was taken by his family to recuperate in Cobham, Kent. It was here, in August 1843, that Dadd murdered his father, before fleeing to France where he was eventually captured and committed to Bedlam psychiatric hospital in London. Over the next 40 years, Dadd made some of Victorian Britain's most mesmerizing paintings, such as his endlessly detailed masterpiece, "The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke" -- a proto-psychedelic fairy drama whose fame in the 1960s and 70s prompted the rock band Queen to record a song about it, and which remains one of Tate Britain's most visited paintings. The tale of the rediscovery of Dadd's greatest watercolor, "The Artist's Halt in the Desert," on The Antiques Roadshow in 1987 has also entered popular folklore. Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum is the first thorough monograph on this neglected Victorian virtuoso. Alongside its 100 color plates, critical essays overturn several myths about Dadd (revealing, for example, that his jailers were generous and often acted as his patrons rather than as his oppressors) and trace the critical reception of his now widely admired art. Richard Dadd (1817-1886) was born in Chatham, Kent, and entered The Royal Academy at the age of 20. In 1842, Sir Thomas Phillips chose Dadd to accompany him as his draftsman on an expedition to the Middle East, during which the first signs of the artist's schizophrenia emerged. Following his murder of his father in 1843, Dadd was incarcerated in Bedlam hospital, later being moved to Broadmoor, where he died in 1886.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #5

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:DEC180807

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Ostensibly a cheap British reprint of pre-code American horror, this penultimate stop on Moore and O'Neill's pyrotechnic farewell tour takes us from the tortured mind of artist Richard Dadd to a London swallowed by darkness; from a spectacular 3D* struggle in the Blazing World to some jaw-dropping vengeance in Vauxhall and a conclusion that is out of this world. Meanwhile our Seven Stars finally come face to writhing mess with the monstrous menace of the 'Mass while providing origins for both Satin Astro and the Flash Avenger. Don't miss the never-to-be-repeated cavalcade of wonders that is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Tempest. *3D glasses not included.

The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886

Author : Patricia Allderidge,Richard Dadd,Tate Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014399334

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Includes a catalogue of his works.

The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror

Author : Elizabeth McGregor
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9780553586725

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Hailed for her “remarkably accomplished and poignant work” (Washington Post), acclaimed author Elizabeth McGregor returns with a haunting love story about two lost souls brought together by chance—and bonded forever by a mystery that transcends madness, tragedy, and time itself.... Catherine Sergeant is adept at going through the motions. After losing her parents at an early age, she buried her grief in the study of antiquities. Now, deserted by her husband without warning or explanation, she reports to work at Pearson’s auction house, exchanging pleasantries with colleagues, never revealing her pain. Cocooned in loneliness, she couldn’t be more surprised to find herself opening up to a total stranger—a new client, no less. In widowed architect John Brigham, Catherine finds a kindred spirit. The two share a fascination with Richard Dadd, an early Victorian painter who lived most of his life incarcerated in an insane asylum. There he produced his most stunning works—works that have deeply moved Catherine and now draw her inexorably to John. Soon the two are falling in love. The reawakening of passion in a woman like Catherine is more than John ever hoped for. But when she discovers his possession of an unknown Dadd, it is just the first in a series of revelations that leave her wondering if she knows this man who has shown her life’s true beauty. For John, it may be a last chance to free himself from the priceless secrets he has been harboring too long. Secrets about a soul laid bare on canvas, and a legacy that could shatter all he holds dear in the space of a heartbeat… A compelling blend of human drama, art, and history, this intriguing tale casts a spell that lingers far beyond the final page—and celebrates the strength we all must find within our hearts. From the Hardcover edition.

Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

Author : Nicola Bown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521793157

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This book examines the fairy in the work of many Victorian painters, novelists and poets.

The Book of British Ballads

Author : Samuel Carter Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UCAL:$C24739

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The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

Author : Harry Eiss
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443844888

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Richard Dadd is a trickster, a pre-post-modern enigma wrapped in a Shakespearean Midsummer Night’s Dream; an Elizabethan Puck living in a smothering Victorian insane asylum, foreshadowing and, in brilliant, Mad Hatter conundrums, entering the fragmented shards of today’s nightmarish oxymorons long before the artists currently trying to give them the joker’s ephemeral maps of discourse. The author thinks of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” that cryptic refusal to reduce the warped mirrors of reality to prosaic lies, or, perhaps “All Along the Watchtower” or “Mr Tambourine Man.” Even more than Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which curiously enough comes off as overly esoteric, too studied, too conscious, Dadd’s entire existence foreshadows the forbidden entrance into the numinous, the realization of the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, that wonderfully rich Marcel Duchamp landscape of puns and satiric paradigms, that surrealistic parallax of the brilliant gamester Salvador Dali, that smirking irony of the works of Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Robert Indiana; that fragmented, meta-fictional struggle of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. John Lennon certainly sensed it and couldn’t help but push into meta-real worlds in his own lyrics. Think of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “I Am the Walrus,” and the more self-conscious “Revolution Number 9.” In “Yer Blues,” he even refers to Dylan’s main character, Mr Jones from “Ballad of a Thin Man.” If Lennon’s song is taken seriously, literally, then it is a dark crying out by a suicidal man, “Lord, I’m lonely, wanna die”; or, if taken as a metaphor for a lover’s lost feelings about his unfulfilled love, it falls into the romantic rant of a typical blues or teenage rock-and-roll song. However, even on this level, it has an irony about it, a sense of laughing at itself and at Dylan’s Mr Jones, who knows something is going on but just not what it is, and then, by extension, all of us who have awakened to the fact that the studied Western world doesn’t make sense, all of us who struggle to find meaning in the nonsense images, characters, and happenings in the song, and perhaps, coming to a conclusion that the nonsense is the sense.

The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd

Author : Miranda Miller
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Time travel
ISBN : 0720615038

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After murdering his father, the painter Richard Dadd is confined to Bedlam. Dr Hood is determined to reform Bedlam and has enlightened views about mental illness. In 1857 Dr Hood gives Dadd a spacious room to work in. Dadd visits 21st century London where he glimpses the mysterious Nina and his own painting in Tate Britain.

Treasure Palaces

Author : The Economist
Publisher : The Economist
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781610396813

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In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all. In his ode to the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Mexico, the great novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes writes, “Museums, like lovers, can lose their charms. But the next time can always be the first time.” William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna—a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Musée in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd's “The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,” a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University's Museum of Natural History—which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack. In Search of the Originals is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world's most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.

The Wee Free Men

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : OCLC:1200623446

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Victorian Fairy Painting

Author : Jeremy Maas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015042149362

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Published to accompany exhibition held at The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13/11/97 - 8/2/98.

Victorian Painters

Author : Jeremy Maas
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art, Victorian
ISBN : UCSD:31822021315957

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