Useless Beauty

Author : Ann Elias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443884570

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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 : Robert K. Johnston
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610978293

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Reveals how both contemporary movies and the Book of Ecclesiastes portray life's beauty despite its pain and futility.

Author : Guy de Mauspassant
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473360082

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Useless Beauty by Guy de Mauspassant Pdf

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. After the split, Maupassant lived with his mother till he was thirteen, and inherited her love of classical literature. In 1880, Maupassant published his first – and, according to many, his best – short story, entitled 'Boule de Suif' ('Ball of Fat'). It was an instant success. He went on to be extremely prolific during the 1880s, working methodically to produce up to four volumes of short fiction every year. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000006576155

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Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000968367

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Strong as death. Useless beauty. Who knows? and other stories by Guy de Maupassant Pdf

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313371226

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Elvis Costello by James E. Perone Pdf

The influential rock musician Elvis Costello is recognized for the impressive breadth and scope of his music. His collaborations with such musicians as Tony Bennett and the Count Basie orchestra, however, attest to the many contradictions that define Elvis Costello, the punk rocker. This important guide to his music and career contains over 800 bibliographic citations and a complete discography of Costello's commercially released recordings. The discography, divided into two sections, separately details Costello's career as performer and composer. A brief biography traces his critically acclaimed career and highlights both the influences on his music and the myriad ways in which his music has influenced others. The vast information compiled in this guide to further research is as interesting and diverse as Costello's career. Rock music scholars, musicologists, and Costello enthusiasts will appreciate the videography/filmography, bibliography of musical scores, and list of electronic resources that supplement the extensive discography and annotated bibliography. A works index and a general index make it easy to cross-reference and locate specific information.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434491299

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The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant Pdf

The volume collects 128 of Guy de Maupassant's finest short stories, from "Ball-of-Fat" to "The Last Step."

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Short stories, French
ISBN : UCAL:B4066102

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Strong as death, Useless beauty, and other stories by Guy de Maupassant Pdf

Author : Emily Griesinger,Mark A. Eaton
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : 9781932792478

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The Gift of Story by Emily Griesinger,Mark A. Eaton Pdf

Despite postmodernism's skepticism about narrative, the dialogue with contemporary fiction, drama, music and film demonstrates that the Christian story can engender and sustain hope.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1053521506

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Useless Beauty by Guy de Maupassant Pdf

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798216167860

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The Words and Music of Elvis Costello by James E. Perone Pdf

This book provides in-depth analysis of the words, music, and recordings of Elvis Costello, one of the most enigmatic, eclectic, and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters of the rock era. Elvis Costello is one of the greatest pop songwriters of his generation as well as one of the most significant songwriters of the 20th century. His career's length now approaching four decades, Costello continues to be vital part of pop culture through live performances, recordings, and the iconic nature of his work. The Words and Music of Elvis Costello provides in-depth analysis of this important artist's words, music, and recordings. Arranged chronologically, the book places Costello in the cultural context of his time and place; addresses the overlaps between rock, classical, torch song, and jazz in Costello's highly eclectic range of songs from 1975 to the present; provides a look at the uniquely British aspects of his work; and uniquely spotlights his compositional techniques and approaches to musical form. The book covers everything from Costello's first album My Aim Is True as well as his other albums in the 1970s to his body of work in the '80s and '90s to his continuing eclecticism in the 21st century as he successfully integrates what would appear to be mutually exclusive genres. The concluding chapter provides analysis of the critical commentary about Elvis Costello's work as a performer and songwriter over his long career.

Author : Karen Kelly,Evelyn McDonnell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814747272

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Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky by Karen Kelly,Evelyn McDonnell Pdf

Music industry insiders on the nature of fame Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's celebration of its power, the music world is self-obsessed. Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky assembles scholars, music writers, industry workers, and musicians, who offer a range of opinions and experience of the nature of fame. The collection focuses on commerce, the crowd, performance and image, history and memory, and romance. Contributors discuss black women icons, love-songs, the legacy of the blues, the image of the tortured rock star, MTV, the politics of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the joy of line-dancing, and more. The contributors are James Bernard, Anthony DeCurtis, Katherine Dieckmann, Chuck Eddy, Paul Gilroy, Daniel Glass, Lawrence Grossberg, Jessica Hagedorn, Kathleen Hanna, James Hannaham, Dave Hickey, Jon Langford, Greil Marcus, Angela McRobbie, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), Barbara O'Dair, Ann Powers, Toshi Reagon, Simon Reynolds, Robert Santelli, Jon Savage, Danyel Smith, Arlene Stein, Deena Weinstein, and Ellen Willis.

Author : Julie Rodrigues Widholm
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300134274

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Escultura Social by Julie Rodrigues Widholm Pdf

"Featuring the work of twenty artists, this bilingual volume includes several artists' writings ... about artist-run exhibition spaces"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571254484

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Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus Pdf

His foremost interpreter revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan - weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota on election night 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discovery: from Marcus' sleeve notes for the 1967 Basement Tapes to his exploration of Dylan's reimagining of the American experience in 1997's Time Out of Mind. And rejection; Marcus's Rolling Stone piece on Dylan's album Self Portrait -- often referred to as the most famous record review ever written -- began with 'What is this shit?' and led to his departure from the magazine for five years. Marcus follows not only recordings but performances. books, movies, and all manner of highways and byways in which Bob Dylan has made himself felt in our culture. Together, the dozens of pieces collected here comprise a portrait of how, throughout his career, Bob Dylan has drawn upon and reinvented the landscape of American song, its myths and choruses, heroes and villains. They are the result of more than forty years' engagement between an unparalleled artist and a uniquely acute listener.

Author : Helen Follett Jameson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547136446

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The Woman Beautiful; or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Helen Follett Jameson Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Woman Beautiful; or, The Art of Beauty Culture" by Helen Follett Jameson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.