An Artful Corpse
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An Artful Corpse
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Author : Helen A. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-03-02
An Artful Corpse written by Helen A. Harrison and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Fiction categories.
"A first-rate whodunnit set in the 1960s New York art world, a time and place Helen Harrison has recreated with a page-turning mix of history, gossip, and fun!"—Bob Colacello, author of Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up One artist. One student. One deadly mystery. When Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton's corpse is discovered behind the easels of Manhattan's famed art school, whispers in the art community say he had it coming. As Benton's list of enemies lengthens to include the school's instructors, Vietnam War protesters, and members of Andy Warhol's entourage, one art student is ultimately painted as the murderer. The only problem: the suspect has vanished. Why would an art student murder Benton? And if he were innocent, why would he run? When TJ Fitzgerald, son of Detective Juanita Diaz and Captain Brian Fitzgerald of the NYPD, discovers his classmate is the prime suspect, he uses his own investigative skills to try and clear his name. But as TJ and his girlfriend work to unravel the clues to the art mystery, he begins to wonder if the police got it wrong and one secret may be the key to it all... Helen Harrison's An Artful Corpse is a clever mystery sure to please art enthusiasts and armchair detectives alike.
Exquisite Corpse
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Author : Poppy Z. Brite
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997-08-20
Exquisite Corpse written by Poppy Z. Brite and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-20 with Fiction categories.
From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a “guidebook to hell.” To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his “art” to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London’s Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.
An Exquisite Corpse
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Author : Helen A. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2020-07-07
An Exquisite Corpse written by Helen A. Harrison and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-07 with Fiction categories.
Murder is a work of art... When the acclaimed Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, officers Juanita Diaz and Brian Fitzgerald of the NYPD, must investigate the crime. But what they find is much more gruesome than they ever could have imagined. Suspicion soon falls on a tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, and Diaz and Fitzgerald must traverse the city, from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland, to find the truth. Did one of the artists' bizarre parlor games turn deadly? Or is there something even more sinister afoot? "Smart, witty, filled with so much history of the period, beautifully written, and suspenseful."—Jonathan Santlofer, author of The Death Artist
An Accidental Corpse
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Author : Helen A. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2020-08-04
An Accidental Corpse written by Helen A. Harrison and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Fiction categories.
Accidents happen. But so does murder... On the night of August 11, 1956, in a quiet East Hampton hamlet, Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree. The accident killed Pollock, the world-renowned abstract painter and notorious alcoholic, and his 25-year old passenger, Edith Metzger...or did it? Metzger's autopsy reveals that she was already dead before the crash. Was it murder? This shocking question draws vacationing Detective Juanita Diaz and her husband, Captain Brian Fitzgerald, of the NYPD into a homicide investigation that implicates famous members of East Hampton's art community—including Pollock himself. "Edifying and juicy."—Newsday
The Exquisite Corpse
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Author : Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2009-12-01
The Exquisite Corpse written by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This work addresses historical and contemporary manifestations of poems, drawings, collages, and performance works that employ the ritual of the 'cadaver exquis'.
Exquisite Corpse
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Author : Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland)
language : en
Publisher: Irish Museum Of Modern Art
Release Date : 2008
Exquisite Corpse written by Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland) and has been published by Irish Museum Of Modern Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Arts, Modern categories.
An Elegant Corpse
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Author : Helen A. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Art of Murder Mysteries
Release Date : 2023-01-16
An Elegant Corpse written by Helen A. Harrison and has been published by Art of Murder Mysteries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-16 with categories.
At an elegant East Hampton estate, a wealthy artist and art collector's plan to sell Jackson Pollock's masterpiece, Lavender Mist, has deadly consequences.
Exquisite Corpse
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Author : Mark Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Exquisite Corpse written by Mark Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with True Crime categories.
Presenting the most compelling explanation yet for the bizarre nature of the Black Dahlia murder, this volume includes never-before published crime-scene photographs and links the alleged killer to a vast array of influential people.
Controversial Bodies
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Author : John D. Lantos
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-09-07
Controversial Bodies written by John D. Lantos and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-07 with Medical categories.
Controversial, fascinating, disturbing, and often beautiful, plastinated human bodies -- such as those found at Body Worlds exhibitions throughout the world -- have gripped the public's imagination. These displays have been lauded as educational, sparked protests, and drawn millions of visitors. This book looks at the powerful sway these corpses hold over their living audiences everywhere. Plastination was invented in the 1970s by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens. The process transforms living tissues into moldable plastic that can then be hardened into a permanent shape. Von Hagens first exhibited his expertly dissected, artfully posed plastinated bodies in Japan in 1995. Since then, his shows have continuously attracted so many paying customers that they have inspired imitators, brought accusations of unethical or even illegal behavior, and ignited vigorous debates among scientists, educators, religious leaders, and law enforcement officials. These lively, thought-provoking, and sometimes personal essays reflect on such public displays from ethical, legal, cultural, religious, pedagogical, and aesthetic perspectives. They examine what lies behind the exhibitions' popularity and explore the ramifications of turning corpses into a spectacle of amusement. Contributions from bioethicists, historians, physicians, anatomists, theologians, and novelists dig deeply into issues that compel, upset, and unsettle us all.
Exquisite Corpse
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Author : Michael Sorkin
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1991
Exquisite Corpse written by Michael Sorkin and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Architecture categories.
'Exquisite Corpse' was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In this entertaining and provocative book, Michael Sorkin suggests that cities are similarly assembled by many players acting with varying autonomy in a complicit framework. An unfolding terrain of invention, the city is also a means of accommodating disparity, of contextualizing sometimes startling juxtapositions. Sorkin's aim is to widen the debate about the creation of buildings beyond the immediate issues of technology and design. He discusses the politics and culture of architecture with daring, often devastating, observations about the institutions and personalities who have dominated the profession over the past decade. Their preoccupation with the empty style of 'beach houses and Disneyland' has consistently trivialized the full constructive scope of contemporary architecture's possibilities. Sorkin's interventions range from the development scandals of New York where 'skyscrapers stand at the intersection between grid and greed', through the deconstructivist architectural culture of Los Angeles, to the work and ideas of architects, developers and critics such as Alvar Aalto, Norman Foster, Paul Goldberger, Michael Graves, Coop Himmelblau, Philip Johnson, Leon Krier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Rogers, Carlo Scarpa, James Stirling, Donald Trump, Tom Wolfe and Lebbeus Woods. Throughout Sorkin combines stinging polemic with a powerful call for a rebirth of architecture that is visionary and experimental--a recuperated 'dreamy science'