Bohemian Rogue
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Bohemian Rogue
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Author : Stephen C. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Kluwer
Release Date : 2005
Bohemian Rogue written by Stephen C. Jordan and has been published by Kluwer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Artist John Decker was born in Germany in 1895, but found his fame in Hollywood during the 1930s and '40s. At the age of 13, he was abandoned by his parents in London, where he found work painting scenery for the theatre circuit. Taken under the wing of a talented forger, Decker developed a remarkable ability to recreate works by the old Masters--a skill that helped land him in jail, but also brought him thousands of dollars throughout his life. After stowing away to America in 1921, Decker became a caricaturist for a New York paper. In 1928 he left for Hollywood and became friends with many of its biggest names, including John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, and W. C. Fields. Though Decker struggled to find film work as an artist and set designer, his drawings appeared in numerous publications from coast to coast. He was commissioned to do paintings of, among others, the Marx Brothers, Greta Garbo, Mickey Rooney, and Charlie Chaplin (who bought twelve of his portraits). Eventually, Decker's paintings were exhibited in Rome, New York, and Los Angeles, and his creations graced museum walls alongside many of the great artists, including Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Daumier. Stories on Decker, his art, and his exhibitions, appeared in all the major newspapers, as well as such magazines as Esquire, Time, and Newsweek. With all of his amazing talent--and scandalous exploits--it's surprising that the name of John Decker isn't more familiar today. In Bohemian Rogue: The Life of Hollywood Artist John Decker, author Stephen C. Jordan seeks to resurrect this forgotten figure of 20th century art. Jordan delves into the mystery of a man who overcame a difficult childhood and notorious apprenticeship to become a respected artist (and outrageous party-giver) in Hollywood. Bohemian Rogue chronicles the relatively brief--but eccentric--life of this neglected painter, caricaturist, and sculptor.
A Rogue S Company
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Author : Allison Montclair
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2021-06-08
A Rogue S Company written by Allison Montclair and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Fiction categories.
In Allison Montclair's A Rogue's Company, business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear. In London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet and expanding. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are making a go of it. That is until Lord Bainbridge—the widowed Gwen's father-in-law and legal guardian—returns from a business trip to Africa and threatens to undo everything important to her, even sending her six-year-old son away to a boarding school. But there's more going on than that. A new client shows up at the agency, one whom Sparks and Bainbridge begin to suspect really has a secret agenda, somehow involving the Bainbridge family. A murder and a subsequent kidnapping sends Sparks to seek help from a dangerous quarter—and now their very survival is at stake.
Hollywood S Hellfire Club
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Author : Gregory William Mank
language : en
Publisher: Feral House
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Hollywood S Hellfire Club written by Gregory William Mank and has been published by Feral House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Performing Arts categories.
They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mama's boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts. They were "The Bundy Drive Boys," and they made the Rat Pack look like Cub Scouts. Their self-destructiveness was spectacular, the misanthropy profound, but behind the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. The Bundy Drive Boys' un-bowdlerized stories have never been illustrated so well or told so completely as within Hollywood's Hellfire Club. Author Gregory William Mank also wrote It's Alive!: The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein and Hollywood Cauldron.
Consuming Visions
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Author : Maite Conde
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012
Consuming Visions written by Maite Conde and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalistic essays and popular women's novels to anarchist treatises and vaudeville plays, the author shows how the writers' encounters with the cinema were consistent with the significant changes taking place in the city. The arrival and initial development of the cinema in Brazil were part of the new urban landscape in which early Brazilian movies not only articulated the processes of the city's modernization but also enabled new urban spectators--women, immigrants, a new working class, and a recently liberated slave population--to see, believe in, and participate in its future. In the process, these early movies challenged the power of the written word and of Brazilian writers, threatening the hegemonic function of writing that had traditionally forged the contours of the nation's cultural life. An emerging market of consumers of the new cultural phenomena--popular theater, the department store, the factory, illustrated magazines--reflected changes that not only modernized literary production but also altered the very life and everyday urban experiences of the population. Consuming Visions is an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation.
Stage Right
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Author : John Bull
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1994-05-24
Stage Right written by John Bull and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-24 with Performing Arts categories.
Stage Right is a refreshingly abrasive account of the state of British theatre since 1979, offering an account of the development of a new mainstream formed in conscious opposition to the work of the politically committed dramatists of the 70s and an analysis of the plays of the most successful playwrights of the new mainstream: Nichols, Gray, Frayn, Bennett, Ayckbourn and Stoppard.
The Reformation And Anti Reformation In Bohemia
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Author : Christian Adolph Pescheck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
The Reformation And Anti Reformation In Bohemia written by Christian Adolph Pescheck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with Bohemia (Czech Republic) categories.
The story of a legendary horse who could run like the wind, but also hurt those who love him the most.
The Academy
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The Academy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.
Speaking Flute
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Author : Swami Vimurtananda
language : en
Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math
Release Date : 2020-03-05
Speaking Flute written by Swami Vimurtananda and has been published by Sri Ramakrishna Math this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with Religion categories.
Deriving inspiration from Swami Vivekananda’s exhortation that the highest philosophy must be put in concrete moral forms so that anyone can grasp, Swami Vimurtananda, under the pseudonym of Bhamathimaindan, had written several stories that were published in Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam, the Tamil monthly published from Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai. This book is a collection of English translation of twenty-five such stories. It offers eternal messages packaged in imaginative stories of real-life significance under the title Speaking Flute that conjures up visions of Sri Krishna from whose mystic flute divine music issues forth in recurring waves. The slender volume is a good example of impeccable story-telling. It is ideal for non-detailed study by school students.
Rogue Sexuality In Early Modern English Literature
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Author : Ari Friedlander
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-17
Rogue Sexuality In Early Modern English Literature written by Ari Friedlander and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace—and their seductive appeal—emerged not only from their social marginality, but also from their supposedly excessive sexuality and prodigious sexual reproduction. Through discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Thomas Harman, and the inventor of modern demography John Graunt, this volume posits the sexualized rogue as the avatar of a new category of "socio-sexual identity" and traces a surprising social transposition, in which socio-political elites are portrayed as appropriating the rogue's sexual vitality and performative charisma to navigate moments of crisis. By tracking the movement of rogue sexuality from a criminal to a normative discursive register, this book challenges the distinctions that literary critics and historians tend to draw between orderly and disorderly sexuality. With its focus on reproduction, rogue sexuality also provides a new framework for what Michel Foucault called "biopolitics," the state's focus on exercising power over life. In legal, administrative, and scientific documents, this book shows that early modern writers grappled with popular pamphlets' rendering of the alleged threat of rogue reproduction. Rogue Sexuality thus offers a new approach to the political history of early modern England as a population—as a people whose aggregate sexual life and reproduction were a key part of its political imagination.
Class Gender And Sexuality In Thomas Gainsborough S Blue Boy
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Author : Valerie Hedquist
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-08
Class Gender And Sexuality In Thomas Gainsborough S Blue Boy written by Valerie Hedquist and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-08 with Art categories.
The reception of Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in contradictory characterizations of the painted youth as an aristocrat or a "regular fellow," as masculine or feminine, or as heterosexual or gay. In private and public spaces where viewers saw the actual painting and where living and rendered replicas circulated, Gainsborough’s painting was often the centerpiece where dominant and subordinate classes met, gender identities were enacted, and sexuality was implicitly or overtly expressed.