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Canvas Under The Sky
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Author : Robin Binckes
language : en
Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers
Release Date : 2011
Canvas Under The Sky written by Robin Binckes and has been published by 30 Degrees South Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Historical fiction categories.
It is 1834. The Eastern Cape frontier is burning. Rauch Beukes, a young Boer of 17, returns to the family homestead to find it razed, the livestock gone and his mother and sisters slaughtered by the marauding Xhosa from across the Great Fish River. So begins a tale of violence and warfare and love and lust across racial divides, painted against the
Under A Canvas Sky
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Author : Clare Peake
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Under A Canvas Sky written by Clare Peake and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with History categories.
Clare Peake, daughter of the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, tells the story of her parents' romance and her own happy and bohemian childhood. Mervyn Peake was born in China, the son of medical missionaries, and the juxtaposition of his exotic surroundings and the very English manners at home had a lasting effect on him. Reading Treasure Island until he could recite it by heart and waiting for comics to arrive from England had him living a childhood bursting with imagery. He returned to England to study at the Royal Academy School and was then offered a teaching post at Westminster School of Art. There his charismatic and un-worldly presence made a huge impact: none more so than on Maeve Gilmore, a seventeen-year-old sculpture student. The couple fell passionately in love but Maeve's parents were determined their daughter would not marry a penniless artist and sent her away to forget him. She didn't and, refusing to be parted ever again, they married when Maeve was nineteen and Mervyn twenty-six. Mervyn Peake developed Parkinson's disease aged forty-five. His decline was rapid and he spent time in and out of mental hospitals until his death at fifty-seven, the diagnosis never fully understood. Clare Peake writes movingly of the impact on the family and her mother's determination to continue giving her children the happiness she felt all children deserved.
Equal Under The Sky
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Author : Linda M. Grasso
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2017
Equal Under The Sky written by Linda M. Grasso and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art categories.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Georgia O'Keeffe and Feminism -- Chapter One. Living Feminism in the 1910s -- Chapter Two. The Artist Idea -- Chapter Three. Women in the Picture -- Chapter Four. "You Are No Stranger to Me": Women's Fan Letters -- Chapter Five. Georgia O'Keeffe's Self-Portrait -- Chapter Six. Feminism as Politics and Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Stories From Under The Sky
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Author : John Madson
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2012-08-15
Stories From Under The Sky written by John Madson and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-15 with Fiction categories.
In Stories from under the Sky, John Madson salutes the outdoor life. These thirty-six essays display his healthy respect for the forces of nature, without diminishing his wry awareness of the foibles of beast, bird, fish, and human. In sections on mammals, the river, and birds, Madson acquaints readers with some real characters—not all of them four-footed! Some are old favorites: the raccoon, the otter, the fawn, and the badger. Others are less familiar—the demonic shrew, the indomitable dogfish, and the exotic blue heron. Even the “unloved” come in for their share of attention: toads, waterbugs, wasps, and turkey buzzards. Madson has a yarn to spin about each one. Where else would you find an essay on “Snake Liars”? Whatever the topic, Madson’s love of nature shines through, be it coon hunting or an explanation of the incredible bird machine. His obvious affection is tempered with the recognition that not everything “natural” is a pretty sight. All of which leaves readers with a better understanding of life under the sky.
Under The Sky Of My Africa
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Author : Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-30
Under The Sky Of My Africa written by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.
Buried In The Sky
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Author : Rick Andrew
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Buried In The Sky written by Rick Andrew and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Set both in the present and in the dust-laden reaches of Angola in 1976, Buried in the Sky is an album of stories about men and women and war. To the strains of the music of Bob Dylan and in long periods of boredom and inactivity, South Africa's soldiers tried to make sense of a war they could not see. Rick Andrew, himself a conscript at that time, allows his comrades to tell their stories. We get to know Manie Dippenaar, whose hunting trip threatened to turn into an international incident; Private Smith, the boy from the Bluff who had Love and Hate tattooed on his knuckles and chose a novel way to roast a chicken as his means of revenge on a bad tempered major; Morphine Sister, who handled a gun like a mamba; and Spek, the surfer-boy who dreamed only of catching the next big wave. Poignant, funny and dramatic, Buried in the Sky will strike a chord with anyone whose life has been tarnished by war and especially those who found themselves on 'the border'.
Under A Canvas Sky
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Author : Clare Peake
language : en
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Release Date : 2011
Under A Canvas Sky written by Clare Peake and has been published by Constable & Robinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Artists categories.
Clare Peake writes movingly of her bohemian childhood and the impact of her father's illness, and of her mother's determination to continue giving her children the happiness she believed all children deserved.
Georgia O Keeffe A Private Friendship Part I
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Author : Nancy Hopkin Reily
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2014-12-01
Georgia O Keeffe A Private Friendship Part I written by Nancy Hopkin Reily and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Sun Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands and a vast sky that lifted her soul. At twelve years of age Georgia had a defining moment when she declared, “I want to be an artist.” Years later from her east-facing window in Canyon, Texas she observed the Texas Panhandle sky with its focus points on the plains and a great canyon of earth history colors streaking across the flat land. Georgia’s love of the vast, colorful prairie, plains and sky again gave definition to her life when she discovered Ghost Ranch north of Abiquiu, New Mexico. She fell prey to its charms which were not long removed from the echoes of the “Wild West.” These views of prairie, plains and sky became Georgia’s muses as she embarked on her step-by-step path with her role models—Alon Bement, Arthur Jerome Dow and Wassily Kandinsky. In this two-part biography of which this is Part I covering the period 1887–1945, Nancy Hopkins Reily “walks the Sun Prairie Land,” as if in Georgia’s day as a prologue to her family’s friendship with Georgia in the 1940s and 1950s. Reily chronicles Georgia’s defining days within the arenas of landscape, culture, people and the history surrounding each, a discourse level that Georgia would easily recognize.
The Mind Canvas
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Author : Nawa Raj Subba
language : en
Publisher: Nawa Raj Subba
Release Date : 2023-01-01
The Mind Canvas written by Nawa Raj Subba and has been published by Nawa Raj Subba this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The essayist Subba has presented the memoirs in his mind straightforwardly and artistically. Essays are close to human sympathy. Pieces have a variety of stories and themes of rural life in the articles in this collection. Writer Subba has tried to keep the vague memories of life alive inside him close to the reader. Physically, the characters of the essay have owned their words live in the article, whether they exist or not—themes linked to contextual composition. The essayist has taken these topics as inspirational topics. They have taken it as a source and credit for their success. A beautiful village covered with fog is free from the veil of moisture when it unveils its pure beauty. There is a feeling of joy in the beauty connoisseurs' eyes, minds, and hearts. We hope that the essays in this collection will have the same experience and emotion.
Acrylics For The Absolute Beginner
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Author : Charles Evans
language : en
Publisher: SearchPress+ORM
Release Date : 2017-12-22
Acrylics For The Absolute Beginner written by Charles Evans and has been published by SearchPress+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-22 with Art categories.
A comprehensive, accessible course in landscape painting with acrylics from a seasoned artist and teacher. Author Charles Evans’s no-nonsense techniques and engaging writing style bring acrylic painting within the grasp of anyone keen to dive into this versatile and popular medium. The book begins with excellent advice for the beginner, including easy drawing for painting, composition, easy perspective, light and shade, color, and how to use acrylics with different painting styles. There are six full step-by-step painting projects ranging from simple skies to snowy landscapes with horses, each of which is supported by additional exercises and techniques. The step-by-step projects allow aspiring artists to put into practice their new-found skills, and produce six stunning paintings of their own, in a range of styles. A pull-out outline drawing is provided for every project, and Charles shows how to transfer these onto the painting surface. Charles’s irreverent style makes learning to paint with acrylics easy and fun.