Portraits And Observations
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Portraits And Observations
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Author : Truman Capote
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Portraits And Observations written by Truman Capote and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Literary Collections categories.
Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capote’s eye for detail and dazzling style made his reportage and commentary undeniable triumphs of the form. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to meditations about fame, fortune, and the writer’s art at the peak of his career, to the brief works penned during the isolated denouement of his life, these essays provide an essential window into mid-twentieth-century America as offered by one of its canniest observers. Included are such celebrated masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins,” as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Isak Dinesen, Mae West, Marcel Duchamp, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. Among the highlights are “Ghosts in Sunlight: The Filming of In Cold Blood, “Preface to Music for Chameleons, in which Capote candidly recounts the highs and lows of his long career, and a playful self-portrait in the form of an imaginary self-interview. The book concludes with the author’s last written words, composed the day before his death in 1984, the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather,” Capote’s touching recollection of his encounter with the author when he was a young man at the dawn of his career. Portraits and Observations puts on display the full spectrum of Truman Capote’s brilliance. Certainly, Capote was, as Somerset Maugham famously called him, “a stylist of the first quality.” But as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of remarkable substance.
Observations
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Author : Truman Capote
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Observations written by Truman Capote and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Photography, Artistic categories.
Observations On The Human Body Portraits
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Author : Philipp Melanchthon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Observations On The Human Body Portraits written by Philipp Melanchthon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.
A part of the Duke Medical Center Library History of Medicine Ephemera Collection.
The Complete Stories Of Truman Capote
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Author : Truman Capote
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-05-15
The Complete Stories Of Truman Capote written by Truman Capote and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Fiction categories.
A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.
Observations Casual And Intimate Being The Second Volume Of That Reminds Me Etc With Plates Including Portraits
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Author : Winifred Cory (formerly Graham.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Observations Casual And Intimate Being The Second Volume Of That Reminds Me Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by Winifred Cory (formerly Graham.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with categories.
Portraits From Memory
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Author : Bertrand Russell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-29
Portraits From Memory written by Bertrand Russell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.’ – Bertrand Russell, Portraits from Memory Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography, it is a vivid recollection of some of his celebrated contemporaries, such as George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and D. H. Lawrence. Russell provides some arresting and sometimes amusing insights into writers with whom he corresponded. He was fascinated by Joseph Conrad, with whom he formed a strong emotional bond, writing that his Heart of Darkness was not just a story but an expression of Conrad’s ‘philosophy of life’. There are also some typically pithy Russellian observations; H. G. Wells ‘derived his importance from quantity rather than quality’, whilst after a brief and fraught friendship Russell thought D. H. Lawrence ‘had no real wish to make the world better, but only to indulge in eloquent soliloquy about how bad it was’. This engaging book also includes some of Russell’s customary razor-sharp essays on a rich array of subjects, from his ardent pacifism, liberal politics and morality to the ethics of education, the skills of good writing and how he came to philosophy as a young man. These include ‘A Plea for Clear Thinking’, ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’ and ‘How I Write’. Portraits from Memory is Russell at his best and will enthrall those new to Russell as well as those already well-acquainted with his work. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the Russell scholar Nicholas Griffin, editor of The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell.
The Early Stories Of Truman Capote
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Author : Truman Capote
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-10-27
The Early Stories Of Truman Capote written by Truman Capote and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Fiction categories.
The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth century’s most original writers. Spare yet heartfelt, these stories summon our compassion and feeling at every turn. Capote was always drawn to outsiders—women, children, African Americans, the poor—because he felt like one himself from a very early age. Here we see Capote’s powers of empathy developing as he depicts his characters struggling at the margins of their known worlds. A boy experiences the violence of adulthood when he pursues an escaped convict into the woods. Petty jealousies lead to a life-altering event for a popular girl at Miss Burke’s Academy for Young Ladies. In a time of extraordinary loss, a woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover’s eyes. In these stories we see early signs of Capote’s genius for creating unforgettable characters built of complexity and yearning. Young women experience the joys and pains of new love. Urbane sophisticates are worn down by cynicism. Children and adults alike seek understanding in a treacherous world. There are tales of crime and violence; of racism and injustice; of poverty and despair. And there are tales of generosity and tenderness; compassion and connection; wit and wonder. Above all there is the developing voice of a writer born in the Deep South who will use and eventually break from that tradition to become a literary figure like no other. With a foreword by the celebrated New Yorker critic Hilton Als, this volume of early stories is essential for understanding how a boy from Monroeville, Alabama, became a legend in American literature. Praise for The Early Stories of Truman Capote “Succeeds at conveying the writer’s youthful rawness . . . These stories capture a moment when Capote was hungry to capture the rural South, the big city, and the subtle emotions that so many around him were determined to keep unspoken.”—USA Today “A window on the young writer’s emerging voice and creativity . . . Capote’s ability to conjure a time, place and mood with just a few sentences is remarkable.”—Associated Press
Observations
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Author : Sylvain Chamberlain
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-05-16
Observations written by Sylvain Chamberlain and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-16 with Art categories.
Exhibition Catalog for "OBSERVATIONS", October 2013 One Man Show of a series of 21 large scale portraits of people. the theme of the exhibition investigates the relationship between self and other on a personal level as well as artist/artwork/viewer. All color, full page images create a wonderful representation of the exhibition as well as a quality keepsake and reference. Introductions and artist's words contribute context as well as a preface by Museum executive director Kit Stafford and a reprint of a newspaper profile written by Scott Morris of the Mississippi Daily Journal.
Portraits In Fiction
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Author : A S Byatt
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-10-22
Portraits In Fiction written by A S Byatt and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-22 with Art categories.
Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, as motifs, as images of character and evocations of past time. A. S. Byatt delves into the complex relations between portraits and characters, and between portraits and novels as whole works of art. Her authors range from Henry James to Iris Murdoch, her artists from Holbein to Botticelli, Manet to the present day. She looks at the way writers use portraits to conjure up the past, as in Ford Madox Ford's The Fifth Queen and Virginia Woolf's Orlando. She explores their erotic use, the idea of painting as a sexual act, full of danger. And she examines the creation of fictional portrait painters by writers like Balzac and Zola, whose writing was closely linked, in different ways to the art of Cézanne. A portrait can defy the process of age but its very stillness can also seem like death. Art can be a murderer. And sometimes, as in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, a portrait can itself become the victim of Gothic rage.
Observations Casual And Intimate Being The Second Volume Of That Reminds Me Etc With Plates Including Portraits
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Author : Matilda Winifred Muriel Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Observations Casual And Intimate Being The Second Volume Of That Reminds Me Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by Matilda Winifred Muriel Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with categories.
