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Author : Vincent van Gogh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821201534
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Van Gogh written by Vincent van Gogh and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1939272432
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5) written by Edith Stein and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Stein comes alive through these warm, totally attentive letters. She joins a deeply sensitive heart with her keen intelligence, revealing herself to be a wise mentor and a caring friend available to anyone who approached her. Here we learn what was truly important to her: the total well-being of those who treasured her letters enough to preserve them even while suffering the havoc of war and oppression. This volume offers the first English translation of the majority of her surviving letters, with 4 photos and a fully linked index of recipients.
Author : Yonatan Netanyahu
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446674614
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Self-portrait of a Hero written by Yonatan Netanyahu and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1980 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although 30-year-old Lt. Col. Jonathan Netanyahu, brother of Israel's current prime minister, was killed in battle during Israel's 1976 daring hostage rescue mission in Africa, his personal reflections live on in these letters written to his family and friends. 21 illustrations.
Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504034376
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing collection of letters from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton While confessional poet Anne Sexton included details of her life and battle with mental illness in her published work, her letters to family, friends, and fellow poets provide an even more intimate glimpse into her private world. Selected from thousands of letters and edited by Linda Gray Sexton, the poet’s daughter, and Lois Ames, one of her closest friends, this collection exposes Sexton’s inner life from her boarding school days through her years of growing fame and ultimately to the months leading up to her suicide. Correspondence with writers like W. D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell, and May Swenson reveals Sexton’s growing confidence in her identity as a poet as she discusses her craft, publications, and teaching appointments. Her private letters chart her marriage to Alfred “Kayo” Sexton, from the giddy excitement following their elopement to their eventual divorce; her grief over the death of her parents; her great love for her daughters balanced with her frustration with the endless tasks of being a housewife; and her persistent struggle with depression. Going beyond the angst and neuroses of her poetry, these letters portray the full complexities of the woman behind the art: passionate, anguished, ambitious, and yearning for connection.
Author : H. Anna Suh
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN 13 : 1579128599
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Van Gogh's Letters written by H. Anna Suh and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS. A beautifully illustrated book which pairs Van Gogh's passionate letters to family and friends with his paintings and newly popular drawings. They exhibit the artist's genius and depth of observation and feeling in its most naked form. Here, they have been excerpted and re-translated and set side-by-side with his drawings and paintings from the same period, 1875-1890.
Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (651 download)
Download or read book A Self-portrait from His Letters written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780395628805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters written by poet Anne Sexton in which she describes her life, thoughts, and feelings, with previously unpublished poems, family pictures, and memorabilia.
Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544106555
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Selected Letters, 1940–1977 written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author’s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. “Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.” —John Updike
Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806501086
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Kahlil Gibran written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by the author of "The Prophet" reveals his innermost self through his letters written between 1904 and 1930. They form a true self-portrait of the poet in the time of his greatest artistic productivity. These are Gibran's Boston & New York years, with an interlude in Paris, during which he studied under the sculptor Auguste Rodin. There are touching letters to his sister & other members of his family, there are thoughtful letters to Guraieb, the Editor who introduced him and impassioned letters to Ziadeh, the Lebanese writer with whom Gibran formed an extraordinary "literaary and love relationship" entirely through correspondence
Author : Celia Paul
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374838
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Self-Portrait written by Celia Paul and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art. One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. Self-Portrait is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.
Author : Thomas Chatterton Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608875
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race written by Thomas Chatterton Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his kids are white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them—or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.
Author : Bradley K. Storin
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520304136
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Self-Portrait in Three Colors written by Bradley K. Storin and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal figure in late antique Christianity and Christian orthodoxy, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus published a collection of more than 240 letters. Whereas these letters have often been cast aside as readers turn to his theological orations or autobiographical poetry for insight into his life, thought, and times, Self-Portrait in Three Colors focuses squarely on them, building a provocative case that the finalized collection constitutes not an epistolary archive but an autobiography in epistolary form—a single text composed to secure his status among provincial contemporaries and later generations. Shedding light on late-ancient letter writing, fourth-century Christian intelligentsia, Christianity and classical culture, and the Christianization of Roman society, these letters offer a fascinating and unique view of Gregory’s life, engagement with literary culture, and leadership in the church. As a single unit, this autobiographical epistolary collection proved a powerful tool in Gregory’s attempts to govern the contours of his authorial image as well as his provincial and ecclesiastical legacy.
Author : Debbie Millman
Publisher : Print
ISBN 13 : 1440334617
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Self Portrait as Your Traitor written by Debbie Millman and published by Print. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debbie Millman's illustrated essays and visual poems are part philosophy, part art, part deeply personal memoir exposing the universal triumphs and tribulations of being human. Her hand-lettered typography - sometimes tender, sometimes gritty, always breathtaking in its visceral candor - makes Self Portrait as Your Traitor a moving masterpiece of a singular art form that speaks to our deepest longings for beauty, honesty, and the ineffable magic of what it means to live.
Author : Max Beckmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226041353
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Self-Portrait in Words written by Max Beckmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann was labeled a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and chose exile. His artistic production encompassed the realism and figural themes of his early works to the provocatively blunt portraiture, critical urban views, and richly layered symbolic works for which he is now universally recognized. Although he was a prolific writer, his written work has never before been collected and translated into English. Beckmann is known for the depth, pungency, and tremendous sensuous force of his works; only in the last twenty years have we come to learn more about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words maps out Beckmann's life and draws attention to the occasions on or for which he produced his writings, to the importance writing had for him as a form of expression, and to both the contemporary and personal references of his ideas and images.
Author : Frederic Tuten
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079058
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Self Portraits: Fictions written by Frederic Tuten and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.
Author : Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)
Download or read book A self portrait in letters written by Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)
Download or read book An Autobiographical Letter written by Norman Weeks and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do life experiences feed into the books that an author writes? In An Autobiographical Letter, Norman Weeks recounts the experiential origins of his writings. Looking back over his first fifty years, he presents a comprehensive treatment of his life, especially those aspects that proved source material for what he would eventually write: His upbringing, education, maturation, personal interactions with friends and lovers, adventures and misadventures, travels and travails. A rich life, a rich lode for literary mining. The principal theme of An Autobiographical Letter, a literary biography, is the pursuit of personal vocation. We follow the thought processes of an author-at-work, as he reports on his various literary projects, -their roots, the subjects and their treatment, the difficulties of composition, the relation of form to content, revisions and new versions in the pursuit of perfection, and, at last, attempts to market the finished books. In all, a self-revelation and an exegesis of the author's works
