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The Dollhouse

Author : Fiona Davis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101985003
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Dollhouse written by Fiona Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the lush world of 1950s New York City, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors live side by side in the glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in this debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue. “Rich both in twists and period detail, this tale of big-city ambition is impossible to put down.”—People When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren't: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn't belong—a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she's introduced to an entirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the music is as addictive as the heroin that's used there, the startling sounds of bebop, and even the possibility of romance. Over half a century later, the Barbizon's gone condo and most of its long-ago guests are forgotten. But rumors of Darby's involvement in a deadly skirmish with a hotel maid back in 1952 haunt the halls of the building as surely as the melancholy music that floats from the elderly woman's rent-controlled apartment. It's a combination too intoxicating for journalist Rose Lewin, Darby's upstairs neighbor, to resist—not to mention the perfect distraction from her own imploding personal life. Yet as Rose's obsession deepens, the ethics of her investigation become increasingly murky, and neither woman will remain unchanged when the shocking truth is finally revealed.

The Barbizon

Author : Paulina Bren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982123907
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Barbizon written by Paulina Bren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the "captivating portrait" (The Wall Street Journal) of New York's most famous residential hotel--The Barbizon--and the remarkable women who lived there. Welcome to New York's legendary hotel for women. Liberated from home and hearth by World War I, politically enfranchised and ready to work, women arrived to take their place in the dazzling new skyscrapers of Manhattan. But they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding houses. They wanted what men already had--exclusive residential hotels with maid service, workout rooms, and private dining. Built in 1927, at the height of the Roaring Twenties, the Barbizon Hotel was designed as a luxurious safe haven for the "Modern Woman" hoping for a career in the arts. Over time, it became the place to stay for any ambitious young woman hoping for fame and fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and, over the years, it's almost 700 tiny rooms with matching floral curtains and bedspreads housed, among many others, Titanic survivor Molly Brown; actresses Grace Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Ali MacGraw, Jaclyn Smith; and writers Joan Didion, Gael Greene, Diane Johnson, Meg Wolitzer. Mademoiselle magazine boarded its summer interns there, as did Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School its students and the Ford Modeling Agency its young models. Before the hotel's residents were household names, they were young women arriving at the Barbizon with a suitcase and a dream. Not everyone who passed through the Barbizon's doors was destined for success--for some, it was a story of dashed hopes--but until 1981, when men were finally let in, the Barbizon offered its residents a room of their own and a life without family obligations. It gave women a chance to remake themselves however they pleased; it was the hotel that set them free. No place had existed like it before or has since. "Poignant and intriguing" (The New Republic), The Barbizon weaves together a tale that has, until now, never been told. It is both a vivid portrait of the lives of these young women looking for something more and a "brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York through the 20th century" (The Guardian).

The Barbizon School and 19th Century French Landscape Painting

Author : Jean Bouret
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821204955
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Barbizon School and 19th Century French Landscape Painting written by Jean Bouret and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Barbizon School of Painters

Author : David Croal Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Barbizon School of Painters written by David Croal Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Art in the Barbizon Mood

Author : Peter Bermingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book American Art in the Barbizon Mood written by Peter Bermingham and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ground of Your Own Choosing

Author : Beverly Ryle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888959451
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Ground of Your Own Choosing written by Beverly Ryle and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding work in a today's changing times is like fighting a war. The "winning side" in this "war" is the one that knows how to positions itself where it has the advantage, the "ground of its own choosing."

The Greengrocer and His TV

Author : Paulina Bren
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462150
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Greengrocer and His TV written by Paulina Bren and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear. Bren challenges simplistic dichotomies of fearful acquiescence and courageous dissent to dramatically reconfigure what we know, or think we know, about everyday life under communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers' letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel's greengrocer actually experienced "normalization" and the ways in which popular television serials framed this experience. Now back by popular demand, socialist-era serials, such as The Woman Behind the Counter and The Thirty Adventures of Major Zeman, provide, Bren contends, a way of seeing—literally and figuratively—Czechoslovakia's normalization and Eastern Europe's real socialism.

Barbizon Days

Author : Charles Sprague Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Barbizon Days written by Charles Sprague Smith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Barbizon School of Painters

Author : David Croal Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Barbizon School of Painters written by David Croal Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

J.-F. Millet at Barbizon

Author : Louis Latourrette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book J.-F. Millet at Barbizon written by Louis Latourrette and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Barbizon Painters

Author : Arthur Hoeber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Barbizon Painters written by Arthur Hoeber and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon School

Author : Arthur Tomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon School written by Arthur Tomson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Painters of Barbizon

Author : John William Mollett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Painters of Barbizon written by John William Mollett and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The higher life in art, lects. on the Barbizon school

Author : John La Farge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The higher life in art, lects. on the Barbizon school written by John La Farge and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Important Paintings of the English, American, Flemish, Dutch and French Barbizon Schools ...

Author : American Art Galleries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Important Paintings of the English, American, Flemish, Dutch and French Barbizon Schools ... written by American Art Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Masterpiece

Author : Fiona Davis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524742961
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Masterpiece written by Fiona Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. For most New Yorkers, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future. It is 1928, and Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. Though not even the prestige of the school can override the public's disdain for a "woman artist," fiery Clara is single-minded in her quest to achieve every creative success—even while juggling the affections of two very different men. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they'll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression...and that even poverty and hunger will do little to prepare Clara for the greater tragedy yet to come. By 1974, the terminal has declined almost as sharply as Virginia Clay's life. Dilapidated and dangerous, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort. Recently divorced, she has just accepted a job in the information booth in order to support herself and her college-age daughter, Ruby. But when Virginia stumbles upon an abandoned art school within the terminal and discovers a striking watercolor, her eyes are opened to the elegance beneath the decay. She embarks on a quest to find the artist of the unsigned masterpiece—an impassioned chase that draws Virginia not only into the battle to save Grand Central but deep into the mystery of Clara Darden, the famed 1920s illustrator who disappeared from history in 1931.

Collection of Drawings by French Painters, Chiefly of the Barbizon and Fontainebleau Schools

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collection of Drawings by French Painters, Chiefly of the Barbizon and Fontainebleau Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: