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Author : Francis Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780090856800
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Murder for Art's Sake written by Francis Richards and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Lockridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150405069X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Murder for Art's Sake written by Richard Lockridge and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apparent suicide of an artist looks sketchy to NYC detective Nathan Shapiro in this mystery by the coauthor of the “excellent” Mr. and Mrs. North series (The New Yorker). Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan’s finest, but that doesn’t stop the dour detective from getting the job done when the going gets tough . . . Painter Shackleford Jones died of a bullet to the head, behind the ear to be exact. The homicide captain brushes it off as suicide, but the medical examiner draws a different conclusion: The angle’s all wrong. Now it’s up to Det. Lt. Nathan Shapiro to get some perspective on who might have wanted to take the up-and-coming artist out of the picture. In the high stakes world of expensive avant-garde art, Shapiro feels out of his depth. But with Det. Anthony Cook at his side, he interviews those closest to Jones, and soon both detectives start to believe the incident in the artist’s Greenwich Village studio was murder after all. Someone wanted Shackleford dead. Maybe it was for the money or maybe an even more sinister reason. Whatever the case, Shapiro will follow the clues until he can paint the killer into a corner. Murder for Art’s Sake is the 4th book in the Nathan Shapiro Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author : David Morrell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444755706
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Murder as a Fine Art written by David Morrell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist of death is stalking Victorian London, recreating earlier masterpieces of murder. Police suspicion falls on the notorious 'opium-eater' Thomas De Quincey, recently returned to the capital, who wrote in detail about the original crimes. Someone is using his essays as inspiration - and he must uncover the truth before the killer completes his work. In MURDER AS A FINE ART, London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer - whose lives are linked by secrets long buried, but never forgotten.
Author : Patrick Bridgwater
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042018136
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (181 download)
Download or read book De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade written by Patrick Bridgwater and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade is what has long been needed, a study of Thomas De Quincey's Gothic and Gothic-related texts by a Germanist working on Gothic and specializing in Anglo-German literary relations. Variously identified as Gothic Hero, Gothic Parasite, and author of a Gothick sport, De Quincey is the dark horse of Gothicism, for while his work has, increasingly, been associated with Gothic, not one of the recent companions to Gothic so much as mentions his name. Definitions of what is meant by 'Gothic' have changed, of course, and are still evolving, claiming more territory all the time, but Gothic specialists also have their blind spots, of whom De Quincey is one. One reason for this state of affairs will be the fact that in his work the Gothic is interwoven with the German, to which modern English studies all too often turn a blind eye. In this timely study of his work in relation to Gothic convention the author addresses the question of De Quincey's reputed knowledge of German 'Gothic' Romantic literature and the related question of supposed German influences on his Gothic work, and shows that his fiction is not less but more original than has been thought. The texts examined are those on which, for better or worse, his reputation as a writer both of autobiography and of fiction depends. Focusing on the Gothic takes one to the heart of his literary masquerade, and more especially to the heart of his masked autobiographical enterprise. Gothic, because of its formulaic nature, represents a place where he belongs, a place where his sense of guilt can be seen as part of a wider pattern, thus countering his pariah self-image and enabling him to make some sort of sense of the Gothic ruin of his life. Addressed to all who are interested in De Quincey's work and its place in literary history, and to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share De Quincey's and the author's enthusiasm for Gothic, this book adds considerably to the scope of De Quincey studies, which it enables to move on from some of the main unanswered questions of the past.
Author : Javed Akhtar
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668406669
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of the Art for Art’s sake Movement. Its Origin from a Marxist perspective written by Javed Akhtar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this research paper is to trace the origin and development of Art for art’s sake movement from Marxist perspective. The origin of Art for art’s movement can be traced back to the late Romanticists who felt themselves misfit in the post-revolutionary bourgeois world of business, profit and industrialisation of the Patriarchal countryside of Europe. Therefore, an insoluble contradiction occurred between the aims of the late Romanticist artists and writers and the conditions of the Post-revolutionary bourgeois capitalist world. However, they became hostile to it, but failed to see any hope of changing it. The employment of Marxist literary hermeneutics in analysing Art for art’s sake movement yields the result that the apostles of this movement express their disharmony with the bourgeois capitalist social formation. They refuse to be commodity producer in the bourgeois publishing industry, in which an author is a labourer or commodity producer for those consumers whom he does not see. However, the apostles of this movement failed to introduce new modes of literary production as well as to change the bourgeois social formation. The present research study highlights the purpose, rise and fall of Art for art’s sake movement in an innovative Marxist perspective.
Author : Elisabeth Ladenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801460379
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Dirt for Art's Sake written by Elisabeth Ladenson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces? Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with Fanny Hill (written in the eighteenth century, put on trial in the United States in 1966); she considers, along the way, Les Fleurs du Mal, Ulysses, The Well of Loneliness, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Lolita, and the works of the Marquis de Sade. Over the course of roughly a century, Ladenson finds, two ideas that had been circulating in the form of avant-garde heresy gradually became accepted as truisms, and eventually as grounds for legal defense. The first is captured in the formula "art for art's sake"-the notion that a work of art exists in a realm independent of conventional morality. The second is realism, vilified by its critics as "dirt for dirt's sake." In Ladenson's view, the truth of the matter is closer to -dirt for art's sake-"the idea that the work of art may legitimately include the representation of all aspects of life, including the unpleasant and the sordid. Ladenson also considers cinematic adaptations of these novels, among them Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita and the 1997 remake directed by Adrian Lyne, and various attempts to translate de Sade's works and life into film, which faced similar censorship travails. Written with a keen awareness of ongoing debates about free speech, Dirt for Art's Sake traces the legal and social acceptance of controversial works with critical acumen and delightful wit.
Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts written by Thomas de Quincey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey. A fictional account of a report made to a gentleman's club regarding the visual appreciation of murder. For friends of satire!
Author : Albert Léon Guérard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art for Art's Sake written by Albert Léon Guérard and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations on the nature of art and the shifting relation of the artist to society.
Author : Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300203462
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Whistler written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.
Author : Bill Crider
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312199279
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Murder is an Art written by Bill Crider and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Good, a division head at a Texas community college, investigates the murder of a faculty member everyone loved to hate.
Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803212602
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life written by Gene H. Bell-Villada and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic history of literary aestheticism from the eighteenth century to academic deconstruction in our own time. Gene H. Bell-Villada examines an enormous range of writings by critics, philosophers, and writers from Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
Author : Mark Seltzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135206864
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Serial Killers written by Mark Seltzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass murder, we are surrounded by the accident from which we cannot avert our eyes. Bringing depth and shadow to our collective portrait of what a serial killer must be, Mark Seltzer draws upon popular sources, scholarly analyses, and the language of psychoanalysis to explore the genesis of this uniquely modern phenomenon. Revealed is a fascination with machines and technological reproduction, with the singular and the mass, with definitions of self, other, and intimacy. What emerges is a disturbing picture of how contemporary culture is haunted by technology and the instability of identity.
Author : Joe DiPietro
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822221975
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Art of Murder written by Joe DiPietro and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In a remote estate in the countryside of Connecticut, Jack Brooks, one of the most accomplished and eccentric painters of his generation, awaits the imminent arrival of his art dealer. But the visit is not a standard one, for Jack feels
Author : Frances Lockridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504050681
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Murder and Blueberry Pie written by Frances Lockridge and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two murders lead NYC detective Nathan Shapiro out of the city and into the country in this mystery from the authors of the “excellent” Mr. and Mrs. North series (The New Yorker). Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan’s finest, but that doesn’t stop the dour detective from getting the job done when the going gets tough . . . Lois Williams of Glenville, Connecticut, is going about her business when she’s abruptly asked to bear witness to the signing of a wealthy elderly woman’s will. She is just as quickly rushed out, and is disturbed when she learns that Abigail Montfort died less than thirty minutes after her departure. Lois can’t get the strange incident out of her head and confides her suspicions in newspaperman Bob Oliver, who agrees that something strange is afoot. As they investigate a young woman who may have been posing as Abigail Montfort, their search takes them to New York City and into the path of Det. Nathan Shapiro. While Shapiro doesn’t much like leaving Manhattan, a mugging death in town seems to be linked to the old woman’s death in the country. Soon, he finds himself chasing leads with the two amateur sleuths—and what they discover is a mystery that belongs on the front page . . . Murder and Blueberry Pie is the 2nd book in the Nathan Shapiro Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Week in Germany written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. Andrew Cooper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025203709X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Film Directors written by L. Andrew Cooper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror. In his four decades of filmmaking, Argento has displayed a commitment to innovation, from his directorial debut with 1970's suspense thriller The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to 2009's Giallo. His films, like the lurid yellow-covered murder-mystery novels they are inspired by, follow the suspense tradition of hard-boiled American detective fiction while incorporating baroque scenes of violence and excess. This book uses controversies and theories about the films' reflections on sadism, gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, aestheticism, and genre to declare the anti-rational logic of Argento's oeuvre. Approaching the films as rhetorical statements made through extremes of sound and vision, it places Argento in a tradition of aestheticized horror that includes De Sade, De Quincey, Poe, and Hitchcock.
Author : Mark Rutland
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1599798352
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Character Matters written by Mark Rutland and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Restore the cornerstone of this country! Character Matters You are best remembered for your character! The virtues you value are the ones that leave a mark for the whole world to see. Character matters... It’s the evidence of God at work in your life! What can you do to restore character in your neighborhood, community or country? Character matters… America’s core convictions have been chipped away, but now it’s time for rebuilding. Step away from that “so what” mentality and restore those unfulfilled dreams. Character matters… Mark Rutland discusses nine specific qualities that everyone needs. You’ll learn what godly character looks and acts like, and how character undergirds and redeems every aspect of society. You cannot live long or well without it! You need character in your life. /div
