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The Portrait

Author : Ilaria Bernardini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643136194
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Portrait written by Ilaria Bernardini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Electric. A wildly astute plunge into the depths of love, rivalry, betrayal and the power of women.”—Bill Clegg An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Martìn Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during her lover's final days, Valeria commissions his artist wife, Isla, to paint her portrait—insinuating herself into Martìn's family home and life. In the grand, chaotic London mansion where the man they share—husband, father, lover—lies in a coma, Valeria and Isla remain poised on the brink, transfixed by one another. Day after day, the two women talk to each other during the sittings, revealing truths, fragilities and strengths. But does Isla know of the writer's long involvement with Martìn? Does Valeria grasp the secrets that Isla harbors? Amidst their own private turmoil, the stories of their lives are exchanged, and as the portrait takes shape, we watch these complex and extraordinary women struggle while the love of their lives departs, in an unforgettable, breathless tale of deception and mystery that captivates until the very end.

American Portrait

Author : PBS
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063098911
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book American Portrait written by PBS and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular and revolutionary PBS multiplatform documentary project, an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020, offering an intimate look at the heart and soul of our national life and what it means to be an American today, revealed through the stories of ordinary people from sea to shining sea. Everyone has a story . . . In January 2020, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, PBS launched an ambitious national storytelling project, American Portrait, inviting people across the country to participate in a national conversation about what it means to be an American today. The multiplatform experience, including a television series that will air on PBS stations nationwide in January 2021, has created a communal voice through the individual stories of participants—each one a unique stitch in the beautiful, diverse quilt that is America. A vivid yet nuanced snapshot of who we are, this visually striking companion volume features more than 400 entries and photographs, all which began with an answer to a simple cue: My American story started when . . . You don’t know what it’s like to . . . My greatest challenge is . . . The tradition I carry on is . . . I was raised to believe . . . What keeps me up at night is . . . I took a risk when . . . When I step outside my door . . . Most days I feel . . . Told by people of all ages, orientations, and walks of life, these unique stories of joy, adversity, love, sacrifice, grief, sharing, triumph, and grace, centered on the themes of family, work, fun, faith, and community, illuminate the struggles, hopes, dreams, and convictions of Americans today. The more we share with our fellow citizens, the more we can see a real, complex, and fascinating representation of our country that is far richer and deeper than headlines and elections tell us. As intriguing, thoughtful, and distinct as the nation it embodies, American Portrait is a photographic manifestation of Walt Whitman’s immortal words, “I am large. I contain multitudes”—and a vital and ultimately hopeful reminder that what we all share is much greater and enduring than what may divide us.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180943780
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by James Joyce and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916] established James Joyce as a leading figure in literary modernism across Europe. The novel is set in the author’s homeland, Ireland, and narrates, in five episodes, the childhood of Stephen Dedalus. The plot is entirely based on Joyce’s own life and serves as a private manifesto, particularly through its sharp declaration of independence from Catholicism. Joyce pioneered a new way of writing novels, abandoning traditional narration for stream of consciousness and introducing his epiphanies—momentary revelations that, in their everydayness, hint at a larger context of life. Upon the recommendation of the American poet Ezra Pound, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was serialized in the magazine The Egoist in 1914/15 before being published as a book the following year. Today, more than a hundred years after its release, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is considered one of the most significant autobiographical texts in world literature. The Modern Library ranked it as the 3rd best English-language novel of the 20th century (with Joyce’s Ulysses as #1). JAMES JOYCE [1882-1941], Irish author, is a key figure in modernist literature with works such as Dubliners [1914], A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916], and Ulysses [1922].

Portrait Stories

Author : Michal Peled Ginsburg
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823262618
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Portrait Stories written by Michal Peled Ginsburg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as by class. She focuses on the power that can accrue to the painter from the act of representation (often at the expense of the portrait’s subject), while also exploring how and why this act may threaten the portrait painter’s sense of self. Analyzing the viewer’s relation to the portrait, she demonstrates how portrait stories problematize the very act of seeing and with it the way subjectivity is constructed in the field of vision.

The Open Door, and, The Portrait; Stories Of The Seen And The Unseen

Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387335369
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Open Door, and, The Portrait; Stories Of The Seen And The Unseen written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Open Door and the Portrait: Stories of the Seen and the Unseen.

Author : Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465531343
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Open Door and the Portrait: Stories of the Seen and the Unseen. written by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1881-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Self-Portrait with Boy

Author : Rachel Lyon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501169602
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Self-Portrait with Boy written by Rachel Lyon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be made into a major motion picture—Self Portrait—starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzie Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a "rich and thorny page turner" (Los Angeles Times) literary psychological horror about an ambitious young artist whose accidental photograph of a tragedy could jumpstart her career, but devastate her most intimate friendship. Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, responsible for her aging father, and worrying that her crumbling loft apartment is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. One day, in the background of a self-portrait, Lu accidentally captures an image of a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous, the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life…if she lets it. But the decision to show the photograph is not easy. The boy is her neighbors’ son, and the tragedy brings all the building’s residents together. It especially unites Lu with the boy’s beautiful grieving mother, Kate. As the two forge an intense bond based on sympathy, loneliness, and budding attraction, Lu feels increasingly unsettled and guilty, torn between equally fierce desires: to advance her career, and to protect a woman she has come to love. Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a “sparkling debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success and a powerful exploration of the complex terrain of female friendship. “The conflict is rich and thorny, raising questions about art and morality, love and betrayal, sacrifice and opportunism, and the chance moments that can define a life…It wrestles with the nature of art, but moves with the speed of a page-turner” (Los Angeles Times).

Portraits and Dreams

Author : Wendy Ewald
Publisher : Mack Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781912339891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Portraits and Dreams written by Wendy Ewald and published by Mack Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded edition of Wendy Ewald's now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers a view of the rural south over the past thirty five years. It includes pictures and stories by eight of Ewald's students, now grownups. Their visions, old and new, illuminate the present and the past.

My Picture Tells a Story

Author : Neal Schlosburg
Publisher : NS Image
ISBN 13 : 9780578636764
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book My Picture Tells a Story written by Neal Schlosburg and published by NS Image. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Schlosburg photographs spontaneous emotions in a formal portrait setting, using a series of photos to create a story... Our disquieting stories and unsettling feelings are often difficult to express to those closest to us. We're afraid of being judged, thought of as less than. Many grow up believing we don't burden another with our difficulties. That's the way I was raised. Internalizing, ignoring, and pretending emotions don't exist affects our daily lives. They impact our temperaments, viewpoints, and relationships with others. In my life, it made me feel disconnected, especially from those closest to me. "My Pictures Tells A Story" is based on a simple premise. This quote by Jill Bolte Taylor says it best. "Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated."Through my images, my storytellers show how safe sharing feelings can be, and how safe sharing your emotions can be. The goal of "My Picture Tells A Story" was to vividly show that sharing emotions with people you trust is safe, healthy, and healing. I created space for my storytellers to share their stories without interruption, and most importantly, without judgment. Like life, their stories are a pallet of emotions. "My Picture Tells A Story", twenty stories by twenty people, a unique portrait study in human emotions...."Professionals have a story to tell with their images. It's rare that any of their work is created from a vacuum. Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark, and so many more, all leave an indelible personal stamp of themselves within each photograph they create. Having this ability to capture an image that comes from their heart, as much as it does from their mind, is a gift. My dear friend Neal Schlosburg has this gift. ...Neal is a "true" photographer; he is as much as part of the photo as the subjects are. The work Neal creates is as much for himself, as it is for his subjects and us viewers. The portraits on the pages of this book underscores this symbiotic relationship Neal has with his art." Jimi Giannatti, former Photo Editor for SPIN Magazine & past Photo Editor-in-Chief of Live Sounds Magazine.

A Portrait of Hackney

Author : Zed Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957699830
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of Hackney written by Zed Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the East London Photo Stories series by Hoxton Mini Press. Each title in this series will be the same size and numbered, forming a collectable set. This is a photo documentary project that looks at the changing face of East London. Hackney, though crime-ridden, poor and dilapidated, is also now London's trendiest neighbourhood, and was home to the 2012 Olympics. Zed Nelson, a renowned photojournalist who both resides and grew up in the area, looks at some of the bizarre, often painful, contradictions caused by this rapid gentrification.

A Portrait Catalogue of the Books Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Author : Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait Catalogue of the Books Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company written by Houghton Mifflin Company and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portraits

Author : Steve McCurry
Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits written by Steve McCurry and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of unposed and engaging portraits from around the world.

Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait

Author : Linda Seidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484879
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait written by Linda Seidel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: Stories of an Icon examines one of the earliest and most celebrated paintings in the history of European art from a variety of perspectives. In her lucid analysis, Linda Seidel considers this famous double portrait as social record, legal document, material object, and poetic fiction. Each chapter of her study represents a distinct mode of inquiry and each situates the painting within a different discursive tradition. In this way, Seidel explores a variety of historical practices to illuminate the portrait's painted narrative. Through the implementation of a variety of interpretive strategies and in consultation with different types and categories of information, Stories of an Icon informs the viewer about the function and nature of early European painting, and invites the reader to reflect on the many ways in which works of art can be examined and reconfigured centuries after their creation.

Run Softly, Go Fast

Author : Barbara Wersba
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Run Softly, Go Fast written by Barbara Wersba and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the diary kept by nineteen-year-old David which he hoped might help him analyze the strange relationship between himself and his recently deceased father.

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog

Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780228953
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog written by Dylan Thomas and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard; then the budding poet with his thrilling friendships and dreams of fortune. Finally, the neophyte reporter roaming suburban Swansea for momentous material. In ten wonderfully evocative short stories, Dylan Thomas conveys the exuberance and enthusiasm of youth as he fictionalises events from his childhood. Adolescent sexuality and male friendship are two of the themes that pervade this collection, along with the more familiar topics of love, death and religion. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.

Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman

Author : Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900443397X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman written by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila studies the eighth-century Basran wit Khālid ibn Ṣafwān and the development of his character in adab literature. It discusses his various roles and analyses the literary techniques of the stories.

Portrait Stories

Author : Michal Peled Ginsburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823266517
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Portrait Stories written by Michal Peled Ginsburg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? 'Portrait Stories' argues that it is the ways they articulate the relation between subjectivity and representation. While in pre-19th century stories the portrait is presented as an unambiguous token of its subject's already established identity, the stories discussed in this book show subjectivity to be inseparable from representation. At the same time, portraiture highlights the way representation is inflected by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as class.