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Still Life with Cars

Author : John L. Lumley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648117X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Cars written by John L. Lumley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most childhood fascinations are a passing fancy, but something about cars tends to capture the imagination forever. Witness the countless backyard weed-wrapped classics, rusted just shy of a shadow, slated one day for a return to glory; cloudy vacation memories of choking exhaust, deafening engines and blinding chrome; countless white-knuckled highway moments as the driver faces backwards to better glimpse some passing oddity spotted four lanes over. Somehow, cars have a way of getting into a kid's blood. Any chronic condition requires a lifetime of maintenance. John Lumley caught the fever early--likely from a midnight blue Hudson--and it's been with him ever since. This engaging memoir follows a life spent nursing an obsession with cars, fitting for a son of Detroit's heyday. With occasional play in the garage of the Ford estate and an excursion to see Buckminster Fuller's three-wheeled Dymaxion among his earliest memories, John Lumley's enduring love of cars is no surprise. From those childhood adventures followed a lifetime spent elbow-deep in engines--Nash, Hupmobile, Mercury, Citroen, Triumph, Volkswagen, Lagonda, Armstrong-Siddeley, Bentley and more, many of them pictured. Though his career was devoted to loftier pursuits, the grease beneath his nails perhaps best sums up Lumley's lifelong love. Fifty-eight photographs and an index accompany the text.

Still Life with Cars

Author : John L. Lumley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786420537
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Cars written by John L. Lumley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most childhood fascinations are a passing fancy, but something about cars tends to capture the imagination forever. Witness the countless backyard weed-wrapped classics, rusted just shy of a shadow, slated one day for a return to glory; cloudy vacation memories of choking exhaust, deafening engines and blinding chrome; countless white-knuckled highway moments as the driver faces backwards to better glimpse some passing oddity spotted four lanes over. Somehow, cars have a way of getting into a kid's blood. Any chronic condition requires a lifetime of maintenance. John Lumley caught the fever early--likely from a midnight blue Hudson--and it's been with him ever since. This engaging memoir follows a life spent nursing an obsession with cars, fitting for a son of Detroit's heyday. With occasional play in the garage of the Ford estate and an excursion to see Buckminster Fuller's three-wheeled Dymaxion among his earliest memories, John Lumley's enduring love of cars is no surprise. From those childhood adventures followed a lifetime spent elbow-deep in engines--Nash, Hupmobile, Mercury, Citroen, Triumph, Volkswagen, Lagonda, Armstrong-Siddeley, Bentley and more, many of them pictured. Though his career was devoted to loftier pursuits, the grease beneath his nails perhaps best sums up Lumley's lifelong love. Fifty-eight photographs and an index accompany the text.

Still Life with Bombers

Author : David Horovitz
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030742796X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Bombers written by David Horovitz and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders collapsed at Camp David in 2000, a conflict as bloody as any that had ever occurred between the two peoples began. Now David Horovitz—editor of The Jerusalem Report—explores the quotidian and profound effects this conflict and its attendant terrorism have had on the lives of ordinary men, women and children. Horovitz describes the “grim lottery” of life in Israel since 2000. He makes clear that far from becoming blasé or desensitized, its citizens respond with deepening horror every time the front pages are disfigured by the rows of passport portraits presenting the faces of the newly dead. He takes us to the funeral of a murdered Israeli, where the presence of security personnel underlines that nowhere is safe. He describes how his wife must tell their children to close their eyes when they pass a just-exploded bus on the way to school, so that the images of carnage won’t haunt them. He talks with government officials on both sides of the conflict, with relatives of murdered victims, with Palestinian refugees, and with his own friends and family, letting us sense what it feels like to live with the constant threat and the horrific frequency of shootings and suicide bombings. Examining the motives behind the violence, he blames mistaken policies and actions on the Israeli as well as the Palestinian side, and details the suffering of Palestinians deprived of basic freedoms under strict Israeli controls. But at the root of this conflict, he argues, is terrorism and Yasser Arafat’s deliberate use of it after spurning a genuine opportunity for peace at Camp David, and then misleading his people, and much of the world, about what was on offer there. He describes how the world’s press has too often allowed prejudgment to replace fair-minded reporting. And finally, Horovitz makes us see the vast depth and extent of the mistrust between Israelis and Palestinians and the enormous challenges that underlie new attempts at peacemaking. Human and harrowing—and yet projecting an unexpected optimism—Still Life with Bombers affords us a remarkably balanced and insightful understanding of a seemingly intractable conflict.

Living Still Life

Author : Ryan Alexander Fitzpatrick Kurr
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598586181
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Living Still Life written by Ryan Alexander Fitzpatrick Kurr and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introverted yet raw description of emotional development, Living Still Life follows the lives of a quartet in their late twenties living in San Francisco. The four struggle to find clarity, purpose and themselves. Camille's musing forces herself to live like a hermit rather than experience life, Mea, a quick-witted artist reads lips to escape reality, Jack, a romantic pushover whose ambivalence forces him to choose between two unexpected lovers, and Royce, deviously self-involved but soon figures out that his life is a destructive and self-constructed ruse. Each is presented with a unique disruption to his or her everyday life and they begin to unravel over a period of nine days.

Still Life Las Vegas

Author : James Sie
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466859261
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Still Life Las Vegas written by James Sie and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Walter Stahl was five-years-old, his mother drove away in the family's blue Volvo and never came back. Now seventeen, living in the dregs of Las Vegas, taking care of his ailing father and marking time in a dead-end job along the Strip, Walter's life so far has been defined by her absence. He doesn't remember what she looks like; he's never so much as seen a photograph but, still, he looks for her among the groups of tourists he runs into every day, allowing himself the dim hope that she might still be out there, somewhere. But when Walter meets Chrysto and Acacia, a brother and sister working as living statues at the Venetian Hotel, his world cracks wide open. With them he discovers a Las Vegas he never knew existed and, as feelings for Chrysto develop, a side of himself he never knew he had. At the same time, clues behind his mother's disappearance finally start to reveal themselves, and Walter is confronted with not only the truth about himself, but also that of his family history. Threading through this coming-of-age story are beautiful, heart-wrenching graphic illustration, which reveal the journey of Walter's mother Emily: how she left everything to chase a vision of Liberace across the country; and how Walter's father Owen went searching for her amongst the gondolas of the Venetian Hotel. In James Sie's debut novel, Still Life Las Vegas, the magical collides with the mundane; memory, sexual awakening and familial ties all lead to a place where everything is illuminated, and nothing is real.

How to Live Well Without Owning a Car

Author : Chris Balish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Live Well Without Owning a Car written by Chris Balish and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Still Life, Still Death

Author : Liam O'Connell
Publisher : RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780966788365
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Still Life, Still Death written by Liam O'Connell and published by RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Classic Car Paintings of Alan Fearnley

Author : Alan Fearnley
Publisher : Howell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781870586429
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Classic Car Paintings of Alan Fearnley written by Alan Fearnley and published by Howell Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanging in collections, both public and private, throughout the world, the masterly paintings of Alan Fearnley recreate the legendary classic car marques including Bentley, Bugatti and Ferrari. This hardback reproduces many of his famous paintings.

Moving Pictures, Still Lives

Author : James Tweedie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190873876
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Moving Pictures, Still Lives written by James Tweedie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990s-the rise of the heritage industry, a global museum-building boom, and a cinematic fascination with costume dramas and literary adaptations-it explores the work of artists and philosophers who complicated the usual association between tradition and the past or modernity and the future. Author James Tweedie retraces the "archaeomodern turn" in films and theory that framed the past as a repository of abandoned but potentially transformative experiments. He examines late twentieth-century filmmakers who were inspired by old media, especially painting, and often viewed those art forms as portals to the modern past. In detailed discussions of Alain Cavalier, Terence Davies, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Agnès Varda, and other key directors, the book concentrates on films that fill the screen with a succession of tableaux vivants, still lifes, illuminated manuscripts, and landscapes. It also considers three key figures-Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, and Serge Daney-who grappled with the late twentieth century's characteristic concerns, including history, memory, and belatedness. It reframes their theoretical work on film as a mourning play for past revolutions and a means of reviving the possibilities of the modern age (and its paradigmatic medium, cinema) during periods of political and cultural retrenchment. Looking at cinema and the century in the rear-view mirror, the book highlights the unrealized potential visible in the history of film, as well as the cinematic phantoms that remain in the digital age.

Still Life with Monkey

Author : Katharine Weber
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 158988129X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Monkey written by Katharine Weber and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart.”―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage “Rich and compelling . . . Her characters are vividly, achingly real, including the tiny, furry one at the novel’s center.”―Ann Packer, author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier “Stark and compelling . . . rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isn’t sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become “a broken series of unsuccessful gestures.” Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncan’s will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkey―a tufted capuchin named Ottoline―to assist Duncan with basic tasks. Duncan and Laura fall for this sweet, comical, Nutella-gobbling little creature, and Duncan’s life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier. Yet the question persists: Is it enough? Katharine Weber is a masterful observer of humanity, and Still Life with Monkey, full of tenderness and melancholy, explores the conflict between the will to live and the desire to die.

Still Life

Author : Val McDermid
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802157467
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Val McDermid and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish police inspector deals with forgeries and false identities in a new murder mystery in the “superior series” (The New York Times). When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, DCI Karen Pirie is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web—involving a long-ago disappearance, art forgery, and secret identities—that seems to surround a painter who can mimic anyone from Holbein to Hockney. Meanwhile, a traffic accident leads to the discovery of a skeleton in a suburban garage. Karen has a full plate, and it only gets more stressful as the man responsible for the death of the love of her life is scheduled for release from prison, reopening old wounds just as she was getting back on her feet. From a Diamond Dagger Award winner and multiple Edgar Award finalist, Still Life is a tightly plotted mystery featuring an investigator “whose unwavering confidence is tempered by a strong dose of kindness and sense of justice” (Booklist). “There are few other crime writers in the same league.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

LEGO Still Life with Bricks

Author : Lydia Ortiz
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797206559
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book LEGO Still Life with Bricks written by Lydia Ortiz and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the boundless creativity of the LEGO® brand, this colorful book recreates objects and scenes from everyday life using LEGO bricks. Transforming handfuls of bricks into minty toothpaste, eggs and bacon, lush houseplants, and more, LEGO Still Life reimagines the mundane and sparks playfulness in everyday life. Featuring unique, clever, and captivating original art, these deceptively simple but meticulously executed images are full of surprise and delight—and remind us that the world around us is, too. • Recreates commonplace scenes from everyday life using LEGO® bricks • Creatively reimagines the everyday objects and scenes • Presented without text, these clever images speak for themselves, offering joy, surprise, and creativity on each spread LEGO Still Life is the perfect gift for LEGO lovers and art lovers alike. Watch LEGO bricks transform into everyday objects, turning the humdrum into a delightful surprise. • Great not only for LEGO fans who are feeling nostalgic, but for anyone who appreciates quirky art projects and creative spirit • This is a book that makes you look twice and enjoy the artful effort. • Perfect for fans of The Art of the Brick: A Life in LEGO by Nathan Sawaya, The Greatest Brick Builds: Amazing Creations in LEGO by Nathan Sawaya, and Beautiful LEGO by Mike Doyle

Still Lives

Author : Ofer Ashkenazi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512826367
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Still Lives written by Ofer Ashkenazi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Created Equal

Author : Mark Laita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Created Equal written by Mark Laita and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, the chasm between rich and poor is growing, the clash between conservatives and liberals is strengthening, and even good and evil seem more polarized than ever before. At the heart of this collection of portraits is my desire to remind us that we were all equal, until our environment, circumstances or fate molded and weathered us into whom we have become. Los Angeles- and New York-based photographer Mark Laita completed Created Equal over the course of eight years; his poignant words reflect the striking polarizations found in his photographs. Presented as diptychs, the images explore social, economic and gender difference and similarity within the United States, emulating and updating the portraiture of Edward Curtis, August Sander and Richard Avedon. This volume includes an introduction by noted culture writer and editorial cult figure Ingrid Sischy.

The Still Life

Author : Anna Sinofzik
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
ISBN 13 : 9783899555813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Still Life written by Anna Sinofzik and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still life is a classic back in bloom. The Still Life showcases the evolution of this age-old genre in striking product portraiture by some of today's most imaginative photographers, designers, and stylists.

The Impossible Collection of Cars

Author : Dan Neil
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614280150
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Collection of Cars written by Dan Neil and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the dream of many to own the world’s most beautifully designed automobiles, but most often only a handful of collectors ever come close. Now, The Impossible Collection of Cars makes that dream come true, showcasing the one hundred most exceptional cars of the twentieth century in ASSOULINE's third volume in the Impossible Collection series. Each luxury automobile—from the 1909 Blitzen Benz to a 1996 McLaren F1—was chosen for its revolutionary engineering, magnificent lines, and head-turning capabilities. Assouline is pleased to announce this exquisite tome, which features cars owned by celebrities like Marlene Dietrich, Ralph Lauren, Greta Garbo, Pablo Picasso, and Elvis Presley. This Impossible Collection volume is presented on cotton paper in a beautiful black rubber clamshell box with a cutout metal plate.

Still Life

Author : Sarah Winman
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0735249202
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Sarah Winman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK* *A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK* “[A] winsome, large-hearted novel ... [Still Life] pulses from the page.” —Entertainment Weekly Set between World War II and the 1980s, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted story of strangers brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Tin Man and When God Was a Rabbit. In the wine-cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allies advance and bombs fall around them, two people meet and share an extraordinary evening: Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier from London's East End; Evelyn Skinner is a worldly older art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to rescue paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses's mind that night, one that will shape the trajectory of his life—and the lives of those who love him—for the next four decades. Moving from war-ravaged Tuscany to the boozy confines of The Stoat and Parrot pub in London and the piazzas of post-war Florence, Still Life is both sweeping and intimate, mischievous and deeply felt. It is a novel about beauty, love and fate, about the things that make life worth living, and the things we're prepared to die for.