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Author : Donn Kushner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550372892
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (728 download)
Download or read book A Thief Among Statues written by Donn Kushner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, e, i, s.
Author : Grace D. Li
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593186060
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Portrait of a Thief written by Grace D. Li and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize Named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022 Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *Washington Post* *Vulture* *NBC News* *Buzzfeed* *Veranda* *PopSugar* *Paste* *The Millions* *Bustle* *Crimereads* Goodreads* *Bookbub* *Boston.com* and more! "The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated, and discriminated against. This is as much a novel as a reckoning." —New York Times Book Review Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal them back. A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents' American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine—or at least, the closest he can get. A con artist: Irene Chen, a public policy major at Duke who can talk her way out of anything. A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering major who races cars in her free time. A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer. Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they've cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down. Because if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars—and a chance to make history. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they've dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted attempt to take back what colonialism has stolen. Equal parts beautiful, thoughtful, and thrilling, Portrait of a Thief is a cultural heist and an examination of Chinese American identity, as well as a necessary critique of the lingering effects of colonialism.
Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811229769
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Water Statues written by Fleur Jaeggy and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa’s flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea. Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy’s austere yet voluptuous style, The Water Statues—with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion’s garden full of intoxicated snails)—delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.
Author : Enzo Silvestri
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0979816483
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Thief in the Night written by Enzo Silvestri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yulin Liu
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161523809
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Temple Purity in 1-2 Corinthians written by Yulin Liu and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2013 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul's view of the church as the temple and his concern about its purity in 1-2 Corinthians has traditionally been interpreted from the perspective of a Jewish background. However, Yulin Liu reveals that the pagans were very aware of temple purity when visiting some temples in the Greco-Roman world, and the purification concerns of three pagan temples in Corinth are documented in his work. The author affirms that the Gentile believers among the Corinthian community were able to grasp Paul's message because of it. Also, Liu investigates Paul's use of temple purity to address the necessity of unity, holiness and faithfulness of the Corinthian Christians in an eschatological sense. The separation of God's people from profane matters actually points to a new exodus and a progressive consummation of the construction of the eschatological temple-community.
Author : Bernard de Montfaucon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Supplement to Antiquity Explained, and Represented in Sculptures, written by Bernard de Montfaucon and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000891585
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Visual Culture written by Nicholas Mirzoeff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visible. In this view, visual culture is a practice: a way of doing, making, and seeing. The 12 new chapters begin with five foundational concepts, including Indigenous ways of seeing, visual activism in the wake of slavery, and unfixing the gaze. The second section outlines three currently successful tactics of visual activism: removal of statues and monuments; restitution of cultural property; and practices of repair and reparations. The final section addresses catastrophe and trauma, from Palestine’s Nakba to the climate disaster and the intersections of plague and war. Each section also includes new, in-depth case studies called "Visualizations," ranging from oil painting to Kongo power figures and the mediated practice of taking a knee. Engaging with questions of racializing, colonialism, and undoing gender throughout, this edition maps the activist turn in the field since 2014 and sets directions for its future expansion. This is a key text in visual culture studies and an essential resource for research and teaching in the field.
Author : Spencer Buck
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365029611
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)
Download or read book A Thief in the Making written by Spencer Buck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard L. Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353919
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Book of Revelation written by Leonard L. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About seventy years after the death of Jesus, John of Patmos sent visionary messages to Christians in seven cities of western Asia Minor. These messages would eventually become part of the New Testament canon, as The Book of Revelation. What was John's message? What was its literary form? Did he write to a persecuted minority or to Christians enjoying the social and material benefits of the Roman Empire? In search of answers to these penetrating questions, Thompson critically examines the language, literature, history, and social setting of the Book of the Apocalypse. Following a discussion of the importance of the genre apocalypse, he closely analyzes the form and structure of the Revelation, its narrative and metaphoric unity, the world created through John's visions, and the social conditions of the empire in which John wrote. He offers an unprecedented interpretation of the role of boundaries in Revelation, a reassessment of the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and a view of tribulation that integrates the literary vision of Revelation with the reality of the lives of ordinary people in a Roman province. Throughout his study, Thompson argues that the language of Revelation joins the ordinary to the extra-ordinary, earth to heaven, and local conditions to supra-human processes.
Author : Steven Jacobs
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441091X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Screening Statues written by Steven Jacobs and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's work
Author : Augustus Rose
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221847
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Readymade Thief written by Augustus Rose and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most must-read of all must-reads.” —Marie Claire “A kickass debut from start to finish.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run. Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for a friend, Lee finds refuge in a cooperative of runaways holed up in an abandoned building they call the Crystal Castle. But the façade of the Castle conceals a far more sinister agenda, one hatched by a society of fanatical men set on decoding a series of powerful secrets hidden in plain sight. And they believe Lee holds the key to it all. Aided by Tomi, a young hacker and artist with whom she has struck a wary alliance, Lee escapes into the unmapped corners of the city—empty aquariums, deserted motels, patrolled museums, and even the homes of vacationing families. But the deeper she goes underground, the more tightly she finds herself bound in the strange web she’s trying to elude. Desperate and out of options, Lee steps from the shadows to face who is after her—and why. A novel of puzzles, conspiracies, secret societies, urban exploration, art history, and a singular, indomitable heroine, The Readymade Thief heralds the arrival of a spellbinding and original new talent in fiction.
Author : Felix Summerly (pseud. [i.e. Sir Henry Cole.])
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A hand-book for the architecture, sculptures, tombs, and decorations of Westminster Abbey ... written by Felix Summerly (pseud. [i.e. Sir Henry Cole.]) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Bloemacher
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004445862
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sculpture in Print, 1480–1600 written by Anne Bloemacher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first in-depth study dedicated to the intriguing history of the translation of statues and reliefs into print, the essays in this volume reflect the printmakers’ various approaches and challenges of translating antique or contemporary artworks, underlining their highly creative handling.
Author : GamerGuides.com
Publisher : GamerGuides.com
ISBN 13 : 1630411612
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Uncharted 4: A Thief's End - Strategy Guide written by GamerGuides.com and published by GamerGuides.com. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is three years after the events of Uncharted 3 and Nathan Drake, the world's most famous hunter of treasure, has hung up his boots and left that work behind him. However, the sudden appearance of his brother, Samuel Drake, has made that calling for adventure come back in full force, as he needs Nathan's help to save his own life. They are on the hunt for Captain Henry Avery's long-lost treasure, bringing them to many exotic locations wrought with danger, in another exciting entry in the Uncharted franchise. The guide includes: - A complete and detailed walkthrough of the main story. - Locations for all of the game's collectibles. - Comprehensive guide to get every single trophy.
Author : U. Harper
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595361145
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Flesh Statue written by U. Harper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I worry that the patterns in life say I worry that they dictate, that, through the education that should free us, we will all fall in line. So our search for knowledge will eventually turn us all into people willing to be oppressed. We'll even feel good about it. We'll like being oppressed. We have taught this ignorance that is guiding us. We have to smash this." When an acquaintance tells 19 year old Langley Jackson this, Langley is naïve and new to the city of Long Beach. But as time climbs forward Langley learns that it's true: some things need to be smashed. Some things can't be solved, only learned from. And some people-including loved ones-you have to just let them die.
Author : Aimée Thurlo
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429909594
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Thief in Retreat written by Aimée Thurlo and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the monastery, now, as an extern it is Sister Agatha's role to be the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. It is the skills from both her past and current lives that she must bring to the task assigned to her by the Archbishop of her diocese. At a former monastery, closed and sold by the diocese and now operating as a hotel and business retreat, there are a series of mysterious goings on. Several valuable pieces of southwestern folk art owned by the diocese and left on loan in the retreat have been stolen and replaced by replicas. After an art expert was called in to verify the remaining collection, he too disappeared without a trace. And then, there is the ghost - the restless spirit rumored to wander the halls of the resort. At the request of the Archbishop, Sister Agatha's must now discreetly investigate the doings at the former monastery and make sure that an unwanted scandal is not about to engulf the diocese. But she soon learns that something even more sinister than a ghost is loose in the retreat and it is up to Sister Agatha to unravel the puzzle before the consequences turn deadly.
Author : Thomas D. Bazley Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313360480
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Crimes of the Art World written by Thomas D. Bazley Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a revealing look at the full scope of criminal activity in the art world—a category of crime that is far more pervasive than is generally realized. Forgeries, fakes, fencing, and felony theft—all are pervasive problems in the world of art, where the stakes are high, the networks wide, and the consequences profound. In recent years, suspicious acquisitions, unreliable provenances, and shady dealers have found their way into the headlines as museums and private collections have been confronted with everything from fake pieces to stolen antiquities to plain old theft and vandalism. Crimes of the Art World captures the full scope of this staggeringly lucrative field of criminal conduct, showing how its impact reaches well beyond the walls of the museum. Filled with fascinating stories of crime and greed, this revealing volume looks at case after case of thefts, forgeries, fakes, and illicit trafficking, as well as the political/religious victimization of art, white-collar art crime, and vandalism. The book examines each type of crime in terms of frequency, losses, and characteristics of victims and criminals. Concluding chapters focus on preventive measures, art crime investigation, and security issues.
