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The SOHO Chronicles

Author : Matthew Kentridge
Publisher : Africa List
ISBN 13 : 9780857421760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The SOHO Chronicles written by Matthew Kentridge and published by Africa List. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, William Kentridge has consolidated a worldwide reputation as an artist of great verve and scope. He is arguably most widely known for his series of 10 animated films drawn over a period of 22 years, and set in his home city of Johannesburg. Originally conceived as a distraction, something to fill the gaps between exhibitions, the films have magnificently exceeded their brief, establishing instead one of the great characters in contemporary fiction: Soho EcksteinHighveld mining magnate, and Kentridge s alter ego. The timeline of the films covers South Africa s transition from apartheid to democracy. The specific events and crises comprising the country s political transformation form the backdrop to the story unfolding across the screen, but the films are not "about" political events. Instead the saga traces a different and parallel arcSoho s gradual awakening from capitalist blockhead and cuckold to sober penitent, coming to terms with his own frailties and the first signs of mortalityand it is this human quality that gives the films their power and enduring appeal. Matthew Kentridge has witnessed, from first beginnings, the evolution of William Kentridge s technique, themes and ideas. From his unique and privileged vantage point, he has watched the transformation of Soho from individualistic South African megalomaniac into a kind of late-twentieth-century Everyman. This book is his response. This volume also incorporates an element of augmented reality, which readers can explore using their smartphones or tablets, making the book an even more enriching experience."

Soho in the Eighties

Author : Christopher Howse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472914821
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Soho in the Eighties written by Christopher Howse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating glimpse into 1980s Soho by leading journalist and writer Christopher Howse. In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily tragi-comedy enacted in pubs like the Coach and Horses or the French and in drinking clubs like the Colony Room. These were places of constant conversation and regular rows fuelled by alcohol. The cast was more improbable than any soap opera. Some were widely known – Jeffrey Bernard, Francis Bacon, Tom Baker or John Hurt. Just as important were the character actors: the Village Postmistress, the Red Baron, Granny Smith. The bite came from the underlying tragedy: lost spouses, lost jobs, pennilessness, homelessness and death. Christopher Howse recaptures the lost Soho he once knew as home, its cellar cafés and butchers' shops, its villains and its generosity. While it lasted, time in those smoky rooms always seemed to be half past ten, not long to closing time. As the author relates, he never laughed so much as he did in Soho in the Eighties.

Illegal Living

Author : Roslyn Bernstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786099517209
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Illegal Living written by Roslyn Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells "the story of the building at 80 Wooster Street in New York and the people who lived and worked there. The first of 16 artists' coops started by George Maciunas, founder of the Fluxus art movement, Fluxhouse Coop II spurred the development of SoHo and the spread of worldwide loft conversions. ... The authors reveal the myriad ways that the legal formalities and unavoidable business decisions of a live-work cooperative were shaped on a daily basis." -- back cover.

The Novogratz Chronicles

Author : Robert Novogratz
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797228633
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The Novogratz Chronicles written by Robert Novogratz and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Husband and wife design duo Robert and Cortney Novogratz share their trade secrets and personal stories from over twenty-five years of buying, selling, and fixing up homes. Robert and Cortney Novogratz, stars of HGTV’s Home by Novogratz and Bravo’s 9 by Design, have transformed fabulous properties across the U.S. and around the world, including Hotel Dylan (Woodstock, NY), the Bungalow Hotel (Long Branch, NJ), and Timber Cove (Sonoma, CA), to name a few. They've also partnered with many celebrities and top retailers and had their work profiled in major national media outlets, from The New York Times to Architectural Digest, all while raising their family of seven children. They not only know how to run a successful and innovative design business but also how to balance work, family, and fun. The Novogratz Chronicles is their most intimate and personal book to date, taking readers on their journey from their first house renovation project in Chelsea in the 1990s to their latest home in Greenwich Village and projects in Los Angeles, Brazil, and the Berkshires. Eleven chapters explore and share their path to success, from thinking outside the box when financing, to building the right renovation team, to developing a design aesthetic and trusting your design instincts, interspersed with personal anecdotes and stories from their hands-on experiences. DIYers, HGTV fans, weekend warriors, and anyone interested in buying, selling, and renovating houses and spaces will love reading The Novogratz Chronicles and discovering the expertise that lies beyond their renowned how-to decorating prowess to inform and inspire their own renovation dreams and endeavors.

Chronicles of Old New York

Author : James Roman
Publisher : Museyon Inc.
ISBN 13 : 193845085X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Old New York written by James Roman and published by Museyon Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Central Park was built on Seneca Village, a community of modest farms, also known as a safe haven for runaway slaves? Did you know Washington Square Park used to be a potter's field? Author James Roman, a native New Yorker, brings to this guide an intimate knowledge and love of New York's neighborhoods and the quirks of history that have helped shape the city. Discover 400 years of innovation through the true stories of the visionaries, risk-takers, dreamers, and schemers such as John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Stanford White, Gertrude Whitney and more with historical photographs and period maps. This second edition includes a new Broadway chapter and completely updated walking tours. A Must Read for anyone who loves New York City.

The Yale Chronicles of America Series

Author : Allen Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yale Chronicles of America Series written by Allen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West End Girls

Author : Barbara Tate
Publisher : Seven Dials
ISBN 13 : 1409116077
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book West End Girls written by Barbara Tate and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and compelling memoir recounting the real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its working girls. Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho - just as London was recovering from the trauma of the second world war - things would never be the same again. There the naive Barbara meets the beautiful and capricious Mae. When she takes a job as Mae's maid, Barbara imagines she'll be housekeeping. But down a shabby backstreet, Barbara discovers the secret lives of Soho's working girls. An astonishing world full of fierce friendships and bitter rivalries, dangerous men and desperate measures, Barbara soon learns that taking the money from a staggering supply of punters and making copious amounts of tea are only the bare essentials. She will need to be nursemaid, protector and confidante to impossible, adorable, self-destructive Mae.

The Lofts of SoHo

Author : Aaron Shkuda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226833410
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Lofts of SoHo written by Aaron Shkuda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was born. From 1960 to 1980, residents transformed the industrial neighborhood into an artist district, creating the conditions under which it evolved into an upper-income, gentrified area. Introducing the idea—still potent in city planning today—that art could be harnessed to drive municipal prosperity, SoHo was the forerunner of gentrified districts in cities nationwide, spawning the notion of the creative class. In The Lofts of SoHo, Aaron Shkuda studies the transition of the district from industrial space to artists’ enclave to affluent residential area, focusing on the legacy of urban renewal in and around SoHo and the growth of artist-led redevelopment. Shkuda explores conflicts between residents and property owners and analyzes the city’s embrace of the once-illegal loft conversion as an urban development strategy. As Shkuda explains, artists eventually lost control of SoHo’s development, but over several decades they nonetheless forced scholars, policymakers, and the general public to take them seriously as critical actors in the twentieth-century American city.

Moon Over Soho

Author : Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625676069
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Moon Over Soho written by Ben Aaronovitch and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Moon Over Soho cements [the Rivers of London] series as my favorite urban fantasy series. The humor, the world-building, the action, the magic, the mystery, the procedural—all are top-notch.’ — Ranting Dragon My name is Peter Grant, and I’m a Police Constable in that mighty army for justice known as the Metropolitan Police (a.k.a. the Filth). I’m also an apprentice wizard, the first in fifty years. When your dad is an almost famous jazz trumpeter, you know the classics. And that’s why, when Dr Walid called me down to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognized the tune it was playing as the jazz classic ‘Body and Soul.’ Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint on his corpse as if it were a wax cylinder recording. The former owner of the body, Cyrus Wilkinson, was a part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant who had dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig. He wasn’t the first, but no one was going to let me exhume corpses just to see if they were playing my tune. So it was back to old-fashioned police legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene, with the lovely Simone – Cyrus’s ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens portrait – as my guide. And it didn’t take me long to realise there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives. Reviews for Moon Over Soho Mr. Aaronovitch is, in short, writing the best contemporary occult detective series on the shelf today, and that’s by a substantial margin.’ — Pornokitsch ‘Moon Over Soho is a gripping continuation of River of London’s well executed blend of police-procedural and fantasy with a good splash of horror thrown in. This is urban fantasy done with a loving attention to detail and enlivened by an ever present wit making this series a must-read for anyone who likes their fantasy with a strong edge of realism.’ — SF Book Reviews

Nights Out

Author : Judith Walkowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183682
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Nights Out written by Judith Walkowitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.

The Chronicles of America Series

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of America Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Chronicles of America Series

Author : Allen Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of America Series written by Allen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chronicles

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Billy Palmer Chronicles

Author : Derek Johns
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 1846273587
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Billy Palmer Chronicles written by Derek Johns and published by Granta. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Palmer grew up in a sleepy rural village, but his dreams were always for something else, something beyond the world he knew. As a child, this desire for the unexplored got him into trouble, as a teenager it drove him to adventure, and as an adult it propels him across the Atlantic to the dazzling lights of Manhattan, where the excitement he's craved seems finally to come within his grasp, but at what price? Engaging, evocative and flawlessly paced, The Billy Palmer Chronicles is a pitch-perfect tale of one man's search for the life he's imagined.

The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend

Author : David Gemmell
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0307797554
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend written by David Gemmell and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was known as Druss. The Deathwalker. Though the blood of merciless butchers coursed through his veins, he had found a fragile peace through his love for beautiful, mystical Rowena. Then came the day when Druss returned to their village and found everyone dead--massacred by slavers who had stolen the women to sell for gold. Rowena was among the missing. Armed with only his powerful double-bladed ax, Snaga, Druss went after Rowena. His journey would carry him from the highest thrones of power to the deepest dungeons of depravity. Along the way, he would battle savage monsters and descend into terrifying lands of black magic and demons. Yet one thing was certain. Druss would have victory . . . or death.

The Ivy Chronicles

Author : Karen Quinn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440626944
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Ivy Chronicles written by Karen Quinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she's been downsized from her platinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she's going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. So she dreams up a new business, helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. What begins as one woman's bid to earn a living becomes an everywoman's tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance, set in a looking-glass world where even tots have résumés. "If you think you may be a neurotic parent, read this and feel sane." —Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It "Entertaining . . . Picks up where The Nanny Diaries left off." —The New York Post "[A] ferociously funny tale." —Us Weekly "Hilarious." —Child magazine "Tales of Manhattan?s elite trying to get their tots into private schools is sure to make you smirk condescendingly . . . The Ivy Chronicles delivers." —Boston Herald "The brilliant, witty, and ultimately soulful heroine is a perfect tour guide who will leave you laughing up your latté..."—Jill Kargman, author of The Right Address and Wolves in Chic Clothing "With humor and heart, Karen Quinn brilliantly skewers the insanely competitive world of wealth we love to hate. Readers will cheer for Ivy!" —Leslie Schnur, author of The Dog Walker

Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Author : Seicho Matsumoto
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569470197
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Inspector Imanishi Investigates written by Seicho Matsumoto and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied, and a series of coincidences lead him back to the case. Why did a young woman scatter pieces of white paper out of the window of a train? Why did a bar girl leave for home right after Imanishi spoke to her? Why did an actor, on the verge of telling Imanishi something important, drop dead of a heart attack? What can a group of nouveau young artists possibly have to do with the murder of a quiet and “saintly” provincial old ex-policemen? Inspector Imanishi investigates.