Author: Joanna Frueh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520221141
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
"This book is as seductive as the phenomenon that it explores. With courage, love, and joy, Frueh crosses into unexplored terrains of beauty and pleasure, where she finds a grotesquely captivating creature: Monster/Beauty. By illuminating her journey with thoughtful insight and engaging prose, she encourages readers to join her in her quest to articulate fresh ways of thinking about the aesthetic and the erotic and of theorizing the flux of lived experience." —John Alan Farmer, senior editor of Art Journal "Monster/Beauty is a daringly provocative experiment in personal and erotic writing and an important book for anyone interested in breaking normative codes of beauty, pedagogy, and authorial methodology. In a richly self-revealing text, Frueh proposes nothing less than a Rabellaisian re-ordering of aesthetic embodiments within social relations." —Mira Schor, author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture "Giving new meaning to "embodied writing," this book goes farther than any other toward getting the body into the text. Joanna Frueh is a performance artist first-she is also an art historian, a singer, a poet, a bodybuilder, a professor, an academic celebrity of modest fame, but her performances collapse these distinctions. Frueh's intensely personal, intensely physical prose brings an aura of presence to the book that rivals the effect she achieves on stage." —Robyn Warhol, co-editor of Feminisms "This book is monstrous--full of gorgeous hypermuscular women, step-mothers, and vampires; full of ravishing muscular sex, classroom erotics, splendid aging. It is a performance in which Frueh explores and celebrates her body, its powers and beauties, and those of her friends and lovers." —Alphonso Lingis, author of Excesses, Abuses, and Dangerous Emotions "A welcome voice in contemporary feminist theory, Frueh's Monster/Beauty reminds us of the pleasures of thinking, teaching and creating in wholly embodied, sensual and passionate acts. Frueh poetically enacts the self as an aesthetic/erotic project, affirming the many different and beautiful selves we can become. It is a joy to read." —Marsha Meskimmon, author of We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism "Joanna Frueh is a hero. I sleep better knowing she's out there writing and thinking." —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
Monster/Beauty
Author: Joanna Frueh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520221141
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
"This book is as seductive as the phenomenon that it explores. With courage, love, and joy, Frueh crosses into unexplored terrains of beauty and pleasure, where she finds a grotesquely captivating creature: Monster/Beauty. By illuminating her journey with thoughtful insight and engaging prose, she encourages readers to join her in her quest to articulate fresh ways of thinking about the aesthetic and the erotic and of theorizing the flux of lived experience." —John Alan Farmer, senior editor of Art Journal "Monster/Beauty is a daringly provocative experiment in personal and erotic writing and an important book for anyone interested in breaking normative codes of beauty, pedagogy, and authorial methodology. In a richly self-revealing text, Frueh proposes nothing less than a Rabellaisian re-ordering of aesthetic embodiments within social relations." —Mira Schor, author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture "Giving new meaning to "embodied writing," this book goes farther than any other toward getting the body into the text. Joanna Frueh is a performance artist first-she is also an art historian, a singer, a poet, a bodybuilder, a professor, an academic celebrity of modest fame, but her performances collapse these distinctions. Frueh's intensely personal, intensely physical prose brings an aura of presence to the book that rivals the effect she achieves on stage." —Robyn Warhol, co-editor of Feminisms "This book is monstrous--full of gorgeous hypermuscular women, step-mothers, and vampires; full of ravishing muscular sex, classroom erotics, splendid aging. It is a performance in which Frueh explores and celebrates her body, its powers and beauties, and those of her friends and lovers." —Alphonso Lingis, author of Excesses, Abuses, and Dangerous Emotions "A welcome voice in contemporary feminist theory, Frueh's Monster/Beauty reminds us of the pleasures of thinking, teaching and creating in wholly embodied, sensual and passionate acts. Frueh poetically enacts the self as an aesthetic/erotic project, affirming the many different and beautiful selves we can become. It is a joy to read." —Marsha Meskimmon, author of We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism "Joanna Frueh is a hero. I sleep better knowing she's out there writing and thinking." —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520221141
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
"This book is as seductive as the phenomenon that it explores. With courage, love, and joy, Frueh crosses into unexplored terrains of beauty and pleasure, where she finds a grotesquely captivating creature: Monster/Beauty. By illuminating her journey with thoughtful insight and engaging prose, she encourages readers to join her in her quest to articulate fresh ways of thinking about the aesthetic and the erotic and of theorizing the flux of lived experience." —John Alan Farmer, senior editor of Art Journal "Monster/Beauty is a daringly provocative experiment in personal and erotic writing and an important book for anyone interested in breaking normative codes of beauty, pedagogy, and authorial methodology. In a richly self-revealing text, Frueh proposes nothing less than a Rabellaisian re-ordering of aesthetic embodiments within social relations." —Mira Schor, author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture "Giving new meaning to "embodied writing," this book goes farther than any other toward getting the body into the text. Joanna Frueh is a performance artist first-she is also an art historian, a singer, a poet, a bodybuilder, a professor, an academic celebrity of modest fame, but her performances collapse these distinctions. Frueh's intensely personal, intensely physical prose brings an aura of presence to the book that rivals the effect she achieves on stage." —Robyn Warhol, co-editor of Feminisms "This book is monstrous--full of gorgeous hypermuscular women, step-mothers, and vampires; full of ravishing muscular sex, classroom erotics, splendid aging. It is a performance in which Frueh explores and celebrates her body, its powers and beauties, and those of her friends and lovers." —Alphonso Lingis, author of Excesses, Abuses, and Dangerous Emotions "A welcome voice in contemporary feminist theory, Frueh's Monster/Beauty reminds us of the pleasures of thinking, teaching and creating in wholly embodied, sensual and passionate acts. Frueh poetically enacts the self as an aesthetic/erotic project, affirming the many different and beautiful selves we can become. It is a joy to read." —Marsha Meskimmon, author of We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism "Joanna Frueh is a hero. I sleep better knowing she's out there writing and thinking." —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
A Monster's Beauty
Author: Sam Crescent
Publisher: In the Arms of Monsters
ISBN: 9780369501998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher: In the Arms of Monsters
ISBN: 9780369501998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Monster Among the Roses
Author: Linda Kage
Publisher: Linda Kage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"Do you know how to get to the rose garden?" "No, you can't go there. A monster lives there." Shaw Hollander is desperate. Broke, unemployed, and determined to help his ailing mother, he falls on the good graces of a wealthy benefactor who is willing to give Shaw a job at his mansion in order to pay off his mother's debts. Suddenly finding himself surrounded by lavish riches, he has no idea what his duties truly entail until he's sent to the rose garden and meets the tragically mutilated Isobel. This Beauty and the Beast story holds true to the core of the fable while shaking off the element of fantasy and dragging it into present-day reality. Shaw and Isobel are ready to let you climb into their four-wheel-drive pickup and take a ride with them into their version of happily ever after, but only if you first dare to gaze upon the monster among the roses.
Publisher: Linda Kage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"Do you know how to get to the rose garden?" "No, you can't go there. A monster lives there." Shaw Hollander is desperate. Broke, unemployed, and determined to help his ailing mother, he falls on the good graces of a wealthy benefactor who is willing to give Shaw a job at his mansion in order to pay off his mother's debts. Suddenly finding himself surrounded by lavish riches, he has no idea what his duties truly entail until he's sent to the rose garden and meets the tragically mutilated Isobel. This Beauty and the Beast story holds true to the core of the fable while shaking off the element of fantasy and dragging it into present-day reality. Shaw and Isobel are ready to let you climb into their four-wheel-drive pickup and take a ride with them into their version of happily ever after, but only if you first dare to gaze upon the monster among the roses.
Alfred's Book of Monsters
Author: Sam Streed
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580898335
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Trick or treat? With nods to Tim Burton, Edward Gorey, and Neil Gaiman, this humorous picture book about a Victorian boy obsessed with monsters presents a dark and appealing world, created by debut author/illustrator Sam Streed. In the graveyard, between stone monuments for forgotten souls, lurks the Black Shuck. . . . Its one blood-red eye burns with an undying rage. After reading about the slimy Nixie, the angry Black Shuck, and the creepy Lantern Man in his beloved Book of Monsters, Alfred decides to invite the monsters to teatime with his crusty old aunty, who thinks monsters are an improper obsession for a respectable young boy.
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580898335
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Trick or treat? With nods to Tim Burton, Edward Gorey, and Neil Gaiman, this humorous picture book about a Victorian boy obsessed with monsters presents a dark and appealing world, created by debut author/illustrator Sam Streed. In the graveyard, between stone monuments for forgotten souls, lurks the Black Shuck. . . . Its one blood-red eye burns with an undying rage. After reading about the slimy Nixie, the angry Black Shuck, and the creepy Lantern Man in his beloved Book of Monsters, Alfred decides to invite the monsters to teatime with his crusty old aunty, who thinks monsters are an improper obsession for a respectable young boy.
Beautiful & Full of Monsters
Author: Courtney LeBlanc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578625959
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Love isn't always pretty, yet most of us choose to remain constant in its pursuit. These poems unwrap the mythos of romance with the clairvoyance of a writer who knows the best and worst of relationships inside and out. LeBlanc dares to honestly show us how even when the best of intentions fail, we can always find beauty if we stay true to the monsters in ourselves.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578625959
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Love isn't always pretty, yet most of us choose to remain constant in its pursuit. These poems unwrap the mythos of romance with the clairvoyance of a writer who knows the best and worst of relationships inside and out. LeBlanc dares to honestly show us how even when the best of intentions fail, we can always find beauty if we stay true to the monsters in ourselves.
A Beautiful Evil
Author: Kelly Keaton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442409274
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In the post-apocalyptic city of New 2, Ari Selkirk, who has discovered that she is a descendant of Medusa, is trying to keep at bay the evil growing inside her, but the goddess Athena will stop at nothing to possess Ari's power, provoking a monumental battle between good and evil.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442409274
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In the post-apocalyptic city of New 2, Ari Selkirk, who has discovered that she is a descendant of Medusa, is trying to keep at bay the evil growing inside her, but the goddess Athena will stop at nothing to possess Ari's power, provoking a monumental battle between good and evil.
Captive
Author: Jex Lane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997753301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence. Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick-a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy. Forced into the middle of a war between vampires and incubi, Matthew is used as a weapon against his own kind. Although he's desperate for freedom, he is unable to deny the burning desire drawing him to the incubus general he now calls Master.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997753301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence. Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick-a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy. Forced into the middle of a war between vampires and incubi, Matthew is used as a weapon against his own kind. Although he's desperate for freedom, he is unable to deny the burning desire drawing him to the incubus general he now calls Master.
Beautiful Monsters
Author: David McIntee
Publisher: TELOS
ISBN: 9781903889947
Category : Alien films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The end of the 1970s was a turning point for science fiction and horror films. A new film would blend these genres together into a cinematic experience that would cross boundries, and which would feature a villain that audiences and critics alike would find far scarier than the knife wielding antics of Michael Myers or Jason and Pamela Voorhees That film was Alicn. In this unofficial companion, David McIntee takes us behind the scenes to reveal how the Alien films were developed, what their influences and antecedents were, and how they have continued to develop and influence to this day. We also take in the popular Predator films and see how, through various ranges of spin off merchandise, we arrived at the 2004 clash of the titans, the long awaited Alicn vs Predator movie. This book takes you further than ever before into the domain of the beautiful monsters. Book jacket.
Publisher: TELOS
ISBN: 9781903889947
Category : Alien films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The end of the 1970s was a turning point for science fiction and horror films. A new film would blend these genres together into a cinematic experience that would cross boundries, and which would feature a villain that audiences and critics alike would find far scarier than the knife wielding antics of Michael Myers or Jason and Pamela Voorhees That film was Alicn. In this unofficial companion, David McIntee takes us behind the scenes to reveal how the Alien films were developed, what their influences and antecedents were, and how they have continued to develop and influence to this day. We also take in the popular Predator films and see how, through various ranges of spin off merchandise, we arrived at the 2004 clash of the titans, the long awaited Alicn vs Predator movie. This book takes you further than ever before into the domain of the beautiful monsters. Book jacket.
Beautiful Monster
Author: Sara Cate
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781956830033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Playboy. Socialite. Frivolous and Wicked. Alexander Caldwell needs to settle down. Hence the giant white house he just bought in the suburbs. The one that backs up to the house filled with three single women living in it. They all have their sights set on him...but it's her he can't get out of his head. Alexander has absolutely no place getting involved with a teenage girl with the world in her eyes. But he does. Tortured. Lonely. Desperate to run. Sunny Thorn needs to get out of her mother's house. To do that, she needs money. Hence taking the job painting a mural in Alexander Caldwell's pool house. The man whose eyes follow her. The man with the sculpted jaw and commanding presence. The man who is way too old for her. When Sunny has the chance to get out of Pineridge and start a future of her own, he should let her go. But he doesn't. Beautiful Monster is a standalone age-gap forbidden romance from the author of the Wicked Hearts series.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781956830033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Playboy. Socialite. Frivolous and Wicked. Alexander Caldwell needs to settle down. Hence the giant white house he just bought in the suburbs. The one that backs up to the house filled with three single women living in it. They all have their sights set on him...but it's her he can't get out of his head. Alexander has absolutely no place getting involved with a teenage girl with the world in her eyes. But he does. Tortured. Lonely. Desperate to run. Sunny Thorn needs to get out of her mother's house. To do that, she needs money. Hence taking the job painting a mural in Alexander Caldwell's pool house. The man whose eyes follow her. The man with the sculpted jaw and commanding presence. The man who is way too old for her. When Sunny has the chance to get out of Pineridge and start a future of her own, he should let her go. But he doesn't. Beautiful Monster is a standalone age-gap forbidden romance from the author of the Wicked Hearts series.
Taken by a Monster
Author: Sam Crescent
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
ISBN: 9780369501981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Robin has been gone for two years. No matter the lead, Preacher has hunted for her. He can't find her and admitting defeat isn't in his nature. She's in pain, and there's nothing he can do to help her but sacrifice everything in vain. When Preacher least expects it, Robin is reported alive. Badly beaten and broken, she's in the hospital, back in their lives once again.Only, when Robin wakes up, she doesn't remember her identity, the club, or anything about the last two years. She has no memory of Preacher, of Bishop, nothing. Her life is a complete blank and what's more, she knows deep down she's hurting her loved ones.The man who took her from Preacher is still out there. Someone close to home has helped his enemy, and Preacher knows Robin isn't safe. Not only does he have to deal with his woman's complete lack of memory of him and their time together, he knows his enemy will try to reclaim her.Two years is a long time, and the memories return with a revelation Preacher isn't prepared for.Was Robin running away from a monster?Or was she running straight back to the man who took her-a man she may even be in love with?In the Arms of Monsters TrilogyBook One: To Awaken a MonsterBook Two: Taken by a MonsterBook Three: A Monster's Beauty
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
ISBN: 9780369501981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Robin has been gone for two years. No matter the lead, Preacher has hunted for her. He can't find her and admitting defeat isn't in his nature. She's in pain, and there's nothing he can do to help her but sacrifice everything in vain. When Preacher least expects it, Robin is reported alive. Badly beaten and broken, she's in the hospital, back in their lives once again.Only, when Robin wakes up, she doesn't remember her identity, the club, or anything about the last two years. She has no memory of Preacher, of Bishop, nothing. Her life is a complete blank and what's more, she knows deep down she's hurting her loved ones.The man who took her from Preacher is still out there. Someone close to home has helped his enemy, and Preacher knows Robin isn't safe. Not only does he have to deal with his woman's complete lack of memory of him and their time together, he knows his enemy will try to reclaim her.Two years is a long time, and the memories return with a revelation Preacher isn't prepared for.Was Robin running away from a monster?Or was she running straight back to the man who took her-a man she may even be in love with?In the Arms of Monsters TrilogyBook One: To Awaken a MonsterBook Two: Taken by a MonsterBook Three: A Monster's Beauty