Author: Ellen Bakker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789081847698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Radicals
Author: David Horowitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621570061
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Radical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering. So argues David Horowitz, bestselling author in his newest book Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion. From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz shows how the idealistic impulse to make the world “a better place” gives birth to the twin cultural pathologies of cynicism and nihilism, and is the chief source of human suffering. A former liberal himself, Horowitz recounts his own brushes with radicalism and offers unparalleled insight into the disjointed ideology of liberal elites through case studies of well-known radial leftists, including Christopher Hitchens, feminist Bettina Aptheker , leftist academic Cornel West, and more. Exploring the origin and evolution of radical liberals and their progressive ideology, Radicals illustrates how liberalism is not only intellectually crippling for its adherents, but devastating to society.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621570061
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Radical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering. So argues David Horowitz, bestselling author in his newest book Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion. From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz shows how the idealistic impulse to make the world “a better place” gives birth to the twin cultural pathologies of cynicism and nihilism, and is the chief source of human suffering. A former liberal himself, Horowitz recounts his own brushes with radicalism and offers unparalleled insight into the disjointed ideology of liberal elites through case studies of well-known radial leftists, including Christopher Hitchens, feminist Bettina Aptheker , leftist academic Cornel West, and more. Exploring the origin and evolution of radical liberals and their progressive ideology, Radicals illustrates how liberalism is not only intellectually crippling for its adherents, but devastating to society.
Felt Passion
Author: Ellen Bakker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789081847698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789081847698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Sex
Author: John Williams
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
ISBN: 9783822865187
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
ISBN: 9783822865187
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Passion for Performance
Author: Shelley Bennett
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365579
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365579
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.
Self Portraits: Fictions
Author: Frederic Tuten
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393079058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393079058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.
Passion by Design
Author: Baroness Kizette De Lempicka-Foxhall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780789205032
Category : Art deco
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biography of the Polish born Art Deco portraitist and her work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780789205032
Category : Art deco
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biography of the Polish born Art Deco portraitist and her work.
Passion & Line
Author: Howard Schatz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In Passion & Line, Schatz interprets these hard-won creations through his art, combining exploration and adoration in equal measure, This is a mutual exaltation in which photographer, dancer, and observer collaborate. Adoration as its own reward.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In Passion & Line, Schatz interprets these hard-won creations through his art, combining exploration and adoration in equal measure, This is a mutual exaltation in which photographer, dancer, and observer collaborate. Adoration as its own reward.
Portrait of Passion
Author: Lynne Barron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781419971181
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
What's a Viscount to do when a mysterious lady with a secret past and a reputation frayed around the edges suddenly appears in London? Especially when she's in hot pursuit of his naive young cousin, setting the gossips' tongues wagging, stirring his family into pandemonium and driving him mad with her irreverent ways? If the Viscount in question is Simon Easton, the answer is quite simple. Seduce the beguiling lady. But Miss Beatrice Morgan isn't your average tarnished lady. She lives a slapdash life wandering the globe like a gypsy, painting fantastical portraits of Duchesses as sirens and landscapes featuring a crumbling old fountain, all the while harboring a secret desire to return to Idyllwild, the only home she's ever known. What Simon does not know is that Beatrice just might be willing to sacrifice her honor, her virtue, her very heart to reclaim Idyllwild.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781419971181
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
What's a Viscount to do when a mysterious lady with a secret past and a reputation frayed around the edges suddenly appears in London? Especially when she's in hot pursuit of his naive young cousin, setting the gossips' tongues wagging, stirring his family into pandemonium and driving him mad with her irreverent ways? If the Viscount in question is Simon Easton, the answer is quite simple. Seduce the beguiling lady. But Miss Beatrice Morgan isn't your average tarnished lady. She lives a slapdash life wandering the globe like a gypsy, painting fantastical portraits of Duchesses as sirens and landscapes featuring a crumbling old fountain, all the while harboring a secret desire to return to Idyllwild, the only home she's ever known. What Simon does not know is that Beatrice just might be willing to sacrifice her honor, her virtue, her very heart to reclaim Idyllwild.
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Author: Donna M. Lucey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
Love and Strange Horses
Author: Nathalie Handal
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822991160
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
"Sometimes we have questions that seem to defy answers or even suppositions but then we find Love and Strange Horses to help us map out a course to continue loving life. A really wonderful, thoughtful read by an intriguing new voice." —Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822991160
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
"Sometimes we have questions that seem to defy answers or even suppositions but then we find Love and Strange Horses to help us map out a course to continue loving life. A really wonderful, thoughtful read by an intriguing new voice." —Nikki Giovanni