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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Painter Wendy Sharpe is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and travelling scholarships including the Sulman Prize (1996), the Archibald Portrait Prize (1996), and the Portia Geach Memorial Prize (1995 & 2003). In 1998, Wendy was commissioned by the city of Sydney to paint a series of eight murals, on the life of swimmer Annette Kellerman, for the Cook and Philip Park Aquatic Centre in Sydney. And in 1999, she was commissioned by the Australian...
62) The Northway
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This hilarious, imaginative book packs cigarette butts, Buddhist prayer flags, a spastic colon, Leviathan jaws, and gnats reincarnating as neonatal nurses into just one poem. Others say "Yes, to grunts and drooling"; find a Zen master in a bobcat spotted while driving; and experience an epiphany while driving with closed eyes. Bellamy's humor is a lens exposing our foibles, fears, and loveliness. Her unstinting, self-implicating humor skewers culture,...
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Nuestra historia la componen con esfuerzo, audacia y esperanza, todas las gentes, día a día, pero muchas de sus protagonistas habían sido eclipsadas, arrinconadas injustamente.
En este libro se da cuenta del relevante papel -hasta ahora despreciado- de sacerdotisas y guerreras, reinas niñas y amantes, científicas y humanistas, comediantas y revolucionarias, artistas primitivas y jóvenes millenials... Todas ellas forjan el pasado mientras escriben...
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Español
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Si hiciésemos una encuesta para saber cuántos pintores conocemos, la mayoría consultada mencionaría a Goya, Velázquez o Van Gogh, pero con seguridad no se hallaría a ninguna mujer en esta lista. Como si no hubiesen existido, pero no es verdad, existieron muchas y excelentes pintoras.
¿Por qué no las conocemos? Porque a lo largo de los siglos han estado escondidas en conventos en el Medievo o dedicándose a labores domésticas en el Renacimiento...
65) Women
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English
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WOMEN is a powerful visual representation of the journey that women travel. It combines aesthetic beauty, symbols, and visual metaphors to trigger emotions and responses to enduring gender inequalities in all areas of life. This book is an urgent call to action that echoes the voices of over 70 women aged 11 to 80+ years from 50 countries. They speak on what makes women cry, their coping mechanisms when facing discrimination, violence, exploitation,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In this riveting and richly drawn novel from "one of the master storytellers of historical fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams), a talented young artist flees New York for Paris after one of her scandalous drawings reveals a dark secret--and triggers a terrible tragedy. In the wake of a dark and brutal World War, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a beacon for the high society set, desperate to keep their...
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English
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A graphic designer discovers the payment for her recent job comes with a dark secret in this romantic suspense novel by a New York Times bestseller.
Fun and a little hard work. That's all Tess Haviland has in mind when Ike Grantham pays her for her graphic design work with the run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore.
Then Ike disappears, and Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her...
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English
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From a critically acclaimed, Pushcart Prizeânominated performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir about forging identity in the chasm between cultures and classes
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Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her motherâs upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her âholler rat,â her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family....
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Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her motherâs upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her âholler rat,â her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family....
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Stunning Yosemite National Park sets the stage for this late 1920s historical romance with mystery, adventure, heart, and a sense of the place John Muir described as "pervaded with divine light." Watercolorist Olivia Rutherford has shet her humble beginnings to fashion her image as an avant-garde artist to appeal to the region's wealthy art-collectors. When she lands a lucrative contract painting illustrations of Yosemite National Park for a travel...
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A portrait of a California family spanning several decades that examines the way a troubled marriage sets the course of family life and encourages adult children to grapple with the past even as they attempt to create successful families--and lives--of their own"--
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Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the once upon a time site of nuclear bomb testing in the New Mexico desert. But when a small group of travelers experience what they perceive as a religious awakening inside Zero...
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Español
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Mujer o árbol aborda algunos de los mitos centrales de la mujer en el imaginario contemporáneo. Roberta Ann Quance analiza la presencia de estos mitos en las obras de autores como García Lorca, Hilda Doolittle, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, etc., así como en las pinturas de Ángeles Santos,?Remedios Varo y Frida Kahlo, en las fotografías de Graciela Iturbide y en la iconografía popular, especialmente latinoamericana.?Entre todos, destaca por...
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English
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Musing at Mont Blanc dives into the deep crevices of the European Alps with inspiring glaciers and the rare beauty of two women, 200 years apart, confronting their intimate relationship with the natural world for unexpected outcomes. Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft created Dr. Frankenstein and Rosalinda discovered the unique landscape that inspired the novel, whilst creating her own poetic canvas.
How does it feel to follow these women on their paths?...
78) Artwords
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English
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Artwords is precisely that. Art and words combined to form a fusion of art and literature. This work is composed of colorful literary artworks consisting of calligrams, photographs, and redactive poetry.
They are different forms of writing which can be both read and appreciated visually.
Words have power. Words form images. But what if they formed images you could see with your eyes? Being both an artist and a writer, has led Beatriz Robles to want...
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Español
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Tras una introducción en la que la autora realiza un repaso a su trayectoria intelectual y a los temas esenciales del análisis visual, el libro ofrece por primera vez en lengua castellana algunas de las intervenciones más relevantes de la producción de Mieke Bal, llegando hasta los textos más recientes sobre los ensayos visuales, el análisis fílmico y el trabajo de comisariado. En cierta manera, es un mapa de los diferentes conceptos y problemas...
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The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour de force in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy
In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the
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