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Painting Portraits
Portrait painting is inherently difficult and requires a unique understanding of and sensitivity to the sitter. This practical book considers the historical context of portrait painting and its contemporary practice. Written by a professional portrait painter, it describes the intricacies of making a portrait not just for the technically minded but also for those who are interested in a painter's perspective on the role and importance of portraiture.Step-by-step demonstrations of portraits and self-portraits.Techniques that use colour to introduce subtleties and presence.Advice on catching a likeness and overcoming difficulties.Discussion about the significance of copying and photography.Ins...
Get Back
In this novella Wm. Anthony Connolly performs a juggling act between hilarity and heartbreak. Connolly's focus is Michael Cross, a middle-aged college professor and writer who wants very much to leave his rebellious past behind. But life just won't let him. In the course of a week, Cross will crash his car, be publicly humiliated, be visited by someone he'd soon forgot, be mistaken for Nick Nolte (again!), eulogize a dog, attend a gay wedding, and travel clear across country with his 16-year-old daughter, Hope, in a uniquely-decorated VW Microbus. All this while coming to terms with the end of his marriage, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and an over-active bladder. In the end the strange and beautiful trip helps Cross get back what he may have lost - himself.
The Smallest Universe
This book is my memory. So begins a story chronicled in the tattered journal of Mary Cross, kept in an old accounting book that was a gift from her father when she left home at age sixteen. It is a chronicle of experiences, struggles, and breakthroughs of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia, traumatized by the most vivid of visions and voices. But were these episodes, fugues, or "spells," as her ex Gregory used to call them, something else entirely? Mary's journey toward truth and overcoming her symptoms takes her far away, where she learns the rest of the story her visions and voices had always told her, from a past she did not know. With a childlike perception of danger and wonder that is...
The Book of Lost Things
A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.
Psalms & Stones
Wm. Anthony Connolly is the author of three novels The Jenny Muck, Get Back and The Obituaries, which was a Canadian bestseller. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, Intellectual Refuge and Elephant Journal to name a few. This is his debut poetry collection. He is on the faculty of the MFA in Writing at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri, and has taught academic writing in Texas and Kansas. A first-generation university student, he has earned a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, and an MFA in Writing from Goddard College in Plain Field, Vermont. He and his wife Dyan and their two dogs, Hemingway Short Story and Professor Leo Tolstoy, currently reside in the Lone Star State.
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Cultural Heritage Rights
This collection brings together selected articles on key areas in the field of cultural heritage rights discourse. Contributed by an international group of scholars, the papers address conceptual and political issues and explore themes in contemporary literature on cultural heritage such as repatriation, looting and illicit trade, the effects of armed conflict and the relationship between tourism, economic development and cultural heritage. The legal regulation of cultural heritage is also discussed, with articles on regulatory challenges, current practices around the world and issues and challenges in common. Topics which are likely to become increasingly important in the future, such as climate change, cultural globalisation, human genomic science and the shift to a post-liberal, post-rights politics and law of cultural heritage, are also explored. This volume, which presents the most up-to-date scholarship in an area of increasing interest and relevance, is an indispensable reference resource for libraries, lecturers and students.
