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A Bit of a Stretch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

A Bit of a Stretch

'Shocking, scathing, entertaining.' Guardian 'Incredibly compelling.' The Times 'Heart-breaking.' Sunday Times Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service. Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons. But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his latest film, he was sent down for five years. His new home would be HMP Wandsworth, one of the largest and most dysfunctional prisons in Europe. With a cast of characters ranging from wily drug dealers to senior officials bent on endless reform, this powerful memoir uncovers the horrifying reality behind the locked gates. Filled with dark humour and shocking stories, A Bit of a Stretch reveals why our creaking prison system is sorely costing us all - and why you should care.

James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-13
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

The discovery of this masterpiece Whistler's "Portrait of William Merritt Chase," along with another important Whistler painting, "Harmony in Black, No10," reveals exciting new discoveries on Whistler's artistic methods, from the Old Masters and the artistic truisms of the Renaissance. Documented analysis including x-ray examination, forensics and recognized paintings by Whistler's followers will confirm this portrait and "Harmony in Black, No10," with x-ray revealing two lost paintings. These Whistler paintings connect scholarship and identify paintings worthy of merit and what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece.

The Wrath of the Gods
  • Language: en

The Wrath of the Gods

Published on the occassion of the exhibition 'The Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian,' Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 12 - Decemeber 6, 201

The signature style of Frans Hals
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 326

The signature style of Frans Hals

  • Categories: Art

Frans Hals had een karakteristiek gebruik van verf. Welke functie en betekenis had zijn manier van werken? Dit boek is het resultaat van het eerste onderzoek dat daarnaar is gedaan. Christopher Atkins verkent de uniciteit van Frans Hals' aanpak, de relatie tussen zijn werkwijze en de zeventiende- eeuwse esthetiek, de economische motieven en voordelen van zijn methode, de ogenschijnlijke moderniteit van zijn stijl en de wijze waarop die een merknaam werd. Atkins laat zien hoe de door Frans Hals bewust gecultiveerde manier ven van schilderen functioneerde, zowel in zijn eigen tijd als voor latere generaties toeschouwers. Dit biedt een volledig nieuw begrip van het werk van deze Nederlandse gro...

Money in the Air
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Money in the Air

  • Categories: Art

This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections forming the backbone of major American museums today. But what of the dealers, who possessed the expertise in art and recognized the potential of developing a new market model on both sides of the Atlantic? Money in the Air investigates the often-overloo...

Dictionary of Artists' Models
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 628

Dictionary of Artists' Models

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.

The Jurist ..
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 558

The Jurist ..

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1843
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Faewolf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Faewolf

Faewolves, like werewolves, can walk among men. What happens when Kiya White Cloud, a young gay college student in Santa Cruz, wants one of these men enough to risk his heart--and his life? A gay paranormal erotic romance from Clasp Editions, the romance imprint of Circlet Press, Inc. D.M. Atkins is an author of both non-fiction and fiction. An anthropologist, Atkins has edited several anthologies on LGBT topics, including Looking Queer, Lesbian Sex Scandals, and Bisexual Women in the 21st Century and is the former editor of both Locus and Shadows Of... magazines. Visit DMAtkins.net. Chris Taylor has been writing for years but FAEWOLF is Taylor's first original fiction novel. Taylor is a New Yorker, attending college.

Adam & Maria Spach
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1214

Adam & Maria Spach

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Matkins' Journal of Research at the Matkins Information Center
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 726

Matkins' Journal of Research at the Matkins Information Center

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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