Author: Reed, Phil Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Man's Life tells the story of Phil Reed's life, which began auspiciously on the plains of Oklahoma in the 1930s. Amazingly, he was born at the height of a devastating tornado. He was the third child...
Author: Kupsh, Tom Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In addition to hundreds of whimsical welded sculptures, Tom Every poured most of his effort into the Forevertron, the world's largest sculpture built by a single person, and in the process, he discove...
Author: Catlin, George Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over 175 years ago George Catlin, American painter, writer and explorer, realized that the white settlers would eventually destroy the native cultures of North America. Devoting his life to preservin...
Author: Kramarik, Akiane Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father ...
Author: Nashed, Fred Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the story of an architect employed by the Egyptian government. He worked for 15 years under conditions akin to slavery. He was assigned to undesirable remote locations working from sunup till ...
Author: Ortiz, Luis Publisher: NonStop Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lee Brown Coye created more than 50 years worth of wildly imaginative and fantastic artwork for magazines like the original Weird Tales and prized books by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, and many othe...
Author: Wood, Stephen L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1971, after buying their acreage in a very remote area of the Colorado Mountains, the Wood family began to develop their dream ranch. The history and wild life of the area provides a fascinating ba...
Author: Van Gogh, Vincent / Parke, Simon Publisher: White Crow Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Vincent van Gogh is best known for two things - his sunflowers and his ear-cutting. But there are many other ways of knowing this remarkable son of a Dutch pastor, who left his chill homeland for the ...
Author: Hubbard, Elbert Publisher: Hol Art Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A charming picture of a famous artist. This short biographical sketch on nineteenth-century French landscape painter Camille Corot was written by Elbert Hubbard as part of his endearing series, Little...
Author: Bahr, Howard / Richmond, Michelle Publisher: M P Publishing Ltd. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Contributory essays by: Howard Bahr, Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Pat Conroy, Connie May Fowler, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, William Gay, John Grisham, Winston Groom, Silas House, Suzanne Hudson, Joshi...
Author: Clark, Jim Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jim Clark shares his experiences as a highly successful film editor at a time when films were a true collaboration of talented individuals. The legendary "Doctor" Clark was the man who could make sic...
Author: May, Gita Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755--1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, t...
Author: Ortiz, Luis Publisher: NonStop Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Together Ed and Carol Emshwiller formed a unique creative pair, inspiring each other on good days and giving meaning to the adage "marriage and art don't mix" on bad days, and this collection brings t...
Author: Lanpher, Dorse Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1956, as an excited, hopeful, 20 year old young man, I began a career in the feature animation department of Walt Disney Productions, now known as Walt Disney Feature Animation. At the time I just ...
Author: Hochstedler, Jeffrey Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This memoir takes a look into the heart and mind of one man who suffers from schizoaffective and bipolar disorders. Jeffrey Hochstedler's life has seen its share of twists and turns-a culmination of ...
Description: The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O'Keeffe's Sun Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands and a vast...
Description: The time is 1946. From Georgia O'Keeffe's old hacienda sitting on a bluff in Abiquiu, New Mexico, she could see my aunt and uncle, Helen and Winfield Morten's property across the Chama River. Georgia ...
Author: Rutter, Benjamin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensability to Hegel's conception of modernity; ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offe...
Author: Hertz, Richard Publisher: Hol Art Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia is the compelling story of artist Jack Goldstein and some of his classmates at CalArts, who in the early 1970s went to New York and led the transition from concept...
Author: Burroughs, John Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical manu...
Author: Liberman, Judith Weinshall Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The three plays and the libretto in this collection were all written by Judith Weinshall Liberman when she was in her eighties. All four dramatic works are semi-autobiographical and give expression t...
Author: Carr, Emily Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Collected from Emily Carr's private and public writings, these previously unpublished pieces reveal the outspoken artist at her most forthright. Expurgated sections from Carr's journals detail her ang...
Author: Campbell, Bill Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Two years ago, Bill Campbell (author of My Booty Novel and Sunshine Patriots) decided to stay home with his newborn daughter and write a new novel. Of course, as every parent can guess, it didn't quit...
Author: Kirkpatrick, Sidney D. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This revealing biography of one of America's foremost portrait artists reveals him to be an underappreciated rebel in his own times, a cultural icon today. 95 illustrations, 42 in full color.
Author: Novak, Joe Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This memoir of the life of a Harvard trained lawyer turned artist is about the power of commitment and the miracles that can flow from it. Something To Do With Wings tracks a seventy nine year journe...
Author: Raphael, Jordan / Spurgeon, Tom Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical ex...
Author: Gabriel, Mary Publisher: Bancroft Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these tw...
Author: Tzanetakos, Christos Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Author Christos Tzanetakos adheres to the profound statement of Emile Zola: "Civilization will thrive when the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest." This memoir narrates the stori...
Author: Symonds, John Addington Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical ma...
Author: Carvin, Mikel Publisher: Full Court Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book delves into the founding moments in Carvin's life that matured his formidable character and intuitive ability to relate to people of different backgrounds and to both children and adults of ...
Author: Carvin, Mikel Publisher: Full Court Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book delves into the founding moments in Carvin's life that matured his formidable character and intuitive ability to relate to people of different backgrounds and to both children and adults of ...
Author: Groat Sr., Hall Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: They Called Me the Brush Slinger: Creating a Career in Art offers valuable information and insight into the life of an artist. Author Hall Groat Sr. provides an overview of marketing skills necessary ...
Author: Watson, Barbara Lynn Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A baby girl born into a family with a medical condition. The family treated her as one of them until they learned of her medical condition. They than stopped treating her as a normal human being and s...
Author: Awret, Irene Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Berlin 1939. A few months after Kristallnacht, eighteen-year old Irene Spicker tries to flee to Belgium but ends up in a Nazi prison. Freed after a few weeks, she tries againthis time, in the dark o...
Author: Priwer, Shana Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Everybody knows Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, drew that famous guy inside a circle, and-oh yeah-has something to do with that code, too. But what about the man behind the myth? Although he'...
Author: Thomas, Elometer Victoria Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Elometer returns from the hospital only to discover that she can no longer hear the voices of her friends and family. In fact, she can't hear anything at all. It's hard enough for a young girl to de...
Author: Kramarik, Akiane Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father ...
Author: Dorsinville, Jean M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "When I think of my uncle during the few stages of my life until he passed, my earliest memory is of the several paint tubes in his room, the paint easel with various dried paint colors on it and worn...
Author: Johnson, Judy Madsen Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Joy Postle Blackstone was best known for her vivid murals, often depicting the jubilant wading birds of Florida. When she died in 1989, the world lost a wonderful artist … but Joy was much more than...
Author: Kirtley, Susan E. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One! Hundred! Demons!), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 195...
Author: Schulz, Charles M. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Char...
Author: Lindgren-Kurtz, Pat Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The seeds of a cross-cultural friendship were first sowed in 1955 when author Pat Lindgren-Kurtz's family first met indigenous Mountain Maidu basket makers Lilly Baker and her mother, Daisy. As the fr...
Author: Menpes, Mortimer Publisher: Hol Art Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: For nearly a decade, Mortimer Menpes happily played as loyal and obedient follower to famed 19th-century artist James McNeil Whistler until abruptly, the relationship ended and barely a word passed be...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so r...
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