In the Frame

In the Frame
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 391
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ISBN-10 : 9781416573418
ISBN-13 : 1416573410
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Frame by : Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren has been an internationally acclaimed actress--and the recipient of many awards, transferring between stage, cinema and television--for over 40 years. Known in her youth for a forthright style, a liberated attitude and a bohemian outlook, she has never ceased to be out of the public eye, with legions of admiring fans all over the world. This illustrated memoir is an account of an extraordinary talent, and a life well lived. Helen's aristocratic Russian grandfather, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, a military man, was sent to London by the Czar and found himself stranded and penniless by the Bolshevik revolution, cut off from the family estate near Smolensk. He brought with him a trunk of papers and photographs. This delightful memoir starts with the contents of the trunk, with evocative pictures of Helen's Russian antecedents. She has kept a rich seam of photo-graphs and memorabilia from her life, and her parents, family life, childhood, teenage and early years as an actress living in insalubrious flats are vividly documented. Helen's many distinguished roles in theatre, cinema and television and the illustrious men and women she has encountered are commemorated, as well as her forays into Hollywood and her sub-sequent life in the United States with her husband, film director Taylor Hackford. Golden Globe and Oscar ceremonies make their appearance, as do many stunning images of Helen by the world's leading photographers. In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures is a book to savour, created and written by one of the great personalities of our age.

Robert McCloskey

Robert McCloskey
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Publisher : Seapoint Books and Media
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0978689968
ISBN-13 : 9780978689964
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Robert McCloskey by : Jane McCloskey

McCloskey wrote and painted what he knew: from his Midwestern childhood to island life in Maine. His younger daughter, Jane, chronicles the loving, difficult, but productive family relationships in a way that will add depth and meaning to his wonderful books.

Matisse on Art, Revised Edition

Matisse on Art, Revised Edition
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0520200322
ISBN-13 : 9780520200326
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Matisse on Art, Revised Edition by : Henri Matisse

Ed : Brooklyn College and City University of New York, Revised edition, Includesnew texts, introduction, biography, overview.

Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures

Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9789004263215
ISBN-13 : 9004263217
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures by : Alison Ruth Gray

In Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures: A Reading Through Metaphor, Alison Gray engages in an in-depth study of the figurative language of Psalm 18, demonstrating the necessity of a dynamic approach to metaphor interpretation within a given textual unit. As one of the longest and most elaborate in the Hebrew Bible, Psalm 18 provides fertile soil for studying the interplay between words and images. While previous studies of the Psalm have focused on questions of form, structure, or unity - as well the relation to its Doppeltext of 2 Samuel 22 - Alison Gray explores the ways in which a metaphor-oriented hermeneutic enriches the psalm’s translation and exegesis.

Michael Foreman: A Life in Pictures

Michael Foreman: A Life in Pictures
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Publisher : Pavilion Children's
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781910904664
ISBN-13 : 191090466X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Michael Foreman: A Life in Pictures by : Michael Foreman

"One of my earliest memories is lying on the floor in front of the kitchen fire, drawing..." Michael Foreman During the war, paper was in short supply but, the large biscuit tins delivered to his Mum's shop were lined with white paper. The tins were about twelve inches square, so unfolded, the paper would be four feet long. Perfect for drawings of marching soldiers and convoys of tanks, the village traffic of his childhood. This is a celebration of Michael's life as a master storyteller and illustrator told through his own autobiographical tales, diary extracts, original sketches and illustrations from his award-winning publications. Beginning with his childhood in wartime Suffolk and his early career as a young artist, and culminating with his collaborations with world-famous authors Terry Jones, Michael Morpurgo and Quentin 'BLOOMIN' Blake, this book showcases his 'greatest hits', and reveals the places, stories and people that inspired him along the way. Divided into three parts: Memories of Childhood (Looking through War Boy, After the War Was Over and War Game.) Far-Flung Places (Looking through Treasure Island, Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, World of Fairy Tales and Classic Fairy Tales.) Friends and Collaborators (Looking through Eric the Viking, Fairy Tales, Nicobobinus, Animal Tales, Fantastic Stories, Arthur, Robin Hood, Joan of Arc, Billy the Kid and Farm Boy.) 'I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.' Michael Foreman

A Life with Words

A Life with Words
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781476785349
ISBN-13 : 1476785341
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis A Life with Words by : Richard B. Wright

A portrait of the writing life and memoir that reads like a novel.

A Life in Words

A Life in Words
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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781609807788
ISBN-13 : 1609807782
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis A Life in Words by : Paul Auster

An inside look into Paul Auster's art and craft, the inspirations and obsessions, mesmerizing and dramatic in turn. A remarkably candid, and often surprisingly dramatic, investigation into one writer's art, craft, and life, A Life in Words is rooted in three years of dialogue between Auster and Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt, starting in 2011, while Siegumfeldt was in the process of launching the Center for Paul Auster Studies at the University of Copenhagen. It includes a number of surprising disclosures, both concerning Auster's work and about the art of writing generally. It is a book that's full of surprises, unscripted yet amounting to a sharply focused portrait of the inner workings of one of America's most productive and successful writers, through all twenty-one of Auster's narrative works and the themes and obsessions that drive them.

LIFE

LIFE
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 92
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis LIFE by :

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Ebony

Ebony
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 200
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Ebony by :

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.