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The Last Nude

2012-12-31 Fiction
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Release : 2012-12-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 476/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Last Nude by : Ellis Avery

Download or read book The Last Nude written by Ellis Avery. This book was released on 2012-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agreeing to model nude for Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka in 1927 Paris, young American Rafaela Fano inspires the artist's most iconic Jazz Age images and becomes her lover while discovering darker truths about Tamara's private life.

The Teahouse Fire

2007-12-04 Fiction
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Release : 2007-12-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 731/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Teahouse Fire by : Ellis Avery

Download or read book The Teahouse Fire written by Ellis Avery. This book was released on 2007-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite—the tea ceremony—became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield. We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.

The Last of the Live Nude Girls

2011-07-25 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-07-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 626/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Last of the Live Nude Girls by : Sheila McClear

Download or read book The Last of the Live Nude Girls written by Sheila McClear. This book was released on 2011-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “eye-opening, gritty, and compelling” memoir by one of New York City’s last Times Square peep show girls (The Paris Review Online). In 2006, Gotham City Video was among the last of its kind where, breathing in a cocktail of Pine-Sol and Windex, a man paid $40 to watch a girl strip naked behind glass. These fantasy lands, left over from the days when 42nd Street was the center of vice, eventually disappeared from the rapidly gentrifying city, their stories lost forever. Not those of tenderloin grinder, Sheila McCelar. Pulling back the curtain on the little-documented world of the peeps, her “ribald . . . memorable and highly relevant” (The Daily Beast) reflection is “both a eulogy and a paean to the freaks and misfits who have long given their souls to the city” (Matthew Gallaway, author of The Metropolis Case). A late bloomer from small-town Michigan, Sheila arrived in New York as a struggling actress and soon found herself adrift. Borderline homeless, and crashing with friends, she finally got steady work that paid the rent—as a stripper along the triple-x stretch of Eighth Avenue. When Times Square seeped into her blood, she ended up staying much longer than she imagined. The story she tells is not just of her own coming-of-age, it’s a “sharp, sweetly personal . . . fascinating and honest” narrative of modern life on the fringes of society in New York City (Mark Jacobson, author of Pale Horse Rider).

The Renaissance Nude

2018-11-20 Art
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Release : 2018-11-20
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 84X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Renaissance Nude by : Thomas Kren

Download or read book The Renaissance Nude written by Thomas Kren. This book was released on 2018-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

Art of the Nude

1998-02 Art
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Release : 1998-02
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 488/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Art of the Nude by : Deirdre Robinson

Download or read book Art of the Nude written by Deirdre Robinson. This book was released on 1998-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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