Author: Dagoberto Gilb Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 155584636X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
These ten stories of “intensity and bravado” by the acclaimed Chicano author explore love, lust, and longing among people struggling to find their way (Jean Thompson, The New York Times Book Review). Featuring characters of Mexican American heritage, each of these haunting stories is crafted with Gilb’s quintessentially spare yet evocative language and explores the lives of men and women at odds with each other. Steeped in an ethos of regimented gender roles, the men in these stories see the women in their lives as little more than woodcuts—crude variations of their actual complexity; symbols of seduction, mystery, and power that will ultimately bring about their undoing. At turns powerful and resonant, hopeful and humorous, Woodcuts of Women is a tour de force by one of America’s foremost Latino writers. “Lonely, tough stories—stories that force us to confront what’s difficult in us, and in the people we love.” —Esquire “The gritty passions of men for women—the grand delusions and tender mercies—are the jukebox songs playing through the 10 stories of Gilb’s ‘Woodcuts of Women.’” —San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Dagoberto Gilb Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802138743 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Dagoberto Gilb is an acknowledged master of the short story, the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a PEN/Faulkner finalist for his debut collection, The Magic of Blood, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction writing. His critically acclaimed collection Woodcuts of Women is now available in paperback and features ten moving and heartbreaking stories of lust, love, and longing among men and women struggling to find their way in the world. Written in Gilb's spare, humid language, each of these haunting stories is crafted with a poetic, aching beauty. At turns powerful and resonant, hopeful and humorous, Woodcuts of Women is a tour de force by one of America's foremost Latino writers. "The sheer intensity and bravado of [Gilb's] vision make this collection succeed." -- Jean Thompson, The New York Times Book Review "Lonely, tough stories -- stories that force us to confront what's difficult in us, and in the people we love." -- Adrienne Miller, Esquire "Gilb's stories read like verbal woodcuts deliberately unrefined and carefully unadorned, clear in their intent but without undue elaboration...." -- Sean Glennon, The Hartford Courant "...Gilb writes of the gritty passions of man for women, grand delusions and tender mercies...." -- Oscar C. Villalon, San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Christina Weyl Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300238509 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
This timely reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 focuses on the women whose work defied gender norms through novel aesthetic forms and techniques.
Author: Jost Amman Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486991199 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 66
Book Description
The only Jost Amman collection available in any form, this set draws primarily from the Renaissance woodcut master's most important works: Book of Trades and A Little Book of Art. Over 280 intricate images of knights, Turks, printmakers, sensual females, mythological figures, peasants, clergymen, and more offer definitive representations of Renaissance trades and professions.
Author: Library of Congress Publisher: George Braziller Publishers ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
This volume explores the evolution of the technique, composition and colouration of the woodcut beginning with the earliest publications. It features examples from Germany, Italy, France, Spain and The Netherlands.
Author: Aristide Maillol Publisher: ISBN: Category : Illustration of books Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
Presents the book illustrations Maillol created for editions of Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, and Horace's Odes.
Author: Fiona Macdonald Publisher: ISBN: 9780872265660 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 54
Book Description
Examines the everyday life of women in the United States during the 1800s, contrasting society's ideal view of women with their real lives.
Author: Christa Grössinger Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719041099 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society.
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