Author: James Baird McClurePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Dublin in Sketches and Stories
Author: Roísín CuréPublisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785373773
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Stories of Art
Author: James ElkinsPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415939430
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In this intimate history, James Elkins demonstrates that there is - and can never be - only one story of art. He opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids.
An Urban Sketcher's Galway
Author: Roisin CurePublisher: Columba Press (IE)
ISBN: 9781782189084
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Galway artist Roisin Cure presents snapshots of life in the City of the Tribes in bold ink and vibrant watercolor. Her sketches show the beautiful details of Galway's pubs, the musicians and buskers, the exquisite medieval stonework, the marine environment, the vibrant nightlife culture, and the local colorful characters. These striking pictures are accompanied by recollections of conversations the artist had while sketching. This book is a unique souvenir of Galway, of a city that is famous for the arts and yet has so little in the way of visual art. It is a very timely book, released in advance of Galway 2020, when the city celebrates being European Capital of Culture.
Book of Sketches
Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142002155
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse into the mind of Jack Kerouac, one of the most original voices of the twentieth century “Sketching . . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty.” In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he “sketch in the streets like a painter but with words.” In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem “sketches” in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down to Mexico and back. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. In 1957, Kerouac sat down with the fifteen handwritten sketch notebooks he had accumulated and typed them into a manuscript called Book of Sketches. Published for the first time, this work offers a detailed portrait of Kerouac at a key period of his literary career.
New Orleans Sketches
Author: William FaulknerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578064717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson. In his first six months in New Orleans, where the Andersons were living, Faulkner made his initial foray into serious fiction writing. Here in one volume are the pieces he wrote while in the French Quarter. These were published locally in the Times-Picayune and in the Double Dealer. The pieces in New Orleans Sketches broadcast seeds that would take root in later works. In their themes and motifs these sketches and stories foreshadow the intense personal vision and style that would characterize Faulkner's mature fiction. As his sketches take on parallels with Christian liturgy and as they portray such characters as an idiot boy similar to Benjy Compson, they reveal evidence of his early literary sophistication. In praise of New Orleans Sketches, Alfred Kazin wrote in the New York Times Book Review that "the interesting thing for us now, who can see in this book the outline of the writer Faulkner was to become, is that before he had published his first novel he had already determined certain main themes in his work." In his trailblazing introduction, Carvel Collins often called "Faulkner's best-informed critic," illuminates the period when the sketches were written as the time that Faulkner was making the transition from poet to novelist. "For the reader of Faulkner," Paul Engle wrote in the Chicago Tribune, "the book is indispensable. Its brilliant introduction . . . is full both of helpful information . . . and of fine insights." "We gain something more than a glimpse of the mind of a young genius asserting his power against a partially indifferent environment," states the Book Exchange (London). "The long introduction . . . must rank as a major literary contribution to our knowledge of an outstanding writer: perhaps the greatest of our times."
The Complete Short Stories & Sketches of Stephen Crane
Author: Stephen CranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
A comprehensive anthology of the 112 short stories and sketches of the 19th century American author.
Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad
Author: James Baird McClureStories, Sketches, Facts, and Incidents
Author: William MoisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Oakum Pickings. A Collection of Stories, Sketches, and Paragraphs Contributed from Time to Time to the Telegraphic and General Press
Author: Walter Polk PhillipsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385531535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.