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Aphorisms for Artists

100 Ways Toward Better Art

By: Walter Darby Bannard

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Aphorisms for Artists

100 Ways Toward Better Art

By: Walter Darby Bannard

A Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of one of his former students, Bannard set down his thoughts in a short book, Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art. It is at once a volume of practical art-making wisdom and an engaging piece of personal philosophy, both wry and readable. Open to any page, and you'll find a memorable gem of wisdom, followed by a brief expansion by Bannard that adds more insight. It is a necessary reference to keep on hand in the studio, and a perfect gift for the aspiring artist to read and re-read, and to consult at times of artistic troubles.

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228

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Simon and Schuster

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1621538400

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9781621538400

Two Dead Men in Rock Creek Park

By: Darby Bannard

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Two Dead Men in Rock Creek Park

By: Darby Bannard

This murder mystery and psychological novel tells of the tangled lives and loves of powerful figures in 1970s post-Watergate Washington. Catherine Lafitte has made peace with her past and with her husband, Hamilton "Hap" Lafitte, the philandering, hard-drinking US Senator from Lake City, Florida. She has a big house in the country and a lover in town, and has pushed herself to the top level of Washington society. Arthur Bernardi, Catherine's lover and famous sculptor, lives in an old house that overlooks Rock Creek Park with his alcoholic musician friend Cal Canoun. At a raucous party featuring the music of 91-year-old jazz musician Benny King, we meet Harold Smith-Green, Catherine's former lover, known in the media as "The Shadow Tycoon", Niki, the beautiful spoiled brat from horse country, Chloe the scheming left-wing columnist, Abilene Dooley, Washington's favorite courtesan, and Buck Reston, psychiatrist to the rich and famous. Two days later their world is blown apart by the by the early morning discovery of two dead men in Rock Creek Park. Agents Richard Kuprovic and Joe Geraghty, the "Mutt & Jeff" of the FBI, conduct a frustrating murder investigation lightened by Kuprovic's bantering relationship with girlfriend Cass Alexander, society girl turned fashion photographer. Two mysterious poisoning deaths occur, a delightful May afternoon drive to Maryland's Eastern Shore ends tragically and streetwalker Willa Hodges tells a frightening story. The solution of the mystery, inadvertently given away but unnoticed in the middle of the book, is bizarre and completely unexpected.

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334

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iUniverse

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0595414087

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9780595414086

1971

A Year in the Life of Color

By: Darby English

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1971

A Year in the Life of Color

By: Darby English

In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. 1971: A Year in the Life of Color looks at many black artists’ desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts—and those of their advocates—to further that aim through public exhibition. Amid calls to define a “black aesthetic,” these experiments with modernist art prioritized cultural interaction and instability. Contemporary Black Artists in America highlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches, while The DeLuxe Show positioned abstraction in a center of urban blight. The importance of these experiments, English argues, came partly from color’s special status as a cultural symbol and partly from investigations of color already under way in late modern art and criticism. With their supporters, black modernists—among them Peter Bradley, Frederick Eversley, Alvin Loving, Raymond Saunders, and Alma Thomas—rose above the demand to represent or be represented, compromising nothing in their appeals for interracial collaboration and, above all, responding with optimism rather than cynicism to the surrounding culture’s preoccupation with color.

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300

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University of Chicago Press

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022627473X

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9780226274737

Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism

Essays on Interpretation, Language and Politics

By: Tom Darby,Bela Egyed,Ben Jones

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Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism

Essays on Interpretation, Language and Politics

By: Tom Darby,Bela Egyed,Ben Jones

New readings and perspectives on Nietzsche's work are brought together in this collection of essays by prominent scholars from North America and Europe. They question whether Nietzsche's work and the conventional interpretation of it is rhetorical and nihilistic.

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216

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773573569

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9780773573567

Aphorisms for Artists

100 Ways Toward Better Art

By: Walter Darby Bannard

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100 Ways Toward Better Art

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Allworth

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1621538397

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Two Dead Men in Rock Creek Park

By: Darby Bannard

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Aphorisms for Artists

Aphorisms for Artists

Two Dead Men in Rock Creek Park

Two Dead Men in Rock Creek Park

1971

1971

Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism

Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism

Aphorisms for Artists

Aphorisms for Artists

Two Dead Men in Rock Creek Park

Two Dead Men in Rock Creek Park

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