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  James McNeill Whistler

  Patrick Chaleyssin

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  Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research in which he was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series, thereby coming into conflict with the academics who wanted a work of art to tell a story. When he painted the portrait of his mother, Whistler entitled it Arrangement in Grey and Black and this is symbolic of his aesthetic theories. When painting the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens it was not to depict identifiable figures, as did Renoir in his work on similar themes, but to capture an atmosphere. He loved the mists that hovered over the banks of the Thames, the pale light, and the factory chimneys which at night turned into magical minarets. Night redrew landscapes, effacing the details. This was the period in which he became an adventurer in art; his work, which verged on abstraction, shocked his contemporaries. The third period is dominated by the full-length portraits that brought him his fame. He was able to imbue this traditional genre with his profound originality. He tried to capture part of the souls of his models and placed the characters in their natural habitats. This gave his models a strange presence so that they seem about to walk out of the picture to physically encounter the viewer. By extracting the poetic substance from individuals he created portraits described as “mediums” by his contemporaries, and which were the inspiration for Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Towards the end of his life, the artist began painting landscapes and portraits in the classical tradition, strongly influenced by Velázquez. Whistler proved to be extremely rigorous in ensuring his paintings coincided with his theories. He never hesitated in crossing swords with the most famous art theoreticians of his day. His personality, his outbursts, and his elegance were a perfect focus for curiosity and admiration. He was a close friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, and admired by Marcel Proust, who rendered homage to him in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. He was also a provocative dandy, a prickly socialite, a demanding artist, and a daring innovator.

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  CDL Prep Exam : General...

  Mile One Press

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  Let's make studying for the CDL exam easier. Our comprehensive CDL Exam Prep Books are designed to help truckers like you get a passing grade on your tests. Practice tests are scientifically proven to increase exam pass rates. See how CDL PREP EXAM: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE can help to improve your chances of passing your CDL written tests. The commercial driver industry is fast-growing yet continuously faced with a shortage of certified CDL drivers. Certification starts with passing the CDL written exam and that's where many fall short. We aim to change that trend. We also aim to enhance the learning experience of new commercial drivers and improve their driving capabilities. The beginning of a new career path in the transportation industry starts with the CDL test. We're here to help you or your students over that speed bump and onto the next mile. We are obsessed with helping our customers improve their CDL pass rates. We know how a CDL certification or endorsement can transform your future. It did ours. So, we never stop working to improve our resources to ensure you can make your mark in this lucrative, in-demand career path.

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  Start Quilting with Alex...

  Alex Anderson

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  Make your first quilt a keeper with this comprehensive beginner’s guide by the host of The Quilt Show and author of All Things Quilting. 
   
  Alex Anderson has inspired and educated countless quilters with her television programs, fabric lines, and numerous books. In Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson, she takes first-time quilters through every step of the quilting process. With Alex’s detailed instructions and illustrations, you will learn to plan, cut, piece, quilt, and bind a quilt.  
   
  Starting Quilting with Alex Anderson features eight easy, beautiful projects. This expanded edition features new projects, more quilt sizes, and lots of helpful new tips and shortcuts. If you want to make a quilt but can't tell a rotary cutter from a seam ripper, Alex Anderson will get you quilting—and loving it—in no time!

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  Rising Ground - A Search for the...

  Philip Marsden

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  The travel writer and Cornwall native explores his home on a journey by foot to Land’s End in this “fascinating and hauntingly evocative” memoir (Literary Review).  A Guardian, Financial Times, Observer, and Scotsman Book of the Year   In 2010, Philip Marsden moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in Cornwall, England. From the moment he arrived, Marsden was fascinated by the landscape and the traces of human history all around him. Wanting to experience the place more fully, he set out to walk across Cornwall, to the evocatively named Land’s End.  Rising Ground is a record of that journey, but it is also so much more: a beautifully written meditation on place, nature, and human life that encompasses history, archaeology, geography, and the love of place that suffuses us when we finally find home. Firmly in a storied tradition of English nature writing that stretches from Gilbert White to Helen MacDonald, Rising Ground reveals the ways that places and peoples have interacted over time, from standing stones to footpaths, ancient habitations to modern highways. What does it mean to truly live in a place, and what does it take to understand, and honor, those who lived and died there long before we arrived?  "A fascinating study of place and its meaning."—Observer, UK

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  Glossy - The inside story of Vogue

  Nina-Sophia Miralles

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  Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's house. But unlike other such makeshift projects that flare up then fizzle away, Vogue burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness.Today, 128 years later, Vogue spans twenty-two countries, has an international print readership upwards of twelve million, and nets over sixty-seven million monthly online users. Uncontested market leader for a century, it is one of the most recognizable brands in the world and a multi-million dollar money-making machine. It is not just a fashion magazine, it is the establishment. But what—and more importantly who—made Vogue such an enduring success?Glossy will answer this question and more by tracing the previously untold history of the magazine, from its inception as a New York gossip rag, to the sleek, corporate behemoth we know now. This will be a biography of Vogue in every sense of the word, taking the listener through three centuries, two world wars, plunging failures, and blinding successes, as it charts the story of the magazine and those who ran it.

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  WWII Recipes

  Stephen Cohen

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  2019 WWII recipe cook book, following in the footsteps of British civilians during a time of food rationing.Each recipe is easy to follow with colour picture and step by step instruction

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