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Lost, Stolen Or Shredded

Author: Rick Gekoski

Publisher:

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781846684920

Like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. Rick Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture - and addresses the questions such disappearances raise. Some of the items are stolen (the Mona Lisa), some destroyed (like Philip Larkin's diaries) and some were lost before they even existed, like the career of the brilliant art deco architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which floundered amid a lack of cash - but behind all of them lies an often surprising story which reveals a lot about what art means to us. Gekoski explores the greater questions these tremendous losses raise - such as the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativity, and what motivated people to queue to see the empty space where the Mona Lisa once hung in the Louvre.

Lost, Stolen Or Shredded

Author: Rick Gekoski

Publisher: Profile Books(GB)

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846684913

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Like Sherlock Holmes's dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. Rick Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture - and addresses the questions such disappearances raise. Some of the items are stolen (the Mona Lisa), some destroyed (like Philip Larkin's diaries, shredded, then burnt, on his dying request) and some were lost before they even existed, like the career of the brilliant art deco architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which foundered amid a lack of cash - but behind all of them lies an often surprising story which reveals a lot about what art means to us. Gekoski explores in depth the greater questions these tremendous losses raise - such as the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativity, and what motivated people to queue to see the empty space where the Mona Lisa once hung in the Louvre.

Outside of a Dog--

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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A year in the life of the Masters of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow captured through the writing of its students. Here, in short stories, poems and novel extracts, there is the restrained and melancholic, the hysterical and vulgar, and even a sex-farce-gangster-thriller.

Outside of a Dog

Author: Rick Gekoski

Publisher: Constable

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780331195

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "Outside of a Dog" is the captivating account of twenty-five books drawn from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy, and a memoir of a reading self. Tracing the formative role books have played in his life, Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye on these books and their authors as he does on himself. The result is unique: a sustained, witty book dedicated to the proposition that we are what we read. "Outside of A Dog" might be described as an intellectual bibliomemoir, except that the author regards the noun 'intellectual' as a term of abuse.

Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2013

Author: Jeff Sellars

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2013-09-30

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1625644671

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"Imaginatio et Ratio (www.imaginatioetratio.org) is a peer reviewed journal primarily focusing on the intersection between the arts and theology, hoping to allow imagination and reason to be seen as intimately intertwined-as different expressions of the same divine truth. Imaginatio et Ratio was started in the hopes that it could serve a growing community of artists and thinkers and strives to present accessible but high quality art, literary fiction, creative non-fiction, and theology/philosophy-as well as interviews and book, film, art and music reviews. The journal is published twice a year and is available in print and digital formats."

Stolen Soulmate

Author: Mary Catherine Gebhard

Publisher: Unglued Books

Published: 2019-04-26

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1733851054

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"My top read in the last year. This book is why I fell in love with reading." USA Today Bestselling Author Meagan Brandy There’s a rule in Crowne Hall: never look a Crowne in the eyes. It protects us more than them. I broke it once, the night Grayson Crowne mistook me for his true love and stole my first kiss. I’ve regretted it every day since. He hates me. He torments me. He won’t let me go, because that night he whispered a secret against my lips not meant for me. Grayson Crowne, heir to the Crowne empire and notorious playboy prince is… a virgin. I signed a contract in my heart’s blood as much as ink: help him get back his love, repair what I broke. Give him my body, my soul, my heart, let him use all of me, so when the time comes to marry her, he won’t need me. I shouldn’t need him. But he’s my stolen soulmate, and I’m at his mercy. Stolen Soulmate is the second book in the Crowne Point universe. You do not need to have read Heartless Hero to read Stolen Soulmate, though it is recommended. It will enhance your reading experience as you will catch easter eggs and the timelines overlap.

Darke

Author: Rick Gekoski

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781782119395

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A daringly entertaining debut about the nature of a good life, and a good death

The Invention of Everything Else

Author: Samantha Hunt

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 054708577X

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Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days.

The Lost Staff of Wonders

Author: Raymond Arroyo

Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0553539671

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"Twelve-year-old Will Wilder is back to protect the town of Perilous Falls from another ancient evil--the fearsome demon, Amon"--

The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure

Author: C. D. Rose

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 161219379X

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A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.