Interviewing dealers, collectors, curators, and critics and venturing into the backwoods and inner-city homes of numerous self-taught artists, Fine describes how authenticity is central to the system in which artists-often poor, elderly, members of a minority group, or mentally ill-are seen as having an unfettered form of expression highly valued in the art world. After spending years immersed in the world of self-taught artists, Gary Alan Fine presents Everyday Genius, one of the most insightful and comprehensive examinations of this network and how it confers artistic value.įine considers the differences among folk art, outsider art, and self-taught art, explaining the economics of this distinctive art market and exploring the dimensions of its artistic production and distribution. Celebrated for their lack of traditional training and their position on the fringes of society, outsider artists nonetheless participate in a traditional network of value, status, and money. From Henry Darger's elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the Reverend Howard Finster, the work of outsider artists has achieved unique status in the art world.
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Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden-an Eden that may only be a mirage. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." -Newsweek He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage - that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Featuring the complete story, a storybook read-along, and the original cast recording of the Kennedy Center's Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical. This book was a Caldecott Honoree Book ( very prestigious children's book award) and won a Carnegie Medal for the animated version. In this special edition of Mo Willems's beloved and acclaimed Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, readers will have a chance to enjoy the tale three different ways - reading, listening, and singing. Though she can’t yet talk, Trixie cries and lets Daddy know that she is very upset. Of cartoons on black and white photos is also quite inspired! Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale Written and Illustrated by Mo Willems An outing with Daddy to the laundromat goes wrong when Trixie realizes that Knuffle Bunny has been left behind. Losing her little stuffed toy are also perfectly captured. Well as the predicament that very young children often find themselvesĮxcitement is adorable and joyous, and her despair and frustration over It's a guaranteed hit during readįavorite books! Willems has perfectly captured that wide range ofĮmotions experienced by the very young on a big day out with dad, as Personality that readers will root for a happyĮnding. Struggle to communicate the problem is adorable, and she's so full of To the Laundromat, then leaves her treasured stuffed bunny behind. 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Her mean stepsisters and the kids at school started taunting her with that name and it stuck. Not very long ago, a few streets over, lived a gal called Cinder Ella. 'Big questions and existential dread creeping through the elegantly described universes' Goodreads reviewer, I mean, like glittering jewels of complete mind-blowing and written with real talent and clear vision' Goodreads reviewer, 'This book contains a brilliant collection of short stories, all of them highlighting Reynolds' great imaginative powers and his first-class worldbuilding' Goodreads reviewer, one of the best collections that I've ever read' Goodreads reviewer, I'm impressed - this is good stuff!' Goodreads reviewer, 'This collection was my first introduction to Alastair Reynolds' work. Readers are hooked on Alastair Reynolds' short stories: One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes ZIMA BLUE, one of the standout shorts in Netflix's LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS, as well as MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG.Īlastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. This collection includes ZIMA BLUE, one of the standout episodes in Netflix's LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' The Times The Unmumsy Mum was voted number 4 in Amazon’s Top 10 books of 2016 (as voted by Amazon customers) and was also shortlisted for Book of the Year (non-fiction, lifestyle) at the 2017 British Book Awards. After an unexpected whirlwind on social media, she was approached by a publisher and has since written three books: The Unmumsy Mum, The Unmumsy Mum Diary and The Unmumsy Mum A – Z, all of which are Sunday Times bestsellers. After becoming frustrated with the lack of honest parenting commentary available online after she had her first baby, she decided she would write something of her own and The Unmumsy Mum blog was born. Sarah Turner is an Exeter author and mum of three. Baby-size: Sarah Turner AKA The Unmumsy Mum. We are delighted that Sarah Turner Sunday Times best-selling author of The Unmumsy Mum will be with us to talk about her new bookīest-selling author Sarah Turner (aka The Unmumsy Mum) talking about her debut novel Stepping Up Creator of the popular blog The Unmumsy Mum, Sarah Turner offers an uncensored account of her early years of parenting. In the Happy Mum, Happy Baby Podcast, Giovanna Fletcher continues the conversation about motherhood she. I absolutely loved my time reading the book and it of course made me crave more. But that’s why I’m so very glad that this wasn’t the case with The House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper. Sequels can often be disappointing and not live up to the first book which has happened to me more times than I can count. We return to Pompeii for the second instalment in Elodie Harper’s Wolf Den Trilogy, set in the town’s lupanar and reimagining the lives of women long overlooked. Yet finding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all. In order to be free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is.Īmara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love. Amara longs for the women she was forced to leave behind and worse, finds herself pursued by the man who once owned her. The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious…Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town’s most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought.Īt night she dreams of the wolf den, still haunted by her past. I tend to avoid a lot of overly hyped books, but the comparison of this one to Jane Eyre piqued my interest so I had to read it. This book has had some major marketing! One cannot scroll through WordPress or Instagram without seeing something about this book. How can she, plain Jane, ever measure up? And can she win Eddie’s heart before her past––or his––catches up to her? Yet as Jane and Eddie fall for each other, Jane is increasingly haunted by the legend of Bea, an ambitious beauty with a rags-to-riches origin story, who launched a wildly successful southern lifestyle brand. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie––not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.īut her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. 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He took an active part in several of the major movements that shaped Europe’s intellectual landscape after the Second World War. 2012) was a distinguished social anthropologist, filmmaker, art connoisseur, and prominent public figure, especially within Francophone spheres of influence. A polymath in the true sense of the term, the Belgian Luc de Heusch (b. As the suspense builds towards a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. |