George the Painter

George the Painter
Author: George Frizzell
Publisher: Severn House Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN: 9781935828815

In spring of 2006, George Frizzell, aka George the Painter, agreed to write a monthly column for The Horse/Backstreet Choppersmagazine. The column quickly became George's podium, his opportunity to expound on everything from the over-use of cell-phones to his personal demons and health issues. To say that George has a way with words is a huge understatement: "...Little did I realize but every injury that I endured from some bike related mishap that I miraculously walked away from was never really forgotten. All the drunken cartwheels that I experienced when I was launched from my saddle during some drug and alcohol induced stupidity would be held in escrow only to be paid for later down the road..." George the Painter - A Bathroom Reader, is five years worth of George's columns, roughly 75,000 words - and an additional 48 pages of color photos. And whether the topic is motorcycles, the posers who ride them or his recent trip from Arizona to the East Coast, the prose is entertaining and truly unique. George has a huge following, and after reading just a small sample of his writing, it's easy to see why.

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
Author: Benita Eisler
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-07-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 039324086X

The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
Author: George Duncan Painter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1959
Genre: Novelists, French
ISBN:

George Bellows

George Bellows
Author: George William Eggers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1931
Genre:
ISBN:

George Condo

George Condo
Author: Simon Baker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: ART
ISBN: 9780500093948

The definitive monograph of the outrageous, unorthodox New York painter George Condo

Alchemy of Bones

Alchemy of Bones
Author: Robert Loerzel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2024-03-18
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0252055934

On May 1, 1897, Louise Luetgert disappeared. Although no body was found, Chicago police arrested her husband, Adolph, the owner of a large sausage factory, and charged him with murder. The eyes of the world were still on Chicago following the success of the World's Columbian Exposition, and the Luetgert case, with its missing victim, once-prosperous suspect, and all manner of gruesome theories regarding the disposal of the corpse, turned into one of the first media-fueled celebrity trials in American history. Newspapers fought one another for scoops, people across the country claimed to have seen the missing woman alive, and each new clue led to fresh rounds of speculation about the crime. Meanwhile, sausage sales plummeted nationwide as rumors circulated that Luetgert had destroyed his wife's body in one of his factory's meat grinders. Weaving in strange-but-true subplots involving hypnotists, palmreaders, English con artists, bullied witnesses, and insane-asylum bodysnatchers, Alchemy of Bones is more than just a true crime narrative; it is a grand, sprawling portrait of 1890s Chicago--and a nation--getting an early taste of the dark, chaotic twentieth century.

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
Author: George Duncan Painter
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1983
Genre: Novelists, French
ISBN: 9780140065121

George Stubbs, Painter

George Stubbs, Painter
Author: Judy Egerton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300125092

George Stubbs is one of the greatest of British eighteenth-century painters, with a deep and unaffected sympathy for country life and the English countryside. This fully illustrated book outlines his career, followed by a catalogue raisonne (the first since Sir Walter Gilbey's short listing of 1898) of all his known works. One of the stickiest labels in the history of British art attached itself to Stubbs as 'Mr Stubbs the horse painter'. Over half of his paintings were of horses, each founded on the pioneering observations assembled (in 1766) in his book The Anatomy of the Horse; but Stubbs's wide-ranging subjects included portraits, conversation pieces and paintings of exotic animals from the Zebra to the Rhinoceros, as well as an extraordinarily sympathetic series of portraits of dogs.

Illustrated Black History

Illustrated Black History
Author: George McCalman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 775
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0063140845

*AWARD WINNER* of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author / and the NCBR Recognition Award A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers—famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more—with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer. Illustrated Black History is a breathtaking collection of original portraits depicting black heroes—both famous and unsung—who made their mark on activism, science, politics, business, medicine, technology, food, arts, entertainment, and more. Each entry includes a lush drawing or painting by artist George McCalman, along with an insightful essay summarizing the person’s life story. The 145 entries range from the famous to the little-known, from literary luminary James Baldwin to documentarian Madeline Anderson, who produced “I Am Somebody” about the 1969 strike of mostly female hospital workers; from Aretha Franklin to James and Eloyce Gist, who had a traveling ministry in the early 1900s; from Colin Kaepernick to Guion S. Bluford, the first Black person to travel into space. Beautifully designed with over 300 unique four-color artworks and accessible to readers of all ages, this eye-opening, educational, dynamic, and timely compendium pays homage to Black Americans and their achievements, and showcases the depth and breadth of Black genius.