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Richard Scarry's A day at the fire station
Drippy and Sticky the house painters are trying to paint the Busy Town fire station. With firefighters rushing about there are a few wet-paint mishaps.
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Guest of Quesnay
In American author Booth Tarkington's best-known novels and stories, he describes the changing of the cultural guard in the United States as the moneyed aristocracy gave way to the up-and-coming robber barons and titans of industry. In
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So much blue : a novel
\"Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know or, more accurately, doesn't care. What Kevin does care about are the events of the past. Ten years a go he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. Kevin relates this event with a dispassionate air, even a bit of puzzlement. It's not clear to him why he had the affair, but he can't let it go. In the more distant past of the late seventies, Kevin and Richard traveled to El Salvador on the verge of war to retrieve Richard's drug-dealing brother, who had gone missing without explanation. As the events of the past intersect with the present, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he's made for his art and the secrets he's kept from his wife.\"--Publisher's description.
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RESEARCH-INFORMED FICTIONAL HISTORIES: DRAMATIZING THE STORIES OF MARGINALIZED WOMEN
This article documents the work of two Research-based Theatre practitioners. The two case studies featured were written in different cultures, for different purposes and audiences. However, both share some common elements. They feature marginalized and largely forgotten women. One tells of the plight of foreign domestic helpers in Singapore and East Asia. The second case documents the achievements of women painters whose contribution to the Australian en plein air movement has been undervalued. In both instances we included in our playwriting what we have come to refer to as research-informed fiction. The subject matter, the intended audience, and the real-life women on whom the plays were based necessitated including fictional elements into our respective plays.
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Richard Scarry's best little board book ever
Color book: Mr. Paint Pig introduces the nine colors he has on his truck by showing what he paints; Early words: Frannie the rabbit introduces words she uses everyday.
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The golden hour
Teenaged Wyn Davies took a shortcut through the woods in her New Hampshire hometown and became a cautionary tale. Twenty years later, divorced, she lives in New York making her living painting commissioned canvases of birch trees to match her clients' furnishings. Then she hears that Robby Rousseau, who has spent the past two decades in prison for a terrible crime against her, may be released based on new DNA evidence. Wyn agrees to be temporary caretaker for a friend's property on a remote Maine island, where she discovers a box of film canisters and photographs that will force Wyn to finally confront what happened in those woods.
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Painting America: The Related Obsessions of Thomas Wolfe and Edward Hopper
Thomas Wolfe has similar scenes in his novels, when his characters approach life by looking through windows at the lives of others or when they look out their city windows to make sense of the world beyond them. Within a train car, there is both togetherness with people and an expected social distance, which Wolfe and Hopper portray in complex and fascinating ways. The protagonist, George Webber, and his lover, Esther Jack, peer through George's New York City apartment window repeatedly throughout the summer as they contemplate a man behind another window across the street at a warehouse called The Security Distributing Corp. Before him, all that summer of 1929, in the broad window of the warehouse, a man sat at a desk and looked out into the street, in a posture that never changed. Though they watch him day after day, like museum-goers analyzing a work of art, the warehouse man never shows any awareness of them.
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The last time I lied : a novel
\"Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale ... The last [Emma]--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings ... [which] catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to find out what really happened to her friends. Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The \Genius\
The gritty, controversial story of a life devoted to art and sensuality from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.
Driven to experience life beyond the small Illinois town of his youth, Eugene Witla makes his way to Chicago, where he is immediately drawn to the buzz of the city and the sexual freedom of bohemian life. At the Chicago Art Institute, he studies painting, soon making a name for himself as a gifted urban realist. Throughout his life, Witla's commitment to his art is rivaled only by his need for erotic adventure. In love and marriage, and from Chicago to New York to the cities of Europe, Witla finds himself at odds with convention and pays a profound cost for his struggle.
First published in 1915, The \"Genius\", Theodore Dreiser's most personal and provocative novel, was declared obscene by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and under threat of legal action, it was recalled from bookstores. Rereleased in 1923, it went on to establish Dreiser's reputation as a writer ahead of his time, giving unparalleled insight into the mind of a prodigy.
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