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The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art, and literature.
She examines aspects of "that absurdist collaboration," the psychoanalytic dialogue, from which come "small, stray sell recognitions that no other human relationship yields, brought forward under conditions...that no other human relationship could survive." She addresses such subjects as Tom Wolfe's vendetta against modern architecture, Milan Kundera's literary experiments, and Vaclav Havel's prison letters. She explores the somewhat deflated world of post-revolutionary Prague, guides us through the labyrinthine New York art world of the eighties, and takes us behind the one-way mirror of Salvador Minuchin's school of family therapy.And to each subject she brings the incisive skepticism and dazzling epigrammatic style that are her hallmarks.
“Why don’t more people write like [Malcolm]?... She is cast from the mold of the Eastern European intellectual: beholden to modernism. as familiar with Kundera’s exile as she is with Freud’s Vienna. This sensibility must grant her the detachment she sometimes so mercilessly employs, but it also gives her an unassailable passion for getting to the center of things.” —Boston Globe
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The Purloined Clinic : Selected Writings
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This is simply the best and most complete course in botanical illustration ever produced, with each chapter a perfectly constructed and self-contained class. Created in conjunction with the internationally renowned Eden Project—home of the only jungle in captivity—it’s put together by two leading figures in the Project’s famed art school, and uses many beautiful works from its students. Artists and plant lovers will find a wealth of practical information, with easy-to-follow exercises and case studies. The priceless advice encompasses everything from honing observational skills and plant dissection procedures to color mixing and applying watercolor. Adding highlights, producing a pleasing composition, and developing a personal style—all the building blocks for achieving excellence are here.
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Botanical illustration.......2007-05-12
This is an in depth clear book about the process of botanical illustration. Well written and great pictures. Recommend highly!
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Complementary Themes for Painting Techniques (Complete Course on Painting and Drawing)
Parramon Editorial Team
Manufacturer: Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Well worth it..........2007-05-19
I don't often write reviews. I read them with each purchase and normally I don't feel the need to contradict others. I found that Bruce Bain's "pretend you never seen one before..." to be chilidish and absolutely off the mark. I am an art student and art appreciation major. When I first went to art class I was self-taught without instruction. This was a good thing. My first professor advised the class "Everything you learned before now forget. You learned it that wrong way! I will teach you the right way". It is just like this that the artist is telling you to forget your preconceived notions and look at subjects with a fresh eye. I picked up this book in the book store and ending up reading ten pages standing in the aisle before I knew it. Its a marvelous find. I highly recommend. I've always had problems drawing the human form and this was immensly helpful.
"pretend you've never seen one before..." .......2004-06-29
"Life Drawing Class" by Lucy Watson:
...begins Chapter 1 under the following headliner:
"When you start drawing figures, pretend you've never seen one before." -Lucy Watson
First of all, nobody needs to PRETEND anything, in order to draw. I mean I'm sorry, but most of us are already living in reality. We have SEEN figures before. and secondarily, if the answer to drawing is PRETENDING, why can't everyone just PRETEND to be able to draw and be done with it? The author's mindset here is absolutely silly with circular logic. This is like saying, "All you have to do to be able to learn to drive a car, is to *...pretend you've never seen one before.*
All I'm saying here is that if an author is going to give a tersely-worded command, articulating a fundamental rule for drawing, why can't it just be something that makes common sense?
An Author might say, "Take your time!" "Be patient." "Never, EVER, beat yourself up!" ....but no; we get, "Pretend you've never seen one before."
I suppose I'm suggesting a better standard for authorship; that is to say, that someone writing a book should be familiar with a subject, and that if somone is offering a rule or commandment as part of a METHOD, then it ought to reflect a more generalized common sense such as ordinary working people are familiar with.
I have continually in my mind, one particular rule regarding drawing instruction books. (this is my personal rule, but I find it critical in judging HOW-TO-DRAW books). THOU SHALT NOT, in a beginning drawing book, instruct the student in the use of color and painting. Learning simply to draw is fundamental, and requires the total dedication of most of any beginning book. Watson violates this rule with a foray into the use of color, halfway through this book, which at only 128 pages, is far too short on basic drawing. In my opinion it is the multitude of cloned books like Watson's that cause many beginners to give up drawing (and subsequently, painting as well) as a HOPELESS endeavour, and convince themselves that they just cannot "get it". In fact, it's a clear case of The-Instructor-Just-Cannot-Teach.
The illustrations of drawn figure models are stiff, lifeless and inarticulate. It is MASSIVELY overpriced with an exorbitant list price of $24.95. Is this for real??? Unbelieveable! A gross rip-off.
I think I'll simply take Lucy Watson's advise in Chapter #1 and "PRETEND" I never saw this book before.
A first-rate "how-to" instructional resource.......2003-07-19
Life Drawing Class: A Step-by-Step Course In Figure Drawing And Painting by artist and art educator Lucy Watson is a self-teaching or art education course supplement tool for learning how to draw representational art in a variety of different media, including charcoal, chalk pastel, white conte pencil, watercolor, and more. Color illustrations, examples of working from photographs, theory, and practice, all combine for a first-rate "how-to" instructional resource ideal for anyone seeking to improve human figure drawing skills.
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Written and designed for students and amateurs who already have some preliminary art training, this book instructs in a variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, crayon, and ink. Instruction and advice focus on drawing nudes, still life, and portraits. The theory of perspective is clearly presented.
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Basics.......2002-04-23
The Basics of Artistic Drawing is an OUTSTANDING book. I have learned so much and whenever I review the materiel I learn even more. There are so many helpful hints. It is a book that keeps teaching; if you have any questions just review the section on that topic and your question will more than likely be answered. With the step by step instructions anyone can learn how to draw, shade, and paint. I am very impressed. This is a well thoughtout course with the student in mind. A lot of course books have the teacher in mind, this book is definately made for me as the student. THANKS!!!
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This tutorial provides a clear view on the two most used images in the world of drawing and painting - seascapes and landscapes. Practical and well-illustrated exercises help beginning artists easily undertake creating these images with pencil or paint.
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This tutorial presents detailed information on materials and tools for oil painting, including basic oil techniques, glazing, oil sticks, and water-soluble oils. The lessons are thoroughly illustrated and are shown both in progress and completed.
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The Complete Drawing and Painting Course: The Artist's Practical Guide to Media and Techniques
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Wow!.......2001-04-15
This book offers fresh and easy techniques, clear text, easy instructions--even I can understand them! (French was my first language) This book has taught me to draw, paint--anything and everything! Literally, it has everything! I'm not a great artist, I have gotten a lot better since I have purchased this book!
Got more than my money's worth.......2000-05-31
Wow! it should be called Encyclopedia for the painting artists, this bok really has Everything, it even has a seccion on frames, this book has that special cuality that it's not only a good but, but also a book that you reallly enjoy while you reading. The paper cuality is excellent, the text is clear and easy to follow (and my first language is not english but spanish), buy this book and begin expressing yourself. Let the artist in you flow as you read, It's and inspiration. A MUST HAVE IF YOU LIKE PAINTING
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An introduction to the fundamentals of pastel, this book is for aspiring artists who want to develop their creative side using one of the purest forms of colored pigment application. Lessons show artists how to easily draw marvelous trees, landscapes, sunsets, and much more using pastels.
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Really good book with a Real problem.......2007-03-08
I would like to give 5 stars, this book has a lot of content for a smallish volume. Especially when about 20% of it is actually another book! That is right, on page 73 (of 95 total), the publisher/printer has put in the pages from the oil painting book from the same series. I know as I have both works and the oil painting book has THIS book's ending and not its own - the reverse! In my travels have seen the same thing in 4 other of these books in Borders, etc. They just messed up at the printers.
So for me, it's just a little odd but I have both in their entirety, just not in the right books. Another thing is the English translation is stilted at times.
Still, I think this is a great book, excellent photos, logical approach and the artist is very skilled. Its just that to get the whole book you may need to buy the oil painting book too.
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The Invisibles, Grant Morrison's brilliant series of magickal underground tales, exposes the naked spirituality of good and evil through gut-wrenching, psychedelic violence. Apocalipstick, the collected issues from midway through volume 1, tracks the career of new kid Jack Frost after he runs away from his wary pals in the Invisibles to come to terms with his power and his adulthood. Along the way we see humans hunted for sport, interdimensional monsters that would make H.P. Lovecraft puke, and a leisurely look at Lord Fanny's childhood. The penciling, always appropriate to Morrison's moods, ranges from brutal scratchings to startling clear drawings. While it's probably true that comics, like literature generally, can't be truly subversive any more, Apocalipstick shows how it could be done. --Rob Lightner
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Maybe even better than part one...........2006-01-17
...it begins with some one shots, some of them incredibly realistic and humane, and continues into Lord Fanny origin, which is Castaneda meets Morrison. The trade is coherent and not so psychodelic like rest of series is.
If you like this, get Say You Want A Revolution
True Grit.......2005-06-21
A few years ago I read a bunch of Invisibles books, but somehow always missed this one. I might have stayed away because of the femme cover/title, and the inside art is all over the place quality-wise.
I'm wishing that I had picked it up sooner, though, because the storylines here are among the best in the series, and maybe in comicdom. One story I loved: yuppies at a pharmaceutical company distribute a crack that kills the bodies of users and leaves them as empty vessels for the yuppies to "joy ride." Another: the back story of Lord Fanny and her psychosexual "spirit quest" to become a transsexual witch.
For those who haven't been exposed to The Invisibles, you need to check this series out. I find it more twisted, more compelling, and more fringe than any of the other series I've read, including Transmetropolitan and Preacher. In fact, this is light-years beyond anything published in drab-text "Literature."
The Invisibles, Book 2: Apocalipstick .......2005-03-16
Book 2 of the Invisibles picks right up from Book 1's cliffhanger ending: Dane, one of his fingers chopped off by the sadistic (and demonic) Orlando, has taken flight, and the Invisibles have to find him. Unfortunately, heavily-armed "Myrmidons" have surrounded them, and what follows is the first all-out action scene since the very beginning of Book 1.
After this, things slow down a little, as creator/writer Grant Morrison "opens up" the world of the Invisibles. Even though we still don't know much about our main characters (King Mob, Boy, Ragged Robin, Lord Fanny), Morrison introduces new people to the fold, and we see how the exploits of the Invisibles affect the rest of the world.
First we are introduced to one of the more monstrous creatures ever witnessed in mass media entertainment, something that just might be the next king of England. Then we meet Jim Crow, an Invisible witch doctor who's both a world-famous rapper and a host for sacrifice-hungry voodoo spirits. And finally we are given one of the best single-issue stories in the series, "Best Man Fall," which, despite its seeming insignificance to the larger story, possesses more heart and emotion than any other in the series' history. A nonlinear narrative, this story shows how the "other side" works, and for once we see how our "heroes" (King Mob in particular) could just as easily be seen as "the bad guys." This is a great story, and worth the price of Book 2 alone.
The book closes out with a story arc that revolves around transvestite shaman Lord Fanny, in which we see his/her initiation as a young boy into the world of the supernatural. At the same time, the forces of darkness close in on the Invisibles in the present, and the two storylines merge into a narrative that defies the laws of the time/space continuum.
This arc is the first glimmerings of Morrison's grander scheme with the series; whereas before the Invisibles worked on an us-versus-them mentality, now we slowly begin to see that there are larger ideas at play. The volume ends with a story showing where Jack went, after his escape in the book's opening story, and finalizes his character arc from defiant loner to full-fledged Invisible.
The artwork is again split among various artists, with my favorite being Chris Weston in the Jim Crow story (Weston later became the regular artist, after Phil Jimenez's run on the title). Jill Thompson turns in the first story, capping off her run that began in Book 1, and she returns with the Lord Fanny arc, with a few one-off artists filling in on the other stories. Again, the artwork is nowhere near the level of Morrison's writing, but it's not terrible. In fact, the art takes second place to the writing in the Invisibles, because this isn't "just" a comic book: the Invisibles is subversive literature of the highest order.
Best. Title. Ever........2004-07-07
The Invisibles hits an early peak with this collection, which features issues 9-16 of the series' first volume. It kicks off in slightly arbitrary fashion with 23: Things Fall Apart, which surely would have been more comfortable nestling up at the end of Say You Want A Revolution as a coda to the Arcadia story-arc reprinted there.
Still, beginnings as endings is a recurring theme throughout the series so it's just possible that the editors in charge of the Invisibles' release in graphic novel format are less incompetant and insane than the books' slapdash release schedule would seem to indicate.
Even this early in the title's run Grant Morrison is already going out of his way to shade our perception of the story and its protagonists, sowing seeds that will only grow to full bloom a year or more down the road. This can be seen first in the characters' varying reactions to the bloodbath of the opening issue, but it's telling that Morrison is willing to take (almost) an entire issue away from his main characters to continue the process, resulting in one of the best, most innovative stories of the entire series - the elegant, borderline-heartbreaking Best Man Fall.
From that high (or possibly low) we're immediately picked up and pitched straight into another. The She-Man arc is an example of that rarest of comic-book beasts - a back-story that actually serves to make the character involved more interesting. It helps of course that the character in question is the dazzling Lord Fanny ("I'm an international freedom fighter AND a photogenic witch, darling. I'm the most glamerous creature you'll ever meet!") and helps even more that the immensely talented Jill Thompson is on pencilling duty, but the net result is a story of initiation that's both brutal and - no pun intended - magical. Oh, and for good measure it concludes with the biggest, sheerest cliffhanger of the series so far, one that'll have any sane person scrabbling to get hold of Entropy In The UK, the collection that concludes Volume 1.
Throw in the always-fun Jim Crow making his scholck-horror debut, Jack/Dane trying (and mostly failing) to come to terms with his new place in the world, and a couple of absolutely belting covers and all in all you've got what is, despite strong competition, probably my favourite Invisibles graphic novel.
Plus it's got the best title of anything, ever. This isn't even open for debate.
My own fault.......2004-06-07
I bought Invisibles book one (Say You Wanna Revolution) because I am fan of Mr. Morrison's work. By the end of the title, I was quite confused.
No point, generic kooky characters, mind-boggling powers with zero explanation or reason, fighting the corrupt system because its what all good unrealized geniuses talk about. This couldn't be the Grant Morrison I knew. His stories have points and, you know, don't suck.
Something had to not be right. It had to be me. I just didn't get it. That's what it was. I didn't get it. I didn't have enough to sink my teeth into to find my place.
Easy solution: get book two. With more of this incredible story, I'll realize what Mr. Morrison is up too and I'll enjoy it like I was told I would.
So I got book two. It sucks, too, but then a sudden realization came over me. It wasn't that I didn't get something. I got it: rage against the machine, wear leather and be a sex god. It's that it was bad. It's slow and dull and goes out of its way to claim that black is white and white is black and if you don't know then you'll never know. It's as deep as the average middle schooler.
I give it two stars instead of one because its my own fault for haveing bought the second book.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
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From the author who brought you
Spin Cycle and
Neurotica comes a hilarious new novel about falling in love, hating your job, and getting what you want out of life---without ever mussing your lipstick!
When it comes to men, beauty columnist Rebecca Fine always seems to be on the scruffy end of the mascara wand. But all that changes the morning she meets Max Stoddart, her new colleague at the Daily Vanguard. With his upscale suit, Hugh Grant hair, and obscenely sexy good looks, he’s a single woman’s dream come true. Finally, her grandmother can stop surfing the Net for eligible Jewish males. But is Max the catch of the decade---or just a major babe magnet?
Meanwhile, Rebecca’s old high school nemesis has resurfaced, a former blond bombshell called Lipstick who is now engaged to Rebecca’s widowed dad. And it’s good-bye to articles on toe cleavage when a hot tip sweeps Rebecca to the center of the Paris cosmetics world, where a miracle anti-wrinkle cream is about to be launched. That is, until she blows the whistle on a scandal that could set the beauty business---and the future of world peace---reeling. Will Rebecca win the recognition---not to mention the Pulitzer---she yearns for...and get the man of her dreams? Stay tuned.
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Sue Margolis was a radio reporter for fifteen years before becoming a novelist. She is the author of three previous novels:
Apocalipstick,
Neurotica, and
Spin Cycle.?
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Customer Reviews:
I loved this book........2007-02-22
Okay, so the writing isn't Pulitzer Prize level, but after reading some reall y heavy books ("The Road" by Cormac McCarthy), I was in serious need of a "fluff" book. "Apocalipstick" was just the fix. Light, fluffy, funny, and readable in two days. Great beach read or if you are living on the East Coast this past week, stuck indoors because of the snow read.
Funny and sexy. I plan to read all of Sue Margolis books now.
Great.......2006-03-19
Wow this was really good it reminds me of an London type of the "Sex and the City" but only with one person as the book goes on.
Only if you're obsessed with your bum!.......2006-01-11
This book is beyond mildy boring. It's easy to spot the 'plot twists' several chapters before they occur. All her jokes center around one-theme that isn't funny from the start. I recommend it only if you're looking for a cheap read that doesn't require any thinking. I was very disappointed.
Well above average Chick Lit........2005-12-22
Whereas a lot of Chick Lit authors claim to be funny, a good amount of the humor is actually on the cliché side and unfunny, however Sue Margolis is in a league with authors like Marian Keyes and Laurie Gwen Shapiro who know the value of original wit. Apocalipstick in and of itself is your basic Chick Lit. All the conventions of the genre are present: Early thirty-something slightly ditzy girl (Rebecca Fine) has a writing job (as a beauty columnist), but feels she could be more (an investigative journalist) and then there is a hot new guy at work (Max)... adventures, miscommunication, a conniving female rival (TV journalist, Lorna) and mishaps ensue and all is honky-dory in the end. This book, however, takes some interesting turns and has entertaining subplots and characters. Rebecca's Jewish grandmother is comic relief always talking of health problems and trying to fix her granddaughter up with a nice Jewish boy. Rebecca's best friend, Jess, is having marital problems because he husband can't get it up since their baby was born (which leads to a laugh-out-loud scene with a blow-up doll at a party). And Rebecca's widowed father had gotten engaged to Rebecca's high-school arch-nemesis, Bernadette (AKA Lipstick) who later moves in with her daughter-in-law to be. There are also some fringe characters of the journalism world who earn their story time.
Apocalipstick.......2005-06-25
Sue Margolis has yet to disappoint! I absolutely love her writing style, and after reading `Spin Cycle' & `Breakfast at Stephanie's', I had to seek out some more novels from this entertaining author. APOCALIPSTICK is riotous, witty, and impulsive.
When beauty columnist Rebecca Fine meets her extremely handsome new coworker, Max Stoddart, she is almost certain that he is the playboy-heartbreaker type. Nevertheless she gives him a chance and finds that he is well worth it. But he has a major secret that he is keeping from her.
Adding more excitement to her life, Rebecca's old H.S. bully, Lipstick has now come back as the fiancé of her 60-something year old dad, and around the same time, she receives a tip on an anti-wrinkle cream that could rock the beauty world bringing in lots of controversy.
There is so much going on in her life, who knows if she can take it all in at once.
Get ready for juicy secrets and unexpected twists and bumps... this is a definite must-read!
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Apocalipstick
Sue Margolis
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What does Lifemanship mean? Easy question to pose, difficult to answer in a phrase. A way of life pervading each thought and conditioning our every action? Yes, but something much more, even though it only exists, as pervasive, intermittently. "How to live"--yes, but the phrase is too negative. In one of the unpublished notebooks of Rilke there is a phrase that might be our text, "...if you're not one up (Bitzleisch) you're...one down (Rotzleisch)."
How to be one up--how to make the other person feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly. The Lifeman is never caddish, but how simply and certainly often he of she can make the other person feel a cad, and over prolonged periods.
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Not as witty or comical as you think.......2006-04-30
Yes, you will be confused, unless of course you are older and British. Many of the activities and daily objects described in this book are from a bygone era or foreign (unless you are British!), making the humor in the book difficult to understand unless you are a historian. The language is not smooth, either, rather it is choppy and the content is jumbled.
A Full Course in Lifemastery.......2005-09-10
If you have already mastered the ploys and gambits of gamesmanship, then this is the book you need to take your play to the next level. Serious manuevers for negotiating conversations with ease while making the other party feel uncomfotable. A trove of practical advice for all social occasions, really.
Lifemanship.......2005-06-21
Anyone who doesn't laugh, chortle, snort and generally enjoy this slim tome is someone who is far too dour to participate fully in a gratifying life of putdowns and being put down. Get it, read it, master it == live it.
My handbook.......2004-09-14
One of four Potter masterpieces. This dastardly-clever book is my secret weapon in dealing with life and people on a daily basis. Forget "How To Win Friends and Influence People" - this is the real stuff! Hilarious.
A must for those who enjoyed 'School for Scoundrels'.......2001-04-03
It is undoubted that any serious library of classic English humour will contain this title, for it would show complete lack of literary candour to be without this `bible of the intellect'.
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