![]() ![]() ![]() Mkize’s ability to create Visual art throughout the varied arenas he participates in, carries with it an intention to communicate ideas that he finds most important in his life, the most prominent of which is preserving the African identity. Mkize’s use of highly stylized and technically brilliant brushwork creates realistic imagery that leans toward the surreal with his decorative framing and imaginative illustration, adding multiple layers to each portrait with character references and the impression of self-awareness in each of his works. In particular, he is interested in the ways this emotive expression intersects with notions of the soul, the spirit and ultimately a means to illustrate his understanding of the authentic African experience. ![]() His subjects are mostly Africa and they feature expressive faces, showing a fascination with skin, texture, gaze and the emotion that is conveyed through facial features. ![]() Eventually he discovered a passion for portrait painting, a medium he turns to as an avenue to express personal, political and social commentary. Prior to committing himself as a full time contemporary artist, Loyiso Mkize rose to prominence as on of South Africa’s best known graphic novel and comic book illustrators, being one of the foremost contributors to the Sunday Times supplement SupaStrikers. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Marrakech, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2020.Smoking Gun: Ofentse Seshabela Solo Show.FNB Art Joburg 2021: Collective Delusions.Crazy Little Thing Called Love: Nedia Were Solo. ![]()
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Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted uses of parody, melodrama, paradox, and irony. This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. ![]() They include poignant fairy-tales such as The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant, and the extravagant comedy and social observation ofLord Arthur Saviles Crime and The Canterville Ghost. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. But can they salvage Cartwright’s career in from the brink? With his career in a crisis, and his personal life as well, Cartwright is unexpectedly joined by an ally in Colin Scrubbs, a ruggedly handsome rancher from Saskatchewan. 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Love, Obsession, treachery, murder, and finally solace under the northern lights of Big Prairie Sky Country, Saskatchewan Sheldon Cartwright is a young, exceptionally handsome and gifted politician with a beautiful wife and two charming children. ![]() ![]() ![]() In so doing, Twig not only changes James’ fate, but her own, for the first time feeling the fullness of family, friends and hope for the future.Īn aspiring scientist and a budding artist become friends and help each other with dream projects. She is certain she knows how to change the curse. With the help of friends and through a series of self-realizations and discoveries, Twig grows more self-assured. The mix of romance and magic is irresistible and the tension, compelling. James and Agate seem as star-crossed as their ancestors, especially when the townspeople attribute a spate of petty thefts and graffiti protesting the development of the woods to the monster and launch a hunt. 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If you've spent more than $2 to see an entertaining, but ultimately superficial superhero movie sometime in the last decade, than Short Stay in Hell is definitely worth the $3 to $12 it takes to get hold of a copy. Of a multitude of hells, he is sent to a library filled with books of every possible combination of characters on a keyboard, and tasked to find the autobiography of his life among the near infinite number of nonsensical volumes.Ī lot of the goodreads reviews complain that at 100 pages it's hardly worth it's price tag. ![]() After death, a man is sentenced to a limited stay in hell before he can go to heaven. ![]() ![]() American Ghosts and Old World Wonders contains nine stories by this noted feminist author. the familiar old world becomes strange and uncanny in its phantasmagoric change. Urn:lcp:americanghostsol00cart_0:epub:88bf05ce-c204-4115-8c9b-b1fcb9c6336c Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier americanghostsol00cart_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3808r895 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780099133711Ġ099133717 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL22081609M Openlibrary_edition : American Ghosts and Old World Wonders: A fine, uncorrected proof of Angela Carters short story collection American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. Keywords : Gothic, postmodernism, feminism, Angela Carter. ![]() Urn:lcp:americanghostsol00cart_0:lcpdf:df504454-d139-4b02-9c99-6b1ff04ee272 A powerful and disturbing writer, Angela Carter created haunting fiction about travelers surviving their passage through a disintegrating universe. ![]() ![]() This list may not reflect recent changes. 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