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Free Download Ken Garfield, "Billy Graham: A Life in Pictures"
English | ISBN: 157243581X | 2013 | 160 pages | PDF | 33 MB
Celebrating the life and legacy of one of America’s best-known religious figures in words and photographs, this book traces the amazing journey of the lanky farm boy from Charlotte, North Carolina, who grew up to preach to more than 200 million people in stadiums and arenas around the world. Written by a journalist who covered Graham and his ministry for more than a decade, Billy Graham: A Life in Pictures chronicles the preacher’s rise, his friendship with U.S. presidents, his spectacular crusades, and his work in building a religious organization that continues with his son Franklin as its leader. It also offers a glimpse into Graham’s rich family life and how he managed to maintain his integrity while other religious personalities, despite-or perhaps because of-their large followings, were losing theirs. The book provides a fitting tribute to one of the most important religious leaders of the 20th century, a man of unimpeachable character who influenced millions around the globe.

Free Download Pete Orford, "The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens: Pictures from Italy"
English | ISBN: 0198831617 | 2025 | 384 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Oxford Dickens edition of Pictures from Italy puts the spotlight on Dickens’s ‘little book’ describing his travels through Italy in 1844 and 1845. Throughout, Dickens offers his withering reviews of Italian masterpieces, his staunch criticism of Catholicism in Rome, tempered with a genuine love and admiration for the people of Italy and the country’s rich cultural heritage. This is the first full critical edition of the work, with detailed research outlining its composition and form, and comparisons made between all editions produced during Dickens’s lifetime. First written as personal letters, then printed as newspaper correspondence, then reshaped once more into a single book, the evolution of Pictures from Italy provides a fascinating insight into Dickens’s creative and editorial process.

Free Download Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Kirk Varnedoe
English | October 29, 2006 | ISBN: 069112678X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 140 MB
An illuminating exploration of the meaning of abstract art by acclaimed art historian Kirk Varnedoe

Free Download Lexicarry: Pictures for Learning Languages (Pro Lingua’s Color) by Patrick R Moran
English | January 12, 2015 | ISBN: 0866473718 | 146 pages | MOBI | 21 Mb
A one-of-a-kind picture dictionary, Lexicarry offers a fun, active, conversational approach to language learning. It is a book of wordless pictures designed to help learners build vocabulary and conversation skills in any second language using the American English word list in the book, a bilingual dictionary, one of the Lexicarry word lists, and/or someone who knows the language. There are 13 foreign language word lists available at ProLinguaLearning.com to use with this book for learners of languages other than English.

Free Download Michael R. Pitts, "RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1929-1956"
English | ISBN: 0786460474 | 2015 | 408 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time and both were made by RKO Radio Pictures. Between 1929 and 1956, RKO released more than 140 genre features, including The Most Dangerous Game, The Phantom of Crestwood, Before Dawn, The Monkey’s Paw, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, You’ll Find Out, The Spiral Staircase, The Enchanted Cottage, It’s a Wonderful Life, Captive Women and Killers from Space. RKO is remembered for its series of psychological horror movies produced by Val Lewton, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Seventh Victim and The Body Snatcher. The studio also produced films in the adventure, comedy, fantasy, mystery and western genres. They released many Walt Disney classics-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Peter Pan

Free Download Alexander Bigman, "Pictures and the Past: Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art"
English | ISBN: 0226833070 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 10 MB
A fresh take on the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture.

Free Download Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood By Daniel Goldmark, Charlie Keil
2011 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0520267230 | EPUB | 4 MB
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly, and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal stage in the development of the motion picture industry. To examine some of the central assumptions about comedy and cartoons and to explore the key factors that promoted their fusion, the book analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Funny Pictures also looks ahead to show how this vital American entertainment tradition still thrives today in works ranging from The Simpsons to the output of Pixar.

Free Download Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint By Mike Watt
2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0786470666 | EPUB | 5 MB
For fervid or feverish film professionals and buffs, there is a term–"Kitchen Sink movies"–referring to films that take severe-angle turns at unexpected moments, where a filmmaker will borrow from across the artistic spectrum to create a wild, disorienting ride. They are what this book is about. Throwing marketing reports and box-office projections to the wind, the writer-director-producers conjure a whirl of ideas, of images, of themes or Descriptions, that inexplicably come together despite conventional reason. Almost always cult films, these movies rarely succeed in their first run. Indeed, some of the very best remain unknown to mainstream audiences. This volume provides in-depth examinations of 66 of these cultural oddities, from such disparate films as La Morte en direct, The Final Programme, and Head to lesser known independents like The Prodigy, Land of College Prophets, and Scrapbook. Putting these unusual films into a cultural context promotes an under appreciated but fascinating facet of movie-making.

Free Download Doug Anderson, "Tricky, Sneaky Puzzle Pictures"
English | ISBN: 0806996080 | | 128 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Do you have what it takes to be a good detective? Start by developing your powers of observation, memory, and deduction. The puzzles and games will serve as your training ground as you look for clues, note details, and test yourself to see how well you observe, remember, and put it all together. 128 pages, 176 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Free Download Michele Cometa, "The Literary Life of Pictures: A Theory of Description "
English | ISBN: 3031528964 | 2024 | 142 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book offers a theory of ekphrasis―the literary description of an artwork―from the perspective of Visual Culture studies. A theory of ekphrasis must take into account not only the rhetorical strategies articulated in the description of artworks, but also the complex interplay that holds together the pictures that are described, the gazes that rest on them, and the dispositives that mediate them. It is therefore a matter of linking the study of the verbal rhetoric with the dynamics that are established between the author, the reader, and the visual artworks, real or fictive, as well as the performative aspects of description and the mediascapes that, from time to time, condition the gaze and the visual experience of the authors and the readers. This book proposes thus to consider both the intradiegetic aspects of description and the extradiegetic ones that condition its verbal texture. Following the rhetorics of ekphrasis throughout the Western tradition, from its origins in Philostratus, its reappraisal by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, to the twentieth-century avant-garde, this book shows how ekphrastic techniques are historically determined by the relationship between pictures, gazes, and dispositives.