Death by Canvas

Death by Canvas
Author: Frank A. Prouty
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499030282

Preface: Death by Canvas Escaping from Decoder prison took weeks of planning and in the process in escaping the three convicts terminated the life of two state prison detectives and two prison guards. The ring leader, Kendall and his two convict friends also robbed a small convenient store of food and supplies on their flight to freedom. One of the items stolen was a canvas, which they used as protective covering, but as it turns out, the mythical powers of the canvas could also be used for much more. Kendall as the leader of the three, was a morbid individual and had robbed a bank in the town of Lamar which was owned by the State Governor's father. The Governor wanted the money found and returned to clear his father of mismanagement allegations. Seasonal storms during winter months played a big part in Kendall's good fortune in recovering the money and misfortune for others. His driving abilities behind the wheel gave him an edge over his adversaries. As time went by Kendall's two partners in crime, met their demise as separate events took place. This left Kendall by himself to make his way to Lamar and recover the money he had stolen and stashed away in a public location where no one, would ever think to look. During treacherous weather conditions and hostile episodes, various challenges made it very difficult for Kendall to accomplice his mission. With his continued surveillance for the local and state police, along with the prison detectives it was a continuous distraction. Kendall's violent life of crime came to an abrupt halt as he was attempting his last escape. The mystic powers of the unknown can have fatal conclusions to ones life as Kendall found out!

An Unfinished Canvas

An Unfinished Canvas
Author: Michael Glasgow
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1635769175

This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rare cold case murder conviction. Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life. On August 16, 1996, Janet had an appointment to finally file for divorce. But she never arrived. On the night of August 15, she vanished. Janet’s disappearance incited a massive search and media frenzy that revealed her husband Perry’s seedy dealings. When he absconded with his children to a new life in Mexico, Janet’s parents began a decade-long, international custody battle that culminated in Perry’s dramatic extradition to Tennessee. Meanwhile, the Nashville Police Department never found Janet’s body. In spite of overwhelming odds, cold case detectives and prosecutors were determined to get justice—and with the help of a shocking surprise witness, they did.

The Death of Matilda Brew

The Death of Matilda Brew
Author: Maegan Alexandria
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2016-05-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692690031

When a cowardly and shy village boy, Andrew Godfrey, loses the girl of his dreams to an unexpected death, he finds her soul captured in a household mirror. In an act of desperation, he flees the town with the mirror, escaping a long lasting fear of his cold mother and a grim looking future. He eventually stumbles upon the Larouche Hotel, which bears the whispered description of being the most sinfully wonderful place around. At first, his new found sanctuary offers him not only a roof over his head, but pleasures far beyond those he could imagine. Soon, he begins to spiral into a world where he no longer recognizes his own reflection and in an attempt to rescue the imprisoned soul of the woman he loves, he realizes who he really needs to save is himself. Through the eyes of the young man, we witness the hotel patrons fall into a world where good versus evil is so entwined, one begins to look like the other. With the aid of a mysterious man in black who keeps his cursed daughter hidden from the guests, Andrew searches for the narrow path to goodness directly in the eyes of evil. It's up to him to secure not only his own life, but the lives of his friends that have fallen into the darkness as well. The Death Of Matilda Brew is the first installment of a new series entitled, Canvas Carvers. It is comparable to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Extreme Canvas

Extreme Canvas
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Dilettante Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2000
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film-distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven. In the book's four major essays, author Ernie Wolfe III recounts the rise and fall of the mobile cinema tradition, while noted African art scholar Roy Sieber follows two-dimensional art in Africa from rock paintings in the Sahara to contemporary manuals, wall paintings, and barber board paintings as well as the canvas movie posters themselves; Paul Hayes Tucker compares the phenomenon to 19th century European utility-based painting; and poet and art critic John Yau contributes the perspective of an American art historian. In addition, Hollywood film notables such as horror auteur Clive Barker, actor LeVar Burton, actress Anjelica Huston, and director Gus Van Sant contribute chapter introductions.

The Death of Francis Bacon

The Death of Francis Bacon
Author: Max Porter
Publisher: Strange Light
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0771096372

Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter inhabits Francis Bacon in his final moments, translating into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. Writing as painting rather than about painting, Porter lets the images he conjures speak for themselves as they take their revenge on the subject who wielded them in life. The result is more than a biography: The Death of Francis Bacon is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment--the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired.

Kill Them with Canvas

Kill Them with Canvas
Author: Bailee Abbott
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1639101055

In Bailee Abbott’s second book in the Paint by Murder mysteries, Chloe and Izzie are taking their paint party business on the road—with murder as the first stop! Chloe Abbington and her sister, Izzie, are enjoying huge success running Paint with a View, their paint party business in the tranquil western New York lakeside town of Whisper Cove. Now, their aunt Constance—president of the local chapter of the Chautauqua Sisterhood—has hooked them up with a gig hosting a Halloween painting party. The guests will be painting a local ghost legend, the Lady of Chautauqua Lake, who died a hundred years earlier and rises from the lake every October to haunt anyone who dares venture out on All Hallows’ Eve. The event seems to be going off without a hitch, until Chloe overhears an argument between Constance and Viola Finnwinkle, the Sisterhood director, about the fate of the local chapter. Both women leave and the sisters finish their painting. But the next morning, Viola’s body is discovered floating face down near the town ferryboat dock, her long red hair spread around her. Eerily, the image is an exact replica of a painting Chloe and Izzie had discovered at the event the night before. What’s more, the police find Constance’s purple knit hat lying on the ground near the crime scene. Constance pleads innocence, saying the hat mysteriously went missing during the event. Frantic that she might be charged with murder, she begs Chloe and Izzie to help her. The sisters believe their aunt is innocent, but if so, who’s the real killer—and when will the next victim turn up?

Custer on Canvas

Custer on Canvas
Author: Norman K Denzin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315430754

The 1876 events known as Custer’s Last Stand, Battle of Little Big Horn, or Battle of Greasy Grass have been represented over 1000 times in various artistic media, from paintings to sculpture to fast food giveaways. Norman Denzin shows how these representations demonstrate the changing perceptions—often racist—of Native America by the majority culture, juxtaposed against very different readings shown in works composed by Native American artists. Consisting of autobiographical reminiscences, historical description, artistic representations, staged readings, and snippets of documents, this multilayered performance ethnography examines questions of memory, race, and violence against Native America, as symbolized by the changing interpretations of General Custer and his final battle.