Elisabet Ney
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Author | : Emily Fourmy Cutrer |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1623494257 |
The Art of the Woman explores the life of German-born Elisabet Ney, a flamboyant sculptor who transfixed the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and left the court of the half-mad Ludwig of Bavaria to put down new roots in Texas. Born in 1833, Ney gained notoriety in Europe by sculpting the busts of such figures as Ludwig II, Schopenhauer, Garibaldi, and Bismarck. In 1871 she abruptly emigrated to America and became something of a recluse until resuming her sculpting career two decades later. In Texas, she was known for stormy relationships with officials, patrons, and women’s organizations. Her works included sculptures of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin and are exhibited in the state and US capitols as well as the Smithsonian. Emily Fourmy Cutrer’s biography of Ney makes extensive use of primary sources and was the first to appraise both Ney’s legend and individual works of art. Cutrer argues that Ney was an accomplished sculptor coming out of a neglected German neoclassical tradition and that, whatever her failures and eccentricities, she was an important catalyst to cultural activity in Texas.
Author | : Bride Neill Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Sculptors |
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Author | : Stephen Harrigan |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292759517 |
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
Author | : Sharon Oard Warner |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2021-03-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0826362567 |
“A novella compresses the world with a short story’s focus, but it explores that smaller space with a novel’s generosity.”—Josh Weil, author of The New Valley: Novellas While the novella has existed as a distinct literary form for over four hundred years, Writing the Novella is the first craft book dedicated to creating this intermediate-length fiction. Innovative, integrated journal prompts inspire and sustain the creative process, and classic novellas serve as examples throughout. Part 1 defines the novella form and steers early decision-making on situation, character, plot, and point of view. Part 2 provides detailed directions for writing the scenic plot points that support a strong but flexible narrative arc. Appendix materials include a list of recommended novellas, publishing opportunities, and blank templates for the story map, graphs, and charts used throughout the book. By turns instructive and inspirational, Writing the Novella will be a welcome resource for new and experienced writers alike.
Author | : Steven Saylor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2001-12-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312980665 |
A chilling crime tale based on actual events from more than one hundred years ago, follows a serial killer dubbed by O.Henry as "The Servant Girl Annihilator" who roamed the streets of Austin, Texas, along with a fascinating group of characters both real and fictional.
Author | : Lynne Breen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12-20 |
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ISBN | : 9780578756196 |
Author | : Francis Edward Abernethy |
Publisher | : Publications of the Texas Folk |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780929398754 |
Gift of the Friends of the PPL 2001.
Author | : Mary Helen Specht |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2015-01-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062346040 |
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award and the Writer's League of Texas Fiction Award • An Indie Next Selection • An Austin American-Statesman Selects Book A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn between love and duty. When Flannery, a young scientist, is forced to return to Austin from five years of research in Nigeria, she becomes split between her two homes. Having left behind her loving fiancé without knowing when she can return, Flan learns that her sister, Molly, has begun to show signs of the genetic disease that slowly killed their mother. As their close-knit circle of friends struggles with Molly’s diagnosis, Flannery must grapple with what her future will hold: an ambitious life of love and the pursuit of scientific discovery in West Africa, or the pull of a life surrounded by old friends, the comfort of an old flame, family obligations, and the home she’s always known. But she is not the only one wrestling with uncertainty. Since their college days, each of her friends has faced unexpected challenges that make them reevaluate the lives they’d always planned for themselves. A mesmerizing debut from an exciting young writer, Migratory Animals is a moving, thought-provoking novel, told from shifting viewpoints, about the meaning of home and what we owe each other—and ourselves.
Author | : Marjorie Von Rosenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780890157473 |
A biography of the German-born sculptor whose portraits of such Texas heroes as Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston are displayed in the capitol in Austin.
Author | : Elisabet Ney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Sculptors, American |
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The collection contains two letters from Elisabet Ney to friend and supporter Margaret Lea Houston Williams (1848-1906), a daughter of Sam Houston.