The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora

The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora
Author: Jim Flora
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2009-08-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606991590

A third collection of amusing nightmares from the demonic wand of Jim Flora: art and artifacts spanning Flora's career, including more from his Columbia Records days, children's book roughs and outtakes, rarely seen cartoon-science illustrations and more.

The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora

The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora
Author: Irwin Chusid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781560976004

by Irwin Chusid 11 x 10, SC, 180 pages, FC, $34.95 The first collection of the marvelous, mischievous album cover art of Jim Flora (1914-1998), collecting most of his known covers. The book also includes rarely seen illustrations and covers from Columbia's "Coda" trade journal and elsewhere.

The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora

The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora
Author: Jim Flora
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2007-01-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1560978058

Flora was prolific in his commercial work; he created art privately in equal measure and often with more fiendish pleasure. His style is cartoonish, evoking childhood nostalgia and dereliction of adult responsibility. There are clowns and kitty cats, grinning faces and beaming suns. But Flora did not restrain his darker impulses. His montages are crammed with bullets and knives and fang-baring snakes. Muggers run amok, demons frolic with rouged harlots, and Flora's characters suffer that is, are afflicted by the artist with severe disfigurement. The banal and the violent often coexist within inches of each other on the canvas.

The Day the Cow Sneezed

The Day the Cow Sneezed
Author: James Flora
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781592700974

A cow sneezes and sets off a series of ridiculous events.

Grandpa's Ghost Stories

Grandpa's Ghost Stories
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781627310529

The highly anticipated reprint of a classic children's book by renowned illustrator and graphic designer James Flora.

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Author: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486115291

At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Doing Literary Criticism

Doing Literary Criticism
Author: Tim Gillespie
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571108424

One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts. Tim breaks down the dense language of critical theory into clear, lively, and thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought---reader response, biographical, historical, psychological, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, formalist, and postmodern. Doing Literary Criticism gives each theory its own chapter with a brief, teacher-friendly overview and a history of the approach, along with an in-depth discussion of its benefits and limitations. Each chapter also includes ideas for classroom practices and activities. Using stories from his own English classes--from alternative programs to advance placement and everything in between--Tim provides a wealth of specific classroom-tested suggestions for discussion, essay and research paper topics, recommended texts, exam questions, and more. The accompanying CD offers abbreviated overviews of each theory (designed to be used as classroom handouts, examples of student work, collections of quotes to stimulate discussion and writing, an extended history of women writers, and much more. Ultimately, Doing Literary Criticism offers teachers a rich set of materials and tools to help their students become more confident and able readers, writers, and critical thinkers.

Dead Right

Dead Right
Author: David Frum
Publisher: New York : BasicBooks
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1994-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN:

Forbes columnist David Frum presents a penetrating examination of what went wrong with the conservative movement during the Reagan-Bush years. Based on interviews with Republican leaders, pollsters, fund raisers, and journalists, Dead Right reveals why the party is in ideological disarray--and how it could dynamically renew itself.

The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora

The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora
Author: Jim Flora
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2013-09-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 160699655X

The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora is the definitive anthology of the maestro’s visual compositions, reflecting jazz, classical, and Latin music. Regarding his jam-packed canvases Flora once said he “couldn’t stand a static space.” There’s nothing static about the images in The High Fidelity Art: they wail, dance, bounce, and swing from the chandeliers. Flora had a knack for grooving with a paintbrush, making art to which you can tap your toes and snap your fingers.

Jazz

Jazz
Author: Hans-Jürgen Schaal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9783836545013

Jazz arrived in New York in the 1920s & caused a riot. Artist Robert Nippoldt has put together a collection of drawings of the leading figures of the time, includes luminaries such as Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong etc. Jazz expert H-J Schaal provides a short history of the period, and a text on each of the musicians featured.