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Author: William T. Vollmann Publisher: powerHouse Books ISBN: 1576876578 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
William T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the stately ancient beauties of Japanese Noh theater, and made friends with street prostitutes all over the world-all in the interest of learning a little more about life. Now in his mid-fifties, Vollmann sets out on what may well be impossible for a heterosexual genetic male: to envision himself as a woman. In these photographs, block prints, and watercolor drawings, he portrays his alter ego, Dolores, with whimsicality, and sometimes with cruelty-for Dolores would like to be attractive, or at least to "pass," but the ageing male body in which she remains confined requires lowered expectations. Meanwhile, the drawings and block prints, composed with the artist's glasses off, show Dolores as she imagines herself to be. The Book of Dolores brings the genre of self-portraits to a new level of vulnerability and bravery. In the process, it offers virtuoso performances of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century photographic techniques, including the seductively difficult gum bichromate method. Each section of the book is accompanied by an essay on motives and techniques.
Author: William T. Vollmann Publisher: powerHouse Books ISBN: 1576876578 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
William T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the stately ancient beauties of Japanese Noh theater, and made friends with street prostitutes all over the world-all in the interest of learning a little more about life. Now in his mid-fifties, Vollmann sets out on what may well be impossible for a heterosexual genetic male: to envision himself as a woman. In these photographs, block prints, and watercolor drawings, he portrays his alter ego, Dolores, with whimsicality, and sometimes with cruelty-for Dolores would like to be attractive, or at least to "pass," but the ageing male body in which she remains confined requires lowered expectations. Meanwhile, the drawings and block prints, composed with the artist's glasses off, show Dolores as she imagines herself to be. The Book of Dolores brings the genre of self-portraits to a new level of vulnerability and bravery. In the process, it offers virtuoso performances of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century photographic techniques, including the seductively difficult gum bichromate method. Each section of the book is accompanied by an essay on motives and techniques.
Author: Stephen King Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9780780788220 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Folks have been waiting 30 years to find out what happened the day Dolores Claiborne's husband Joe died, but the police want to know what happened yesterday, when Dolores's long-time employer died suddenly in her care. Adult thriller.
Author: Mario T. García Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826345134 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 388
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This is the first book to focus on the life of labor and social justice advocate Dolores Huerta through her own writings, articles about her, and a recent interview with editor Mario Garcia.
Author: Robin S. Doak Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 0756534771 Category : Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers Languages : en Pages : 58
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This book recounts the life of Dolores Huerta, who, along with Cesar Chavez, founded the National Farmworkers Association, an organization focused on fighting for the rights of farmworkers across the United States.
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1448206278 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
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The first edition of Dolores was published in 1911. It sold well, and was promptly forgotten. Now that her career of sixty years is ended, and her long achievement more and more acclaimed, Dolores, standing at that remote beginning, is curiously reborn.
Author: Lauren Aimee Curtis Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 9781474612517 Category : Convents Languages : en Pages : 144
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On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name her Dolores. Dolores adjusts to the rhythm of her new life -- to the nuns with wild hairs curling from their chins, the soup chewed as if it were meat, the bells that ring throughout the day. But in the dark, private theatre of her mind are memories -- of love motels lit by neon red hearts, discos in abandoned hospitals and a boy called Angelo. And inside her, a baby is growing.
Author: William T. Vollmann
Author: William T. Vollmann
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Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
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