The Electric Pencil
Title | The Electric Pencil PDF eBook |
Author | James Edward Deeds |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1616895012 |
Deeds's subtle, meticulous, and wildly imaginative pencil and crayon drawings portray an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, antique cars, fantastic boats and trains, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture. None of these existed in the actual mid-twentieth-century landscape of Deeds's own life, but rather were representations of his inner world—an artist's poignant tribute to a faded past. Deeds lovingly bound his artwork in a cardboard and leather portfolio, a present for his mother. After being accidentally discarded in 1970, the album was rescued from the trash by a young boy and, thirty-six years later, came into the hands of artist and collector Harris Diamant, who provides the book's foreword. The Electric Pencil features all 283 of Deeds's arresting drawings—now avidly collected—done on ledger sheets from State Hospital No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, and reproduced in the sequence of the original album. The Electric Pencil introduces readers to an astonishing record of one man's unwavering artistic vision in the face of the most inhospitable conditions.
The Drawings of the Electric Pencil
Title | The Drawings of the Electric Pencil PDF eBook |
Author | Electric Pencil (Artist) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art and mental illness |
ISBN | 9780578068329 |
Around the year 1910, a patient at State Lunatic Asylum No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, who referred to himself as The Electric Pencil, executed 280 drawings in ink, pencil, crayon and colored pencil. These beautiful drawings of animals, people and buildings were executed on both sides of 140 ledger pages, each bearing the name of the hospital in official type across the top, thus dramatizing the interface of the institutional and the creative. The Electric Pencil's drawings were sewn into a handmade album of fabric and leather, which shortly afterwards was lost--for a century. Now that album is presented publicly for the first time since its making, displaying for contemporary audiences the strange and poignant beauty of the drawings. His many portraits--head-and-shoulders or just heads--feature formal, sometimes dazed-looking men and women with elaborate hats or razor-parted hair who stare out of the page with wide, piercing eyes that suggest both a possible chilling regime of "mental health" treatment and the unblinking, unsettling gaze of those who haunt the margins of sanity and society. The handsomely designed hardbound format of The Drawings of the Electric Pencil features an art folio book block within that opens flat. An essay by Lyle Rexer places the work in the broader context of outsider art, in which The Electric Pencil emerges as an artist of singular brilliance.
The Miniature World of Marvin and James
Title | The Miniature World of Marvin and James PDF eBook |
Author | Elise Broach |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0805091904 |
When his best friend, a human boy named James, goes away on vacation, Marvin the beetle worries that their friendship may end.
Exploring Colored Pencil
Title | Exploring Colored Pencil PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Angelo |
Publisher | Davis |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780871923158 |
The sumptuous tones of colored pencil are surpassed only by its astounding versatility and simplicity. Filled with inspiring pictures, this lively manual covers methods, materials, blending colors, design techniques, composition, perspective, and drawing animals, humans, the great outdoors, still lifes, and more. "For all levels. Students will...be rewarded with a rich array of ideas and styles."--Library Journal.
Cleo Porter and the Body Electric
Title | Cleo Porter and the Body Electric PDF eBook |
Author | Jake Burt |
Publisher | Feiwel & Friends |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250236568 |
In a future forever changed by a pandemic, a girl survives in total isolation. A woman is dying. Cleo Porter has her medicine. And no way to deliver it. Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they’re safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They’re alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger’s survival--Cleo is stuck. As a surgeon-in-training, she knows the clock is ticking. But people don’t leave their units. Not ever. Until now.
Mythomorphia
Title | Mythomorphia PDF eBook |
Author | Kerby Rosanes |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 0735211094 |
Fans of adult coloring books will love the intricate, imaginative illustrations of mythological creatures including dragons, unicorns, griffins, and more in this extreme coloring and search challenge book—the perfect gift for coloring addicts. The awesomely detailed style fans have come to know and love through Kerby Rosanes' New York Times bestselling coloring books—Animorphia, Imagimorphia, Fantomorphia, and Geomorphia—comes to vivid life in this coloring book featuring mythical creatures that morph and explode into astounding detail. Bring each imagination-bending image alive with color and find the objects hidden throughout the pages of this fantastical coloring book.
Electric Universe
Title | Electric Universe PDF eBook |
Author | David Bodanis |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2006-02-28 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0307335984 |
The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals. In Electric Universe, the great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality. From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery.