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Author: Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Mundus Publishing
Keywords: souls, dead
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1937
eBookDB-ID: GGKEY:3F5C
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continues to inspire 21st-century authors and readers.
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Author: Paul Arnett
Publisher: Tinwood Books
Keywords: art, south, vernacular, american, grown, african, souls
Number of Pages: 569
Published: 2000-12-01
ISBN-10: 0965376605
ISBN-13: 9780965376600
In this comprehensive overview of an important genre of American art, "Souls Grown Deep" explores the visual-arts genius of the black South. This first work in a multivolume study introduces 40 African-American self-taught artists, who, without significant formal training, often employ the most unpretentious and unlikely materials.
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Author: Paul Arnett
Publisher: Tinwood Books
Keywords: flow, starts, river, grown, souls
Number of Pages: 620
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: 096537663X
ISBN-13: 9780965376631
Completing the two-volume set, Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2 takes the visual and historical presentation of the first volume to a richer level, offering an even broader array of artistic styles and media.Published in 2000, the first volume explored the diverse historical roots of the genre and introduced artists whose work recalled the South of the pre-civil rights era. This sequel brings the movement into the present, delving into the work of the current generation of artists who are creating a complex form of art that blurs the boundaries between folk and contemporary art.
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