- Gebundene Ausgabe: 48 Seiten
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) (Mai 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 039572032X
- ISBN-13: 978-0395720325
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 21,3 x 0,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.384.866 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Gr. 5^-7. Poor, untaught, deeply religious, Minnie Evans was driven to paint her dreams. Her family thought she was crazy and tried to stop her. But today her art is celebrated, and her paintings hang in museums. As in her biographies of Horace Pippin and Harriet Powers, Lyons has brought us the life and work of an African American folk artist who succeeded despite community prejudice. The small, spaciously designed volume is illustrated throughout with quality reproductions of Evans' work in glowing color and detail. Lyons' sources are meticulously documented in notes at the back, including references to her own interviews with people who knew the artist. Lyons includes some negative comments from those who belittle "outsider" art, as well as praise from critics for the powerful visionary artist. Hazel Rochman
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A vivid portrait of an African-American artist whose work remains controversial but who demonstrated courage and perseverance in the face of enormous obstacles. Minnie Evans was born in 1892 in North Carolina to a poor family. As a child she was haunted by strange and powerful dreams often based on her strong religious faith. She left school after fifth grade, married Julius Evans at age 15, and had three sons. Still she dreamed, for the next 20 years, until she finally began to draw what she saw in her dreams. Her output steadily grew until she was producing half a dozen or more pictures a day, with no training and only the guidance of ``the angel that stands beside me.'' Interest in the self-taught artist began to spread until her work came to the attention of a photographer/folk art specialist, who took on the job of selling the paintings for much more than the 50 cents Evans was charging. Some fame followed before Minnie Evans died in 1987, having completed the task which she believed God had set before her. Lyons (Letters From a Slave Girl, 1992, etc.) uses Minnie's own words for the few chapters that chart her life, all illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artwork. (afterword, notes, index) (Biography. 8-12) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Painting Dreams: Minnie Evans, Visionary Artist is an excellent book for children - not to be sterotyped because of its place in the African-American artisan series. I would love to have the book contain more of Evans art but would not give up the text. Mary Lyons has conveyed the social difficulties of being African-American in the early twentieth century not by "preaching" but by letting the story speak for itself. The result is a book that is appealing both for its art and for its social conscience.
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Judge Dee at his best
5. April 2004
Format:Taschenbuch
More than half a century ago, Robert Van Gulik translated an ancient Chinese detective novel about a real-life Chinese magistrate named Dee Jen-Djieh who lived around 700 A.D.; evidently he had so much fun that he decided to write a few more Judge Dee mysteries of his own. "The Emperor's Pearl" is among his better ones. On the night of the dragon boat races in Poo-Yang district, the drummer of the boat favored to win the race collapses; turns out he's been poisoned. Judge Dee is called in to investigate, and finds out he has not one murder on his hands, but a whole string of deaths involving a missing domino, a malevolent river goddess, and the theft of the Emperor's Pearl, still unsolved after a hundred years. With the help of his trusty seargeant Hoong Liang and a lady wrestler named Violet Liang (no relation), Judge Dee unravels the tangled mess and puts everything to rights.
Unlike the classic Chinese detective novel which reveals in the beginning whodunit and focuses instead on how the crime was solved, "The Emperor's Pearl" is more like a contemporary novel in which we have to wait for the end for the resolution. There are some interesting plot twists and turns and enough surprises to satisfy the most diehard mystery fan. It's too bad Van Gulik didn't bring back the formidable Violet Liang in a subsequent novel; she's a delightful invention who's worth a book all by herself.
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Satisfying mystery in exotic setting
15. Juni 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
Judge Dee, a magistate in 7th century China, is forced by the weather to stop at a remote mountain monastery. There, while the storm rages, Dee observes suspicious behavior and hears stories of ghosts and vague accusations of murder.
The investigation shows the judge many secrets, some personal and some criminal, places him in danger of his life, and exposes to the reader the religions and manners of ancient China; surprisingly modern in some respects and almost unimaginable in others.
In the end, Dee's perception of human motivations as well as his logical mind allow him to redress injustice, improve the lives of several young people, and give the reader a solid solution to intellectual puzzles.
A mystery in the classical sense, this concentrates more on the plot than on characters, and gives a well-integrated lecture in history.
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Clever mystery with a little extra
30. März 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
This novel, written by the author both in English and in Dutch ("De Parel van de Keizer") is part of the second series of mystery books featuring Judge Dee as the sleuth. These novels are a bit shorter and a bit "lighter" than the first series of five books, which starts with "The Chinese Maze Murders" ("Labyrinth in Lan-Fang"). Once again Judge Dee solves three unrelated mysteries, using his skills of observation and logical thinking, employing casual conversations with various protagonists as his main approach. However, in this book Judge Dee also surprises the reader by an unusual gambit that almost misfires.
What I liked most about this book were hints of the supernatural that nonetheless stay within the limits of the traditional mystery novel.
This novel makes great bedtime or vacation reading!
What I liked most about this book were hints of the supernatural that nonetheless stay within the limits of the traditional mystery novel.
This novel makes great bedtime or vacation reading!
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