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George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) is regarded as one of the greatest painters of the Victorian age. He is associated with the circle of artists who settled in London's Holland Park, and later with Limnerslease, the house which he and his wife Mary built in Surrey. It is less well known that Watts spent many winters in the 1870s and the 1880s on England's south coast in the seaside town of Brighton.
This book describes the artist's life and work in...
62) Every Bend
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In Every Bend, Gail Butensky's photography from a variety of colorful venues is on display, as are intimate photos the artist shot outside of the music scene that she has documented for decades. This collection of photographs sequenced by Butensky to resemble a road trip with diary entries for each encampment that is presented here. A fascinating journey and a feast for the eyes.
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Considéré dans ce texte: Quiruvilca, Pérou. Bev Oda et sa «nouvelle meilleure amie». L'or, l'argent et le sous-développement. Barrick Gold. L'aide internationale comme peacekeeper. L'ACDI, la RSE, le MAECD et deux-trois autres sigles sympathiques. L'acceptation sociale des exploitations minières. Le gout du cochon d'Inde grillé.
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A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock's greatest talents: Prince.
Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote "3 Chains o' Gold," Prince's "rock video opera," as well as the...
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Svetlana Alpers is professor emerita of history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar in art history at New York University. Her many books include The Art of Describing, The Vexations of Art, and Roof Life. She lives in New York City and France.
A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans
Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States...
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2023.
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"Explores the distinctive urban vision of working-class Jewish photographers in midcentury New York. The work of Jewish photographers at the New York Photo League not only created an archive of vernacular images of city streets but also a distinctive tradition of street photography"--
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With these words to Boswell, Samuel Johnson dismissed Lady Di Beauclerk, the wife of one of his closest friends, a woman of the highest rank, the daughter of a duke, who had forsaken her reputation, her place in society, her children, and her role as lady-in-waiting to the Queen for love.
Born Lady Diana Spencer in 1735, the eldest child of the third Duke of Marlborough, she was expected rigidly to follow a traditional path through life: educated...
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Traveling in Wonder is not your typical travel journal turned book-it's not even a travel guide. Instead, Traveling in Wonder: A Travel Photographer's Tales of Wanderlust reads like a letter from Autumn to the many countries she's visited, first as a student traveling abroad, then as a flight attendant, a travel agent, and more recently, a travel photographer.
With a gift for storytelling, Autumn invites the reader into what she was experiencing...
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GigaTravels To Exotic Places A MemoirFerguson-Huntington is a twenty-first century storyteller, weaving wild yarns about her exotic travels.Artist Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington, is an accomplished artist, multi-media artist and writer. Ferguson-Huntington Her first published work was a mini-graphic tale called A Toothsome Romance, which was in Speaking Pictures published by Harmoney Books.She taught art and design at Virginia Commonwealth University...
70) 1001 jours
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Un portrait photographique en hommage à Corsica un jour, un regard, un voyage, une île, une image …
mille voyages, toutes les Corse, par tous les temps de tout temps.
27 ans 60 voyages
1 000 jours sur l'île
24 000 km de routes écumés
2 400 km de sentiers arpentés
300 000 mètres de dénivelé cumulé
517 giga de données
100 000 photos 1 001 images sélectionnées
1400 heures de maquette …
+ la Passion
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Esta obra de la artista argentina Matilde Marín lleva a los lectores, a través de las imágenes de los faros, a transitar espacios y recuperar distintos tiempos. Marín en las fotografías ha registrado con sutileza los faros y sus luces, aguas, tierra y cielo. Quienes vean/lean el libro accederán a esos mundos, para conocerlos y explorarlos, en un viaje imaginario con diez estaciones.
Pharus. Del hemisferio Sur al Norte testimonia la materialidad...
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"Heilige Mutter Gottes, erlöse Russland von Putin."
Im August 2012 wurden Maria Aljochina, Nadescha Tolokonnikowa und Jekaterina Samuzewitsch, drei Mitglieder des Punk-Kunstkollektivs Pussy Riot, wegen "Rowdytum aus religiös motiviertem Hass" zu zwei Jahren Straflager verurteilt - ein politischer Skandal, der ein riesiges Presse-Echo und weltweit Solidaritätsbekundungen hervorgerufen hat.
In dem vorliegenden Band wird bisher unveröffentlichtes...
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Step into the enigmatic world of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror, as this compelling biography unravels the mysteries surrounding his life and delves deep into the darkness of his literary works.From his early influences and struggles to his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, this captivating journey explores Lovecraft's unique narrative style, his enduring legacy, and the chilling impact of his stories on the horror genre.Discover the man...
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All three of Anne Truitt's artist's journals in one e-volume, the illuminating, inspiring record of a woman's reconciliation of the call of creative work with the demands of daily life-with a new introduction by Audrey Niffenegger.
Anne Truitt kept a journal throughout her adult life, from her early years as one of the rare, celebrated women artists in the early 60s, through her midlife as an established artist, and into older age when she was, for...
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History Hub presents a complete biography of Da Vinci from start to end, whose remarkable story inspires us even today. On April 15, 1492, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the town of Vinci. His parents were Ser Piero, a legal official, and Caterina, a peasant. His father brought Da Vinci, who was born out of wedlock, into his home, when he was three. Da Vinci went to study under Andrea del Verrocchio in 1467 when he was fifteen. Like any apprentice,...
76) Abandoned Havana
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Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His "diary of dystopia"-an unexpected fusion of images and words-brings us closer to Havana's scaffolded and crumbling facades, ramshackle waterfronts, and teeming human bodies. In this book, as beautiful and bleak as Havana itself, Pardo guides us through the relics and fables of...
77) Stephen King
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»King kennt alle Träume, die ewigen wie die aktuellen, die bösen wie die guten, und erzählt sie mit einer Stimme, die man nie vergisst.«
Stephen King hat über 400 Millionen Bücher in 40 Sprachen verkauft. Sehr viele, von "The Shining" bis "The Stand", sind verfilmt worden. Kolleginnen und Kollegen loben King, den Respekt von Kritik und Literaturwissenschaft hat er sich hart erkämpft – mit Stoffen, die Grauen erregen, Lust bereiten und Erkenntnis...
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Winner of the 1991 New American Writing Award. Originally published in 1952, this poignant, romantic biography of the poet Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) is well worth a second chance. From early on, Lindsay was a wanderer, tramping hundreds of miles along country roads, visiting small towns, never holding a job, writing poems of uplift and defiance, and giving them, or his drawings, away on the streets, selling them for food or declaiming them on...
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I worked, toured, and recorded with Duke Ellington for the last two years of his life – a period that was the highlight of my career. In my memoirs, The Essence and Duke Ellington, I aim to convey the spirit within the heart of the jazz musician, particularly Duke Ellington. I want to show what drove him and other musicians, past and present, to play and compose this wonderful music. I also depict Duke Ellington's greatness as a human being, not...
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Diana Souhami's critically acclaimed biography of lesbian painter Hannah Gluckstein-the woman, the artist, the legend To her family, Hannah Gluckstein was known as Hig. To Edith Shackleton Heald, the journalist with whom she lived for almost forty years, she was Dearest Grub. And to the art world, she was simply Gluck. She was born in 1895 into a life of privilege. Her family had founded J. Lyons & Co., a vast catering empire. From the beginning...