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This Chinese art history book is a study of a single poet-artist-Wang Wei-perhaps the most influential of antiquity. This eighth-century genius, whose versatility is comparable to that of the great Italian Leonardo da Vinci, lived during the Tang Dynasty when the most brilliant cultural period in Chinese history was at its height. Whatever he attempted-as artist, poet, musician, doctor and official-he performed with a master's touch. As a poet he...
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Dans Il te reste la musique, Jean Jacques Kira fait le récit de sa formidable vie d'artiste jonchée d'improbables rencontres, notamment avec Robert Cogoi, Jean Vallée, Dalida, Annie Cordy, Michel Drucker, Dany Saval, Serge Gainsbourg, Maxime Le Forestier et tant d'autres... Cet auteur-compositeur-interprète retrace son parcours original depuis ses débuts au cœur des années soixante jusqu'à nos jours.
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What do you do when your world ends?
At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her-one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog-and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in.
The journey began...
664) The Prosperous Author: How to Make a Living With Your Writing. Word by Word: Some Thoughts on Wri
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Master The Art of Creative UnblockingProlific bestselling author, award-winning artist, holistic therapist, and creativity expert Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych) provides a glimpse into her creative process. In Word By Word: Some Thoughts on Writing, Love, and Life Gaisford reveals dozens of practical and inspirational strategies based on her professional achievements, including how to break through writer's block, beat procrastination and finish...
665) Boundaries
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The architect who designed the celebrated Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., shares the story of her life, her creative inspiration, and her designs.
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A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter As presented with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art...
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"A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss"--
An artist at the center of a landmark era in American art, Schloss writes about the artists, poets, and musicians who were part of the postwar art movements in America. She covers both her life as an artist in America and later in Italy, where she continued to paint and write until her death...
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Karl Lagerfeld stylized himself into a living logo and a myth of the fashion world. In Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion, journalist Alfons Kaiser, who knew Lagerfeld personally for many years, introduces readers to the public and private life of the charismatic fashion designer. Kaiser explores the many eras of Lagerfeld's life: the youthful outsider in the north German flatlands; the urbane genius in Paris; the tireless draftsman; the enthusiastic...
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Despite the flow of books on William Blake, this first full-length life biography published in 1863 remains essential to those who would understand one of the greatest of Englishmen, for the author, Alexander Gilchrist, had one advantage which has been denied to his successors - he could still find people who had known Blake. These personal reminiscences give the book an actuality which few of the later ones have touched. The second and best edition...
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"Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts, while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood. About Women is their extended conversation, in which...
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Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life -- remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience -- and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art journal L'OEIL, which she cofounded in 1955. The result...
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A detailed and definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and most influential caricaturists and artists.
"The definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life -- as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning...
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For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent art museum in the world, all anxious to house their hitherto private assemblage of modern art. In 1949, they awarded all their holdings to the Baltimore...
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Inaugurée au musée André-Malraux du Havre en septembre 2002, puis transportée à la Galleria d'Arte moderna de Turin au printemps 2003, l'exposition Perret, la poétique du béton a été présentée au début de l'année 2004 au palais de la Porte Dorée à Paris (qui accueille provisoirement l'In...
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The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be, found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the streets of New York City. Now, here is the story of his life, his times, and his vision of balance, that created something new, sculpture that is defined by movement.
Before his death in 2002, George Rickey created...
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Décryptez l'art de Jacques-Louis David en moins d'une heure!
Représentant majeur du néoclassicisme français, Jacques-Louis David inscrit son art au cœur de l'histoire, mêlant subtilement à ses sujets antiques les préoccupations de la France révolutionnaire de son époque. Peintre de propagande s'il en est, il met son pinceau au service de la Révolution puis de l'Empire, contribuant à auréoler Napoléon Ier d'une gloire exceptionnelle....
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Après Christian de Portzamparc (1996), Renzo Piano (2000), Jean Nouvel (2001), Morphosis (2006) et Richard Rogers (2007), le Centre Georges-Pompidou a présenté du 11 juin au 22 septembre 2008 la première grande exposition consacrée à l'architecte de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Dominique Perrault...
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An ordinary person, who was a fish farmer and care giver of his mom and dad, starts waking up early in the morning and dictating his thoughts. In sentimental fashion, he addresses letters to his mother and father who have passed, but the topics he explores are universal and cosmic: how seasons transform into eternity, how silence can be filled with sound, how our neighbors are our gold, and how a major illness can become a tool to express one's deepest...
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