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The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions-with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others legendary artists.
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of...
2) Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch, nacido en 1863, fue el artista más popular de Noruega. Sus pinturas de aspecto meditabundo y angustioso están basadas en su propia pena y obsesiones, y fueron piezas clave en el desarrollo del expresionismo. Durante su niñez, la muerte de su madre, su hermano y hermana, así como la enfermedad mental de otra de sus hermanas, tuvieron una fuerte influencia sobre su arte convulso y tortuoso. En sus obras, Munch rondaba con insistencia...
3) Dracula
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Transylvanian mystique and legendary hauntedness surround the most infamous Bram Stoker's protagonists, forming a legacy that allows the myth to continue into modern times, maintaining a cultish following, yet broadening to a general fascination. Intrigued by evil and gore, Stoker developed a literary presence that was effortlessly translated to screen by the likes of Murnau, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and Francis Ford Coppola. Dracula became such...
4) John Piper
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Published to accompany the John Piper exhibition at the Tate Liverpool and written by its curator, this book presents a comprehensive examination of the English artist's role as champion of modernism in Britain. John Piper (1903–1992) is renowned for his extraordinarily diverse practice that embraced landscape, architectural and abstract compositions, as well as his theatre and stage sets for Benjamin Britten and his stained-glass windows. The exhibition...
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