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41) Vincent van Gogh
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Van Gogh's distinctive style of expressive brushstrokes and bold colors is now world famous, but during his lifetime the artist was met with cold disinterest from his contemporaries.
This book explores the fascinating life story of this tortured soul, who came late to art and suffered throughout his life from anxiety and depression. It unravels the influences behind his artworks, from the luminous landscapes of the south of France to the Japanese...
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the foremost Impressionist artists, known for his en plein air scenes of middle-class leisure. But Renoir's primary interest lay indoors, in depictions of sensuous female nudes and intimate domestic scenes, painted in a warm, bright palette.
This book explores the life and work of this leading light of Impressionism, showcasing his best-loved artwork alongside fascinating biographical detail. It also examines the...
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#1 I went to the House to speak to Gerry a few days after receiving his voicemail.
#2 I went to the House to speak to Gerry, and met a boy named Leon, who was Black. He was a bit shorter than me, but I didn't say anything.
#3 I went to visit Gerry and met a boy named Leon, who told me that people didn't cook. I decided that if Leon agreed to help, cooking could work....
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John DeAndrea, an internationally recognized sculptor famous for his eerily lifelike nudes, developed his art while coping with the effects of sexual abuse by a female housekeeper that began at age 6, years of physical abuse by an alcoholic father, and a left arm made useless by childhood polio. "Autobiography" explains an artist and his art. But, the mission closer to DeAndrea's heart is helping men who suffered boyhood trauma but haven't managed...
45) Paolo Noël 2
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La réussite de Paolo l'entraîne dans un tourbillon o il perd de vue ses priorités. Marié, père de jeunes enfants, il se sent constamment tiraillé entre sa carrière, qu'il veut poursuivre à tout prix, et sa famille. Poussé par son besoin d'amour irrépressible, il va de conquête en conquête, de mauvais choix en mauvaises décisions. Tant sur le plan personnel que professionnel, des personnes animées d'intentions plus ou moins honnêtes...
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Bobby Tulloch, known to his pals as 'Tucker', was the son of a crofter in the island of Yell. He'd started his working life as a baker and became, through his own extraordinary talents and a certain amount of good luck, a renowned field ornithologist, tour guide, author and wildlife photographer. He was also an accomplished musician and songwriter, a skilled fisherman and a daring (some would say reckless) navigator of small boats among big rocks....
47) Oveja Negra
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Oveja Negra es una autobiografía del proceso de sanación de Cynthia Wright durante varios años de trabajo personal, donde narra algunos eventos traumáticos que le sucedieron, como el suicidio de su hermano Allan. Esto marcó su vida y la de su familia. Más allá de victimizarse, encontró el significado y optó por el aprendizaje. En este libro, Cynthia muestra que los problemas de pareja, enfermedades, traumas dolorosos, falta de abundancia,...
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Get the Summary of Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Hare with Amber Eyes" chronicles the journey of the Ephrussi family's netsuke collection, set against the backdrop of the family's rise and fall. The Ephrussis, a wealthy Jewish banking dynasty, originated in Odessa and expanded their empire to Vienna and Paris. Charles Ephrussi, an art connoisseur in Paris, initially...
49) Vejestud
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Los momentos posteriores a la meditación diaria, los ratos de esparcimiento en el hogar, las horas de espera en aeropuertos y en vuelos al trasladarme de un país a otro, son espacios para reflexionar, rememorar, evaluar, proyec- tar o pasar revista de mis actos y de mis pensamientos... Y, muy particularmente, para visualizar la vida desde la pers- pectiva cronológica en que ésta se halla: etapa a la que me ha dado por llamar vejestud, como reflejo...
50) Walter Sickert
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This edition does not include illustrations.
The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley.
Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence. His career spanned...
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Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano nació en 1940. De niño siempre quiso ser santo o futbolista, pero una crisis existencial, a los 19 años, cambió drásticamente su destino. Aquel joven cristiano, con aspiraciones deportistas, se despojó de viejas ataduras para convertirse en el Eduardo Galeano periodista, anticlerical, apasionado, indignado, en el patadura que abrazó la causa de los "nadies" y se volcó de lleno a establecer un vínculo...
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Here are the significant events that have shaped my life. I feel that the time is right to document these stories and secure them in history. The first chapter details how candidate Eisenhower fails to shake my hand after we had walked a long way late at night as a young boy. Although I was disappointed at the moment this still had a significant and lasting impact on my early life. And gave me a great idea of who are Presidents are. Although just...
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An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown. Images of his silvery wig and glasses are as famous as his renderings of soup cans and Brillo boxes-controversial works that elevated commerce...
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En esta novela gráfica, Danielle de Picciotto relata e ilustra el viaje sin retorno que inició en 2010 junto a su pareja Alexander Hacke, miembro fundador de la mítica banda post-punk Einstürzende Neubauten, en búsqueda de una ciudad que les entusiasmara tanto como ese Berlín de finales de los ochenta en el que ella co-fundó la Love Parade.
Entre diario y crónica de viaje, este libro explora el nomadismo como una opción de vida frente a la...
55) Escape Artist
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William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation's largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor's edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture.
After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and...
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Herbert Woodward Martin is a prize-winning poet and performer, an actor and playwright, a singer and opera librettist, a professor, and a scholar. Born in Alabama in 1933, Martin and his family moved to Toledo, Ohio when Herbert was twelve years old. His parents appreciated literature and music and saw to it that their young son was immersed in the arts. Martin began to write poetry during his undergraduate years at the University of Toledo, from...
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Prisciliano Sánchez ocupa un lugar en la historia política nacional y jalisciense, aquella que inició a principios de la década de los veinte del siglo xix, hace ya un poco más de 180 años, vertiente fundada como parte de la formación de historiadores, juristas, políticos, entre otros. La aportación que se le atribuye fue haber sido uno de los principales promotores del federalismo en México, a través de sus discursos y escritos promovía...
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A captivating exploration of the life, work, and insider insight of legendary film producer Howard Kazanjian
Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whose career spans 50 years, has collaborated with Hollywood legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, and worked on such classics as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. Complete with personal anecdotes from the...
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Ed Pusick was a quiet and eccentric man, a bachelor all his life, whose passion was his artwork. After his time in the Navy when an accident disabled his legs for the rest of his life, Ed became a source of many inventive designs as a professional but apparently never took the trouble to seek patents, recognition, nor much gratitude for his work. Ed later drew sketches as an illustrator for an architectural firm in Grand Rapids, where he met a co-worker...
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In his new prose collection, “On the Eve of Never Departing”, Richard von Sturmer shines his clear, poetic light on a number of subjects, ranging from growing up in Auckland in the 1970's to Zen encounters in T'ang Dynasty China. Landscapes and paintings play a predominant role, and the reader will find him/herself exploring the south-western deserts of the United States as well as the canvases of Antonello da Messina and Casper David Friedrich....
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