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Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to...
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to...
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"Gruen chronicles his adventures as one of the preeminent photographers of rock and roll in his spectacular memoir . . . a roller-coaster narrative" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has documented...
Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has documented...
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2011
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The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural mecca that would become the talk of the art world during the yeasty years between the two world wars. The first in the United States...
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Accusé de subversion politique, Dostoïevski fut à l'âge de vingt-huit ans condamné aux travaux forcés dans un bagne de Sibérie. Il fit dans ces Souvenirs le récit de cette terrible expérience dans la maison des morts qui allait transformer sa vision du monde et du peuple russe et le « ressusciter ».
« Je me sentais un peu souffrant ces jours-ci, et je lisais la Maison des morts. Je n'en avais gardé qu'un souvenir incertain et j'ai...
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The definitive biography of the last iconic fashion designer
"It starts with me and it ends with me."
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...
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She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she's right. She shortens the electric cords in the house to save electricity. That's the character Gracie Allen has played for years. And for all that time people have asked George Burns, "How do you stand it? Why do you put up with it?" And for twenty-eight years George has been answering, "I love her, that's why!" This story of the life George Burns...
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Step into the captivating world of Jiří Trnka, the pioneering master of stop-motion animation, as you embark on a fascinating journey through his life and artistry in "Jiri Trnka: Stop Motion Animation, Puppets, and Political Change." This meticulously researched biography unveils the remarkable story of a visionary artist whose unique blend of creativity and political consciousness revolutionized the world of animation.Delve into the pages and...
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The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem-and a granddaughter's search for his legacy.
Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light and beckon the eye. These colorful wares-known as Armenian ceramics-are iconic features of the Holy City. Silently, these works of ceramic art-art that also graces homes and museums around the world-represent...
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Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions-sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories. Peter D. Kramer-acclaimed author, practicing psychiatrist, and a leading national authority...
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Growing up as the only child of a woodcarver with a passion for birds was strange enough. But when I acquired a sibling, life got weird-considering that sibling was a museum.
The milestones of my childhood involved hiking through bogs, snipping foliage out of aluminum pie pans, driving an opinionated tractor, and handing out pamphlets as a child activist. Through it all was my father, Bob Spear, a force of nature disguised as a quiet man. He created...
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Ben Wood is a larger-than-life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and wonderful stories from the back blocks of the American South in the 1950s through to the glittering skylines of the 21st century. His design of the Xintiandi area of Shanghai set the standard for urban renewal across all of China's cities, but that's just the...
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D'o lui vient cette fascination pour les chutes? Qu'est-ce qui le pousse à se laisser tomber d'une branche d'arbre, du toit de sa maison ou encore, à vélo, dans un canal? Faut-il chercher du cté de la petite enfance et de cet équilibre introuvable qui fait tomber à longueur de temps? Ou est-ce pour être à la hauteur mais plus bas, bien sûr, que celle de son père, ce héros de guerre? Ou encore uniquement pour le goût d' aller contre un...
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Mary Pratt is famous throughout Canada for her luminous paintings and prints. Her 1995 exhibition, The Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light drew record-breaking crowds on its tour of Canada. It also resulted in an unprecedented amount of press coverage on the biographical content of her work. The accompanying book by Tom Smart sold more than 6,000 copies and made almost every "best book of the year" list in Canada. Mary Pratt: A Personal Calligraphy...
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L'écrivain toulousain Joël Fauré, amoureux de Jacques Brel, raconte son idole comme si c'était son ami de toujours.
Jacques Brel nous a quittés le 9 octobre 1978. Plus qu'un chanteur, il fut un artiste complet, un homme attachant, un poète qui brûla la vie par les deux bouts. Il laisse un patrimoine inestimable. Ses chansons ont marqué toutes les générations et continuent de séduire aujourd'hui même les plus jeunes interprètes.
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Cayman was known as "The Islands that time forgot". However, Bob Soto woke it up when he started the world's first scuba diving company in 1957. He brought it to great success with his talent for marketing. Bob produced Cayman's first promotional film, to advertise the island's sun, sea, sand and amazing underwater beauty. With his permission, the Department of Tourism used the movie as their main advertising tool for many years. It was not long before...
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Master of Deception tells of a son's search for his father amid the fabric of family, guilt, renunciation, and hidden history in the borderlands of 1950s stage show and trailer park culture.
In the tradition of Geoffrey Wolf's The Duke of Deception and Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle, John-Ivan Palmer's Master of Deception takes readers on the road with his magician father and his mother, the lovely assistant, as they travel from Elks Lodges to...
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Des conversations avec Stanislavski inspirent à Georgette Leblanc les représentations de La Tragédie de Macbeth et de Pelléas et Mélisande à l'abbaye de Saint-Wandrille, sa résidence d'été. Femme d'énergie, elle sert le théâtre de Maeterlinck avec un dévouement absolu à Paris et dans les grandes capitales européennes.
Leur dialogue amoureux et intellectuel continue, exigeant et rude, jusqu'à la rupture en 1918. Le Prix Nobel lui avait...
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« Il faut que tu écrives comme si personne n'allait te lire; écrire pour toi, être authentique, avec tes tripes, sans nuance, ça doit te ressembler sinon ton œuvre aura le goût du commun et l'attrait du banal. Ce sont approximativement les paroles d'un éditeur à son écrivain. Alors que je suis avachie dans mon divan un dimanche pluvieux d'octobre devant un film, cette phrase résonne en moi comme un pistolet de starter qui donne le départ...
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