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The Patagonian HareA Memoir
"Even if I lived a hundred lives, I still wouldn't be exhausted." These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann, a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen, a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoir, and the director of one of the most important films in the history of cinema, Shoah. In these …
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- 9781466804982
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GiacomettiA Biography
The work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's intriguing life story. From modest beginnings in a Swiss village, Giacometti went on to flourish in the picturesque milieu of prewar Paris and then to achieve international acclaim in the fifties and sixties. Picasso, Balthus, Samuel Beckett, …
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- 9781466815124
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Algo más que un sueño. Una historia de vida
Estamos ante la vida y obra de Arquímedes Romo, quien, de guajirito iletrado, pobre y tartamudo, se convierte en un locuaz locutor, formador de una pléyade de profesionales de la voz; es fundador de la Cátedra Nacional de Locución; cantante y escritor de décimas y tonadas campesinas; guionista; periodista y conductor, así como director de programas. También devino comentarista deportivo;…
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- 9789597268970
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- 1 online resource (228 pages)
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George OhrSophisticate and Rube
The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr (1857–1918), was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this view offers a narrow understanding of the …
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- 9781628468816
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- 1 online resource (206 pages)
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Cartoon CountyMy Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation's top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone's throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut—a bit of bohemia in the middle of those men in th…
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Glory in a LineA Life of Foujita, the Artist Caught Between East & West
The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s Paris When we think of expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century, certain names come to mind: Hemingway, Picasso, Modigliani—and Foujita, the Japanese artist whose distinctive works, bringing elements of Japanese art to Western oil painting, made…
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- 9780374706968
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- 1 online resource (379 pages)
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American MirrorThe Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
"Vivid and touching . . . This is the definitive biography of an American master who came in through the back door." —Steve Martin A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography Shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this…
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- 9780374711047
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Victor HugoJahrhundertmensch
Hunderttausende feierten am 26. Februar 1881 auf den Straßen von Paris den 79. Geburtstag einer Ikone, die Avenue d'Eylau, die bald in Avenue Victor Hugo umbenannt werden sollte, war erfüllt von den Rufen der Menge: »Vive Victor Hugo! Vive la République!« Wer so bejubelt wird, dessen Leben kann keineswegs nur eine Sache des Papiers sein. Walburga Hülk erzählt einfühlsam und bildreich, …
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- 9783751820363
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American WorkmanThe Life and Art of John Kane
American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane's life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh in the early twentieth century, the authors explore how these occupations shaped …
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Antoni Gaudí
An accessible account of the contradictory life and work of the modernist Catalan architect. The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí was a contradictory figure: a deeply religious, politically right-wing man who nevertheless built revolutionary buildings. This book explores Gaudí's life, work, and influences from Catalan nationalism to the industrial revolution. Michael Eaude expert…
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- 9781789148787
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