Forse no Forse si. Schegge di vita

Claudio Greco, artista calabrese, poliedrico e versatile, si racconta attraverso una narrazione a schegge. Le sue pagine sono brevi, essenziali, apparentemente esili come piccoli tasselli che si susseguono e si inseguono tra le onde della vita. Sta qui l'unicità e la complessità di questa scrittura che realizza un'equazione esistenziale: la vita dell'Autore, spezzata e sincopata, si riflette …

Edvard MunchBehind the Scream

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Toni Servillo. Oltre l'attore

«Io credo che un grande testo drammatico sia organizzato come un congegno, una bomba. Bisogna trovare il modo per accendere la miccia e farlo esplodere». E questo modo, Toni Servillo pare averlo proprio trovato. Con il suo lavoro di attore cinematografico, Servillo – protagonista del film La grande bellezza di Paolo Sorrentino – ha segnato il tempo presente, e non solo in Italia. Basti pe…

Sophie Halaby in JerusalemAn Artist’s Life

A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life. She was born in 1906 in Kiev to a Russian mother and a Christian Arab father. Her family fled to Jerusalem in 1917 in the wake of the Russian Revolution. Her life was marked by violence and war, including…

Michelangelo, God's ArchitectThe Story of His Final Years and Greatest Master…

The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades—and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor be…

Se non ricordo maleFrammenti autobiografici raccolti da Domenico Monetti e Lu…

«Ho fatto il partigiano nelle valli bergamasche, ho preparato carte d'identità false per gli ebrei, ho venduto armi, ho bocciato le poesie di un giovane Pasolini, ho fatto da guida a Le Corbusier, ho incontrato Orson Welles, ho diviso la povertà con Marco Ferreri e i ricordi di guerra con Fenoglio, sono stato aiuto regista di Zurlini, Ettore Giannini e Rosi, ho lavorato nella famosa Lux Film…

Becoming Andy Warhol

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9781613129296

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Elsie de Wolfe's ParisFrivolity Before the Storm

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9781613129807

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All in Good TimeReflections of a Watchmaker

All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has d…

The Substance and the Shadow

In 1878, the author Marius Roux, a noted friend of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne, published La proie et l'ombre, a little-known roman à clef featuring a thinly disguised Cézanne as the main character, Germain Rambert. The text prominently features several conversations drawn from famous Impressionist discussions on the nature of art. La proie et l'ombre offers a unique insight into the thought…