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Berthe Morisot: le secret de la femme en noir
By Dominique Bona. 2000
Portrait d'une femme libre, issue d'une famille bourgeoise, modèle d'Edouard Manet et épouse de son frère Eugène, puis peintre à…
son tour. Elle fut admirée des impressionnistes, Degas, Renoir, Monet, amie de Fantin-Latour, Henri de Régnier, Mallarmé, etc.La vieillesse n'est pas une maladie: Alzheimer, un diagnostic bien commode
By Alain Jean. 2015
" De tout temps, on a parlé de sénilité . Mais aujourd'hui, avec l'augmentation de l'espérance de vie, le regard…
sur les personnes âgées souffrant d'un déficit cognitif lié tout simplement au vieillissement cérébral a changé. Et avec lui, le diagnostic de la maladie d'Alzheimer, qui s'est considérablement étendu. Poser l'étiquette Alzheimer sur une personne ne fait qu'exprimer l'horreur qu'inspire le vieillissement à une société qui se croit éternellement jeune. Et à en exclure ainsi une partie de la population, nous dit Alain Jean, médecin généraliste et gériatre hospitalier, dans ce livre dérangeant et bouleversant. En nous faisant partager avec une profonde empathie ce que ressentent des personnes très âgées pour qui présent et passé se mêlent, deviennent de plus en plus flous, il aborde un débat plus que d'actualité : à force de vouloir maîtriser à tout prix la vieillesse et la mort, n'est-ce pas la médecine qui perd la raison ? " -- 4e de couv.Frida Kahlo: la beauté terrible (Documents)
By Gérard De Cortanze. 2011
Bouquet de bohème (Bibliothèque Albin Michel #24)
By Roland Dorgelès. 1989
Je danserai pour toi (Le Temps d'une vie)
By Michel Cool, Mireille Nègre. 1984
À vingt-huit ans, en pleine gloire, Mireille Nègre, danseuse à l'opéra de Paris, découvre Dieu. Conversion radicale. Elle entre au…
Carmel. Elle y restera 10 ans. Dans ce livre elle raconte son combat spirituel. 1984.Gauguin, le rêveur de Tahiti
By Bernard Genies. 2003
En mars 1891, Paul Gauguin s'embarque pour Tahiti. Il va rejoindre cette terre lointaine afin d'y côtoyer, comme il l'affirme,…
«le sauvage, le primitif ». Il a quarante-trois ans et a décidé de tout sacrifier à son art. Lui qui a commencé par être agent remisier à la Bourse, gagnant bien sa vie, père de cinq enfants, il abandonne sa famille, ses amis. Ce premier séjour va durer deux ans. De retour en France, Gauguin espère que les soixante-dix toiles qu'il a peintes en Polynésie vont séduire les marchands et les critiques. C'est un échec total. Blessé, Gauguin décide de reprendre le chemin de Tahiti, où il passera les huit dernières années de sa vie. Pourquoi a-t-il résolu de s'enfuir, si loin du monde ? Qui sont les êtres, quelles sont les circonstances qui l'ont incité à prendre une décision qui le condamne à l'oubli ? Mystère d'un départ, énigme aussi que les plus extraordinaires chefs-d'oeuvre de Gauguin soient contemporains du cauchemar et de la désillusion. Seul, pauvre, rongé par la maladie, Gauguin dit en effet dans ses toiles la beauté du monde, ses fastes et ses secrets. Ce livre raconte une histoire. Celle d'un homme dont la vie peu à peu se consume sous le soleil brûlant des tropiques. Celle aussi d'un artiste qui revendiquait «le droit de tout oser». Oser l'audace, oser la beauté.Delacroix (Folio. Biographies ; #135)
By Frédéric Martinez. 2016
Une biographie du peintre dont la personnalité reste moins connue que ses oeuvres. Peintre officiel du second Empire, il fut…
tantôt encensé, tantôt méprisé pour ses choix artistiques. À la fois mondain et misanthrope, romantique et sauvage, il influença de nombreux artistes. 2016.Chanel: her life, her world, the woman behind the legend
By Edmonde Charles-Roux, Nancy Amphoux. 1975
She revolutionized how women looked: she banned corsets, shortened skirts, and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel…
was an icon, but how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth? Born illegitimate and raised in an orphanage - not by the two aunts that she invented - Gabrielle Chanel fought constantly to escape the mundane. She rose from back-street milliner to become the head of a vast business empire, and socialised with Picasso, Stravinsky and Cocteau. The author also reveals one of Chanel's best-kept secrets - her love affair with a prodigal German spy. 2009, c1975. Uniform title: Irreguliere, ou, mon itineraire Chanel.Klee Wyck
By Emily Carr. 1941
Emily Carr was called Klee Wyck, or Laughing One, by the Indians of British Columbia. In the late 1930's, she…
went among their coastal villages to paint their totems and record visual evidence of native culture. She also recorded her observations of the people and their way of life. First published in 1941. Winner of the 1941 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.It's not what you think
By Chris Evans. 2009
Chris Evans' autobiography is a story of how a boy from a Warrington council estate who started work at 13…
and held down 20 different jobs by the time he left school; became the most widely acclaimed broadcaster of his generation. From the early death of his father that literally set him to work, to his meteoric rise in TV and radio, he will talk openly about the highs and lows of his, at times, turbulent career and how his drive to succeed impacted his personal life. Includes strong language. 2009.Isadora: portrait of the artist as a woman
By Fredrika Blair. 1986
I'm too young for this!: the natural hormone solution to enjoy perimenopause
By Suzanne Somers. 2013
If you're in your thirties or forties, your body is changing, and so are your moods, sleep, health, and weight.…
Tired of being at the mercy of your hormones? Well, you don't have to be; perimenopause can be enjoyable if you know what to do. This book details how you can get your body and mind back on track, safely and without drugs. Bestseller. c2013.Arthur Erickson: an architect's life
By David Stouck. 2013
Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher-architect, was renowned for his innovative approach to landscape, his genius for spatial composition and his…
epic vision of architecture for people. This first full biography traces his life from its modest origins to his emergence on the world stage. Grounded in interviews with Erickson and his family, friends and clients, "Arthur Erickson" is both an intimate portrait of the man and a stirring account of how he made his buildings work. 2013.Genius of common sense: Jane Jacobs and the story of The death and life of great American cities
By Glenna Lang, Marjory Wunsch. 2009
Jane Jacobs's book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" created a revolution in the early 1960's, affecting city…
planning and architecture and the way we think about how life is lived in packed urban centers. This was an era when the urban renewal movement was at its most aggressive, and Jacobs correctly perceived that the new structures that were being built to replace the aging housing of our older cities were often far worse. Her ideas quickly took hold, and no one ever looked at what made for liveable and viable neighbourhoods the same way again. Grades 5-8. 2009.Defiant spirits: the modernist revolution of the Group of Seven
By Ross King. 2010
Traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend…
of modernist styles, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the international avant-garde. Reconstructs the men's aspirations, frustrations and achievements, while detailing the political and social history of Canada during that time. 2010.Flying colours: the Toni Onley story
By Toni Onley, Gregory Strong. 2002
Artist Toni Onley's serene and spectacular landscapes are known to millions, but the man behind the brush has remained an…
intriguing enigma - until now. Here, Onley paints a self-portrait in words, a sweeping canvas that stretches from the Isle of Man to a plane wreck on a British Columbia glacier. 2002.This book explores the idea that sensing how long we can live is a latent capacity in us, currently unknown--just…
like the introduction of fire, the invention of flying, and the discovery of radio waves were before we "discovered" them. Understand how the knowledge of transcendence, consciousness, and self-healing are integral to your well-being. 2018.Broad strokes: 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
By Lisa Congdon, Bridget Quinn. 2017
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop…
culture, "Broad strokes" offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of fifteen brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book. 2017.From here to eternity: traveling the world to find the good death
By Caitlin Doughty. 2017
Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for…
their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning--including a glowing Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre--and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals. Bestseller. 2017.American rhapsody: writers, musicians, millionaires, movie stars, and one great building
By Claudia Roth Pierpont. 2016
Portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. It isn't far…
from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline, the Chrysler Building. Questions of an American acting style are traced from Orson Welles to Marlon Brando, while the new American painting emerges in the gallery of Peggy Guggenheim. And we trace the arc of racial progress from Bert Williams's blackface performances to James Baldwin's warning of the fire next time, however slow and bitter and anguished this progress may be. 2016. Uniform title: New Yorker.