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The shameful life of Salvador Dalí
By Ian Gibson. 1998
Biography of the twentieth-century surrealist Spanish painter. Gibson describes Dalí's escapades in Europe, New York, and Hollywood. Explores his confused…
sexual relationships with poet García Lorca and others, and the role of the painter's superstitious wife, Gala. Examines Dalí's major accomplishments, all achieved before age forty; summarizes events preceding his death in 1989. 1998.The rare and the beautiful: the art, loves, and lives of the Garman sisters
By Cressida Connolly. 2004
The scandalous, bohemian Garman sisters were famous for their passion for the arts, defiance of convention, and the power to…
turn heads and break hearts. Kathleen, an artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover of sculptor Jacob Epstein; Mary married poet Roy Campbell; and Lorna became the lover of poet Laurie Lee and of painter Lucian Freud. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The perfect house: a journey with the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
By Witold Rybczynski. 2002
An appreciation of the residential work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The author provides a detailed analysis, both historical and…
architectural, of ten of the 30 villas attributed to Palladio. Includes biographical detail, precise descriptions of design elements, and insights into daily life in the 16th century. 2002.The paper garden: an artist {begins her life's work} at 72 (Maple leaf audio)
By Molly Peacock. 2011
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age…
of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper "mosaick" flowers still revered today. 2011.The mind's eye
By Oliver W Sacks. 2010
Neurologist uses case studies to illustrate the brain’s ability to adapt to lost senses. Discusses a concert pianist who can…
no longer read music, a writer who is unable to read print after suffering a stroke, and Sacks’s own macular melanoma and its effects on his visual perception. 2010.The many deaths of Tom Thomson: separating fact from fiction
By Gregory Klages. 2016
Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson, the book offers a…
review of the historical record, testimony, and archives about the artist's tragic and mysterious demise. Putting the whole range of theories under examination, the author separates truth from legend in this great Canadian mystery. 2016.The life of William Morris
By J. W Mackail. 1995
William Morris was a poet, an artist, a manufacturer and a socialist whose works and ideas had a great effect…
on Victorian art, design and industry. This biography was first published within a few years of his death and remains the primary biographical source on his life and work. 1995.The last mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the hidden history of Hollywood
By Dennis McDougal. 1998
Biography of one of Hollywood's most powerful moguls who joined the industry at the beginning of talking films and could…
singlehandedly make or break a career. Wasserman was also a confidant to other powerful people; politicians and businessmen as well as Mafia bosses, as the head of Universal Studios. Some strong language. c1998.The laughing one: a journey to Emily Carr
By S. M Crean. 2001
A combination of historical research and fictionalized accounts of five key periods in the life of Canadian artist and writer…
Emily Carr, that attempts to discover how and why she became a national icon. The book touches on issues of feminism, colonialism, native-white relations, and art, presented in the context of legal and illegal events shaping the fate of BC's native peoples. Crean attempts to discover Carr's true attitude to native culture and to explore not her famous eccentricities but her work. 2001.The inlet: memoir of a modern pioneer
By Helen Piddington. 2001
The human side of diabetes: beyond doctors, diets, and drugs
By Michael W Raymond. 1992
An English professor's account of living with diabetes for nearly thirty years after it was first diagnosed in childhood, before…
coming to terms with the fact that he has a chronic disease. As the title implies, the author stresses the emotional and physical aspects of the person with the disease and discusses how diabetes affects relationships with health-care professionals, friends, and family. Some strong language. 1992.The eye: an insider's memoir of masterpieces, money, and the magnetism of art
By Philippe Costamagna. 2019
This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance…
whose profession is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art market and scholarship alike. 2019. Uniform title: Histoires d'œils.Va où il est impossible d'aller: mémoires
By Costa-Gavras. 2018
Né en Arcadie, dans une Grèce déchirée par l'Occupation et la guerre civile, le jeune Costa-Gavras arrive à Paris en…
1955, immigré sans argent. Son rêve : suivre des études. Au hasard des rencontres, il découvrira la Sorbonne, la Cinémathèque d'Henri Langlois, et deviendra rapidement l'assistant des plus grands : René Clair, René Clément, Jacques Demy, Henri Verneuil, Jean Becker, Jean Giono... Il passe à la réalisation avec un premier film coup de poing, Compartiment tueurs. Et enchaîne les succès internationaux : ce sera Z, L'Aveu, Section spéciale, Music Box, Missing, Amen... Il est l'auteur de dix-huit films qui ont autant changé le cinéma que notre manière de voir le monde. Ses Mémoires retracent sa jeunesse, sa vie d' avant , et fourmillent de détails sur Hollywood, les acteurs, les tournages... On y croise bien sûr des légendes, Luis Bunuel ou John Ford, des actrices et acteurs tels Romy Schneider, Jessica Lange, Jean Seberg, Jack Lemmon, Marlon Brando, John Travolta ou Dustin Hoffman. Mais plus encore, ce livre redonne vie à une magnifique famille de pensée dont il suffit d'évoquer les noms - Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprún, Salvador Allende, Artur et Lise London, Chris Marker, Romain Gary - pour faire comprendre que Costa-Gavras a été nourri des plus grands rêves de notre époque, comme de ses combats les plus rudes. 2018.You must change your life: the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
By Rachel Corbett. 2016
In 1902, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and suffering from writer’s block, accepted a commission to go to Paris to…
research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rodin in his sixties, notoriously carnal, revered; Rilke in his twenties, delicate, unknown. Nonetheless, they fell into an instantaneous friendship and would work closely together as master and disciple for the next few years, as Rodin showed Rilke how to become the writer he wished to be. Corbett transports readers to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris to explore this surprising friendship and the development of their influential ideas about art and creativity. 2016.Ma vie avec Chagall
By Virginia Haggard-Leirens, Eleonore Bakhtadze. 1987
En 1945, Chagall jouit d'une renommée mondiale lorsqu'il rencontre Virginia Haggard. Elle a trente ans de moins que lui. Une…
liaison profonde, marquée par l'admiration et l'entraide mutuelle, va les unir pendant sept ans. 1987.Artemisia, ou, La Renommée
By Rauda Jamis. 1990
Biographie d'Artemisia Gentileschi, femme peintre (1593-1653), dont le destin fut aussi brillant que dramatique. Violée à l'âge de 18 ans…
par son professeur de perspective, il en résultera un procès resté dans les annales. 1990.Léonard de Vinci: l'homme et son temps
By Sylvia Alberti de Mazzari, Bernard Guyader. 1987
Il n'est sans doute pas d'artiste qui soit aussi connu et méconnu que Léonard de Vinci. Connu parce que ses…
oeuvres ont fait couler beaucoup d'encre, et méconnu parce que rares sont ceux qui ont cherché à explorer, derrière le génie, sa vie d'homme et d'artiste plongé dans le monde effervescent de la Renaissance. 1987.La vie de Toulouse Lautrec
By Henri Perruchot. 1981
Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), évolue dans le décor de Montmartre. Sous les lumières éclatantes et factices de la butte, son visage apparait…
dans les bars et les maisons closes. Il se lie avec Tristan Bernard, fréquente les vélodromes et, surtout, il peint. 1981.La vie de Cézanne
By Henri Perruchot. 1956
La vie de grand peintre français. De son enfance, en Provence, à sa mort. Un homme qui se laissait difficilement…
approcher, dont la peinture souleva beaucoup d'hostilité, mais qui laissa de grandes influences. 1956.Linnea in Monet's garden
By Christina Björk, Claude Monet. 1985
Young Linnea and her neighbour, Mr. Bloom, take a delightful trip to Paris to visit the home and garden of…
the famous artist, Claude Monet, who received much of his inspiration from his garden. Grades 3-6. 1985. Uniform title: Linnea i målarens trädgård.