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Gainsborough: a portrait
By James Hamilton. 2017
Thomas Gainsborough was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a volatility that could lead him to slash his…
paintings, and a loose libidinous way of speaking, writing and behaving that shocked many deeply. James Hamilton reveals Gainsborough in his many contexts: the easy-going Suffolk lad; the rake-on-the-make in London; and the top society-portrait painter. 2017.Wild and woolly: tails from a woodland studio
By Linda Johns. 2000
Linda Johns, a full-time painter and sculptor, has opened her heart and the doors of her woodland home and studio…
in rural Nova Scotia to a constant stream of stray and wounded creatures - some of them have moved in permanently. In "Wild and Woolly", she records a year lived in harmony with the seasons and - not always harmoniously - with her many furred and feathered companions. 2000.We were brothers: a memoir (Southern voices)
By Barry Moser. 2016
Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went…
to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. The brothers began to think so differently that they could no longer find common ground. After one particularly fractious conversation when Barry was in his late fifties and Tommy was in his early sixties, their fragile relationship fell apart. With the raw emotions that so often surface when we talk of our siblings, Barry recalls how they were finally able to traverse that great divide and reconcile their troubled brotherhood before it was too late. 2016.Vermeer's hat: the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
By Timothy Brook. 2008
A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl, while in another, a…
woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. These pictures offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe, and shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2008.Une femme
By Anne Delbée. 1982
Pour la première fois, un livre nous révèle la vie extraordinaire de Camille Claudel. Soeur ainée de l'écrivain Paul Claudel,…
Camille a connu, en tant que femme et en tant qu'artiste (sculpteur), un destin hors du commun. 1982.Tout pour être heureuse
By Priscille Deborah, Julia Pavlowitch-Beck, Élise Bergeron. 2015
" Comment se donner le droit d'exister quand son frère de neuf ans vient de mourir d'une maladie incurable? Prisonnière…
de ce drame familial, Priscille Deborah peine à donner un sens à sa vie. Longtemps, elle se refuse au bonheur. Jeune mariée et professionnelle brillante, elle est rattrapée par la dépression. L'amour des siens n'y peut rien: à bout de forces, elle se jette devant le métro. Sauvée par miracle, elle se réveille sur un lit d'hôpital amputée des deux jambes et d'un bras. Elle est un bloc de désespoir, d'amertume et de honte. Son salut vient de plusieurs rencontres. Elle retrouve la force de vivre, cesse de sauver les apparences, solde les comptes du passé et renoue avec sa passion de toujours: la peinture. En quelques années, elle devient une artiste exposée dans le monde entier. Aujourd'hui, avec son compagnon et ses deux filles, Priscille Deborah a enfin trouvé le bonheur. Oui, chaque heure est une lutte acharnée contre le handicap. Mais Tout pour être heureuse témoigne d'une incroyable histoire de résilience, de création et d'amour. Je suis tombée amoureuse de la vie. "The unknown Matisse: a life of Henri Matisse: the early years, 1869-1908
By Hilary Spurling. 2001
Hilary Spurling presents an account of Matisse's early life, from his beginnings as the son of shopkeepers in Flanders through…
his impoverished days as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Tracing Matisse's life through his thirties, Spurling describes how the artist's stubborn northern temperament helped sustain him through many challenges, both artistic and financial, as he found his way as a painter. 2001.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 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 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.