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Camille Pissaro: le peintre
By Henri Barras. 1988
Le temps des amours (Souvenirs d'enfance. #4.)
By Marcel Pagnol. 1977
L’année de cinquième; la découverte de la « voca¬tion » poétique; Lagneau, le cancre héroïque, et encore et toujours Lili,…
qui, en compagnie de Marcel, soutient Joseph lors d’une partie de boules d’antho¬logie… Annoncé comme « à paraître » dès la sortie du Temps des secrets, Le Temps des amours (1977) sera différé par un Pagnol pris par d’autres projets et qui, peut-être, retardait le moment de quitter les héros de son enfance. Personne n’y croyait plus lorsque, trois ans après la mort de l’écrivain, ses proches trouvèrent dans ses dossiers un certain nombre de chapitres achevés qui, mis bout à bout, constituaient ce Temps des amours si longtemps attendu.Le temps des secrets (Souvenirs d'enfance. #3.)
By Marcel Pagnol. 1960
Les vacances à La Treille se poursuivent. mais ne se ressemblent plus : Lili doit travailler aux champs avec son…
père, et Marcel rencontre Isabelle, la fille du poète Loïs de Montmajour. Puis ce sera l'arrivée eu classe de sixième et l'entrée en scène de l'inénarrable Lagneau... Poussé par ses lecteurs, et pour son propre plaisir, Pagnol décide de transformer son diptyque en tétralogie, et ses Souvenirs d'enfance en authentique roman de formation, du côté de Kim ou du Livre de la jungle. Dans Le Temps des secrets (1960), le jeune Marcel trahit - provisoirement - l'amitié de Lili pour l'illusion de l'amour, et Pagnol l'écrivain prouve, lorsqu'il croque le poète alcoolique et sa grotesque épouse, qu'il n'a rien perdu de sa vis comica. Le projet prend de l'ampleur, et le livre se termine sans s'achever, dans l'attente du Temps des amours. " La reine, naturellement, c'était elle, et le chevalier, c'était moi. Vous commençâmes par la fabrication de nos costumes, car comme toutes les filles, elle adorait se guignoliser. "Jean Renoir: une vie en oeuvres
By Claude-Jean Philippe. 2005
Claude-Jean Philippe a entrepris de faire vivre de façon directe et sensible la figure de celui que François Truffaut considérait…
comme " le plus grand des cinéastes ". En s'appuyant à la fois sur les écrits de Jean Renoir (entretiens, autobiographie, correspondance et le livre consacré à son père) et sur ses films et projets de films, il retrouve le fil conducteur de sa création, depuis la genèse d'un scénario jusqu'au montage final. Claude-Jean Philippe nous dévoile ainsi quelques-uns des secrets de cette œuvre considérable. Illustré d'anecdotes, son livre nous restitue un Jean Renoir vivant.Farinelli, le castrat des lumières
By Patrick Barbier. 1994
Au XVIIIe siècle, âge d'or de l'opéra, un chanteur domina toutes les scènes de théâtre : le castrat Farinelli. Originaire…
du sud de l'Italie, formé à Naples, il se produisit à Vienne et à Londres avant d'être appelé à Madrid où il resta vingt-deux ans, chantant pour le roi Philippe V puis pour son fils Ferdinand VI, deux grands neurasthéniques qui avaient besoin d'entendre tous les jours sa voix. Comblé d'argent et d'honneurs, il prit sa retraite à Bologne, où toute l'Europe venait lui rendre hommage, du jeune Mozart au vieux Casanova. Cette biographie, qui s'appuie sur une longue correspondance inédite de Farinelli, récemment retrouvée, nous restitue avec autant de brio que d'érudition un siècle de plaisirs, de musique, de culture et de politique.Cézanne
By Henri Barras. 1991
Andy Warhol: le peintre
By Henri Barras. 1988
Montmartre au temps de Picasso: raconté par Henri Barras
By Henri Barras. 1991
Paul Gauguin: le peintre
By Henri Barras. 1988
Sonia Delaunay
By Jeanette Biondi. 1992
With an introduction by Neil Gaiman! In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling…
and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted by madness, murder and a terrible secret. For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to forge multiple careers in movies, television and comics. Yet there's one story he's never told before: his own. Joe's early life nearly defies belief. Raised by damaged adults-a con-man grandfather and a manipulative grandmother, a violent, drunken father and a mother who was repeatedly institutionalized-Joe grew up in abject poverty, living in slums and projects when not on the road, crisscrossing the country in his father's desperate attempts to escape the consequences of his past. To survive his abusive environment Joe found refuge in his beloved comics and his dreams, immersing himself in imaginary worlds populated by superheroes whose amazing powers allowed them to overcome any adversity. The deeper he read, the more he came to realize that he, too, had a superpower: the ability to tell stories and make everything come out the way he wanted it. But even as he found success, he could not escape a dark and shocking secret that hung over his family's past, a violent truth that he uncovered over the course of decades involving mass murder. Straczynski's personal history has always been shrouded in mystery. Becoming Superman lays bare the facts of his life: a story of creation and darkness, hope and success, a larger-than-life villain and a little boy who became the hero of his own life. It is also a compelling behind-the-scenes look at some of the most successful TV series and movies recognized around the world.Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By Laura Cumming. 2019
In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on…
the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she was found in perfect health and happiness. No one was ever accused of a crime. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never discussed it. To the contrary, they deliberately hid it from her, and she did not learn of it for half a century. For many years, while raising her in draconian isolation and protectiveness, her parents also hid the fact that she’d been adopted, and that shortly after the kidnapping, her name was changed from Grace to Betty. Cumming unspools the tale of her mother’s life and unravels the multiple mysteries at its core. She investigates this case of stolen identity with the toolset of a detective and the unique intimacy of a daughter trying to understand her family’s past and its legacies. 2019.The Way Home
By David A. Neel. 2019
David Neel was an infant when his father, a traditional Kwakiutl artist, returned to the ancestors, triggering a series of…
events that would separate David from his homeland and its rich cultural traditions for twenty-five years. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum, the encounter inspired him to return home and follow in his father’s footsteps. Drawing on memory, legend, and his own art, Neel recounts his struggle to reconnect with his culture and become an accomplished Kwakwa_ka_’wakw artist. His memoir is a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome great obstacles and to the power and endurance of Indigenous culture and art.Birds Art Life
By Kyo Maclear. 2017
A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity…
and life—a field guide to things small and significant.For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each of these artists took time away from their work to become observers of natural phenomena. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a local Toronto musician with an equally captivating side passion—he had recently lost his heart to birds. Curious about what prompted this young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature, Kyo decides to follow him for a year and find out. A distilled, crystal-like companion to H Is for Hawk, this memoir celebrates the particular madness of loving and chasing after birds in a big city. Intimate and philosophical, moving with ease between the granular and the grand view, it celebrates the creative and liberating effects of keeping your eyes and ears wide open, and explores what happens when you apply the core lessons of birding to other aspects of life. In one sense, this is a book about disconnection—how our passions can buckle under the demands and emotions of daily life—and about reconnection: how the act of seeking passion and beauty in small ways can lead us to discover our most satisfying life. On a deeper level, it takes up the questions of how we are shaped and nurtured by our parallel passions, and how we might come to cherish not only the world's pristine natural places but also the blemished urban spaces where most of us live. Birds Art Life follows two artists on a yearlong adventure that is at once a meditation on the nature of creativity and a quest for a good and meaningful life.The lives of lucian freud: Fame, 1968-2011
By William Feaver. 2021
The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th…
century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the 20th century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily calls from 1973 until Freud died in 2011, as well as interviews with family and friends were crucial sources for this book. Freud had ferocious energy, worked day and night but his circle was broad including not just other well-known artists but writers, bluebloods, royals in England and Europe, drag queens, fashion models gamblers, bookies and gangsters like the Kray twins. Fierce, rebellious, charismatic, extremely guarded about his life, he was witty, mischievous and a womanizer. This brilliantly researched book begins with the Freuds' life in Berlin, the rise of Hitler and the family's escape to London in 1933 when Lucian was 10. Sigmund Freud was his grandfather and Ernst, his father was an architect. In London in his twenties, his first solo show was in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery. Around this time, Stephen Spender introduced him to Virginia Woolf; at night he was taking Pauline Tennant to the Gargoyle Club, owned by her father and frequented by Dylan Thomas; he was also meeting Sonia Orwell, Cecil Beaton, Auden, Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the Aly Khan, and his muse was a married femme fatale, 13 years older, Lorna Wishart. But it was Francis Bacon who would become his most important influence and the painters Frank Auerbach and David Hockney, close friends. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life—"my work is purely autobiographical"—and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic. This book is a major achievement, a tour de force that reveals the details of the life and innermost thoughts of the greatest portrait painter of our time. Volume I has 41 black and white integrated images, and 2 eight-page color insertsThe lives of lucian freud: The restless years, 1922-1968
By William Feaver. 2019
The first biography of the large life of one of the most important, enigmatic, yet private artists of the twentieth…
century. Drawn from almost forty years of conversations with the artist, letters, and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the twentieth century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily calls from 1973 until Freud died in 2011, as well as interviews with Freud's family and friends, were crucial sources. Freud's circle was broad, including not just other well-known artists but writers, bluebloods, royals in England and Europe, drag queens, fashion models, gamblers, bookies, and gangsters like the Kray twins. Fierce, rebellious, charismatic, extremely guarded about his life, he was witty, mischievous, and a womanizer. This brilliantly researched book begins with the Freuds' life in Berlin, and the family's escape from Hitler to London in 1933, when Lucian was ten. Sigmund Freud was his grandfather, and Ernst, his father, was an architect. Freud's first solo show was in 1944 and at that time he met Virginia Woolf, Sonia Orwell, Cecil Beaton, W.H. Auden, Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the Aly Khan; nights were spent at the Gargoyle club, his muse was a married femme fatale, thirteen years older, Lorna Wishart. But it was Francis Bacon who would become his most important influence, and the painters Frank Auerbach and David Hockney, close friends. He would meet the artists Picasso, Giacometti, Andre Breton, Alexander Calder and Balthus. He was married twice: to Kitty Garman Epstein, the daughter of the famous sculptor Jacob Epstein, and to Lady Caroline Blackwood; he had two daughters from the first marriage, but he had twelve other children from his many liasons. This is an extremely intimate, lively, and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life—"my work is purely autobiographical"— and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, and children, though there were exceptions, like the famous small portrait of the Queen; sittings could take up to sixteen months, each session lasting five hours, but subjects were rarely bored, as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic. This book is a major achievement that reveals the details of the life and innermost thoughts of the greatest portrait painter of our timeSaga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
By Antonio Michael Downing. 2021
The triumph of Saga Boy is the triumph of Blackness everywhere--the irrepressible instinct for survival in a world where Blacks…
are prey."--Ian Williams, Giller Prize-winning author of ReproductionAn enthralling, deeply personal account of a young immigrant's search for belonging and Black identity amid the long-lasting effects of cultural dislocation.Antonio Michael Downing's memoir of creativity and transformation is a startling mash-up of memories and mythology, told in gripping, lyrical prose. Raised by his indomitable grandmother in the lush rainforest of southern Trinidad, Downing, at age 11, is uprooted to Canada when she dies. But to a very unusual part of Canada: he and his older brother are sent to live with his stern, evangelical Aunt Joan, in Wabigoon, a tiny northern Ontario community where they are the only Black children in the town. In this wilderness, he begins his journey as an immigrant minority, using music and performance to dramatically transform himself. At the heart of his odyssey is the longing for a home. He is re-united with his birth parents who he has known only through stories. But this proves disappointing: Al is a womanizing con man and drug addict, and Gloria, twice abandoned by Al, seems to regard her sons as cash machines. He tries to flee his messy family life by transforming into a series of extravagant musical personalities: "Mic Dainjah," a punk rock rapper, "Molasses," a soul music crooner and finally "John Orpheus," a gold chained, sequin- and leather-clad pop star. Yet, like his father and grandfather, he has become a "Saga Boy," a Trinidadian playboy, addicted to escapism, attention, and sex. When the inevitable crash happens, he finds himself in a cold, stone jail cell. He has become everything he was trying to escape and must finally face himself. Richly evocative, Saga Boy is a heart-wrenching but uplifting story of a lonely immigrant boy who overcomes adversity and abandonment to reclaim his Black identity and embrace a rich heritage.Fierce poise: Helen frankenthaler and 1950s new york
By Alexander Nemerov. 2021
A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as…
an artist in postwar New York "The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen's paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years after this story begins, we are only now beginning to understand."— Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education. She also experienced anew—and left her mark on—the city in which she had been raised in privilege as the daughter of a judge, even as she left the security of that world to pursue her artistic ambitions. Brought to vivid life by acclaimed art historian Alexander Nemerov, these defining moments—from her first awed encounter with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings to her first solo gallery show to her tumultuous breakup with eminent art critic Clement Greenberg—comprise a portrait as bold and distinctive as the painter herself. Inspired by Pollock and the other male titans of abstract expressionism but committed to charting her own course, Frankenthaler was an artist whose talent was matched only by her unapologetic determination to distinguish herself in a man's world. Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York's 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped herAnything but a Still Life: The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak
By Nathan Greenfield. 2021
Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the…
end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where they settled permanently. Molly’s paintings were vibrant and colourful, featuring dynamic crowd scenes and wildflowers that seem to wave on the page. In contrast, Bruno painted near-abstract cityscapes, stunning landscapes, and distorted bodies wracked with inner torment, work that is unique in Canadian art.In this book, acclaimed author Nathan M. Greenfield brings to light the private and public lives of two of the most important figures in 20th century Canadian art. Combining archival research with Molly’s diaries and letters, interviews with friends and contemporaries, and an analysis of paintings by both artists, he develops an intimate portrait of their life and art: their critical acclaim, commercial success, and a turbulent marriage that lasted over fifty years.The man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century
By Mark Lamster. 2018
Biography of award-winning modernist architect Philip Johnson (1906-2005), best known for the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Discusses his…
early childhood in Ohio, personal relationships as a gay man, development of his career, and major projects. 2018