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Renoir: l'homme et son oeuvre
By François Fosca. 1985
Ayant subi les foudres de la critique il y a un siècle, la peinture de Renoir est aujourd'hui, sans conteste,…
l'une des plus appréciées. Voici un portrait complet de Renoir l'homme et de Renoir le peintre. 1985.Une vie de Van Gogh
By David Sweetman. 1990
À trente-sept ans, le 27 juillet 1890, Van Gogh se suicide. En cette année du centenaire de sa mort et…
de la grande rétrospective d'Amsterdam, le livre de David Sweetman renouvelle la vision, souvent stéréotypée, de cet artiste légendaire. 1980.Valentine Hugo
By Cathy Bernheim. 1990
Biographie de Valentine Gross, épouse de Jean Hugo, arrière-petit-fils de Victor Hugo. Peintre renommée de son époque, elle s'est liée…
d'amitié avec Marcel Proust, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau et Erik Satie. Mais après avoir connu le faste et la gloire, elle vivra des années plus sombres et vieillira dans un certain oubli. 1990.Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa: à pied et en mendiant, de la Chine à l'Inde à travers le Thibet
By Alexandra David-Néel. 1985
En 1924, Alexandra David-Néel réalisait un fantastique exploit. Cette femme que rien n'arrêtait traversa à pied la Chine et tout…
le Tibet pour atteindre enfin Lhassa, la cité interdite, où elle fut la première Européenne à pénétrer et à séjourner. 1985.Zen et vie quotidienne: la pratique de la concentration (Maîtres et mystiques vivants)
By Taisen Deshimaru. 1985
Cet ouvrage est le fruit de la pratique de zen enseignée par Maitre Taisen Deshimaru, expérience fondamentale de connaissance de…
soi, des autres, du monde et du cosmos. Comment se concentrer pleinement instant après instant tout au long de la vie quotidienne. 1985.The Group of Seven in western Canada
By Catharine M Mastin. 2002
In 1920, when the Group of Seven was founded, free rail passes were still available to Canadian artists so they…
would make images that would familiarize Eastern Canadians with the West - and almost all of the Group's members used the perk. Commentary by six Canadian scholars and curators explores the deep importance of the West for the artists and their work. Includes insights into A.Y. Jackson and Edwin Holgate's interpretations - and misinterpretations - of the Skeena people, and Frederick Varley's troubled relationships with his wife and lovers. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.What the Buddha never taught
By Tim Ward. 1990
Tim Ward spent a season in the Theravada Buddhist monastery of Pan Nanachat in Thailand. He tells of his initiation…
into the monastery, where half of the members are western Caucasians, and his life there over the following months. 1993, c1990.Van Gogh, le suicidé de la société ((L'imaginaire ; 432).)
By Antonin Artaud, Evelyne Grossman. 2001
Three ways of Asian wisdom: Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, and their significance for the West
By Nancy Wilson Ross. 1966
Based on years of study, this is an introduction to the background, history, beliefs, and significance of the three major…
religions of the Far East. The author includes a discussion of the influence of each faith on Eastern art, as well as an appraisal of their effects on Western culture. 1966.The secret oral teachings in Tibetan Buddhist sects
By Alexandra David-Néel. 1967
The Madhyamika (or "middle-way") School of Buddhism is a method of meditation and enlightenment developed between 150 and 250 A.D.…
by the Indian sage and pandit Nagarjuna. An introduction to Mahayana Buddhism and the Madhyamika School. 1967.The way of Zen
By Alan Watts. 1957
The life of Emily Carr
By Paula Blanchard. 1988
The new religions
By Jacob Needleman. 1972
Seven years with the Group of Seven: a memoir in words and pictures
By Joyce Putnam. 1991
In 1964, Joyce and Munroe Putnam met A.Y. Jackson and became friends. For the next seven summers, Jackson and other…
Group of Seven artists came to visit and to paint at the Putnam cottage in Grenville, Quebec. 1991.Religions of Japan: many traditions within one sacred way (Religious traditions of the world)
By H. Byron Earhart. 1984
Shinto, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, the folk religions and the so-called New Religions are surveyed, both as individual traditions and as…
interrelating aspects within the whole of Japanese society and culture. 1984.Paul-Émile Borduas: le peintre
By Guy Beausoleil. 1988
Picasso, le sage et le fou
By Marie-Laure Bernadac, Paule Du Bouchet. 1986
Emily Carr: the different Victorian (Operation literacy series ; reading level C)
By Anne Monaghan. 1981
Camille Pissaro: le peintre
By Henri Barras. 1988
L'oeuvre complète de Tchouang-tseu
By Chuang-Tseu, Kia-Hway Liou. 1969