Conquest of the Time Master
Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780380899456
Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780380899456
Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0679434291
With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence of the 20th century in paintings.
Author : Jed Perl
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0451494210
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.
Author : Judith Tarr
Publisher : Roc
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451460516
From the national bestselling author of House of War comes the tale of an epic battle that spans worlds and ages, of magical forces and earthbound armies that are drawn together by the young William the Conqueror as he fights to achieve his destiny--to reign as King of England.
Author : Samuel Sharpe
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Eric Alliez
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816622603
Offers a history of the philosophy of time and a comparison of the ways of conceiving the temporal, concentrating on European philosophy and its impact the connection between time and money in Western civilization. Analyzes the social and political processes involved in conceptions of time in ancien
Author : Samuel Sharpe
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Samuel Sharpe (Orientalist.)
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Samuel Sharpe
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Egypt
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 1852
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