Catalogues of Sales
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1988-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN :
Catalogue
Author : Hispanic Society of America. Library
Publisher :
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Brazilian literature
ISBN :
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Painted Love
Author : Hollis Clayson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367296
Book Description
In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN :
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Twilight
Author : Stephenie Meyer
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2007-07-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316007447
Book Description
Fall in love with the addictive, suspenseful love story between a teenage girl and a vampire with the book that sparked a "literary phenomenon" and redefined romance for a generation (New York Times). Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife -- between desire and danger. Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times
Me Before You
Author : Jojo Moyes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101606371
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
The Innocence of Objects
Author : Orhan Pamuk
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1613123892
Book Description
The Nobel Prize winner’s catalog of his Istanbul museum is like “wandering past the illuminated windows of an arcade. . . . This book spills over with pleasure”(The New York Times). The culmination of decades of omnivorous collecting, Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence in Istanbul uses his novel of lost love, The Museum of Innocence, as a departure point to explore the city of his youth. In The Innocence of Objects, Pamuk’s catalog of this remarkable museum, he writes about things that matter deeply to him: the psychology of the collector, the proper role of the museum, the photography of old Istanbul (illustrated with Pamuk’s superb collection of haunting photographs and movie stills), and of course the customs and traditions of his beloved city. The book’s imagery is equally evocative, ranging from the ephemera of everyday life to the superb photographs of Turkish photographer Ara Güler. Combining compelling visual images and writing, The Innocence of Objects is an original work of art and literature.
Catalogue, 1906
Author : Staten Island Academy, New Brighton, N.Y. Arthur Winter Memorial Library
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :
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Kader Attia
Author : Kader Attia
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781853323591
Book Description
One of the rising stars in the international art scene, Kader Attia (b. 1970) is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary artist whose powerful yet complex images, objects and installations examine the way cultures and histories have been constructed.Attia often plays with the vocabulary of museums and architecture to trouble the boundaries between different worlds, particularly Western and non-Western, through his use of re-appropriated and repaired everyday objects and ephemera, such as African masks, stapled paving cracks, assemblages of prostheses and photographs of surgical reconstruction.An in-depth interview with Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff explores the artist's major themes, while art historians and other experts draw out particular threads to examine in depth. Compact but wide-ranging, this is a publication to be held in the hand - an indispensable first guide to an artist with an exceptional perspective on the way humans think about their place in the world.The book features an interview with Ralph Rugoff and essays by Nicola Clayton, Jean-Michel Frodon, Francoise Vergès and Giovanna Zapperi.Published alongside Hayward Gallery's exhibition, London (12 February - 6 May 2019).
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Author : Jenny Han
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1665951648
Book Description
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