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Making ItThe Artist's Survival Guide
What Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential did for the world of chefs and restaurants, Making It does for the art world. Making It is a gonzo memoir of an established artist crossed with objective advice, tips and tricks fleshed out by a best-selling art historian and Pulitzer finalist writer on art. It peels back the shroud and reveals the highs and struggles in the life and career of a wor…
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Fritto e mangiato
Il fritto piace a tutti, però come succede per altre cose piacevoli della vita, gode di cattiva fama: è indigesto, fa male al fegato, alza il colesterolo, rovina la pelle e, non ultimo, riempie la casa di puzzo. Ma è proprio vero che una delle preparazioni più gustose della nostra cucina comporta tanti danni? Dipende. Se si usa un olio scadente o troppo sfruttato e se non vengono rispettate…
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Michael Healy, 1873-1941An Túr Gloine's Stained Glass Pioneer
This book tells the story of the reclusive artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in this exacting craft, and who worked at the world-renowned An Tú r Gloine (Tower of Glass) studio for almost four decades. Lavishly illustrated, it charts Healy' s stained glass career and feature…
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CaravaggioA Reference Guide to His Life and Works
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's life was turbulent and short. He was only in his late thirties when he died and yet he managed to achieve tremendous artistic success. A native of Caravaggio, near Milan, he was born in 1571 and moved to Rome after training with Simone Peterzano, a pupil of Titian. In the papal city, his talent was recognized by the influential collector and art connoisseur C…
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Romanticismo
eDossier: una collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile e accessibile. Tra il XVIII e XIX secolo si afferma in Europa un movimento che, singolarmente, non dà origine a uno stile o a un linguaggio comuni ma a un'idea dell'arte e soprattutto dell'artista come individuo assolutamente libero nel suo mondo creativo. È u…
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Total Refusal / Refus Global
Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Generously illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of the radical art scene that led up to Quebec's Quiet Revolution. It is a must rea…
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Killing for ShowPhotography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq
See firsthand how war photography is used to sway public opinion. In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck which may have had a weapon attached to its flatbed. This was a lethal form of gesture politics: to send a £9-million bomber from Cyprus to Iraq and back, burning £35,000 an hour in fuel, to launch a smart missile costing Â…
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Burne-Jones
eDossier: una collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile e accessibile. Edward Burne-Jones (Birmingham 1833 - Londra 1898) è, con William Morris e Dante Gabriel Rossetti, uno dei massimi protagonisti dell'avventura preraffaellita nell'Inghilterra del secondo Ottocento. Lo stesso Rossetti è il suo maestro, ma la sua …
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Visualizing the Celtic Revivalthe Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – sel…
This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe' s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful essays on its cultural and art historical background and contexts, the leading patrons and artists of the movement, as well as key studies of the metalwork, textiles, stained glass, furniture and book design associated with this dramatic flourishing of art a…
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The Devil in the GalleryHow Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
"It's an in-depth look at varied time periods and artists, which readers interested in gossip, drama, or art history will enjoy." Library Journal, Starred Review Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin. But these potentially disastrous "negat…
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