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The Many Deaths of Tom ThomsonSeparating Fact from Fiction
A National Post Bestseller! How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight? Did he end his life out of fear of being forced to marry his pregnant girlfriend? Commemorating the one-hundredth…
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- 9781459731981
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Im Gegenlicht: Heinz SauerEin literarisches Portrait
Heinz Sauer bleibt seit vielen Jahrzehnten mit seinem expressiven Ton, mit seiner Schärfe und schroffen Phrasierungskunst auf dem Tenorsaxofon unverwechselbar. Tourneen mit Albert Mangelsdorff führten ihn um die ganze Welt. Im letzten Jahrzehnt waren es vor allem Duo-Konzerte mit Michael Wollny, die den beiden zahlreiche Preise einbrachten und demonstrierten, dass Sauer ein gewichtiger Teil u…
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MichelangeloL'uomo e l'artista fuori dai cliché
Pochi personaggi della storia sono stati oggetto di tanti studi e dibattiti come Michelangelo. Accanto a opere critiche e biografie d'incomparabile pregio, ce ne sono altre di pura fantasia che hanno diffuso l'immagine di un Michelangelo irritabile, nevrotico, asociale, schivo, esaurito, melanconico, frequentatore di bordelli, avido, celibe per scelta penitenziale. Questi eccessi stridono con i…
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Der doppelte BodenEin Gespräch über Literatur und Kritik
Gute Literatur, hat Marcel Reich- Ranicki gesagt, ähnele einem Koffer für Schmuggelware. Auch sie hat einen doppelten Boden, in dem sich Dinge zunächst unsichtbar transportieren lassen. Und selbst wenn der Leser versteckte Bedeutungen nicht entdeckt, genießt er doch die Lektüre. Denn gute Literatur sei vor allem eines: nicht langweilig. In den Gesprächen, die der Literaturwissenschaftler …
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Diane ArbusA Biography
"A spellbinding portrait" of the tumultuous life and artistic career of one of the most creative photographers of the 1960s ( New York magazine). Diane Arbus became famous for her intimate and unconventional portraits of twins, dwarfs, sideshow performers, eccentrics, and everyday "freaks." Condemned by some for voyeurism, praised by others for compassion, she was nonetheless a transformativ…
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Andy WarholA Biography
An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown. Images of his silvery wig and glasses are as famous as his renderings of soup cans a…
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We Flew over the BridgeThe Memoirs of Faith Ringgold
In We Flew over the Bridge, one of the country's preeminent African American artists—and award-winning children's book authors—shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold's artworks—startling "story quilts," politically charged paintings, and more—hang in the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and other …
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Blue ArabesqueA Search for the Sublime
These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are "a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds." — The New York Times Book Review Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the Year Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chic…
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The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci
An intriguing look inside the mind of the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci stood on a bridge between medieval thought and the modern mind. In this selection of entries from his dozens of coded notebooks and unpublished manuscripts, his unending curiosity in the universe and deep knowledge come through in his energetic style. The self-educated da Vinci developed a philosophical system tha…
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Madame TussaudHer Life and Legacy
A "meticulously researched and deftly written biography" of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution ( Midwest Book Review). Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew…
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