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From Elisa's first memory, trust was a gift bestowed by nature, not humans. Sexual abuse by her step grandfather and her grandmother's strange compulsion to call her a murderer haunted her from earliest childhood. Only in the wild was she able to find solace. At twelve, in a deep canyon beside the American River, she created her own theory on how to be human.
After leaving home at sixteen, Elisa struggled to raise her son, go to college, and forge...
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Décryptez l'art d'Odilon Redon en moins d'une heure !
Dans la France de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, façonnée par la course au progrès, certains artistes choisissent de s'évader du réel, lui préférant le rêve et l'imaginaire. Parmi ceux-ci, Odilon Redon élabore un art visionnaire peuplé de symboles, se distinguant des impressionnistes, selon lui trop attachés à la réalité tangible. Car ce qui intéresse l'artiste, c'est de mettre...
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Décryptez l'art d'Amedeo Modigliani en moins d'une heure!
Figure éminente de la bohème parisienne au tournant du XXe siècle, Amedeo Modigliani reste cependant en marge des avant-gardes de l'époque. Il élabore, dans une quête stylistique sans fin, des portraits épurés o se mêlent mélancolie et absence, mais aussi des nus qui créent le scandale. Entre tradition et modernité, Modigliani invente un art inimitable et reconnaissable entre...
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"A Fast Company Best Design Book of the Year" Eva Hagberg teaches in the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College and at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Her books include How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship and Nature Framed: At Home in the Landscape. She lives in Brooklyn.
A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim's life and work that takes readers inside the...
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A biography of the artist and first African American man to become a professional conservator for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Felrath Hines was born in 1913 and raised in the segregated Midwest after his parents left the South to find a better life in Indianapolis. While growing up, he was encouraged by his seamstress mother to pursue his early passion for art by taking Saturday classes at Herron Art Institute. In 1937, he moved to...
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Ruidoso, New Mexico, has long offered a cool, verdant haven to the many visitors who come to escape the desert heat. Commercial development of the area was hampered by the sheer difficulty in getting there-"You just picked your way through the sand dunes, following someone else's tire tracks," an early visitor recalled. Eventually, the first private cabins in Ruidoso were built in 1915 and a few primitive lodging facilities were added in the 1920s...
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November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After countless struggles, Stanford White-the country's most celebrated architect was about to dedicate America's tallest tower, the final cap set atop his Madison Square Garden, the country's grandest new palace of pleasure. Amid a flood of electric light and fireworks, the gilded figure topping the tower was...
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The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s Paris
When we think of expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century, certain names come to mind: Hemingway, Picasso, Modigliani, and Foujita, the Japanese artist whose distinctive works, bringing elements of Japanese art to Western oil painting, made him a major cultural figure in 1920s Montparnasse. Foujita...
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Revivez, au travers de témoignages inédits, les grands moments qui ont fait la carrière de Ravi Shankar
Ces mémoires exceptionnels retracent le parcours d'un homme hors du commun. Dans une langue claire et élégante nourrie des témoignages des nombreux musiciens qui ont croisé sa route, Shankar se souvient de son enfance à Bénarès, de ses tournées en Europe à l'époque o il dansait dans la troupe de son frère Uday, de son engagement...
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Built in 1929, the Boathouses of Encinitas have captured the attention of locals and tourists alike for decades. Their architect, Miles Minor Kellogg, shared the creative flair and religious fervor of his distant cousin Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and had a passion for invention, music and poetry. A talented carpenter, Miles built his first house at seventeen and worked his way cross-country until settling with his family in the growing town of Encinitas....
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Though born in America, Eddie Constantine is perhaps best remembered as a film actor in France and Germany, playing the role of a hardboiled detective named "Lemmy Caution" and appearing in films by Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Lars von Trier. In the process of transitioning Constantine from the star of B-movies to the epicenter of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard reconsecrated him as the solemn and impassive star of his extraordinary...
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For nearly a decade, Stuart Palley has been on the frontline of fire. He's captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper hand. In this memoir, Palley recalls how he went from learning to be safe on the fireline to a fire-savvy documentarian of wildfire and climate change.
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At sixty-five, artist, writer, and psychologist Sharon Strong doesn't fit into the cultural stereotype of "senior citizen"-and she has no desire to. Instead, she claims the next decade, as the most transformational years of her life. At sixty-six, she erects the first of what will become a series of monumental sculptures on the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man. At sixty-seven, she treks in the Himalayas. At seventy, she meets the love of her life...
934) Make it Happen
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GET UP. SPEAK UP. DON'T GIVE UP.
In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl who couldn't afford tampons or sanitary towels.
Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every schoolgirl in England for the first time, funded by the government.
Anyone can make history, including a teenager launching a global petition from their bedroom. And Amika...
935) A Paris Life, a Baltimore Treasure: The Remarkable Lives of George A. Lucas and His Art Collection
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In 1857, young Baltimorean George A. Lucas arrived in Paris, where he established an extensive personal network of celebrated artists and art dealers, becoming the quintessential French connection for American collectors. The most remarkable thing about Lucas was not the art that he acquired for his clients but the massive collection of 18,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and etchings, as well as 1,500 books, journals, and other sources about...
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Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the Isle of Man. An aspiring poet, Barry attracted the attention of Ezra Pound and joined a demimonde of Bloomsbury figures, including Ford Maddox Ford, T.S....
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James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon-Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen-he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction, and sexual difference. A gay, African American writer who was born in Harlem, he found the freedom to express himself living in exile in Paris. When...
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