wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
ISBN: 9780300163995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained--including Gide and Celine, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin--responded in various ways. This fascinating book is the first to provide a full account of how France's artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence. Some became heroes, others villains; most were simply survivors. Filled with anecdotes about the artists, composers, writers, filmmakers, and actors who lived... The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee... |
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229,74 zł |
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann
ISBN: 9780300218008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies--among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues--amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was...
Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short l...
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189,26 zł |
Italy: A Difficult Democracy: A Survey of Italian Politics
ISBN: 9780521315111 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Italy is the world's sixth economic power, lies in a key geopolitical position, and was a founding member of NATO and the European Community.
Italy is the world's sixth economic power, lies in a key geopolitical position, and was a founding member of NATO and the European Community.
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209,86 zł |
Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival
ISBN: 9780300066654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The operatic festival Richard Wagner founded in 1876 is the oldest and most famous in the world. It is also the most controversial, for it became the cultural showcase of the Third Reich. In this prize-winning and generously-illustrated book - the first to provide a frank and fully rounded history of Bayreuth - Frederic Spotts describes the festival's performances and productions, the Wagner family who have run it, its debasement into 'Hitler's court theatre', and its postwar liberation from its chauvinistic, anti-Semitic past. Provocative and compelling, the book will fascinate all Wagner...
The operatic festival Richard Wagner founded in 1876 is the oldest and most famous in the world. It is also the most controversial, for it became the ...
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306,18 zł |