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Walter Sickert : A Life
ISBN: 9780007205271 / Angielski / Miękka / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley. Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence. His career spanned six decades of unceasing experiment and achievement. As a young artist, he was welcomed and encouraged by Degas. He was the disciple of Whistler and mentor of Beardsley. He founded the... The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biograp... |
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83,74 zł |
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
ISBN: 9780060548469 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats. They were the bohemians. Virginia Nicholson -- the... They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explor... |
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64,01 zł |
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Everything About Me Is Fake . . . And I'm Perfect
ISBN: 9780060554705 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Everything About Me Is Fake...and I'm Perfect, the hilarious and candid follow-up to the national bestseller No Lifeguard on Duty, Janice Dickinson tackles our society's unattainable standards of beauty and reveals the secrets behind her own lifelong struggle to achieve perfection -- from her bra-stuffing days as a flat-chested teenager through her career as the world's first supermodel to her ultimate comeback as a bestselling author and television star on the top-rated reality television hit America's Next Top Model. Even as she graced the glossy pages of Vogue and Cosmo,... In Everything About Me Is Fake...and I'm Perfect, the hilarious and candid follow-up to the national bestseller No Lifeguard on Duty, Janice Dickin... |
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67,95 zł |
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Andrew Wyeth
ISBN: 9780060929213 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A revelation. No one will ever view Andrew Wyeth's apparently tranquil works the same way again after reading this vivid and astonishing portrait of the turbulent, driven man who paints them. Richard Meryman has written a wonderful book."
- Geoffrey C. Ward At its most fundamental level, this stunning and unique biography describes a distinguished painter's enterprise of transmitting emotion onto a flat surface. It explores all the factors that have combined to create Andrew Wyeth -- his childhood in a hothouse of creativity; his hypersensitivity; his formidable wife; his... "A revelation. No one will ever view Andrew Wyeth's apparently tranquil works the same way again after reading this vivid and astonishing portrait of ...
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120,08 zł |
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
ISBN: 9780060930462 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind." Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers Creators, a companion volume of essays that examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are Disney, Picasso, Bach, and Shakespeare; Austen, Twain, and T. S. Eliot; and Durer, Hokusai, Pugin, and Viollet-le-Duc, among many others. Paul Johnson believes that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed, but it can be illustrated to bring out its salient... Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind." ... |
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60,07 zł |
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Gaudi: A Biography
ISBN: 9780060935634 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial masterpieces of modern architecture, which were as exotic as they were outrageous. But little is known about the shadowy figure behind the swirling, vivid buildings that inspired the Surrealists. This masterful biography brings both man and architect powerfully to life against the changing backdrop of Barcelona and Catalonia. Gijs van Hensbergen leads us through the design and construction of Gaudi's most significant... At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most co... |
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91,57 zł |
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The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
ISBN: 9780060988661 / Angielski / Miękka / 689 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces--Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the... Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design i... |
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75,82 zł |
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
ISBN: 9780156032995 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa's skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she can't do is discover how the insect behaves in its natural habitat--which means she doesn't know what steps to take to preserve it from extinction, nor how any particular gene may interact with the environment. Four hundred years ago, a fifty-year-old Dutch woman set sail on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis. She could not have imagined the routine magic...
Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa's skin look like...
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79,76 zł |
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Roger Fry: A Biography
ISBN: 9780156785204 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations.
Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to ...
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91,41 zł |
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Edouard Manet : Rebel in a Frock Coat
ISBN: 9780226075440 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. "Manet comes alive in Brombert's] pages. . . . At times her biography reads like a substantial and detailed 19th-century novel. . . . Brombert's "Edouard Manet" gives us not only a portrait of a complex artist but, in its authority and its range, a portrait of an age as well." James R. Mellow, "New York Times Book Review"
"One of the pleasures of reading her is to follow the way she weaves life, art and history into a smooth tapestry. The art emerges from the life, and in the broadest possible context: in terms of its creator's life and concerns and in terns of its historical and... "Manet comes alive in Brombert's] pages. . . . At times her biography reads like a substantial and detailed 19th-century novel. . . . Brombert's "Edo...
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118,08 zł |
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Lee Miller: A Life
ISBN: 9780226080673 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Lee Miller s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, shewas also America's first femalewar correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a biographer and art critic, here reveals how the muse who inspired Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso could be the same person who unflinchingly photographed the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Burke captures all the verve and energy of Miller s life: from her early childhood trauma to her stint as a Vogue model and art-world ingenue, from her...
Lee Miller s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adve...
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68,28 zł |
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Get the Picture : A Personal History of Photojournalism
ISBN: 9780226539140 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos to scrap and which to feature on the front page? Find out in Get the Picture, a personal history of fifty years of photojournalism by one of the top journalists of the twentieth century. John G. Morris brought us many of the images that defined our era, from photos of the London air raids and the D-Day landing during World War II to the assassination of Robert Kennedy. He tells us the inside stories behind dozens of famous pictures...
How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos t...
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125,56 zł |
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Philip Johnson : Life and Work
ISBN: 9780226740584 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century.
The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activists who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, he went on to create controversial and historical structures such as... In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural ...
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162,91 zł |
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Frank Lloyd Wright : A Biography
ISBN: 9780226744148 / Angielski / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius architect and the provocative con-man. "Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative."--New...
Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secr...
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88,20 zł |
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Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780262611961 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was modernism. In this book -- part intellectual biography, part institutional history -- Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise of modern art in America and of the man responsible for its triumph. Following the trajectory of Barr's career from the 1920s through the 1940s, Kantor penetrates the myths, both positive and negative, that surround Barr and his achievements. Barr fervently believed in an aesthetic based on the intrinsic traits... Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was mod... |
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130,54 zł |
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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House : Writings 1973-1994
ISBN: 9780262720250 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook entries, drawings, and descriptions of projects that map Viola's personal course through the readings, observations, experiments, and associations that form the groundwork for his art. Each work illustrated is accompanied by a description by the artist, as well as comments on the work's origins from the artist's notebooks. For the... Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internatio... |
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100,65 zł |
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John Buridan
ISBN: 9780268032555 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. John Buridan (ca. 1300-1361) was the most famous philosophy teacher of his time, and probably the most influential. In this important new book, Jack Zupko offers the first systematic exposition of Buridan's thought to appear in any language. Zupko uses Buridan's own conception of the order and practice of philosophy to depict the most salient features of his thought, beginning with his views on the nature of language and logic and then illustrating their application to a series of topics in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. Part 1 of John Buridan considers the picture of language...
John Buridan (ca. 1300-1361) was the most famous philosophy teacher of his time, and probably the most influential. In this important new book, Jack Z...
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460,33 zł |
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John Buridan : Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master
ISBN: 9780268032562 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. John Buridan (ca. 1300-1361) was the most famous philosophy teacher of his time, and probably the most influential. In this important new book, Jack Zupko offers the first systematic exposition of Buridan's thought to appear in any language. Zupko uses Buridan's own conception of the order and practice of philosophy to depict the most salient features of his thought, beginning with his views on the nature of language and logic and then illustrating their application to a series of topics in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. Part 1 of John Buridan considers the picture of language...
John Buridan (ca. 1300-1361) was the most famous philosophy teacher of his time, and probably the most influential. In this important new book, Jack Z...
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205,79 zł |
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Bonevardi: Chasing Shadows, Constructing Art
ISBN: 9780292714366 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Marcelo Bonevardi (1929-1994) was one of the most innovative artists of his generation. A native of Argentina, Bonevardi spent the greater part of his career in New York City, where he absorbed avant-garde practices and influences such as abstraction and primitivism, using them to invent a pictorial and symbolic language with which to express his deep spirituality and affinity for myth and ritual. Bonevardi is best known for his shaped canvases, which combine elements of painting and sculpture, reflecting his early training and lifelong interest in architecture. During his lifetime,... Marcelo Bonevardi (1929-1994) was one of the most innovative artists of his generation. A native of Argentina, Bonevardi spent the greater part of ... |
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288,79 zł |
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Lelooska : The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist
ISBN: 9780295983240 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Don Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1933 of "mixed blood" Cherokee heritage, he was adopted as an adult by the prestigious Kwakiutl Sewid clan and had relationships with elders from a wide range of tribal backgrounds. Initially producing curio items for sale to tourists and regalia for Oregon Indians, Lelooska emerged in the late 1950s as one of a handful of artists who proved crucial to the renaissance of Northwest Coast Indian art. He also developed into a supreme... Don Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in... |
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131,97 zł |