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Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and...

Guy Latraverse et le showbiz québécois sont indissociables. Sa foi indéfectible dans le talent d’ici – entre autres Jean-Pierre Ferland, Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps et Diane Dufresne – en a fait le plus grand producteur de spectacles au Québec. Premier à présenter un artiste québécois...

本書は、太宰治の短編集のうち、東京を舞台とした作品10点を集め、歌川広重の『名所江戸百景』から厳選した11点を挿絵として編集しています。1900年代の前半の作品ながら古さを感じさせない太宰治の作品と、海外にも名を轟かせる歌川広重の完成した作品の数々。それぞれ時代が違えども、今なお色あせることなく美しく輝いています。どうぞ、東京の現在に思いをはせながら、昔の東京をお楽しみください。...

This Biography is a constant vision of triumph! Through challenges of life, the reader is motivated to get a higher plane in his life. Life experience as Principal of Schools, Missionary, Architect and worldwide Evangelist, qualify me to write this unique book. I have unfolded before you, the pages of...

Dr. Phil McGraw earned his doctorate degree in psychology from the University of North Texas in 1979. In 1980 he founded Courtroom Sciences, Inc., a full-service trial sciences firm. As president of CSI, he has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East consulting with...

A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer...

Thai national artist Thawan Duchanee has spent his life creating art that deeply reflects Buddhist philosophy. He is internationally renowned, and his art is masterful both for its intricacy and for its subtle portrayal of Buddhism. Thawan expresses Buddhist wisdom with incredible versatility....

Décryptez l’art de Sir John Everett Millais en moins d’une heure !Comptant parmi les plus grands peintres de l'Angleterre victorienne, Sir John Everett Millais est à l'origine d'une avant-garde artistique majeure du XIXe siècle : le préraphaélisme. Puisant son inspiration dans la littérature...

Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him. His newspaper feature The...

Some of the most famous artists of the world never achieved fame, or even recognition, during their lifetimes. They worked in relative obscurity and often in tragic circumstances. And although those artists produced works that now grace the walls of some of the most hallowed museums, they never lived...

本書は、フランスの画家 カミーユ・ピサロの作品22点を集めた作品集です。ピサロは8回開催された印象派展の全てに参加した唯一の画家です。印象派に特徴的な大胆に筆触を残す描写法で農村風景などを描いたほか、人物画や静物画、自画像、都市の風景なども描いています。...

.Example in this ebook   Those to whom the Life of Pascal and the Story of Port Royal are unknown, must be referred to works treating fully of the subject, since it were impossible to deal with them adequately within the limits of a preface. Sainte-Beuve's great work on Port Royal,...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS THE CAREER OF RODIN RODIN AND THE BEAUX-ARTS Sojourn in Belgium—"The Man Who Awakens to Nature"—Realism and Plaster Casts. FLEMISH PAINTING—JOURNEYS IN ITALY AND FRANCE. RODIN'S...