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Havasréti József monumentális munkája nagy műgonddal, árnyalt pontossággal és lenyűgöző problémaérzékenységgel megírt olvasmányos pályakép és esszéisztikus életrajz. Részlet- és gondolatgazdag portré Szerb Antalról. Megismerhetjük Szerb életét és munkamódszerét, kedvenc...

  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school. Unlike the Impressionists, Corot painted only sketches in the open air; he composed his finished paintings in the studio. Corot executed many etchings and pencil sketches. Some of the...

For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent...

The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism—in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's...

  Tiziano Vecellio (known as Titian) was the greatest representative of the Venetian School and he was recognized as a genius in his own time. He has been an inspiration to artists like Rubens, Velazquez, Poussin and many others. In Italy, the woodcut was taken into new land...

  Michael Jackson is one of the most famous musical artists in history. In the decade between 1985-1995, Michael Jackson comfortably earned between $50 and $100 million per year through touring, record sales, endorsements and merchandise.   Even after his death in...

本書は、フランスの画家 ロベール・ドローネーの作品22点を集めた作品集です。塔や飛行機のような近代的なモチーフを好んだドローネーは、正規の絵画教育は受けていませんが、フランスの化学者シュヴルールの色彩の同時対照に関する理論を読むなど研究熱心で、キュビスムの運動に加わった後、フランス人としては最も早い時期に完全な抽象絵画を描きました。...

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of...

With an intoxicating, genre-blending sound, provocative and uncompromising songs, and the mesmerizing power of singer Jim Morrison's poetry and presence, The Doors had a transformative impact not only on popular music but on popular culture. The Doors' arrival on the rock scene in 1967 marked not...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. In a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology....

From an inside peek at the inner workings of Hollywood to the backstage drama of Broadway, from a poignant look at the black upper class to an honest look at the WASP elite, this elegantly wrought memoir of an extraordinary family has something for everyone. Growing up with a black Auntie Mame-like...

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin was French painter of still-lifes and domestic scenes remarkable for their intimate realism and tranquil atmosphere and the luminous quality of their paint. For his still lifes he chose modest objects (Le Buffet, 1728), and for his genre paintings unpretentious events...

Jon Bon Jovi is a New Jersey-born rock star. Bon Jovi's attention in music was flashed at an early age. He spent most of his teen years shirking his studies to play and spend time at The Power Station, a New York based recording studio owned by his cousin.   Bon Jovi has sold...

ZZ Top, American rock group famous for its rugged blues-driven guitar works, irreverent music videos, and embrace of its Texas roots, as well as for the musicians’ distinctive facial hair.   ZZ Top was formed in the Houston area in 1969 when singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons, formerly...