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Cover of Making Magic: The Marion Mahony Griffin Story
by Glenda Korporaal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

She was the American woman who changed Australian history. She broke through barriers for women in architecture and spent 15 years working for Chicago architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in the formative years of the Prairie School of Architecture. Then she teamed up with Walter Burley Griffin working with...
Cover of Dagboek 1919-1920
by Salvador Dalí
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 26, 2012

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was een veelzijdig kunstenaar: schilder, ontwerper, cineast en schrijver van briljante teksten. Dit jeugddagboek, geschreven toen Dalí rond de zestien jaar oud was, vormen de fascinerende eerste literaire vingeroefeningen van een genie dat zijn hele leven op zoek is geweest...
Cover of Champagne Supernovas

Champagne Supernovas

Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen e os rebeldes dos anos 1990 que reinventaram a moda

by Maureen Callahan
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 13, 2015

Com a expertise da jornalista Maureen Callahan, Champagne Supernovas nos leva de volta aos anos 90, quando modelos brilhantes deram lugar a verdadeiras lendas, o que era considerado underground e alternativo desfilava nas principais passarelas mainstream, e a moda virou um cenário rico, alimentado...
Cover of O mundo pelos olhos de Bob
by James Bowen
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 3, 2014

A aguardada continuação do sucesso Um Gato de rua chamado Bob chega ao formato digital. Após o seu lançamento, O Mundo pelos olhos de Bob já está listado entre os livros mais vendidos no Brasil. SINOPSE Depois de um passado difícil, James foi adotado pelo gato Bob. Agora os dois têm um emprego...
Cover of Giane

Giane

Vida, arte e luta

by Guilherme Fiuza
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 3, 2012

"Gianecchini enfim se permitiu encarar o pensamento proibido: 'Pode ser que tenha chegado a minha hora.' No que olhou pela primeira vez para a cara da morte, a sua morte, bem de frente, foi tomado por uma calma profunda. Por um momento perdeu de vista os médicos, as enfermeiras, a empresária,...
Cover of Friedrich Sieburg - Ästhet und Provokateur
by Harro Zimmermann
Language: German
Release Date: September 2, 2015

Eine Biographie des glänzenden Stilisten und bedeutendsten konservativen Literaturkritikers der frühen Bundesrepublik. Friedrich Sieburg gehörte zu den intellektuellen Gründungsvätern der Bundesrepublik, doch sein Vermächtnis hat man bis heute kaum wahrgenommen. Dieser »sonderbare Kopf" (Thomas...
Cover of Vallotton
by Charles Fegdal
Language: French
Release Date: September 21, 2015

Ce livre est à la fois une biographie (la vie) et une étude de l’œuvre de Félix Vallotton (1865-1925). Retrouvez les paysages, les natures mortes, les nus, les couchers de soleil, les xylographies, du plus Français des Suisses, et vice-versa. L’auteur a connu l’artiste, puis...
Cover of De kunst van de rivaliteit

De kunst van de rivaliteit

Vier vriendschappen, verraad en doorbraken in de moderne kunst

by Sebastian Smee
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 9, 2016

Prachtig geschreven verhalen over de noodzakelijke strijd tussen bevriende kunstenaars   Picasso had Les Demoiselles d’Avignon niet geschilderd zonder de druk die Matisse uitoefende om het uiterste te behalen. Freud was zonder de vriendschap met Bacon in zijn beginstijl blijven hangen en...
Cover of The Art and Life of Clarence Major
by Keith E. Byerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet—as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction....
Cover of Отчаянный Зорро. История любви Антонио Бандераса и Мелани Гриффит.
by Мигунова, Елизавета
Language: Russian
Release Date: January 25, 2017

Знаменитый испанский актер и просто мужчина-красавец Антонио Бандерас в детстве мечтал о футбольной карьере, но из-за травмы ноги обратился к актерскому искусству....
Cover of Richard Doc Baily "The Way of The Savant"
by Susan Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016

The artist and his muse. Richard Doc Baily - known as an Image Savant who worked on such films as Fight Club, Stay, Solaris and Superman returns. Richard was legendary in his field specializing in visual effects and creating the Spore Program. The muse (artist, New Media expert Susan Johnston) compiled...
Cover of Where To?

Where To?

A Hack Memoir

by Dmitry Samarov
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014

"Funny, touching, observant, philosophical, sad, world-weary, artful and wonderful are the stories that pepper this book. There has never been a cab driver like Dmitry Samarov and, since he's given up for keeps late-night for-hire driving, there never will be."—Rick Kogan, hall-of-fame...
Cover of NoDa Soda
by Mike Bozart
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

The 1990s - especially the early years - in the North Davidson arts and entertainment district (NoDa) of Charlotte (NC, USA) are recounted in this 2200-word short story. Three of the early major NoDa figures who are now deceased (Terry Carano, Joe Behm, Bruce Gillenwater) are included in this recorded...
Cover of Beanstreets
by Mike Bozart
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

The author recounts a visit to his favorite downtown Asheville coffeehouse, Beanstreets, in April of 1998. An intriguing 'cosmic' conversation at an adjacent table is overheard and transcribed. Just another legendary day at the award-winning java joint. A 2000-word psecret psociety pshort pstory. Mr....
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