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"There was never an artist who came close to capturing horror and dread like Lee Brown Coye. He was master of the weird and grotesque illustration. Coye's sketches had the shape of nightmares."—Robert Weinberg, The Weird Tales Story "It was always my belief that a good drawing...

Summary of The War of Art by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis Preview: Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles is a book dedicated to helping writers and other artists overcome creative barriers and produce valuable and...

THÉÂTRES, DÉCORATIONS, Costumes Emplacement des deux principaux théâtres où furent jouées les pièces de P. Corneille...

Lorraine Pintal a consacré sa vie entière au théâtre. Sa carrière, étroitement liée au Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (TNM), est à l’image du feu sacré qui l’anime : brûlante, débordante et grandiose. Son livre est un récit de vie qui n’obéit pas aux règles de l’autobiographie...

Cristiano Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985, in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. In the 2004 FA Cup final, he made a score for Manchester's first three goals and helped them capture the championship. In 2008, he set a franchise record for goals scored. In 2009, Real Madrid paid a record $131 million...

No matter your place in society – from homeless man to business executive – pretty much everyone falls in love. The poems in this collection span the entire time since author Justin Booth made a commitment to his writing. They may not portray the kinds of things you think of when you think about...

The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 82,000 words) Stefan Zweig’s literary...

本書は、夢野久作の短編8編と、ウィリアム・ブレイクの絵画8点を配して編集しています。ドグラマグラなどの幻想的小説を数多く残した夢野久作と、レッド・ドラゴンでお馴染みのウィリアム・ブレイク。時代や国は違えども、2人の作品は今なお色あせることなく美しく輝いています。どうぞ、天才たちの作品から新しい芸術世界を創造してください。...

Der kolumbianische Schriftsteller Oscar Collazos zeichnet in seinem Buch den Lebensweg von Gabriel García Márquez nach. Von der Kindheit an der kolumbianischen Karibikküste, der Schulzeit und Jugend über die Jahre als Reporter in Lateinamerika und Europa schildert er das Leben des Autors von "Hundert...

The Austrian aristocrat Baron Rudolph von Ripper (1905–60) was acclaimed internationally as an artist, military hero and bon viveur before his astonishing legacy was unintentionally erased by history. Fortuitously, the recent discovery of a dossier of his letters and photographs at an uninhabited...

Chi era de Nittis? Il pittore italiano che tanta fama s’era conquistato nella Parigi degli impressionisti, l’uomo di mondo che deliziava gli amici artisti con le specialità italiane alle sue cene del sabato sera. Oppure esiste un’altra verità capace di svelare un “mistero De Nittis”? Questo...

Una casa bianca, abbandonata in una provincia di case colorate, ritrova il padre per mano di una bella e giovane strada.

Diego Velázquez, uno de los representantes principales del barroco del siglo XVII, está considerado como uno de los mayores pintores de la historia del arte español. Este artista, que va subiendo en la jerarquía social gracias a su talento, moderniza el género pictórico del retrato al plasmar...

Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino? It’s the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern city of Spokane is about to host a World’s Fair. But the Watergate Hearings and the re-entry...