Individual Artist category: 1922 books

HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Vers 1490, à la cour de Ludovic le More, duc de Milan, Léonard de Vinci (1452-1519) songeait déjà à composer un traité, dont le manuscrit A de la bibliothèque de l’Institut à Paris contient le projet et le premier...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis D’après des annotations autographes relevées sur des manuscrits, le Traité de la peinture de Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) fut achevé, dans sa rédaction latine, en août 1435 et, dans sa version italienne, en juillet...

“Siempre he detestado que digan que soy crítico de arte.” Así presenta John Berger esta antología completa de todos sus ensayos sobre artistas. Y ciertamente sería poco fiel a la realidad reducir a la categoría de crítico de arte a uno de los intelectuales europeos que no solo ha sabido...

En esta antología completa de sus ensayos sobre artistas, John Berger nos revela su forma de ahondar en una obra de arte. Sus textos no solo nos sumergen en la singularidad de cada creación artística, sino que van mucho más allá y nos conducen con maestría entre lo personal, lo cultural y lo...

Para movernos sobre un territorio podemos disponer de guías y mapas, o pisar directamente el terreno. Este es el planteamiento del que parte Panorámicas, un recorrido por las guías y mapas con los que John Berger reformuló su mirada del arte, así como por sus impresiones y reflexiones surgidas...

In this work the author talks about esoteric aspects more or less hidden in comic books. The survey is all-out, from Italian to American comics, franco-Belgian comics, South American, one Japanese. Copyright comics and popular, mainstream and underground. Doctor Strange, Corto Maltese, Sandman and...

Ever wondered how Bradley Cooper rose to stardom? Bradley Cooper was born on January 5th, 1975 in the heart of Philadelphia, PA. The only son of an NBC affiliate and a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, Bradley and his older sister Holly were raised in an old fashioned Irish-Italian household just...

John Singer Sargent’s renowned portrait “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force that has been called “thoroughly absorbing” (New York Times Book Review); “brilliant and insightful”?(Wall Street Journal); “an attractive,...

This is a book of Ekphrasis Poetry about Women Mythology, Greek Classics, Mother & Daughter relationships and much more.

Da bambino disegna sempre soprattutto di notte. Dal 2000 comincia una serie di mostre e performance utilizzando il suo stesso corpo in gallerie e musei (imitando il suo contrario...) Nel 2011 è presente con l'Opera “Ring” alla 54° Biennale di Venezia nel Padiglione Italia a Venezia.

O narrador principal (mas não exclusivo) das centenas de fragmentos que compõem este livro é Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa. Soares escreve sem encadeamento narrativo claro, sem factos propriamente ditos e sem uma noção de tempo definida. Ainda assim, foi nesta...

All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables — in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark — with a Calder drawing for each fable and 12 additional vignettes. Includes "The Lion in Love" and "The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs."

Politics for most people in the modern World is determined through Global Media Conglomerates. These can be counted on one hand. The Power they have is in determining our view and mass-conscious’ Reality. It’s beyond belief due to the revolution of personal computers, smart phone access, Social...