Daniel - Biography & Memoir 1

Fronted by the androgynous Pete Burns, Dead Or Alive achieved their big break in 1984 with their UK Top 30 single That's The Way (I Like It) and its equally successful parent album Sophisticated Boo……続きを見る

This Art Book with Foreword contains 146 selected reproductions of paintings from Henri Fantin-Latour. Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and printmaker. Though he associated with innovative a……続きを見る

Vasily Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. He studied under Pavel Chistyakov and in the Imperial Academy of Arts . As a pensioner o……続きを見る

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school in the mid-nineteenth century. Claude Monet called of him: "There is only one master here and his name……続きを見る

  John Constable was English artist, considered with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape painters. His most excellent landscapes are of the places Constable knew, mainly Suffolk ……続きを見る

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist artist which paintings, drawings and murals are marked by eroticism and sensuality. Klimt lived a simple, cloistered life, in which he avoided other artists an……続きを見る

Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and master of the pastels. He describes his own work as "ambiguous and indefinable": "My drawings inspire, and are not to be defi……続きを見る

  Known as the "Father of Impressionism", Pissarro painted rural and urban French life, particularly landscapes, as well as scenes from Montmartre. Pissarro offer substantial con……続きを見る

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his time and one of the most original geniuses in the history of landscape pa……続きを見る

Fra Angelico was Florentine painter and Dominican friar originally named Guido di Pietro. Vasari, who referred to Fra Giovanni as a simple and most holy man, popularized the use of the name Angelico……続きを見る

In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin' the Blues, the biograp……続きを見る

Raffaello Sanzio (or Santi, Raphael ) was one of the greatest artists of the High Renaissance in Italy. He was admired personality, celebrated, prosperous, and honored, and his influence was broadly……続きを見る

An important Post-Impressionist French painter, Georges Seurat moved away from the obvious spontaneity and quickness of Impressionism and developed a structured, more monumental art to depict modern……続きを見る

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a follower of classical art and had no wish for everything like novelty or the avant-garde. William-Adolphe Bouguereau used ancient themes, making new readings of clas……続きを見る

Anton Chekhov’s stories and plays endure as outstanding modern literary works, and his life was no less dramatic, rising from poor beginnings to become a writer, physician and philanthropist. In thi……続きを見る

"Au moment d'être propulsé par la porte du tambour dans le hall de l'hôtel Schweitzer Hof, j'avais aperçu un homme qui me tendait le bras en rugissant. Un sourire large, une voix de stentor, une cri……続きを見る

Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist artist in Primitive manner. Ridiculed during his lifetime, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. H……続きを見る

Tiziano Vecellio was the greatest artist of the Venetian School, recognized as immense genius in his own time and his reputation as one of the giants of art has never been sincerely questioned. Loma……続きを見る

In this book of essays about foreign missionary service, the author, Daniel Bay Gibbons, describes in beautiful detail the experience of being far from home at Christmastime. He also includes essays……続きを見る

Les Gyotaku , empreintes de poissons en japonais, constituent pour les pêcheurs japonais un moyen d’immortaliser leurs prises. Le poisson est lavé puis badigeonné d’encre noire afin de produire une ……続きを見る

Whether you think you know everything about Queen already or if you’re new to the band and want to learn more, Queen FAQ will walk you through every aspect of one of the music industry’s strangest, ……続きを見る

Detective Darcy Walker, having been injured trying to stop Gangster Prankster, must rethink her strategy of becoming Angel City's savior. In Issue #3 of this gripping 4-part series, she enlists the ……続きを見る

In the exhilarating final chapter of the origin of Black Scorpion, Det. Darcy Walker dons her Scorpion costume to take down the Breathtaker and save Angel City from annihilation. But her enemy has p……続きを見る

Roger Corman’s femme fatale superhero gets reborn, as Black Scorpion, once again prowling the streets of Angel City. In this dark redux of the popular film and TV series, Detective Darcy Walker, con……続きを見る

No matter how many years I go to camp, or who my campers are, one thing remains constant. I always leave feeling like something special was given to me, not the other way around. I take seriously th……続きを見る

Biographical profile of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Co. and inventor of the Kodak and Brownie cameras that revolutionized photography. In roughly 30 years beginning in 1880, Eastman……続きを見る

Isaac Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". His extremely influential art heritage consists of more than a 1000 paintings, paste……続きを見る

Félix Vallotton was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with group Les Nabis. By the end of his life he had completed over 1700 paintings and about 200 prints, in addition to hundreds o……続きを見る

Viktor Vasnetsov was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic modernist painting and a key figure ……続きを見る

Ivan Kramskoi was a Russian painter and draughtsman, a remarkable art critic and theoretician of art, a talented teacher, one of intellectual leaders of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1……続きを見る