Artists, Architects & Photographers 14

La prodigiosa obra del mexicano David Alfaro Siqueiros esta fuera de toda discusión. Su vida, sin embargo, ha quedado signada por aquella madrugada de 1940 en que intentó asesinar a León Trotsky. De……続きを見る

Now perhaps, the world is ready for Empatharian Movement for Peace. With a perpetual state of no-win war, even the corporate executives realize that our losses in war are too great. So many people a……続きを見る

While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Ch……続きを見る

This book is a snapshot in the life of dating and seduction coach, L.A. Tripp. He tells a gruesome story of his relationships and the methods he uses to teach guys to "get the girl". Watch his learn……続きを見る

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and……続きを見る

Story of authors life from his birth in Fort Worth Texas ...through the wild 60s..going crazy, and pushing the envelope...not afraid of dying...not afraid of living....living proof that a life outsi……続きを見る

Money gives you choices. Sex is power. Money is power. You’re just transforming one form of power into another sort of power you can use. Welcome to a book that was written specifically for you –……続きを見る

James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924) was a Canadian painter of extraordinary passion and simplicity whose canvases and oil sketches are valued throughout the world and cherished in Canada as our first r……続きを見る

From the much acclaimed author of Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, a new book that retrieves the lives of Victorian women--writers, actresses, poets, journalist……続きを見る

From the Fair by Sholom Aleichem (translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant, with an introduction by Curt Leviant; 114,000 words) Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) began writing his autobiography when h……続きを見る

A charming picture of a famous artist. This short biographical sketch on nineteenth-century French landscape painter Camille Corot was written by Elbert Hubbard as part of his endearing series, Litt……続きを見る

Part of the Jewish Encounter series Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holoc……続きを見る

A celebrated painter of modem India. A genius who was admired in many countries. His was an attractive personality, which combined boundless learning and a unique genius with unaffected modesty and ……続きを見る

There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope ……続きを見る

Edmund de Waal, um dos mais importantes ceramistas da atualidade, era fascinado pela coleção de 264 miniaturas japonesas entalhadas em madeira e marfim guardadas no apartamento do tio-avô, que vivia……続きを見る

A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lor……続きを見る

Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-cen……続きを見る

Peter Hemming's motto in life is, 'Everything is Possible', and once he'd stepped off the plane onto the concrete of Kefalonia Airport in April 2001 he had to quickly start believing it. What lay ah……続きを見る

The blues. It’s that low-down feeling that makes you ache from your soul to the soles of your shoes. Follow the voice of this contemporary female blues singer Heidi down her path from everyday life……続きを見る

World War II was roaring to a climax. Harry Truman was meeting with the speaker of the House of Representatives and his old friend Sam Rayburn when he was called to the White House: Franklin Rooseve……続きを見る

Lawren Stewart Harris’ artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in……続きを見る

On a warm summer’s night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his……続きを見る

Poucas atividades estão tão associadas à busca da felicidade quanto o desejo de viajar para lugares distantes. Embora não faltem publicações que recomendam variados destinos, é raro encontrar na lit……続きを見る

A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraor……続きを見る

The Drawing Book is a sketch collection of New Yorkers created by Paik Sae Hyun during Winter 2011. A Brooklyn-based artist Paik Sae Hyun captured dozens of people on the train, and sketched them as……続きを見る

Margaret Keane is one of America's most beloved modern artists. Her influence is seen in everything from Woody Allen's "Sleeper" to Weird Al Yankovic's song "Velvet Elvis." Wh……続きを見る

What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits? “Biography,” says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, “is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusi……続きを見る

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From 1876 to 1915, Edward James Lennox was a formidable force in Toronto’s architectural community. Many of his buildings are still landmarks in a city that continues to evolve. Born and educated in……続きを見る

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth Vol. I (of II) By Dorothy Wordsworth続きを見る