Titoli in Artisti, architetti e fotografi

Zbiór blisko pięćdziesięciu esejów poświęconych najwybitniejszym polskim artystom od drugiej połowy XIX wieku do czasów współczesnych. Każdy z tekstów koncentruje się na wskazaniu esencji twórczości danego malarza - od zarysowania tła biograficznego, często przez analizę psychologiczną twórcy, po podsumowanie jego dorobku artystycznego. Rozważania wzbogacone są w interpretacje wybranych dzieł sztuki, które niejednokrotnie wykraczają poza oczywiste przesłanie, jakie niesie obraz.

For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the frontline of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He’s seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He’s watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. And he’s captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper hand.

Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, and living in wild places, making more than 30 environmental films, most for the National Geographic Society. These films won more than 40 international awards from leading environmental and broadcast organizations. This memoir tells the story behind the adventure and describes the rather substantial personal costs of this career.

À l’origine de ce récit, il y a un journal tenu il y a une douzaine d’années. L’acteur y consignait observations, réminiscences, réflexions et instantanés de vie, composant au fil des pages une déambulation sans itinéraire défini, à la manière de Journal intime, le film de Nanni Moretti.  

The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane, British artist Dora Carrington and the legendary composer George Gershwin. All three lived colorful, productive lives before dying early, at an average age of thirty-five. In this audiobook, Delbanco discovers what it is we mourn in authors who pass away so young, and muses on his own life - one marked by both early success and longevity.

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud’s work and life, showing how the two converge.

In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.

Dans son autobiographie, Louise Forestier nous raconte son parcours artistique, dévoilant dans le même souffle toutes les femmes qui cohabitent en elles et parfois s'entredéchirent. De son enfance à Shawinigan jusqu'à aujourd'hui, elle relate les hauts et les bas de sa vie d'artiste qui a débuté avec beaucoup d'audace… et un pieux mensonge à une religieuse! Celle qui a été de la distribution de plusieurs comédies musicales nous entraine dans les coulisses et sur la scène de Demain matin, Montréal m'attend, L'Osstidcho et Starmania.