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1941) Van Dyck
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From the time he set up his first studio at the tender age of sixteen, Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) was a legend in the art world. Rubens, whom he studied with as a child, said that he was his most talented pupil, and he went on to spectacularly fulfill this promise with a career as a celebrated court painter in England and Spain. Historians, scholars, and art lovers alike continue to recognize the sophistication and timeless beauty of his works....
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Joe Cocker was one of the greatest British rock and blues performers ever. He came to fame in the 1960s, He was notorious for his unique stage presence, his spasmodic body movement, gritty vocals, playing air guitar, and his unique cover versions of well-liked songs, mainly those of the Beatles. During his life he won many awards which included an OBE from Buckingham Palace, for services to music.
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In Sometime a Clear Light: A Photographer's Journey Through Alaska, Nigeria, and Life, Aylette Jenness reflects on living with her husband and two small children in a tiny Yu'pik village in Alaska in the early 1960s, and on the time, they spent in Africa from 1966 to 1969, three of the most terrible years of the Nigerian Civil War (the Nigerian-Biafran War). It was a tumultuous time for Aylette, as well, as she split from her husband, an anthropologist,...
1944) Antoine van Dyck
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Anthonis van Dyck
(Anvers, 1599 – Londres, 1641)
Van Dyck connut très tôt le train de vie somptueux de Rubens. Lorsqu'il visita l'Italie, muni de lettres d'introduction de son maître, il vécut dans
les palais de ses mécènes, adoptant lui aussi une telle ostentation dans l'élégance, qu'on parlait de lui comme du «peintre cavalier ». Après son
retour à Anvers, il calqua son mode de vie sur celui de ses commanditaires, issus des classes...
1945) The Sketcher
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"The Sketcher" is Julie Riedel, the woman who sketched the first age-progression forensic drawings in the history of criminology. 10 people were murdered by the BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader, in and around Wichita, Kansas from 1974-1991. To sketch the aging killer, Julie studies the cold-case files of the 31-year-long investigation. As she attempts to put a face to the unidentified killer, she discovers parallels between the atrocities committed...
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Étude de l'œuvre d'un maître qui a influencé des générations d'artistes.
Hokusai fut d'abord un homme d'école, le camarade et l'émule de ces délicats. Puis, son indépendance géniale lui fit abandonner les systèmes et les disciplines, et tenter toutes les expériences qui sollicitèrent sa libre humeur. Il voulut ne se refuser à rien. Toutes choses prirent place dans l'immensité de son art, égale à l'immensité de l'univers. Il fut...
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Find gravitational stability and embrace your natural radiance with this intergalactic guide to self-care.
Cosmic Care brings readers on a dreamy journey through space to reveal tips that will help them unlock their inner glow.
Featuring the visionary art and signature style of Robin Eisenberg, Cosmic Care is an escape into a vivid, immersive universe that's simultaneously familiar, relatable, and out of this world.
Filled with vibrant illustrations...
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Presenting Léo Ferré allows the rediscovery of one of the greatest people of French song and poetry.
At least, this is what the general public will easily understand. The aficionados, and most of all, Leo's ‘heirs’ will surely know that it's about rediscovering a true apostle of music.
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«Il est bien que nous soyons présents dans les œuvres pour rappeler au spectateur qu'il ne s'agit pas de simples œuvres d'art aussi ennuyeuses que les autres, d'expériences esthétiques. C'est nous qui nous adressons à eux.»...
À PROPOS DE L'ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS
Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis met la connaissance à la portée de tous. Écrite par plus...
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In this fresh, amusing, and inspirational autobiography, Mark Holden shines the light on the power of reinvention and provides an intriguing account of a variegated life as an award-winning rock musician, international recording artist, lm and television sound producer, CEO for cutting-edge technology companies, fashion designer, and serial entrepreneur. From his work in the digital media industry to raising venture capital and managing Silicon Valley...
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Partez à la découverte de Maurice Béjart avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
En rendant la danse accessible à un large public par des représentations dans des lieux non conventionnels (palais des sports, stades...), le Français Maurice Béjart a été l'un des danseurs et, surtout, chorégraphes les plus populaires dans le monde. Paradoxalement, il est resté un homme secret ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en...
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Décryptez l'art du Greco en moins d'une heure!
Né en Crète, le Greco quitte rapidement son île natale pour se rendre à Venise, puis à Rome, avant de finalement s'installer à Tolède. Ainsi, on ne s'étonnera pas de retrouver dans son œuvre de multiples influences: celle de l'icne byzantine, de la lumière vénitienne, du ténébrisme romain et du mysticisme espagnol. Il en résulte une synthèse d'une grande originalité, voire bizarre, qui...
1956) Mondrian
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Piet Mondrian pioneered the de Stijl movement-Dutch for "The Style"-that emerged in the early 20th century and which served as an important transition from a focus on Symbolism and Realism to a new and growing focus on abstraction. The evolution of Mondrian's initial, traditional style, akin to that of The Hague School, through to his much later works in primary colors and geometric forms, which he called Neo-plasticism, is marked by rather sharp...
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Icons features colorful portraits of 50 of the most admired women in the fields of music, politics, human rights, and film.
This diverse and inclusive collection features the world's most inspiring women, including Michelle Obama, Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Yayoi Kusama and so many more.
From singers to writers, activists to artists, politicians to filmmakers, Icons is a celebration of the strength of women. Illustrated...
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In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and unusual in every way.
Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius-an antiquarian, an architect, and a visionary. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Losh combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church,...
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The Command to Look was one of William Mortensen's most influential and sought-after books, and has been out of print for fifty years. Reproduced here in full, this book includes an essay by Michael Moynihan on how its images influenced the occult "lesser magic" of the founder of the Church of Satan, Anton Szandor LaVey. The book reproduces fifty-five images of Mortensen's best work and text by the wittiest and most biting writers on photography of...
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En los años noventa se instalaron, a una velocidad de vértigo, los grandes cambios culturales y urbanos de lo que se llamó "posmodernidad", que entonces tenía el atractivo de la novedad y ahora es parte de un paisaje conocido, incluso familiar: los shoppings como modelo de consumo y de ocio, los cuerpos transformados por las cirugías para ajustarse al nuevo ideal de belleza; el pasaje hacia el mundo de las pantallas en los locales de videogames...
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