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Actrice, chanteuse, animatrice, professeur d'art dramatique et communicatrice hors pair, Ghislaine Paradis, dans cette autobiographie captivante, nous entraîne avec enthousiasme au coeur de sa vie et de sa passion d'artiste. 1ier prix de Conservatoire , elle est d'abord connue pour son rle de Nicole dans la populaire émission de télévision " Quelle Famille " à Radio-Canada. Elle sera aussi Hélène dans " À Coeur Battant " qui l'emmènera au...
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The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings--Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am--but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society glamor, only to be exiled to the antimodernist United Kingdom during the Nazi...
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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
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"Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly complex love story." - New York Times
Acclaimed biographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zelda's relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald-tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
Zelda Sayre's stormy life spanned from notoriety...
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New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a romantic comedy, and she is the leading lady
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#1 I believe that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and have children, and call that growing up. But what we really do is grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
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She was able, through clever maneuvering and dogged determination, to achieve a commission from the Congress for a life-sized statue of the assassinated president-this despite the very real animus against women artists at that time, which is apparent in the heated arguments against granting her the Lincoln commission-arguments spearheaded in the Senate by Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.
Steeped in the history of her time, Vinnie Ream was involved...
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The true story of a heart that has been shattered, and stained. The author Wendy Sims talks about her story of surviving abuse. The actions lead her to be tortured and traumatized throughout her life. The realization of the world she lived in growing up. in the 1970s. The woman she has become today in the realization that she never let what happened to her affect the life she has worked hard to gain and live. Becoming the Champion she was meant to...
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Book Preview: #1 My granddaddy, who was a moonshiner in Georgia, was the only black man I've ever met who was never broke a day in his life. He stored his jugs of corn liquor in the living room in a beat-up old refrigerator.
#2 I grew up in a bootleg house with my nine siblings, and I hated it. I would go to sleep hoping that I would wake up and find myself magically living in a clean...
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El 21 de octubre de 1989, el Boeing 727-200 de la aerolíneaTAN SAHSA se estrelló en el Cerro de Hula, en Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Vivian Pellas sobrevivió a esta tragedia y este es su testimonio, cómo regresó de la muerte y cómo su vida cambió para siempre, entendiendo la misión que tenía por cumplir, para ser la mujer que convierte lágrimas en sonrisas. 135 personas fallecieron. De los 146 pasajeros del vuelo 414 sólo 11 personas sobrevivieron......
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#1 The Carnegie Deli in New York was a landmark for more than 79 years. It served its loyal customers oversize portions of pastrami and corned beef slathered in Russian dressing, and in 1986, it served my mother and father a late-night postcoital feast.
#2 My mother, Barbara Peck, was a once-in-a-generation type of person who gave very few fucks. She was pregnant, unmarried,...
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#1 I was in Dublin in the late 1940s, and I was blown away by the city. I was ravenous for food, life, and stories. I stood in awe of the Gresham Hotel, which was built in 1809 to celebrate the victory of Nelson over Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar.
#2 I was proud to be going to the chemist's shop with such dignity. I was wearing my best clothes, and I was sure...
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Raul Duguay est une véritable légende, une icne, du milieu culturel québécois. Tour à tour poète, chansonnier, philosophe, phonéticien, artiste visuel, il illumine le paysage culturel québécois depuis plus de cinquante ans et compte parmi les — trop rares — créateurs qui accordent une importance primordiale à la réflexion et au contenu.
Proche de Gaston Miron, avec qui il fonde la revue Passe-Partout, — il participe aussi à Parti-Pris...
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Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
'I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define or remember, only desire' Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was the prototypical...
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The work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's intriguing life story. From modest beginnings in a Swiss village, Giacometti went on to flourish in the picturesque milieu of prewar Paris and then to achieve international acclaim in the fifties and sixties. Picasso, Balthus, Samuel Beckett, Stravinsky and Sartre have parts in his story, along with...
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#1 I grew up in a neighborhood called the Braes of Bloomfield, which was created by commuters hoping to get away from the faded glory of the Motor City. As a kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the woods between these upper-middle-class homes.
#2 Don and I were often mistaken as twins, although I still wonder why. We competed for everything with each other, and I think...
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The Austrian aristocrat Baron Rudolph von Ripper (1905–60) was acclaimed internationally as an artist, military hero and bon viveur before his astonishing legacy was unintentionally erased by history. Fortuitously, the recent discovery of a dossier of his letters and photographs at an uninhabited Spanish villa has led to its resurrection in this gripping biography.
Von Ripper lived – and loved – with brio and befriended many colourful luminaries...
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Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family. He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then in 1883 he moved to New York city, where he earned his living as an illustrator for magazines and books and showed easel works in exhibitions. He eventually...
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