424円 iographie de Stendhal par un stendhalien, ce livre raconte la vie, les amours, les haines, les voyages de l'auteur de la Chartreuse de Parme et du Rouge et le Noir. On le suit à l'opéra, à Milan, à Paris, dans les Salons, chez l'empereur Napoléon. Un livre essen...

2,647円 They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay’s camera entrance into the back-alle...

1,243円 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: a “sublime collection of true stories … and wild imaginings that take us to the very heart of who Patti Smith is” (Vanity Fair), told through the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. Patti Smith calls ...

196円 Example in this ebook Jean-Jacques Henner was born, on the 15th of March, 1829, in the village of Bernwiller, not far from Belfort, on the confines of Alsace. This origin explains the strongly personal character of his talent. Offspring as he was of a land that once was German,--and that, alas, h...

1,225円 'London is blacker than lacquer' Lao She remains revered as one of China's great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked...

496円 You know Adrienne Terrell Washington as an award winning journalist. She's covered our nation's capital for decades with her incisive political analysis and reporting, especially on issues important to African Americans. Now discover another side to Adrienne's work - highly personal essays about...

1,950円 Gay artist George Quaintance (1902-1957) had a diverse and colorful career. After attending art school with Georgia O'Keeffe and Alexander Calder, he joined a vaudeville troupe and traveled the country. His troupe, The Collegiates, was known for acrobatics and athleticism, and it was the opening ...

1,757円 “Credo che non ci sia la possibilità di fare qualcosa che ci rappresenti per davvero senza un certo grado di ossessività. Sono anche stato sempre convinto che con il disegno, il progetto e la costruzione l’architetto non possa risolvere le contraddizioni che la realtà ci rive...

448円 Biographie de Charles Baudelaire par François Porché, poètete, dramaturge et historien de la chose littéraire. Porché inspecte dans ses moindres recoins la vie douloureuse de Charles Baudelaire. Quelques années plus tard, il récidivera avec «...

2,600円 It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then, painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair salons, seemi...

1,440円 Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion when life merges with art. Biography lovers will be inspired by the story of a precocious Baltimore boy, the son of a music-shop owner, who entered coll...

471円 Nevil Shute best describes this autobiography in his own words: "Most of my adult life, perhaps all the worthwhile part of it, has been spent messing about with airplanes. For 30 years there was a period when airplanes would fly when you wanted them to, but there were still fresh things to be lea...