2,786円 It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes... Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine that he was editing. Bacon i...

3,400円 "Eine Wiederkehr an Orte der Vergangenheit ist nur sinnvoll, wenn sie die Erinnerung an das Leben an ihnen befördert, wieder auffrischt oder neu entdecken lässt." Bruno Flierl, geboren zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik in Schlesien, aufgewachsen in Nazi-Deutschland, am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in...

5,657円 Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film. His work with Alfred Hitchcock produced a slew of classics including Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960). Several years before collab...

6,621円 Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician” delves into the history of the modern Middle East and an inquiry into Lebanese intellectual, cultural, and political life as incarnated in the ideas, and as illustrated by the times, works, and activities o...

1,320円 She was the American woman who changed Australian history. She broke through barriers for women in architecture and spent 15 years working for Chicago architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in the formative years of the Prairie School of Architecture. Then she teamed up with Walter Burley Griffin working ...

9,940円 In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspape...

1,500円 **Décryptez l'**art de Bramante en moins d'une heure! Peintre de formation, Bramante est dès ses débuts fascinépar la représentation de l'espace. S'installant à Milan à la fin des années1470, il se tourne vers l'architecture et participe à divers projets, mais sansparvenir à s'imposer. C'est lors...

3,040円 The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in Americaーsprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and ...

4,454円 The now venerable firm of Royal Barry Wills was founded in a one-room office on Boston's Beacon Street in 1925. Initially fueled by word of mouth and occasional newspaper exposure, the firm gained admiration for Wills’s fresh take on various New England styles, including Georgian, Tudor, French P...

2,387円 Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possib...

2,387円 Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), Architekt und Künstler aus Barcelona, nimmt einen bedeutenden Platz in der Geschichte der spanischen Gegenwartskunst ein. Sein Umgang mit Farbe, die Verwendung verschiedener Materialien und die Einführung von Bewegung in seine Konstruktionen sind Innovationen auf dem Geb...

2,387円 Michelangelo war, genau wie Leonardo, ein “universeller” Künstler: Maler, Baumeister, Bildhauer und Dichter. Er war der Hauptmeister der italienischen Hochrenaissance und Wegbereiter des Manierismus. Seine Vorliebe galt der als Ausdruck der Leidenschaft angesehenen Skulptur. Nach Landschaften suc...