1,600円 Wer war der Schöpfer der "Schöpfung"? Diese zeitgenössische Biografie weiß es besser als jede andere. So gut, dass Stendhal sie geschrieben haben wollte. Giuseppe Carpani wurde zum Biografen Joseph Haydns (1732-1809), weil er sein Freund geworden war. Er musizierte gemeinsam mit dem Komponisten u...

295円 Craft Show Confidential is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of the American craft show industry, delivered as the fictional memoir of Vanessa Nathaniel, a jeweler based in the Chicago area. Nathaniel is writing in the year 2036, when craft shows, like dinosaurs, have disappeared from the earth, victims ...

908円 Sabotage é um artista que reúne a rara combinação da fineza e simplicidade de um papel de seda. Filho de dona Ivonete e seu Júlio, era irmão caçula de Paulinho e Deda. A esferográfica o atraía mais que a bola no campinho na favela do Canão onde cresceu. Casou com Dalva, teve três filhos: Wanderso...

503円 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. In a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek myth...

2,951円 Quebec's Eastern Townships are home to a higher concentration of artists than anywhere else in Canada. With his starting and finishing point being Frederick Coburn (1871–1960), arguably Canada's best-known painter at the peak of his career, author Nick Fonda sets out to revisit his work and provi...

1,837円 Are women's orgasms more intense than men's? What did Andr� Breton think of homosexuality? Can love be separated from physical desire? In 1928 a group of surrealist writers and artists held twelve round table discussions to address these questions. Calling them "researches into sexuality," their ...

503円 Across the Plains is a travel memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europe...

2,838円 Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years i...

2,170円 'Action-packed, magisterial ... Caravaggio's life was every bit as bloody, sexy and attention-grabbing as the paintings themselves and Graham-Dixon is a man who knows the paintings better than almost any' The Times Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any...

362円 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school in the mid-nineteenth century. Claude Monet called of him: "There is only one master here and his name is Corot. We are nothing weigh against to him - nothing." Corot often praised as a predecessor of ...

362円 "Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro was French artist, the only painter to show in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886, and he is frequently considered as the "father" of the Im...

362円   Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school. Unlike the Impressionists, Corot painted only sketches in the open air; he composed his finished paintings in the studio. Corot executed many etchings and pencil sketches. Some of the sketch...