Picasso. The Women of His Life - Markus Muller, Marilyn McCully, Magrit Bernhard

Picasso. The Women of His Life - Markus Muller, Marilyn McCully, Magrit Bernhard

It is a widely held view that Picasso's creative work received a fresh impetus with each new muse in his life. This volume does not discuss his biography or his stylistic phases, however, but pays tribute to the individual fates of the women who left their mark on the artist's life. Personalities

Unreasonable Behaviour - An Autobiography (McCullin Don)(Paperback / softback)

McCullin grew up in London during the aftermath of World War II. He has spent a large part of his life photographing wars in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In this book he writes of the deprivation of his childhood and the much greater misery and horror he has witnessed during his

Picasso: Ceramics (Picasso Pablo)(Pevná vazba)

Picasso's ceramics express the restless, fluid ease of his late yearsIn 1946, Pablo Picasso visited an exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris, an area in southeastern France known for its many potteries. He would move to the region soon after, establishing a steady relationship with the Madoura

Mark Rothko: The Story of His Life (Matteuzzi Francesco)(Pevná vazba)

This unique portrait of Mark Rothko captures his astonishing use of color as it illustrates the story of his life, career, struggles, and philosophy. Mark Rothko's work is among the most recognizable in modern art history. His huge color-field works enjoy enormous popularity for their luminosity,

Life of Picasso Volume II - 1907 1917: The Painter of Modern Life (Richardson John)(Paperback / softback)

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass (Fought Leigh)(Pevná vazba)

In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic

Transforming Demons: The True Story of How a Seeker Resolves His Karma: From Ancient Atlantis to the Present-Day (Thoresen Are)(Paperback)

'Having misused women, power, and the life energy of his followers, the Seeker must overcome his demons--not figuratively but literally--in the astral, etheric, and physical dimensions of reality. But to face them, he must first cross the threshold to the spiritual world . . . 'Transforming

Mozart's Women - His Family, His Friends, His Music (Glover Jane)(Paperback / softback)

A major new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of the women in his

A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art - Deborah Wye

Printmaking was fundamental to Pablo Picasso’s artistic vision. Over his long career, he made well over 2,000 printed images, focusing on the intaglio techniques of etching, engraving, drypoint and aquatint, as well as on lithography and linoleum cut. This book, published to accompany an

The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich (Ammann Daniel)(Paperback)

Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah

The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori (Ravina Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai,

The Muller Vaccine (Wilson Shaun)(Paperback)

It feels like the end of the world when a history professor loses his wife, his home and his career and the book he wrote to escape it all flops. But shady government and corporate agents are suddenly very interested in his apparently not-so-fanciful book. A sect hosting an anonymous conspiracy

Dante: The Story of His Life (Santagata Marco)(Paperback)

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Marco Santagata's Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of

I Spy: My Life in Mi5 (Marcus Tom)(Pevná vazba)

'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - SunTom Marcus spent years of his life working covertly against those who want to do us harm. Now, for the first time, he tells the full story of what it is like to live your life in the shadows and who you need to

Mandela: His Essential Life (Hain Peter)(Paperback)

Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Hain takes an in-depth look at Mandela's rise

Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby (McBurney Henrietta)(Pevná vazba)

The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detail This book explores the life and work of the celebrated eighteenth-century English naturalist, explorer, artist and author Mark

A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer - Melissa Müller

Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around

Life with Picasso (Gilot Franoise)(Paperback)

Fran oise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists. Fran oise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a

Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa (Chase Marilyn)(Pevná vazba)

Gathering Evidence (Bernhard Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and where this account of his life ends, his art

Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life (Strathern Marilyn)(Paperback)

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written

The Picasso Connection : The Artist and his Gallerist - Kunsthalle Bremen, Michael Hertz, Kai Hohenfeld, Manuela Husemann, Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk

Without a doubt, Picasso is one of the most important and versatile artistic personalities of the twentieth century. But how does a body of work become so successful, and how does it wind up in major collections, museums, and exhibitions? Not infrequently, it is the courage of individuals who

Marilyn Monroe (Sanchez Vegara Maria Isabel)(Pevná vazba)

Learn about the incredible life of Marilyn Monroe, the iconic movie star, in this book from the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS

Marilyn - A Biography (Mailer Norman)(Paperback / softback)

'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table