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  • "We Met in Paris"

    Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

    de Joan E Howard ...
    Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a ... Leer más

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  • The Greater Journey

    Americans in Paris

    The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough.Not all pioneers went west.In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold ... Leer más

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  • Encyclopedia of the Exquisite

    An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights

    Encyclopedia of the Exquisite is a lifestyle guide for the Francophile and the Anglomaniac, the gourmet and the style maven, the armchair traveler and the art lover. It’s an homage to the esoteric world of glamour that doesn’t require much spending but makes us feel rich.Taking a cue from the exotic encyclopedias of the sixteenth century, which brimmed with mysterious artifacts, Jessica Kerwin ... Leer más

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  • Broad Strokes

    15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

    de Bridget Quinn ...
    Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful ... Leer más

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  • Strapless

    de Deborah Davis ...
    The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame.Unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait generated the ... Leer más

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  • Everybody's Autobiography

    “Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France, England, and America, where she made a triumphant tour of the country. Here ... Leer más

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  • Museum

    Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    An ?intriguing? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Entertainment Weekly)Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York?s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the aristocratic, acerbic director of the museum, Philippe de Montebello, to the curators who have a deep knowledge and ... Leer más

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated)

    Series Libro 27 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Though he died young in relative obscurity, the works of Amedeo Modigliani are now regarded as some of the most important canvases of the twentieth century. Modigliani’s innovative portraits and nudes are characterised by their asymmetrical compositions, elongated figures and monumental use of line. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to ... Leer más

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  • This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

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    David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson created his own personal genre. With crackling wit distilled into incantatory streams of thought on art, life, and death, Markson's work has delighted and ... Leer más

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  • Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis

    A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales

    The secret histories of the world’s most famous masterpiecesCaravaggios, Rembrandts, Monets—the works of immortal artists such as these are indelibly imprinted in the public mind; they are priceless masterpieces whose beauty, artistry, and emotional impact have inspired admiration, awe, and envy through the centuries. Yet behind many of these brilliant paintings and sculptures are fascinating, ... Leer más

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  • Cezanne

    A Life

    de Alex Danchev ...
    With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age who changed the way we see the world.With brisk ... Leer más

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  • Writers In Paris

    Literary Lives in the City of Light

    de David Burke ...
    No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their lives, were shaped by this enchanting locale. From natives such as Molière, Genet, and Anaïs Nin, to expats like Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, ... Leer más

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