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The astounding first volume, exploring the fascinating world of the most popular living artist in Britain today.As seen in Drawing From Life exhibition at National Portrait Gallery, 2023David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the last five...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-12-23
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In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining...
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Penguin
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2011-10-06
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'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 TimesMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and...
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Penguin
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2011-07-06
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'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New YorkerA cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at...
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Penguin
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2007-10-12
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A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes.
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Penguin
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2003-09-25
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Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the...
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Penguin
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2003-07-31
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Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy. He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions.
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Penguin
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1990-08-30
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Canadian artist Emily Carr tells her life story growing up in British Columbia;
attending art schools in London, San Francisco and Paris; and her work back in B.C., Canada.
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-01-02
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The latest instalment in the award-winning series on the life and work of E. J. Hughes brings the reader into this very private artist’s home and studio on Shawnigan Lake.In the most intimate volume yet about prolific Canadian painter E. J. Hughes, the...
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Touchwood Editions
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2023-10-24
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Living through the Nazi occupation of Holland and arriving in Montreal with little more than a film reel under his arm, Co Hoedeman had a dream to work for the National Film Board of Canadas renowned animation unit. It was there where he became part of the vanguard in...
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At Bay Press
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2021-11-11
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Finalist, Ottawa Book Award (English Non-Fiction)A Globe and Mail’s Spring Book Preview SelectionMolly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then,...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2021-03-30
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A retrospective on one of BC’s most famous artists that features beautifully reproduced landscape paintings from all over mainland BC, and unveils new photographs, sketches, and ephemera from the artist’s estate.
E. J. Hughes (1913–2007) is British Columbia’s...
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Touchwood Editions
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2019-10-22
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What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits? “Biography,” says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, “is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-01-27
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