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This audiobook is a tour guide to the best art, music, movies, and literature of Western Civilization. In just a few hours you will become an intermediate level scholar of great paintings, and music...The emphasis is on ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Bible art, Renaissance art, Catholic counter reformation, and the Victorian age for paintings.

A review of the exhibition "A Celebration of Life...and Death" by Andy Warhol (1928-1987), held at the National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh in October 2007. Text by Nicholas James, contributions by Lucy James.

Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy. In this...

In 1882, there was an artistic explosion of creativity in Europe. To a poor girl, Maria, and her alcoholic, prostitute mother, Sien, in The Hague, Netherlands, that didn't mean much until one winter evening when her mother brought Vincent Van Gogh to their home. Before his stint in Paris with the bohemian painters of his day, Van Gogh tried for a family life while learning the trade of art. Seminary school was a failure, and his cousin, Klee, had rejected his romantic advances.

The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Freedom’ was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen’s non-fiction brings fresh...

Wrapped up in a snarky idealism, it starts as a funny and poignant love letter to art, and winds up making a compelling case for a kinder, more connected world.

Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-20th-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly "American" on the stage and screen. Even though few gay artists were "out," their sexuality caused significant anxiety during a time of rampant anti-homosexual attitudes.

Ya anticipábamos en la tema 24, dedicada al arte isabelino y plateresco, lo convencional de tla duración de un periodo artístico. A esa convencional división cronológica se le añade la necesidad de reducir a dos temas la arquitectura renacentista española. Ante tamaña dificultad, hemos...

Tras la muerte de Almanzor (1002), los reinos leonés y navarro, a los que pronto se va a unir el castellano, se aprovechan de la mala situación política y militar en que navegaba el califato y avanzan impetuosamente hacia el sur. Es la época de Sancho el Mayor, de Fernando I, de Alfonso VI...

Based on a real-life event, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same...

Caitlin's Cruise: A Journey through the Films of Tom Cruise chronicles one woman's quest to watch and review every single movie featuring Tom Cruise, in chronological order. Find out how Caitlin ranks all 38 movies, from the big hits like Risky Business, Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, and Mission: Impossible to the possibly underseen works like Taps and All the Right Moves.

Les Citations de Leonard de Vinci, en Francais. Traduction en français de David Serero.

«Hacemos turismo cultural, visitamos iglesias y catedrales, nos arrobamos ante la belleza de los frescos románicos, de los lienzos renacentistas, de los retablos barrocos, de las imágenes de bulto talladas en sillerías, canecillos y retablos, de las prodigiosas arquitecturas que conforman el...

This is a biography of my father, Tony D’Orazi, who had many successes and struggles as an influential twentieth artist, during his life. The story of Tony D’Orazi, is from his early childhood as a prodigy in Missoula, Montana, to his ascension into an award-winning artist by way of New York City and Chicago, and his days working for Walt Disney to ultimately becoming the radio and television personality known as Uncle Tony O’Dare, “the first cartoonist of the air”.

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who...

Sheridan Morley writes: "When my father died at eighty-four on the morning of Derby Day 1992 (one of the few he ever missed), he and I had been together for just over fifty years. In the immediate aftermath of his sudden death, I knew two things; how much I would always miss the sheer joy of his company, and how much I wanted to write about him, if only to explain to myself and my children the life and career of the last great Boulevardier of his or any other time."

O livro descreve o surgimento, nos anos 1920, do rádio de galena,no Rio de Janeiro,através do qual se projetariam duas manifestações musicais básicas da música popular: o maxixe e o choro.Sérgio se debruça sobre a influência da política republicana nas composições, sobre a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's...

The Power of Art is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art. Taking listeners from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, the eminent curator Caroline Campbell explains art's power to illuminate our lives, and inspires us to benefit from its transformative and regenerative power.

As Hitler was attempting to conquer the western world, his armies were methodically pillaging the finest art in Europe, from Michelangelos to Vermeers, all stolen for the Führer. The Monuments Men had a mandate from President Roosevelt to find these artworks, but no vehicles, typewriters, or authority. In a race against time to save the world’s greatest cultural treasures from destruction at the hands of Nazi fanatics, each man constructed his own treasure map....