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"Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists--from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
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Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
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"Just as William Goldman, the ultimate screenwriter, took us inside Hollywood, Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, will take us inside an even more secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day. The former Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, the former owner of Sotheby's rival Phillips de Pury, and currently a London-based dealer and advisor to great collectors around the world,...
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What does the face of power look like? Who getscommemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture wars"-Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famousin the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the "twelve Caesars," from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing...
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The Book of Art for Young People is a work depicting the history of art. Author Agnes Ethel Conway presents an engaging overview reaching from the 13th century all the way to the 19th century. We are treated with descriptions of greats such as Donatello, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh and many others that are still vividly remembered today!
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#1 I come from a family that was very close. I had many vivid memories of learning to fit in wherever I was, which served me well in my future life as a musician. I remember nearly drowning in Egypt and being pulled out by a man in a flowing blue cloak.
#2 My father was a wonderful, generous man who was taken from me too early. He was a gentleman and a dreamer, and I've...
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"Las artes del cuerpo como celebración de la vida y el encuentro es una obra que reúne los resultados de investigación de diversos académicos latinoamericanos, europeos y asiáticos alrededor del cuerpo, como escenario de tensiones disciplinares que contribuyen a la comprensión epistemológica de la investigación basada en artes, la investigación-creación y la investigación semiótica-sensible.
Celebrar la vida mediante el movimiento, la...
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"Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)" by Shearjashub Spooner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted...
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#1 I wanted to buy a house in Morocco, because I wanted to explore Islamic culture further. I knew that people in Western countries view Muslim nations as a monolithic bloc, but there are many cultural differences between them.
#2 In 2003, Sandy and I began saving money to buy a house in Fez. We planned to get ourselves back there without dipping into the escape fund....
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#1 Ballet is a staple of American childhood, and the popularity of televised dance competitions like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars has helped create a growing market for private dance education.
#2 The ballet competition scene was a rapidly growing industry before the pandemic, and it is not only the stories of the lucky and talented few who become...
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#1 I was not in Cedars in Los Angeles, but rather at St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, a scrappy, hell-bent kid actor not yet touching his eighteenth birthday. This was no bad dream, but a living nightmare coming back to haunt me.
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#1 The impact of globalization on southwest Virginia was not being documented by other media outlets. It was up to writers and photographers like Jared and me to paint the long-view picture of what had happened when, one after another, the textile and then the furniture factories closed and set up shop in Mexico, China, and Vietnam.
#2 The town of Galax, about seventy...
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In this study, mathematical substructure of works of Dutch graphic artistM.C.Escher is examined. Mathematical effects in Escher's works can be classified in certain topics. Most important of them can be put in order as regular division of the plane, visual paradoxes and fictions on structure of perspective and geometrical topology. For each of these topics, it can be said that Escher is influenced by some certain names as well. Most important of...
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Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses by Joshua Sir Reynolds is a collection of Reynolds's speeches before various academics and other artists on painting. Reynolds was one of the major European painters of the 18th century, and he promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on the idealization of the imperfect.
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