Exhibitions category: 673 books
Dominique-Vivant Denon. L'œil de Napoléon (Paris - 1999)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
En consacrant une exposition à Denon, le Louvre rendait hommage à son «grand homme», à celui qui fut le premier directeur des Musées. Pierre Rosenberg, directeur du musée du Louvre et organisateur de cette manifestation, ne s'est pas limité à l'action du haut fonctionnaire sous le Consulat...
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De l’Allemagne 1800-1939 (Paris - 2013)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Quoi de mieux qu’une exposition pour célébrer le cinquantenaire du traité de l’Élysée, signé par le général de Gaulle et le chancelier Adenauer le 22 janvier 1963 ?...
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Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable...
Richard Long ou la sculpture en marchant (Nice - 2008)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Né en 1945 à Bristol (Grande-Bretagne), Richard Long goûte peu les exercices rétrospectifs exhaustifs et désincarnés; il leur préfère en général la possibilité de réaliser de nouvelles œuvres in situ. Ce fut le cas au musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain de Nice...
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Debussy, la musique et les arts (Paris - 2012)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
L'attirance pour l'art pictural et, plus globalement, pour tout ce qui relève du visuel est particulièrement manifeste chez le compositeur Claude Debussy (1862-1918), qui s'est référé à l'univers de peintres comme Botticelli pour sa suite symphonique Printemps (1887), Velázquez pour ...
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Jean-Luc Godard (Paris - 2006)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
L'exposition qui s'est tenue à Paris au Centre Georges-Pompidou, du 11 mai au 14 août 2006, – Voyage (s) en utopie, Jean-Luc Godard, 1946-2006, à la recherche d'un théorème perdu – affiche ses ambitions : mettre en espace, en quelque sorte, les Histoire(s) du cinéma, l'œuvre-somme de Godard...
Diamants (Paris - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Le diamant, tout le monde connaît, ou du moins, croit connaître. Le diamant, tout le monde aime, comme l'a une fois de plus prouvé l'éclatant succès de l'exposition Diamants. Au cœur de la Terre, au cœur des étoiles, au cœur du pouvoir qui s'est tenue du 10 mars au 31 juillet 2001...
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Jackie
The Clothes of Camelot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is the ultimate American fashion icon. Jay Mulvaney, author of Kennedy Weddings, celebrates her unique style in this lavishly illustrated book.
JACKIE: The Clothes of Camelot is a richly illustrated history of those magical years when the Kennedys captivated...
People Fishing
A Century of Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Although people have fished for food since the dawn of time, fishing today is one of the most popular pastimes in the world—an estimated 220 million people worldwide are recreational anglers, according to the World Bank. While many enjoy the Zen of waiting patiently for a strike in the great outdoors,...
A Countryside Camera
The Photographs of Roger Redfern
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Roger Redfern – author, writer and photographer – had been writing about his travels and exploration of different areas of Britain and abroad for over 50 years, most notably as a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper’s Country Diary feature. He is the author of over 30 books and was...
The Exoteric Meaning in Raphael's Paintings
The Philosophy of Composition in The Disputa, The School of Athens, The Transfiguration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The seed of this book was planted in 1941, when Giorgio Spadaro first visited the Vatican Museums with his cousin, the painter Beppe Assenza. A second visit and further conversations in 1945 watered the seed, which germinated and grew over more than half a century. Now it has flowered, in the light of...
Kentucky by Design
The Decorative Arts and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Project -- the visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, this ambitious initiative set out to discover and document an authentic American style...
Baseball Americana
A Visual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Foreword by George F. Will
With a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
A lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.
“One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. …...
by Tony Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
From action-packed Model T racing in the 1930s to exotic sports car racing during the 1950s and 1960s, Images of America: Central Coast Motor Sports reveals the colorful history of motor sports and hot rodding in Central California. Sam Foose, one of the pioneers of West Coast car customizing, created...
by Jack Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In Beyond the Glamour Photograph, photographers Jack Watson and Andy McFarland start where other glamour photo books usually end. In addition to the mechanics of the glamour photography business, this book includes a companion DVD with a behind-the-scenes look at a live studio glamour shoot with Watson...