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The White Road

Journey into an Obsession

by Edmund de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling...
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Tom and Jack

The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock

by Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only...
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by Philip Ross
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

Sylvester Stallone is an American actor, writer, director and screenwriter. His career started with small films mostly soft core. He was more inclined to be a writer and before being successful was a screen writer. The movie ‘Rocky’ was the most significant movie in his life that has led him to...
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by Daniel Coenn
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012

This Art Book contains reproductions of Claude Monet pastels. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Although Monet helped perpetrate the myth that he did not, and maybe even...
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by Emma Reyes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 29, 2013

Mediante veintitrés cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germán Arciniegas, Emma Reyes asumió el arduo ejercicio de narrar los giros y adversidades que vivió durante su infancia. Estos textos, escritos entre 1969 y 1997, articulan magistralmente un relato personal que evoca el contexto del...
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by Jonathan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009

Part of the Jewish Encounter series Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming...
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Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay

Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

by Christopher Benfey
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

**New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 "Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis."  (Edmund de Waal, author...
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A Curious Friendship

The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing

by Anna Thomasson
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

'I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy Strong The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life...
Cover of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004

Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at...
Cover of The Letters of Noel Coward
by Noel Coward
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008

Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from Coward provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, the talented...
Cover of Gyotaku, The Donation Of Boshu Nagase.
by Daniel PARDO
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017

Dating back to the Ming Dynasty, Gyotaku — the Japanese print making technique that takes an impression directly from the fish — evolved into a form of fine art, as well as, a research tool for ichthyologists logging the diversity of marine species. Boshu Nagase is a Master of Gyotaku, who has...
Cover of J.K. Rowling and the Journey of Her Life
by Jim Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014

JK Rowling is a British author and movie producer. JK Rowling is one of the wealthiest private citizens in the United Kingdom and the first author in the world to achieve a net worth of $1 billion. As the Harry Potter books gained popularity around the world, they broke literary sales records....
Cover of Bob Seger: Remarkable Career and Facts
by Mark Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

Bob Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Bob Seger became a household name with a string of hits beginning in the late 70s. His hit songs include "Turn the Page", "Night Moves", and "Old Time Rock and Roll", which is ranked as the...
Cover of A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
by Jon Krakauer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

Here is Jon Krakauer’s portrait of the iconoclastic architect Christopher Alexander, whose revolutionary human-centered approach has shaken the foundations of modern architecture. Krakauer delves into Alexander’s life and career, from his theories on a timeless “pattern language” that could...
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