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Sonia Delaunay, wife of painter Robert Delaunay, and co-founder of the Orphist school in 1910, was the center of a brilliant circle in Paris. Madsen offers a rich and compelling look at this fascinating and influential woman, the first living female artist to have a retrospective show at the Louvre.
9202) Hogwarts Students
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The casting, the chemistry, and the costuming that brought Harry, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and their classmates to life on-screen.
A comprehensive guide that profiles and details Harry and his fellow pupils, Volume 4: Hogwarts Students gives fans an in-depth look at gorgeous illustrations, design sketches, and behind-the-scenes photography that helped to bring these iconic characters to the big screen. See how the magic happened through this...
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The story of the exploration and birth of America, is told afresh through the unique prism of hand-colored maps and engravings of the period.
Before photography and television, it was printed and hand-colored maps that brought home the thrill of undiscovered lands and the possibilities of exploration, while guiding armies on all sides through the Indian Wars and the clashes of the American Revolution. Only by looking through the prism of these maps,...
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During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter...
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The filmmaking secrets behind the Wizarding World's flora and fauna-from owls and cats to Fawkes the phoenix, the Whomping Willow, and Fenrir Greyback.
Rediscover the creature companions, magical plants, and shapeshifters of this cinematic universe with Volume 5. Fans will be treated to an in-depth look at the illustrations, paintings, and behind-the-scenes photography that helped develop everything from Harry's owl, Hedwig, to werewolves and Animagi.
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How snakes, reanimated corpses, trolls, giants, and other beings-both friends and foes-jumped from the pages to the screen in the Wizarding World.
The Harry Potter films are packed with creatures by turns fascinating and fearsome, from the goblins of Gringotts to the Dementors of Azkaban. With detailed profiles of each creature that include concept art and behind-the-scenes photography, this volume gives fans an in-depth look at Dark creatures, such...
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The Japanese Tea Ceremony is a detailed examination of the five-centuries-old tea ceremony-or Cha-no-Yu in Japanese, literally "hot water for tea"-a cornerstone of Japanese culture and a core practice of Zen Buddhism. Framed by intricately choreographed steps, the tea ceremony is as much about the search for enlightenment as it is about serving tea. Within the serenity of the tea room, the ceremony, with its highly formal structure, becomes an object...
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See the artistry and special effects that built the Wizarding World, including Hogsmeade Village, Grimmauld Place, Shell Cottage, Malfoy Manner, and more.
Revisit the Harry Potter films and learn all about wizarding homes, such as The Burrow and the Lovegood house, as well as wizarding villages such as Hogsmeade and Godric's Hollow.
Harry Potter Film Vault compiles the filmmaking secrets and visionary artistry behind the Harry Potter films into...
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Discover the filmmaking secrets behind Diagon Alley, the Ministry of Magic, and the other enchanted locations of the Wizarding World.
Revisit the enchanting locations of the Wizarding World with Volume 2: Diagon Alley, the Hogwarts Express, and the Ministry. Fans can get an in-depth look at the illustrations, sketches, and paintings as well as behind-the-scenes photography that helped develop the iconic magical locations seen throughout the Harry...
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Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future.
“Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture” is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anaïs Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Through a series of lyric essays, interviews with contemporary artists and writers of color, and ekphrastic poetry,...
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Décryptez l'art d'Odilon Redon en moins d'une heure !
Dans la France de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, façonnée par la course au progrès, certains artistes choisissent de s'évader du réel, lui préférant le rêve et l'imaginaire. Parmi ceux-ci, Odilon Redon élabore un art visionnaire peuplé de symboles, se distinguant des impressionnistes, selon lui trop attachés à la réalité tangible. Car ce qui intéresse l'artiste, c'est de mettre...
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Décryptez l'art d'Amedeo Modigliani en moins d'une heure!
Figure éminente de la bohème parisienne au tournant du XXe siècle, Amedeo Modigliani reste cependant en marge des avant-gardes de l'époque. Il élabore, dans une quête stylistique sans fin, des portraits épurés o se mêlent mélancolie et absence, mais aussi des nus qui créent le scandale. Entre tradition et modernité, Modigliani invente un art inimitable et reconnaissable entre...
9213) Diego Rivera
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They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one. An intense artistic creation, along with pain and suffering, was generated by this tormented union, in particular for Frida. Constantly in the shadow of her husband, bearing his unfaithfulness and her jealousy, Frida exorcised the pain on canvas, and won progressively the public's interest....
9214) Kahlo
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Detrás de los retratos de Frida Kahlo se ocultan tanto la historia de su vida como la de su obra. Es precisamente esta combinación la que atrae al espectador. La obra de Frida es un testimonio de su vida. Pocas veces se puede aprender tanto acerca de un artista con sólo contemplar lo que él inscribe dentro del marco de sus cuadros. Frida Kahlo es sin lugar a dudas la ofrenda de México a la historia del arte. Tenía apenas dieciocho años cuando...
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Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable medium...
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At the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain presents Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal's contributions to neuroscience through his groundbreaking artistic brain imagery.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) was the father of modern neuroscience and an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body's most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualization, based on fanatically precise...
9217) Hogwarts Castle
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Tour the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and its grounds, including the Great Hall, the Room of Requirement, the Boathouse, and more.
From moving staircases filled with talking portraits to secret rooms and chambers, Hogwarts castle is a place full of magic and mystery. In this volume, fans will be treated to an in-depth look at the illustrations, paintings, and behind-the-scenes photography that helped develop the iconic castle seen throughout...
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Curiosity is the instinct that prompts us to act, and a book about curiosity should tell us how to live. This
is the first to do so, with its twelve rules for life.
While a fatal sin in Eden, curiosity is a necessary virtue in our world. It asks us to search for new experiences, to create, to invent. It tells us to look inward, to be curious about the needs of other people and about our own motives. It tells us not to be a stick in the mud or...
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TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture, Tosh Berman's father, Wallace Berman, was known as the "father of assemblage art," and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife, famed beauty...
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Sumérgete en la vida y obra de Amedeo Modigliani, un artista talentoso apasionado por los retratos, los desnudos y la escultura que nada a contracorriente para desarrollar un arte único y propio, no exento de polémica, que inspirará a otros grandes artistas y dejará una profunda huella en la historia del arte universal.
En tan solo 50 minutos te invitamos a descubrir:
• La vida de uno de los grandes artistas de su época, Amedeo Modigliani,...
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