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Author: Edmonde Charles-Roux Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780865650114 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 354
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Gabrielle Coco Chanel (18831971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: at the height of the Belle Ipoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits, and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced slacks, costume jewelry, and the exquisitely comfortable suit. She made the first couture perfume, No. 5, which remains the most popular scent ever created. In this beautiful volume, the glorious life of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through hundreds of illustrations and the lively prose of Edmonde Charles-Roux, her official biographer and close friend. Chanel knew and collaborated with the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, and Visconti, even as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and introducing a whole new concept of elegance. The staggering collection of photographs amassed by the author over decades of friendship with Chanel sheds new light on one of the great stories of the modern age.
Author: Edmonde Charles-Roux Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780865650114 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 354
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Gabrielle Coco Chanel (18831971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: at the height of the Belle Ipoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits, and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced slacks, costume jewelry, and the exquisitely comfortable suit. She made the first couture perfume, No. 5, which remains the most popular scent ever created. In this beautiful volume, the glorious life of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through hundreds of illustrations and the lively prose of Edmonde Charles-Roux, her official biographer and close friend. Chanel knew and collaborated with the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, and Visconti, even as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and introducing a whole new concept of elegance. The staggering collection of photographs amassed by the author over decades of friendship with Chanel sheds new light on one of the great stories of the modern age.
Author: Jeanice Brooks Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022675071X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
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The strange fate of Boulanger and Pugno's La ville morte /Alexandra Laederich --Serious ambitions : Nadia Boulanger and the composition of La ville morte /Jeanice Brooks, Kimberly Francis --From the trenches : extracts from the final issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette /translated by Anna Lehman --From technique to musique : the institutional pedagogy of Nadia Boulanger /Marie Duchêne-Thégarid --Nadia Boulanger's 1935 Carte du tendre --36 rue Ballu : a multifaceted place /Cédric Segond-Genovesi --"What an arrival!" : Nadia Boulanger's New world (1925) --Modern French music : translating Fauré in America, 1925-1945 /Jeanice Brooks --For Nadia Boulanger : five poems by May Sarton --Friend and force : Nadia Boulanger's presence in Polish musical culture /Andrea F. Bohlman, J. Mackenzie Pierce --"What awaits them now?" : a letter to Paris /Zygmunt Mycielski --A letter from Professor Nadia Boulanger /translated by J. Mackenzie Pierce --The Beethoven lectures for the Longy School /translated by Miranda Stewart --Boulanger and atonality : a reconsideration /Kimberly Francis --Why music? Aesthetics, religion, and the ruptures of modernity in the life and work of Nadia Boulanger /Leon Botstein.
Author: Marina Soroka Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317175875 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861, Grand Duchess Elena, born Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807-1873), acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of Russian society, bringing before her nephew Emperor Alexander II a group of civic-minded experts who formed the core of the committee that prepared the greatest and most complex of the reforms, the abolition of serfdom in Russia. The Grand Duchess’s involvement in these crucial events in Russian history highlights the considerable influence aristocratic women had in Russian society, quite unlike women of the same class and status in Western Europe. A study of the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the time, the Romanovs’ role in them, the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire. Based on abundant and largely unused archival sources, published documents and literature of the period in French, Russian, German, Italian and English, this is the first book about Grand Duchess Elena and it expertly interweaves the story of a woman’s life with that of Imperial Russian high politics.
Author: Dorothea Tanning Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393062899 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 428
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The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told. Fourteen years ago, the artist Dorothea Tanning published Birthday, a collection of reminiscences. Now she has expanded it into a memoir of her journey through the last century as confidant, collaborator, and muse to some of its most inspired minds and personalities: a diverse assemblage that ranges from the fathers of dada and surrealism to Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Joan Miró, James Merrill, and many more. At its center is the relationship, tenderly rendered, between Tanning and her famed husband, the enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst. Whether recalling the poignant presence of her friend Joseph Cornell or simply marveling at the facades along a Venice canal, "their filmy reflections fluttering in the dirty canal like fragile altar cloths hung out to dry," Tanning's writing is beguiling, wry, and shot through with the same eye for pregnant detail and immanent magic that marks her art.
Author: Laketta Lowery Publisher: Abbott Press ISBN: 1458202836 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 226
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Does society recognize bullying as a serious issue that children and teenagers deal with every day? Do they understand the long-term negative eff ects bullying can have on a persons life? Author Laketta Lowery knows about bullying from her own experiences. She travels to schools and organizations as a motivational speaker, speaking out on the topic of bullying and self-esteem. In Her World of Darkness and Pain, she addresses the very serious issue of bullying head-on, fi rst by sharing her own story and then by relating ways to combat this very real problem. Bullying has become more prevalent in todays schools, organizations, and with the younger generation. It is a very serious problem because it can lead to isolation, depression, and suicide while having a long-term eff ect on the victims life along with their social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. But there is hope. Everyone can take the bullying challenge to step up and do the right thing to either prevent or stop bullying by: - standing up and telling a bully to stop - defending a victim - telling an authority figure that someone is being bullied - do all they can to raise bullying awareness - speak out and speak up! Do not be afraid to speak up if you see someone bullying because its the only way to stop this epidemic from spreading!
Author: Douglas Roff Publisher: Douglas Roff ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 177
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About the Book Dark passions, family secrets, twisted love, polyamory, betrayal, and pansexuality weave their way into a new novel by Canadian-American author Douglas Roff in his new novel Five Years in Her World: Betrayal and Deceit. This second book of a three novel arc opens the story with James McKenzie, Maria Castellano and her sister Conchita Castellano off to the Greek Island of Crete for a one year hiatus from the events of the past five years in Merida, Mexico. The plan is for James to continue to write his novels in seclusion with his two Spanish muses, but things go wrong right away. This leads to a new series of catastrophic events engineered by Diego and Luna Castellano; Conchita winds up in a hospital as her mental state begins to decline. Their world is rocked, and the sisters and James part ways. James later reconnects with his old friend and lover, now a famous actress, Mirabella "Mira" Montoya. He journeys to New York City where she now lives and visits his agent who has now brought him to a publisher and many new opportunities. With Mira is a new figure, Kimberly Aronson, with whom James is instantly connected. Mira has shocking news as her world reconnects with the Castellano sisters, setting off new challenges. James has a new project in the Yucatan near Progreso on the coast. He may have partners in the venture, but can newcomers Geoffrey and Santana Byrne be trusted. Can the Castellanos? Old nemesis Shawna Fraser reasserts herself and her influence as the mental health of Maria Castellano spirals downwards after her separation from James. Conchita is now herself in mental pain and anguish. James wants no part of the women, but his obsession with them is stronger than his desire for peace and quiet. An agreement is reached between James and Luna Castellano to manage the two sisters, but is James the solution to the sisters' mental health declines? Darkness becomes the norm as richly twisted fantasy worlds are revealed, woven into the final dramatic moments Five Years In Her World: Betrayal and Deceit .
Author: Douglas Roff Publisher: Douglas Roff ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
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About the Book Dark passions, family secrets, twisted love, polyamory, betrayal, and pansexuality weave their way into a new novel by Canadian-American author Douglas Roff in his new novel Five Years in Her World: Secrets and Darkness. Following the tragic deaths of his parents in a fire which destroyed the family home and business, James McKenzie returns to the happiest place he knew as a boy growing up that wasn't located in Canada. After graduating from UBC with a degree in English Literature, he embarks ambitiously on a career as a novelist, moving to Merida, Mexico from his home in rural British Columbia. There he buys the very home his parents used to rent for the family, reconnecting with his Mexican neighbors and friends and settling into life as an expat, living quietly and perfecting his craft. Barely two weeks after arriving, while still settling in and renovating his new home, he receives an email asking him to visit the beach city of Progreso on the Yucatan coast to meet up with a college friend and fellow writer. There, while girl-watching at the beach waiting for the cruise ship to dock, he witnesses a violent attack on a young woman at a photo shoot, intervening after no one else comes to her aid. This leads to a chain of events in which James meets the wealthy and powerful Castellano family led by patriarch Diego and matriarch Luna. He begins his budding relationship with the two Castellano daughters, Maria, the international fashion model, and Conchita, the cunning and brilliant younger sister. His relationship with each of them is different as is his blossoming love affair with Maribella "Mari" Montoya who has had a long and tangled relationship with the two Castellano sisters and the wealthy and powerful Castellano matriarch. James is young and never seems to clearly understand all there is to unravel about the family, especially the looming darkness, his and theirs, that is rapidly descending on them all. Enter Shawna Fraser, an Canadian actress filming in Merida who crosses paths with James fortuitously, but who quickly connects with the Castellano sisters and Mari disrupting their otherwise quiet if not happy lives. The chance meetings of James and his women have resulted in the exposure of many dark secrets and personal agendas, but revealing few of his own. This first book of a three novel series opens the story and lights the fuse on explosive events that will soon change the lives of everyone in Merida, Mexico and in Madrid, Spain. Theirs is an exotic and erotic world of passion, betrayal, lust and pansexuality open to some, closed to all others. Darkness becomes the norm as deeply held secrets are revealed, woven into the final dramatic moments Five Years In Her World: Secrets and Darkness.
Author: StoryBuddiesPlay Publisher: StoryBuddiesPlay ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 73
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Dive into a captivating tale of myth, magic, and forbidden love: Surface Encounter Amara, a mermaid princess from the hidden city of Kumari Kandam, longs for the world above the waves. When a chance encounter with a human sailor, Kael, throws her life into disarray, she finds herself venturing onto land in a desperate gamble. Disguised with a magical seashell, Amara must navigate the treacherous world of humans while keeping her true nature a secret. Their perilous journey is fraught with danger. Greedy pirates hunt for a mythical treasure, their path converging with Amara and Kael's desperate escape. As the truth of Amara's identity threatens to be exposed, they stumble upon a hidden network of protectors who guard the delicate balance between the human world and the underwater realm. But a powerful artifact, coveted by the warship pursuing them, threatens to shatter this peace. Amara and Kael, along with an unlikely ally – a young sailor named Finn – must race against time to warn the protectors and prevent a catastrophic event. Surface Encounter is a story that will captivate readers who enjoy: Mermaid fantasy: Explore a vibrant underwater city and the wonders that lie beneath the waves. Forbidden love: Witness the blossoming romance between a mermaid princess and a human sailor, defying societal boundaries. Adventure and suspense: Join Amara and Kael on a thrilling journey as they face pirates, mythical creatures, and the threat of a devastating weapon. Unlikely alliances: Experience the power of friendship and camaraderie formed between a mermaid, a human, and a sailor in a desperate struggle for survival. Dive deeper into the world of Surface Encounter and discover the secrets that lie hidden beneath the surface.
Author: Melissa Dassori Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books ISBN: 0316331678 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
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J.R.’s struggles to navigate the torments of middle school and her secret power to write wishes into existence in this magical story about finding your voice, perfect for fans of From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Sixth grade is off to a difficult start for Josephine Rose Silver. Her best friend, Violet, returns from camp with a new best friend; her parents refuse to grant her more independence; and her homeroom teacher, Ms. Kline, is full of secrets. When Ms. Kline unveils a collection of old Gothamite magazines and tells her students to build their writing skills by crafting short stories inspired by the iconic covers, J.R. discovers a peculiar power: The stories she writes come true. Soon J.R. is getting a cell phone, scoring game-winning goals, and triggering school cancellations. But it's not long before she realizes that each new story creates as many conflicts as it does solutions. And when J.R. tries to write about her fallout with Violet, all of her problems converge. With a pinch of magic, mystery, art history, and language arts woven into a journey of growth and self-confidence, this promising debut is a heartfelt and satisfying tribute to the power of words.
Author: Edmonde Charles-Roux
Author: Edmonde Charles-Roux
Author: Jeanice Brooks
Author: Marina Soroka
Author: Dorothea Tanning
Author: Laketta Lowery
Author: Douglas Roff
Author: William Otto Henderson
Author: Douglas Roff
Author: StoryBuddiesPlay
Author: Melissa Dassori