Author: Carolyn LanchnerPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870707868
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Text by Carolyn Lanchner.
Fernand Léger
Author: Carolyn LanchnerPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870707868
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Text by Carolyn Lanchner.
From Millet to Léger
Author: Robert L. HerbertPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097061
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In a preface prepared for this volume, Herbert explains that these essays are linked by a focus on the relation of art to the urban-industrial revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
France
Author: United States. Office of GeographyPublisher: Washington, D.C. : [The Board]
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions--because they are competitively driven--are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact out-perform private ones.
United States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer
Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Dada and Surrealist Film
Author: Rudolf E. KuenzliPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611213
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements.
Suite for Barbara Loden
Author: Nathalie LégerPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 0997366613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. “I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. “Usually, there is a distance between representation and text, subject and action. Here that distance is completely eradicated.” It is perhaps this “miracle”—the seeming collapse of fiction and fact—that has made Wanda (1970) a cult classic, and a fascination of artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Léger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker. Suite for Barbara Loden is the magnificent result.
The Legere Family of Nova Scotia and France
Author: Diana J MuirPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359337090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"The LeGere family orginally came from the Dijon and Normandy areas of France; descendants of the Merovingian kings and lords of the surrounding region ... the Legere family is spread across the Americas, both in Canada and the United States ..."--Back cover
Exposition
Author: Nathalie LégerPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1948980045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The first in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. Exposition is the first in a triptych of books by the award-winning writer and archivist Nathalie Léger that includes Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress. In each, Léger sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life and research—an archivist's journey into the self, into the lives that history hides from us. Here, Léger's subject is the Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), who at the dawn of photography dedicated herself to becoming the most photographed woman in the world, modeling for hundreds of photos, including “Scherzo di Follia,” among the most famous in history. Set long before our own “selfie” age, Exposition is a remarkably modern investigation into the curses of beauty, fame, vanity, and age, as well as the obsessive drive to control and commodify one's image.
The White Dress
Author: Nathalie LégerPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1948980061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The third in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. The White Dress is the third in Nathalie Léger's award-winning triptych of books about women who “through their oeuvre, transform their lives into a mystery” (ELLE). In Exposition, Léger wrote about the Countess of Castiglione, the most photographed woman of the nineteenth century; in Suite for Barbara Loden she took up the actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden; here, Léger grapples with the tragic 2008 death of Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered while hiking from Italy to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. A harrowing meditation on the risks women encounter, in life and in art, The White Dress also brings to a haunting conclusion Léger's personal interrogation—sustained across all three books—of her relationship with her mother and the desire for justice in our lives.
Cubism
Author: Anne Ganteführer-TrierPublisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783822829585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
As you'll find out in this guide to the fundamentals of cubism, there is more to the genre than its most famous proponent. Cubism -- often identified by flattened, geometric shapes, overlapping, simplified forms and fragmented spatial planes -- was quite possibly the most influential movement in 20th-century art. Featured artists: Pablo Picasso, Edmond Fortier, Paul Cizanne, George Braque, Henri Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Liger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, Henri Laurens, Salvador Dalm, Brassao, Robert Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon... TASCHEN's Basic Art movement and genre series: includes a detailed introduction with approximately 30 photographs, and a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, sporting, etc.) that took place during the time period. The body of the book contains a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation.