Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Memoirs, Biography, History
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Memories of James McNeill Whistler
Author: Thomas R WayThe Man Whistler
Author: Hesketh PearsonPublisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755154452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The American painter, James McNeil Whistler, aroused great controversy. His work also significantly influenced interior decoration. But Whistler was as famous for his biting wit, fights, quarrels and sharp attacks on art critics. Pearson here shows him as his friends saw him and adds fresh insight drawn from meetings with people who knew him.
The Bookman
Author: The Architect and Designer Birthday Book
Author: James BiberPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1797226894
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A thoughtfully curated collection in a stunning package that recognizes and celebrates the birthdays of famous, infamous, and often-overlooked designers and architects. The gift book for design and architect professionals and students they didn’t know they needed but will no longer be able to live without. Drawn from architect James Biber's epic Instagram project in which he posted a birthday bio of a famous (or less famous) designer or architect every day for a (mid-pandemic) year, The Architect and Designer Birthday Book is filled with personal, opinionated, and humorous observations on fascinating design and architect figures past and present. The minibiographies and birthday profiles in the book cover a range of international architects and designers, as well as artists, including: Architects from the Aaltos (Aino and Alvar) to Zumthor Rivals Bernini and Borromini Photographers Lee Miller, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Vivian Maier, Dody Weston Thompson, Margaret Morton, and Judith Turner Midcentury modernists Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Florence Knoll Charlotte Perriand, Lilly Reich, Anne Tyng, and Denise Scott Brown More anecdotal histories than authorized biographies, these daily profiles are not only fun to read but provide spot-on commentary for anyone interested in how designers and architects relate to each other as well as their place in history. It is the intersection of Biber’s life and the history of architecture and design.
The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Dawn of the Belle Epoque
Author: Mary McAuliffePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442209291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising—Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third Republic. By 1900, Paris had recovered and the Belle Epoque was in full flower, but the decades between were difficult, marked by struggles between republicans and monarchists, the Republic and the Church, and an ongoing economic malaise, darkened by a rising tide of virulent anti-Semitism. Yet these same years also witnessed an extraordinary blossoming in art, literature, poetry, and music, with the Parisian cultural scene dramatically upended by revolutionaries such as Monet, Zola, Rodin, and Debussy, even while Gustave Eiffel was challenging architectural tradition with his iconic tower. Through the eyes of these pioneers and others, including Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Clemenceau, Marie Curie, and César Ritz, we witness their struggles with the forces of tradition during the final years of a century hurtling towards its close. Through rich illustrations and vivid narrative, McAuliffe brings this vibrant and seminal era to life.
Literary Writings in America
Author: [Anonymus AC02612290]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
The American Library Annual 1911/12-1917/18
Author: An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt, 1863 to 1887
Author: Samuel Selig de baron KuselPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description