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When he was nine years old, Paul Polson lay on his bed in his family home, burning up with fever. He experienced a "vision" during that fever that repeated itself several times throughout his life. The message was clear during the vision, but Paul couldn't describe it when he woke. What it did do was give him confidence that he could do anything he wanted and succeed.
In The Vision, he shares his story: A lifelong passion for the arts and a quest...
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Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of course, no question of mental grasp or capacity or artistic endowment. I am, so far as these are concerned, merely the man in the street, the averagely endowed and the ordinarily educated. I call myself a Puritan and a Christian. I run continually against walls of convention,...
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An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art.
Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and shady businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some...
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Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.
Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to Christianity and the world's attention. Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry is a collection of...
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Actrice, chanteuse, animatrice, professeur d'art dramatique et communicatrice hors pair, Ghislaine Paradis, dans cette autobiographie captivante, nous entraîne avec enthousiasme au coeur de sa vie et de sa passion d'artiste. 1ier prix de Conservatoire , elle est d'abord connue pour son rle de Nicole dans la populaire émission de télévision " Quelle Famille " à Radio-Canada. Elle sera aussi Hélène dans " À Coeur Battant " qui l'emmènera au...
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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
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Un episodio poco conocido en la trayectoria artística y vital de la pintora mexicana
El 10 de marzo de 1939 se inauguró en París la exposición Mexique. La obra de Frida Kahlo protagonizó la muestra al ser promovida por André Breton, que la describió como "un listón alrededor de una bomba".
Para entonces Frida llevaba casi dos meses en la capital francesa, el tiempo suficiente para conocer de primera mano los círculos intelectuales de la...
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Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career.
Molly Peacock looks at the balancing act of female creativity and domesticity in the life of Mary Hiester Reid, a painter, who produced over three hundred stunning, emotive floral still lifes and landscapes. Born in the U.S. in 1854, trained by libertine Thomas Eakins, Mary trailblazed in a life, where...
10) Junín 1960
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Una memoria desde la infancia sobre la vida colectiva en un espacio y época especiales de la ciudad: la carrera Junín en los sesenta.
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One of the most influential art collectors of our time and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi reveals his opinions on collecting, artists, dealers, advertising and investing in art with unflinching honesty. Famously reclusive, he has answered questions asked to him by journalists, critics and the general public about the art world and his personal life.
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Calvé, avant d'être chansonnier, poète ou musicien, est assurément un des grands humanistes de la chanson québécoise et pourtant universelle, puisque sa chanson est de toutes latitudes et de tous horizons. Elle se cherche autant qu'elle nous trouve, toujours en douceur comme pour ne pas déranger, s'insinuant au cœur des sentiments pour prendre son sel et saumurer l'éternité du rêve.
D'aussi loin qu'il m'en souvienne, les chansons de Calvé...
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Olga Andreyev Carlisle has never lived in Russia, and yet throughout her life Russia has never been far. Far From Russia captures the enduring grip of Russia, and how the idea of that homeland shaped her world. We see her first as an aspiring painter in post-World War II Paris, savoring her independent life. There she falls in love with an American G.I., Henry Carlisle. With Henry, she comes to the United States, to Nantucket, where she is introduced...
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In celebration of his extraordinary life, photographer Gary Italiaander, who was a personal friend, has written this amazing book that includes previously unseen portraits as well as memories by his colleagues, family and friends. Larry Adler, world famous mouth organist, raised the harmonica to an orchestral instrument. His extensive repertoire of classical and popular music included his own compositions and those written for him by Ralph Vaughan...
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In 1975, Doha was a frontier town as ex-pats flooded in to Qatar to help build a new country. Richard Newman, an Architect was one of them as he upended himself and his family into a Gulf Air Tristar and flew out to the unknown, slightly alien sounding country hanging on the side of Saudi Arabia. Registering as an alcoholic, dealing with baksheesh, discussing a new building with The Ruler saying '...taller Mr. Richard, taller...' were daily events.
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The Marks of Great Leaders was born out of the undisputed, undeniable, shortage of leadership: in the homes, the church, and in the wider society. The constant falling away of leaders is appalling and troubling. The void that exists, as a result, of it remains unfilled. The Marks of Great Leaders wishes to address key components that are relevant to leadership sustainability.
1. The first aspect of leadership is to follow the leader that's leading...
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Aislarse por completo o celebrar fiestas multitudinarias, recurrir a los estupefacientes o a la vida saludable, renunciar a los hijos o dejar que pululen por el studio. Los modos de enfrentarse a la creación son innumerables, como refleja el irónico y sagaz testimonio de las protagonistas de este libro.
Pintoras, compositoras, escultoras, científicas, cineastas e intérpretes revelan las pequeñas y grandes decisiones que tuvieron que tomar en...
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En La historia del pianista de la mano izquierda, Manuel López nos ofrece una obra que combina amor por la música, superación personal y reflexiones profundas. Con Beethoven como guía, el autor nos muestra cómo la música puede ser un refugio y una fuente de esperanza. Una sinfonía literaria que te cautivará desde la primera nota.
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An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a "true science." Although only sixteen of Piero's works survive, few art historians doubt his importance in the Renaissance. A 1992 conference of international experts meeting at the National Gallery of Art deemed Piero "one of the most highly...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The basketball was a Keaton prop for years to come. In 1899, the family's first paid engagement as a trio at the Wonderland Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Buster got laughs by bouncing the ball off his father's head.
#2 Buster's life as a performer and creator was extremely successful for the first three decades of the new century, catapulting his family from the...
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