Auction catalogue, books of Helen Rossetti Angeli ... [et al.], 4 to 6 April 1921
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London).
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Published: 1921
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Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London).
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Published: 1921
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aby Warburg
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 872
ISBN-13: 9780892365371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Author: Alessandro Martini
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9788842218319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The great future ambitions of Acqui, a European spa city, are rooted in its history, of which this book tells the story. As in other localities that were made famous (and attractive) by their thermal waters, it is the spa that has given rise to its economic well-being and, especially, to its historical identity and memory. Centuries of use of its curative mud and waters brought with it great buildings for accommodation and treatment, though the city truly took off in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, unlike many international centres of relaxation and recreation, Acqui has always been a place more for treatment than for leisure. Though never built, the architectural designs of the 1920s were extraordinary in terms of their spatial and design solutions, and still today they point to an age of enormous ambition, accompanied by a grand vision for the city and its spa system. A vision in which the city believes as much today as ever before."--Publisher.
Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2016-11-21
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1619028697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post–war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and made to undergo a risky lobotomy. Margaret Drabble calls Owls Do Cry "a song of survival"—it is Daphne's song of survival but also the author's: Frame was herself misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and scheduled for brain surgery. She was famously saved only when she won New Zealand's premier fiction prize. Frame was among the first major writers of the twentieth century to confront life in mental institutions and Owls Do Cry is important for this perspective. But it is equally valuable for its poetry, its incisive satire, and its acute social observations. A sensitively rendered portrait of childhood and adolescence and a testament to the power of imagination, this early novel is a first–rate example of Frame's powerful, lyric, and original prose.
Author: Robin Gibson
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor art lovers everywhere, a beautiful collection of portraiture from 1920 to 2000, with over 100 master reproductions by Picasso, Bacon, Warhol, Dali and others in full-color.
Author: Corrado Augias
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780847829330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, "for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze."
Author: Daniele Benati
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9786155304187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marco Beretta
Publisher: Science History Publications/USA
Published: 2016-11
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ISBN-13: 9780881352351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Denison Champlin
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 448
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 350
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