Matisse
Matisse

Author: John Russell

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2001-06-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780810929913

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The relationship between the great Post-Impressionist artist Henri Matisse and his son, influential art dealer Pierre Matisse, is at the heart of this deftly revealing and moving biography, now in paperback. 96 illustrations, 48 in full color.

The Melancholy of Race
The Melancholy of Race

Author: Anne Anlin Cheng

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0195151623

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Cheng proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics.

Van Gogh
Van Gogh

Author: Steven W. Naifeh

Publisher: Random House Incorporated

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13: 0375507485

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Draws on newly available primary sources to present an in-depth, accessible profile that offers revisionist assessments of the influential artist's turbulent life and genius works.

Pierre et Jean
Pierre et Jean

Author: Guy de Maupassant

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-11-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0191611042

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'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother's former lover. Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant's achievement is to have woven from this simple plot in a maritime context a brilliantly crafted exploration of the complexities at the heart of family life.

Renoir
Renoir

Author: Eddy Simon

Publisher: Pegasus Books

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781643131962

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Through the captivating pages of this new graphic novel, discover the intertwined destinies of a father and son in search of truth through art. “Reality is always magical.” —Jean Renoir, 1957 Art is a family matter for the Renoirs. The path is carved by Pierre-Auguste, the painter who along with Monet, Cézanne, Degas was at the origin of the impressionist movement and continues with Jean, the poetic avant-garde filmmaker. Indisputably one of the masters of French painting of the 19th century, Pierre-Auguste fathered one of the greatest cineastes of the twentieth century in Jean Renoir. From the father’s paintings to the son’s films, the artist affiliation reveals a similar pursuit, and a single source of inspiration: an ode to freedom finding its origins in a profound humanity and love of reality. Pierre-Auguste and Jean Renoir, father and son, each marked the history of art—through painting for Pierre-Auguste and film for Jean, with the common thread of a desire to transcribe reality. This graphic novel tells the story of the intertwined lives of these two creators who always sought to draw their inspiration from the “spectacle of life”. But behind their art, there is also the story of the filiation between an old man who is slowly losing his strength and a young man seeking to make his own mark. In fact, it is not until after his father’s death that Jean began his career as a filmmaker and contributed some of the greatest films to the history of the movies: The Grand Illusion, The River, and The Rules of the Game. In 1975 he received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement for his body of his work.

Selected works (25+) of Joseph Conrad
Selected works (25+) of Joseph Conrad

Author: Joseph Conrad

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 5469

ISBN-13:

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Selected works of Joseph Conrad from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume of the Best of the Best series includes famous works: HEART OF DARKNESS; SECRET AGENT; LORD JIM; THE SECRET SHARER; NOSTROMO; YOUTH A NARRATIVE; THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS; TYPHOON; TALES OF UNREST; UNDER WESTERN EYES; THE SHADOW-LINE: A CONFESSION; VICTORY: AN ISLAND TALE; A SET OF SIX; ALMAYER’S FOLLY; AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS; AMY FOSTER; A PERSONAL RECORD; THE POINT OF HONOR; THE RESCUE; THE END OF THE TETHER; THE ARROW OF GOLD; ONE DAY MORE; CHANCE; TO-MORROW; FALK; WITHIN THE TIDES; GASPAR RUIZ