Paris, un atelier d'artiste caché au fond d'une allée verdoyante.Madeline l'a loué pour s'y reposer et s'isoler. À la suite d'une méprise, cette jeune flic londonienne y voit débarquer Gaspard, un...
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Auteur:Larsen, WayneSommaire:Tom Thomson (1877–1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and...
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Auteur:Walcott, DerekSommaire:Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
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Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers' Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women's Prize for Nonfiction New York Times...
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Auteur:Carr, Emily, Switzer, Ann-LeeSommaire:Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection.. Carr began to write...
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Auteur:Sharman, LindseySommaire:The Writing on the Wall tells the story of artist, curator, writer and activist Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA. Although never claiming to be political and rejecting a feminist label, Cardinal-Schubert's work recognizes that the...
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Auteur:Herwig, MalteSommaire:Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot “The Woman Who Says No.” Tiny, talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions...
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Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:A most eligible gentlemen, Gerrard Debbington is uninterested in marriage; his driving passion is to paint the fabled gardens of Lord Tregonning's estate. When the opportunity arises to paint Lord Tregonning's daughter, he discovers...
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Auteur:Gilbert, ElizabethSommaire:Spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this enthralling story follows the fortunes of the Whittaker family. The brilliant Alma, a botanist, falls in love with a man who draws her into the realm of the spiritual as they are...
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Auteur:Sterner, WillieSommaire:For six desperate years, Willie Sterner’s skill as a painter saved him from death at the hands of the Nazis. Faced with inhumane conditions in slave labour camps and grieving the loss of his close-knit family, Sterner relied on courage...
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Although much has been written about Tom Thomson's mysterious death, little to nothing has been written about his life's accomplishment: how in less than four years, a man with little experience and no art school education was...
- Auteur:Levinson, CynthiaSommaire:
A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn"The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew."As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn...
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Auteur:Klages, GregorySommaire:"How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally...
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Auteur:Rachman, TomSommaire:"The Italian Teacher is a marvel'an entertaining, heartbreaking novel about art, family, loyalty, and authenticity. Tom Rachman is an enormously talented writer - this book is alive, from the first page to the last." Tom Perrotta,...
- Auteur:Sandford, JohnSommaire:
Kidd's friend, Bobby the superhacker, has been murdered. When Kidd goes to Bobby's house to investigate, he finds his battered body, but not his jazzed-up laptop. Now Kidd is doubly disturbed. The murderer is still at large and now has...
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Auteur:Ebershoff, DavidSommaire:Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: what do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a...
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Auteur:Ruurs, Margriet, Bateman, RobertSommaire:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades...
- Auteur:Lisle, LaurieSommaire:
Georgia O'Keeffe, renowned for her fierce independence and unique artistic vision, had a personal mystique as intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvasses. Here is a full account of her exceptional life.
- Auteur:Lee, Yoon HaSommaire:
Gyen Jebi isn't a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they're jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the...
- Auteur:Duguay, Louise, Stewart, S.E.Sommaire:
In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists—Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton’s catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden’s of Winnipeg,...
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