Parmi toutes les expériences qui nous sont données à vivre, l'expérience culturelle est l'une des plus complexes et des plus passionnantes à appréhender. Elle est l'occasion vécue au cours de laquelle chacune et chacun reconsidère ses...
Art
- Author:Poli, Marie-SylvieSummary:
- Author:Barnett, BarbaraSummary:
“I look for zebras because other doctors have ruled out all the horses.” — Dr. Gregory House
Medical students are taught that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras, but Dr. House’s unique...
- Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
On the cusp of becoming teenagers, Ralph, his sister Shelley, and their friend William, befriend Danielle, an odd girl in their school. She draws an extraordinary horse in a competition created by Ralph's mother. It's the kind of...
- Author:Szwed, JohnSummary:
When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in 'twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in...
- Author:Scott, A. O.Summary:
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation...
- Author:Editors of Faithgirlz! and Girls' Life MagSummary:
Buh-bye, bad hair days! This complete guide to care, cuts and cute styles makes it easy to have amazing hair each and every day of the week. With tons of tutorials for pretty ponies, bold braids and easy updos, you'll go from school to...
- Author:Prendergast, GabrielleSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie...
- Author:Ball, HeatherSummary:
Discover the lives of women artists from the 16th century to the present day, such as the early feminist Artemisia Gentileschi, the adventurous Emily Carr, the flamboyant Frida Kahlo, and the brilliant Georgia O’Keeffe.
- Author:Chen, JenniferSummary:
When Chloe Chang gets dumped via USPS after moving across the country from New York City to Los Angeles, her first instinct is to throw her box of memories in the garbage. Instead, she starts buying other teenagers' breakup boxes...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, this book is an embodiment of this remarkable multimedia artist's vision, and a timely call to arms.
- Author:Stokstad, MarilynSummary:
Based upon the widely acclaimed Art History by renowned author Marilyn Stokstad, Art: A Brief History combines a richly illustrated survey of Western art with extensive coverage of other continents including Asia, Africa, and the...
- Author:Koldehoff, StefanSummary:
A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world. The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions...
- Author:Greenfield, Nathan M.Summary:
"Greenfield offers new insight into Bruno and Molly Lamb Bobak's complex relationship. They met and married in the aftermath of the Second World War, having served as official war artists, and continued to paint for decades....
- Author:Tucker, LauraSummary:
"A dazzling debut novel about resilience, courage, home and family."--Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach MeSoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist--and in her neighborhood, that's...
- Author:Richardson, CS.Summary:
A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and...
- Author:Le Collectif AalaapiSummary:
Depuis leur village du Nunavik, dans la cuisine de leur petite maison, Hannah et Niap écoutent la radio. Source ininterrompue de musique, d'information et de lien social entre les membres de la communauté, la voix des ondes est le...
- Author:Kilmer, NicholasSummary:
The young woman in the hair salon raises her shirt to show a friend a work in progress: a riot of stunning tattoos. From the barber’s chair, Fred Taylor knows that those images—weird insects, beasts, and naked human figures—could only...
- Author:Alguire, JudithSummary:
When art aficionado Leonard Anderson learns his wealthy patron, Luella Pryce, is to endow the local gallery on the Caribbean island of St. Napoli with her fabled art collection he is stunned. How could she? The Cartwrights, the most...
- Author:Hirsch, PaulSummary:
A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away is a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential films of the last fifty years by Paul Hirsch, a film editor who worked on more than forty features. Starting with his work on...
- Author:Graeber, ElizabethSummary:
A unique and beautiful gift for the redhead in your life.A Field Guide to Redheads celebrates that rarest of creatures'people with red hair account for less than 2% of the population'in the most whimsical and irresistible way...