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El cerebro y el arte moderno

Autor: Osvaldo Fustinoni

Número de Páginas: 269

"El arte no es lo que uno ve, sino lo que uno hace ver a los demás" (Edgar Degas). En El cerebro y el arte moderno estamos todos invitados al apasionante análisis del arte pictórico desde las ciencias del cerebro. Este libro enfatiza los puntos de unión entre ambos cuando, hacia fines del siglo XIX, los artistas plásticos fueron cautivados por los hallazgos sobre el funcionamiento de la visión y el cerebro. Partiendo desde el clasicismo hasta llegar al arte contemporáneo, Osvaldo Fustinoni, médico neurólogo, nos entrega un material único y nos ayuda a comprender lo que la ciencia significó para el desarrollo del arte moderno.

El asalto a la nevera

Autor: Peter Wollen

Número de Páginas: 290

Escrito con gran brío y erudición, este libro presenta una visión alternativa de la historia del arte y la cultura del siglo XX, que se centra en el ascenso y caída de la modernidad al calor de las luchas sociales y de las transformaciones experimentadas por la economía-mundo capitalista. Comenzando con un análisis de la influencia de Diaghilev y los Ballets Rusos, Wollen sostiene que el movimiento moderno siempre ha tenido un lado oculto y reprimido que no se puede disolver fácilmente en el relato maestro de la modernidad. Sugiere, mediante reconsideraciones de las pinturas marroquíes de Matisse y de la obra del gran diseñador de moda Paul Poiret, que la historia del arte elevado no puede escribirse con independencia de la historia de la actuación y el diseño. Wollen revisa a continuación las esperanzas, los temores y las expectativas de artistas y críticos fascinados tanto por la cadena de montaje de Henry Ford como por la fábrica de sueños de Hollywood, para concluir con la cáustica visión distópica presentada por Guy Debord de una «sociedad del espectáculo» absolutamente consumista. Fordismo, espectáculo, antagonismo y utopía aparecen aquí...

Pixels & Paintings

Autor: David G. Stork

Número de Páginas: 789

PIXELS & PAINTINGS “The discussion is firmly grounded in established art historical practices, such as close visual analysis and an understanding of artists’ working methods, and real-world examples demonstrate how computer-assisted techniques can complement traditional approaches.” —Dr. Emilie Gordenker, Director of the Van Gogh Museum The pioneering presentation of computer-based image analysis of fine art, forging a dialog between art scholars and the computer vision community In recent years, sophisticated computer vision, graphics, and artificial intelligence algorithms have proven to be increasingly powerful tools in the study of fine art. These methods—some adapted from forensic digital photography and others developed specifically for art—empower a growing number of computer-savvy art scholars, conservators, and historians to answer longstanding questions as well as provide new approaches to the interpretation of art. Pixels & Paintings provides the first and authoritative overview of the broad range of these methods, which extend from image processing of palette, marks, brush strokes, and shapes up through analysis of objects, poses, style, composition, to the ...

El galerista

Autor: Annie Cohen- Solal

Número de Páginas: 633

Leo Castelli fue hasta los cincuenta años lo que en Estados Unidos se considera un europeo típico: diletante, más aficionado a la vida social que al trabajo, mujeriego y vividor. Pero entonces abrió su local en Nueva York, y se convirtió en El Galerista: el hombre que dio entidad y cuerpo al pop-art, que descubrió a Jasper Johns, a Lichtenstein, a Rauschenberg o a Warhol. El anfitrión de las fiestas clave, el marchante de los artistas que contaban... un europeo que reinó durante varias décadas en Nueva York, y que desde allí reconquistó Europa con toda una red de galerías satélite. Annie Cohen-Solal llegó a Nueva York a finales de la década de 1980, a tiempo de caer fascinada por el hechizo de este hombre enigmático, con el que sostuvo largas charlas, complementadas con los testimonios de sus familiares, esposas y ex, hijos, artistas, colaboradores, amigos y adversarios. De todo ello emerge un retrato fascinante, el relato de unos años mágicos en la Gran Manzana y una obra imprescindible para los lectores interesados en el arte contemporáneo y en el mercado que lo rodea.

Artist as Author

Autor: Christa Noel Robbins

Número de Páginas: 236

Introduction : the artist as author -- The act-painting -- The expressive fallacy -- Rhetorics of motives -- Self-discipline -- Event as painting -- Conclusion : gridlocked.

Surrealism in Latin America

Autor: Dawn Ades , Rita Eder , Graciela Speranza

Número de Páginas: 234

This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and recuperation of cultural identities and the ways artists and writers contested, embraced, and adapted surrealist ideas and practices. Surrealism in Latin America provides new Latin American–centric scholarship, not only about surrealism’s impact on the region but also about the region’s impact on surrealism. It reconsiders the relation between art and anthropology, casts new light on the aesthetics of “primitivism,” and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II. In so doing, it expands our understanding of important, fascinating figures who are less well known than their counterparts active in Europe and New York. Deriving from a conference held at the Getty Research Institute, the book is rich in new materials drawn from the GRI’s diverse Mexican and South American surrealist collections, which include the archives of Vicente Huidobro, Enrique Gómez-Correa, César Moro,...

Van Gogh's Finale

Autor: Martin Bailey

Número de Páginas: 277

A captivating and definitive account of the final days of Van Gogh's life and the incredible story of what followed. Divided into three parts, the book first examines the eventful days from the artists’ departure from the asylum in Saint-Remy and arrival in Auvers until the shooting which brought his life to an end. During this time Van Gogh completed 70 paintings in 70 days. The second part delves deeper into the story of the artist’s death, which has intrigued both experts and the public for years, revealing little-known stories and uncovering overlooked accounts. We then follow the story of how Van Gogh subsequently rose from relative obscurity to international renown and ultimately fame as one of the most recognisable and popular artists in the world. Leading Van Gogh specialist Martin Bailey writes with insight and intelligence, bringing these fateful days to life with colour and character as well as historical expertise, capturing the real sense of a tragic but meaningful life truly lived.

Range

Autor: David Epstein

Número de Páginas: 414

'A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' - James Clear, author of Atomic Habits The essential guide to improving your performance, and a powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize. The instant Sunday Times bestseller From the ‘10,000 hours rule’ to the power of tiger parenting, we have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization and many hours of deliberate practice. If you only dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start. This is completely wrong. In this landmark book, David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly and juggling many interests – this is the power of developing range. Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates why, in most fields, generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Range has challenged the status quo, reshaped career paths and changed lives. Read it to view the world differently. Shortlisted for the...

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Autor: Patrick Grant

Número de Páginas: 254

When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he was justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, and art historians have sometimes drawn on some of the letters in their analysis of the paintings. And yet, to date, no one has undertaken a critical assessment of this remarkable body of writing—not as a footnote to the paintings but as a highly sophisticated literary achievement in its own right. Patrick Grant’s long-awaited study provides such an assessment and, as such, redresses a significant omission in the field of van Gogh studies. As Grant demonstrates, quite apart from furnishing a highly revealing self-portrait of their author, the letters are compelling for their imaginative and expressive power, as well as for the perceptive commentary they offer on universal human themes. Through a subtle exploration of van Gogh’s contrastive style of thinking and his fascination with the...

Restless Ambition

Autor: Cathy Curtis (writer On Art)

Número de Páginas: 449

The first biography of Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) traces her rise from self-taught painter to art-world fame in New York, her plunge into obscurity after moving to Baltimore, her constant efforts at artistic reinvention, and her tumultuous personal life, including four troubled marriages and a chilly relationship with her only child.

Mistress of Modernism

Autor: Mary V. Dearborn

Número de Páginas: 428

Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites.

Van Gogh Landscapes

Autor: Cristina Berna , Eric Thomsen

Número de Páginas: 472

Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) is often mentioned as one of the best examples of Japonism, Western art inspired by Japanese art. Van Gogh was infatuated with a vision of Japanese art. He experienced this mainly from Japanese woodblock prints which became widely available after Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 after abt 250 years of seclusion. Van Gogh and his brother Theo dealt in these prints for a while and Van Gogh´s studio was literally plastered with them. Van Gogh vision of Japan was a mythical fantasy, an ideal for the artist, and he even tried to establish an artist´s colony to live out this dream. Japan, on the other hand, and especially the woodblock print artists, were inspired by earlier Dutch engraved prints, which had a profound influence on artists like Katsushika Hokusai from abt 1800. It was from these prints Western perspective entered into Japanese art. In the period from abt 1800 to 1850 Japanese prints evolved with Hokusai´s 36 Views of Mt Fuji and became the inspiration that met painters like van Gogh. In a way, what these Western artists saw, was a Japanese mirror of their own processed artistic...

Mental Illness in Popular Culture

Autor: Sharon Packer Md

Número de Páginas: 389

"Being crazy" is generally a negative characterization today, yet many celebrated artists, leaders, and successful individuals have achieved greatness despite suffering from mental illness. This book explores the many different representations of mental illness that exist—and sometimes persist—in both traditional and new media across eras. Mental health professionals and advocates typically point a finger at pop culture for sensationalizing and stigmatizing mental illness, perpetuating stereotypes, and capitalizing on the increased anxiety that invariably follows mass shootings at schools, military bases, or workplaces; on public transportation; or at large public gatherings. While drugs or street gangs were once most often blamed for public violence, the upswing of psychotic perpetrators casts a harsher light on mental illness and commands media's attention. What aspects of popular culture could play a role in mental health across the nation? How accurate and influential are the various media representations of mental illness? Or are there unsung positive portrayals of mental illness? This standout work on the intersections of pop culture and mental illness brings informed...

Crime Science

Autor: Joe Nickell , John F. Fischer

Número de Páginas: 416

This comprehensive guide to forensic investigation “delivers the goods for the educated layperson . . . readers will be hard-pressed to put it down” (USA Today). Forensic experts Joe Nickell and John Fischer introduce readers to the work of firearms experts, document examiners, fingerprint technicians, medical examiners, and forensic anthropologists. These topics are explained in clear terms without technical jargon. Nickell and Fisher describe fingerprint classification and autopsies, explain how fibers link victims to their killers, and examine the science underlying DNA profiling and toxicological analysis. From weapons analysis to handwriting samples to shoe and tire impressions, Crime Science outlines the indispensable tools and techniques that investigators use to make sense of a crime scene. Each chapter closes with a study of an infamous case to demonstrate how the principles of forensic science work in practice. Case studies including the O.J. Simpson trial, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the death of Marilyn Monroe, the World Trade Center bombing, the assassination of the Romanovs, and the Atlanta child murders.

Amplitud (Range)

Autor: David Epstein

Número de Páginas: 316

Este gran éxito del New York Times ha generado debates y discusiones en el ámbito de la gestión empresarial, la educación, la formación, el deporte, la psicología y la crianza de los hijos. Es el mismo autor del exitoso El gen deportivo. Un interesante debate acerca de la amplitud de conocimientos y herramientas, que es más necesaria que nunca, en un mundo que nos quieren vender como cada vez más especializado y parcelado.

Jackson Pollock's Mural

Autor: Yvonne Szafran , Laura Rivers , Alan Phenix , Thomas Learner , Ellen G. Landau , Steve Martin

Número de Páginas: 128

Jackson Pollock's (1912–1956) first large-scale painting, Mural, in many ways represents the birth of Pollock, the legend. The controversial artist’s creation of this painting has been recounted in dozens of books and dramatized in the Oscar-winning film Pollock. Rumors—such as it was painted in one alcohol-fueled night and at first didn’t fit the intended space—abound. But never in doubt was that the creation of the painting was pivotal, not only for Pollock but for the Abstract Expressionists who would follow his radical conception of art —“no limits, just edges.” Mural, painted in 1943, was Pollock’s first major commission. It was made for the entrance hall of the Manhattan duplex of Peggy Guggenheim, who donated it to the University of Iowa in the 1950s where it stayed until its 2012 arrival for conservation and study at the Getty Center. This book unveils the findings of that examination, providing a more complete picture of Pollock’s process than ever before. It includes an essay by eminent Pollock scholar Ellen Landau and an introduction by comedian Steve Martin. It accompanies an exhibition of the painting on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March...

The Free World

Autor: Louis Menand

Número de Páginas: 782

"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post "The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' Choice One of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of The Washington Post's 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 | A Mother Jones best book of 2021 In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by...

Pollock and After

Autor: Francis Frascina

Número de Páginas: 400

This revised edition features ten new articles and is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art.

Range : Le règne des généralistes

Autor: David Epstein

Número de Páginas: 411

« Ma carrière personnelle colle assez bien au modèle généraliste... Ma passion pour les ordinateurs a toujours été mélangée à beaucoup d’autres centres d’intérêts. » Bill Gates – GatesNotes à propos de Range De « la règle des 10 000 heures » au modèle des parents tigres qui poussent et pressent les enfants à la réussite scolaire, on vous a enseigné que le succès dans tous les domaines passe par une spécialisation précoce et une pratique intensive. Et pire, que si vous ne vous investissiez pas à temps, vous ne rattraperiez jamais votre retard sur ceux qui ont commencé tôt. C’est totalement faux. Dans ce livre, David Epstein démontre que la voie du succès est simple : obtenir un peu d’expérience, dans un domaine puis un autre, faire des détours, expérimenter sans cesse, jongler avec plusieurs centres d’intérêts, et développer ainsi votre généralité . Epstein a étudié la carrière des plus grands athlètes comme Roger Federer, artistes, musiciens, inventeurs et scientifiques, il nous révèle pourquoi dans ces domaines complexes, les généralistes réussissent mieux que les spécialistes. Peu importe ce que vous faites, où vous en ...

Biographies de peintres à l’écran

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 326

Biographies de peintres à l’écran questionne les enjeux et les manières de filmer l’acte de création. Sciemment marqué par une grande diversité esthétique et historique, l’ouvrage traite de films classiques aussi bien que très contemporains. Les grandes œuvres de John Huston et Vincente Minnelli côtoient les expériences novatrices de Peter Watkins, Jack Hazan, Maurice Pialat, Charles Matton ou Raoul Ruiz... Face aux formes classiques s’appuyant sur la mise en valeur de l’archétype du peintre, génie tourmenté (acclamé ou maudit), s’inaugurent des stratégies et des procédés filmiques inédits, selon de subtils jeux d’opposition – ou de miroirs – entre l’Histoire et la subjectivité du réalisateur, mais aussi entre le mythe associé à la figure de l’artiste et la destinée du cinéaste. Ainsi certains textes font valoir la richesse et la variété du « genre » auquel se rattachent ces films : le rappel des formes canoniques du « biopic » hollywoodien voisine avec l’étude de fictions ou de films en partie documentaire qui s’éloignent des conventions pour inventer des dispositifs originaux propres à capter le geste de création, ou...

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Número de Páginas: 992

The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Autor: Katharine Baetjer , Jackson Pollock , Nan Rosenthal , Lisa Mintz Messinger , Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Número de Páginas: 90

Biography / Autobiography Awards 1917-1992

Autor: Heinz-d. Fischer

Número de Páginas: 477

The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presents the history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A to E the awarding of the prize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to the decisions.

Jackson Pollock

Autor: Pepe Karmel

Número de Páginas: 290

Published to accompany the exhibition Jackson Pollock held the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1 November 1998 to 2 February 1999.

Documentary Dilemmas

Autor: Carolyn Anderson , Thomas W Benson

Número de Páginas: 246

A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security. Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release in 1967. This account of the Titicut Follies case is based on ten years of research and relies on interviews, journalistic accounts, and especially on the legal record, including the Commonwealth v. Wiseman transcript, to describe the entire process of independent documentary filmmaking. The trials of Titicut Follies raise crucial questions about the relation of social documentary to its subjects and audiences.

Raiding the Icebox

Autor: Peter Wollen

Número de Páginas: 344

Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art. Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet, Wollen argues that modernism has always had a hidden, suppressed side which cannot easily be absorbed into the master-narrative of modernity. Wollen reviews the hopes, fears and expectations of artists and critics such as the Bauhaus movement, as fascinated by Henry Ford's assembly line as they were by the Hollywood dream factory, concluding with Guy Debord's caustic dystopian vision of an all-consuming "Society of the Spectacle." Finally, Wollen chronicles the emergence of a subversive sensibility as he explores some of the unexpected new cultural forms which non-Western artists are taking as modernism enters into crisis at the beginning of a new century: reversing the rules of the game and raiding the icebox of the West.

Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth

Autor: Donald W. Olson

Número de Páginas: 338

From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tides affect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master “celestial sleuth” as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day. Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of ...

Van Gogh among the Philosophers

Autor: David P. Nichols

Número de Páginas: 271

This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.

Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Biography

Autor: Heinz-d. Fischer

Número de Páginas: 541

Volume 20 of the series describes the development of the award for Biographies and Autobiographies from 1917 through 2006. In addition, the complete jury reports from this period are reprinted by facsimile. So it can be documented how the annual deliberations went until a winner was selected. Among the prize-winners were John F. Kennedy before his presidency, the diplomat George F. Kennan or the aviator Charles Lindbergh.

In Search of Deep Faith

Autor: Jim Belcher

Número de Páginas: 323

Follow pastor Jim Belcher and his family as they take a pilgrimage through Europe, seeking substance for their faith in Christianity's historic, civilizational home. What they find, in places like Lewis's Oxford and Bonhoeffer's Germany, are glimpses of another kind of faith—one with power to cut through centuries and pierce our hearts today.

Projected Art History

Autor: Doris Berger

Número de Páginas: 369

Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat (1996) and Pollock (2000), the book also discusses larger issues at play, such as how postwar American art history is being mediated for mass consumption. This book bridges a gap between art history, film studies and popular culture by investigating how the film genre of biopics adapts written biographies. It identifies the functionality of the biopic genre and explores its implication for a popular art history that is projected on the big screen for a mass audience.

Field Guide to the Spirit World

Autor: Susan B. Martinez

Número de Páginas: 400

A comprehensive examination of the many ways the spirit world affects our minds and the material plane • Provides a detailed guide to the Afterlife and its inhabitants • Reveals the spirit influence behind many mental disorders as well as psi abilities and creative genius • Includes checklists of symptoms of spirit “overshadowing,” methods from the world’s top exorcists, and instructions on how to free unwanted spirits from the material plane We are spirits housed in a body, and just as houses can be haunted, so can people. When the living succumb to dissociative states of consciousness, they become a magnet for lost but clinging spirits. Known as jinn, dybbuk, daemon, wuqabi, or simply the undead, they hover unseen on the earth plane, ready to inhabit the most suitable body available. Documenting the life of wandering spirits and their impact on vulnerable human targets, Susan Martinez offers a radical departure from the standard psychological explanations for a host of pathological behaviors--including multiple personality, autism, epilepsy, migraines, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, self-destructive urges, and strange...

A Chance to Harmonize

Autor: Sheryl Kaskowitz

Número de Páginas: 213

The remarkable story of a hidden New Deal program that tried to change America and end the Great Depression using folk music, laying the groundwork for the folk revival and having a lasting impact on American culture. In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest—Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas across the country, an experiment in cooperative living where people could start over. To boost morale and encourage the homesteaders to find community in their own traditions, the administration brought in artists to lead group activities—including folk music. As part of a music unit led by Charles Seeger (father of Pete), staffer Sidney Robertson traveled the country to record hundreds of folk songs. Music leaders, most notably Margaret Valiant, were sent to homesteads to use the collected songs to foster community and cooperation. Working almost entirely (and purposely)...

Van Gogh's Ear

Autor: Bernadette Murphy

Número de Páginas: 459

In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night? In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals the truth. She takes us on an extraordinary journey from major museums to forgotten archives, vividly reconstructing Van Gogh's world. We meet police inspectors and café patrons, prostitutes and madams, his beloved brother Theo and fellow painter Paul Gauguin. Why did Van Gogh commit such a brutal act? Who was the mysterious 'Rachel' to whom he presented his macabre gift? Did he really remove his entire ear? Murphy answers these important questions with her groundbreaking discoveries, offering a stunning portrait of an artist edging towards madness in his pursuit of excellence. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK PRIMETIME BBC2 DOCUMENTARY WITH JEREMY PAXMAN

Sonata

Autor: Charles Bowden

Número de Páginas: 198

In this sixth and final installment of his "Unnatural History of America" series, journalist Charles Bowden contrasts the intractable violence of man with the enduring beauty of the natural world, and its potential for regeneration.

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 140

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 140

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Current Catalog

Autor: National Library Of Medicine (u.s.)

Número de Páginas: 672