THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ''A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration ... and Tom Lake is one of her best'' i ''This comforting summer read has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships'' REESE WITHERSPOON ''Filled with the moments I live for in a story'' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry ''One of the most beloved authors of her generation'' SUNDAY TIMES ----------------------------- This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.
This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn''t famous at all.
It''s about falling so wildly in love with him - the way one will at twenty-four - that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight.
There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.
It''s spring and Lara''s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they''ve always longed to hear - of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.
''One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage . Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers'' ELLE ----------------------------- Praise for The Dutch House:
''Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature'' Guardian ''The best book I''ve read in years'' Rosamund Lupton ''Her finest novel yet'' Sunday Times ''The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something'' John Boyne ''A masterpiece'' Cathy Rentzenbrink ''Bliss'' Nigella Lawson The Dutch House was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller w/e 28.09.19
Artiste extraordinairement prolifique, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) a réalisé sa vie durant près de 4000 peintures, sans compter un nombre impressionnant d'oeuvres de commande commerciales, publicitaires ou éditoriales. Sa mort en 1978 fut ressentie comme la perte d'une icône nationale, d'un artiste qui, comme nul autre, avait célébré le rêve américain.
Peu intéressé par l'expérimentation et les techniques d'avant-garde, mais plutôt attentif à l'efficacité d'une composition et à la pertinence d'un thème, Rockwell a créé des peintures morales et simples, séduisantes par leur accessibilité et leurs aspirations. Soignées, pittoresques et très souvent joyeuses, ses oeuvres ont pour sujet des salles de classe, des scènes de bal et les fêtes de Thanksgiving, tandis que ses projets au long cours ont débouché sur des unes pour le magazine The Saturday Evening Post ainsi que des calendriers et des couvertures pour Boy's Life, publié par l'organisation Boy Scouts of America. Rempli d'optimisme et de patriotisme, son travail met en avant des professions traditionnelles, notamment celles de médecin ou de professeur, et les piliers conservateurs que sont l'armée, la famille et la foi.
Saluées par le Président Gerald Ford comme une «partie bien-aimée de l'héritage américain», les oeuvres de Rockwell en révèlent autant sur ses talents d'artiste que sur les valeurs populaires et les aspirations de l'Amérique du XXe siècle. Ce nouvel ouvrage introductif réunit ses principales peintures et illustrations, choisies parmi les réjouissantes et lumineuses créations de l'artiste, ainsi que des oeuvres plus insolites abordant les dessous de l'Amérique, afin de saisir cet artiste américain dans son intégralité et ainsi les valeurs et idéaux qui ont contribué à son succès.
The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope WiltonTo give them hope she must tell their storyI
Bestselling author of the Shetland and Venn series returns with the eleventh book in the acclaimed Northumbrian set Vera Stanhope series, following on from "The Rising Tide".
Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronised by women. Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise frequently challenged by them. Imagine people always addressing the woman you are with before you. Now imagine a world in which the reverse of this is true. The Authority Gap provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women. Would you believe that US Supreme Court Justices are interrupted four times more often than male ones... 96% of the time by men? Or that British parents, when asked to estimate their child''s IQ will place their son at 115 and their daughter at 107? Marshalling a wealth of data with precision and insight, and including interviews with pioneering women such as Baroness Hale, Mary Beard and Bernadine Evaristo, Mary Ann exposes unconscious bias in this fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all. Includes interviews with pioneering women such as: Baroness Hale Mary Beard Bernadine Evaristo Mary McAleese Julia Gillard Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes Cherie Blair Liz Truss Amber Rudd Frances Morris Laura Bates __________ ''Deeply researched, profoundly thoughtful and a book very much for the here and now: Mary Ann Sieghart''s The Authority Gap is the book she was probably born to write'' - Andrew Marr ''At last here is a credible roadmap that is capable of taking women from the margins to the centre by bridging the authority gap that holds back even the best and most talented of women. - Mary McAleese, Former President of Ireland
Publié pour accompagner la première exposition rétrospective américaine de la sculpture de Donald Judd depuis plus de trente ans, ce catalogue explore le travail d'un artiste de référence qui, au cours de sa carrière, a développé un vocabulaire matériel et formel qui a transformé le domaine de la sculpture moderne. Des peintures des débuts dans les années 1960 jusqu'aux dernières oeuvres avant sa disparition, cette publication richement illustrée examine de près les réalisations de Judd et, à l'aide de nouveaux documents d'archives disponibles à la Fondation Judd et ailleurs, élargit les perspectives de son travail.
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every fa
Ancillary Sword is the sequel to Ancillary Justice, the debut novel which won every major science fiction award in 2014 and the only novel to have won the Hugo, the Nebula and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she only has a single body and serves the emperor she swore to destroy.
Given a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to the only place in the galaxy she will agree to go: to Athoek station, to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.
Praise for Ancillary Justice:
'ENGAGING AND PROVOCATIVE' SFX Magazine 'UNEXPECTED, COMPELLING AND VERY COOL' John Scalzi 'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED' Independent on Sunday 'MIND-BLOWING' io9.com 'THRILLING, MOVING AND AWE-INSPIRING' Guardian 'UTTER PERFECTION' The Book Smugglers 'ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED AND GRACEFUL' Strange Horizons 'ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS' Elizabeth Bear
"I believe that at present we must paint nature's rich and magnificent aspects; we need good cheer and happiness, hope and love." -- Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo form what is perhaps the most frank and unique body of artists' correspondence ever written--one that offers a rare insight into Van Gogh's mental turmoil and artistic motivations. His descriptions of everyday concerns are interspersed with highly intense passages, beautiful sentences, and wise words on subjects such as ambition, love, loneliness, and his battle with mental illness. These surprising, melancholy, and sometimes funny comments continue to inspire and console many people today, some 130 years after he wrote them.
This selection of Van Gogh's most beautiful quotations unites his exceptional and touching words with reproductions of his much-loved artworks. They convey the same kind of recognition and emotion that he sought to achieve with his art. He was eager to reach other people and to mean something to them--but he could never have suspected that through his immense talent for capturing personal experiences, ideas, and feelings in evocative and appealing language, that he had genuine life lessons to offer us. "There are so many people . . . who imagine that words are nothing. On the contrary, don't you think, it's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint a thing. There's the art of lines and colors, but there's the art of words that will last just the same."
Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest, first published in 1791, is the epitome of the Gothic novel: a beautiful, orphaned heiress, a dashing hero, a dissolute, aristocratic villain and a ruined abbey deep in a great forest are combined by the author in a tale of suspense where danger lurks behind every secret trap-door. Reprinted four times between 1791 and 1795 and satirised as represented of the Gothic genre by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey, Radcliffe's tense masterpiece, in which the heroine is afraid even to look in the mirror for fear of what she might see behind her, established her reputation as a writer and her brilliant descriptions of both characters and scenes serve to create the perfect atmosphere for a novel packed with emotional intensity.
Dans Mondrian's Dress, Nancy J. Troy et Ann Marguerite Tartsinis offrent un regard extraordinaire sur la façon dont le style des peintures abstraites de Piet Mondrian a été approprié à titre posthume par la mode, le pop art et la culture de consommation des années 1960. Portant tout particulièrement son attention sur l'évolution de la maison Saint Laurent, la publication aborde aussi le travail d'artistes tels que Andy Warhol et Tom Wesselmann et propose des évaluations critiques du dialogue de Saint Laurent avec l'art, de la remarquable collection d'art qu'il a constituée avec son partenaire Pierre Bergé et du rôle crucial que joue la photographie dans le marketing de la couture. Première étude de ce genre, Mondrian's Dress est une réévaluation provocatrice de la manière dont l'art, le commerce et la mode sont devenus fondamentalement liés dans la période d'après-guerre.
Gucci: The Art of Silk tells the story of the House's extraordinary silk scarves, the first title of its kind to do so. Given exclusive access to the Gucci archives, located in a fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo, the book charts an unusual history of this iconic accessory, from its inception as a gift to Princess Grace of Monaco to its revivals by a succession of Gucci creative directors, namely Tom Ford, Frida Giannini, Alessandro Michele, and Sabato de Sarno.
In these pages, readers will discover how the scarves have at times made and mirrored the fortunes of the House itself: how the Gucci family aspired to be modern Medicis; the impact of Renaissance Florence; the continuum of craft and creativity-with never-before-seen imagery inside Gucci's ateliers; the power of celebrity and aristocracy (from Harry Styles to HRH Queen Elizabeth II); and the role of contemporary art, highlighted here through a first-look preview of the latest Gucci silk scarf project, «90x90,» nine limited-edition scarves from nine cutting-edge artists.
The book's slipcase and cover feature Gucci's most famous print, the «Flora,» which contains forty-three varieties of flowers, plants, and insects in thirty-seven different colors, all painted entirely by hand and inspired by Botticelli's Allegory of Spring.
Lavishly illustrated throughout, with reportage in Florence, Milan, and Como, Gucci: The Art of Silk tells a sumptuous visual tale of silk scarves, together with the people who have made them and the people who have worn them-and one that explains why these scarves have become some of the fashion world's most iconic accessories.
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous l
Detective Matthew Venn returns in The Raging Storm, the next captivating novel in the Two Rivers series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland.
When Jem Rosco - sailor, adventurer and local legend - blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. The residents think nothing of it when Rosco disappears again; that's the sort of man he is.
Until the lifeboat is launched to a hoax call-out during a raging storm and his body is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own.
This is an uncomfortable case for DI Matthew Venn. He came to the remote village as a child, its community populated by the Barum Brethren that he parted ways with, so when superstition and rumour mix and another body is found in the cove, Matthew soon finds his judgement clouded.
As the stormy winds howl and the village is cut off, Venn and his team start their investigation, little realizing their own lives might be in danger. . .
Ce lexique français-anglais et anglais-français a été élaboré afin d'accompagner les élèves ou les adultes en formation dans leurs différentes démarches en anglais touchant le domaine de la forêt et du bois. Il n'a pas la prétention d'être exhaustif mais il constitue un bon support pour se familiariser avec les mots les plus courants de ce secteur.
The adventures, mysteries and many lives of a Matisse masterpiece.
Created in 1911, Henri Matisse's The Red Studio would go on to become one of the most influential works in the history of modern art. The painting, which has hung in MoMA's galleries since 1949, depicts the artist's studio in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, filled with his own artworks, furniture and decorative objects. Matisse's radical decision to saturate the work's surface with red has fascinated generations of scholars and artists, yet much remained to be discovered about the painting's genesis and history.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition that reunites the artworks shown in The Red Studio for the first time since they left Matisse's work space, this copiously illustrated catalog examines the paintings and sculptures depicted in it, from familiar works such as Young Sailor II (1906) to lesser-known pieces whose locations have only recently been discovered. A narrative essay by Ann Temkin, the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Dorthe Aagesen, Chief Curator and Senior Researcher at Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, traces the life of The Red Studio, from the initial commissioning of the work in 1911 through its early history of exhibition and ownership to its arrival at MoMA after World War II. The book features a rich selection of archival materials, including photographs, letters and ephemera, many of which have never before been published or exhibited. With its groundbreaking research and close reading of the work, Matisse: The Red Studio transforms our understanding of this landmark of 20th-century art.
Conversations with a chatbot on legends of contemporary photography
Using works from the collection of the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Ann Massal (born 1977) engages an artificial intelligence chatbot in a dialogue on photography, asking it about the legacy of photography from the point of view of "the conscience of the world."
Cette première monographie dévoile les multiples facettes du travail d'Ann Veronica Janssens : installations, photographies, oeuvres avec verre et miroirs, sculptures, constructions, vidéos, sans oublier ses collaborations avec Michel François. Cette artiste fait de la lumière sa matière première, pour éclairer le rapport à l'espace. Son travail c'est aussi la rencontre entre l'espace et le corps. Le corps et ses activités dans l'acte de perception sont constitutifs de son discours et convoquent l'histoire et la philosophie de l'art, comme l'explicite le texte de Mieke Bal.
In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up,
In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding. Who Was Anne Frank? looks closely at Anne's life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding, and the legacy of her diary. Black-and-white illustrations including maps and diagrams provide historical and visual reference in an easy-to-read biography written in a way that is appropriate and accessible for younger readers.
Inspired by Chinese mythology, "She Who Became the Sun" meets "Daughter of the Moon Goddess" in this sweeping adult historical epic with a love story for the ages.
