Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Upstart Press Ltd Mozart - The Man Behind the Music
Book SynopsisChild prodigy, genius, freak, a man who lived frivolously and died a pauper… The myths surrounding Mozart, composer of some of the world’s most sublime music, have long overtaken the known facts of his life. Now, in this charming and very personal tribute, artist Donovan Bixley offers a portrait of the composer that will forever change the way he is viewed. In nearly 100 original drawings and paintings, accompanied by text based on the many letters that he wrote during his life, beginning with the delightful, if misspelt, letters he wrote as a thirteen-year-old boy travelling in Italy with his father. Like his successful “Much Ado About Shakespeare”, Bixley brings Mozart to life with humour but also reflects the turmoil of the times in which he lived. This is a newly rendered version of the book successfully published in 2006.
£14.72
Otago University Press Hudson & Halls: The food of love
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£23.39
Otago University Press West Island: Five twentieth-century New
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£18.90
Granville Island Publishing Luminous: An artists story as a guide to radical
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£25.59
Granville Island Publishing Luminous: An artists story as a guide to radical
Book SynopsisIn her memoir, artist Linda Frimer traces the layered histories of art and the artists of each era alongside her familys journey from Eastern Europe to the wilderness of western Canada. Born in Wells, and later spending her childhood in nearby Prince George, Frimers development as an artist was intimately impacted by her upbringing in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. It was here that Frimer developed a deep empathy and reverence for the First Nations of Canada, who were on this land thousands of years before European colonization. It was also here that Frimer first realized that nature and culture rose inseparable in creation, and that she had a responsibility to both. Throughout her book, Frimer strives to break down barriers between varying perspectives, while guiding the reader through a series of artistic exercises designed to cultivate imagination and to foster cultural and environmental healing through creativity. Accompanied by her acclaimed artwork, close examination of art history and theory, and exploration of Jewish spirituality, Frimer explores the power of colour, the symbols that help to give life meaning, and the importance of creativity in not only protecting, but ennobling existence. Luminous aims to inspire each of us to become the artist of our own story.
£29.74
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers I Thought He Was Dead: A Spiritual Memoir
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£15.20
The Sutherland House Inc. Miss World 1970: The basis for the film
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£13.59
The Sutherland House Inc. Off the Charts: What I Learned From My Almost
Book SynopsisKat is a storyteller extraordinaire...Read this book with glee. It's a revelation. CHARLES PACHTERSo you want to make it as a singer-songwriter? Kat Goldman has been there, almost to the very top, and now she's back with sage advice and hilarious behind-the-scenes stories from a lifetime of toil in the dive bars and legendary venues of the contemporary music scene.Learn what it''s like to meet your first fan, date a rock star (never again!), perform in a grocery store, and rebuild your career after getting hit by a car in a bagel shop. Feel the sting of rejection and rampant sexism, and the thrill of writing a hit song and performing with your idols...Off the Charts is a whimsical, uproarious tour through a fickle business that never seems to repay what performers put into it, and one woman's highly intimate account of how she made the best of almost making it. Featuring a sparkling set of original illustrations by the award-winning Nina Berkson.
£11.04
The Sutherland House Inc. Norman Jewison: A Director's Life
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£19.94
The Sutherland House Inc. Yoko Ono: An Artful Life
Book SynopsisFor more than sixty years, Yoko Ono has fascinated us as one of the world’s most innovative, radical artists. From a childhood of both extraordinary privilege and extreme deprivation in war-time Japan, she adopted an outsider’s persona and moved to America where, after a spell at Sarah Lawrence College, she made a place for herself in bohemian arts circles. She was already twice divorced and established as a performance artist in the Fluxus movement and in Tokyo’s avant-garde scene before her fortuitous meeting with the Beatles’ John Lennon at a London Gallery in 1966. Their intense yet fraught relationship, reputed to have blown-up the Beatles, made headlines around the world, as did their famous bed-ins in protest of the Vietnam war, and their majestic, Grammy-winning musical collaborations.Through it all, and for decades after Lennon’s tragic death, she remained defiantly herself. Yoko Ono: An Artful Life charts her journey of personal turmoil, artistic evolution, and activism, and at last tells her iconic story on her own terms.
£19.79
The Sutherland House Inc. The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan
Book SynopsisA book about power, apprenticeship, and succession in the first family of mediaAn heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert''s empire all his life. In this riveting first biography of a little-understood but hugely influential figure, acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning asks: can the dutiful son hang onto the empire, or will the third generation of Murdoch moguls prove the last?Despite a life in the spotlight, Lachlan''s personality, politics, and business acumen remain enigmatic. Is he the ultra-conservative ideologue media reports maintain, or a free-thinking libertarian, as some friends suggest?After emerging victorious from the Murdoch family''s turbulent succession wars, Lachlan is stepping up at a time of unprecedented instability. What can we expect from his time at the helm, and does he have what it takes to chart a future for this century-old company? This is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the global media world, and about America in the age of Trump and Murdoch. It is a book about power, apprenticeship, and succession.
£21.12
Oratia Media Hundertwasser in New Zealand: The Art of Creating
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£43.19
Otago University Press Robert Lord Diaries
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£18.90
Footprint Press De Meillon’s Legacy: Art, Science and War
Book SynopsisThis hardcover edition contains with over 200 full colour pages crammed with a detailed history of De Meillon’s lifetime and family lineage, along with many previously unpublished works of art and documents Henry Clifford De Meillon (1800-1859) is recognised as one the most significant South African artists of the early 19th century. Anna Smith’s Cape Views and Costumes (1978) reproduced works from the Brenthurst Library and tried to establish facts behind his life but left many unanswered questions. The authors have addressed most of these with newly discovered records. In addition to new research discoveries, a large body of unpublished art works by De Meillon were found and are reproduced here, including hydrographic charts and coastal views done aboard HMS Leven, Cape wild flowers, views of the Cape, as well as later paintings from the eastern Cape wild frontier. These add significantly to the portfolio of De Meillon’s known art, increasing his stature as an important South African artist. Many of the puzzles about his life and family have also been solved. The De Meillon family typifies many South African families. Their origins are diverse, and by the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War, descendants found themselves on opposing sides of the conflict. Later generations of De Meillons made significant contributions to Science and Art, such as the world-renowned entomologist, Botha De Meillon, and his daughter, the artist Mimi Cabri. This book is a tribute to the lasting legacy of Henry Clifford De Meillon, progenitor of the family in South Africa and beyond.
£27.00
Massey University Press Ans Westra
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£31.19
Danann Media Publishing Limited Once in a Blue Moon: The Unforgettable Frank
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£11.04
Danann Media Publishing Limited Led Zeppelin: You Shook Me
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£9.74
Danann Media Publishing Limited Bruce Springsteen: Glory Days - 50 Years of
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£9.74
Right Angle Publishing Ltd Being Ted Cullinan: Edited by Alan Berman and Ian
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£22.50
Jake Island Ltd Terry Abraham: Life on the Mountains
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£18.90
Editions Flammarion Brigitte Bardot: My Life in Fashion
£17.08
Editions Flammarion Karl: No Regrets
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£24.00
Editions Flammarion Christian Dior: Destiny: The Authorized Biography
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£21.25
Les Belles Lettres Le Livre Des Peintres: Vies Des Plus Illustres
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£28.08
Les Belles Lettres Ingrid Bergman
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£23.00
Culturea Vie de Beethoven: Une biographie de Beethoven par
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£14.25
Classiques Garnier Dictionnaire Des Musiciens de la Cour d'Henri IV
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£82.65
Jason Nollan L'Autobiographie de Benjamin Franklin (Traduit)
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£14.99
Brepols N.V. Josquin
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£70.51
Brepols N.V. Gaspar Van Weerbeke: New Perspectives on His Life
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Hobrecht and His Singers
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£66.50
Brepols Publishers The Journey of Phil Trajetta
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£136.80
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome I
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£83.60
Loevenbruck Michel Parmentier - December 1965 - November 20,
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£40.76
Diaphanes AG Pynchon′s Sound of Music
Book SynopsisPynchon's Sound of Music is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon’s work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines—from literary studies and musicology to philosophy, media theory, and history—to explain Pynchon through music and music through Pynchon. Encyclopedic and eclectic in its approach, Pynchon’s Sound of Music discusses the author’s use of instruments such as the kazoo, harmonica, and saxophone and embarks on close readings of the most salient and musically tantalizing passages. Zooming out to a bird’s eye view, Christian Hänggi puts Pynchon’s historical musical references and allusions into perspective to trace the trends and tendencies in the development of the author’s interest in music. A treasure trove for fans and an invaluable source for future scholarship, this book includes the Pynchon Playlist, a catalog of over 900 musical references in Pynchon’s oeuvre, and an exhaustive index of more than 700 appearances of musical instruments.
£30.40
Quart Publishers Empathie als Funktion: Die Schulbauten Emil
Book SynopsisUntil now, Emil Jauch (1911–1962) has been a little-known protagonist of Swiss post-war architecture. Shaped by the Scandinavian Modernity of the 1930s, his buildings are characterised by a remarkable sensitivity. This book demonstrates the Lucerne architect’s empathetic design method by presenting his constructed school buildings. The publication describes the architect's life and work in three chapters, recognising his achievements in school building and classifying them within the European context of a humanising functionalism. Text in German.
£31.12
JRP Ringier Derek Jarman
Book SynopsisWritings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher TurnerGathering newly commissioned essays devoted to specificand sometimes lesser-knownaspects of the artist''s life and work, and extensive portfolios spanning his oeuvre, this volume offers an accessible overview of Derek Jarman (194294), one of the legendary cultural figures of the postwar era. Jarman was an artist, filmmaker, musician and gay activist who powerfully marked British culture, from his first feature film Sebastiane (1976) to his videos for the Pet Shop Boys and Marianne Faithfull in the 1980s, from his AIDS activism to his cult film Blue (1993).Conceived as a reader, this volume includes essays by cultural critic Elisabeth Lebovici, curator Claire Le Restif and garden historian Marco Martella; an interview with Jarman's collaborator James Mackay; testimonies by actress Tilda Swinton and musician Simon Fisher Turner; and an illustrated chronology. Jarman''s militant Queer Paintings series (1992), his Super8 films from the mid-1970s and his assemblages made at his legendary garden at Prospect Cottage in Kent are all discussed.
£27.00
Birkhauser Fritz Nathan - Architekt: Sein Leben und Werk in
Book SynopsisFritz Nathan (1891–1960) zählte zu den aufstrebenden Architekten im Deutschland der Zwanzigerjahre. Mit dem Neuen Jüdischen Friedhof in Frankfurt/Main, seinen Warenhäusern und Industriebauten schuf er signifikante Beispiele des Neuen Bauens. Doch dann führte die nationalsozialistische Diktatur zum jähen Ende der Karriere des jüdischen Architekten. 1940 emigrierte er in die USA und ließ sich in New York nieder. Nach schwierigen Anfängen konnte er in seinem Beruf wieder Fuß fassen. Die längst fällige Würdigung Nathans weist die herausragende Bedeutung seines Beitrags zum Neuen Bauen in Deutschland sowie zur modernen Synagogenarchitektur in den USA nach.
£46.80
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Silvie and Chérif Defraoui – Archives du Futur:
Book SynopsisSwiss artist Silvie Defraoui realised a significant part of her work beginning in 1975 together with her husband Chérif (1932–1994). Silvie and Chérif Defraoui compiled their photo and video works, installations, sculptures, and performances under the title Archives du Futur. They taught together at Geneva’s École supérieure des Beaux- Arts (today HEAD–Genève), where they founded the legendary studio Média Mixte and counted a number of renowned artists among their students. The Archives du Futur, to which Silvie Defraoui has continued adding works since Chérif’s premature death, has been made available as a digital catalogue raisonné to browse online. This book accompanies, supplements, and expands on the digital documentation. It gathers 14 commentaries on individual works of the two artists by distinguished art theorists and curators, originally published from 1984 onwards, in various art journals and exhibition catalogues or newly written for this book. They reflect on the artists’ joint oeuvre as well as on work created independently by Silvie Defraoui. Interviews with her and selected lecture texts from the couple’s shared teaching activities shed light on their artistic stance and thematic focuses. The volume invites an exploration of an artistic body of work that is highly topical through its merging of dualities - memory and the present, Orient and Occident, man and woman, tradition and invention. Text in English, French and German.
£25.60
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Psychoanalyst Meets Helene and Wolfgang
Book SynopsisWolfgang Beltracchi is a phenomenon of the international art world. His name is inextricably entwined with one of the greatest upheavals in the global art market. Emulating numerous world-famous artists, he developed and painted new paintings, continued their narrations and biography, and concluded them with a forged signature. His wife Helene Beltracchi then smuggled them onto the art market. Many experts were deceived by Beltracchi’s stupendous skill and auctioneers cast many doubts aside in the interests of insatiable market demand, selling the paintings as authentic works by the purported artists. Reading the artistic handwriting of a painting requires an exceptional willingness and ability to be able to empathise and identify with the artist, until you “can feel what the other feels” (Wolfgang Beltracchi). Through extensive discussions with the painter and his wife, the psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer explored this capability that is so pronounced for Beltracchi. In her new book, she places this in relation to the disappearance of Beltracchi’s own signature. As with her previous highly successful book about the performance artist Marina Abramović, Jeannette Fischer has created an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality.Trade Review"The story of how their operation worked has been exhaustively detailed in news reports, a documentary and the couple's 2011 trial. But in a recently published book, psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer digs into the why. Through a series of in-depth conversations, carried out over coffee and wine at the pair's studio in Switzerland following their release from prison, she explores their motives, artistic processes and family histories." - CNN
£17.00
De Gruyter Georg Anton Benda
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£80.00
De Gruyter Länder
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£210.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Franz Lehar: Der Letzte Operettenkonig. Eine
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£35.10
Bohlau Verlag Edwin Fischer (1886-1960) - Pianist, Dirigent,
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£74.77
Bohlau Verlag Die Schauspielerin Annie Rosar (1888-1963):
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£42.76
Bohlau Verlag Durch vergiftete Zeiten: Memoiren eines Nazibuben
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£60.32
Bohlau Verlag Schönberg verstehen: »Überwältigende Vielheit
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£954.38
Bohlau Verlag Fritz Kreisler: Ein Kosmopolit im Exil. Vom
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£30.59
