A Short Biography of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Hardcover - Henri-Pierre Corbacho

James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted a number of exquisite paintings, but is largely remembered for one titled Arrangement in grey and black No. 1...

In his "Ten O'Clock Lecture" in 1885, American James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) presented himself as an artist set apart from the public, bearing...

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) masterfully depicted ballerinas, racehorses, and the street life of 19th century Paris. He painted in Italy and New Orleans...

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Henri Poincar (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physi...

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Wisdom's Harvest: East of Smallville is a series of short stories from my life growing up in a family of ten children and a single mother. A contin...

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Paul et Virginie - Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

With a new foreword After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Fr...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressIllustration(s): 182 color + 35 b/w illus.Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 304 x 350 x 36...

To be the luckiest kid in America, he first had to be the unluckiest It was a time of Prohibition, Jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's...

In this redesigned and expanded version of a classic Aperture book, the work of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is introduced by historian Julia Van Ha...

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DescriptionPierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music ( la recherche d'une musique concr te) has long been considered a classic text in elect...