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The mind's eye
Par Oliver W Sacks. 2010
Neurologist uses case studies to illustrate the brain’s ability to adapt to lost senses. Discusses a concert pianist who can…
no longer read music, a writer who is unable to read print after suffering a stroke, and Sacks’s own macular melanoma and its effects on his visual perception. 2010.The Meinertzhagen mystery: the life and legend of a colossal fraud
Par Brian Garfield. 2007
Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international…
ornithology. He was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Ben Gurion, T. E. Lawrence, and Elspeth Huxley, but he bamboozled them all - Meinertzhagen was a fraud. Many of the adventures recorded in his celebrated diaries were imaginary, he committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and - oddly - may have been innocent of many killings to which he confessed. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.The many deaths of Tom Thomson: separating fact from fiction
Par Gregory Klages. 2016
Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson, the book offers a…
review of the historical record, testimony, and archives about the artist's tragic and mysterious demise. Putting the whole range of theories under examination, the author separates truth from legend in this great Canadian mystery. 2016.The man from Odessa
Par Greville Wynne. 1981
Master spy Greville Wynne tells the story of his career as a British secret agent up to the time of…
his trial and imprisonment in the Lubyanka over the Penkovsky affair, and following his exchange for top Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale. 1981.The lost spy: an American in Stalin's secret service
Par Andrew Meier. 2008
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country…
- but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. 2008.Describes the exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s, which is also the story behind the novel…
"The English Patient" (DC11460). In 1939 the group known as the Zerzura Club split allegiances: Englishman Ralph Bagnold formed the Long Range Desert Group of patrols that gathered intelligence and generally bedeviled Italian and German troops, while Hungarian Count Ladislaus Almasy led the German equivalent of the LRDG. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.The life of William Morris
Par J. W Mackail. 1995
William Morris was a poet, an artist, a manufacturer and a socialist whose works and ideas had a great effect…
on Victorian art, design and industry. This biography was first published within a few years of his death and remains the primary biographical source on his life and work. 1995.The last mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the hidden history of Hollywood
Par Dennis McDougal. 1998
Biography of one of Hollywood's most powerful moguls who joined the industry at the beginning of talking films and could…
singlehandedly make or break a career. Wasserman was also a confidant to other powerful people; politicians and businessmen as well as Mafia bosses, as the head of Universal Studios. Some strong language. c1998.The laughing one: a journey to Emily Carr
Par S. M Crean. 2001
A combination of historical research and fictionalized accounts of five key periods in the life of Canadian artist and writer…
Emily Carr, that attempts to discover how and why she became a national icon. The book touches on issues of feminism, colonialism, native-white relations, and art, presented in the context of legal and illegal events shaping the fate of BC's native peoples. Crean attempts to discover Carr's true attitude to native culture and to explore not her famous eccentricities but her work. 2001.The inlet: memoir of a modern pioneer
Par Helen Piddington. 2001
The implosion conspiracy
Par Louis Nizer. 1973
The eye: an insider's memoir of masterpieces, money, and the magnetism of art
Par Philippe Costamagna. 2019
This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance…
whose profession is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art market and scholarship alike. 2019. Uniform title: Histoires d'œils.Va où il est impossible d'aller: mémoires
Par Costa-Gavras. 2018
Né en Arcadie, dans une Grèce déchirée par l'Occupation et la guerre civile, le jeune Costa-Gavras arrive à Paris en…
1955, immigré sans argent. Son rêve : suivre des études. Au hasard des rencontres, il découvrira la Sorbonne, la Cinémathèque d'Henri Langlois, et deviendra rapidement l'assistant des plus grands : René Clair, René Clément, Jacques Demy, Henri Verneuil, Jean Becker, Jean Giono... Il passe à la réalisation avec un premier film coup de poing, Compartiment tueurs. Et enchaîne les succès internationaux : ce sera Z, L'Aveu, Section spéciale, Music Box, Missing, Amen... Il est l'auteur de dix-huit films qui ont autant changé le cinéma que notre manière de voir le monde. Ses Mémoires retracent sa jeunesse, sa vie d' avant , et fourmillent de détails sur Hollywood, les acteurs, les tournages... On y croise bien sûr des légendes, Luis Bunuel ou John Ford, des actrices et acteurs tels Romy Schneider, Jessica Lange, Jean Seberg, Jack Lemmon, Marlon Brando, John Travolta ou Dustin Hoffman. Mais plus encore, ce livre redonne vie à une magnifique famille de pensée dont il suffit d'évoquer les noms - Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprún, Salvador Allende, Artur et Lise London, Chris Marker, Romain Gary - pour faire comprendre que Costa-Gavras a été nourri des plus grands rêves de notre époque, comme de ses combats les plus rudes. 2018.You must change your life: the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Par Rachel Corbett. 2016
In 1902, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and suffering from writer’s block, accepted a commission to go to Paris to…
research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rodin in his sixties, notoriously carnal, revered; Rilke in his twenties, delicate, unknown. Nonetheless, they fell into an instantaneous friendship and would work closely together as master and disciple for the next few years, as Rodin showed Rilke how to become the writer he wished to be. Corbett transports readers to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris to explore this surprising friendship and the development of their influential ideas about art and creativity. 2016.Ma vie avec Chagall
Par Virginia Haggard-Leirens, Eleonore Bakhtadze. 1987
En 1945, Chagall jouit d'une renommée mondiale lorsqu'il rencontre Virginia Haggard. Elle a trente ans de moins que lui. Une…
liaison profonde, marquée par l'admiration et l'entraide mutuelle, va les unir pendant sept ans. 1987.Artemisia, ou, La Renommée
Par Rauda Jamis. 1990
Biographie d'Artemisia Gentileschi, femme peintre (1593-1653), dont le destin fut aussi brillant que dramatique. Violée à l'âge de 18 ans…
par son professeur de perspective, il en résultera un procès resté dans les annales. 1990.Léonard de Vinci: l'homme et son temps
Par Sylvia Alberti de Mazzari, Bernard Guyader. 1987
Il n'est sans doute pas d'artiste qui soit aussi connu et méconnu que Léonard de Vinci. Connu parce que ses…
oeuvres ont fait couler beaucoup d'encre, et méconnu parce que rares sont ceux qui ont cherché à explorer, derrière le génie, sa vie d'homme et d'artiste plongé dans le monde effervescent de la Renaissance. 1987.La vie de Toulouse Lautrec
Par Henri Perruchot. 1981
Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), évolue dans le décor de Montmartre. Sous les lumières éclatantes et factices de la butte, son visage apparait…
dans les bars et les maisons closes. Il se lie avec Tristan Bernard, fréquente les vélodromes et, surtout, il peint. 1981.Lamia, l'anti-barbouze
Par Philippe-L. Thyraud De Vosjoli. 1972
Le 18 octobre '63, Lamia, agent secret, envoie sa démission au General de Gaulle. Convaincu de l'infiltration soviétique au sein…
du cabinet français, désavoue par son propre gouvernement, il n'a pas d'autre choix que d'agir en solitaire. 1972.La vie de Cézanne
Par Henri Perruchot. 1956
La vie de grand peintre français. De son enfance, en Provence, à sa mort. Un homme qui se laissait difficilement…
approcher, dont la peinture souleva beaucoup d'hostilité, mais qui laissa de grandes influences. 1956.