A Groundbreaking New Perspective of Princess Margaret by Renowned Biographer Meryle Secrest Meryle Secrest, distinguished biographer in the arts and humanities, and recipient of a White House Medal, has turned her focus to royalty. In...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780451493651)
Shares the previously undisclosed story of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the high-styled typewriter company, exploring the influences of visionary Adriano Olivetti, two world wars and the space race. The never...Lasīt vairāk
Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti elevated the field of womens clothing design into the realm of art....Lasīt vairāk
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One of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, the author was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti ele...Lasīt vairāk
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The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time-- An illustrated biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, social revolutionist a...Lasīt vairāk
In the first full-scale life of the most important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780307263681)
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A full-scale profile of the celebrated modernist artist includes coverage of his upbringing as a Sephardic Jewish youth by a impoverished Italian family, his considerable training and the ways in which his private battles with tuberculosis shaped his...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jun-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Alfred A Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780307264831)
A biographer offers a entertaining and insightful study of the art and craft of writing biography, detailing her triumphs and missteps, adventures and misadventures as she researched nine famous people....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2005, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226744155)
Anyone who has admired Gainsboroughs Blue Boy of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandts Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure...Lasīt vairāk
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Provides a definitive portrait of Lord Duveen of Millbank, the twentieth centurys leading art dealer, describing his rise to success in the art world, work with Old Masters paintings, rise to the upper levels of British society, influence at Bucking...Lasīt vairāk
The life of composer Richard Rodgers encapsulates the very essence of New York and London high society during the first half of the twentieth century. This biography is a portrait of a man - though riddled with insecurities, he was a composer unequal...Lasīt vairāk
(Applause Books). No American composer has been more widely celebrated, nor so consistently misunderstood as Richard Rodgers. Although he was one of Americas most brilliant and prolific composers, whose credits include more than 900 published songs,...Lasīt vairāk
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This biography of Richard Rodgers chronicles the life of the composer by covering five decades of Americal musical history. It is a portrait of a complex man. Personable, sunny and seductive, but riddled with insecurities, he still composed 39 musica...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Nov-2001, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780375401640)
A full-scale portrait of the prolific and acclaimed composer in honor of the centenary of his birth details his childhood and youth, his musical education, his collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, his own sometimes turbulent persona...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on interviews with friends, family, collaborators and lovers, this biography of Stephen Sondheim looks to bring us not only the artist - as a master of modern compositional style - but also the private man....Lasīt vairāk
A full-scale portrait of the distinguished composer-lyricist draws on personal interviews with Sondheim to describe his troubled childhood, early struggles, rise to the pinnacle of Broadway musical theater, collaboration with Hal Prince, and original...Lasīt vairāk
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Secrest reveals how Sondheim learnt to play the piano at an early age and writes about the effect his parents divorce had on him when he was 10. She reveals the difficulty he had struggling to gain a foothold in the theatre, attempting to make a li...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-May-1998, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226744148)
Meryle Secrests Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wrights family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wrights letters, ph...Lasīt vairāk
