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Mozart by Peggy Woodford
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times.
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
Category: World | Series: Lives Ser.
A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule. Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon#65533;s dictatorship. Johnson tells the whole story: his astonish ...Show more
Offenbach by Peter Gammond
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Paganini by John Sugden
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art. One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters ...Show more
Persons of Interest: An Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton by Pamela Burton, Meredith Edwards
Category: Biography | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
A world in upheaval; two lives lived under stress ... This story is set in the social and political landscape of pre- and post-World War II. It tells two vastly different tales of Cecily and John's lives in Australia and overseas, as nations clashed, and governments and international organisations trie ...Show more
Petrarch - Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
Category: Poetry | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently ...Show more
Piero Della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity, and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveler, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron, and muc ...Show more
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerless paintbrush to mankind's labors and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life, ...Show more
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerl ...Show more
Pollock Confidential - A Graphic Biography by Onofrio Catacchio
Category: Art and Design | Series: Graphic Lives Ser.
Forceful, intense and visionary - in an incredibly short and turbulent life Jackson Pollock changed painting forever. This vivid graphic novel delves into his pioneering physical approach to making art, highlights the key characters surrounding the New York mid-century art scene and reveals the intrigui ...Show more
Possess the Air - Fascism, Freedom, and the Fate of Mussolini's Rome by Taras Grescoe
Category: History | Series: Untold Lives Ser.
A Globe and Mail Fall 2019 Book to Watch Whoever you are, you are sure to be a severe critic of Fascism, and you must feel the servile shame. But even you are responsible for your inaction. Do not seek to justify yourself with the illusion that there is nothing to be done. That is not true. Every perso ...Show more