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881) The Paris Opera
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sweeping in scope yet full of intimate moments, THE PARIS OPERA offers a candid look behind the scenes of one of the world's foremost performing arts institutions. Over the course of one tumultuous season, director Jean-Stéphane Bron nimbly juggles multiple storylines - from ballet and opera rehearsals, to strike negotiations, last minute crises and ticket disputes - revealing the dedication of the talented personnel who bring breathtaking spectacles...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
The documentary is the first and unique film on Fortunato Depero, the most significant artist of the Futurist movement. The film investigates the figure of a man who could go beyond the codified circuits of the art world: his work ranges from painting to theater, from set design to photography, applied arts, publishing, and advertising design.
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The 5 Browns are a group of classically trained sibling pianists who experienced a meteoric rise to stardom, only to be devastated years later by the tragic revelation. All three sisters, Desirae, Deondra and Melody, had been sexually abused by their father during childhood. Official Selection at the **San Francisco Doc Festival**. "*Equally poignant, heartbreaking and inspirational.*" - Avi Offer, ***NYC Movie Guru***
885) My Darling Vivian
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs. Meet the first Mrs. Cash as her daughters share first hand, and for the first time, the entire story of love, isolation, fear, heartbreak, and survival.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An exclusive private view of the ‘hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking exhibition’ (5 stars – The Guardian) at the V&A in London, filmed especially for the big screen. Take a guided tour ‘down the rabbit hole’ with the V&A curator Kate Bailey and presenter Andi Oliver as the documentary explores how Alice has become an enduring icon, influencing successive generations and inspiring creativity in fashion, film, photography, and on the stage....
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Modest, shy, secretive, and determined to protect his own privacy, Newman did not give himself up easily and often used his humor to distance himself from the media frenzy. We will go through his films, his passions, his political views and civic battles, to discover the life and personality of the actor, the family man, and the philanthropist, hiding behind his blue eyes.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a writer named Satya attends a prestigious artist retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won't let up: President Trump rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and the 24-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. For most of the retreat fellows, such stories are unbearable distractions; but for Satya, these Orwellian interruptions begin to crystalize into an idea for his new novel, Enemies of the People, about the lies...
892) Lucy checks in
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Dee Ernst's Lucy Checks In is a delightful work of romantic comedy about a disgraced hotel manager who travels to Rennes to rebuild a hotel and her own life in the process. Lucia Giannetti needs a fresh start. Once the hotel manager of a glamorous NYC hotel and intimately involved with the hotel's owner, Lucy had her entire future planned out. But when the owner disappears, taking millions of dollars with him, Lucy's life as she knows it falls apart....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A compromising situation for an innocent lady! After fending off ruffians with her parasol and hauling a battered man into her carriage, Jane Newnham finds herself unwittingly compromised with enigmatic Ivo Merton, Earl of Kendall! Jane always intended to become an artist, not a wife, and now she has no choice but to become betrothed. They strike a bargain that means she can continue to paint, but Ivo has awakened another passion in her-to uncover...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Goodbye to Tenth Street is the first novel written by Irving Sandler, one of America's finest and most acclaimed art critics. Sandler vividly portrays the New York art world from the death of Jackson Pollock in 1956 to the emergence of Andy Warhol in 1962.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hamish Fulton describes himself as a "walking artist". For more than thirty years he has undertaken demanding walks in many parts of the world, and drawn on his experiences to create distinctive artworks using text, graphics and photographs. He aims to "leave no trace" in the landscape, and he acknowledges that his art cannot represent the experience of a walk. "What I'm interested in," he explains, "is presenting a sort of skeleton of something,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self-discipline and keep themselves afloat with optimism. Artists considering how they work--in letters, diaries, interviews, beguilingly compiled and edited by Mason Currey....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Andy Warhol--and how his pop art took the world by storm. From drawing shoes for a shoe company to his Campbell's Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe prints, Andy made art out of the everyday. People claimed Andy's art wasn't real art, but that didn't stop him from making it, plus movies, a magazine, a TV show, and more!
900) At summer's end
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When an ambitious female artist accepts an unexpected commission at a powerful earl's country estate in 1920s England, she finds his war-torn family crumbling under the weight of long-kept secrets. From debut author Courtney Ellis comes a captivating novel about finding the courage to heal after the ravages of war. Alberta Preston accepts the commission of a lifetime when she receives an invitation from the Earl of Wakeford to spend a summer painting...
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