18 books like Marc Chagall
Brideshead Revisited
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles…
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Picasso
In 1946, when Picasso received the offer to use one of the great rooms in the castle at Antibes as a studio, he exclaimed enthusiastically: “I'm not only going to paint, I'll decorate the museum too.” The result was a series of paintings and drawings that reflected the jubilant spirit, the joie de vivre, of a country that was free once more. Picasso later added sculptures, graphic works, and…
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Oskar Kokoschka
Bei Jahrhunderten der Literatur ist es unvermeidlich, dass einige durch das Raster fallen. Wir jagen gemeinfreie Werke und restaurieren sie, damit sie der Welt nicht verloren gehen.
Wer sind wir? Wir sind Cairn Press. Unser Hintergrund liegt in Design, Verlagswesen, Typografie und Technologie. Diese Fähigkeiten treiben unsere Mission voran, öffentlich zugängliche eBooks von höchster Qualität zu…
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Max Beckmann
"This panoramic presentation of Max Beckmann's painted oeuvre sheds new light on central themes such as the world of cabaret, music, and the theater, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the role of the female muse, as well as the artist's unusual ways of employing romanticizing visual motifs in landscapes and urban contexts."--BOOK JACKET
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Paul Klee
An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years at the Bauhaus, he attempted to capture the organic and harmonic nature of painting by alluding to other artistic mediums such as poetry, literature,…
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Edvard Munch
Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expressiveren Stil. In dieser Zeit entsteht das Meisterwerk Alpha und Omega, eine grafische Mappe bestehend aus 22 lithographischen Blättern und einem gedruckten Prosagedicht. Zusammen ergeben sie eine…
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Il purgatorio
Com’ io l’ho tratto, saria lungo a dirti;
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Evangeline
An epic poem set during the expulsion of the Acadians from Acadie, following the fictional Evangeline and her search for her lost love, Gabriel.
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Night thoughts
Night Thoughts
Edward Young, english poet (1681-1765)
This ebook presents «Night Thoughts», from Edward Young. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY
-03- NIGHT THOUGHTS
-04- FOOTNOTES
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Paradise Lost
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his…
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Picasso
Text describes several works from Picasso's Blue and Rose periods. Ten color plates, including one on the front cover, are included.
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Catch me a colobus
Further trials and tribulations of the author; including two hectic expeditions to Africa in quest of the Colobus and to Mexico in search of the Volcano Rabbit.
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Henry Moore
This seventh and final volume in the complete catalogue of Henry Moore's drawings provides a key to the material contained in the other six volumes. It gives a consolidated version of all the reference apparatus contained in each of the other volumes (index, concordance and list of exhibitions), enabling the user to track down any particular drawing from any period or volume by means of its…
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Torches Together
Not many people talk about "joy" these days. Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of freedom,…
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Vincent van Gogh
This book contains 658 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh.
Vincent Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert in the southern Netherlands, the son of a pastor. In 1869, he took his first job, working in the Hague branch of an international art dealing firm. He began to write to his younger brother Theo, a correspondence which continued for the rest of Van Gogh's life.
Van Gogh's job took him to…
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Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They inclu
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The First book of the American chronicles of the times
In "The Making of the Great West - History of the American Frontier 1512-1883," Samuel Adams Drake meticulously chronicles the evolution of the American West, weaving together narratives that span over three centuries. Through eloquent prose, Drake explores the complex interplay of cultures, indigenous populations, and European settlers, examining pivotal events that shaped the frontier’s…
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Le Corbusier
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society…
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