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  • Bloomsbury and France

    Art and Friends

    by Mary Ann Caws, Sarah Bird Wright ...
    "Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean," is how Vanessa Bell described France in a letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf. Remarking on the vivifying effect of Cassis, Woolf herself said, "I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim.... Complete heaven, I think it." Yet until now there has never been a book that focused on the profound influence of France on the Bloomsbury group. In ... Read more

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  • The Private Lives of the Impressionists

    by Sue Roe ...
    The New York Times–bestselling biography of Manet, Cezanne, Degas, and others—a "revealing group portrait . . . lively, required reading" (People).Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, their paintings are now revered around the world. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers—but how well do we know the Impressionists as people? The first ... Read more

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  • The Rare and the Beautiful

    How the Garman Sisters Captured the Heart of Bohemian London

    by Cressida Connolly ...
    Like the better-known Mitfords, the Garman sisters took center stage in Bohemian London during the first half of the twentieth century. Beautiful, flamboyant, and headstrong, they broke away from middle-class conventions, seducing and inspiring a generation of artists. Kathleen, an enigmatic artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover and, later, wife of controversial American-born sculptor ... Read more

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  • I Am Melba

    A Biography

    by Ann Blainey ...
    The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in her musical talent and hoped for a lucky break.Within a few years, reborn as Nellie Melba, she was performing to overflowing concert halls, hobnobbing with ... Read more

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  • The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street

    Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952–73

    Edited by John Saumarez Smith ...
    Collected mid-twentieth–century correspondence between the author of The Pursuit of Love and her former employer, the celebrated London bookseller.Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art

    by Ian Chilvers, John Glaves-Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    This unique and authoritative reference work contains around 2,000 clear and concise entries on all aspects of modern and contemporary art. Its impressive range of terms includes movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, dealers, schools, and galleries. There are biographical entries for artists worldwide from the beginning of the 20th century through to today's globalized art world, from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Constable

    by Victoria Charles ...
    John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable’s originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which ... Read more

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  • Expatriate Paris

    A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s

    by Arlen J. Hansen ...
    Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers, artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. For travelers, Francophiles and the curious, this gossipy retrospective of expatriate life in Paris in the 1920s is a mosaic of quick glimpses—Sarah Bernhardt ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett

    A Celebration

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    In life, Beckett was notoriously reticent, preferring to let his work speak for itself. In the first half of this collection, he reveals many of his inner thoughts and honest opinions about his life, writing, friends, and colleagues in candid interviews published for the first time in this book. He discusses his friendship with James Joyce and his role in the Resistance during the Nazi occupation ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

    by James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The ... ... Read more

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  • Edith Wharton

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    by Hermione Lee ...
    From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born ... Read more

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  • The London Blue Plaque Guide

    4th Edition

    by Nick Rennison ...
    Connecting people with places, London's distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked.From Gertrude Bell to Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplin to Jimi Hendrix, this fully updated 5th edition of The London Blue Plaque Guide has over a thousand entries and provides an essential companion to the famous ... Read more

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