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Author : Noah Charney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789612842901
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Slovenology written by Noah Charney and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Finkel
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0735278962
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Art Thief written by Michael Finkel and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker "Enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538138654
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Devil in the Gallery written by Noah Charney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It’s an in-depth look at varied time periods and artists, which readers interested in gossip, drama, or art history will enjoy." Library Journal, Starred Review Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don’t they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin. But these potentially disastrous “negatives” can and have spurred the world of fine art to new heights. A look at the history of art tells us that rivalries have, in fact, not only benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but have also helped shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack, and therefore drawing the interest of a public who might not be drawn to the objects alone. There would be no Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo had rival Raphael not tricked the pope into assigning him the commission, certain that Michelangelo, who had never before worked with frescoes, would botch the job and become a laughing stock. Scandal and shock have proven to be powerful weapons when harnessed and wielded willfully and well. That scandal is good for exposure has been so obviously the case that many artists have courted it intentionally, which we will define as shock: intentionally overturning expectations of the majority in a way that traditionalist find dismaying or upsetting, but which a certain minority avant-garde find exciting. From Damien Hirst presenting the public with a shark embalmed in formaldehyde and entombed in a glass case to Marcel Duchamp trying to convince the art community that a urinal is a great sculpture shock has been a key promotional tool. The Devil in the Gallery is a guided tour of the history of art through it scandals, rivalries, and shocking acts, each of which resulted in a positive step forward for art in general and, in most cases, for the careers of the artists in question. In addition to telling dozens of stories, lavishly illustrated in full color, of such dramatic moments and arguing how they not only affected the history of art but affected it for the better, we will also examine the proactive role of the recipients of these intentionally dramatic actions: The art historians, the critics and even you, the general public. The Devil likes to lurk in dark corners of the art world, morphing into many forms. Let us shed light upon him.
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1837585725
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Lonely Planet Slovenia written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaša
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538142007
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Making It written by Jaša and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential did for the world of chefs and restaurants, Making It does for the art world. Making It is a gonzo memoir of an established artist crossed with objective advice, tips and tricks fleshed out by a best-selling art historian and Pulitzer finalist writer on art. It peels back the shroud and reveals the highs and struggles in the life and career of a working artist. Specifically aimed at aspiring artists and art students, it will be of interest to anyone who wants to know what it is like to have an artist’s-eye-view of the art world, asking the tough and often glossed-over questions that rising artists inevitably have, not only about the creative process, but about navigating the turbulent waters of the social, professional, academic, critical, museum and trade elements of a career as a visual artist. How best to deal with the abundance of alcohol, drugs and sex while wire-walking your own artistic dilemmas? How can an artist launch his or her career and help it flourish? What’s it like to achieve every artist’s dream, including showing at the Venice Biennale? What does it really mean to "make it" and how can you maintain your groove once you’ve arrived? All these questions and more are answered in this combination tell-all memoir and how-to manual for rising artists and anyone wanting a behind-the-scenes tour of what it’s like to be an artist.
Author : Noah Charney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789619411599
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Eternal Architect written by Noah Charney and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Ballestin
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 396487700X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (648 download)
Download or read book "Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World's Best Country" di Noah Charney. Analisi, inquadramento tematico, traduzione (inglese-italiano) e commento written by Daniel Ballestin and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject Interpreting / Translating , grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Fachbereich 06 Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft in Germersheim), course: Masterarbeit, language: Italian, abstract: In der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wird die Publikation "Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country von Noah Charney" analysiert und thematisch eingeordnet, und ausgewählte Fragmente daraus ins Italienische übersetzt und kommentiert. Anhand der Analyse, die mithilfe von Gérard Genettes Publikation "Paratexte: Das Buch vom Beiwerk des Buches" erfolgt, werden erstmal die Hauptcharakteristiken von Charneys Publikation verdeutlicht und vertieft. Diese sind Multimedialität (des Textes und um den Text herum), mehrgenrige Eigenschaften (Autobiografie, Tagebuch, Blog, Reiseführer) und Illustrationen (die mit dem Text interagieren). Anhand der Einordnung werden die Themen des touristischen Diskurses und der touristischen Übersetzung sowie des Schreibens über Europa (vonseiten Charneys und Henry James’) und der gastronomischen Übersetzung kurz angesprochen. Die für die Masterarbeit ausgewählten Fragmente sind dann ins Italienische übersetzt und anhand der im Übersetzungsprozess aufgetretenen Komplexitäten kommentiert worden, wie etwa sprachenpaarbezogener Übersetzungsschwierigkeiten Englisch- Italienisch, der Informalität und Spontaneität von Charneys Schreiben, Charneys teilweise unklaren Schreibstils, Ungenauigkeiten im Text vonseiten Charneys, tourismusspezifischer Schwierigkeiten und (US-amerikanischer und slowenischer) kulturspezifischer Realien. Außerdem wird am Ende ein fiktiver Kostenvoranschlag für eine hypothetische Übersetzung der kompletten Publikation Charneys präsentiert. L’obiettivo principale del lavoro legato a questa tesi di magistrale è quello di ana-lizzare, inquadrare, tradurre e commentare la pubblicazione di Noah Charney Slo-venology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country. Per via delle specificità legate alla traduzione a partire dall’inglese e verso l’ita-liano, la tesi è redatta in lingua italiana; tuttavia, anche il tedesco giocherà un ruolo importante in alcune osservazioni, in particolar modo nel capitolo dedicato al com-mento del processo traduttivo generale e della traduzione italiana – che verrà spesso comparata alla traduzione tedesca ufficiale della suddetta pubblicazione (oltre che anche alla traduzione slovena ufficiale). This thesis is mainly written in Italian. There are also German and English parts.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736020609
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Superpower Your Kids written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You would do anything for your kids, right? What if you could do everything for them, in less than 15 minutes a day? You can. You can give your kids superpowers. These superpowers come through a combination of knowledge and empowerment which is the result of attention from parents while you play games with your kids. The game happens to be built out of miniature lessons. Superpower Your Kids is a fun, smart, engaging new parenting book from a best-selling, Pulitzer-nominated author, professor and father of two young children. It's perfect for caring, proactive parents and teachers of kids roughly age 3-12. Teach your kids a single new thing each day through Lesson Games, taking as little as a minute and no more than 15. These mini lessons are designed like a flexible syllabus and presented with some professorial tricks to make them more fun and to better stick. This system uses a proven, scientific approach--including techniques used by Nobel Prize winners--to teach and empower young children. Take a big, complicated thing to learn and break it down into manageable, bite-sized pieces, scaled to whatever each child can handle...and enjoy. Because this is about playing first (in an educational way) and the learning is a powerful side effect! The book includes a menu of 50 recommended classic movies, a reading list of 50 key books in the "Western Canon, Junior Edition" and a full year's worth of Lesson Games, 365 of them, in a Superpower Menu at the back. This book began as a Kickstarter success and is already in development for television. For parents, grandparents, teachers, home schooling and anyone who wishes to inspire a love for learning in children.
Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248399
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art written by Noah Charney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Readers curious about the making of Renaissance art, its cast of characters and political intrigue, will find much to relish in these pages.” —Wall Street Journal Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents—a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar—but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari’s extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari’s visionary writings that Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift. Lauded by Sarah Bakewell as “insightful, gripping, and thoroughly enjoyable,” The Collector of Lives reveals how one Renaissance scholar completely redefined how we look at art.
Author : Zac Posen
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1623367778
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Cooking with Zac written by Zac Posen and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion designer Zac Posen takes you on a culinary journey through his life with 100 recipes every bit as decadent and inspiring as his designs. Since he was a child, world-renowned fashion designer Zac Posen has been cultivating his passion for cooking. For Zac, cooking and fashion are both sensory experiences. Whether you’re planning a meal or a fashion line, the goal is to create a masterpiece. In Cooking with Zac, Posen shares a curated collection of his favorite recipes, gathered throughout his extraordinary life—from longstanding family favorites to flavors he has discovered while traveling the globe. When it comes to creating meals, Zac believes in a balance between healthy, fresh, local ingredients and exotic international dishes. In the same way that he breaks down barriers on the runway, he’s not afraid of taking risks in the kitchen: recipes range from delicate summer corn salads to beer can chicken to savory dashi-glazed lotus root. So put on your most stylish apron, and get cooking with Zac!
Author : Goran Vojnovic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912545247
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Fig Tree written by Goran Vojnovic and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fig Tree is a novel composed of the intertwining stories of the family of Jadran, a 30-something who tries to piece together the story of his relatives to better understand himself. Because he cannot understand why Anja walked out of their shared life, he tries to understand the suspicious death of his grandfather and the withdrawal of his grandmother into oblivion and dementia. With all his might, Jadran tries to understand the departure of his father in the first year of the war in the Balkans as he also tries to understand his mother, with her bewildering resentment of his grandfather, and her silent disappointment with his father. The Fig Tree is a multigenerational family saga, a tour de force spanning three generations from the mid-20th century through the Balkans wars of the 90s until present day. Vojnovic is a master storyteller, and while fateful choices made by his characters are often dictated by the historical realities of the times they live in, at its heart this is an intimate story of family, of relationships, of love and freedom and the choices we make.
Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190614919
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Human Factor written by Archie Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time have pursued approximately the same policies? The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By the end of the decade, East-West relations had been utterly transformed, with most of the dividing lines - including the division of Europe - removed. Engagement between Gorbachev and Reagan was a crucial part of that process of change. More surprising was Thatcher's role. Regarded by Reagan as his ideological and political soulmate, she formed also a strong and supportive relationship with Gorbachev (beginning three months before he came to power). Promoting Gorbachev in Washington as 'a man to do business with', she became, in the words of her foreign policy adviser Sir Percy Cradock, 'an agent of influence in both directions'.
Author : Jean Muenchrath
Publisher : Vajrasky Books
ISBN 13 : 9780692955819
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)
Download or read book If I Live Until Morning written by Jean Muenchrath and published by Vajrasky Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her grand adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail, Jean faces death from a mountaineering accident on Mount Whitney. Broken and bleeding on the highest peak in the continental United States, she vows to realize her greatest dreams if she lives until morning. Her escape from the Sierra Nevada Mountains turns into a five-day ordeal for survival. Jean's recovery is equally daunting. Her journey spans three decades and takes her from the depths of despair and chronic pain to the heights of the Himalayas. When the specter of Mount Whitney continues to shatter her world, Jean befriends Tibetan lamas. Their ancient wisdom guides her on a path beyond her wildest dreams.
Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137407573
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Art Crime written by Noah Charney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War, art crime has shifted from a relatively innocuous, often ideological crime, into a major international problem, considered by some to be the third-highest grossing criminal trade worldwide. This rich volume features essays on art crime by the most respected and knowledgeable experts in this interdisciplinary subject.
Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714867458
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (674 download)
Download or read book The Art of Forgery written by Noah Charney and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Forgery: Case Studies in Deception explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world’s most famous forgeries – investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and the art establishment alike.
Author : Lori Banov Kaufmann
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0593125835
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Rebel Daughter written by Lori Banov Kaufmann and published by Ember. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Jewish Book Award Winner • Christy Award Finalist A young woman survives the unthinkable in this stunning and emotionally satisfying tale of family, love, and resilience, set against the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Esther dreams of so much more than the marriage her parents have arranged to a prosperous silversmith. Always curious and eager to explore, she must accept the burden of being the dutiful daughter. Yet she is torn between her family responsibilities and her own desires; she longs for the handsome Jacob, even though he treats her like a child, and is confused by her attraction to the Roman freedman Tiberius, a man who should be her sworn enemy. Meanwhile, the growing turmoil threatens to tear apart not only her beloved city, Jerusalem, but also her own family. As the streets turn into a bloody battleground between rebels and Romans, Esther's journey becomes one of survival. She remains fiercely devoted to her family, and braves famine, siege, and slavery to protect those she loves. This emotional and impassioned saga, based on real characters and meticulous research, seamlessly blends the fascinating story of the Jewish people with a timeless protagonist determined to take charge of her own life against all odds.
Author : Adena Bernstein Astrowsky
Publisher : Amsterdam Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9493056384
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Living among the Dead written by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky and published by Amsterdam Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure of individual strength, family love, community solidarity and Jewish History This is the story of one remarkable young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the traumatic effects of the war. Many Jews did not die in concentration camps, but were murdered in their lifelong communities, slaughtered by mass killing units, and then buried in pits. As a young girl, Mania witnessed the horrors while doing everything within her power to subsist. She lived in Włodzimierz, north of Lvov (Ukraine), was interned for three years in the labor camp nearby, managed to escape and hid in the forests until the end of the war. Although she was the sole survivor of her family, Mania went on to rebuild a new life in the United States, with a new language and new customs, always carrying with her the losses of her family and her memories. Seventy-five years after liberation, we are still witnessing acts of cruelty born out of hatred and discrimination. Living among the Dead reminds us of the beautiful communities that existed before WWII, the lives lost and those that lived on, and the importance to never forget these stories so that history does not repeat itself. READER'S FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL OF 2020 WINNER IN THE CATEGORY BIOGRAPHY
