Ergebnis für "Alice" in Kunst & Literatur

Wer war sie wirklich? Alice Schwarzers hervorragendes Porträt bringt uns den Weltstar und vor allem den Menschen Romy Schneider nahe und zeigt, warum ausgerechnet sie zum Idol für Millionen Menschen werden konnte. Die authentische und sehr ergreifende Lebensbeschreibung, gelesen von hervorragenden Schauspielern.

A quasi-memoir written from the perspective of Gertrude Stein's lifelong partner, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a lively, playful account of the literary giant's vibrant life in the early twentieth century. Captivating and characteristically self-assured, this glittering memoir recounts Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas's artistically rich life in Paris.

Gertrude Stein, scrittrice e poetessa statunitense, ha vissuto gran parte della sua vita in Francia, e ha conosciuto e sostenuto molti pittori e scrittori, quando erano agli esordi. Sua l'amicizia pluriennale con Matisse e Picasso, che le fece un famoso ritratto. Non ha mai fatto mistero della sua omosessualità, e della sua relazione con Alice Toklas.

In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous.

Through her books The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker is familiar to millions of readers. Who is this woman, who rose from the shadows of the segregated South to win the Pulitzer Prize? How did she find the courage to address with grace and...

Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist?Jennifer Bartlett,?and a charismatic father, European actor?Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother’s recovered...

Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother’s recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father’s confusing attentions—her childhood is spent in an adult’s world, with little-to-no boundaries or supervision.

Alice Schwarzer, Frauenrechtlerin und Journalistin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

In Alice Baber, the artist's fascinating story is finally revealed, despite concerted efforts to consign her to oblivion. Levin's book is a vital corrective to the history of American art and a thrilling opportunity for the next generation experience Baber anew.

Read by the author, Sarah Harkness. From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are...

For Lewis Carroll, a deacon in the Church of England, faith in Christ and belief in a loving God stood at the core of his being, but little has been written about what the church or faith meant to the celebrated author of the Alice books. With Lewis Carroll: Formed by Faith, Charlie Lovett provides the first in-depth study of the religious life of the famous author, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. By examining Dodgson's religious education and core beliefs, this book shows how a deep Christian faith guided every part of his life and work.

Agatha Christie è, ancora oggi, la scrittrice di gialli più letta al mondo. Donna appassionata, piena di talento e carattere, la Christie ha vissuto una vita tutt'altro che monotona: un'educazione fuori dagli schemi, due matrimoni, molti viaggi e un successo conclamato grazie all'invenzione di due personaggi memorabili, il detective Hercule Poirot e l'ingegnosa Miss Marple. Il suo enorme talento come scrittrice la portò non solo a essere un'autrice di gialli eccezionale, ma anche un'ottima sceneggiatrice di teatro.

Oscar Claude Monet, ossia l'impressionismo. Fu lui, infatti che si impose e che delineò con le sue opere, "impressioni su tela" destinate a diventare le capostipiti di una corrente artistica che divenne predominante tra la fine del 1800 e l'inizio del 1900. Di sicuro il dotatissimo ragazzo di Montmartre di origini modeste non poteva immaginare che la sua passione per la pittura, l'avrebbe reso celebre, e che le sue tele sarebbero diventate icone di bellezza in grado di suscitare ammirazione e di emozionare.

As we go through life we weather many storms. We lose family members, close friends and animals we love, and they take with them the warmth and shared memories of many years. With the loss of her favourite tree that had enriched her life for decades, she began to ask herself: are there ways to make later life rich and interesting?

Anita è stata una bambina solitaria, affidata alla televisione per lunghe giornate mentre i suoi giovanissimi genitori si costruivano la propria vita: batterista con un noto gruppo musicale lui, ricercatrice universitaria lei. Anita diventa adulta nei decenni in cui l'Italia diventa teledipendente, e dagli anni degli studi alle prime esperienze di lavoro le sue disavventure, i suoi amori, le sue scelte corrono parallele alla realtà che da sempre l'assorbe, quella del piccolo schermo.

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize­–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and...

Author Alice Clark Platts joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel, The Taken. Alice is a former human rights lawyer, and in this interview she discusses her author journey and the books that have inspired her.

'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 'Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . . . You find yourself admiring her idealism, her gift as a writer and her abundant appetite for life' THE TELEGRAPH...

This audiobook, features a dual narration from Bahni Turpin, and foreword by Michael Kors, read by Daniel Henning. Reminiscent of style icon Iris Apfel's New York Times bestseller Accidental Icon and echoes of Andre Leon Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches comes the entertaining and thoughtful...

Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the author’s accomplishments working and playing alongside some of Canada’s greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s own reluctant hands....