Product Description: Due to a confluence of circumstances involving a broken heart, a blown head gasket and a flint-eyed border guard, a young man ends up living in a cabin beside a lake in the Kootenay Mountains. The idyllic setting and new lifestyle give him hope that he will be able to redefine himself, escape his nightmares, and find a better way of living...read more

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Kennedy experts and insiders reveal the stories behind the images as they look at the relationship between the Kennedy family and the camera in a series of commentaries on 150 color and black-and-white photographs that capture members of the Kennedy family at work, at play, and in intimate moments at home. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: How would you feel if a magic clock came flying through your window one evening and drank a cup of tea with you? What would you do to stop invading spiders from attacking your friends? And how could you escape if you'd been taken hostage by a band of witches? Join Percy in his adventures and find out! With a whale living at the bottom of his garden and a wizard hiding out in his dog kennel, Percy is no ordinary little boy...read more

Product Description: A dazzling successor to Abbeville's The Art of Florence, this two-volume tour de force sweeps through the entire history of the arts in Paris, from the Stone Age to the pyramid at the Louvre. Contains Vol 1 and Vol 2, slipcased.All the arts—painting, sculpture, architecture, urban design, interior design, graphic design, photography, film, fashion, the theater, and opera—have played a role in creating the enduring spirit of Paris...read more

Product Description: This volume compiles original manuscripts of more than 100 famous French writers from the 13th to the 20th centuries - Rene Descartes, Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Proust, Honore de Balzac, Colette, Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert among them...read more

An introduction to art includes sections on architecture, sculpture, painting, and biographies of influential individuals.

Product Description: Beautiful illustrated letters and other early creative endeavors of such famous and varied people as Michelangelo, Mozart, Jane Austen, and Picasso fill the pages of this extraordinary and lovely-to-look-at volume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Presents the correspondence between French authors and artists (view table of contents)

A lavishly illustrated, incomparably detailed survey of the architecture, construction, and restoration of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris traces its history from its origins in the twelfth century in text and 262 illustrations, most in color.

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Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure. Damisch's tale begins with the judgment of Paris, in which Paris awards Venus the golden apple and thus forever links beauty with desire. The casting of this decision as a mistake—in which desire is rewarded over wisdom and strength—is then linked to theories of the unconscious and psychological drives. In his quest for an exposition of the beautiful in its relation to visual pleasure, Damisch employs what he terms “analytic iconology,” following the revisions and repetitions of the motif of the judgment through art history, philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. This translation brings an important figure of the French art historical tradition to Anglo-American audiences.

Product Description: A study of the life and work of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), the French artist whose illusionistic surfaces dominated much of 19th-century French painting. Based on the documentary material at the Musee Ingres, the text traces Ingres's life and work from his formative years in Rome...read more

Product Description: The 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot - the principal intelligence behind the "Encyclopedie" and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as "Jacques the Fatalist" and "Rameau's Nephew" - is also considered by many to have been the first great art critic...read more

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Product Description: The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's Nephew—was also the first great art critic...read more