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Artemisia Gentileschi - Lives of the Artists series by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relations ...Show more
Arthur Rimbaud by Seth Whidden
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Before he turned twenty-one, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) had upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. In this critical biography, Seth Whidden argues that what makes Rimbaud's poetry important is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity, and exploration. ...Show more
Artists by Jillian Powell
Category: No Category | Series: Famous Lives Ser.
Each book features six lively and accessible portraits of well-known historical figures.
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies t ...Show more
Beyonce (small HB) by Tshepo Mokoena
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
Beyonc is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyonc Knowles-Carter and how did a small girl from Houston become the strong confident woman whose albums sell ...Show more
Black Robinson - Protector of Aborigines by Vivienne Rae-Ellis
Category: No Category | Series: Melbourne University Press Australian Lives Ser.
"A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment. This controversial study of George ( Black ) Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a be ...Show more
Botticelli: Artist and Designer by Ana Debenedetti
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable ...Show more
Bugsy Siegel - The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson
Category: History | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "A highly readable, fast-moving contribution to the annals of 20th-century organized crime."--Kirkus Reviews In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-19 ...Show more
Bunny the Bus Driver by Anna Gkoutzouri (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Byron by David Ellis
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A fresh, concise account of the Romantic poet Lord Byron's flamboyant life and work. In this book, David Ellis traces Lord Byron's life from rented lodgings in Aberdeen and the crumbling splendors of Newstead Abbey to his final grand tour of Asia. Describing his exile from England as well as his subseq ...Show more