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Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Through texts and close to hundred illustrations, the book describes a vital creative exchange across the Atlantic that would entirely redefine painting. With works by Jean Dubuffet, Natalia Dumitresco, Helen Frankenthaler, Asger Jorn, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and many others.

In this riveting and immersive biography, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel details the meteoric rise and enduring influence of perhaps the greatest pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.

In this riveting and immersive biography, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel details the meteoric rise and enduring influence of perhaps the greatest pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.With her arrival on the pop music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion - as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles or Michael Jackson - taking the world by storm with her liberated politics and breath-taking talent. Within two yea...

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Die Biografie der Amerikanerin Mary Elisabeth Belknap Codman (1839-1929) erzählt die Geschichte einer ebenso starken wie eigenwilligen und unangepassten Frau, die immer ihren eigenen Weg ging. Sie spielte in einer Liga mit den Rockefellers und den Vanderbilts in einer Zeit, als Amerika nach dem Sezessionskrieg zur Großmacht aufstieg, als Kunst und Kultur eine Blütezeit erlebten und als Europa, ihre zweite Heimat, während des Ersten Weltkrieges...

»Glück ist das Geheimnis aller Schönheit.« Christian Dior.Frankreich, 1947: Auf der Flucht vor den Zwängen des Lebens einer Ehefrau in der Provinz kommt Célestine nach Paris, wo sie dem menschenscheuen Designer Christian Dior begegnet. Die junge Frau inspiriert den Couturier mit ihrer natürlichen Weiblichkeit, sie wird seine Privatsekretärin und Muse. Die Menschen tragen schwer an den Folgen des Krieges, doch die Welt ist im Aufbruch, man sehn...

NINTH STREET WOMEN is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating story of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they painted, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and groundbreaking artists to come. They include Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, whose...

The news of my brother's suicide "rubbed me raw like sandpaper." Joey and I were born on the same day, eleven years apart, and for me, we would die on the same day eleven years apart-destiny and "my promise." I waited nine years to grieve. I kept "my promise" to myself for ten long years. The grief from suicide is more traumatic than a "normal" grief. My other promise was to stay sober in Joey's honor. I failed sobriety quickly, drinking to nu...

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She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She's the woman Gloria Steinem called "the most controversial suffragist of them all." So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull? In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman who was years ahead ...

Heiresses to a family fortune, Etta and Claribel Cone, Jewish sisters from Baltimore, amassed a major collection of modern French artworks. Their Victorian demeanour and dress belied two free-spirited eccentrics whose bold purchases of avant-garde, sometimes erotic art shocked early 20th-century society.

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A surprising and revelatory account of romance and revolution-and one of the great love stories of all time. Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel brings to light the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage to reveal a Karl Marx who ...