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This is the history of the American West as it really happened. The book focuses on the experiences of men and women - explorers, soldiers, Indian warriors, railroad builders, showmen, outlaws and others - who peopled the drama. Their lives are recounted in their own words through letters, diaries (...)

In 1918 the Belvedere Museum in Vienna became the first Austrian museum to acquire an oil painting by Egon Schiele during his lifetime. Now, a century later, the museum owns one of the top collections of paintings from the artist's final decade of works.This volume presents the highlights of the (...)

Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld both trained and worked as lawyers before studying garden design. Henrietta went on to work with landscape and garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith and then started her own garden design business. Bridget went on to study horticulture in London before spending (...)

The sculptor Antony Gormley has become a household name, thanks to prominent public installations and major solo shows. Awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, he was knighted in 2014. From The Angel of the North (1998) to the hundred cast-iron life-size human figures that populate Crosby Beach in (...)

Le Centre Pompidou poursuit la relecture des uvres majeurs du 20ème siècle et consacre une vaste exposition à Francis Bacon. La dernière grande exposition française de cet artiste eut lieu en 1996, au Centre Pompidou. Plus de vingt ans après, Bacon en toutes lettres réunit des peintures de 1971 - (...)

Louis Cartier (1875-1942), the grandson of Cartier founder Louis-Francois, was an impassioned collector and lover of the arts. He was particularly entranced by Islamic arts, especially Persian book arts, geometric shapes and colour combinations, and its motifs and exotic colour palette are apparent (...)

La dernière grande manifestation autour de "La nature morte de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle" fut organisée en 1952 à Paris par Charles Sterling. "Les Choses" rend hommage à ce grand historien de l'art, en actualisant le point de vue et en intégrant tout ce qui a renouvelé nos perspectives, tant en (...)

The couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was a key figure in Paris fashion between the two World Wars. Following in the footsteps of her mentor Paul Poiret, she designed her first knitwear collection in January 1927 announcing the arrival of a major new designer. Decorated with trompe-l'oeil (...)

Montecito es una comunidad costera a menudo eclipsada por su vecina Santa Bárbara, que es generalmente como les gusta a sus residentes. Aunque es el hogar y el refugio de numerosas celebridades como Steve Martin, Drew Barrymore y el Príncipe Harry y Meghan Markle, el cultivo intencional de un (...)