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Batman: The Imposter
A unique new vision of Gotham, built to be the logical next step for fans of the 2022 film THE BATMAN!
Bruce Wayne’s mission as the Batman has only been underway for a year or so, but he can tell he’s making a difference in this city. Unfortunately, he’s made some powerful enemies–and not just among the colorful maniacs called “super-villains.” All the traditional power brokers of Gotham resent the disruption the Batman has brought to town… and it seems one of them has a plan to neutralize him. There’s a second Batman haunting Gotham’s rooftops and alleys–and this one has no qualms about murdering criminals, live and on tape. With the entire might of the Gotham City Police Department and Gotham’s rich and powerful coming down on his head, Batman must find this imposter and somehow clear his name…but how can you prove your innocence from behind a mask?
Mattson Tomlin–creator of the hit Netflix series Project Power and director of the upcoming Mother/Android–has teamed up with Eisner-winning suspense and horror artist Andrea Sorrentino (JOKER: KILLER SMILE, Gideon Falls) to create a wholly new version of Gotham City, informed by grim reality, where every punch leaves a broken bone and every action has consequences far, far beyond Batman’s imagination!
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Monets Minutes
A stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet’s Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth century.
Monet’s Minutes is a revelatory account charting the relationship between the works of Claude Monet (1840–1926)?founder of French Impressionism and one of the world’s best-known painters?and the modern experience of time. André Dombrowski illuminates Monet’s celebration of instantaneity in the context of the late nineteenth-century time technologies that underwrote it.
Monet’s version of Impressionism demonstrated an acute awareness of the particularly modern pressures of time, but until now scholars have not examined the histories and technologies of time and timekeeping that informed Impressionism’s major stylistic shifts. Arguing that the fascination with instantaneity rejected the dulling cultures of newly routinized and standardized time, Monet’s Minutes traces the evolution of Monet’s art to what were then seismic shifts in the shape of time itself.
In each chapter, Dombrowski focuses on the connections between a set of Monet’s works and a specific technology or experience of time, while providing the voices of period critics responding to Impressionism. Grounded in exceptional research and analyses, this book offers new interpretations of key paintings by Monet and a fresh perspective on late nineteenth-century art, society, and modern temporality.
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Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed.
Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and Martin Munkácsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th century art.
After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929 placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her work garnered praise from the poet André Breton, who added the Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso, Kandinsky, and Duchamp.
We access the intimacy of Frida’s affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from her personal diary, and an extensive illustrated biography featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida’s home and the center of her universe.
This book allows readers to admire Frida Kahlo’s paintings like never before, including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80 years.
About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program - now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
This Mortal Coil
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from infectious disease, while today the leading causes of death in industrialised nations are heart disease and stroke? And what do changing causes of death reveal about how previous generations have lived?
University of Manchester Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at particular causes - from infectious disease to genetic disease, violence to diet - who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overcome them. Along the way we hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role in preventing scurvy; the Irish immigrant who opened the first washhouse for the poor of Liverpool, and in so doing educated the public on the importance of cleanliness in combating disease; and the Church of England curate who, finding his new church equipped with a telephone, started the Samaritans to assist those in emotional distress.
This Mortal Coil is a thrilling story of growing medical knowledge and social organisation, of achievement and, looking to the future, of promise.
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Wanderlust : A History of Walking
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker.
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Black Cat - Le Mystere du Granier + CD
Mais qu'y a-t-il donc dans le grenier et pourquoi des bruits étranges parviennent de lŕ-haut, précisément quand les adultes dorment? Hélčne et André montent courageusement l'escalier défendu, bien décidés ŕ en avoir le cśur net. Cette histoire mystérieuse va permettre aux petits lecteurs de découvrir des façons de dire et de penser dans une langue différente de la leur et de découvrir comment on vit dans un autre pays. Suivons Hélčne et André dans la maison endormie et découvrons avec eux ce qui se cache derričre la porte du grenier. Une cassette contenant le texte intégral et des exercices d'écoute permettra au jeune public de suivre en frissonnant cette histoire passionnante et d'aiguiser sa perspicacité et... son oreille.
Art Brut Collection: Architecture
Architecture, the second Art Brut Biennale, presents a selection of works from the Art Brut Collection (Lausanne), linked together by a common theme. The exhibition and the catalogue show the public new works by perhaps lesser-known authors, while taking a new slant on some historical pieces. Running the gamut from reality to utopia, Art Brut authors design architectures in resonance with their everyday lives or their memories, reorganising the space around them according to their own rules and needs. Their imag- ination and inventiveness carries them to distant, unexplored lands. Yet the vision of architecture that these Art Brut authors offer us here opens up a new dimension, escap- ing all practical considerations. Over 250 works by 52 creators of all origins - European, North American, or Asian - have been selected for the exhibition. This book presents colour illustrations, a short biography, and a bibliography for each artist. The diversity at the heart of this concept can be seen in the many different forms and techniques used, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and embroidery.
Among the artists: Aloi se, Juliette Elisa Bataille, Filippo Bentivegna, Georges Berthomier, Gregory Lee Blackstock, Benjamin Bonjour, Edouard Boschey, Luigi Brunetti, Andre Car, Diego, Paul Duhem, Paul End, Samuel Failloubaz, Florent, Jacqueline Fromenteau, Willem Van Genk, Jules Godi, Heer, Magali Herrera, Stefan Holzmu ller,Testuaki Hotta, Norimitsu Kokubo, F. Kouw, Helmut Nimczewski, Nikifor, Prinz Otto, E mile Ratier, Royal Roberston, Hans Saletmeier, Victorien Sardou, Yuri Titov, Johann Tro sch, Yuji Tsuji, Berthe Urasco, Pepe de Valence, Pascal Verbena, Scottie Wilson, Adolf Wo lfli.Building on the legacy of some five thousand pieces collected by Jean Dubuffet between 1945 and 1971, the Art Brut Collection now owns over sixty thousand works, the fruit of nearly forty years of research. Architectures is the second volume in the series Art Brut - The Collection, published by 5 Continents and the Swiss institution, after Vehicles (2014).
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Keresztút a Kolosszeumban
A kötet szerzője, André Louf 1929-ben sületett a belgiumi Leuvenben. Húszévesen lépett be az Észak-Franciaországban található Mont-des-Cats trappista apátságba. Biblikus tanulmányokat folytatott a római Szent Gergely egyetemen, majd 1955-ben pappá sz
entelték. 1963-ban közössége megválasztotta apátjának. A közösség az ő vezetésével élte át a II. Vatikáni Zsinatot, és az azt követő, sok szerzetesközösséget megrázó, nehéz időszakot. Mintegy harminc éven át gyakorolta apáti szolgálatát. Ma Dél-Franc
iaországban él remeteségben. Szíriai Szent Izsák műveit fordítja, és a monasztikus szerzeteség megújulásán fáradozik.
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A becsület lobogója
Hatvan év telt el azóta, hogy a titkos Sioni Újjászületés Rendje, a Templomos Lovagrend alapítói felfedezték az örökül rájuk hagyott kincset Jeruzsálemben, a Templom-hegy mélyén. A nagyra törő és könyörtelen Plantagenet Richárd király, akit Oroszlánszívűnek is neveznek, újabb keresztes hadjáratot vezet, immár a harmadikat Szaladin ellen, veszélybe sodorva a templomosok becsületét és a Sioni Újjászületés Rendje küldetését. André Saint-Clairt, a titkos rend tagját megtanították arabul, mielőtt elküldték a Szentföldre. Saint-Clairre és unokatestvérére fontos küldetést bíztak, mely során be kell hatolniuk a veszélyes sivatagba és a félelmetes haszaszinok fészkébe. Unokatestvére azonban fogságba esik egy csatában, barátságot köt a pogányokkal, és kétség merül fel a hűségét illetően. Közben Szaladin okos taktikával folyamatosan meghiúsítja a keresztesek terveit. Végül azonban mégis Oroszlánszívű Richárd árulása győzi meg a két rokont arról, hogy a keresztes hadjárat csak álca, és hogy küldetésük sikere fontosabb, mint valaha.
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Joseph Balsamo I-II.
"- Herceg
- mondta a grófné, réveteg pillantással.
- Tessék.
- Ki az a férfi ott, ott lejjebb, Guéménée mellett?
- Abban a porosz tiszti egyenruhában?
- Igen.
- Az a barna bőrű, fekete szemű, mozgékony arcú férfi? Az, grófné, alighanem valami főtiszt, akit őfelsége a porosz király küldött ide..."
Ez a párbeszéd Dubarry grófné, XV. Lajos francia király szeretője és Richelieu herceg, Franciaország marsallja között zajlott le.
De valóban, ki is ez a rejtélyes férfiú, ez a Joseph Balsamo "báró" - mert hiszen róla van szó -, aki szerepeit állandóan cserélgetve jelenik meg az olvasó előtt? Ki ez a szabadkőműves "Nagy Kofta", ez a kétezer esztendős, örök életű Acharat, ez az alkimista, aranycsináló, magnetizőr, múltba látó és jövendőmondó lélekidomár, aki párizsi, Szent Kolozs utcai rejtekhelyéről igazgatja a francia forradalom előkészületeit, sakkban tartja Párizs félelmetes rendőrfőnökét, s látnoki képességű médiumai, a sápatag vidéki bárólányka, Andrée, és a forróvérű, szenvedélyes olasz Lorenza révén a háttérből irányítja a francia politikát?
Dumas-nak a különös figura megformálásához valóságos történeti személy szolgált mintául: az a Cagliostro gróf néven ismert, palermói származású nemzetközi kalandor, aki Európa számos udvarában megfordult, és a legbefolyásosabb körökből szedte áldozatait.
E nem mindennapi személy kalandos, olykor borzongató históriája jó alkalmat ad az írónak, hogy felrajzolja a nagy francia forradalmat megelőző korszak súlyos eseményekkel terhes, zaklatott hétköznapjait is.
Dnevnik Satany
Leonid Andreev (1871ā€”1919) ā€” odin iz velichajshih russkih pisatelej Serebrjanogo veka, sozdavshij rjad v ravnoj stepeni znachitelnyh proizvedenij kak v realisticheskoj, tak i v simvolicheskoj proze. V etot sbornik voshli rasskazy, sozdannye Leonidom A
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Filmy Andreja Tarkovskogo-i Russkaja kulturnaja kuľtura
Kniga o tvorchestve velikogo rezhissera priurochena k dvadtsatiletiju so dnja smerti Andreja Tarkovskogo, otmechavshemusja v 2006 godu. Kazhdaja glava predstavljaet soboj rasskaz ob otdelnom filme i ego smyslovyh svjazjah s proshlym i nastojaschim russko
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