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Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe

Creating a sensation with her risque nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysees, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In...

Mim

Although the name Rambert is now associated with modern dance, it is perhaps forgotten that the founder of the Rambert Dance Company, Marie Rambert, was one of the major instigators of the flowering o...

So Who's Your Mother?

My Name Escapes Me

This volume presents Alec Guinness' diary, small portions of which first appeared in the Spectator in the early nineties. It is a delightful collection of observations, anecdotes, and reminisces that...

All Those Moments

The international film star of such movies as Blade Runner and Ladyhawke describes his dramatic early years, his perspectives on the movie industry, and a near-tragedy that changed his life. 30,000 fi...

Hidden in the shadow of the master

A journey of discovery into the lives and contributions of three forgotten women, obscured by the power of their husbands' fame Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin. The names of these br...

Tony Cragg

The British artist Tony Cragg (b. 1949), winner of the 1988 Turner Prize, is one of today's most celebrated and popular sculptors. Before studying art, he worked as a laboratory technician, and his co...

Silver Wind

Sakai Hoitsu was one of the most prominent painters of late 18th- and early 19th-century Japan, known for technical bravura, arresting compositions, and striking use of color. After becoming a Buddhis...

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

By now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, f...