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**A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art world“It’s not often that an art history book comes along so sharply perceptive about its subject and so grippingly written that reading it is akin to the thrilling experience of looking at the paintings themselves. This is what Celeste Marcus has achieved in her transformative account of Chaim Soutine.”—Simon Schama, author of ...

The novel follows the adventures of André-Louis Moreau, a young lawyer who becomes embroiled in the political and social upheaval of the French Revolution. After a personal tragedy, André-Louis takes on the persona of Scaramouche, a stock character from the Commedia dell'arte, and joins a traveling theater troupe. As Scaramouche, he uses his wit, intelligence, and fencing skills to navigate the dangerous world of revolutionary France.Throughout the novel, André-Louis becomes involved in va...

À la découverte du Canada will help you learn French by reading great stories that take place in Canada. Follow Paco, a young Mexican student, as he travels across the country. His new experiences will transform him from a shy student into a confident young adult.This book will not only help you learn French but also learn about Canadian culture and way of life. Since the stories take place in Canada, you will also get to know some French-Canadian words and expressions. Each story ...

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct, and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of Thomas Carlyle himself.In this, the third volume of the series, we live out the c...

This audio program introduces Québec French through fifty short and accessible stories designed for beginners. Each story is first told in French, then repeated with a clear English translation, helping learners quickly connect new expressions with familiar language. The course emphasizes everyday vocabulary and simple sentence structures that reflect how French is spoken in Québec today.Created for English speakers with limited background in French, the program gradually develops ...

French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the twenty-first, affords readers a panoramic view of French society and culture, reflecting, as it does, its variety and diversity from Brittany to Corsica. Writers include among others Maupassant, Zola, Annie Saumont, Marcel A...

À la découverte du Canada will help you learn French by reading great stories that take place in Canada. Follow Paco, a young Mexican student, as he travels across the country. His new experiences will transform him from a shy student into a confident young adult.This book will not only help you learn French but also learn about Canadian culture and way of life. Since the stories take place in Canada, you will also get to know some French-Canadian words and expressions. Each story ...

For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Modigliani and Chagall eventually attained enormous worldwide popularity, but in those earlier days most School of Paris painters looke...

Are you planning a trip to Canada and want to learn French to make your experience even more enjoyable? Or are you simply interested in expanding your linguistic skills? Either way, our Canadian French language course for adults is the perfect choice for you!Over the course of 10 sessions, you will learn the basics of the Canadian French language, including key words and phrases for various everyday situations. We will focus on speaking and understanding the language in practical c...

This book presents the first scholarly account of the life and artistic legacy of the influential École de Paris painter, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943). In addition to presenting new archival and fieldwork findings, Franklin interrogates and decisively dispels many of the persistent, popular but problematic biographical myths that have dogged the artist and limited interpretation of his works.This book is at once a critical biography and a handbook – with chapters organised bo...

* Nominiert für den Deutschen Buchpreis 2013! * Chaim Soutine, der weißrussisch-jüdische Maler und Zeitgenosse von Chagall, Modigliani und Picasso, fährt am 6. August 1943 in einem Leichenwagen versteckt von der Stadt Chinon an der Loire ins besetzte Paris. Die Operation seines Magengeschwürs ist unaufschiebbar, aber die Fahrt dauert aufgrund der Umwege - um die Kontrollposten der Besatzungsmacht zu meiden - viel zu lange, nämlich 24 Stunden. In einem Strom bizarrer Bilder, die der verfolg...

Vladimir Poutine reste une énigme. Que veut-il ? Affirmer son pouvoir personnel et celui de son clan dans la lignée des autocrates qui se sont succédé au Kremlin depuis des siècles ? Restaurer la grandeur de son pays, en faisant la synthèse de l’histoire russe, des tsars aux soviétiques ? Comment le petit lieutenant-colonel du KGB qu’il fut à la fin de la guerre froide a-t-il pu s’imposer au sommet de l’une des premières puissances du monde ? Qui est cet homme qui semble porter un masque ?...