Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger
Author: Carolyn Lanchner
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0870707868

Text by Carolyn Lanchner.

From Millet to Léger

From Millet to Léger
Author: Robert L. Herbert
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300097061

In a preface prepared for this volume, Herbert explains that these essays are linked by a focus on the relation of art to the urban-industrial revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

France

France
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : [The Board]
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1964
Genre: France
ISBN:

Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions--because they are competitively driven--are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact out-perform private ones.

Dada and Surrealist Film

Dada and Surrealist Film
Author: Rudolf E. Kuenzli
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-07-29
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780262611213

This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements.

The Legere Family of Nova Scotia and France

The Legere Family of Nova Scotia and France
Author: Diana J Muir
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0359337090

"The LeGere family orginally came from the Dijon and Normandy areas of France; descendants of the Merovingian kings and lords of the surrounding region ... the Legere family is spread across the Americas, both in Canada and the United States ..."--Back cover

Suite for Barbara Loden

Suite for Barbara Loden
Author: Nathalie Léger
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2016-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0997366613

The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. “I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. “Usually, there is a distance between representation and text, subject and action. Here that distance is completely eradicated.” It is perhaps this “miracle”—the seeming collapse of fiction and fact—that has made Wanda (1970) a cult classic, and a fascination of artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Léger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker. Suite for Barbara Loden is the magnificent result.

Exposition

Exposition
Author: Nathalie Léger
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1948980045

The first in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. Exposition is the first in a triptych of books by the award-winning writer and archivist Nathalie Léger that includes Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress. In each, Léger sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life and research—an archivist's journey into the self, into the lives that history hides from us. Here, Léger's subject is the Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), who at the dawn of photography dedicated herself to becoming the most photographed woman in the world, modeling for hundreds of photos, including “Scherzo di Follia,” among the most famous in history. Set long before our own “selfie” age, Exposition is a remarkably modern investigation into the curses of beauty, fame, vanity, and age, as well as the obsessive drive to control and commodify one's image.