The Octopus of Paris
Author | : Gaston Leroux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Paris (France) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gaston Leroux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Paris (France) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Darling |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0847859118 |
The first major U.S. monograph in ten years on Murakami is the definitive survey of the paintings of one of today’s most influential artists. Takashi Murakami (b. 1962), one of contemporary art’s most widely recognized exponents, receives a long-awaited critical consideration in this important volume. Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition devoted solely to Murakami’s paintings, this book traces Murakami’s career from his earliest training to his current studio practice. Where other books address the commercial aspects of Murakami’s work, this is the first serious survey of his work as a painter. Through essays and illustrations— many previously unpublished—it explores the artist’s relationship to the tradition of Japanese painting and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, commercial and high art. New texts address Murakami’s output in the context of postwar Japan, situating the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting, the Tokyo art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. This richly illustrated volume also includes a detailed biography and exhibition history. Takashi Murakami is a true essential for collectors and fans alike.
Author | : Danna Staaf |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books ® |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1728468493 |
Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how of the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was determined to experiment on living animals. And to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, she had to invent a contraption to hold them—the aquarium. Her remarkable life story is told by author, marine biologist, and octopus enthusiast Danna Staaf.
Author | : Lindsay Galvin |
Publisher | : Chicken House (english) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-01-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781913696405 |
Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea-shop at Brighton aquarium, and waits for her milliner mother to return from Paris. The arrival of a giant octopus changes her life for ever as a gripping mystery begins to unfold .
Author | : Kenn Thomas |
Publisher | : Feral House |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0922915911 |
The primary conspiracy of the late 20th century.
Author | : Brenda Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1524711497 |
Now in paperback, this collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics. Informed as much by Brenda Shaughnessy's worst fears as a mother as they are by her superb craft as a poet, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization.
Author | : Lucy Branam |
Publisher | : Triangle Interactive, Inc. |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-01-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684520088 |
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When Nora hears a soft "tap, tap, tap" at her bedroom window she never expects it to be the tentacle of a very large octopus, but that's exactly what it is--an octopus on her apartment building. The octopus turns out to be a very neighborly sort of octopus, helping the residents to wash their cars or weed the window boxes, and Nora makes fast friends with him. But one morning, the octopus is nowhere in sight. Has he moved on already? And just when Nora wanted to bring him for Show and Tell!
Author | : Frank Norris |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486146324 |
Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this tale of greed, betrayal, and a lust for power is played out during the waning days of the western frontier.
Author | : Jacques Cousteau |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007-10-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1596914173 |
The last book by the legendary explorer, activist, filmmaker, and oceanographer offers a call for action to preserve our world, its wildlife, and its natural wonders for future generations, looking at the impact of human action on our precarious environment.
Author | : Eric Hazan |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1786632586 |
A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futures Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as forgotten alleyways and arcades. Weaving historical anecdotes, geographical observations, and literary references, Hazan’s walk guides us through an unknown Paris. With the aid of maps, he delineates the most fascinating and forgotten parts of the city’s past and present. Planning and modernization have accelerated the erasure of its revolutionary history, yet through walking and observation, Hazan shows how we can regain our knowledge of the city of Robespierre, the Commune, Sartre, and the May ’68 uprising. Drawing on his own life story, as surgeon, publisher and social critic, Hazan vividly illustrates the interplay and concord between a city and the personality it forms.