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  • Mujeres que dejaron huella

    La Fundación Global concreta proyectos. Lo hace gracias al esfuerzo de sus colaboradores y de quienes ayudan con sus aportes. Fue así como, hace tres años, fue posible crear GPS Mujer, un espacio de investigación y difusión cuyo propósito es visibilizar los ejes de la problemática de las mujeres. Aquí presentamos a "Mujeres que dejaron Huella", Florentina, María Luisa y Carmen.Elegimos a estas ... Read more

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  • Known and Strange Things

    Essays

    by Teju Cole ...
    A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the ThiefNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTime • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • KirkusFinalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award<... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Leonardo and the Last Supper

    by Ross King ...
    Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Strapless

    by Deborah Davis ...
    The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame.Unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait generated the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Picasso's War

    How Modern Art Came to America

    by Hugh Eakin ...
    **A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II“[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)**ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, The New YorkerIn January ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Higher

    A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City

    by Neal Bascomb ...
    The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

    A Memoir

    by Ai Weiwei ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jane Austen at Home

    A Biography

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    "Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of DevonshireTake a trip back to Jane ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Burning of the World

    A Memoir of 1914

    A Hungarian artist’s haunting WWI memoir of the Eastern Front, executed with a painter’s eye for color, detail, and heartbreaking symbolism“[A] compact self-portrait against a background of carnage and disillusionment.” —The New York TimesThe budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Almost Anywhere

    Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

    What do you do when your world ends?At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her-one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog-and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Art of Rivalry

    Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

    Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dead Famous

    An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

    by Greg Jenner ...
    'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'[An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his material to vivid life' ObserverCelebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Joni Mitchell

    In Her Own Words

    by Malka Marom ...
    When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Life with Picasso

    Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains “one of the most illuminating [books] we’ve had on the mind and spirit of Picasso”—and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists (Los Angeles Times).Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    by Anna Abraham ...
    Leonardo da Vinci personified the Renaissance, the extraordinary age in which he lived. Best known as one of the world's greatest painters, he sketched the foundations for inventions that would not come to fruition for centuries. Born a bastard in a hillside village in northern Italy, Leonardo became the protégé of princes, popes, and kings. He mastered so many branches of science that scholars ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Lucas

    A Life

    The essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George Lucas.On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George Lucas, the movie originally called The Star Wars quickly drew blocks-long lines, bursting box-office records ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mad Enchantment

    Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

    by Ross King ...
    From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement.Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Monet intended the water lilies to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • On Chapel Sands

    The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

    by Laura Cumming ...
    NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHYONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZEThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez shares a riveting true story... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rembrandt: A Life

    Until now he has remained a mystery, leaving only a few sentences, the letters of his bankruptcy, a mistress's notarized complaint - and the most glorious, compassionate paintings ever to astonish the eye. The first pure biography of this enigmatic legend is a fascinating detective story in which, clue by clue, the man himself emerges. Charles Mee, historian and playwright, renders a finely ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

    A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Daily Rituals: Women at Work

    by Mason Currey ...
    More of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obligations, in order ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Woman I Wanted to Be

    One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business: “It’s so good, you’ll want to take notes” (People).Diane von Furstenberg started with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to be—in her words, “the kind of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Secret Lives of Great Artists

    What Your Teachers Never Told You about Master Painters and Sculptors

    Series Book 5 - Secret Lives
    Take a tour through the wilder side of art history, and discover true tales of murder, forgery, and trickery—featuring jaw-dropping profiles over 30 iconic artists like Leonardo Da Vinci and Salvadori Dalí.With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Caravaggio to Edward Hopper, Secret Lives of Great Artists recounts the seamy, steamy and gritty history behind the great ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist And 'President Maker'

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Thomas Nast has been called the greatest political cartoonist of all time. He was much more than that. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant attributed his presidential victory in the 1868 campaign "to the sword of (Indian-fighting Gen. Phil) Sheridan and the pencil of Nast." Nast could smite the most powerful titans with a single stroke of that pencil. New York's "Boss" Tweed would attest to this. He went to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD