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Lucien Pissaro
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A Time and a Place
Pissarro's journey to South London -- Pissarro and London -- Pissarro and other French artists -- Pissarro paints London -- The painting : Near Sydenham Hill.
John Gray
John Gray was among the "tragic generation" of English decadent artists of the 1890s and the reputed model for the hero in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Though John Gray is little known today, the story of his transformation from working-class laborer to avent-garde poet to patrician priest is fascinating in its own right and serves as a window into the world of such luminaries as Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Arthur Symons, and Aubrey Beardsley. Jerusha McCormack's lively critical biography draws upon unpublished journals and letters, extensive interviews, and autobiographical elements in Gray's poetry and prose to tell his complete story for the first time. -- from dust jacket.
Buffalo Bill
«Quando nel West la storia incontra la leggenda, vince la leggenda». L’uomo che uccise Liberty Valance, regia di John Ford Nulla può adattarsi meglio a questa affermazione della figura di William Frederick Cody, Buffalo Bill. Personaggio che ha incarnato l’epopea del West con la sua vita sospesa fra realtà e finzione – dalle imprese giovanili come Pony Express, scout e cacciatore di bisonti alle pagine di narrativa e ai palcoscenici teatrali di cui è stato protagonista – e diventato, infine, il principale animatore del Wild West Show, lo spettacolo che ha contribuito a diffondere in tutti gli Stati Uniti e in Europa il Mito della Frontiera. Il West non è soltanto un preciso per...
Biography Index
A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
