69 Results for : impressionistic
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To the Lighthouse
'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of all that had gone before. Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Hermione Lee- Shop: buecher
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min
Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” It was Pater’s cry of “art for art’s sake” that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the highest ideal. Marked by elegant fluency, Pater’s essays discuss Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists who, for him, embodied the spirit of the Renaissance. Pater’s work survives to this day as one of the best pieces of cultural criticism to emerge from the 19th century. This collection is criticism as beautiful as the art it considers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wanda McCaddon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005204/bk_blak_005204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Lighthouse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life. Split into three parts, the story observes Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsey, and their children at their vacation house on the Isle of Skye. While the novel follows seemingly trivial events between the family members, the plot takes a backseat to philosophical introspection, which gave the novel its fame as an icon of modernist literature. The Ramseys’ quest to recapture meaning creates a powerful allegory of man’s impermanent battle with the tangible world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicole Kidman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003603/bk_adbl_003603_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
While dressing for dinner on New Year's Eve, the last thing Marson Miles expects is to fall in love that night - with his wife's nephew. But when Brody Norris arrives from California to join his uncle's architectural firm, Marson finds his life turned upside down. And the quirky little town of Dumont, Wisconsin, will never be quite the same. Inside Dumont is a reflective exploration of Marson's later-life journey, set against a loving portrait of the place he and Brody will call home. This impressionistic chronicle of their growing relationship - and the orbit of events leading up to it - is told from a variety of viewpoints within a fluid timeline. The novel's dozen episodic narratives range from tender to suspenseful, from romantic to mysterious, all of them brightened with a good measure of humor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Craft. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104999/bk_acx0_104999_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Vanessa and Virginia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic collaborators. As children, they fight for attention from their overextended mother, their brilliant but difficult father, and their adored brother, Thoby. As young women, they support each other through a series of devastating deaths, then emerge in bohemian Bloomsbury, bent on creating new lives and groundbreaking works of art. Through everything - marriage, lovers, loss, madness, children, success and failure - the sisters remain the closest of co-conspirators. But they also betray each other.In this lyrical, impressionistic account, written as a love letter and elegy from Vanessa to Virginia, Sellers imagines her way into the heart of the lifelong relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell. With sensitivity, imagination, and fidelity to what it known of both lives, Sellers has created a powerful portrait of sibling rivalry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalyn Landor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001763/bk_adbl_001763_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shameless: How I Lost My Virginity and Kept My Faith , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
“Impressionistic and engaging…Fankhauser boldly offers new wisdom.” (Bromleigh McCleneghan, pastor and author of Good Christian Sex) On the eighth day, God created sexual intercourse. And it was good. But for girls like Dani Fankhauser who were told sex was to happen only once you cross the threshold of marriage, that “goodness” seemed...questionable. As young women, we learned how to say no to sex but not how to ask a guy to put on a condom. We were told to limit physical affection because it undermined love but not how to deal with our own desires and drive. Our own bodies, and their capacity for pleasure, were left a mystery. In Shameless, Fankhauser writes about the questions she had that couldn't be answered by mainstream culture or by Christian communities - about shame, love, intimacy, and STDs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dani Fankhauser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145658/bk_acx0_145658_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Theatre for Dreamers
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Delicious' Nigella Lawson 'Clever and beguiling' Guardian 'Sublime and immersive' Jojo Moyes Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and artists, living tangled lives. Life on their island paradise is heady, dream-like, a string of seemingly endless summer days. But nothing can last forever. 'A surefire summer hit ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality' Observer 'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience' Sunday Times 'If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate' Andrew O'Hagan- Shop: buecher
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Glasgow Boys Masterpieces of Art
Over 100 paintings by artists based in Scotland in the early 19th Century, many influenced by the ground-breaking masterworks of James McNeil Whistler. A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Sir John Lavery and Arthur Melville), the Glasgow Boys were active around the turn of the 20th Century. Though they painted in a number of different styles, they are connected by their rejection of classic Victorian painting. Inspired by the luminous techniques of James McNeil Whistler, they harnessed Impressionistic brushwork and livid realism in their work, trying new methods and everyday settings to create stunning works of art. With over 100 images, and broad introduction, this is a fine addition to Flame Tree's ever-increasing series on painting and illustration, Masterpieces of Art.- Shop: buecher
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J.M.W. Turner Masterpieces of Art
Short introduction with over 100 paintings highlighting the revolutionary approach by Turner whose powerful sweeping strokes turned away from portraiture and prepared the way for Impressionism. The English Romantic painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775-19 December 1851) was a brilliant landscape artist, a watercolourist and printmaker. His style, powerful and fierce, melding the elements with humankind are thought by many to have prepared the way for Impressionism. In his time he was controversial, but his focus on land and seascapes widened the palette of artists and their audience, and his impressionistic brushwork prepared the way for the fragmentation of the modern era. This wonderful new book brings to life his greatest achievements, with such paintings as The Fighting 'Temeraire', Inside Tintern Abbey and Rain, Steam and Speed (The Great Western Railway).- Shop: buecher
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Chiemgau
Der Chiemgau gehört zu den beliebtesten Urlaubsgebieten Bayerns. Kurt Schubert versteht es wie kaum ein anderer, die herrliche Landschaft in ihrer großen Vielseitigkeit und all ihren Stimmungen meisterhaft einzufangen. In überwiegend ganzseitigen Abbildungen erlebt man die Königsblicke der Region - in den seltenen Stunden, in denen sie vom Licht veredelt und inszeniert wird. Ein unterhaltsamer Begleittext - deutsch und englisch - von Bernhard M. Edlmann ergänzt diesen einzigartigen Bilderbogen impressionistischer Fotografie. The Chiemgau is one of the most popular Bavarian holiday destinations. As one of few, Kurt Schubert masterfully understands to capture the wonderful landscape in all its diversity and atmosphere. In mostly full-size pictures the royal views of the region can be experienced - in the scarce hours in which they are refined and enacted by the light. An entertaining text accompanies this outstanding kaleidoscope of impressionistic photography.- Shop: buecher
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