Authors:Sybille Prou, King Adz,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: street, graphics, art, walls, rat, getting, blek
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 050028735X
ISBN-13: 9780500287354

A unique view of the life and work of one of the most elusive yet most applauded and influential figures in the world of street art from the past twenty years.Street artist Blek le Rat is revered and acknowledged by the international graffiti community, and his work has influenced CD design, advertising, and graphics, as well as the work of urban artists around the world.From small, simple stencils to complex multimedia events, Blek’s distinctive art is showcased here for the first time, demonstrating the development of his technique and creativity over two decades, from his unique image

Author: Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: education, unsentimental, jigsaw
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-05-08
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1582431434
ISBN-13: 9781582431437

"A deliciously evoked return to worlds, and a Europe, now almost vanished; it will ravish connoisseurs of the lost."-John Fowles. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sybille Bedford’s latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser’s Germany into the wider Europe of the 1920s and the limbo between world wars. The narrator, Billi, tells the story of her apprenticeship to life, and of her many teachers: her father, a pleasure-loving German baron; her brilliant, beautiful, erratic English mother; a

Author: Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: memoir, quicksands
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-03-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1582433518
ISBN-13: 9781582433516

One of the most reviewed books of the year: "It’s a little miracle." (New York Times Book Review) In this superb and distinctive memoir, Sybille Bedford takes us on an epic personal journey from World War I Berlin via the writers’ and artists’ bohemia of the C™te d’Azur in the 1920s, to post World War II London, New York, Paris, and Rome. Following no maxim but the need for a place and a space to write, Sybille Bedford’s life has been that of the free-spirited, committed artist: precarious, passionate, and frequently impoverished. At the same time it has bee

Author: Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: gods, favorite
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-09-18
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1582431582
ISBN-13: 9781582431581

"Vibrant with an awareness of people and their manners and the countries that shape them."-Sylvia Brownrigg. Henry James’s theme of the New World (naïve, upright, puritanical) confronting the Old (steeped in sophisticated and unscrupulous charm) is here explored by a novelist who has witnessed two world wars. Her protagonist is Constanza, a beautiful Italian-American pagan born to privilege and happiness-a seeming "favourite of the gods." But in the years of her maturity she becomes aware of what she lacks-a purpose and a part. Who am I, she asks, and what is it I can do? "This," wri

Author: Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: novel, error, compass
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-09-18
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1582431590
ISBN-13: 9781582431598

"Bedford’s genius is for writing about people. [Her] excellence is immortal, her career one of great distinction in literature."-Peter Levi. In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in the late 1930s, lives with the confidence and ardor of youth. She knows her destiny-it lies at Oxford, where she will begin a great career of public service. But this view of herself is at odds with reality; it springs from ideas she has of her idolized English father and of her "blessed" Italian mother, Constanza. Only when she is c

Author: Sybille Haynes
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Keywords: history, cultural, civilization, etruscan
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0892366001
ISBN-13: 9780892366002

This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh insights into the role of women in Etruscan society. In addition, the Etruscans are contrasted to the Greeks, whom they often emulated, and to the Romans, who at once admired and disdained them. The result is a compelling and complete picture of a people and a culture. This in-depth examination of Etruria examines how differing access to miner

Author: Sybille Steinbacher
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: history, auschwitz
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0060825812
ISBN-13: 9780060825812

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz, a name that has become synonymous with evil. Here the utopian twentieth-century dream of employing science and technology to improve and protect human life was inverted from the latter part of the 1930s through the end of the Second World War, as the same systems were manipulated in the cause of efficient mass slaughter. Historian Sybille Steinbacher’s powerful and eminently important book details Auschwitz’s birth, growth, and horrible mutation into a dreadful city. How it came to be and how what followed was allowed to occu