Bøger af Michel Gauthier

Dramatic and thrilling or hilarious and compassionate, 'The Edge of the Volcano' offers candid accounts of life, even where it hurts, and truthful reports, even if politically incorrect. Some of the journeys are factual in their last vivid details, some are possible, others are invented. Never mind: they all have the same passion for life, reflected through adventures, misadventures, landscapes and emotions.

Malplaquet fut la bataille la plus sanglante de l'histoire de l'humanité après celle de Cannes. Le massacre (pertes estimées entre 30.000 et 50.000 tués et blessés selon les sources), n'eut pas ou guère d'influence sur le sort de la guerre et le cours de l'histoire. Les Alliés se targuèrent d'une victoire à la Pyrrhus dont il reste peu de célébration, tandis que les Français dirent avoir donné un coup d'arrêt vainqueur aux entreprises de Marlborough et Eugène de Savoie. MALPLAQUET REVISITÉ est le roman de L'Artus, un jeune soldat aspiré par le tourbillon de la guerre, devenu témoin, acteur, victime et héros récalcitrant de la confrontation tragique et inutile du 11 septembre 1709.

¿uvre majeure de la littérature espagnole du XXe siècle publiée en 1928, le Romancero gitano de Federico García Lorca est un petit recueil de poèmes qui mêle poésie savante et populaire, célèbre la culture andalouse et gitane. L'auteur propose d'abord ici une traduction nouvelle de chaque poème, s'éloignant du mot à mot obscur pour restituer, dans la forme octosyllabique, le sens des vers que l'explication a dévoilé et que de nombreuses références confirment : c'est ce que l'auteur livre ensuite, poème par poème, dans une explication de texte.

A beloved maverick of American art, Hicks has been working at the intersection of art, craft and architecture for more than 50 yearsWith works ranging from tapestry to sculptures, from architectural decoration to installations, Sheila Hicks is a truly legendary figure of textile and installation art. A Hicks piece may deploy traditional fibers like cotton, wool and silk alongside, for example, porcupine quills, feathers or steel fibers; equally unexpected is the often monumental scale of her works, which frequently respond to the architecture surrounding them.An American who has lived and worked in Paris since 1964, Hicks has traveled through five continents, visiting Mexico, France, Morocco, India, Chile, Sweden, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Africa, to develop relationships with designers, artisans, industrialists, architects, politicians and cultural leaders in the creation of these fabulous and unique works that blur boundaries between craft and art in ways that now seem prescient of today's broader demolition of such hierarchies.All facets of the artist's extraordinary six-decade career are surveyed in this catalog, published for her exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Through a broad thematic approach, the book presents around 130 works and previously unpublished material, providing the most comprehensive overview of her work ever published.Sheila Hicks was born in Hastings, Nebraska, in 1934 and received her BFA and MFA degrees from Yale University (where she studied under Josef Albers, and where Eva Hesse was a fellow student). She received a Fulbright scholarship in 1957-58 to paint in Chile. While in South America she developed her interest in working with fibers. After founding workshops in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa, and working in Morocco and India, she now divides her time between her Paris studio and New York.