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This panoramic collection showcases stadiums, venues, and pitches, from the quirky to the historic, covering both men’s and women’s leagues, professional to amateur, wherever the game is played with enthusiasm and great style. For those who love the sport, either from birthright or from newly kindled passion, there’s a distinct and beloved resonance and local character to each stadium. This is one of soccer’s great charms, and this book is a road map to a pilgrimage to 1000 arenas that anyone in love with the beautiful game would want to visit in person: some visionary and new, some ageing but iconic, some remote yet picturesque, some tumbledown, quirky yet historical and utterly lovable—but all with such genuine personality, the fans’ hearts beat a little faster to see a match there.

Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright were neither competitors nor direct collaborators. Yet these romantic heroes of twentieth-century art and architecture largely operated in parallel. In this seminal book, Rovang weaves together their compelling life stories, examining newly discovered links between them and, in the process, offering a fresh perspective on their work, their intermittent yet poignant friendship, and their closeness to the desert.  Starting in 1933, O’Keeffe and Wright exchanged roughly two dozen letters in which they expressed admiration for one another but also their passion for the places that informed them—many of which they had in common. Both were born in rural Wisconsin and built their careers in Chicago and New York. However, both sought inspiration and fulfillment in places farther afield, including in Japan and the desert landscape of the American Southwest. Juxtaposing images highlighting shared aspects of their individual biographies and work, this unique take on American creative expression explores the nature of artistic friendship and the idea of “home.” Rovang’s text gives rich context to the allure and romance of her visual subject, offering readers new ways to appreciate O’Keeffe’s and Wright’s monumental contributions to American culture.

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint, pencil, charcoal, or chalk. Yet as he was deploying the lurid colors, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms that would subsequently make his name, van Gogh battled not only the disinterest of his contemporary audience but also devastating bouts of mental illness. His episodes of depression and anxiety would eventually claim his life, when, in 1890, he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday. This richly illustrated introduction follows Vincent van Gogh’s story from his earliest pictures of peasants and rural workers, through his bright Parisian period, to his final, feverish burst of creative energy in the South of France during the last two and a half years of his life.

Todos actores y personajes así como las personas en general tenemos una persona pública con la que nos presentamos ante los demás, una necesidad insatisfecha encubierta bajo esa máscara y cometemos un error trágico cuando reaccionamos ante un choque entre lo queremos que se piense de nosotros y lo que realmente somos. Sobre estos tres elementos clave Susan Batson ha desarrollado un proceso de técnica actoral que han seguido estrellas de la talla de Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Bradley Cooper o Juliette Binoche. En Verdad, un clásico desde su publicación en 2007, expone didácticamente ante un círculo de alumnos imaginarios (pero en los que no cuesta reconocer actitudes y personalidades frecuentes en el mundo de la interpretación), los múltiples recursos que un actor o actriz debe explorar y aprovechar «para que un personaje esté vivo».

Mujer de gran belleza y personalidad cautivadora, y fotógrafa excepcional, Lee Miller fue, por encima de todo, una aventurera. En los años veinte, fue chica de portada de Vogue en Nueva York. Lo dejó todo para abrazar París, la fotografía y el surrealismo. Y no fue su última mutación dramática: se reinventó como corresponsal de guerra y llegó a documentar la liberación de Dachau. Estas son solo tres de las muchas vidas de Lee Miller narradas por su hijo, Antony Penrose. Este íntimo relato ofrece una selección de sus mejores fotografías y reportajes, así como retratos de sus amigos Picasso, Tanning y Ernst. Penrose rinde homenaje a su madre revelando por fin a la mujer de talento extraordinario que fue en los turbulentos tiempos que le tocó vivir.